E-letter: Briefs

Gogo and long-time partner, Alaska Airlines, launched Gogo 2Ku high-speed connectivity and Gogo Vision wireless In Flight Entertainment (IFE) on an A321neo featuring the airline’s redesigned cabin interior. Alaska will have...

Hughes Communications India (HCIL) received a Flight and Maritime Connectivity (FMC) license from the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. The first company to be granted the FMC license in India,...

Eutelsat Communications successfully mated the platform and payload of the Konnect satellite, conducted this week at Thales Alenia Space‘s facilities in Cannes, France. According to the release, this operation is...

Inmarsat is partnering with Knight Piésold U.K. to deliver tailings dam monitoring, analysis, and real-time management capabilities for the mining industry. The collaboration agreement with Knight Piésold UK — a member of...

OneWeb successfully launched its first six broadband satellites aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred on Feb. 27 at 21:37 pm UTC....

Speedcast International was awarded a new master service agreement and multi-year contract to deliver fully-managed communications onboard assets for Sapura Energy Berhad (Sapura Energy), a global integrated oil and gas...

Data Device Corporation (DDC) carried out another successful flight of its SCS750 Single Board Computer (SBC) on the Second Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT-2). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and The Japan...

Speedcast chose the Hughes Jupiter System to power cellular backhaul over satellite and enterprise Virtual Private Network (VPN) services for a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in Nicaragua. The operator will...

D-Orbit signed a contract with Planet for the launch and deployment of six Dove-series satellites. Under the contract, D-Orbit will launch and deploy the satellites during the first commercial mission of...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch two orbital missions based on the NanoAvionics M6P nanosatellite bus. Among the features of the M6P bus is a pre-integrated design that aims to shortes...