E-letter: News Feed

Government representatives from Brazil and the United States will resume negotiations that failed 15 years ago to allow the U.S. to use Brazil’s Alcantara Launch Base for its satellites. The […]

Inmarsat has rejected an initial acquisition approach from EchoStar, Inmarsat confirmed in a statement issued late last week saying the “highly preliminary” proposal “significantly undervalued” the company. Inmarsat is one […]

Spaceflight, a satellite rideshare and mission management provider, has partnered with Rocket Lab for three upcoming launches. The first Electron mission, scheduled for the end of 2018, will launch a […]

Hispasat and telecommunications services provider Eurona have launched a satellite-based broadband service in the Canary Islands archipelago. The digital inclusion project was presented earlier this year and is designed to […]

Intelsat has selected RingCentral as its cloud communications and collaboration solutions provider across its international locations. With globally distributed employees, Intelsat was looking to move to a cloud-first solution to […]

ImageSat International, an end-to-end geospatial solutions provider, and Magnus International Search and Rescue have launched an Emergency and Disaster Management  service that enables countries, cities and remote government areas to […]

Macom Technology Solutions, a supplier of high performance Radio Frequency (RF), microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic solutions, has launched a comprehensive portfolio of Ka-band Power Amplifiers (PA) optimized for next-generation SatCom […]

Iceye has taken a huge step forward with another $34 million of funding secured in the last two weeks. This means the company is on track to have 18 satellites […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted authorization to SES to serve the United States market using a significantly expanded O3b fleet in the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). The […]

A Northrop Grumman payload will provide highly protected communications for warfighters under a new $429 million contract with the U.S. Air Force. The company was awarded a $429 million contract […]

Air Canada has begun offering next-generation, satellite connectivity on its wide-body international fleet with the introduction of Air Canada Wi-Fi provided by Gogo. Starting with its Boeing 777-300ER flights, the […]

Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) has upgraded its iDirect network to the latest Evolution 4.1 software to achieve gains in bandwidth efficiency and enhance customer experience. With the upgrade of its […]

AssetLink Global has launched its next generation AssetPack Internet of Things (IOT) device family designed for multi-mode simple to advanced tracking and managing of unpowered and powered assets located in […]

AT&T has entered into a partnership with Nokia to provide Internet of Things (IOT) connectivity around the world with a commercial service launch set for later this year. The companies […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a license to Audacy that authorizes the space communications company operate the world’s first commercial inter-satellite data relay network. The data relay […]

Lindsay Corporation, a manufacturer and distributor of irrigation and infrastructure equipment and technology, and Farmers Edge, a provider of precision digital solutions for agriculture, have formed a new strategic partnership […]

Speedcast International is offering two promotions on its new Quota and VSAT Ku-band connectivity services through the remainder of the year. The promotion for Quota, a metered VSAT service sold […]

While Global Eagle gets to try out its LEO-compatible hardware and shape ground segment architectures, Telesat will see its maritime and aviation appeal reach new horizons...

American Airlines has a fleet of 950 aircraft that carried 200 million passengers in 2017, but how many of those passengers had a happy in-flight internet experience? Though that’s hard […]

You might expect people speaking at the 2018 Global Connected Aircraft Summit to represent companies more invested in connectivity than any other. You might be surprised. While many passengers, especially […]

Northrop Grumman has announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared its proposed acquisition of Orbital ATK. The FTC’s Bureau of Competition has completed its review of the […]

KVH Industries has announced 6-Level Cybersecurity, a cohesive group of initiatives designed to provide proactive cybersecurity protection for the KVH hardware and maritime VSAT satellite network used by its global […]

Comtech EF Data, a subsidiary within Comtech Telecommunications’ Commercial Solutions segment, and Kepler Communications, a nano-satellite telecommunications company, have announced a collaboration to advance rapidly deployable, low-cost, low-latency communications via […]

Intelsat has announced that during the Transform Africa Summit held in Kigali, Rwanda in May, it joined Smart Africa, a 2013-established initiative to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development and usher Africa […]

Harris Corporation has provided Lockheed Martin with its fifth of 10 advanced navigation payloads contracted for the U.S. Air Force GPS III satellite program. The GPS III navigation payload features […]

SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly owned subsidiary of SES, has signed a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for Medium Earth Orbit […]

SatSure Analytics, a satellite data analytics company, has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), to further […]

Phasor, a developer of Electronically-Steered Antenna (ESA) systems for mobile broadband, has announced a commercial partnership with Astronics AeroSat. Under the agreement, the two companies will produce scalable, dual-beam ESA-based […]

Navarino, a maritime technology company, has announced that it will add Intelsat services to its portfolio of connectivity solutions. Under the agreement between the two companies, Navarino will introduce Intelsat […]

IsoTropic Networks, a global solutions provider of satellite internet services, has announced that its live, Over-The-Air (OTA) test of DVB-S2/S2X has found that early tests of the new iDirect iQ […]