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What Amazon's Globalstar Acquisition Means for MSS Spectrum and D2D Market: Analyst Roundtable

After months of rumors in the market that Globalstar was for sale, Amazon moved last month to acquire the company in a deal worth roughly $10.8 billion. Amazon will acquire Globalstar’s satellite infrastructure, including its mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum licenses. The deal also agreed a tie-in with Apple to continue providing satellite services for Apple products.

With this move, Amazon moves directly into the direct-to-device (D2D) arena, with plans to deploy a next-generation D2D constellation of its own in the future.  Via Satellite spoke with industry analysts about the implications for the D2D market and the value of mobile…[continued]

Finance

Telesat’s GEO Business Declines 25% in Q1

Telesat’s GEO business declined 25% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, as the operator works toward the launch of its Lightspeed constellation.  CEO Dan…[continued]
Government/Military

Anduril to Work With Impulse Space, K2 Space, Voyager, and Others on Space-Based Interceptor Award

Anduril Industries has named a team of collaborators for its recent award to prototype technologies for space-based interceptors, and will work with Impulse Space, Inversion…[continued]
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How Satellite Operators are Unifying TT&C and NOC Telemetry

Eutelsat OneWeb runs 600+ satellites on InfluxDB, ingesting over one million telemetry data points per second across spacecraft health and network performance. Leading satellite operators use InfluxDB to unify TT&C and NOC telemetry on a single platform, from orbit to SLA

 
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Technology

SWISSto12 Strikes German Partnership Deal for D2D GEO Satellite

Swissto12 has struck a key new partnership deal in Germany which could bring exciting new media broadcast capabilities to Geostationary (GEO) satellites. It will work…[continued]
Earth Observation

ICYMI: NRO Makes New Commercial Awards to EarthDaily, Iceye, and Pixxel

AURORA, Colo. — The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded new contracts for Earth sensing data to three companies under its Strategic Commercial Enhancements (SCE)…[continued]
Partner Content

On Orbit Podcast: Future-Proofing Satellite Networks With ST Engineering iDirect Sales SVP Brian Jakins

How do you future-proof your satellite network to thrive in an increasingly connected world? It’s a key question that network operators are asking as they…[continued]

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