August 2023
 

Industry Special Edition
 
In This Issue: Traditional Operators Start the Fight Back | Amazon's Florida Investment | Iridium Direct-to-Device Update | Smallsat Startups to Watch | Fostering Women's Leadership in Satcom | Swarm Ends Device Sales | Steve Collar Interview | Lynk Demonstrates Voice Calls 
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Traditional Operators Start the Fight Back
Within an impressively short three years, SpaceX has launched more than 4,000 satellites for its Starlink satellite network, blanketing Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) with a constellation that now……[continued]
Broadband
Amazon Invests in a New Florida Facility to Integrate Kuiper Satellites for Launch
Amazon is investing $120 million in a new satellite processing facility in Florida as it ramps up activity for the Project Kuiper constellation. Amazon and……[continued]
Business
Iridium Doesn’t Expect Qualcomm Direct-to-Device Activations Until 2024 
Iridium Communications is unlikely to see direct-to-device activations this year, expecting the first activations of this new offering with Qualcomm in 2024, CEO Matt Desch……[continued]
Business
10 Smallsat Startups to Watch in 2023
Today’s space startup landscape is arguably the most difficult and competitive it has been in several years. Space investors, now much more cautious following a……[continued]
Opinion
Fostering Diversity in Satcom: Encouraging Women to Engage and Succeed
Just look around any satellite event, and you can tell instantly that the industry has a problem with diversity. The satcom industry has long been……[continued]
IIOT
SpaceX Subsidiary Swarm Ends IoT Device Sales
SpaceX subsidiary Swarm has ended new IoT device sales. TechCrunch first reported the news, and Swarm posted an FAQ on its website explaining that SpaceX’s……[continued]
Business
Outgoing SES CEO Steve Collar Shares the Reasons Behind His Surprise Departure
Steve Collar has been the face of SES and O3b for just over a decade. However, in mid-June, Collar announced he was stepping down from……[continued]
Telecom
Lynk Demonstrates Voice Calls Over Satellite
Lynk Global released a video on Tuesday demonstrating two-way voice calls over satellite. In the video, Lynk’s team makes voice calls using unmodified phones, connected……[continued]
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