Focus: Broadband

SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation will be able to serve every household in the rural United States in five years, SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell shared Tuesday during a discussion on the...

BridgeComm reports that it has demonstrated high-speed optical communications of speeds beyond 100 Gb per second in a lab setting. The company announced Thursday that it will hold point-to-point demonstrations...

CloudOps, a managed services and software company based in Québec, will build the cloud infrastructure for Telesat‘s new Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network, the companies announced March 30....

TrustComm, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite communications application specialist, is now a distribution partner of OneWeb. The companies announced an MoU on March 26 that TrustComm will deliver...

OneWeb’s latest satellite launch early Thursday morning brings the Low-Earth Orbit constellation to 146 satellites. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket took off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia on 25 March...

Yahsat has announced a new deal to help disadvantaged students in refugee camps. The company announced March 25 that it is teaming up with Emirates Red Crescent Authority, which will...

SpaceX continued its rapid launch cadence for Starlink missions, launching the fourth batch of satellites this month in an early morning launch on Wednesday. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60...

Satellite operator SES awarded a contract to Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks to provide broadband connectivity via its SkyEdge II-c platform for a nationwide education program in Brazil. The Gilat SkyEdge...

SES has been partnering with network automation software company Amartus to develop automation for SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation. The companies began working together in October 2020, and announced the collaboration...

Novelsat has won a new backhaul contract with one of the largest telcos in India, the company announced March 17. The contract was awarded by System Integrator Precision Electronics (PEL)...