CesiumAstro has tapped a former CEO of Volkswagen Group of America for an advisory role that the company says will accelerate its vision of the satellite-connected car and a new constellation dedicated to the automotive industry.  CesiumAstro announced this week that Hinrich Woebcken, former president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, is working with…

SpaceX has signed its first customer agreement for Starlink with a rail line, as Brightline announced Tuesday that it is offering free Starlink connectivity to passengers.  Brightline is an inter-city rail company that serves part of Florida — Miami, Aventura, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach. It is the only privately owned and…

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement this week with Europe’s intelligent transportation system organization ERTICO to explore how space-based technologies can support future smart road systems such as autonomous vehicles.  EERTICO, the European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination, is a public-private partnership with a roadmap to reduce human error-caused accidents through technology such as…

Intelsat is the latest satellite player to collaborate with software giant Microsoft. The company announced Feb. 27 the successful demonstration of what it claims is a first of its kind private cellular network with Microsoft Azure Private Multi-Access Edge Compute and FlexEnterprise, Intelsat’s satellite-based global connectivity service. Intelsat said the demonstration successfully establishes a reference architecture…