Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer, who leads one of the world's largest global satellite operator businesses, says he expects meaningful consolidation among satellite communications companies to happen soon — and that this 'inevitable' event will help operators gain the size they need to properly support the future needs of telco customers. Via Satellite spoke with Eutelsat…

Inmarsat is working with CPN Satellite Services and MinFarm Tech to simplify connecting Low Power Wide Area (LoRa) networks to satellite. The companies are launching the MF 400 IoT Satellite Bridge incorporating Inmarsat’s IsatData Pro (IDP) service.  According to a Tuesday release, the solution enables data from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors operating on LoRaWAN…

Exolaunch revealed on Tuesday that it signed a launch agreement for two of Kepler’s 6U XL satellites. Exolaunch will provide launch, mission management, integration, and deployment services to Kepler’s satellites on a Soyuz rideshare mission, with a launch target of September 2020. Kepler’s two new 6U XL satellites both carry a Ku-band communications system and a…

MediaTek reports it has conducted a successful trial of a 5G satellite Internet of Things (IoT) data connection. In a Wednesday release, MediaTek said it established a bi-directional link and transferred data from its satellite-enabled standard NB-IoT device to Inmarsat's Alphasat L-band satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The companies say this test was the first…