Speedcast International has successfully delivered 3.174 Gbps of satellite bandwidth onboard Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest mega cruise ship, Horizon. The data rate was initially achieved at the Carnival Horizon naming ceremony on Wednesday in the New York harbor. The Speedcast solution uses bandwidth from multiple satellite operators, in this case leveraging both Intelsat and Telesat.…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Teledyne e2v, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, with the second phase of a €42 million ($47 million USD) contract to produce high-end Charge Coupled Device (CCD) visible light image sensors for the PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission. PLATO is a planet hunting spacecraft that…

Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-basedsmall- to medium-satellite launch vehicle developer, has opened a new research and development center in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. The new center will be named FireFly Ukraine. The company stated that the facility would expand its engineering teams’ capability to design and manufacture original launch vehicle and systems components. Firefly Ukraine…

Northern Sky Research’s (NSR) Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Services, 8th Edition report finds that despite a slow 2017, across the board, the global satellite manufacturing and launch market is poised to generate in excess of $250 billion in the next decade. As both commercial and government players begin deploying constellations, turning to SmallSats to provide more flexibility across…