In the middle of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) ambitious Space Month initiative in November, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sat down for an interview with Via Satellite to discuss a regulatory agenda that he believes will cultivate innovation in space. “Some might say that nine space-related items on the agenda for a monthly meeting…

Telenor Satellite’s Ka-band maritime business is seeing strong growth as the benefits of having Ka-band capacity have started to kick in. Telenor Director of Datacomms Products and Services Jan Hetland told Via Satellite that its Ka-band maritime business is quickly matching what it had in Ku-band. While Telenor only launched Ka-band services two years ago,…

While the pot of gold isn’t quite materialized yet, the consensus here is that 5G exists on the rainbow — and the satellite industry is sitting on a pot of gold with its mid-band spectrum resources. So, what exactly is 5G? It was the burning question on the minds of nearly everyone in the room…

SatixFy made two new Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) available, in accordance with the U.K. Space Agency-backed, Prime and Beat activities implemented under the Core Competitiveness element of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES). The company made available functional samples of the Prime - digital-beam-former and Beat – Ku-band Radio Frequency…