Technology

Specialized satellite manufacturer LeoStella will build and integrate satellite buses for space infrastructure-as-a-service company Loft Orbital Solutions under the terms of a new contract announced July 21. LeoStella will produce...

Cost concerns first, latency concerns second — that’s how Algerie Telecom Chief Business Development Officer Karim Aberkane outlined his priorities when explaining how LEO and MEO satellites are starting to...

HawkEye 360 is set for the late-2020 launch of its second batch of satellites after successfully completing environmental tests, the company announced July 17. The HawkEye constellation will provide  RF...

Airbus is ready to commence operational services on its EDRS-C satellite after completing in-orbit tests and establishing laser communications links to the European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus Earth observation spacecraft,...

Gilat Satellite Networks has delivered a solution for Telefonica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) for a satellite communication project in Argentina including rural broadband services and cellular backhaul.  The companies announced...

“It’s a satellite terminal that behaves like a mobile phone.” This is how Robert Bell, executive director of the World Teleport Association (WTA) describes a successful modern-day Earth Station in...

As I write this, we are now just over three months into the COVID-19 pandemic which has changed everyone’s lives significantly. While lockdown conditions are starting to ease, there is...

The pictures in Northern Italy resembled a war zone. The hospitals were over-run. The body count was stacking up. People could not say goodbye to their loved ones and the...

Satellite-connected Internet of Things (IoT) technology company hiSky has begun early field trials of a new “Smartellite” Ku-band satellite terminal that it has been developing over the course of a...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s acquisition of Gilat Satellite Networks looks to be in trouble as Comtech has filed a complaint against Gilat alleging its business has taken a major hit, and...