Inmarsat’s latest satellite, their fifth in their latest series of ‘Global Xpress’ craft, is due to launch on November 22nd. Built by Thales-Alenia Space, it was shipped from its Cannes production facility via Nice airport direct to the Arianespace Spaceport Kourou in French Guiana on October 22nd. Inmarsat GX5 is the most powerful of the […]
Most analysts had expected the C-Band Alliance of satellite operators to volunteer 25 per cent of their anticipated revenues in a ‘windfall’ tax paid to the US Treasury. But in a major filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on November 15th, they now say they’ll use a ”progressive” formula which ranges from 30 per […]
There have been many formal filings to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by Eutelsat, explaining their strategy as far as the proposed reallocation of C-band is over the US. Inside Satellite spoke to a senior Eutelsat spokesperson on the background to their thinking, and in particular to their controversial proposals to offer up a 50 […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has announced that the AMOS-17 communication satellite has successfully completed its In Orbit Testing (IOT) protocol and is in orbit at its 17°E orbital position. The company is scheduling the beginning of commercial operations in days. AMOS-17 is an HTS satellite designed specifically to meet Africa’s fast-growing communication […]
The UK Labour party has made an election pledge to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030 – if it wins the general election. The plan would mean the re-nationalising part of BT to deliver the policy, and the introduction a tax on tech giants to help pay for […]
Who’d have predicted that broadband would take centre stage in the UK election in such spectacular fashion? But then, who would have predicted much at all about the shambles that is British politics just now. The parties are united in recognising a market failure that has seen the UK languish at the bottom of developed […]
Philip Jansen, the chief executive of BT, has warned that real cost of the Labour opposition’s General Election pledge to roll out a full-fibre network nationwide and provide free broadband for all could be as high as £100 billion and that shareholders in BT will be forced to sell at a “deep discount” under a […]
It is unlikely that the world’s two major satellite operators, Intelsat and SES, have ever experienced such dramatic collective meltdowns in their share prices. Of course, there have been profit warnings from time to time, but nothing to compare with this week’s catastrophic collapse in their company theoretical values. As this is written, SES has […]
LeoSat was an imaginative Ka-band satellite concept that would have used laser connectivity to deliver and collect data from specialist business users around the planet. It was planning a super-constellation of at least 78 satellites. Initially, LeoSat had a $50 million Stage 1 financial support from Hispasat and Japan’s JSAT but further financial commitments from […]
The Kacific1 communications satellite, built by Boeing, has arrived at SpaceX facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will be launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket to geostationary orbit. Owned by Kacific Broadband Satellites Group, this next-generation high-throughput Ka-band satellite will stream broadband to 25 nations in South East Asia and the Pacific Islands via […]