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Extreme E partners with Eutelsat, OmniAccess

Racing series Extreme E has launched a partnership with Eutelsat OneWeb, the Geostationary Equatorial Orbit and Low Earth Orbit (GEO-LEO) satellite communications operator.  The collaboration with Eutelsat OneWeb, part of Eutelsat Group, will connect the racing action to the St Helena, the championship’s floating centrepiece which transports all of the series’ ODYSSEY 21 vehicles and […]

January 31, 2024

Forbes: “2024 the year of LEO”

Forbes has declared that 2024 will be the ‘Year of Low Earth Orbit satellite services’ and expects the likes of Elon Musk’s Starlink to make significant inroads but with competition from other players. That competition could make the LEO segment a “crowded place”. February will see Mobile World Congress take place in Barcelona where satellite-based […]

January 30, 2024By Chris Forrester

Eutelsat: “OneWeb behind schedule”

Eutelsat has issued a trading review and market update stating that its OneWeb division was making slower progress than expected. The impact has slashed its anticipated EBITDA revenues for this year (to June 30th) by between €75 million to €145 million. Eutelsat has “suspended” its guidance for this financial year and postponed any further guidance […]

January 29, 2024By Chris Forrester

Thales to provide Laser payload for Hellas Sat 5

Hellas Sat, majority owned by Arabsat, has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Thales Alenia Space to collaborate on the development of an optical communication payload for the upcoming new mission to be embarked on the future HellasSat 5 telecommunications satellite, which will orbit at 39 degrees East. The partnership between Hellas Sat and […]

January 29, 2024By Chris Forrester

ESA boss: “Europe must be bold”

Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), speaking at the European Space Conference held in Brussels, has urged European space-related industries to be bolder. He wants to set up a ‘Strategy 2040’ programme, and has agreement from the EU. “Europe has to be bold, or else we will always remain a 2nd […]

January 26, 2024

Viasat adds 150 Lufthansa aircraft with IFC

German giant airline Lufthansa has selected Viasat’s Inmarsat satellites to equip more than 150 aircraft – across its own Lufthansa and subsidiary SWISS and Austrian Airlines fleets – with the European Aviation Network (EAN) in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. The more than 150 extra aircraft include Airbus A320s, A320neos and A220s fleet versions. The EAN technology […]

January 26, 2024By Chris Forrester

Virgin Galactic 06 ready to fly

Virgin Galactic has confirmed that subject to the usual last-minute weather considerations, its ‘Galactic 06’ flight window will open on January 26th. This will be the Company’s eleventh spaceflight to date and will follow a year of unprecedented human spaceflight achievements that included six suborbital spaceflights in six months. Four private astronauts from three different […]

January 26, 2024By Chris Forrester

Starlink eating HughesNet subs

EchoStar-owned broadband-by-satellite service HughesNet has reportedly lost more than 30 per cent of its subscribers over the past three years with Starlink seemingly picking up the cancellations. Some of the comments suggest that for HughesNet subscribers “in a deep valley with limited potential visibility of Starlink” they will have to stay with HughesNet. Other HughesNet […]

January 25, 2024

Too many Scottish spaceports?

There are currently two Spaceports being built in northern Scotland and seeking rocket launch business. The two (Sutherland Spaceport on the A’Mhoine peninsula and SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst, Shetland) could be one too many says a senior figure at SaxaVord. Scott Hammond, deputy CEO and operations director of SaxaVord Spaceport, told a Scottish parliamentary committee […]

January 23, 2024

Fortuna CEO: “SpaceX prospects wide open”

Justus Parmar, CEO of Fortuna Investments, and a close observer of the satellite industry, suggests that Elon Musk is only just getting started in terms of potential size and impact of SpaceX on satellite. Parmar’s team are already investors in the space sector, and according to a Constellations conversation with Kratos Defence, he suggests that […]

January 23, 2024