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US grounds Starship flights

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is not happy with last week’s problem with Elon Musk’s Starship rocket which exploded over the Turks & Caicos Islands. The FAA has grounded future flights pending a detailed explanation and examination of the flight’s data. There are numerous reports and images of pieces of the rocket, especially its heat-resistant […]

January 20, 2025

Rivada partners with Vodafone Cook Islands

Rivada Space Networks, which does not yet have a satellite in orbit, has nevertheless signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vodafone’s Cook Islands “powering network expansion and digital transformation in the Oceania region and beyond”. Rivada has plans to launch 300 satellites. The International Telecommunications Union requires Rivada to launch its satellites by mid-2026. Rivada […]

January 20, 2025By Chris Forrester

Telia announces changes to Executive Management

Telia Company, the Swedish multinational telco, has announced the appointment of Holger Haljand as Senior Vice President, Head of Telia Finland and member of the company’s Group Executive Management team, effective February 1st 2025. Holger has held a range of leadership positions since joining the Telia Estonia management team in 2014 and is currently Head […]

January 20, 2025

SaxaVord approved by UK’s CAA for 2025 launches

The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted a vertical launch licence to Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), a German rocket company to use the SaxaVord launch site in Scotland. “This is a new era for aerospace and granting the first vertical launch licence from UK soil builds towards a historic milestone for the nation,” the […]

January 20, 2025By Chris Forrester

Eutelsat in play with new investors?

Eutelsat has a new major investor. Spacetime Transformations, acting on behalf of clients and funds under its management, has acquired 5.01 per cent of Eutelsat’s shares. The company, controlled by British businessman Christopher Harborne, said it held 23,827,744 Eutelsat shares, or 5.01 per cent of the satellite operator’s capital and voting rights, on behalf of […]

January 17, 2025By Chris Forrester

Forecast: US private 5G spend to exceed $3.7bn to 2027

SNS Telecom & IT’s latest research forecasts that cumulative spending on private cellular networks in the US will exceed $3.7 billion (€3.5bn) between 2024 and 2027, driven by the market’s pivot towards 5G, growing recognition of private network-based neutral host solutions, and a diverse array of spectrum options for varied use cases. Private LTE networks […]

January 17, 2025

Musk loses Starship, but lands booster

SpaceX lost a Starship on its seventh test flight in a fiery explosion over the Turks & Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. However, the rocket’s booster was successfully captured back at the launch site by the Texas pad’s ‘chopsticks’. Launch was at 5.37pm Texas time on January 16th. SpaceX said: “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled […]

January 17, 2025

Success for Bezos and New Glenn

The Jeff Bezos-backed New Glenn reusable rocket made a successful debut flight (NG-1) just after 07.00 GMT from Launch Pad 36 at Cape Canaveral in Florida on January 16th. The launch schedule suffered a couple of pauses including a 20 minute ‘hold’, and then a further 30-minute delay when a boat entered the splash-down zone. […]

January 16, 2025By Chris Forrester

LuxConnect awarded €154m IRIS² control centre

LuxConnect, based in Bettembourg, Luxembourg, has been awarded one of the IRIS² control centres. IRIS2 is Europe’s mega-constellation of satellites and designed to provide ultra-secure communications for government and military purposes. It is managed by three leading European satellite network operators: SES from Luxembourg, Eutelsat from France, and the Spanish Hispasat. IRIS² control centres are […]

January 16, 2025By Chris Forrester

Ofcom proposes speedier telco dispute resolutions

UK consumers would only have to wait six instead of eight weeks before they can escalate their unresolved telecoms complaints to an alternative dispute resolution scheme, under plans put forward by media regulator Ofcom. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) schemes are independent bodies that carry out impartial assessments of unresolved complaints between a customer and their […]

January 15, 2025