Satellite operator Intelsat and Lintasarta, an Indonesian information and communication technology company via its mobile network operator subsidiary Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), has rolled out a network to cover remote areas in Indonesia. Nearly 400 sites, across Central and Western Indonesia including Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara have received broadband connectivity with Intelsat’s help using […]
Terran Orbital has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with rocket builder Safran to supply Terran’s electric satellite propulsion systems for Safran’s US customers. The MoU was signed at the recent Paris Air Show. The agreement covers what the pair describe is to “study and validate the prerequisites for production of a new generation of […]
SES has won a significant step in its long-running action against Intelsat over how the FCC’s compensation for C-band is apportioned. A Delaware Appeal Court has reversed the decision made by Intelsat’s bankruptcy court which ruled out the claim from SES. The Appeal Court has directed the claim now go back to Intelsat’s Bankruptcy Court. […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket-to-broadband business has been valued at about a $150 billion (€137.6bn) business. The value comes as Musk is offering to sell shares to the unquoted company that would raise the current value to about $150 billion, says Bloomberg News, quoting people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is offering shares at more than […]
Rivada Space Networks (RSN) and Artel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Master Services Agreement (MSA) to bring a new level of high security and low latency satellite communications to government markets through LEO constellations. Artel provides secure network communication services to U.S. Government (USG) agencies. Based in the US, Artel is a […]
SES issued a somewhat cryptic statement on June 22nd following the collapse of its hoped-for merger with arch-rival Intelsat. The SES statement read: “There are always two parties in a negotiation. It has become clear that a path to an agreement which would be acceptable to SES and Intelsat cannot be found, and so both […]
Sweden-based Ovzon, which is building an orbital broadband system, is again being forced to apply to the ITU to relax its ‘bringing into use’ regulations. It isn’t Ovzon’s fault because satellite builder Maxar Technologies is late with delivering Ovzon-3. Maxar says that it has had to replace a defective component on the satellite. But it […]
The merger discussions between the world’s two largest satellite operators, SES and Intelsat, are over. Intelsat said a deal, valued at a potential $10 billion (€9.1bn), is now off the table. SES announced June 22nd that discussions regarding a possible combination with Intelsat have ceased. On March 29th, SES had confirmed that the company had […]
A report on Fox News, citing comments “from SpaceX investors” says an IPO from Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite operation is expected “this year”. The comments are far from fanciful, and Musk has frequently commented about a likely IPO either for SpaceX itself or Starlink, but has always finished his comments by saying “but not yet”. […]
The BlueWalker 3 low Earth orbit satellite, in test transmissions, communicated with everyday smartphones reaching initial download speeds above 10 Mbps during Hawaii testing. AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, announced it has achieved repeated successful download speeds above 10 Mbps during […]