SES returned to positive revenue growth in its full year results. The satellite telecommunications network provider is also now in its 2023 trading year, where the FCC’s long-awaited C-band ‘jam tomorrow’ promise becomes a $3 billion (€2.84bn) positive income. SES issued an impressive set of guidance numbers, including detail that SES-17 and its O3b mPOWER […]

A February 27th launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California will loft 51 Starlink satellites into orbit at 11.31am Pacific-time. The same day should also see SpaceX launching a NASA flight (Crew-6) with 4 astronauts on board to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center. The same day will also see 21 second-generation […]

Luxembourg, already a major investor in SES, has announced it will leverage capacity on the SES O3b mPOWER fleet for government usage extending to Europe and NATO demand for defence and disaster recovery. The agreement also says it will support further “strategic partnerships” between Luxembourg and the US. Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, […]

Ligado Networks and Omnispace have signed an MOU to combine their respective licensed mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum to enable what they claim will be the world’s most capable space-based, direct-to-device (D2D) solutions for global voice, text and data connectivity. The pair say that this means they will create large blocks of satellite spectrum in […]

Samsung says that it has developed a system that will allow smartphone users to send data via satellite, thus intensifying the race among technology companies to connect their devices to non-terrestrial networks. As with Apple, the data will be sent to low-Earth orbiting satellites in space and sent back to Earth-based teleport stations before reaching […]

Internet speeds on SpaceX’s Starlink broadband system are getting better for most users. Measurement specialists Ookla says that over the past few months connection speeds have improved – but they are still not as fast as a year ago. An Ookla Insight blog by Josh Fomon provides analysis on Ookla’s test connections and results from […]

Satellite Communications (SatCom) has entered a period of renewed interest with innovative technological advances, mainly driven by ballooning investment dollars in the high-growth space tech segment and the demand for global connectivity. The SatCom ecosystem has two segments: ground equipment and space. Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research foresees sustained ground segment growth from the […]

Munich-based Rivada Space Networks (RSN) has ordered 300 satellites from Terran Orbital. But there’s a problem: Rivada’s investment for this initial batch of satellites is $2.4 billion, but the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) rules require all the satellites to be in orbit within 43 months. This, by any measure, is a tight timetable. The operator […]

Rwanda’s Space Agency (RSA) has signed a strategic partnership with Atlas Space Operations to utilise a teleport in Rwanda. RSA is building a major teleport capable of hosting multiple ground stations to serve and connect with satellites in different orbits. The partnership with Atlas Space Operations – signed by Mike Carey, co-founder and COO at […]

Marlink, a provider of smart network solutions, is working with SES on a major digital transmission project for French Guiana which intends to “bridge the digital divide” in the country. Marlink has been awarded a Public Service Delegation contract to set up broadband Internet and 4G/5G services via satellite networks covering the entire French region. […]