Airbus and Spacesail, a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation operator, have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Spacesail’s advanced LEO connectivity into Airbus’s HBCplus inflight solution. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed at the 2025 Satellite Internet Industry Ecosystem Conference, aims at allowing Airbus’s High Bandwidth Connectivity Plus (HBCplus) customers to access an additional […]

The main news on Paris-based Eutelsat recently has been focused on cash-raising and its financial restructuring. Eutelsat is not alone in seeing in long-standing DTH satellite transmissions being under pressure and even though these broadcasts will almost certainly continue for a few decades yet, there’s no doubt that viewers are increasingly switching away from DTH […]

Would-be global satellite-to-cellular operator AST SpaceMobile has upped the number of its BlueBird satellites to be launched by SpaceX from three aboard to four. While the precise launch date has not been confirmed, rumours suggest that it could happen on December 30th, from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Meanwhile, the first of […]

The United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) next mission – Leo 4 – will launch a batch of Amazon Leo satellites into their designated transfer orbits. The giant Atlas V rocket will carry 27 satellites, and the launch is set for December 15th with its launch window opening in the early morning hours at 3.52am (Eastern Time) […]

Viasat has announced an advancement in its business aviation multi-orbit strategy, with plans to integrate Telesat Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite capacity into its JetXP in-flight broadband service. The combination of Viasat’s ultra-high throughput Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) capabilities – including the advanced ViaSat-3 satellites – with flexible and resilient LEO capacity will further […]

South Africa’s Vodacom Group has signed what it described as a “pivotal” agreement with SpaceX’s Starlink. Starlink is not yet approved to launch its direct-to-device activity in the country. “Integrating Starlink’s satellite backhaul into Vodacom’s mobile network will accelerate network coverage expansion while increasing network performance in rural areas,” Vodacom said in a statement. Vodacom […]

Eutelsat and Paratus, the Sub-Saharan African network services provider, have signed a new multi-million, multi-year agreement to expand the delivery of Eutelsat’s OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity services across Southern Africa. This new multi-year agreement expands the existing partnership between Eutelsat and its long-standing partner, Paratus, to deliver an extended range of LEO services […]

UK multiplay operator Virgin Media O2 has announced a new multi-year landmark partnership with Starlink Direct to Cell, marking a UK-first initiative to enhance rural mobile network coverage and improve customer experience. The operator is the first in the UK to utilise Starlink’s position as the world’s largest and only satellite-to-mobile constellation with 650+ satellites […]

Non-geostationary orbiting satellite networks are routinely beaming their signals in areas reserved for geostationary satellites, and into each other’s signals as well, according to Kratos. The spectrum-monitoring service provider monitors signal interference at seven out of the 10 official International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) monitoring stations. The interference, according to Space Intel Report (SIR), is real […]

A study by global tech strategists Juniper Research has found that global satellite provider revenue from fixed satellite broadband will increase from $10 billion in 2025 to $20 billion (€17.1bn) in 2030. This revenue growth will be enabled by rapid investment in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) technology, which allows satellite providers to improve the latency […]