Gogo Business Aviation has launched its Gogo Galileo product line with the unveiling of a second electronically steered antenna (ESA) form factor for use on its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband solution. Gogo serves the business aviation market with its In-Flight Communications service. The new equipment has already caught the eye of OneWeb. Gogo says […]
Arctic Space Technologies, the sustainable ground segment provider, and OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, have announced a leap forward in the construction of the OneWeb Satellite Network Portal (SNP), a hyperscale satellite ground station installation at the Arctic Space Technologies’ Space Center in Piteå. The companies signed a bilateral agreement in […]
A super-sophisticated second-generation satellite, dubbed ‘JoeySat’, has been added to the OneWeb constellation of broadband satellites. The new craft was launched along with 15 other conventional back-up satellites on May 20th and completes the initial plan for the fleet. JoeySat is an advanced ‘beam-hopping’ craft developed with £52 million of funding from the UK Space […]
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a 10-year contract with the low Earth orbit satellite communications company OneWeb to build and manage its Satellite Network Portal (SNP) in Yellowknife, NW, Canada. This new SNP will deliver increased bandwidth, performance and resiliency to all OneWeb services currently active across Northern Canada. The new site will be […]
In-Flight Communications specialists Gogo Business Aviation says that access to OneWeb’s now complete Low Earth orbiting satellites as well as “significant” progress by Hughes Network Systems and its satellites and antennas represents considerable momentum for its own broadband services to aircraft. Gogo says itself and its antenna provider, Hughes, completed preliminary design review of Gogo’s […]
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company OneWeb and integrated communications services provider iSAT Africa have signed a Distribution Partnership Agreement (DPA) to bring high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity across Africa. The partnership brings together OneWeb’s satellite technology and iSAT Africa’s experience in rural connectivity, fixed and mobile satellite services, enterprise, and broadcasting solutions in Africa. […]
Eutelsat says that its upcoming merger with Low-Earth orbiting constellation OneWeb will achieve estimated savings for between €1.5 billion-€1.8 billion in the two businesses’ operational costs, measured against an overall cost to Eutelsat of an estimated €4 billion in terms of acquisition and investment. The Eutelsat and OneWeb merger is on track to close during […]
Florida-based Sidus Space has been contracted to supply components for the Airbus/OneWeb Satellites (AOS) 50/50 joint-venture satellite production facility at Merritt Island, Florida. The Sidus agreement covers machined parts which are destined to be integrated into satellites being produced by the AOS joint-venture. Sidus is based at Cape Canaveral, and extremely convenient to the AOS […]
Eutelsat continues to suffer a downturn in its Broadcast division revenues. Its Q3 numbers, released on May 11th, reported an overall decline in revenues of 7 per cent with its Broadcast division falling back (y-o-y) of 9.3 per cent as reported. Government Services also fell back 9.3 per cent (and a worrying 13.4 per cent […]
Analysts at Quilty Space report that OneWeb’s Gen-1 network will be slightly smaller than originally anticipated. A tweet from OneWeb’s CTO confirmed that the company’s last launch, a May/June Falcon 9 mission, will carry only 16 OneWeb satellites. That means the final Gen-1 satellite count will be 634, or 14 less than the original plan […]