Peraton has been awarded a US$218.6 million contract to provide commercial satellite communications services for the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM).
Read More »UK’s OneWeb Receives Permission To Operate In Armenia
British-headquartered satellite communications company OneWeb has received permission to operate in the South Caucasus country of Armenia, according to the company’s CEO Adrián Steckel in a 1 March 2020 interview with Russian newspaper Vedomosti.
Read More »Rakuten and Vodafone Invest in AST & Science’s Space Venture
Rakuten and Vodafone have become the lead investors in a venture to extend mobile coverage to more people and devices across the planet, using the first mobile broadband network that will be broadcast from space.
Read More »SES And Gilat Telecom Restore Internet Connectivity In DRC
High-performance internet connectivity was restored in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) within just four days after the West Africa Cable System (WACS) undersea cable cut, thanks to the combined efforts of Gilat Telecom and SES, the companies announced on 10 February 2020.
Read More »Belgian Development Agency Partners With SES To Connect Foreign Aid Projects In Africa Via Satellite
The Belgian development agency Enabel and SES S.A., a leader in global content connectivity solutions, will deliver satellite-based communications for the development and foreign aid projects spearheaded by the Belgian and other European governments.
Read More »Isotropic Demonstrates Performance Of Intellian’s NX-Series Antennas
US-based global internet services provider Isotropic Networks and Intellian, a South Korean provider of mobile satellite communication antenna systems, announced the completion of network acceptance testing on Intellian's new NX-Series of antennas.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op-Ed: A View From The Party–My Perspective On OneWeb’s Successful Commercial Launch
By Ewan Lawrenson On 7 February 2020, global communications company OneWeb successfully launched 34 satellites aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was the second successful launch in OneWeb’s campaign to build its phase one constellation of 648 satellites to deliver high-speed, low-latency global connectivity. …
Read More »Kongsberg Contributing To Broadband Connection For The International Space Station
Equipment from Norwegian firm Kongsberg Group is to enable broadband transmission for the International Space Station (ISS), significantly improving communication between the European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts manning the station and Earth.
Read More »Arianespace Orbits Two Satellites – JCSAT-17 And GEO-KOMPSAT-2B – To Support Connectivity And Environmental Monitoring In Asia
On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 22:18 UTC (Universal Time Coordinates), Arianespace successfully launched two satellites using an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana:
Read More »SpaceX Makes Fifth Starlink Launch, But Loses Reusable Falcon 9 Booster
On Monday, 17 February 2020, at 10:05 am EST, or 15:05 UTC, SpaceX launched its fifth Starlink mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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