April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... GEO and LEO satellites, planes and cellular towers. Recently, Facebook also partnered with Paris-based Eutelsat to lease the Ka transponder on the AMOS-6 satellite to link disconnected African regions to the internet but unfortunately, AMOS...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... of connectivity are targeting the IoT market with smallsats, ranging from heavyweights like Iridium, Orbcomm and Eutelsat to newcomers like Fleet, Myriota, Lacuna Space, Blink Astro and NanoAvionics. Australia-based company Fleet Space...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
..., it is not immune to this global pandemic Traditional satellite TV, consumer broadband and cellular backhaul (provided by companies such as Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES, Telesat and ViaSat) should remain steady or may even grow, because most of the world...
February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
...-on-themove environments, so flat panels are naturally an attractive option From recent discussions with satellite operators - including Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Intelsat and others - it seems apparent that despite many years of promises that flat panel...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
...development cycles and potentially operate in clusters. A current example is the highly-reconfigurable Quantum satellite, developed for Eutelsat, with flexible in-orbit reprogrammable features. Space-wide-webs, an extension of the World Wide Web that...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... this year, according to Euroconsult, as long-planned High Throughput Satellite (HTS) from major satellite operators ViaSat, Eutelsat, Hughes and SES come on-line. At the same time, new low Earth orbit mega-constellations such...