Big promise of LEO satellite broadband will require big bucks
Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband networks promise to deliver fiber-like latency and gigabit speeds to a global audience. In …
Plans for Boeing-built broadband satellite constellation stuck
Boeing hasn’t done much in the two years after asking for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses to build a massive …
Launch updates: SpaceX 15th commercial supply mission, Rocket Lab “It’s Business Time” on reset
Before dawn today, June 29, SpaceX successfully launched its fifteenth commercial supply mission to the International Space Station. Meanwhile, Rocket …
O3b gets FCC approval to expand satellite fleet and serve U.S., world markets
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given SES approval to serve the U.S. market with its O3b fleet. SES’s non-geostationary …
SES, O3b adds more satellites & capacity
While the world waits for high-capacity, low-latency Low Earth Orbit (LEO) networks, SES continues to launch GEO and MEO satellites …
SpaceX Starlink broadband satellite project taking shape
Forward progress on SpaceX’s massive global satellite broadband service is evident in Twitter, job listings and public statements by company …
Facebook experimenting with LEO satellite technology
IEEE Spectrum and Mark Harris have unearthed another satellite scoop, digging up Facebook work on a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) …
5G and satellite – It’s complicated
At Satellite 2018 last month, everyone in the satellite industry (emphasis mine) talked up how 5G deployments and satellite can …