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U.S. aerospace company SpaceX can only launch its satellite Internet service Starlink in Vietnam if it ties up with a local partner, Vietnam’s Department of Telecommunications said. SpaceX, owned by South African-American billionaire Elon Musk, recently…
An Earth-observation satellite developed by European and U.S. space agencies will measure sea level rise, tracking changes threatening to disrupt tens of millions of lives within a generation. If all goes according to plan, the payload will be hoisted into a…
Satellite operator Inmarsat is in talks to be acquired by a consortium of private equity investors in a deal worth $3.3 billion. UK-based Inmarsat is still negotiating with the consortium members over the possible takeover and a binding offer has not yet been…
Satellite industry software provider GateHouse Telecom has revealed it is developing a technology that will allow a single physical satcom terminal to use multiple satellite systems. The company is developing a new interface that will allow users to run the…
Satellite operator Intelsat has teamed up with business aviation connectivity provider Satcom Direct to provide in-flight broadband connectivity to business jets globally. Satcom Direct has become the first solution partner and master distributor for…
The summer of 2018 brought different fates to moves by Facebook and Google to offer broadband services using high-flying drones and balloons (atmospheric satellites) to the unserved in remote rural areas. GlobalData, feels that webscales need to partner with…
Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom could be required to the change frequencies it is using for its ST-2 satellite in order to accommodate the use of 5G on the 3.4-GHz to 3.6-GHz frequency range. Taiwanese regulator NCC plans to conduct experiments to see if the…
The Myanmar government plans to launch its own communications satellite in June 2019 at a cost of $155.7 million. MyanmarSat 2 will have six C-band transponders and six KU-Band transponders with 864MHz of total bandwidth. The satellite will be at least partly…
The Cambodian government plans to launch its first communications satellite by as early as 2021, and will conduct a feasibility study within a year. The satellite project is projected to cost around $150 million and the satellite will have a lifespan of seven…
Without next generation satellites, 5G networks will take longer to deploy, lack the necessary coverage and will be more expensive to build, a satellite industry executive told a keynote audience at CommunicAsia2017. Dr Ashok Rao, VP of product development at…
Inmarsat has launched the fourth high speed broadband satellite in its Global Xpress constellation, the Inmarsat-5 F4 (I-5 F4). The new satellite was launched by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 Rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the US. It was…
India is planning to launch Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark-III, the country’s most powerful rocket, in June. The rocket is capable of transporting a heavier 4 ton (3,628.7 kg) communications satellite and described as a game-changer in…
The Indonesia’s biggest telecommunication company Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) has successfully launched its Telkom 3S satellite from Arianespace’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 6.39 p.m. on February 14 local time or Wednesday at 4.39 am Jakarta…
Close to the equator, French Guiana, a scarcely populated country with only 158,000 inhabitants, is regarded as an ideal place to launch satellites. Mostly covered by equatorial forest, the South American country provides a stable climate, as well as…
Telkom Indonesia plans to launch a third satellite in less than two weeks as part of efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign satellites. The state-owned operator will launch the Telkom 3S from the Guiana Space Center on February 14. The satellite was…
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has launched its seventh satellite, the AOBA VELOX-III, into space from the International Space Station (ISS) on 16 January. It is the first Singapore satellite to be launched from the ISS, the…
