Satellites

Satellite connectivity is a crucial enabler of location-based services such as GPS and sometimes the only way remote locations can talk to the outside world or obtain broadband-like internet speeds

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The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award appoints Mapyx as exclusive tracking partner using SPOT satellite devices

Globalstar Europe Satellite has announced that The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) charity has signed a new three-year exclusive contract with Globalstar value added reseller, Mapyx, to provide tracking using the SPOT Gen3 satellite tracker, after having partnered with Mapyx ...

European Aviation Network completes test flights for air-to-ground connectivity

The European Aviation Network (EAN), a collaboration between Inmarsat, Deutsche Telekom and their technology partners Nokia and Thales, has completed a programme of test flights in the UK. The programme has tested the performance of the EAN system including the onboard equipment ...

Telefónica I+D to trial wireless virtualised RAN from Parallel Wireless in Europe

?Parallel Wireless, a cellular network deployment business, has announced a collaboration with Telefónica I+D – Telefónica's innovation unit – that includes an agreement to trial Parallel Wireless’ virtualised RAN (vRAN) solution to provide digital services in dense urban and ...

Double telecommunication satellite launch breaks payload world record

The Ariane 5 launcher, specialised in sending heavy payloads into the Earth's orbit, has broken its own record by launching two telecommunication satellites, together weighing almost 11 tonnes, out of the Earth’s gravitational field.

The Echostar 18 and BRISAT ...

Arqiva selected by Panasonic for inflight Wi-Fi

Arqiva, a communications infrastructure and media services company, has been selected by Panasonic Avionics Corporation to provide its hosting, connectivity and teleport uplink services through Telesat’s new high throughput satellite (HTS) Telstar 12 VANTAGE.

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The final data frontier

Low orbiting high-throughput satellites might help make connectivity available to everyone, but do they also pose a threat to MNOs’ dominance? James Hayes studies the heavens

Before the end of this decade newly-launched fleets of ‘routers in space’ circling the globe ...

The need for satellite

Laurence Doe takes a look at a market making an impact from outer space

Satellite development is being driven by the need to supply data to remote locations The first communication satellite Telstar 1 was designed by US telecommunications company AT&T and launched on ...