Satellite News

  1. The Week in 5G: 8/12/21 — Huawei Revenue Drops; T-Mobile To Retire 3G & LTE 8/10/2021

    Plus, Canada auctions off spectrum, Nokia doubles profits, and pre-med students dissect virtual cadavers.

  2. Analog Devices And MDA Collaborate To Provide Electronic Beam Forming Technology 4/19/2021

    Analog Devices announced today a collaboration with MDA to deliver the beam forming integrated circuit (BFIC) to be used in MDA’s sophisticated phased array antenna for the Telesat Lightspeed low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. 

  3. SENER To Exhibit Aerospace Technologies At Satellite 2018 3/1/2018

    The SENER engineering and technology group is participating for another year in the Satellite fair, an annual conference on commercial satellites and space technologies that represents the biggest event in the sector, with representatives from more than 100 countries. The 2018 edition will take place in Washington D.C., between 12 and 15 March.

  4. ViaLite Launches Hyper-Wide Dynamic Range RF Over Fiber Link 3/1/2018

    High Throughput Satellites (HTS) are capable of transmitting data over a hundred times faster than conventional Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) satellites and this higher throughput needs more dynamic range within the ground segment. Addressing this need, ViaLite has launched the new L-Band HTS – HWDR RF over fiber link.

  5. NASA’s Small Spacecraft Produces First 883-Gigahertz Global Ice-Cloud Map 1/31/2018

    A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world’s first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth’s climate.

  6. Zero Gravity Graphene Promises Success In Space 1/31/2018

    In a series of experiments conducted last month, Cambridge researchers experienced weightlessness testing graphene’s application in space.

  7. NASA Piggybacks Spectrograph On Comm Satellite To Study Ionosphere’s RF Disruption 1/9/2018

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is set to launch its Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission to study Earth's near-space environment and better understand what disrupts radio signals and satellites used for communications and the Global Positioning System (GPS) for radio navigation.

  8. Reaper/Predator UAV Performs In-Flight, Multiple-Spot Beam Switching On Intelsat EpicNG Satellite 11/28/2017

    Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used by the United States Air Force have shown the capability to switch between multiple spot beams on the Intelsat EpicNG high-throughput satellite network.

  9. Hughes To Handle Ground Network System For OneWeb’s Global Internet Services 11/7/2017

    Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, today announced that it has signed a contract for $190M with OneWeb for the production of a ground network system, supporting OneWeb's constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in its mission to bring affordable broadband service to millions of households, schools and other end users around the world.

  10. Infostellar Launching 'Airbnb For Satellite Antennas' 9/19/2017

    Tokyo-based startup Infostellar plans to share idle antenna access among the global small satellite community, similar to how Airbnb lets people rent out unused living spaces to travelers.