TAMPA, Fla. — Swissto12 has raised about $28 million in debt to scale up a manufacturing business seeking to disrupt the geostationary market with much smaller satellites, the 3D printing specialist said Sept. 13. Investment bank UBS provided the working capital facility for the venture, which has also raised more […]
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PARIS — Arianespace will launch a small geostationary communication satellite for Intelsat on an Ariane 6 in 2026, a sign of a stable, but diminished, role for such satellites in the commercial launch market. Arianespace announced Sept. 12 it signed a contract with Intelsat to launch the IS-45 satellite in […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Thaicom has picked Airbus to deliver an Asia-focused spacecraft in 2027, putting the manufacturer ahead of the pack for geostationary communications satellite wins so far this year after leaving 2022 empty-handed. Airbus said Sept. 11 that Thaicom-10 would be the Thai operator’s first satellite with a software-defined […]
HELSINKI — Chinese researchers have noted close approaches by U.S. GSSAP satellites to Chinese spacecraft in the geostationary belt, describing the activities as threats. A paper published in the Chinese journal Infrared and Laser Engineering earlier this year assessed the U.S. Air Force’s Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Programme (GSSAP) and […]
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) – A passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 80, local broadcaster Geo reported citing a district official. Around 10 cars of a passenger train derailed in Nawabshah district in the southern province of Sindh, roughly […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Astranis has sold a small broadband satellite launching to geostationary orbit next year to a telco in the Philippines looking for support from the country’s government, the Californian manufacturer announced July 11. Orbits Corp, the satellite services arm of Philippine internet service provider HTechCorp, plans to sell […]
After a C-band clearing shopping spree that saw Intelsat and SES order a combined 13 of the 18 geostationary satellites ordered in 2020, satcom operators worldwide bought just 11 GEOs in 2022 — down from 12 in 2021. And the competition this year is off to a slow start. Just […]
WASHINGTON — Satellite broadband customers are increasingly demanding shorter-term contracts to hold out for better prices in a market set for a flood of low Earth orbit (LEO) capacity, according to executives of regional satellite operators. While Starlink and OneWeb are still working on expanding their LEO constellations globally, operators […]