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OneWeb Partners With AWS on Cloud Connectivity
OneWeb has signed a letter of intent with Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (AWS) to explore providing cloud-based connectivity and services, the companies announced on Monday, March 13. OneWeb and AWS will work to expand both horizontal and vertical services to provide customizable and integrated solutions for edge-to-edge operations. The companies aim to create the…
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CesiumAstro Jumps into IFC Market With New Phased Array Antenna
CesiumAstro is jumping into the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market, unveiling a new multi-beam flat panel terminal for aviation on Monday, March 13. It is an active phased array that can support multiple Ka-band constellations for airborne commercial and defense markets. CesiumAstro designs phased arrays for satellites, this is its first user terminal for the aero…
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Industry CTOs Highlight Laser Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Emerging Challenges
The Monday morning CTO roundtable at SATELLITE 2023 brought together leaders from innovative space companies to convene on buzzworthy developments in laser communications, AI, and system architecture and design. Yet the enthusiasm was tempered with some humility over tech limitations, and market realities, best summarized by speaker Al Tadros, CTO of Redwire, who noted that…
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U.S. military experiments hitching ride to space station on SpaceX cargo ship
SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, awaiting liftoff Tuesday from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s next resupply mission to the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday night from Kennedy Space Center, hauling more than 6,300 pounds of cargo to the complex, including a…
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Satellite plans move ahead for Kymeta and OneWeb — and for SpaceX and T-Mobile
Kymeta’s team shows off flat-panel antennas made for OneWeb. (Kymeta Photo via Business Wire) Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp. says it has completed its first shipment of electronically steered flat-panel antennas to OneWeb for that company’s satellite-based data network. In a news release timed to coincide with the Satellite 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., Kymeta said…
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Top Operators Forecast Opportunity with Satellite-to-Cell, Telcos, and Governments
The ‘Big Four’ satellite operators — Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat — could consolidate into a ‘Big Three’ or even a ‘Big Two,’ in the next year, Jose Del Rosario, analyst for NSR, an Analysys Mason company, forecasted in a bold prediction in one of the opening panels at SATELLITE 2023 on Monday. The direct-to-device…
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Proton rocket launches classified Russian government satellite
A Proton rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos A Proton rocket launched Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, boosting into a high-altitude orbit a classified Russian government satellite Western analysts believe is designed to eavesdrop on other countries’ radio transmissions. The Proton rocket, made Russia’s Khrunichev State Research and Production Space…
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Launch Spotlight: CRS-27 – SpaceX set to launch the 27th space station resupply mission
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China’s Shenzhou-15 astronauts to return in June
China’s Shenzhou-15 crew is scheduled to return to Earth in June, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Sunday. The space station combination is operating steadily, and the Shenzhou-15 astronauts are in good condition, said the CMSA. China will launch three space missions for the space station application and development this year, including the cargo…
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Crew Dragon splashes down to close out 157-day mission
SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft descends over the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese space veteran and a Russian cosmonaut bid their seven space station crewmates farewell and returned to Earth Saturday night, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa after a fiery plunge back through the lower atmosphere.…