Tag: Satellite conference
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‘Open for business’: Amazon shows off antennas for its Kuiper satellite network
Amazon’s Dave Limp compares the size of the smallest Kuiper antenna, at right, to a Kindle ebook, at left. (Satellite 2023 via YouTube) After years of development, Amazon is showing off the antennas it plans to use for its Project Kuiper satellite broadband network — and says it plans to begin offering beta service for…
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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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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says there’s nothing to fear from Starlink broadband satellites (and no spin-out)
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk discusses Starlink and Starship during a fireside chat at the Satellite 2000 conference. (Via Satellite / Access Intelligence via YouTube) Will SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellite constellation ruin astronomy? Will it threaten the telecom industry? Will SpaceX spin out Starlink anytime soon? SpaceX’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, answered all three questions today…
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Kymeta will widen the reach of its satellite connectivity service with Türksat alliance
An artist’s conception shows the Turksat 4B satellite in orbit. (Turksat Illustration) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based satellite antenna venture that’s backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says it has struck up a partnership with Turkey’s Türksat telecommunications service to expand satellite data connectivity across a wide swath of Europe, the Middle…
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SpaceX plans to launch dozens of Starlink broadband satellites next week
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in February 2018, sending the first two Starlink demonstration satellites into orbit. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX confirmed that it will launch dozens of Starlink satellites in one go, as early as May 15, setting the stage for what’s expected to become…
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Blue Origin tweets picture from Antarctic expedition, hinting at moon mission
Is Jeff Bezos planning to send a lander to the moon’s south pole? It’s possible to leap to that conclusion, based on an enigmatic tweet from Blue Origin, the Amazon CEO’s private space venture. The tweet consists of a photograph taken during British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s famously difficult Antarctic expedition, showing the ship Endurance stuck…
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Built to take a beating: Kymeta introduces portable KyWay Go satellite data terminal
The KyWay Go satellite terminal system is designed to be set up within four minutes. (Kymeta Photo) Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp., the communications company backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says it’s starting to roll out a ruggedized portable terminal that’s designed to be set up for satellite links within four minutes. “Commercial and government…
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Jeff Bezos shares all 114 seconds of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine test firing
Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine fires up during a ground test. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine is an essential part of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ vision of getting millions of people living and working in space, so he’s anxious to show it works. But not anxious enough to cut corners. The…
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Spaceflight Industries firms up European satellite alliance and $150M funding round
Workers assemble BlackSky’s Global-1 Earth observation satellite. (BlackSky via YouTube) It’s official: After receiving all government approvals, a French-Italian joint venture has taken a minority stake in Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries as part of a $150 million funding round. The French and Italian partners in The Space Alliance, Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio, have also joined…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin strikes satellite launch deal with Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith and founder Jeff Bezos meet with Sky Perfect JSAT CEO Shinji Takada and other executives. (Blue Origin Photo via Twitter) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it has signed up Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT for a satellite launch to geostationary orbit in the 2020s.…