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Euroconsult forecasts satellite demand to experience a four-fold increase over the next 10 years
Jan 14, 2020 (SPX)
The market will reach $292 billion over the next decade. This reflects a 28 percent increase over the previous decade which totalled $228 billion in revenues. "...
India to launch communication satellite to cover Gulf, Asian Countries and Australia
Jan 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
GSAT-30, with a payload weight of 3,357 kilograms is to be launched by the Ariane-5 launch vehicle from the European Spaceport in French Guiana on Friday (17 Ja...
First Spacebus Neo satellite set for launch
Jan 14, 2020 (ESA)
Konnect will provide broadband services for Europe and Africa, and was built by Thales Alenia Space for Eutelsat, its commercial operator, under an ESA Partners...
Maxar Technologies to sell MDA to Northern Private Capital for CAD$1 Billion
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
The company expects to use proceeds to reduce leverage and improve its capital structure to prioritize investments for growth in its core areas of Earth Intelli...
Satellite constellations harvest energy for near-total global coverage
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
In the mid-1980s, researcher John E. Draim proposed what is generally considered to be the ideal solution: a four-satellite constellation. However, the amount o...
SpaceX launches another 60 satellite for Starlink constellation
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
A live broadcast by SpaceX showed a Falcon 9 rocket taking off without incident from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 9:19pm (0219 GMT Tuesday). The satellites are se...
SpaceX launches third batch of Starlink satellites
Jan 06, 2020 (AFP)
A live broadcast by SpaceX showed a Falcon 9 rocket taking off without incident from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 9:19pm (0219 GMT Tuesday). The satellites are se...
China's heaviest satellite positioned in geosynchronous orbit
Jan 06, 2020 (XNA)
The Shijian-20 satellite is the first verification satellite for DFH-5 satellite platform, China's new generation of large geosynchronous orbit satellite platfo...
US expects to rocket ahead in space during 2020
Dec 27, 2019 (UPI)
NASA and a number of space entrepreneurs hope that, 51 years since the first Apollo lunar landing, America resumes human spaceflight and takes a leap toward a r...
The Internet of Things by satellite will become increasingly accessible
Dec 27, 2019 (SPX)
One of the key elements of the IoT is wireless communication between machines, known as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication. Unlike mobile networks such as 4...
Russian prosecutors refer 80 criminal cases tied to spaceport construction to authorities
Dec 27, 2019 (Sputnik)
According to the spokesman, prosecutors looked into all general contractors and subcontractors involved in the construction. The inspection discovered and preve...
Apple reportedly working on secret space communications network
Dec 24, 2019 (Sputnik)
Apple has hired some of the biggest minds in the aerospace and communications fields to work on a "special project" that could yield a satellite-based network f...
Kacific's first satellite in orbit
Dec 18, 2019 (SPX)
Owned by Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific), the Boeing-built communications satellite will stream high-speed broadband to 25 nations in South East As...
Iridium Continues GMDSS Readiness with Announcement of Launch Partners
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
Iridium GMDSS will be the first to feature all three GMDSS services - safety voice, distress alerting and maritime safety information messaging, as well as bein...
First launch of UK's OneWeb satellites from Baikonur now set for 30 Jan
Dec 08, 2019 (Sputnik)
In late November, a source at the spaceport revealed that the launch of OneWeb satellites had been postponed from 23 January to later January or February due to...
Nilesat-301 satellite to be built by Thales Alenia Space
Dec 06, 2019 (SPX)
Positioned at 7 degrees West, Nilesat-301 will work with Nilesat-201 to provide Ku-band services for the Middle East and North Africa. Nilesat-301 will also hel...
SpaceChain sends blockchain tech to ISS for Fintech market
Dec 06, 2019 (SPX)
Today marks the third blockchain payload launched into space by SpaceChain in the past two years, advancing SpaceChain's vision of a decentralized orbital const...
SpaceChain sends blockchain tech to ISS
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
Today marks the third blockchain payload launched into space by SpaceChain in the past two years, advancing SpaceChain's vision of a decentralized orbital const...
Russian Soyuz-ST to launch OneWeb communications satellites in 2020
Dec 04, 2019 (Sputnik)
"In 2020, three launches of the Soyuz-ST are planned from the Guiana Space Centre," the source said on Tuesday, adding that the launches are planned for the mon...
Germany invests 3.3 billion euro in European space exploration and becomes ESA's largest contributor
Nov 30, 2019 (SPX)
At the end of the conference, Thomas Jarzombek stated that: "After two days of intensive negotiations, Germany has committed a total of 3.3 billion euro for Eur...
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