Mobile Connectivity

OneWeb has told the FCC that it wants to increase the number of satellites in its constellation to 48,000, the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite operator announced May 27. OneWeb, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, said the new modification request will update its existing U.S. authorization to match the FCC’s latest system...

The U.S. Navy selected Viasat and Data Link Solutions (DLS) to participate in a five-year contract worth a potential $999 million contract for each company to produce, retrofit and sustain Multi-functional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) terminals. MIDS JTRS terminals are line-of-sight, four-channel radio systems designed for secure broadband data and...

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has issued a call-to-action statement urging U.S. government agencies, academic institutions, and industry leaders to collaborate on a plan to ensure U.S. leadership for 6G wireless service rollout. ATIS urges a “holistic” approach to 6G, beginning with research and development that addresses U.S. needs, a commitment to standardization,...

Envistacom, LLC, has been awarded a task order to deliver Satcom On The Quick Halt (SOTQH) communication systems for MRZR vehicles to specialized U.S. Army units. The systems combine terminal technology from Lite Coms and will be integrated at Envistacom’s Innovation Center, in Duluth, Georgia, the companies announced May 12. A financial component to the...

Crowley Maritime has contracted to install Inmarsat‘s Fleet Xpress on a majority of its vessels. Crowley Maritime owns, operates, and manages a fleet of close to 200 vessels including conventional and dual fuel container ships, tankers and articulated tug-barges, and ship assist and offshore services tugboats, and various other types of barges. The deal was...

L3Harris has received $95 million from the U.S. Army to continue delivering AN/PRC-158 two-channel, software-defined manpack radios, which will be utilized in the service’s Integrated Tactical Network evaluation in late summer, the company announced April 29. The latest deal is the company’s third low-rate initial production order for manpack radios under the $12.7 billion multi-award...

Two Cobham SATCOM land satellite terminals have received Inmarsat type approval, the companies announced Thursday. The low-profile vehicular Cobham Explorer 323 BGAN terminal and the auto-point “fly-away” Cobham Explorer 6075LX VSAT terminal are now fully operational on the Inmarsat network and commercial shipments for each have begun.  The new Explorer 323 terminal represents the first...

  Viasat Inc. has shipped more than 200 production units of its advanced Move Out / Jump Off (MOJO) Link 16 expeditionary tactical gateway system to U.S. and international military forces. The company said in a Monday release that this 200th milestone shipment marks a threefold increase Year-Over-Year (YOY) in production capacity of the MOJO...

This year, Isotropic Systems is in its final stage of collaboration with SES on software-defined, multi-beam customer edge terminal antennas compatible with O3b mPOWER — ahead of the commercial launch of the terminals with the O3b mPOWER Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) system in 2022. Isotropic CEO John Finney spoke to Via Satellite and said this is...

Inmarsat has approved Smiths Interconnect’s KaStream 5000 MK II antenna system for use over the Inmarsat Global Xpress network. The KaStream 5000 MK II antenna system supports commercial and military modems.  Smiths Interconnect said in a Tuesday release that when using a Global Xpress subscription, Satcom-a-a-Service (SaaS), the terminal provides always available access to high-throughput,...