Mobile Connectivity

Startup Lynk Global recently hit a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) milestone by sending a message from a satellite directly to a cell phone on Earth — and one of the company’s co-founders says the implications of this technology will surpass 5G.  Lynk’s goal is to provide text messaging via LEO nanosatellites that connect directly to unmodified mobile...

Iridium Communications has announced that its Iridium Certus 700 service is commercially available. The company said that when Iridium Certus was first launched in early 2019, it provided L-band upload and download speeds of up to 352 kbps. Now, Iridium said the upgrade to Iridium Certus 700 doubles top download speeds to up to 704...

Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellite fleet, and Get SAT report that using AMOS-17’s steerable Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) beams and Get SAT’s miniaturized Micro-SAT satcom terminals, they have tested and demonstrated full mobile broadband satcom capabilities for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications.  Get SAT reports its Micro-SAT terminal demonstrated a return channel...

Intelsat has debuted FlexMove, an end-terminal managed service that it said allows people to connect to the Internet, private data networks, and cloud services from virtually anywhere in the world, including while on-the-move, or on-the-pause at a temporary site.  FlexMove is powered by Intelsat’s Epic High Throughput Satellite (HTS) fleet, a fixed satellite network and...

As Inmarsat constantly seeks to serve the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with the most resilient, flexible, secure, and capable mobile satellite communications, we have arrived at a time of year when we look to the past to help us better prepare for the future. We carefully consider today’s challenges, threats and requirements, and then...

Comtech EF Data, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications that is based in Tempe, Arizona, was selected by Bansat S.A. to supply satellite communications ground equipment to support the Aeronautica Civil de Colombia’s backup communications network for 28 airports in Colombia. The Aeronautica Civil de Colombia, Colombia’s Civil Aviation Authority (also known as Aerocivil), is a...

KVH Industries has launched digital content service called KVH Link that provides news and entertainment content for crew wellbeing, along with operations data to optimize vessel performance. KVH Link provides timely and popular news, sports, movies, TV, music, karaoke, podcasts, documentaries, trending social videos, in the most popular languages among seafarers.  Mark Woodhead, KVH’s executive...

Gogo has signed an agreement with Hispasat for capacity on Amazonas Nexus satellite in order to meet the growing demand for high-speed in-flight connectivity services. Gogo, a provider of in-flight Internet, has leased multi-gigahertz of Ku-band capacity onboard Hispasat’s new satellite, which is set to launch in the second half of 2022. The capacity will...

BridgeComm and Boeing HorizonX are working together to pioneer the development of applications of One-to-Many (OTM) technology, calling it a breakthrough in optical wireless communications (OWC) that provides bi-directional, ultra-high-speed mesh connectivity for terrestrial, airborne, and space systems. OTM builds on the connectivity that traditional point-to-point optical terminals provide, with aims to enable a much...

BW Group is upgrading is upgrading 102 vessels to utilize KVH Industries’ mini-VSAT BroadbandSM HTS network for advanced satellite communications as part of a new contract to continue KVH VSAT services for at least five years. The vessel migration is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2020. BW Group, a global maritime...