Mobility

Telespazio, a joint venture between Leonardo and Thales, and the Grimaldi Group recently signed two contracts for the upgrade of the Neapolitan Shipping Group’s satellite communications capacity on its fleet of cargo...

Iridium Communications revealed that it completed the $3 billion satellite constellation upgrade campaign known as Iridium Next, during a press conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C....

Hughes Network Systems carried out the first shipments of its specialized, multiband HM400 SATCOM modems to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI). These modems will power the beyond-line-of-sight communications for their next-generation...

In-flight internet provider SmartSky Networks closed a total of $104 million in funding, including $75 million in debt commitments from funds managed by the global credit team at BlackRock, and equity...

Newtec partnered with satellite communications solution provider Paradigm, which has become the first company to host its Newtec Dialog SMB3310 high-throughput modem board. The two-way, high-throughput SMB3310 satellite modem board...

Global satellite solutions company the AST Group (AST) undertook the first commercial installation of Iridium Certus with its long-term partner Alphatron, onboard Oceanwide Expeditions‘ Rembrandt Van Rijn vessel. The vessel,...

Viasat‘s In Flight Connectivity (IFC) service will be offered on Italian airline Neos‘ fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. According to the release, Neos selected Viasat for its popular satellite...

NSR’s Flat Panel Satellite Antennas, 4th Edition (FPA4) report, released today, forecasts cumulative FPA equipment sales to reach approximately $11 billion by 2028. NSR’s FPA4 finds aeronautical equipment will drive...

SatixFy U.K. will reveal a Electronically Steered Multi-Beam Array (ESMA) Ku-band 256 element array antenna this week in California. Using the company’s digital beam forming technology, the new antenna array...

Satellite communications integrator NIC4 was awarded the Iraq Ministry of Defense (MOD) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Phase One Single Award Five-Year Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) contract. This contract was awarded via...