by Peter B. de Selding | Nov 2, 2018
PARIS — Satellite broadband hardware and service provider Viasat Inc. said the two defective Ka-band antennas on the Viasat-2 satellite will have the biggest effect on the core consumer-broadband market and reinforce the company’s priority of favoring fewer...
by Peter B. de Selding | Nov 2, 2018
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Satellite fleet operator Telesat said pre-launch sales of its Telstar 19 Vantage satellite capacity to broadband service providers helped put the satellite’s fill rate past 50% just weeks after its entry into service. The major broadband...
by Peter B. de Selding | Nov 1, 2018
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Thales Alenia Space’s satellite electric-propulsion facility was inaugurated two years ago and is now ready to deliver its first flight model, which will be integrated into Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite to provide broadband to sub-Saharan...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 31, 2018
MANCHESTER, England — Maxar Technologies’ SSL commercial geostationary-orbit satellite communications business, already suffering from a global market decline and being now readied for a sale or shutdown, has suffered a further setback with defective components from a...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 31, 2018
PARIS — Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat said it has increased prices for video markets in the Middle East and that prices in its Russian and African markets are also holding firm. As it has in the past, the company sought to distinguish its video business from peers...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 30, 2018
PARIS — Intelsat expects it will cost close to $2 billion to clear U.S. satellite C-band spectrum for terrestrial 5G networks now that the satellite operators that use the spectrum have agreed to increase their offer to 200 MHz. Estimates coming from market observers...
