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    Eutelsat opts for Airbus to expand OneWeb’s LEO constellation

    The first spacecraft are due for delivery by the end of 2026 and pave the way for the IRIS2 constellation announced by the EU earlier this week

    EC announces €10.6bn Iris² deal it hopes will rival Musk’s Starlink

    The Commission intends the constellation to start offering services by 2030 to cover Europe and the whole of Africa, and to boost communications diversity and resilience

    AST SpaceMobile and Vodafone sign long-term deal

    The long-term partners entered into a definitive long-term commercial agreement through 2034

    Closing the digital divide while fostering economic growth

    Partner content: Internet access, that basic service which connects the world, is still unavailable to around 30% of the global population

    Spain, UK step up efforts to harness quantum tech

    Viasat and Vodafone join state-backed initiative in UK; Telefónica Germany, Telefónica Tech and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid join forces with AWS in Spain

    DT, Skylo and Qualcomm text to and from smartphone via GEO satellite

    An interesting development given that direct-to-device comms are usually associated with low-Earth orbit satellites

    Subsea threat helps boom in cables and new, 200Gbps satellite tech

    Stories about sabotaged and threatened subsea cables abound, but there are silver linings too as space comms look destined to move from radio to lasers

    Apple invests $1.1bn in Globalstar, gains 20% equity

    The device maker will also pay for more services from Globalstar as it ventures into satellite-to-device communications

    EC chooses firms to build satellite broadband constellation

    The home-grown SpaceRISE consortium will deliver Europe’s much delayed LEO/MEO constellation but it may cost €10 billion

    Intelsat 33e satellite outage affects Europe, Africa and parts of Asia-Pac

    The satellite has lost power and is probably not recoverable – and maybe neither is Boeing's space business

    Portugal’s dstelecom partners Lacuna Space for satellite IoT services

    The fibreco and satco will jointly market and promote IoT services in Portugal

    Collaborators will win the NTN business space race

    The non-terrestrial network economy is extraordinary commercial opportunity for those who prepare themselves now, just as the competion really starts to heat up

    Starlink testing ITU satellite power limits in Romania

    The test, if successful, will show that Starlink satellites can operate at up to eight times the capacity currently allowed by the ITU’s EPFD limit, while still protecting geostationary satellites

    Africa looks to greater connections with Musk

    Burundi becomes the fifteenth African country to receive satellite-based internet service via SpaceX’s Starlink constellation

    Intelsat sources terminals to support multi-orbit strategy 

    Satco invests in Paris-based Greenerwave and plots to offer multi-orbit solutions for all business units by the first half of 2025