PUBLIC SECTOR Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating
NETWORKS Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal SpaceX gains a vertically integrated rival as launch specialist adds global comms network
Personal tech India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1 PLUS: Indian telco ponders broadband satellites; Samsung goes all-in on OpenAI; Vietnam centrally plans ten tech giants; and more!
Networks Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio Greek mountaintop ground station aims infrared beams at CubeSats in ESA-backed optical networking trial
Networks Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government Satellite service supports troops and Ukraine, but payments may raise eyebrows after boss's political broadsides
Science SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team
Networks Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall
Science Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place
Networks Amazon pays $11.5B to satisfy satellite-envy while cowering in Musk's shadow Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP
Networks SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute In space, no one can hear you being petty
Offbeat Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability
Networks Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things
Networks European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes
Networks Vodafone to use Amazon sats for cell backhaul in remote parts of Europe, Africa From Bavarian Alps to Congo basin and other places where laying cable is a PITA
Public Sector SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites The FCC is taking public comments - now’s your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers
Public Sector UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps
Networks Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns Move will see spacecraft shift from 550 km to 480 km as collision risks rise
Science The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens It's getting crowded up there
Science Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels
Security Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck
Science Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits
Networks Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service Kyivstar begins trials offering SMS connectivity when ground networks fail
Science DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit
PaaS + IaaS Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype
Networks Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030 Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity
Cybersecurity Month Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit
Public Sector FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing Agency aims to replace its default 'no' with default 'yes' while overhauling rules for operators
Edge + IoT Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projects
Science Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell
Networks SpaceX bulks up Starlink Direct to Cell with $17B EchoStar spectrum deal Dreams of one satellite constellation die so another can live
Off-Prem Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027
Networks Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service
Security Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is
Networks Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations
Networks Eutelsat LEO revenue rockets 84% as governments cool on Starlink OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some
Networks Amazon’s Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services in mid-2026, at least in Australia Maybe sooner in other places
Science US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround
Networks T-Mobile's satellite service lifts off, and it's open season on rivals Verizon and AT&T customers can now buy D2C connections à la carte from the magenta monster
Networks Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
Networks GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats
Networks 'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings
Science UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?
Networks Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze
Science MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise
Science US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'
Networks Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites
Science Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti
Science Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad
Networks AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window
Science Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brink
Science Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky As astronomers gripe about sats screwing observations
Science Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time
Science 20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide
Networks Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it? Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance
Science Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week
Science European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that
Science US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space Begun, preparation for orbital wars has
Science Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?
Science Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility
Networks Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine Increasingly shaky relationship with the States has Europe considering options
Science SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing
Networks Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes
Networks Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
Disaster Recovery Week NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water
Networks Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK Everybody is going to play nice, OK?
Science Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station Carefully crafted wooden box, LignoSat, is on its own
Networks Eutelsat OneWeb blames 366th day for 48-hour date disaster Leap year curse strikes satellite broadband vendor
Networks Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off? Connectivity direct to unmodified mobes looms, thanks to Starlink and co
Networks Taiwan in talks to tap Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos
Networks Europe signs off on €10.6B IRIS² satellite broadband deal Service promised by 2030 for bloc's take on Starlink
Science China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut
Networks Starlink gets FCC nod for space calls, but can't dial up full power Authorization conditional on operations not causing harmful interference
AI + ML NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload Proof of concept allows geospatial datasets to be conversationally queried
Networks Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuff
Networks FCC chair: Mobile dead spots will end when space-based and ground comms merge Jessica Rosenworcel looks at policy challenges for the next decade
Networks US lawmakers dig into FCC's $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn't go amiss
Networks SpaceX accuses 'meme-stock' rival of 'misinformation' over Starlink signals waiver AST SpaceMobile partners 'provide zero technical support for their opposition,' letter to FCC rages
Networks Satellite phones are coming, but users not happy to pay much extra for the capability Has someone told all the direct-to-cell investors?
Networks China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband Great Firewall reaches all the way into space
Networks Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers Satellite broadband mega-constellation passes mega-milestone
Science Starfish Space to tackle orbital junk for NASA with SSPICY Otter Is this a debris inspection mission or an Ubuntu release?
Networks Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes
Science ESA and Neuraspace ink 2-year deal for Space Traffic wrangling Multi-million euro package to control satellite swerving and debris dodging
Networks FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns SpaceX broadband network now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit
Science Cluster II spacecraft reenters and burns up with a nod to its controllers Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along
Networks Verizon taps another satellite operator to make texting from the middle of nowhere easier iPhone-like functionality coming to other devices on the network soon
Networks Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant
Science Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible
Networks Shots fired as AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to block Starlink's direct-to-cell plans Rivals claim signal waiver would interfere with terrestrial networks
Networks Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China? Beijing's first Starlink-slayers are in orbit, and buyers beyond the Great Firewall are on the agenda
