Startup satellite-to-smartphone service provider Lynk Global acknowledged legitimate regulatory concerns about frequency interference with terrestrial mobile services in regions with many nations closely packed, and that Lynk’s initial operations will start this year in much easier geographies.
NSR predicted that MILSATCOM terminal upgrades will be an important area to watch in 2023 amid heavy defense spending worldwide.
5G represents a $162 billion opportunity for satcom, but there are significant challenges to overcome.
Since the onset of the Russia and Ukraine War in March 2022, there has been a sharp increase in retaliatory cyberattacks conducted by numerous pro-Russian and Ukrainian cyber groups.
Qualcomm’s partnership with mobile satellite service provider Iridium Communications is just the latest satellite involvement by a company that remains interested in going beyond emergency messaging to a broadband link directly from a low-orbit satellite constellation to user devices.
Constellations listeners voted with their ears for the top podcast episodes of 2022.
This year in review looks back at the ways norms of behavior in space were affirmed and challenged in 2022.
Constellations spoke with Kevin Steen, CEO of OneWeb Technologies, a subsidiary of OneWeb, about the unabated demand for connectivity and the more prominent role that LEO constellations are playing particularly for the U.S. government.
Todd Humphreys, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, deployed an experimental GPS receiver on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017 to study the Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere. Humphreys and his team discovered that they could use the receiver to geolocate and characterize illegal jamming and spoofing signals by recording raw signal data and using Doppler-based methods. The experiment attracted the attention of satellite operators for its potential military and commercial applications.
