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Europe’s largest telecom operators see significant potential in satellite direct-to-device (D2D) services but remain uncertain about market demand, profitability and which D2D providers will ultimately survive.
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Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is terminating its agreement with mobile satellite services provider Iridium Communications to embed Iridium connectivity into Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile platform, saying smartphone manufacturers have not adopted the technology.
Any company designing a data-relay or broadband satellite constellation would prefer to hold off selecting its laser communications terminal (LCT) supplier until the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has performed in-orbit validation of at least two, if not all four, of the LCT providers it’s working with. Telesat, Rivada Space Networks, Kepler Communications, the European Commission and others have set deadlines coming up before the SDA has done its testing.
The Viasat-3 Americas satellite has definitively lost more than 90% of its expected terabit-per-second of throughput but Viasat Inc. has concluded that capacity it has leased from third parties, plus fleet additions from its Inmarsat acquisition, will mean the satellite will not be replaced.
The outage of the Starlink satellite network on Sept. 13 lasted no more than about an hour but is an example of why having backup capacity is essential for some business applications, industry officials said. “Resilience of the architecture is key,” said Steve Nixon, chief executive of the Smallsat Alliance.
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat recently announced testing space-to-ground. Civil government and military markets are an area of high growth as governments outsource services they used to develop on their own. It is this growth that led to an Intelsat agreement with Starlink.
