Ted Turner: “Shake with Terror”
Chris Forrester — There’s a wonderful scene in the 1963 20th Century Fox movie ‘Cleopatra’. Cleopatra is dead, and the victorious Romans under Gaius Octavian (played by Roddy McDowell) having […]
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The waiver was the policy. Thursday is the paperwork.
The FCC votes Thursday, April 30, to replace 1990s EPFD limits with a performance-based coordination framework. SpaceX got its waiver January 9; Amazon Kuiper followed in February. By the time the Commission codifies the new rules, the two largest LEO operators will have been running under them for three to four months. The vote is not the starting gun. It is the regularization of a head start.
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IEC Telecom Unveils Voucher-Based Connectivity Solution at Singapore Maritime Week 2026
To address the growing demand for managed high-speed internet in the maritime sector, IEC Telecom has launched the IEC Voucher System during Singapore Maritime Week 2026. Unveiled at the French […]
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GomSpace and STETMAN Establish UASAT Joint Venture for Ukrainian Sovereign Communications
On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, Danish small satellite provider GomSpace and Ukrainian technology firm STETMAN signed a strategic agreement at the EU-Ukraine Business Summit in Brussels to establish UASAT. This […]
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Market Dynamics and Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) Chipsets
The global LEO Satellite 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) chipset market is undergoing a phase of exponential growth, driven by the finalization of 3GPP standards and a strategic pivot toward direct-to-device […]
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Kymeta Chief Scientist Discusses Metamaterial Antenna Evolution and Orbital Sustainability
On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, Ryan Stevenson, Chief Scientist and founding member of Kymeta Corporation, detailed the engineering hurdles and strategic shifts behind the development of the world’s first simultaneous […]
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Sat-Lite Technologies adds Richard Rader to Spearhead Sales Expansion
Texas-based antenna manufacturer Sat-Lite Technologies made the April 20 strategic hire to address surging demand within the satellite ground segment, specifically targeting new opportunities in multi-orbit communications and electronic warfare […]
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SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Jaume Sanpera, Sateliot
Sateliot CEO Jaume Sanpera built the first LEO constellation on the 5G NTN standard. At SmallSat Europe, he's the only satellite operator on a panel of space lawyers debating the EU Space Law.
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What the SpaceX IPO Changes for Every Satellite Operator
A public SpaceX means earnings-driven launch pricing, mandatory disclosure, and a two-player infrastructure duopoly with Amazon reshaping unit economics for every mid-tier satellite operator.
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The Downlink Deficit: The Pentagon’s Optical Mesh Network and the Terrestrial Bottleneck
The satellite industry has built roughly 10 percent of the optical ground infrastructure it needs. Without 200 to 500 optical ground stations, the Pentagon's $35 billion PWSA and $185 billion Golden Dome programs risk becoming stranded assets — data moves flawlessly in orbit but cannot reach the ground.
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