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Satellite Connectivity
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Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus launches mission to extend D3 satellite life
Optus has sent the hardware for extending D3's life into orbit, but the propulsion pod still has to reach and attach to the satellite.

North America National Telecom Trends
Telesat wins C$2.3bn Arctic satellite contract
Telesat's Canadian defence contract funds 69 more Lightspeed satellites, expanding the constellation to 225 while global service remains targeted for Q1 2028.

Global National Telecom Trends
SBA explores D2D infrastructure role
SBA says direct-to-device services may need terrestrial support, but discussions remain early and no partner or deployment has been disclosed.

Global Cloud Services Trends
LEO performance still depends on ground infrastructure
Dr Nitinder Mohan’s measurements point to a practical limit in satellite broadband: lower orbital latency does not guarantee a fast application when traffic still reaches distant gateways, DNS resolvers or content caches.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Eutelsat expands 5G NTN work beyond OneWeb
Eutelsat is testing 5G NTN on OneWeb while preparing replenishment satellites, IRIS² and a proposed new constellation for standards-based integration.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Hisdesat selects Airbus and Thales to build SpainSat NG III
Hisdesat has awarded Airbus and Thales Alenia Space the SpainSat NG III replacement programme, with launch planned for the third quarter of 2030.

North America National Telecom Trends
Grain owns T-Mobile’s 800 MHz map; the access model comes next
The nationwide low-band portfolio has completed its transfer from T-Mobile US to Grain Management for $2.9 billion in cash plus Grain’s 600 MHz licences. Ownership is now settled. Whether the spectrum becomes a shared infrastructure layer, a set of private networks or something…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
China Telecom turns satellite-ready phones into a flood-response access layer
A public emergency mechanism built around China Telecom’s Tiantong direct-to-satellite service has moved beyond instructions to reported flood use. Trapped users in Dingxi sent their location and party size after terrestrial coverage disappeared, yet the available figures…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Arabsat and LTT have named the satellite, but not the capacity Libya will receive
Arabsat and Libya Telecom and Technology have signed an agreement linking high-throughput capacity on Arabsat-6A at 30.5 degrees east with LTT's national delivery role. The pairing identifies an orbital asset and a market channel, but it discloses no bandwidth, beam, terminal…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Hispasat to lead €1.6bn-plus IRIS² ground segment
Hispasat will coordinate antennas, control systems and terrestrial links for IRIS², with first launches planned for 2029.

Global National Telecom Trends
Viasat: 75% willing to pay for in-car satellite services
Viasat and 5GAA find drivers prioritise emergency calling over entertainment for in-car satellite services.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
IRIS² now has a 348-satellite implementation baseline, not an operational constellation
Europe’s secure-connectivity programme has crossed an important contractual boundary. The Commission and SpaceRISE have fixed a larger, 348-satellite architecture and a path from detailed design to launches and ground infrastructure. That reduces one kind of uncertainty while…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
AST SpaceMobile’s European tests move the bottleneck from orbit to integration
AST SpaceMobile says integration testing is under way with operators in eight European countries. The meaningful advance is not that satellite broadband is commercially live—it is not—but that operators are beginning to test how a space-based radio layer fits into licensed…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
DOCOMO’s 6.5 million satellite connections measure reach, not revenue
NTT DOCOMO says 6.5 million people have connected to its direct-to-device Starlink service since late April. The number is meaningful evidence that satellite fallback is reaching ordinary handsets; because access is free and requires no application, it is not a subscriber, usage…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
LATAM selects SES connectivity for more than 60 aircraft
The rollout will cover new Airbus and Embraer jets, extending SES connectivity already used on more than 200 LATAM A320-family aircraft.

North America Cloud Services Trends
Blue Origin has named New Glenn’s failed valve; proving the fleet fix is the harder step
Blue Origin says one BE-4 main oxygen valve initiated the ground-test failure that destroyed a New Glenn vehicle in May. The finding is testable, but the company still has to connect the modification to seven-engine configuration control and a defensible return-to-flight…

North America National Telecom Trends
Flight 14 is where Starship must stop being a test and start delivering network capacity
SpaceX says its next Starship flight will attempt something the programme has never done: carry Starlink V3 satellites to operational orbit. The tentative end-of-August mission would connect the rocket directly to the economics of the company’s broadband network. Yet the…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
L3Harris cleared a mechanical gate for ViaSat-3 F3, not the commercial one
The successful deployment of L3Harris’s first perimeter truss reflector on ViaSat‑3 F3 is a decisive physical event: hardware that travelled folded can now take the shape required to focus radio signals. It is also one stage in a longer chain. Viasat still has to complete…

North America National Telecom Trends
Hughes has put part of its satellite business behind a court wall, not switched it off
Hughes Satellite Systems Corporation and eleven wholly owned subsidiaries entered Chapter 11 on 2 August. The petitions move debt enforcement and major restructuring decisions into a supervised legal process while management says customer operations should continue. The useful…

Global National Telecom Trends
AccelerComm completes Eclipse Space physical-layer design
AccelerComm has completed physical-layer design work for Eclipse Space’s planned direct-to-device and broadband satellite platform.
