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Satellite Connectivity
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IETF
Deep-Space QUIC Moves Congestion Control into Mission Control
On Earth, a transport usually infers what the network can bear from acknowledgements, delay and loss. Between planets, that feedback can arrive after the useful moment has passed. A new IETF working-group draft responds by letting mission schedules govern QUIC’s rate, window and…

North America Institutional Trends
Rocket Lab challenges the rules behind NASA's Mars relay award
A reported GAO protest shifts attention from the winning spacecraft to eligibility and technical evaluation. The bidder's objections are not findings, and a filing does not establish a changed mission timetable.

North America National Telecom Trends
StarTV renews satellite capacity to defend the viewing bundle
A renewed Eutelsat agreement puts broadcast-delivered IP video at the centre of a retention pitch in Mexico. The capacity commitment is clearer than the customer economics.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Global AKAR turns ground-station access into a scheduling business
Eutelsat and Skynopy plan to open selected facilities to more satellite operators. Keeping existing customers served makes the allocation of contact time as important as the antenna count.

Global Cloud Services Trends
SES CORE puts the choice of delivery route on one screen
The new platform places satellite, fibre and IP distribution behind a common interface. That expands the operator’s place in a broadcaster’s workflow without making the underlying commercial decisions disappear.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
OroraTech reserves satellite space to scale thermal intelligence
A reservation for 48 instruments, with 48 more optional, gives the sensing company a way to share future spacecraft. The commercial advance is access to a host—not yet a specified end-to-end monitoring service.

Story
A Space IPv6 Draft Gives Every Planet Up to Five RIR Prefixes. It Never Defines the Region.
The appealing part of a new space-address proposal is that it does not start a sixth registry from scratch. The harder part is hidden in two words. Applicants would use their “appropriate RIR”, but a moving spacecraft has no obvious place on a map built for terrestrial service…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Cailabs and Eutelsat weigh a shared route for laser data
A plan to use existing satellite gateways could lower the burden of building optical ground infrastructure. The saleable product still needs a usable pass, a clear sky and a defined data handoff.

Africa Regional ISP Trends
Paratus puts the network handoff into its East African LEO offer
The operator plans to introduce a Layer 2 satellite service for East Africa. Its commercial distinction lies in how a remote site joins a business network—not simply how fast a terminal reaches the internet.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Univity demonstrates 5G mmWave satellite link
UniSpark linked a ground terminal to an onboard 5G base station using mmWave and TDD; commercial deployment remains ahead.

North America National Telecom Trends
FCC sets vote on new satellite spectrum
The FCC will vote on 30 September on proposals to open more than 1,000MHz across the 12GHz and 42GHz bands for satellite connectivity.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Four telcos weigh joint EU satellite-spectrum bid
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone, and Telefónica are reportedly discussing a joint bid for EU spectrum that could support satellite-to-phone services.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK allocates £2.8bn to space connectivity programmes
The funding covers programmes including SKYNET, C-LEO and £57 million for better rail connectivity under the UK's new space strategy.

North America National Telecom Trends
AT&T puts one service desk in front of Amazon Leo
The new satellite offer gives enterprise buyers one commercial interface. The harder question is what happens beyond it when a business application loses its normal connection.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
O2 brings Starlink satellite service to UK businesses
O2 is extending Starlink-backed satellite coverage to business customers when its terrestrial network is unavailable.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Eutelsat joins Greenland satellite connectivity project
Eutelsat will provide OneWeb capacity through Tusass to extend connectivity to remote Greenland communities and critical infrastructure.

CASE FILE
WTPF-26’s Space Opinion Keeps Technology Choice Open. Outcomes Need One Scorecard
A village reached by fibre and an island reached by satellite can both be marked “connected”. The label is useful only if it preserves what the connection actually delivers. WTPF-26’s new space-connectivity Opinion encourages technology-inclusive targets and local choice. That…

Asia-Pacific Institutional
Pixxel raises $100m to expand satellite sensing
Pixxel will use its $100m Series C to expand satellite imaging and Aurora software, with the first Honeybee satellite due in 2027.

North America National Telecom Trends
SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg
SpaceX's 80th Starlink mission of 2026 flew from Vandenberg, where the company is currently concentrating its Falcon 9 constellation launches.

Europe and Middle East Institutional
Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on second Spectrum flight
Spectrum deployed five CubeSats and one experiment, while vehicles 3–7 are already in production for follow-on flights.
