In an effort to boost its usage by the civilian sector as well as by ships and aircraft travelling far beyond the nation's boundaries, India aims to expand its regional satellite navigation system, known as NaVIC. Seven satellites are used by the Navigation with Indian Constellation (NaVIC) to provide true locating and timings services in India and an area up to 1,500 km from the nation's borders. Currently, ISRO Intends... Read More
OneWeb, a major satcom (satellite communications) company, will be one of the first in India to launch satellite broadband services, said Anil Prakash, Director General of the Satcom Industry Association. Much recently, OneWeb launched 36 satellites with the help of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), for which the Indian space agency would bag around Rs 1,000 crore. By January 2023, OneWeb would launch another 36 satellites for around the... Read More
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, on Sunday said that the pricing of OneWeb's broadband-from-space services for retail customers would be the same as 4G prices. While for enterprises, he said that the pricing would depend on the basis of use cases. Along the lines of the launch of OneWeb's satellites by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) at Sriharikota, Mittal said that spectrum for satellite communication couldn't be auctioned... Read More
OneWeb is moving fast and is expected to complete its constellation of 648 satellites around the world very soon. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 36 satellites for OneWeb on early Sunday. Around 10% of the satellites for OneWeb would be launched by ISRO, said Shravin Mittal, Managing Director, Bharti Global. OneWeb would again use ISRO's LVM3 rocket to launch another 36 satellites into space in January 2023, reported IANS.... Read More
The countdown for the launch of 36 broadband communication satellites by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) began early on Saturday at the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. This is the first time ISRO is launching a commercial rocket with this much weight. On Sunday at 12.07 a.m. IST, the 43.5-meter-tall rocket launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre's second launch pad in Sriharikota. Because it can lift satellites weighing... Read More
Starlink, a satellite broadband service owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, will now also offer services to private jets. Customers can purchase the Starlink aeroplane antenna for USD $150,000. As per a Reuters report, Starlink will charge customers seeking broadband internet on private jets between $12,500 to $25,000 a month for the service, on top of a one-time $150,000 hardware cost. As per the website of company, the deliveries of the... Read More
India Space Congress 2022, an event organised by the SIA-India (Satcom Industry Association), has been scheduled to take place between October 26 to October 28, 2022. The event will take place in the national capital, New Delhi. It will be a three-day event which will discuss business models, regulatory challenges, and possible learnings from other geographies while generating interest in new entrepreneurs. Domestic as well as international companies will be... Read More
Reliance Jio's satellite unit - Jio Satellite Communications, has reportedly received the GMPCS or Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite license from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). So after the Bharti-owned OneWeb, this Jio-owned satellite unit is the second in the country to get the GMPCS license from the govt. GMPCS license is offered to the companies by the government, allowing them to offer satellite communication services in licensed service... Read More
The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for several sectors and products has not only boosted the economy but also added to the innovation and the upgradation of technology in the country. At the Indian Space Conclave on Monday, the Indian Space Association (ISpA), the apex industry association of space and satellite companies in India, along with EY, launched a sector report titled "Developing the space ecosystem in India: focusing on... Read More
OneWeb, a satellite broadband company, has reportedly pushed its plans to launch services in India to a later period. The launch has been pushed back to August 2023, at least. Shivaji Chatterjee, executive vice-president of Hughes Communications India, told ET that the launch of OneWeb's satellite broadband services in India will take place between August to December 2023. OneWeb had originally planned to launch services in the Indian market by... Read More
Reliance Jio, a leading telecom operator in India, also plans to offer satellite broadband services through its satcom (satellite communications) arm - Jio Satellite Communications Ltd (JSCL). The company applied for the Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite Services (GMPCS) license earlier this year. OneWeb, backed by the Bharti Group, has already secured this license. According to an ET report, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has provided JSCL with a... Read More
Hughes Communications India Private Limited (HCI) has announced the launch of satellite broadband services for the Indian market. It is a commercial launch of High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) broadband service, a first for India. Hughes will leverage the Ku-band capacity from the ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organisation) GSAT-11 and GSAT-29 satellites with Hughes JUPITER platform ground technology for delivering high-speed broadband across India. The launch of commercial HTS broadband service is... Read More
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