NASDAQ:SATS News 4 June 2025

Space Race Shake-Up: NASA Kills Moon Probe, Record Launches & Billion-Dollar Deals (Aug 4–5, 2025 Roundup)

NASA formally ended the Lunar Trailblazer mission on July 31 after a Feb. 26 liftoff, a ~$94 million low-cost orbiter meant to map lunar ice with two novel instruments that lost contact the day after launch and showed misaligned solar

5 August 2025

Free Satellite Internet: Myth or Reality? The Cheapest Options Revealed

In 2018, LinkSure announced plans for a 272-satellite constellation to provide free global Wi-Fi by 2026. Quika offered a mostly free satellite broadband in parts of the Middle East and Africa, delivering about 3 Mbps down/1 Mbps up, but installation

23 July 2025

Free Internet · Internet Providers · Myths vs Facts · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:SATS · NASDAQ:TMUS · NASDAQ:VSAT · Satellite Internet · Tech Deals

Satellite Internet Revolution: How SpaceX Starlink and Rivals Are Connecting the World from Space (2025–2030 Outlook)

As of mid-2025, SpaceX Starlink has deployed over 7,600 satellites—about 65% of all active satellites—reaching 4+ million subscribers by late 2024 and 5+ million by mid-2025 across more than 125 countries. Starlink offers 50–200+ Mbps speeds with 20–40 ms latency,

16 July 2025

Global Connectivity · Internet Trends · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:SATS · NASDAQ:VSAT · Satellite Internet · Space · Space Technology · SpaceX

State of Internet Access in Guatemala: From City Wi-Fi to Satellite Lifelines

4G LTE coverage is extensive, reaching about 91% of the population in 2024, while 3G coverage reaches about 95%. In 2023, SIT held spectrum auctions that raised about $176 million in total: 126 MHz in the 2.5 GHz band brought

18 June 2025

Connectivity · Digital Divide · Guatemala · Internet Access · NASDAQ:SATS · NASDAQ:VSAT · NYSE:AMX · Technology

2025 Satellite Internet Showdown: Starlink vs Viasat vs HughesNet vs OneWeb & More

Starlink (SpaceX) is a LEO constellation (~4,500 satellites) delivering residential speeds ~100–250 Mbps down / 10–20 Mbps up, business up to ~350–400 Mbps, with a median latency ~45 ms in Q1 2025 and no hard data caps, employing a Fair

16 June 2025

Comparisons · Connectivity · NASDAQ:SATS · NASDAQ:VSAT · Satellite Internet · Starlink · Technology

Broadband Blackouts & Starlink Smugglers: Inside Venezuela’s Fight for Internet Access

CANTV, the state-owned fixed broadband incumbent, dominated traditional internet with about 56% market share as of late 2022, while its aging ADSL copper network remained slow and repair backlogs persisted. From August 2020 to August 2023, Venezuela jumped 50 places

14 June 2025

Broadband · Digital Divide · Internet Access · NASDAQ:SATS · NYSE:TEF · Starlink · Venezuela

Inside Ecuador’s Digital Frontier: Internet Access, Inequality, and Satellite Solutions

Fixed broadband penetration is around 15% of the population as of December 2022, equating to roughly 2.75–2.9 million fixed broadband accounts in a country of 18 million people. About 20,242 km of fiber-optic cable were laid in 2022 alone, representing

11 June 2025

Digital Divide · Ecuador · Internet Access · NASDAQ:SATS · NYSE:AMX · NYSE:CCL · NYSE:TEF · Satellite Solutions · Technology

Rural Broadband Revolution: Satellite Internet’s Sky-High Growth (2024–2030)

The global satellite broadband market was roughly $5–9 billion in 2023 and is forecast to reach about $24–23 billion by 2030, with an annual CAGR of 14–30%. North America led in 2023 with about 32% of revenues, while Asia-Pacific (~15%),

10 June 2025

Connectivity · Future Technology · Internet Growth · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:SATS · NASDAQ:VSAT · Rural Broadband · Satellite Internet

Bandwidth Wars: The High-Stakes Battle for High-Throughput Satellite Dominance (2025–2035)

HTS use numerous narrow spot-beams and on-board processing to deliver dramatically higher data rates than legacy FSS, with platforms like Boeing 702X and SES-17 featuring fully digital, reconfigurable payloads. HTS constellations can deliver terabits of capacity worldwide to power broadband,

10 June 2025

Bandwidth · Innovation · Market Analysis · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:SATS · NASDAQ:VSAT · NYSE:BA · Satellite Internet · Technology

Satellite Internet FAQ

Traditional GEO satellite internet sends data roughly 22,000 miles to a satellite and back, yielding a round-trip latency of about 600–800 ms. Satellite internet can reach virtually anywhere with a clear view of the sky, including most of the continental

6 June 2025

Connectivity · FAQ · Internet Access · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:SATS · NASDAQ:VSAT · Satellite Internet · Technology

How Satellite Internet Is Revolutionizing Disaster Response and Humanitarian Relief

Hurricane Maria in 2017 damaged 95% of cell towers in Puerto Rico, leaving the island largely without phone service. SpaceX’s Starlink uses a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellation of hundreds to thousands of satellites, lowering latency to about 20–40 ms with

4 June 2025

Disaster Response · Humanitarian Relief · Innovation · NASDAQ:SATS · Satellite Internet · Technology

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