NASDAQ:VSAT News 9 June 2025

Space Showdown: How Military Satellites Are Shaping the Ukraine‑Russia War

SpaceX deployed 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine within days of the 2022 invasion, rising to about 15,000 active terminals by June 2022, with Ukraine at one point accounting for roughly 58% of global Starlink traffic. Russia attempted to jam Starlink

20 June 2025

Sky Wars: The Satellite Arms Race—Government and Military Satcom Procurement Trends 2025–2035

Global government and military Satcom spending is projected to grow about 7–10% annually, rising from roughly $50 billion in 2024 to $64 billion by 2030. The Ukraine conflict underscored Satcom’s importance, with Starlink keeping forces online for combat and coalition

18 June 2025

Government · Military · NASDAQ:VSAT · NYSE:LMT · Procurement · Satellites · Space Technology

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

Space-Based 5G Backhaul: The Billion-Dollar Race to Orbit 5G (2024–2031)

Starlink’s upfront CapEx was estimated at about $10 billion and later as high as $30 billion, SpaceX launched over 8,000 Starlink satellites with about 4,000 in operation by April 2025, and the service exceeded 5 million subscribers worldwide by 2025.

17 June 2025

5G · Future Trends · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:VSAT · Satellite · Space Technology · Telecommunications

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

D2D Gold Rush: The Race to Own the Sky-to-Phone Future (2025–2033)

In April 2023, AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 demonstrated the first two-way voice call from an off-the-shelf smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S22) to a satellite. In November 2022, Apple launched Emergency SOS via Satellite on iPhone 14 using Globalstar, with the service

14 June 2025

Connectivity · D2D · Future Technology · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:ASTS · NASDAQ:QCOM · NASDAQ:TMUS · NASDAQ:VSAT · NYSE:GSAT · Sky-to-Phone · Telecom Innovation

The GEO Reboot: How 2040 Will Look from 36,000 km Up

By 2040, analysts expect the global GEO replacement rate to be 10–15 new satellites per year, totaling about 200 GEO satellites from 2024 to 2040 and replacing most of today’s roughly 350-satellite fleet. A typical GEO satellite is designed for

13 June 2025

Future Scenarios · GEO Satellites · Innovation · NASDAQ:VSAT · Satellite Technology · Space Exploration

In-Flight Wi-Fi Takes Off: The Sky-High Race for Satellite Connectivity 2024–2030

Euroconsult projects the number of IFC-equipped aircraft worldwide will grow from about 9,900 in 2021 to over 21,000 by 2030. SpaceX Starlink, an LEO system with more than 4,000 satellites by 2024, has contracts to equip over 2,000 aircraft by

11 June 2025

Aviation Technology · In-Flight Wi-Fi · Internet Access · Market Trends · NASDAQ:SAVE · NASDAQ:VSAT · NYSE:DT · Satellite Connectivity

Telecommunications Infrastructure in Ukraine (2022–2025): Destruction and Resilience

Overview: Types of Infrastructure Targeted Ukraine’s telecommunications network encompasses a wide range of critical infrastructure that has come under attack since 2022. These include: Together, these attacks have aimed to sever Ukraine’s connectivity – both civilian communications and military command

10 June 2025

Infrastructure · NASDAQ:VSAT · Resilience · Telecommunications · Ukraine · War Impact

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

Sky Is No Limit: Global Satcom Market Set to Soar Through 2035

In 2024 the global space economy reached $415 billion, with commercial satellite activities totaling about $293 billion (71%). The number of active satellites rose from about 3,300 in 2020 to over 11,500 by end-2024 due to mega-constellations. SpaceX and OneWeb

9 June 2025

Future Trends · Global Market · NASDAQ:VSAT · NYSE:BA · NYSE:LMT · Satcom · Technology · Telecommunications

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