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23 August 2025

Portable Satellite Internet: Starlink Mini vs. Starlink Standard vs. Amazon’s Kuiper Terminal

Starlink Standard Kit includes a 23.4″ x 15.1″ motorized dish (~6.4 lb) with IP67 weather sealing, a 49 ft cable to a Wi‑Fi 6 router, and delivers up to about 220 Mbps down with 20–50 ms latency on Roam plans, priced around $599 for

30 July 2025

Inside Tajikistan’s Internet: Connectivity Challenges, Costs, and the Satellite Solution

Since 2016, Tajikistan requires all ISPs to route international traffic through the

19 July 2025

Internet Access and Satellite Connectivity in Honduras: A Digital Lifeline in Central America

As of early 2024, about 7.03 million Hondurans were internet users, representing

From Submarine Cables to Starlink: Marshall Islands Internet Connectivity in 2025

The HANTRU-1 cable is 2,917 km long with a 160 Gbps design capacity, extended to Majuro and Kwajalein/Ebeye in 2010, linking to a Pohnpei hub and onward to Guam. A 2017 HANTRU-1

17 July 2025

Connectivity · Infrastructure · Internet · Marshall Islands · Satellite

America’s Internet Divide Exposed: The Truth About Access, Speed, and the Satellite Revolution

The BEAD program provides $42.45 billion in federal broadband funding administered by the NTIA to states to extend high-speed internet, with a 2025 policy shift to technology-neutral approaches that allow satellite solutions.

14 July 2025

Digital Divide · Internet · Satellite · Technology · United States

Space-Age WiFi: How Starlink, HughesNet, and Viasat Are Beaming Broadband from Space

Starlink uses a low Earth orbit constellation with about 7,600 satellites in orbit as of mid-2025 (aiming for 12,000+), delivering 50–250 Mbps downloads with 20–50 ms latency and no hard data caps

5 July 2025

Broadband · Internet · Satellite · Space Technology · WiFi

Connected Suriname: A Deep Dive into Internet Access and Satellite Connectivity in the Guianas

As of January 2024, about 75.8% of Suriname’s population were online, roughly 474,000 people, with about 24% remaining offline. In August 2024, the Deep Blue One subsea fiber optic system, operated by

5 July 2025

Connectivity · Internet · Satellite · Suriname · Technology

Internet Access and Satellite Connectivity in Turkmenistan

As of early 2024, Turkmenistan had about 2.59 million internet users, roughly 39.5% of the population—the lowest penetration in Central Asia. Turkmenistan’s telecom market is a state monopoly led by Turkmentelecom (Turkmen

30 June 2025

Connectivity · Internet · Satellite · Technology · Turkmenistan

Taiwan’s Internet Access – Fiber Power, 5G Expansion, and Satellite Horizons

In 2022 Taiwan had about 6.55 million fixed broadband accounts, with 4.12 million (63%) fiber-based and 2.17 million (≈33%) cable modem subscribers, while ADSL subscriptions fell to around 260,000. As of 2024,

29 June 2025

5G · Fiber Optics · Internet · Satellite · Taiwan

Ghost Signals and Laser Shields: The Pentagon’s 500-Satellite Orbital Defense Net

In June 2024, Australian astronomers traced a 30-nanosecond radio burst to NASA’s defunct Relay-2 satellite, offline since 1967, likely caused by a micrometeoroid hit or decades of charge buildup. The LES-1 Lincoln

29 June 2025

Defense · Military · Pentagon · Satellite · Technology

ForgeStar-1: Pioneering the UK’s Orbital Chip Foundry in Space

ForgeStar-1 launched on June 12, 2025 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking the UK’s first in-space manufacturing mission. The Welsh-built ForgeStar-1 is a fully retrievable, reusable space

29 June 2025

Chip Foundry · Satellite · Space · Technology · UK

SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

The USSF-178 task order is an $81.6 million NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 award to SpaceX to launch WSF-M2 on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB in the first half of FY2027,

29 June 2025

Satellite · Space · Space Force · SpaceX · Weather

Plan-S Expands Connecta Constellation to 17 Satellites, Boosting Gigabit Industrial IoT and Cutting Latency

The four new Connecta satellites named Connecta IoT-9, IoT-10, IoT-11, and IoT-12 were launched in June 2025 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the Transporter-14 rideshare. The launch brings Plan-S’s Connecta constellation to

28 June 2025

Connectivity · Industry · IoT · Satellite · Technology

Xona’s Pulsar Constellation Secures $92M to Revolutionize GPS with Centimeter-Accurate, Unhackable Navigation

Xona’s Pulsar constellation plans to deploy 250–300 small LEO satellites at about 326 miles (525 km) altitude to deliver centimeter-level PNT. Pulsar signals are encrypted and authenticated, with satellites orbiting ~40× closer

28 June 2025

GPS · Innovation · Navigation · Satellite · Technology

India Grants License to Starlink: A New Era for Satellite Internet Connectivity

In mid-June 2025, India’s Department of Telecommunications granted Starlink a Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) license, publicly confirmed by Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. Starlink becomes the third GMPCS licensee in

21 June 2025

India · Internet · Satellite · Starlink · Technology

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