Iran secretly acquired a Chinese spy satellite, giving the Islamic Republic a new capability to target US military bases across the Middle East during the recent war, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The TEE-01B satellite, built and launched by the Chinese company Earth Eye Co, was acquired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace…
Have you ever been in or traveling through an area where there is no or low traditional cell service and thought, “What if I had an emergency and needed to call 911?”Now, because of a well-known cell service provider’s connection to a popular network of satellites, there’s a solution when you have an emergency and…
AST SpaceMobile will integrate its space-based cellular broadband connectivity with stc’s terrestrial infrastructure to expand mobile coverage across Saudi Arabia, as well as select countries in the Middle East and Africa. AST SpaceMobile, Inc., the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, designed for both commercial and government…
Rogers Communications has stepped into the future by launching a satellite-to-mobile service in Canada. This pioneering effort marks the first instance of direct satellite connectivity to mobile phones in the nation, promising to extend coverage beyond traditional networks. With this, Rogers has dramatically expanded its coverage to over 5.4 million square kilometers, addressing longstanding communication…
A photo of Monument Peak (7,762ft / 2,366m) behind Trinity Lake, shot on a Fuji X100VI Anshel Sag I’m a city slicker and have lived in cities or suburbs most of my life. So, when the wireless carriers began launching their satellite services, it became a bit of a problem for me to try them…
T-Mobile is launching its Starlink satellite communication service called T-Satellite with Starlink on July 23, and it has now been granted the requested waiver so that customers with older phones can also sign up for it. Previously, only newer handsets explicitly authorized for the service in the past four years or so could benefit from…
In a move to minimize dependency on foreign software amid increasing sanctions from the West, particularly the US, China has successfully tested an indigenously-developed operating system in space. After launching into the orbit, the Dalian-1 Lianli CubeSat spent over 1,000 hours testing satellite subsystems powered by OpenHarmony real-time operating system (RTOS)—a streamlined, light-weight, open-source version…