In late July 2024, the Malargüe deep-space communication station completed an important upgrade of its antenna feed that will allow missions to send much more data back to Earth, a capacity increase ...

AST SpaceMobile made history in April 2023 by completing the first two-way phone call via space on an unmodified cellphone. This milestone was achieved using its low Earth orbit satellite ...

After emergency text messages via satellite, here comes video calling from areas of no coverage using a standard mobile phone ...

It's really exciting to be able to say that we’ve spun a satellite up to 10,000 Gs.” Next stop: outer space (or, at least, low earth orbit). Jackie is a writer and editor from Pennsylvania.

these aim to bring satellite connectivity to users across a broad range of smartphones and should function like your regular cellular service Several players in the space are at varying stages of ...