Satellite News

New LightSquared said it reached agreement with GPS device manufacturer Garmin on spectrum use parameters for terrestrial service in the L-Band relating to the new company’s licenses as regulated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Japan has agreed to continue using the International Space Station (ISS) until 2024, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a five-year highway bill that would fund America’s roads, bridges and mass-transit systems and revive the charter of the U.S. Export-Import Bank over the objections of conservative Republicans.

U.S. federal regulators have approved LightSquared’s request to transfer its valuable spectrum licenses to a newly formed company, paving the way for the wireless venture to emerge from bankruptcy protection by the end of the year.

The Satellite Spectrum Initiative, which was formed by stakeholders in the satellite industry, has summed up some key decisions made during World Radiocommunication Conference 2015.

An agreement has been reached at the United Nations World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva on the allocation of radiofrequency spectrum to allow the use of satellites for real-time global flight tracking in civil aviation.

As national administrations from across the world prepare to make critical decisions this month regarding global communications spectrum allocations, a newly-released report shows that studies suggesting enormous benefits of satellite spectrum for terrestrial wireless contain major flaws in logic, calculation and methodology, according to the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA).

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to revive the Export-Import Bank. However, the legislation’s fate is uncertain in the Senate.