Oh I’ve used satcomms, just wild it can now be used for commercial cellular networking instead of networked land lines. Once worked for a corpo telecom

Many congrats Air Vice Marshall 🫡🇬🇧🛰️🧑🏽‍🚀🪐. Key job at a key time for UK, European and Allied SatComms & #DualUse SpaceTech #EarthObservation

Because SpaceX is gunna plow the IPO cash doing to compute what Starlink did to satcomms. The CEO of nVidia already acknowledged nobody is better at building terrestrial data centers than Elmo. Next step is to dominate orbital compute. It’s not like anyone else can do it faster or cheaper, let alone both.

I dunno. The way things are going, @SecWar may have to send a runner to Athens warning of an imminent Iranian attack if the Russians or Chinese take out our satcomms. 😉 (Yes, rucking is a far more important skill. Just ask Mike Rowe. That crazy SOB rucks 65 lbs daily.) x.com/mikeroweworks/status/1…

Satcomms is the future of everything, my theory is playing out well.

Quoted on the return of Somali piracy. Highlighted naval resources diverted to the Red Sea, and pirate groups better equipped than a decade ago: GPS, satcomms, dhow motherships, and Puntland doing its best amid a complex political environment. theguardian.com/world/2026/a…

Operator of O-scopes, frequency analyzers, TDRs, OTDRs--pretty much any kind of electronic test equipment used to diagnose and repair comms from PRC-77's to big-dish microwaves satcomms. I'm the one who ensures "communicate" part after "Shoot, move" happens.

I don’t have to explain anything that isn’t real. And no, you don’t magically synthesize anything, you have industrial scale bioreactors and chemical synthesis. And yes, if you’ve cracked interstellar travel, you also probably cracked de novo synthesis of life. And if “they” are intervening, they’re basically retarded because it would be trivial to stop us. “We travel the galaxy but can’t hack their primitive internet and satcomms, embed our superior AI in all their media to push our messaging, or turn off their electric grids. No, we will stop them by harvesting cow organs…”

Yeah you keep slagging him off John. Just wait until he pulls all support for your beloved Ukraine. Without there satcomms and intelligence systems they are blind. add in the removal of weapons they will be overrun by Russia by the end of the year. Careful what I wish for 🤡

Yes force multipliers, once you take the eyes and ears out (radars and satcomms), you go for the legs and arms(refuellers and awacs), western air powers are heavily dependent on these, they will be shit scared of penetration attacks if they lack forward intelligence

Much earlier than that Special Opns were just using whatever females were in the outpost. Daughter who did 5.5 tours there with 10th Mountain starting in Uzbekistan as a SATComms NCO was snagged to go down into villages to interact with the "women folk."

UK companies developing satcomms tech will receive £30m in government funding, announced at Space-Comm Expo Europe today. 📡 The investment will ensure the UK is at the forefront of transforming how the world stays connected. 🛰️ Read more 👉 orlo.uk/UBAbU

$55 billion flowed into space companies in 2025 - the highest annual total on record. How much will go up in smoke? Space Capital published last year’s numbers. $30.2B → Applications (services built on space data like Uber/Waymo) $22.2B → Infrastructure ( rockets, satellites, hardware) $2.8B → Distribution (GPS signals, earth imagery, satcomms) Let's focus on that $22 billion in Infrastructure. It’s where my company @totalshield_llc operates, and where survival rates reveal the stark reality. Only 2.5% of global space infrastructure companies that raised a Seed round since 2009 ever make it to Series E (Space Capital) That's 672 companies down to 17. The rest burned through capital and faded out. And infrastructure failures are the most expensive kind. When hardware breaks down, it kills everything downstream. No data for Distribution, or signals for Applications. The entire value chain collapses from one hardware flaw. And you can't correct a hardware issue from the ground once the product is in space. That’s why we’ve seen surging demand at TotalShield. What we specialize in is creating blast-resistant testing enclosures that let space companies catch failures on Earth before they become disasters in orbit. Our customers use these shielding rooms to safely stress-test propulsion systems, pressure vessels, battery packs - anything that can go Boom. They subject hardware to the violent shocks, vibrations, and conditions of a real launch. Then identify weaknesses early, refine the design, and validate the fix. As the space sector expands, thorough pre-flight testing has become non-negotiable. It is the difference between mission success and expensive orbital scrap metal. That’s why we're trusted by the biggest names in the industry, as well as increasing numbers of ambitious well-funded startups working on groundbreaking tech. Rocket motors. Pressure vessel testing. High-speed rotation equipment. High-energy battery pack testing. We are world-leaders in anything that can go Boom. If you want assurance against mission-derailing flaws, talk to TotalShield. Proudly 100% Made in America.

That's quite interesting given they've not even tested the likelihood of launch success, yet alone having enough fuel to circumnavigate the Moon. They're probably there to scramble "special interest" SATCOMMS and deploy "aliens exist/we have received a signal".

Australia is effectively part of NATO as an enhanced Securtiy Partner. We also participate in NATO defence exercises. If Trump moves on Greensland, Australia will shut down the joint Pine Gap Satcomms facility, leaving the USA mostly blind in Asia and the Middle East.

VODAFONE’S EUROPEAN SATCO TAKES STEP TOWARDS LAUNCH WITH FIRST HIRE Vodafone’s satcomms joint venture with AST SpaceMobile has named its first employee as it moves towards a planned commercial launch later this year. Daniel Thomas has been appointed Head of Sales & Commercial Operations at the aptly named ‘SatCo’. He has been drafted in from Vodafone, where he spent the past decade in a handful of innovation and transformation roles primarily focused on home broadband. Most recently, he was Group Head of Innovation. Thomas said he now leads “all things commercial” at SatCo, “working in partnership with MNOs across Europe to provide them with access to AST SpaceMobile’s constellation of direct to device [D2D] satellites”. Although Vodafone has yet to announce any tie-ups, he claimed that the “pipeline has been growing rapidly” at SatCo over the past six months. Germany has been selected to host a Satellite Operations Centre for the venture, while Luxembourg hosts the headquarters. It appears Thomas is based out of the Luxembourg offices. America first Vodafone and SpaceMobile have said the European SatCo will launch commercial services in 2026, although its roadmap will be dependent on operational progress and strategy at co-parent SpaceMobile. The Texan business is still deploying its startup satellite constellation but is expected to make its first broadband services available during early-2026, ahead of a fuller release later in the year. The provider announced the successful launch of a new Bluebird 6 satellite in December , and this was described by Chairman & Chief Executive Abel Avellan as a major milestone en route to “scaled deployment” of its platform in 2026. SpaceMobile has indicated that it will first prioritise commercial services in the USA, working with local partners AT&T and Verizon, ahead of any go-live in Europe (with Vodafone) and Japan (Rakuten Mobile). $ASTS $VOD $T $VZ

If @elonmusk would ever consider selling private band Satcomms, I'd also be interested in that...

Namaste @elonmusk 🚀 Just got my #Starlink in #Qatar 🇶🇦 — likely among the first few official residential users here! @UniOfSurrey trained #SatComms engineer turned biz manager, 20 yrs in telecom/space. Would be interesting to connect when you’re next in #Doha or a @MicrosoftTeams once we setup :) 🙏🏼

@SECNAV @USNavyCNO @SecWar @SeanParnellASW @potus unpopular opinion but NECESSARY discussion: with Navy shipbuilding in crisis, a potential conflict in the pacific, we need to talk about the surface fleet’s small size, & the lack of naval gunnery available for shore bombardment. The reality is, aegis destroyers aren’t going to be tasked with shore bombardment to support @USMC forced entry landing operations. They cost too much, wont be risked near shore batteries of anti ship missiles or or shore based artillery, or air assets, & the 5” mounts are woefully INSUFFICIENT for shore bombardment duties to support Marine amphibious operations anyway. And the idea that carrier & Marine aircraft will pick up the slack is simply not realistic. Not enough air assets to go around, not enough time on station, maintenance to support that isnt feasible, & cant compete with the sheer volume of ordnance an Iowa class BB can deliver in support of Marine over the beach operations. And lets face it: cost of operating that many F/A-18s with JDAMs & missiles vs cost of magazines full of power & high capacity or armor piercing 16” shells is stark: parking an Iowa class battleship off shore to carry out unlimited fire missions is far cheaper & more effective. More: New Jersey & Wisconsin are literally pristine & capable of being re activated in a short time. They could be upgraded to latest satcomms, data links, block IV & V Tomahawks, ship attack tomahawks & replace 5” secondary mounts with VOS cells to further increase their projection power. Add additional CIWS/Phalanx for point defense, rolling air frame & evolved Sea Sparrow batteries & their ability to defend themselves dramatically improves. Further, those VLS cells can hold SM-3 or SM-6 missiles that any Arleigh Burke Destroyer escort can use to defend the Iowa & her escort. One more thing i see no one talking about: how many Chinese PLAN assets would be needed to try to counter a modernized Iowa class bb surface task force? That would dramatically take pressure off Carrier Battle Groups operating in the pacific. And no one questions the survivability of the hulls that make up the Iowas. They were retired when we had no near peer adversary to worry about as too expensive to keep operating. Is that same argument & rationale true/relevant today? I think the answer is no. Does this put a strain on the oiler fleet? Maybe— supporting an iowa’s fuel needs is a lot. But the turn around is that potentially Iowas can support fueling her escorts. And an Iowa class surface task group brings additional ASW helos to the pacific. Please give serious thought to returning the New Jersey & the Wisconsin to active duty in the fleet with the upgrades i described. cc @johnkonrad @infantrydort @CynicalPublius

We're building a network that can reliably transmit data generated subsea (e.g. AUV inspection or survey data) to the surface & beyond. In many cases, it should work in harmony with satcomms!