Ofcom Grant Kepler a UK Licence for Small Broadband Satellites

Ofcom Grant Kepler a UK Licence for Small Broadband Satellites

The national telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has finally granted Canadian company Kepler Communications a wireless telegraphy satellite earth station network licence for the operation of their new global network of CubeSats and larger sized broadband satellites. This will allow them to deploy their user terminals for a range of different services in the UK. Traditional GEO Stationary Orbit (GSO) satellites are huge (size of a large bus) and struggle …