New Zealand Global Base Station Communications

First Light – New Ground Station for Laser-Based SatCom in New Zealand

As part of a collaboration with the University of Auckland, researchers from the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation, the Responsive Space Cluster Competence

SpaceX''s Starlink plots ground station outside Christchurch, New Zealand

Starlink services are live in New Zealand, and the company offers direct-to-cell services in partnership with One New Zealand. The company already operates or is planning

First Light – New Ground Station for Laser-Based

As part of a collaboration with the University of Auckland, researchers from the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation, the Responsive Space Cluster Competence Center and the German Space

New Zealand Enacts Regulations to Oversee Use

The New Zealand government has passed legislation to regulate the use of ground-based space infrastructure (GBSI), following concerns of the use of GBSI in ways contrary to the country''s national

Government Communications Security Bureau

OverviewNotable activities and controversiesHistoryStaff and budgetOversightOperationsDirectorsFurther reading

Ian Fletcher was appointed as director of the GCSB in February 2012. Fletcher is a former diplomat who was interviewed by the appointment panel after an earlier short-list of four candidates had been rejected by the Prime Minister on the recommendation of the State Services Commissioner. In March 2013, John Key admitted he had known Fletcher since they were in school, but denied they were friends.