Gilat Satellite Networks reported April 19 that it's Wavestream subsidiary received orders of more than $20 million for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation gateways. Wavestream was chosen as the vendor of choice to supply its PowerStream 160Ka gateway Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) to an unnamed LEO constellation operator. While Gilat did not name the operator,…

Satellite ground technology specialist ViaLite received a contract from Orange Telecom to deploy its C-band radio over fiber (RF) links at Orange's teleport facility in Bercenay-en-Othe, France. ViaLite announced April 19 that it has completed the rollout project and provided Orange with C-band operational links for both uplink and downlink paths within the teleport’s facility.…

Space relay network developer SpaceLink has hired three new senior executives to is leadership team. The company named Alan Khalili as its new CFO, along with Jim Schwenke as its new vice president of Intelligence Community Business, and Erik Levine as its vice president of Space Segment Program Management. Khalili comes to SpaceLink from mobile…

SES and the Kazakhstan Government will explore rolling out satellite-enabled, high-speed connectivity services using the O3b mPOWER communications system to accelerate the nation's Digital Kazakhstan project under the terms of an MoU agreement announced April 18. The MoU was issued by Kazakhstan's Republican Center for Space Communications (RCSC), a subsidiary of the nation's Ministry of…