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[Via Satellite 06-18-2015] ITC Global has completed installation and commissioning of communications systems for 35 rigs in the Shelf Drilling fleet. Following an August 2014 contract award, ITC Global outfitted...

[Via Satellite 06-17-2015] TS Global Network (TSGN), a privately owned satellite telecommunications company in Malaysia, recently teamed up with Hong Kong-based APT Satellite to have a major presence on Apstar 9....

[Via Satellite 06-17-2015] Space agencies and technology centers from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom have all signed a Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) consortium agreement to provide...

[Via Satellite 06-17-2015] Bright Lights Media has partnered with Globecast and Measat to launch a new HD pay-TV channel in Southeast Asia. The channel, “Simply Money,” provides personal finance-lifestyle content...

[Via Satellite 06-17-2015] Agencia Boliviana Espacial (ABE), the Bolivian Space Agency, has certified the results of a two-month trial campaign using Newtec satellite equipment that transmitted more than 500Mbps over 120MHz...

[Via Satellite 06-17-2015] SES has launched an Ultra-HD demonstration channel for North America from the SES 3 satellite. The channel is SES’ first Ultra-HD demo channel in the continent. SES...

[Via Satellite 06-16-2015] BlackSky Global, a rising Seattle-based satellite imagery startup founded in 2013, plans to launch a constellation of 60 Earth observation satellites to enable revisit times of a...

[Via Satellite 06-16-2015] Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) has reached an agreement with France and the French Space Agency (CNES) to buy CNES’ 35 percent stake in Arianespace. The shift, subject...

[Via Satellite 06-16-2015] Aireon has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Airways New Zealand, New Zealand’s Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), to collaborate on the investigation of the potential...

[Via Satellite 06-16-2015] Honeywell Aerospace and Inmarsat have completed the first phase of hardware and satellite network flight tests for GX Aviation broadband services, which they promise can deliver in-flight...