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Asia remains the biggest market for pay-TV with still huge untapped potential. But while DTH has undoubtedly been a success story in many markets such as India and Indonesia, OTT lurks in the shadows ready to steal satellite players’ thunder. The question is whether they will make huge inroads over the next few years.

Deep Space Industries (DSI) hopes to revolutionize the smallsat industry by developing new propulsion systems based on non-toxic fuel. The company plans to test its Comet 1 line of water-based […]

The fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System (MUOS 5) satellite is now delivering secure, Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) communications to troops with legacy Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radios. The U.S. Navy, […]

Atos announced a solution that captures agricultural data directly via satellite to optimize farming practices. Together with start-up TerraNIS, Atos is using its business analytics solution Atos Codex to convert […]

Intelsat announced that it signed a multi-year agreement expanding its global relationship and leveraging IntelsatOne terrestrial fiber and teleport services to distribute five High Definition (HD) channels for China Central […]

A major U.S. broadcasting network in a top 10 Designated Market Area (DMA) has selected ETL Systems to upgrade its satellite infrastructure, according to the company. ETL will provide two […]

Airbus Safran Launchers and its industrial partners have passed a major milestone in the development of Ariane 6, under contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). The Maturity Gate 6.1 review […]

The Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators that supports the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of space environment and Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum data, has […]

SES announced today that Gogo has signed a new capacity deal to enhance inflight connectivity services on key air travel routes over North America and the Pacific Ocean. As part […]

Intelsat announced that as a result of its partnership with Encompass Digital Media, NASA TV became the first linear Ultra-High Definition (UHD) channel available on Intelsat’s system for Latin American […]

Macom Technology Solutions announced a new family of high-performance, asynchronous, fully non-blocking crosspoint switches to support 4K and 8K Ultra High-Definition (UHD) TV. As video content evolves beyond high definition, […]

Leolabs has already begun to talk to potential customers about its debris tracking services. According to founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Daniel Ceperley, the Silicon Valley start-up is executing […]

Arianespace announced that it will launch Horizons 3e, a satellite belonging to the Horizons joint venture owned by Intelsat and SKY Perfect JSAT. Arianespace will orbit this Boeing-built payload in […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed hot-fire qualification tests of an engine that demonstrates the ability to meet reusability requirements for Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST) 100 Starliner crew module propulsion […]

Gazprom Space Systems and HorizonSat signed a contract for Yamal 402 satellite capacity use at CABSAT 2017 in Dubai. HorizonSat will apply the leased capacity for providing Internet connectivity in the countries of central and […]

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom, which is part of Comtech’s government solutions segment, has received a five-year contract […]

Lockheed Martin is saving $10 million a year by implementing Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR) tools in the production line of its space assets. “And a lot of folks […]

Intelsat and pan-African telecommunications group Liquid Telecom, a subsidiary of Econet Global, have announced a new agreement that will introduce Intelsat Epic satellite services into the Liquid Telecom network. As part […]

SITAOnAir, Aireon and FlightAware have formed a flight tracking partnership with Malaysia Airlines. Under the agreement, all Malaysia Airlines aircraft will have access to minute-by-minute global flight tracking data, delivered […]

Iridium Communications announced a new partnership with Lindsey Manufacturing. The partnership expands Iridium’s footprint in the transmission utility day-ahead-power-transfer capacity market by integrating satellite communications with transmission line analytic solutions. […]

Arris International announced that Starz has selected the Arris DSR-7401 transcoder satellite receiver to derive Standard Definition (SD) programming from High Definition (HD) video programming to reduce satellite network bandwidth […]

Here Technologies and MediaTek announced a collaboration to enable the Here Network Positioning solution on select MediaTek chipsets. Here Network Positioning employs proprietary technology to determine a device’s location based […]

Orbcomm will leverage both satellite and terrestrial communications networks as it looks to build new revenue streams in the future. According to Greg Flessate, senior vice president and general manager […]

Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has appointed Ron Steger to its board of directors. Steger’s appointment commenced on April 17, and he will also join the board’s audit committee. Steger has […]

At a ceremony attended by Mongolian Prime Minister Erdenebat Jargaltulga and Parliament Chairman Enkhbold Miyegombo on April 19, Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) announced it will co-brand its 12 by 27 […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket carrying the OA 7 resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on Tuesday morning. The […]

Globecomm has deployed Ciena’s converged packet-optical and packet networking solutions to meet growing content distribution requirements for a variety of critical applications, including video for breaking news stories, disaster recovery […]

Satellite operators believe 5G will be a huge opportunity, but for wireless players the opportunity will undoubtedly be even bigger. Ericsson, a major player in the 5G arena, publishes a […]

Singapore Technologies Engineering announced today that its electronics arm, Singapore Technologies Electronics (ST Electronics), secured SG$464 million ($331 million) worth of contracts in the first quarter of 2017 for rail […]

Thales Alenia Space has sent South Korea the third of three panels making up the communications payloads on the two GEO KOMPSAT 2 (Geostationary Earth Orbit Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite) satellites […]