SES has selected Northrop Grumman and The Boeing Company, to deliver four new satellites as part of the company’s accelerated C-band clearing plan.  The satellite operator announced Tuesday that Northrop Grumman will deliver two GeoStar-3 satellites, SES-18 and SES-19, which will be designed, assembled, and tested in Dulles, Virginia. Boeing will deliver two all-electric 702SP…

Intelsat has contracted Maxar Technologies and Northrop Grumman to build new satellites to support its C-band spectrum clearing. The satellite operator announced Monday that Maxar Technologies will build and deliver four satellites, and Northrop Grumman will build and deliver two satellites. The operator is also currently in negotiations with manufacturers for a seventh satellite. The…

TV TEM, an affiliate of TV Globo, has signed a multi-year contract with Eutelsat for capacity on its 65 West A satellite to distribute its programming in Brazil’s São Paulo state. The partnership, announced Monday, has enabled TV TEM to migrate its feeds from traditional C-band, from 3.7 GHz to 4.2 GHz, to planned C-band,…

Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite provider Cignal TV has contracted Hughes Network Systems to provide HughesNet broadband service to its two million subscribers in the Philippines, Hughes announced May 27. Cignal TV will utilize Hughes' Jupiter VSAT platform, which includes user terminals and a network management system. The Hughes Jupiter System supports applications such as community Wi-Fi…