Connectivity

[Satellite TODAY 07-02-10]  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made recommendations to the Indian government that international companies play more of a role in the country’s DTH sector,...

[Satellite News 07-02-10] While China Satellite Communications Corp. (CASC) is planning to use capacity on its satellites to support a new DTH service in China, which could launch this year,...

With the ability to provide signal gain, double-hop elimination, IP multiplexing and mesh networking without a teleport, what impact can on-board processing have on satellite communications? On-board processing has the...

Eutelsat’s Middle East aspirations were given a shot in the arm thanks to a deal in Qatar. In mid-May, the operator signed a deal with ictQatar (representing the State of...

The opening of CommunicAsia comes at what could be the beginning of a new era in the Asia-Pacific region. For many years, the satellite communications sector has viewed the region...

What is telecommunications? Most people will point to the Greek prefix tele, meaning “distance,” and say that telecommunications is “communications at a distance.” Dictionaries define telecommunications as the science and...

Saudi-based Rotana is one of the Middle East’s major media groups, and earlier this year, News Corp. reached an agreement to buy a 9 percent stake in the Rotana Group....

In what has been described as an unprecedented event, the Orbital Sciences-built, Intelsat-owned-and-operated Galaxy 15 satellite stopped communicating with ground controllers April 5. But the satellite’s C-band payload remained operational...

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-10] Eutelsat Communications has selected Astrium to build the W5A satellite based on its Eurostar E3000 platform, the operator announced June 30.     Scheduled for launch in the...

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-10] L-3 Telemetry-West has been contracted by Orbcomm to upgrade its satellite control center for the Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) program, L-3 TW announced June 30.     The...