Hughes Network Systems announced Tuesday that it signed an eight-year service contract with Network Services Solutions (NSS) to upgrade, expand and manage a satellite monitoring network for one of NSS' large petroleum customers. NSS, a wholly owned subsidiary of SatWays, provides connectivity to this unnamed petroleum customer through a network that includes: more than 1,300…

This past December, the CEO members of the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) announced that the organization was changing its name to the Global Satellite Operators’ Association (GSOA) — the second evolution in the near 20-year-old industry alliance. Emerging out of the infancy of the European Union in the ‘90s, the organization pushed to educate…

German space company OHB and its subsidiary LuxSpace entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OQ Technology (OQ) to collaborate on a satellite-based IoT upstream and downstream service for energy, agriculture, defense and green economy markets. LuxSpace's Triton-X microsatellite platform, which is being developed under the European Space Agency's ARTES program, will be a…

SES Government Solutions (SES GS) launched a new X-band end-to-end managed service platform on Thursday for both fixed and mobile U.S. military and government end-users. The platform, tactiXs, allows customers to purchase secure volume-based Mbps services on-demand as opposed to standard MHz bandwidth agreements. The tactiXs service will utilize secure, non-preemptible X-band capacity from the…