Telesat has chosen Satixfy for baseband modem equipment for its Lightspeed satellite constellation. The Canadian operator on Wednesday announced a manufacturing agreement for 288 of Satixfy’s Sx3099 landing station modems.  The companies said these modems are designed to process up to 1.6 GHz of bandwidth in each direction, supporting 10 wideband carriers, uplink power control…

OneWeb is working with Kymeta through a joint development agreement to develop a flat panel antenna for land fixed applications, the companies announced Wednesday. The antenna will be based on Kymeta’s u8 terminal, which debuted last year.  The companies said the flat panel electronically steered user terminal will be compatible with the OneWeb network for…

Kacific Broadband Satellites expects to significantly bring down the costs of deploying satellite broadband in the markets where it operates with a new modem and terminal. The company announced Nov. 30 that it will introduce a new terminal kit with a low power, high throughput ST Engineering iDirect MDM2010 IP satellite modem, its paired iLNB…

Swedish Space Corporation (SCC) has upgraded its Ka-band ground station network to provide global coverage. To do this, the company upgraded its polar and equatorial locations to support Ka-band data reception. SSC said this will allow the company to offer Earth Observation (EO) customers higher bandwidth and larger data volumes.  SSC announced Nov. 23 that…