MDA, a Maxar company, revealed that it will design and manufacture space-based L-band navigation antennas as part of a hosted payload on the MEASAT-3d satellite, which is currently being built by Airbus. The MDA-built navigation antennas will be integrated on a hosted payload for South Korean KTSAT that will support the Korea Augmentation Satellite System…

Gogo has surpassed 1,500 total commercial aircraft installed and activated with satellite in-flight connectivity (IFC). As of September 1, Gogo announced that it had: 1,262 aircraft installed and activated with 2Ku technology (categorized as Aircraft Online, or "AOL"); 252 aircraft installed and activated with Ku technology (categorized as AOL); approximately 850 2Ku aircraft currently in backlog.…

Optus Satellite selected Hughes Network Systems' Jupiter System as its satellite platform to offer next generation services to its customers. The companies signed a multi-year master services agreement, under which Optus Satellite will purchase Jupiter System equipment to: extend 3G and 4G services; lay the foundation for 5G; power enterprise services such as satellite news…

In one of the signature opening panels at World Satellite Business Week (WSBW), CEOs from a number of regional operators debated what is in store for operators in a 5G world. The picture painted was one of oversupply, declining video markets, as well as uncertainty about the future. Masood Sharif Mahmood, CEO, Yahsat, admits that…