E-letter: Briefs

[Via Satellite 01-24-2017] Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has awarded Av-Comm a multi-antenna contract to refurbish and upgrade four 3.7-meter earth station satellite antennas at their Crib Point facility in Australia’s […]

[Via Satellite 01-24-2017] Airbus Defense and Space has completed construction of Eutelsat 172B, the first high-power all-electric telecommunications satellite built in Europe, according to Airbus, at the company’s satellite assembly […]

[Via Satellite 01-24-2017] An all-electric ABS satellite entered commercial service on Jan. 21, providing enhanced satellite services including Direct-To-Home (DTH) television services on Jan. 21 to customers in Africa, the […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the U.S. Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geostationary (GEO) Flight 3 satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] Motiv, a mobile service provider based in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth largest city, will be extending its investment in the iDirect platform to deliver 4G/LTE data service across […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first image taken by Harris’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard their next-generation weather satellite. The image taken […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] Simularity, a Silicon Valley-based company that focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI), has partnered with Taqnia Engineering and Technology Services, with the aim to provide automated anomaly detection […]

[Via Satellite 01-20-2017] The United States government will likely remain the largest purchaser of commercial satellite services as global military tensions rise. With a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of […]

[Via Satellite 01-20-2017] TellusLabs, an Earth monitoring and machine learning company, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by IA Ventures and including Hyperplane Venture Capital, Founder Collective and […]

[Via Satellite 01-20-2017] Sky Deutschland has signed a multi-year contract extension for back-up services with MX1, a wholly owned subsidiary of SES. The contract ensures that, in case of any […]

[Via Satellite 01-20-2017] South Africa will remain one of the largest telecom service revenue markets in the Middle East and African (MENA) region in 2016, generating estimated revenue of $9.2 […]

[Via Satellite 01-19-2016] Thuraya Telecommunications Company has announced the launch of Crypttia, a command and control platform developed by Eyeonix. With the platform, smartphone users can use unified Thuraya and […]

[Via Satellite 01-19-2016] Arianespace is readying for its year-opening launch of 2017. The company will orbit the Hispasat 36W-1 geostationary satellite for the Spanish operator Hispasat using a Soyuz launch […]

[Via Satellite 01-19-2016] Airbus Defence and Space has won a contract to supply satellite communication systems for UGAP, the French public procurement agency. This four-year contract covers the supply of […]

[Via Satellite 01-19-2016] Singapore Technologies Electronics (ST Electronics), has entered into a conditional share purchase agreement to acquire a 51 percent equity interest in SP Telecommunications (SPTel) from Singapore Power […]

[Via Satellite 01-19-2016] Beta Film, an international-operating distributor of television, home video and new media content, has extended its existing service contract with MX1, a wholly owned subsidiary of SES. […]

[Via Satellite 01-18-2017] On Dec. 21, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) declared that broadband access internet service is now a “basic telecommunications service for all Canadians,” vowing to […]

[Via Satellite 01-18-2017] Made In Space, a 3D printing company that provided metal 3D printers to the International Space Station (ISS), and Axiom Space, developer of a privately owned commercial […]

[Via Satellite 01-18-2017] ExactEarth, provider of satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data services, has successfully launched four hosted payloads for its next generation constellation, exactVie RT powered by Harris. Launched […]

[Via Satellite 01-18-2017] Telefonica Moviles Argentina (Movistar) has launched Antarctica’s first 4G LTE mobile network. At Marambio Base, a permanent Argentine research facility in Antarctic territory, the most remote region […]

[Via Satellite 01-18-2017] Orange Business Services has entered into a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Viasat Group for a global Internet of Things (IoT) roaming service for up to 350,000 […]

[Via Satellite 01-17-2017] Palau Telecoms has increased network capacity with O3b Networks for the fifth time in less than 24 months, nearly doubling its service capacity since going live over […]

[Via Satellite 01-17-2017] With the aim to transform the domestic In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) market in China, Gilat Satellite Networks has announced a strategic partnership with Air Esurfing, a fully owned […]

[Via Satellite 01-17-2017] Eutelsat Communications’ Eutelsat 117 West B satellite has entered into full commercial service and is now ready to support customers across Latin America. Commercialized by the Eutelsat […]

[Via Satellite 01-17-2017] UrtheCast has entered into a binding agreement with a confidential government customer for the sale and shared operation of the first two satellites in its OptiSAR constellation, a commercial […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2017] Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has acquired Ku-band payload on the SES AMC 3 communication satellite in a move to boost capacity for its customers in North America, […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2017] The Defense Information Systems Agency Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DISA-DITCO) has awarded a Commercial Satellite Communication (ComSatCom) Transponded Capacity (CTC) task order to UltiSat to provide […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2017] The Bangabandhu Satellite 1 program has successfully passed its Critical Design Review (CDR), which took place in Thales Alenia Space end of 2016. The Bangabandhu-1 (BD 1) […]

[Via Satellite 01-13-2017] Thuraya Telecommunications has donated new supplies of emergency telecommunication equipment to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) under the decade-old Emergency Telecommunications support arrangement. This donation aims to […]

[Via Satellite 01-12-2016] France’s government space agency, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has signed a framework agreement with the French Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Maritime Affairs (MEEM) […]