E-letter: Briefs

SES selected Rohde & Schwarz’s R&S PKU amplifier for uplink signal transmission during its first ever 8K television broadcast over satellite, the companies announced July 5. The demo broadcast took...

Consolidated Precision Products Corporation (CPP), a manufacturer of highly engineered components and sub-assemblies, announced July 4 that it acquired Selmet, a manufacturer of titanium castings and machined components. Both companies...

Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) will use its AsiaSat 7 satellite to deliver “Public News,” a new HD news channel from Sports Star International of Pakistan, across the Asia-Pacific region, the...

Eutelsat promoted Ghassan Murat to the role of managing director of Eutelsat’s Middle East office, according to a July 5 statement by Eutelsat’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional...

Spaceflight Industries will send Fleet Space Technologies’ 10-kilogram Centauri 1 nanosatellite into orbit on an ISRO/Antrix Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) sometime in 2018. The Adelaide, Australia-based Internet-of-Things startup is launching...

L3 Technologies acquired Applied Defense Solutions (ADS), an aerospace engineering, space situational awareness, and software development company, for approximately $50 million. The combined business will be rebranded L3 ADS and...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company, for its Janus Geography Program. The contract is worth $920 million and may last up to 10 years....

SatADSL, a provider of satellite Very Small Aperture Tunnel (VSAT) services, signed an agreement with CETel, a provider of global satellite, fiber, and wireless-enabled communications solutions, to deliver an expanded...

Airbus completed construction and integration of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) at its Madrid-Barajas facility in Spain, putting the satellite on track for its scheduled launch...

Airbus will provide free payload space and expanded accss to hosting platforms and Earth observational data solutions to United Nations (UN) member states after signing a five-year, renewable Memorandum of...