E-letter: Briefs

[Via Satellite 06-15-2016] Panasonic Avionics has selected Arqiva, a communications infrastructure and media services company, to provide its hosting, connectivity and teleport uplink services via Telesat’s new High Throughput Satellite...

[Via Satellite 06-15-2016] Commercial Persian-language television channel Manoto TV is launching tomorrow on the Eutelsat 7B satellite, the satellite operator announced today. The channel signed a capacity agreement with Eutelsat...

[Via Satellite 06-14-2016] SES Government Solutions (SES GS) and O3b Networks have jointly completed the first O3b managed services installation for NOAA’s National Weather Service Office (WSO) at Pago Pago,...

[Via Satellite 06-14-2016] The National Science Foundation (NSF) has invited LeoSat Enterprises, an emerging company with plans to launch a constellation of up to 108 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellites,...

[Via Satellite 06-14-2016] Orbcomm received a contract from Genscape, a global provider of energy information for commodity, shipping and financial markets, to provide its satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) services....

[Via Satellite 06-14-2016] Al Jazeera Balkans has announced it is joining the TEAM:SAT TV platform operated by TEAM:MEDIA and will broadcast exclusively in High Definition, free-to-air from Eutelsat Communications’ Eutelsat...

[Via Satellite 06-13-2016] Airbus Safran Launchers has finalized the first design phase for Ariane 6, Europe’s next generation launch system. The successful review enables the company to validate all of...

[Via Satellite 06-13-2016] Launch services provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully orbited a payload for the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) using a Delta 4 Heavy rocket on June...

[Via Satellite 06-13-2016] Aeromexico is launching a pilot program to provide complimentary in-flight access to streaming video network Netflix. Netflix members onboard select Aeromexico flights within Mexico, Central and South...

[Via Satellite 06-13-2016] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and UAE Space Agency Chairman Khalifa Al Romaithi formalized and signed an agreement Sunday June 12 in Abu Dhabi for cooperation in areas...