Global Eagle Plans Expansion of In Flight Connectivity Across South Asia
In-flight connectivity continues to become a more regular offering around the world. Global Eagle Entertainment’s recent contract extension with Russian airline UTair is an example of this growth. Furthermore, Global Eagle is planning to continue expanding across… READ MORE »
ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Reaches Operational Orbit
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) billion-star surveyor Gaia is now in its operational orbit at Lagrange point 2 (L2), a gravitationally stable virtual point located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Gaia has been travelling toward L2 since Dec. 19, 2013 when it was launched from Europe's Spaceport in… READ MORE »
Spacecom to Broadcast African CHAN Football Championships Via Amos 5 Satellite
Spacecom, the operator of the Amos satellite fleet, has been selected to provide broadcast services on Amos 5 at 17 degrees east for the Confederation of African Football's (CAF) Orange African Nations Championship (CHAN), Africa's annual football championship competition. South Africa is… READ MORE »
FreeCast Announces SelectTV VOD Platform
FreeCast has revealed plans for its new, globally-licensed video on-demand (VOD) platform, SelectTV. The new offering will target telecommunications companies and bandwidth providers that specialize in Internet bandwidth distribution but don’t offer television/cable services. SelectTV’s video-on-demand library of free, pay-per-view and subscription content will compete with both cable and satellite… READ MORE »
The January issue of Via Satellite magazine is here! This month, we celebrate the winners of the first edition of the Via Satellite Excellence Awards. These impressive individuals and forward-thinking companies represent what it takes to succeed in our industry. Also in this issue, we explore Lockheed Martin’s plans to re-enter the commercial satellite business, in both the manufacturing and launch arenas. Read it now!
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded NovaWurks with a $30.8 million Phoenix project contract with options for an additional $11.8 million that if exercised, would raise the total award to $42.6 million. The contract covers phases two and three of the Phoenix project… READ MORE »
Entropic Unveils EN7300 Series for Satellite Receivers and IP-Clients
Entropic announced its first fully-integrated set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) family, the EN7300-series, which integrates High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) decoding, Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) 2.0 home networking, dual DVB-S/S2 demodulators using full-band capture satellite tuning and 3D graphics acceleration. The new product family is sampling in Q1 2014 to… READ MORE »
