Focus: Asia-Pacific
January 17, 2020
Arianespace successfully launched a dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission from French Guiana on Thursday, placing the EUTELSAT KONNECT and GSAT-30 into geostationary transfer orbit. The launch, designated Flight VA251, was Arianespace’s first of the year. It was was the 315th mission by the Arianespace launcher family and the 107th by an Ariane 5 version. Both satellites,…
January 15, 2020
Lockheed Martin has shipped JCSAT-17, its third satellite based on the modernized LM 2100 bus, to French Guiana for launch. JCSAT-17, built for Sky Perfect JSAT (SJC), will provide flexible mobile communications services to users in Japan and the surrounding region. Arianespace will launch the satellite from its spaceport in Kourou aboard an Ariane 5…
January 15, 2020
The Pacific Islands stand on the cusp of a digital revolution, and mobile connectivity will play a pivotal role in this transformation. Not only will it offer critical access to life-enhancing services such as healthcare and education, but businesses will also benefit from it as a catalyst for innovation and economic growth. Over the past…
January 10, 2020
The world’s first portable ground station for sending and receiving secure quantum communications is up and running. The station has successfully connected to China’s Quantum Science Satellite, nicknamed Mozi, which was launched in August 2016. Ji-Gang Ren at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and his colleagues used the mobile station…