Focus: Asia-Pacific

When assessing where the next big leaps will come from in terms of In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) adoption, it is hard to look beyond China. For starters, there are approximately 3,700...

Speedcast International and the Australian Space Agency signed a statement of cooperation outlining Speedcast’s intentions to support the agency’s goal of tripling the nation’s space sector in size and creating 20,000...

The Chinese DSLWP-B (LO-94) satellite that had been in lunar orbit provided a profile of Earth’s HF spectrum as seen from the moon. The microsatellite subsequently was crashed into the...

The Philippines will become more active in the space race following President Rodrigo Duterte’s enactment of a new law. Duterte on August 8 signed the Philippine Space Act, which creates...

Luokung Technology, a Chinese spatial-temporal big-data processing technology company, revealed a strategic cooperation with the China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application (CRESDA). Luokung will provide cloud services based...

China’s Smart Dragon-1 rocket will carry a heavy satellite developed by a commercial Chinese space company in its upcoming launch, according to Xinhua News Agency, which cited a report from Beijing...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions was selected by the PSN Consortium, led by Indonesian satellite operator Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) to deliver a unified ground station monitoring solution to support the...

Thaicom had a difficult quarter with revenues falling in the three months to the end of June. The operator reported revenues $38.8 million (1.2 billion baht) — down close to...

PHSAT Telecom Solutions chose the Hughes Network Systems‘ Jupiter System to enable internet services for its Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) customers. PHSAT, providing domestic and international telecommunication services to businesses throughout...

The Russian military launched a Soyuz-2.1 carrier rocket today, carrying the Meridian communications satellite, according to the Defense Ministry’s Zvezda broadcasting service. The rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome...