Focus: Asia-Pacific

Goonhilly Earth Station has been making waves, quite literally, with its deep space antennas. The U.K.-based “gateway to space” has been around since the 1960s, but its new leadership team...

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C44) successfully lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India at 23:37 (IST) on Jan. 24. This was the rocket’s 46th flight, carrying...

Luokung Technology, a Chinese graphics data processing technology company, is strategically cooperating with the National Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Applications (the Engineering Center), which is China’s national-level center...

With the support of specialists from Istar, the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) successfully completed the installation and commissioning of five central stations. These stations use UHP equipment to provide...

Newtec provided a Newtec Dialog hub system to Satsol, a teleport and Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the Solomon Islands. As one of the Solomon Islands’ three ISPs, Satsol currently provides approximately...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-1 mission today at 9:50 a.m. local time. The satellites were carried aboard the fourth Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-4),...

Integrasys is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The company is establishing an office in Jakarta, Indonesia, led by a newly appointed APAC Sales Manager, Ronny Pramanta. He joined Integrasys...

Asian pay TV provider TrueVisions signed a long term transponder capacity contract with Asian satellite operator Thaicom, for continuing its pay TV service to audiences in Thailand. The company has retained several...

Kacific selected Newtec‘s Dialog Very Small Aperature Terminal (VSAT) multiservice platform for Kacific 1, its new High Throughput Satellite (HTS). This is expected to significantly expand broadband service delivery in underserved...

Russia’s Aerospace Force Command revealed that the Russian Kosmos-2430 military satellite was deorbited Jan. 5, then burned up over the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite was excluded from the orbital grouping...