Focus: Middle East

Comsat, a satellite connectivity provider for the U.S. Department of Defense (DO)D), signed a seven year Master Distribution Agreement (MDA) with Avanti Communications. The agreement will allow Comsat to offer advanced,...

Eutelsat has sold its interest in its Eutelsat 25b/Es’hail 1 satellite to Es’hailSat in a deal worth 135 million euros ($156.30 million), the company announced yesterday. Eutelsat’s share of the...

Rocket Lab has won a key new launch contract with a customer in the Middle East. The company has signed an agreement with Circle Aerospace for ten dedicated Electron launches,...

United Arab Emirates-based operator Yahsat completed its acquisition of a majority and controlling stake in mobile satellite services operator Thuraya and announced a series of new executive appointments to the...

Saudi Arabia’s Taqnia Space (TSC) signed a multi-year contract for capacity on Eutelsat satellites. The contract includes incremental multi-transponder wide-beam capacity on the Eutelsat 70B satellite, as well as the...

The United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s Working Group on Broadband for the Most Vulnerable Countries issued a report at the UN headquarters indicating that access to broadband internet...

Honeywell has confirmed that ExecuJet South Africa, a private aviation jet company, was the first to install Honeywell’s JetWave satellite communications hardware in Africa, bringing In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) to African...

China successfully launched two remote sensing satellites for Pakistan today, according to China’s Xinhua news agency. The satellites, PRSS-1 and PakTes-1A, were launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest...

Yahsat’s recent acquisition of mobile satellite operator Thuraya gave the company a fleet of five satellite, a wealth of new C-, Ka-, Ku- and L-band resources, and the ability to...

Eutelsat promoted Ghassan Murat to the role of managing director of Eutelsat’s Middle East office, according to a July 5 statement by Eutelsat’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional...