SpeedCast International and South Korea-based KTsat have together received a new contract to provide global Ku-band maritime communications services to up to 150 maritime vessels. The service will be installed over the next 18 months.
Three leaders of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have decided to take a 10 percent pay cut to their monthly salary for four months, effective July, following the agency’s decision to cease efforts to salvage the Astro-H, or “Hitomi” X-ray astronomy satellite.
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Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) has signed a new and expanded contract for Ku-band satellite solutions on Intelsat 18, located at 180 degrees east.
AsiaSat has won two new contracts in Myanmar to provide satellite connectivity services. KBZ Gateway, a subsidiary of the Kanbawza (KBZ) group, one of the largest privately-owned diversified groups of companies in Myanmar, will use C-band and Ku-band capacity on AsiaSat 4 and AsiaSat 7 satellites.
Panasonic Avionics has selected Arqiva to provide its hosting, connectivity and teleport uplink services via Telesat’s new High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Telstar 12 Vantage.
Airbus Safran Launchers has finalized the first design phase for Ariane 6, Europe’s next generation launch system.
SES Platform Services (SES PS) and Fox Networks Group (FNG) Germany have signed a multi-year contract for SES PS to continue delivering content management and provide playout services for all four pay-TV channels of FNG Germany.
Airbus Defence and Space and the European Space Agency (ESA) are starting a joint pilot project to establish a new external payload platform on the International Space Station (ISS). The platform, named Bartolomeo after the younger brother of Christopher Columbus, will be attached to the outside of the European Columbus laboratory module in 2018.
Aeromexico is launching a pilot program to provide complimentary in-flight access to streaming video network Netflix. Gogo’s 2Ku satellite Wi-Fi system, which launched on five Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Aeromexico’s fleet in April, is enabling the in-flight streaming trial.
Airbus Defence and Space has completed integration of Peru’s first Earth observation satellite, PeruSAT 1, for CONIDA, the country’s national space agency, in less than 24 months.
GMV has provided support for Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS)-Africa — a project U.K. satellite operator Avanti is spearheading with support from the U.K. and South African space agencies.
SES has deployed a SatMed e-health platform at Centre de Dépistage et de traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli (CDTUB) in Allada, Benin, to improve awareness and healthcare.
OneWeb Satellites, the Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb joint venture, has signed supply contracts with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), Sodern, and Teledyne Defence to equip each of the 900 satellites forming the OneWeb fleet.
Iridium plans to begin the commercial availability of its Iridium Certus service the second quarter of 2017. The L-band service relies on Iridium Next, the company’s next-generation Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation scheduled to begin launching this summer.
The U.S. Air Force is planning to formalize the creation of an intentional space for commercial satellite operators within the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC). Six satellite operators — Intelsat, SES Government Solutions, Iridium, DigitalGlobe, Eutelsat, and Inmarsat — participated in the CIC pilot program. VS
