Asia Pacific Space Community Council
4 March 2025 – Eutelsat announced that it is expanding its services for the Professional Video market. Committing significant new resources at the flagship HOTBIRD constellation at 13°East, Eutelsat is further strengthening the group’s leading position for Professional Video applications over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Major sporting events and breaking news…
4 March 2025 – Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, announced that Toei Reefer Line Ltd, a leading supplier of sashimi-grade tuna, will install NexusWave on board the company’s sophisticated factory vessels to support their evolving crew and business connectivity requirements. To maintain a level of quality consistent with the high expectations of its end customers…
4 March 2025 – Orange Africa and Middle East (OMEA) and Eutelsat announce a strategic partnership to bridge the digital divide through satellite connectivity in Africa and the Middle East. It aims to connect isolated areas with broadband access, thereby strengthening digital inclusion in the region. As part of this multi-year partnership, Orange will use…
3 March 2025 – KT has collaborated with Rohde & Schwarz and VIAVI Solutions to develop non-terrestrial network (NTN) technology that overcomes the disadvantages of long propagation delays in satellite communication environments. With this technology, a bandwidth of more than 10 Mbps is possible even between a geostationary (GEO) satellite and user device. This increased…
28 February 2025 – SES announced a multi-year extension of its agreement with ProSiebenSat.1. Under the agreement, ProSiebenSat.1 will continue to distribute its programmes in Germany and Austria using SES’s satellites at its prime video neighbourhood of 19.2 degrees East. Additionally, ProSiebenSat.1 will integrate content from Joyn, its streaming platform in Germany, with SES’s HD+…
27 February 2025 – Telesat and Intellian, a global leading provider of satellite communication antennas and ground gateway solutions, today announced a contract award for Intellian to design and manufacture Ka-band flat panel User Terminals for the Telesat Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. Under this agreement, fully optimized Ka-band LEO flat panels for the…
27 February 2025 – Astroscale Japan Inc. (“Astroscale Japan”), a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, has been awarded a 7.27 billion yen (including tax) contract by Japan’s Ministry of Defense to develop a responsive space system demonstration satellite prototype. The project,…
25 February 2025 – The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has awarded the contract for the IP Network of the Naval Force (RIFAN) stage 3 to an industrial consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space and also comprising Naval Group. With a maximum value of 480 million euros and a maximum duration of 10 years,…
24 February 2025 – Eutelsat Group, MediaTek Inc. and Airbus Defence and Space have conducted the world’s first successful trial of 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technology over the Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The tests pave the way for deployment of the 5G NTN standard, which will result in future satellite and terrestrial…
20 February 2025 – PLD Space, an international space services company with vertical integrated engineering and manufacturing, has announced that the Etlaq spaceport in Oman will be its second global launch base for MIURA launch vehicle family. This infrastructure joins the company’s Launch Complex at the CSG (Kourou, French Guiana), owned by CNES and ESA,…