Asia Pacific Space Community Council
12 November 2024 – The Koreasat 6A communications satellite has been successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Ordered in 2022 by KT SAT Corporation Ltd. (KT SAT), South Korea’s national satellite communications operator, Koreasat 6A was designed and developed by Thales Alenia Space. As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space was…
6 November 2024 – Neo Space Group (NSG), a PIF-owned company and Saudi Arabia’s leading provider of satellite communication services, has been chosen by Turkish Airlines to equip its upcoming fleet of 14 A350 aircraft, currently in production and set for delivery in 2026 and 2027, with NSG’s IFC solution. This partnership marks a significant…
6 November 2024 – SES announced today it has extended its multi-year contracts with Austria’s largest media provider and public broadcaster ORF and its content distribution subsidiary ORS Group on SES’s prime TV neighbourhood at 19.2 degrees East. The agreement covers the satellite transmission of ORF’s offerings, including the distribution of ORF 1 HD, ORF…
4 November 2024 – Kymeta announced the launch of the Goshawk u8, a hybrid geostationary/low Earth orbit (GEO/LEO/Cellular) terminal. Designed for seamless mobility, the Goshawk u8 offers a fully customizable solution that integrates easily across a wide range of vehicles and vessels, delivering reliable, network-redundant connectivity on the move, to address mission-critical requirements for global…
4 November 2024 – Telesat announced that SatixFy Communications Ltd., a leader in next-generation satellite communication systems based on in-house-developed chipsets, will develop and deliver the Landing Station Baseband Units for the upcoming Telesat Lightspeed Network. Under the terms of a new agreement, SatixFy will design, develop, and supply Landing Station Baseband systems to Telesat,…
4 November 2024 – SES announced today that it has extended its contract with Telekom Srbija for another four years for satellite services from SES’s ASTRA 3C satellite at 23.5 degrees East. This renewal reinforces a successful collaboration that began in 2011 with a first capacity agreement and expanded in 2018 with the launch of…
30 October 2024 – SES Open Orbits™, SES’s global inflight connectivity network, has been selected by Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines to equip aircraft across their fleets with cutting-edge in-flight connectivity (IFC) solutions, supporting both linefit and retrofit installations. These new IFC services are delivered by SES along with one of its key SES Open…
29 October 2024 – Moroccan company Panafsat and Thales Alenia Space announced they had signed a MoU for the development of a Moroccan satellite communications system. The system will deliver very-high-throughput services (VHTS) to 26 African countries, 23 of them in French-speaking Africa, covering a combined population of around 550 million people over an area…
28 October 2024 – Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company, announced the Gogo Galileo HDX Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) built by Hughes has completed its test flight on a Bombardier Challenger 300. A commercial aviation variant will be available from Hughes in the first half of 2025, using the same flight-proven technology. Designed with…
25 October 2024 – ST Engineering iDirect has been selected for the Phase Two expansion of Indonesia’s Satria-1 satellite network, following the successful completion of Phase One which involved the deployment of ST Engineering iDirect’s next-generation hub infrastructure to enable connectivity across the Indonesian Archipelago. ST Engineering iDirect’s advanced technology, combined with its seamless collaboration…