Asia Pacific Space Community Council
March 8, 2024 – Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Italian space agency (ASI) to develop the communications subsystem for the innovative International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission. This Phase B1 contract, worth a total amount of about €22 million, follows on from the previous Phase A award to Thales Alenia Space…
March, 8, 2024 – Viasat, Inc. today announced IEC Telecom, an international satellite service provider, has joined its ELEVATE program. ELEVATE is a growth program, ecosystem and marketplace for ambitious IoT solution providers, connectivity wholesalers, enablers and OEMs who want to work with Viasat to use its network and footprint to scale. As an ELEVATE…
March 7, 2024 – – Viasat announced it selected Rocket Lab USA, a leading launch and space systems company, to support Viasat’s hybrid space communications networks demonstrations by producing a spacecraft bus and providing mission operation support. The demonstrations will make evident Viasat’s portfolio of multi-band, space-based relay communication services in support of Low Earth…
March 6, 2024 – Thaicom Public Company Limited (Thaicom) has announced the selection of Astranis, a fast-growing satellite manufacturer and operator, to provide THAICOM-9, the newest addition to Thaicom’s fleet of high-throughput satellites at 119.5 degrees East. Thaicom’s subsidiary, Space Tech Innovation Limited (STI) and Astranis have signed an agreement for an Astranis MicroGEO satellite…
March 1, 2024 – CelcomDigi Berhad (CelcomDigi) and SES inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a strategic partnership to explore providing satellite connectivity using SES’s Medium-Earth-Orbit (MEO) and Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO) satellites for businesses and communities in Malaysia. Under this MoU, CelcomDigi, through its subsidiaries, will collaborate with SES to explore the development…
February 28, 2024 – Enterprise businesses require reliable, secure communications that work anywhere and under any conditions to keep customers happy and employees engaged. In some cases, businesses can’t pull cable or fiber to certain locations or natural events, such as hurricanes, cause a disruption in connectivity—but that shouldn’t disrupt business operations or services for…
February 27, 2024 – SES’s Managed Enterprise service will enable INRED to connect thousands of remote sites across Colombia to support the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies’ digital inclusion projects. Following a series of successful collaborations to close the digital divide, Colombian local connectivity service provider INRED and SES announced today they will deliver…
February 27, 2024 – ST Engineering iDirect and AITELECOM/APCO, a leading satellite and terrestrial communications provider, are expanding their partnership to deploy new cutting-edge technology on the SES 17 network, increasing connectivity services throughout Latin America. Together, the companies have deployed ST Engineering iDirect’s flexible and scalable Dialog multiservice satellite communications platform with hundreds of…
February 26, 2024 – Eutelsat Group has confirmed the launch of Eutelsat OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) mobility services, bringing high-speed communications ‘on the move’ into reality for land-based customers. The launch of Land Mobility services enables Eutelsat OneWeb’s distribution partners to implement comms on the move solutions for customers around the world. The service…
February 22, 2024 – Satellite communications company Hanwha Phasor and Lufthansa Technik, one of the leading providers of technical aircraft services in the world, have partnered to deliver advanced in-flight connectivity for commercial flights. A recently signed multi-year agreement will see Lufthansa Technik design, build and supply several hundred fuselage-mounted airborne Satellite Communications (SatCom) radomes…