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Momentum to Partner with Eutelsat and OneWeb to Provide Connectivity Solutions for the Oil & Gas Industry

June 29, 2023 – Momentum, a leading provider of enterprise connectivity solutions in remote areas throughout North and South America, today announced an enhanced agreement that will enable Momentum to use OneWeb’s high-speed, low-latency satellite fleet, on top of Eutelsat’s ADVANCE global connectivity solution. This partnership will help tobring high-performance communications services to Oil &…

Intelsat and Lintasarta Expand Coverage in Indonesia

June 27, 2023 – Intelsat and Lintasarta, an Indonesian information and communication technology company via its mobile network operator subsidiary Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), has rolled out a network to cover remote areas in Indonesia. Nearly 400 sites, across Central and Western Indonesia including Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara have received broadband connectivity with Intelsat’s…

SES-18 C-Band Satellite Goes Operational

June 27, 2023 – SES announced today that the SES-18 satellite is now delivering services at 103 degrees West, replacing SES-3’s C-band payload. SES-18 is enabling SES to continue delivering C-band broadcast and radio services to millions of American homes, as well as provide other critical network communications services to the United States. SES-19, which…

Safran and Terran Orbital Sign a Memorandum of Agreement to Produce Satellite Electric Propulsion Systems in USA

June 23, 2023 – Safran Electronics & Defense and Terran Orbital announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to study and validate the prerequisites for production of a new generation of electric propulsion systems for satellites in the United States, based on Safran’s PPSX00 plasma thruster. Safran Electronics & Defense, via Safran Spacecraft…

Comtech Joins the AWS Partner Network to Deliver Interoperable Cloud Solutions

June 20, 2023 – Comtech announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) and completed the AWS Technical Review to validate a Comtech solution. The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer offerings in diverse global markets.…

Intelsat to Sustainably Extend Life of Four Satellites by 2027

June 20, 2023 – Intelsat ordered its second Mission Extension Pod (MEP) from Northrop Grumman Corporation’s SpaceLogistics, which will add life to an Intelsat satellite, providing uninterrupted services to many customers. The new contract represents the fourth deal with SpaceLogistics, following an order for a single MEP in April 2023 and two Mission Extension Vehicles…

Indonesia’s SATRIA Communications Satellite Successfully Launched

June 19, 2023 – The SATRIA communications satellite was successfully launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle from Cape Canaveral in Florida. SATRIA (SAteliT Republik IndonesiA) is a satellite designed to bridge the digital divide in Indonesia. Offering throughput of 150 Gbps, it will deliver high-speed Internet to the thousands of islands in the Indonesian…

Astroscale Expands Operations to France and Secures Contract with CNES

June 19, 2023 – Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term sustainability across all orbits, has announced the opening of Astroscale France SAS (“Astroscale France”) and a contract with the French national space agency, Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). The contract, to be signed on June 20 at the Paris Air…

Eutelsat to Dispose of its European Retail Broadband Distribution Activities

June 15, 2023 – Eutelsat Communications has reached an agreement to sell its European broadband retail activities to an experienced private operator. The activities to be disposed of by Eutelsat include the affiliate Bigblu Operations Ltd and the other European retail activities in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, and Greece.…

Luxembourg Parliament Approves MGS, Enabling NATO’s Access to SES’s O3b mPOWER System

June 15, 2023 – SES’s O3b mPOWER system will provide sovereign solutions for defence and disaster recovery missions as part of a strategic partnership between Luxembourg and the U.S. Following Luxembourg Parliament’s approval and official publication of the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Global Services (MGS) programme valued at €195 million over 10 years, the MGS…