Asia Pacific Space Community Council
March 13, 2023 – OneWeb announced that it signed a letter of intent with Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (AWS), a leading cloud platform, to explore providing cloud-based connectivity and the delivery of innovative services to customers worldwide. OneWeb and AWS will work together to expand both horizontal and vertical services to provide customizable and…
March 9, 2023 – Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that “UZ-SAT”, JV LLC (UZ-SAT), a joint venture among “Uzbektelecom” JSC, “Satellin Group” LLC and private enterprise in the Uzbekistan Republic, has chosen the Hughes JUPITER™ System ground platform to power satellite solutions to help close the digital divide. UZ-SAT will employ JUPITER System gateways and…
March 9, 2023 – Eutelsat Communications has signed a multi-orbit agreement with Intelsat to enhance connectivity solutions over Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific, including OneWeb services. Under this new seven-year multi-million-euro capacity agreement with a progressive roll-out of assets over 2023, leveraging Eutelsat’s High-throughput satellites (HTS) in the Ku-band including the recently launched…
March 8, 2023 – L3Harris Technologies today announced a contract from Maxar Technologies to design and build reflector antennas for two geostationary communication satellites. L3Harris today announced a contract from Maxar Technologies to design and build reflector antennas for two geostationary communication satellites. The two nine-meter unfurlable mesh reflector antennas will provide high-power signals and…
March 2, 2023 – Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. is partnering with XipLink, Inc. to enable its market leading network acceleration product, XipOS, as an orchestrated, cloud-native software module running on Kratos’ OpenSpace dynamic satellite ground platform. Widely used across the communications industry, XipOS enhances the user experience by dramatically improving link utilization and…
March 1, 2023 – VEON Ltd. and OneWeb announced they are partnering to provide extended mobile internet connectivity and digital services in emerging markets. VEON Group’s operating companies serve a vast geography that is home to more than 510 million people, including countries that have some of the lowest population densities in the world, uneven…
February 28, 2023 – MEASAT Global Berhad (“MEASAT”), Malaysia’s premier satellite operator, has renewed its partnership with Rock Entertainment Holdings, which will see general entertainment channel ROCK Entertainment, movie channel ROCK Action and children’s channel ZooMoo continue broadcasting via the MEASAT-3a satellite. All of the channels will reach audiences across Asia Pacific. MEASAT-3a is co-located…
February 28, 2023 – Intelsat announced the successful completion of inflight testing of its new electronically steered array (ESA) antenna. This antenna enables global streaming-fast Wi-Fi service and is available to airlines around the world. Intelsat’s ESA is the only commercially available antenna in the aviation industry that can operate between low Earth orbit satellites…
February 27, 2023 – Comtech announced today that the company will join Microsoft’s Azure Operator Nexus Ready Program to offer customers interoperable cloud services. Microsoft’s Azure Nexus Operator Ready Program certifies that Comtech’s Location Management Function (LMF), a standards-based location server for 5G, will be interoperable with Azure Operator Nexus. LMF runs on Comtech’s Dynamic…
February 23, 2023 – Inmarsat has announced the successful launch of its latest I-6 F2 spacecraft from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard a flight proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The launch saw I-6 F2 lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, reaching a top speed of almost 40,000km/h as it left Earth above central…