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Avealto Ltd. is a UK company that is in the final stage of development of a High Altitude Platform (HAP) vehicle optimized to provide Wireless infrastructure services to unserved or underserved regions of the world.

Recent improvements in the efficiency of batteries and solar cells have made it possible to create a fleet of commercially viable HAP vehicles.

Avealto has identified a number regions in world where it can become the optimum provider of cost effective and high quality infrastructure services to existing regional telecom operators

Avealto plans to begin commercial operations in June of 2022.

For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and Switzerland. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS for Aerospace and Satellite (A&S) Solutions, visit https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/aerospace-and-satellite/

ST Engineering iDirect is a global leader in satellite communications (satcom) providing technology and solutions that enable its customers to expand their business, differentiate their services and optimize their satcom networks. Through the merger with Newtec, a recognized industry pioneer, the combined business unites over 35 years of innovation focused on solving satellite’s most critical economic and technology challenges, and expands a shared commitment to shaping the future of how the world connects.

The product portfolio, branded under the names iDirect and Newtec, represents the highest standards in performance, efficiency and reliability, making it possible for its customers to deliver the best satcom connectivity experience anywhere in the world.

ST Engineering iDirect is the world’s largest TDMA enterprise VSAT manufacturer and is the leader in key industries including broadcast, mobility and military/government.

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) is a world’s leader in satellite manufacturing with annual revenues of approximately 2 billion euros. TAS serves all the industry’s market segments, such as telecommunications, science, earth observations, navigation and human space flight. Its customer base includes civil and defense governments, agencies and institutions, as well as commercial satellite operators. TAS’ business portfolio is well balanced among those segments and customers, which enables TAS to secure stability and complementary growth, not too directly affected by environment change of each market. TAS has facilities and subsidiaries in 6 countries with main locations of satellite and payload system integrations in France and Italy. TAS also specializes in end-to-end system solutions and capabilities for telecommunications and navigation programs. TAS is a joint venture between Thales of France and Finmeccanica of Italy. Together with its sister firm, Telespazio, also invested by Thales and Finmeccanica, TAS can address larger scale turnkey projects that includes system and satellite operations, services, etc.

Thaicom Public Company Limited is a leading Asian satellite operator and was established in 1991. The company provides integrated satellite communications solutions and value-added services for the broadcast, media, and telecom industries. Thaicom was the first to launch a broadband satellite in the world. Since its establishment the company has launched 8 satellites. Thaicom satellites board more than 1,100 TV channels both in SD and HD formats. Thaicom-8, the company’s latest satellite, was launched in May 2016 to expand the company’s servicing capacity and footprint in Asia and Africa. Thaicom is traded on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) under the trade symbol “THCOM”.

Located in Palo Alto, California, MAXAR has a long history of delivering reliable satellites and spacecraft systems for commercial and government customers around the world. The company designs and builds some of the world’s largest and most powerful commercial satellites and has more GEO commercial capacity on orbit than any other satellite manufacturer. MAXAR works closely with satellite operators and service providers to deliver spacecraft for direct-to-home television, digital audio radio, broadband Internet, digital multimedia broadcasting, and a variety of other services. Billions of people around the world depend on MAXAR satellites every day.

SKY Perfect JSAT is a leading satellite operator in the Asia-Pacific region and provides high-quality satellite communications. With a fleet of 16 satellites, the company offers a wide range of services including video distribution/contribution and data communication as well as unrivaled back-up capability in the Asia-Pacific.

SKY Perfect JSAT has successfully launched JCSAT-13 (JCSAT-4B) in May 2012 which carries 44 Ku transponders. With Japan beam, Indonesia beam, and two steerable beams, JCSAT-13 will meet the demand in the Asia-Pacific region.

SKY Perfect JSAT is also the largest Direct-to-Home satellite broadcast service operator in Japan. The company provides Pay-TV service (“SKY Perfect TV!”) of over 350 TV channels to more than 3.8 million households using three orbital slots and FTTH.

SES is a world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of 46 geostationary satellites. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, business and governmental organisations worldwide. The SES’ global satellite fleet is complemented by a network of teleports allowing customers to reach 99% of the world’s population.

SES stands for long-lasting business relationships, high-quality service and excellence in the broadcasting industry. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite bandwidth and service requirements.

SES holds participations in Ciel in Canada and QuetzSat in Mexico, as well as a strategic participation in satellite infrastructure start-up O3b Networks.