April 13, 2023 – Intelsat ordered a Mission Extension Pod (MEP) from Northrop Grumman Corporation’s SpaceLogistics, which will add life to an Intelsat satellite and provide uninterrupted services to many customers. The MEP “jet pack” will be installed by SpaceLogistics’ mission robotic vehicle (MRV) on an Intelsat satellite operating in geosynchronous orbit, ensuring continuity of…

April 7, 2023 – Intelsat announced the successful launch of Intelsat 40e (IS-40e), a geosynchronous satellite that relies on spot-beam technology to provide a large amount of capacity over North America for Intelsat’s commercial aviation, mobility and network service customers. The Maxar-manufactured IS-40e satellite launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force…

April 6, 2023 – Following the communications satellite contract signed in September 2022, KT SAT Corporation Ltd. (KT SAT), the leading satellite service provider in South Korea, and Thales Alenia Space are announcing today that KOREASAT 6A will also embark a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) payload to improve the continuity and availability of the Korea…

April 5, 2023 – MEASAT Global Berhad has successfully secured a contract with Intra Oil Services Berhad (“Intra Oil Services”) for the provision of Mobility Managed Bandwidth Services for broadband access and VoIP phone lines. The contract will cover up to 50% of the fleet operated by Intra Oil Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Perdana…

April 4, 2023 – NTT Ltd., a leading global IT infrastructure and services company, and SES announced a multi-year partnership to use SES satellites to deliver NTT’s Edge as a Service to enterprise customers. The collaboration will bring together NTT’s expertise in networking and enterprise managed services with SES’s unique satellite capabilities to deliver reliable…

March 28, 2023 – Speedcast announced the successful implementation of a specialized connectivity solution delivering unparalleled data rates for an international cruise line’s newest vessel. The innovative, satellite-to-ship tracking solution was deployed for the ship, which runs on liquified natural gas and can accommodate 6,500 passengers. The cruise line’s new connectivity service was launched as…

March 28, 2023 – Axelspace Corporation is pleased to announce that we have been selected for the “Development and demonstration of inter-satellite optical communication network systems” by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). This is under the “Key and Advanced Technology R&D through Cross Community Collaboration Program”. Through this development and demonstration project,…

March 27, 2023 – Thales Alenia Space has won contracts from the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply a first batch of six small satellites with synthetic aperture radars (SAR) and one satellite based on optical technology for the Italian Earth observation constellation, IRIDE. This innovative new constellation, based on a number of different sensing…

March 27, 2023 – TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation (TAPDMV) has extended its satellite broadcast partnership with ABS by adding four further channels on ABS-2. The four SD Channels will be on the MCPC media platform on the ABS-2 C-band East Hemi beam offering the highest reliability for national TV networks and primary cable services.…

March 26, 2023 – OneWeb confirmed the successful deployment and contact of 36 satellites launched by NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR) in Sriharikota, India. This is OneWeb’s 18th launch, its third this year, bringing the total of OneWeb’s constellation to 618 satellites. The OneWeb constellation design calls for 588…

March 23, 2023 – Cobham Satcom has received Japanese Radio Law certification for use of the innovative SAILOR 1000 XTR and SAILOR 600 XTR Ku VSAT antennas with the ST Engineering iDirect MDM3315 satellite modem. The new modem option provides users with a supported platform for current and future usage whilst offering choice and availability…

March 23, 2023 – AtomBeam Technologies, a data compaction software company, today announced it has joined Inmarsat’s ELEVATE programme. ELEVATE is a development programme, ecosystem and marketplace for providers of software, hardware and solutions, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in commercial land markets. As an ELEVATE partner, AtomBeam Technologies will provide customers with a reliable…

March 21, 2023 – Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with prime contractor MKE to provide Vietnam with a MEOLUT (Medium Earth Orbit Local User Terminal) Next ground station that will operate as part of the COSPAS-SARSAT global MEOSAR search-and-rescue (SAR) network. The solution will make it possible to detect and locate distress signals…

March 17, 2023 – SES announced today that the SES-18 and SES-19 satellites, designed and assembled by Northrop Grumman, were successfully launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 7:38 pm local time on Friday, March 17. The two American-made satellites are the fourth and fifth…

March 16, 2023 – Comtech has announced that Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat) has awarded the company $29 million to deliver communications technologies and location services that will operate on Yahsat’s Thuraya 4-NGS satellite constellation. Under this contract, Comtech will design, develop, install, integrate, and test communications and location-based technologies for Yahsat’s Location…

March 16, 2023 – Experts at Inmarsat, a world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, have successfully connected the company’s I-6 F1 satellite to new ground stations in Western Australia. It marks a crucial milestone as the company upgrades its communications availability in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. I-6 F1 launched in December 2021 and…

March 14, 2023 – Intellian Technologies, Inc. and SES have announced two new customer user terminals designed exclusively for SES’s O3b mPOWER communication system. The new mP85 and mP240 are designed for SES’s telecommunications, enterprise and cloud customers, with an expected delivery later this year. O3b mPOWER is SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit satellite system…

March 14, 2023 – Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that MEASAT Global Berhad has selected the Hughes JUPITER™ System ground platform to enable broadband services on the MEASAT-3d High-Throughput Satellite (HTS). MEASAT-3d will leverage the JUPITER System gateway and terminals to extend its CONNECTme NOW satellite broadband services throughout Malaysia. Launched on June 22, 2022,…