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…

February 22, 2023 – Sidus Space, Inc., a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, today announced it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to launch on Transporter missions manifested for 2024 and 2025. This additional agreement further extends the Company’s relationship with SpaceX, chosen…

February 21, 2023 – INTEGRASYS launches VeryFiling for automating the EPFD compliance evaluation, as well as speeding the process, and ensuring obtaining the license seamlessly. VeryFiling is a fast and easy-to-use disruptive technology, based on the well-known Link Budget Calculation, Beam Budget. VeryFiling is a web-based and multi-user tool to facilitate the test and evaluation…

February 16, 202 – Inmarsat and Addvalue, a groundbreaking satellite solution provider and Inmarsat technology partner, are delighted to announce that real-time geospatial intelligence company BlackSky will include IDRS™ in its next-generation satellite design. 2022 saw significant global growth in Earth Observation (EO) activities, with many satellite operators growing their businesses’ role from data collection…

February 14, 2023 – Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) and ST Engineering iDirect have reaffirmed their long-term technology partnership through deep cooperation on the ground systems infrastructure for Kacific’s fleet of satellites. ST Engineering iDirect, whose Dialog hub platform was instrumental to Kacific1’s highly successful program, will provide a comprehensive next-generation ground infrastructure including systems…

February 9, 2023 – NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) awarded Blue Origin’s New Glenn the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) contract. ESCAPADE is part of the NASA Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program; it is a dual spacecraft mission to study Mars’ magnetosphere. ESCAPADE is a twin-spacecraft Class D mission…

February 8, 2023 – SES, ThinKom and Hughes demonstrated revolutionary high-performance multi-orbit service capable of supporting multiple solutions for government airborne missions, the companies announced today. The open architecture ThinKom ThinAir Ka2517 airborne satcom terminal was successfully demonstrated over SES’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satellite networks during testing at ThinKom’s Hawthorne, CA,…

February 7, 2023 – Cobham Satcom, the leading provider of radio and satellite communication (satcom) solutions to the global maritime and land mobile sectors has been chosen by Inmarsat Government to supply new generation SAILOR XTR user terminals for the provision of fast, reliable and secure worldwide end-to-end commercial satcom for the U.S. Navy Military…

February 7, 2023 – Comtech was awarded four Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) III Satellite Systems and Services task order modifications exceeding $20 million dollars, under the Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems (GTACS) IDIQ award, to support global U.S. Army operations. Comtech’s portfolio of defense and security technologies are uniquely positioned to deliver capabilities that…