6 February 2025 – MEASAT Global Berhad (“MEASAT”) – Malaysia’s premier satellite solutions provider has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with Shanghai Spacesail Technologies Co. Ltd. (“SPACESAIL”), formerly Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology. The MoU is aimed at facilitating potential collaboration between the two companies including provision of SPACESAIL’s Low Earth Orbit (“LEO”) broadband services and solutions with their Thousand Sails megaconstellation (also known as “Qianfan”), emerging technologies such as Direct-to-Device (“D2D”) communications, satellite-based Internet of Things (“IoT”) capabilities and Earth Observation (“EO”) services; in Malaysia and markets in Asia where MEASAT is present, and additionally a joint rain fade study on Q/V-band high frequency transmission. Read more