November 2014

News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web

SpeedCast to Provide Satellite Services for Allseas’ Flagship Vessel – Satellite Today

Allseas’ Pieter Schelte vessel during sea trials. Photo: Speedcast [Via Satellite 11-07-2014] Allseas Group, a provider of offshore pipeline installation and subsea construction, has awarded a satellite service contract to SpeedCast International, a global satellite telecommunications service provider. The deal covers Allseas’ flagship vessel, the Pieter Schelte, which took to the seas for the first…

Inmarsat Completes Global Xpress Ground Network – Satellite Today

Inmarsat 5 F1 and Inmarsat 5 F2 in a Boeing facility. Photo: Inmarsat [Via Satellite 11-07-2014] Inmarsat has completed construction of the final four Satellite Access Stations (SAS) for its Global Xpress (GX) fleet. This represents a significant milestone in the rollout of GX, Inmarsat’s global high-speed broadband Ka-band network, which is scheduled for global…

Zambia’s Muvi TV Platform Expands Capacity on Eutelsat 7B – Satellite Today

Eutelsat 7B Ku-band Africa downlink coverage. Photo: Eutelsat [Via Satellite 11-07-2014] Muvi TV, a commercial broadcaster and satellite TV platform in Zambia, is set to expand its business throughout the African continent. The company has renewed and expanded its satellite capacity requirements from Stellar, a German play-out center and satellite uplink facility that leases high-power…

Oil and Gas Demand for Video Brings With it New Questions – Satellite Today

Pacific Drilling’s Pacific Bora drillship. Photo: Pacific Drilling. Via Satellite is reporting from the OilComm 2014 event. [Houston, Texas 11-06-2014] As the oil and gas industry continues to see greater digitization, video is gradually transforming from something that is nice to have to an imperative necessity for a growing number of applications. During the “Present and…

EIAST, AUS Announce UAE CubeSat Mission – Satellite Today

H.E. Yousuf Hamad Al Shaibani, director general of EIAST, Dr. Leland Blank, dean of the College of Engineering at AUS, and Dr. Mohamed El-Trahuni, associate dean and director CEN graduate prog., College of Engineering at AUS. Photo: EIAST [Via Satellite 11-06-2014] The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) and the American University of…

Gilat, Hispasat Grow ISP Customer Base in Europe – Satellite Today

Gilat’s SkyEdge 2C platform. Photo: Gilat [Via Satellite 11-06-2014] Hispasat and Gilat have signed two new European Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for their Virtual Network Operations (VNO) program. Euskaltel of the Spanish autonomous community “Basque Country,” and NOS, previously known as ZON Optimus, of Portugal are the new customers. Euskaltel previously ordered Gilat’s SkyEdge 2-c…