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Satellite dishes for Turksat 6A. Photo: Anadolu Agency [Via Satellite 04-20-2015] Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reports the country has started manufacturing the Turksat 6 satellite for Turksat. The five-year project is expected to cost roughly $205 million, with a launch in 2020. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) is leading the TurkSat 6A project…
A cell tower. Photo: Phil Hart (Flickr) [Via Satellite 04-20-2015] Northern Sky Research (NSR) projects revenues from wireless backhaul over satellite will climb from $1.7 billion in 2014 to $5.3 billion by 2024. The research firm’s recently issued “Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 9th Edition” report shows a steady increase in the prominence of High Throughput…
Azerbaijan’s national stadium for the Baku 2015 European Games. Photo: Baku 2015 European Games [Via Satellite 04-20-2015] The Baku 2015 European Games has appointed Azercosmos as an official supporter and supplier of broadcast telecommunication satellite services. The company is tasked with transmitting the games to billions of television viewers globally. Azercosmos will supply a Satellite…
[Via Satellite 04-20-2015] Iron Mountain has awarded a contract to InSync Software, an Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider Orbcomm acquired in January 2015, to leverage the company’s iApp software and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)-enabled audit carts (iRover) for its RFID-enabled inventory governance solution. InSync Software and Iron Mountain collaborated to design, deploy and support a global…
Export Development Canada’s (EDC) building. Photo: EDC [Via Satellite 04-17-2015] Export Development Canada’s (EDC’s) recent financing of Hispasat’s Amazonas 5 satellite could be a signal of greater activity within the nation’s satellite industry. On March 30 the Canadian Export Credit Agency (ECA) agreed to fund approximately $149 million for the Amazonas 5, which MacDonald Dettwiler…
Dream Chaser [Via Satellite 04-17-2015] Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed a new agreement to work together on the Dream Chaser space vehicle. The company and the space agency will extend a previous one-year Dream Chaser technical agreement signed in 2013 out to 2017. The partnership continues developmental work and…
Our Telekom plans to expand its satellite broadband from the Solomon Islands’ capital city of Honiara to the outer islands. Photo: Jenny Scott (Flickr) [Via Satellite 04-17-2015] Solomon Telekom Company Limited (Our Telekom) has started using O3b Network’s Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) service for backhaul in the Solomon Islands. The telco established a new…
Artist’s rendition of Landsat 9. Photo: NASA [Via Satellite 04-17-2015] NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have started working on the Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite, with a launch planned for 2023. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is leading the Landsat 9 flight segment. In addition to building the satellite,…
[Via Satellite 04-17-2015] DataPath, a provider of remote field communications solutions to the aerospace, government, broadcast, and infrastructure markets, announced a new partnership with Vislink, a service provider in the collection, transmission, and management of high quality video and data from the field to the point of usage. This partnership will allow DataPath to offer…
Cobham Satcom’s Explorer7100GX terminal. Photo: Cobham Satcom [Via Satellite 04-17-2015] Inmarsat has approved Cobham Satcom’s Explorer 7100GX terminal for use on its Ka-band Global Xpress network. The companies conducted terminal testing on the first GX satellite, Inmarsat 5 F1 (I5-F1), from Cobham Satcom’s Denmark facility. The Explorer 7100GX is the first vehicle mounted terminal to…