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Senior Managing Director of Laser Light, Robert Brumley. Photo: Laser Light [Via Satellite 04-07-2015] Australia-based Optus Satellite has teamed up with the U.K.’s Laser Light Global to incorporate the operator’s satellite facilities and terrestrial fiber into Laser Light’s All Optical Hybrid Global Network, known as “Halo.” Optus will be a preferred supplier and local distributor…
PJ King, co-founder and COO of Firefly Space Systems. Photo: Firefly [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Firefly Space Systems, one of a growing number of ambitious new small satellite launch companies, is successfully hitting a series of milestones on its way to the inaugural launch of the Firefly Alpha rocket. The vehicle, designed to lift approximately 400…
Thor 7′s installation atop the Ariane 5′s SYLDA dispenser system. Photo: Arianespace [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Arianespace is preparing Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s Thor 7 satellite and the joint French-Italian Sicral 2 satellite for an upcoming dual launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The company recently encapsulated the Thor 7 satellite, built by SSL, which will take…
The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS). Photo: Ball Aerospace [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Ball Aerospace’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) has completed its Critical Design Review (CDR). The instrument is manifested on the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s (KARI’s) GEO-Kompsat 2B satellite, which is the second in a set of two satellites for meteorology and space weather…
M. Annadurai, the new director of ISRO’s Satellite Center (ISAC). Photo: ISRO [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has appointed M. Annadurai as director of the ISRO Satellite Center (ISAC) as of April 1, 2015. Prior to this role, he served as scientist and program director of ISAC’s Indian Remote Sensing Satellites…
SelenioFlex file transcoding. Photo: Imagine Communications [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Imagine Communications has created software enhancements for its SelenioFlex Live and SelenioFlex File solutions to support High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), to meet increased bandwidth requirements for 4K Ultra-HD. SelenioFlex is a software-based transcoding and encoding solution powered by Zenium, the company’s software-defined workflow platform. The…
Conference Preparatory Meeting for WRC-15- CPM 15-2. Photo: ITU [Via Satellite 04-03-2015] The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is preparing for what it expects to be a hotly debated series of issues at the upcoming World Radiocommunications Conference 2015 (WRC-15) this November. More than 100 ITU member states just finished the two-week long Second Session of…
Digital graphic of TruNet. Photo: Rockwell Collins [Via Satellite 04-03-2015] Rockwell Collins is launching a new military communications ground-air network that provides advanced interoperable communications for warfighters. Dubbed TruNet, the system uses Rockwell Collins’ Airborne Radio (AR) and Ground Radio (GR) series, coupled with handheld technology from Thales. The Software Defined Radios (SDRs) support narrow…
The MDA-built Canadarm2 and Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft. Photo: NASA [Via Satellite 04-03-2015] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) signed a contract amendment for on-going support of the International Space Station’s (ISS) mobile servicing system. The amendment provides approximately $9.6 million and expands on a December 2014 amendment for…
A VSAT in Tanzania. Photo: Chris Gansen (Flickr) [Via Satellite 04-03-2015] The transition to digital television, increasing growth of mobile services, and the burgeoning connectivity needs of sectors such as energy, banking and mining, are fueling demand for satellite services in Sub-Saharan Africa, which Euroconsult expects will remain healthy for many years to come. The…