News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
A volunteer aiding in preventing the spread of Ebola. Photo: Lepton [Via Satellite 06-25-2015] Lepton Global Solutions is currently supporting MRIGlobal field teams in West Africa, providing connectivity to teams operating diagnostic laboratories to identify positive samples of Ebola. MRIGlobal deployed two mobile diagnostic labs last year in Sierra Leone and Guinea, which together have accelerated…
A Poste Italiane office. Photo: Eutelsat [Via Satellite 06-25-2015] Poste Mobile, the mobile operator of Poste Italiane Group, has selected Eutelsat Communications to provide broadband services to 300 post office locations through its Ka-Sat satellite. The first 120 locations are expected to have satellite connectivity by the end of 2015 with the additional 180 post…
Icelandic airport. Photo: Isavia [Via Satellite 06-25-2015] Aireon has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Icelandic Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), Isavia to explore the implementation of space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance over the Reykjavik Flight Information Region (FIR) and the Reykjavik Oceanic Control Area (OCA). Isavia is responsible for Air…
Ensar Gul , president and CEO of Turksat. Photo: Turksat [Via Satellite 06-24-2014] Turkish satellite operator Turksat is gearing up to issue two Request for Proposals (RFPs) for new satellites. The company presold most of the capacity on its latest satellite, Turksat 4A, prior to its February 2014 launch aboard an International Launch Services (ILS)…
Digital rendering of a BCT satellite based on the XB1 bus. Photo: BCT [Via Satellite 06-24-2015] Commercial weather startup PlanetiQ has selected Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to manufacture its constellation of GPS Radio Occultation (GPS-RO) satellites. The company’s aerospace engineering team is already co-located at BCT’s Boulder, Colo. facilities — where both the satellites and…
KSAT’s Svalbard ground station facility. Photo: KSAT [Via Satellite 06-24-2015] Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is now downloading data from its newly installed ground station in the Norwegian peninsula of Svalbard, which will maximize contact with the company’s polar-orbiting satellites. The Svalbard ground station, uniquely located close to the North Pole, will enable satellite contact…
C-Com’s vehicle-mounted Ka-band iNetVu antenna. Photo: C-Com [Via Satellite 06-24-2015] C-Com Satellite Systems has authorized its integrator NJ Albert to resell its ViaSat-approved Ka-Band iNetVu antenna systems across Canada. The company, which develops and deploys commercial grade mobile satellite-based technology for two-way high-speed Internet, Voice Over IP (VOIP), and video services into vehicles, has provided ViaSat…
A heat rate map of BlackSky’s planned revisit rate. Photo: BlackSky Global [Via Satellite 06-24-2015] Satellite imagery startup BlackSky Global has formed a content partnership with commercial imagery intelligence provider AllSource Analysis. BlackSky will provide high-resolution, rapid-revisit, cost-effective satellite imaging data to AllSource for incorporation into its multisource analytics capabilities and product development. The partnership is…
Bill Wade, president and CEO of AsiaSat. Photo: AsiaSat [Via Satellite 06-23-2015] With a new shareholder, two fresh satellites in orbit, and a near-metamorphic rebranding, to call AsiaSat busy would be an understatement. Over the past year, the Hong Kong-based satellite operator has been adding capacity, sizing up new markets, and laying the groundwork for…
Liftoff of Arianespace’s VV05 Vega mission carrying the Sentinel 2A satellite. Photo: Arianespace [Via Satellite 06-23-2015] Arianespace orbited the Copernicus Earth observation program’s Sentinel 2A satellite June 22 from French Guiana aboard a Vega light-lift launch vehicle. From a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 780 km, the 1,140-kg satellite will join the Sentinel 1A…