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Worker at Elara’s teleport in Mexico City. Photo: Elara Comunicaciones [Via Satellite 08-19-2015] Mexican telecommunications company Elara Comunicaciones has recently struck a partnership with private equity firm Northgate Capital that will enable the company’s “aggressive” growth plans over the next five years. In exchange for a control stake in the teleport, Northgate will invest up…
AsiaSat 8 spacecraft on the vibration table for testing. Photo: AsiaSat [Via Satellite 08-19-2015] AsiaSat has reached an agreement with In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFE&C) service provider Aircom Pacific for using AsiaSat’s transponder capacity and uplinking services. Under the agreement, Aircom Pacific will use Ka-band and Ku-band capacity on AsiaSat 7 and AsiaSat 8 to…
The Kidnected World team on a 2011 visit to Cambodia with partners Cambodia Children’s Fund. Photo: Kidnected World. [Via Satellite 08-19-2015] NewCom International, a global satellite communications provider dedicated to advancing education, health care and economic growth in remote regions throughout the world, has teamed with Kidnected World, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that provides online…
Rt1.tv OB van HD 6 SNG. Photo: Rt1.tv [Via Satellite 08-19-2015] German media production company in satellite-based live broadcasting, rt1.tv production GmbH, has invested in Riedel Communications’ MediorNet real-time media network and Artist digital matrix intercom system for its new OB van and three Digital Satellite Newsgathering (DSNG) vehicles. Rt1.tv has integrated 13 MediorNet Compact…
Artist’s rendition of Galileo Satellites 5 & 6. Photo: ESA/ J Huart [Via Satellite 08-19-2015] Lime Microsystems and Airbus Defence and Space, with funding from Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board), announced a joint development of GNSS products. Airbus Defence and Space, using Lime’s Field Programmable RF (FPRF) transceiver technology, is developing a robust…
O3b’s AVL land transportable antenna. Photo: O3b Networks [Via Satellite 08-18-2015] O3B Networks is planning on ordering more satellites and releasing new antennas to bolster its Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) network in the near future. Steve Collar, CEO of O3b, told Via Satellite that the company intends to increase its capacity in space in the…
Figure from Khan’s paper depicting his proposed satellite network for global Internet connectivity. Photo: Farooq Khan [Via Satellite 08-18-2015] Samsung may be joining the wave of companies betting on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to provide global Internet connectivity. Farooq Khan, president of Samsung Research America, has published a paper titled “Mobile Internet from the Heavens.”…
WSO Pago Pago headquarters. Photo: National Weather Service [Via Satellite 08-18-2015] SES Government Solutions (SES GS) has signed a one-year contract with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) to provide O3b Networks’ services and ground equipment to the National Weather Service Office (WSO) in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The contract allows NOAA to…
Soldiers using the RF-7850M-HH Multiband Combat Net Radio. Photo: Harris Corp [Via Satellite 08-18-2015] Harris Corporation has received a $11 million order from a nation in the Middle East to supply the Harris RF-7800 series of Falcon III multiband, multimission radios as part of a continued modernization effort. The order was booked and shipped during…
Six of Globalstar’s second-generation satellites being placed into the Soyuz ST payload fairing ahead of their 2013 launch. Photo: Arianespace [Via Satellite 08-17-2015] Globalstar is refuting claims from cybersecurity company Synack that its simplex network is extremely vulnerable to hackers. In a July 30 article on Wired, Colby Moore, manager of special activities and information security…