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The Sky Q set-top-box. Photo: Sky [Via Satellite 01-06-2016] MaxLinear is shipping its MxL5x2 Full-Spectrum Capture satellite front-end receiver in Sky’s new Sky Q set-top box. Sky Q is a family of advanced, wirelessly connected products aiming to create a new ecosystem that makes it easier for customers to access all their favorite TV content.…

Mark Dankberg. Photo: ViaSat [Via Satellite 01-05-2016] ViaSat has long been one of the most exciting companies in the satellite sector. It builds some of the most powerful satellites out there, and has been at the cutting edge of technology for many years. In Mark Dankberg, the company has a previous Satellite Executive of the…

Artist rendition of a Hylas satellite. Photo: Avanti [Via Satellite 01-05-2016] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed a contract valued at more than CA$10 million ($7.1 million) with Orbital ATK to provide a communication antenna subsystem for Avanti’s Hylas 4 telecommunication satellite, which is expected to launch in 2017. The Hylas 4 satellite will…

Akulivik is an Inuit village in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, Canada. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. [Via Satellite 01-05-2016] The Kativik Regional Government in Canada has awarded SES a contract for the delivery of new satellite services across the northern Quebec region. Beginning in the second half of 2016, the 12 transponder deal on SES 2, positioned…

GSLV D5 Launch. Photo: ISRO [Via Satellite 01-05-2016] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to build its heaviest rocket to carry satellites weighing 10 tons into space. Currently, the space agency’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) can carry satellites weighing only 2 tons, according to a report by Business Standard. ISRO is developing…

[Via Satellite 01-05-2016] Com Dev International has received an order to begin work on the third satellite of a multiple-satellite contract awarded in October 2013. The contract is valued at more than CA$12 million ($8.5 million). Each of the satellites built under this contract will deliver high throughput commercial communications services. COM DEV has completed…

Marc Eisenberg CEO of Orbcomm. Photo: Orbcomm [Via Satellite 01-04-2016] This week, we will be talking to some of the key decision makers in the satellite industry regarding their 2015 highlights. To kick off this week, we talk to Marc Eisenberg, CEO of Orbcomm, one of the most active companies in the satellite sector in…

GIOVE-A on Fregat upper stage. Photo: SSTL [Via Satellite 01-04-201] British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) is marking the 10-year anniversary of in-orbit operations for its GIOVE A satellite, the pathfinder mission for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation program. SSTL designed, built and tested GIOVE A in 30 months for the European Space…

Artist rendition of the Express AMU1, the new Russian heavy telecoms satellite, which has been successfully translated from the geo-transfer to the geo-stationary orbit. The spacecraft solar panels have now been fully deployed. Photo: RSCC [Via Satellite 01-04-201] Following the deployment of all onboard antennas, the Russian Satellite Communications Company’s (RSCC) Express AMU1 satellite was…

Bangalore city as viewed from a vantage near the Corporation Circle. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim [Via Satellite 01-04-201] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be opening a 100-acre space park in Bangalore, according to reports. Private industry players will be able to use the facilities, likely to open later this month, to manufacture subsystems…