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SES satellite dishes. Photo: SES [Via Satellite 10-28-2015] Lifestyle content producer Scripps Networks Interactive has signed a strategic agreement with SES to expand and migrate its North American distribution platform to a pair of SES satellites at the center of the North American orbital arc. Scripps Networks Interactive is using a full transponder of C-band…
Digital rendering of the CubeRRT CubeSat. Photo: Ohio State [Via Satellite 10-28-2015] NASA has selected the Chair and Professor of Ohio State’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joel Johnson to lead an agency program to help mitigate the impact of manmade Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). The agency awarded the university $5.6 million for the…
Orbital ATK’s Gilbert, Airz. satellite facility. Photo: Orbital ATK [Via Satellite 10-27-2015] After losing a satellite deal earlier this summer due to the lack of Export Credit Agency (ECA) support, Orbital ATK clenched a new order for a geostationary satellite this month. “We recently received another commercial satellite order in the form of a follow…
Artist’s rendition of the Silkwave 1 satellite. Photo: Boeing [Via Satellite 10-27-2015] Boeing has received a satellite order from New York Broadband (NYBB) to construct a satellite on its Boeing 702 platform to serve mobile users in China, India and other Asian markets. Denver, Colo.-based NYBB, which owns 12 Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) channels in the…
Artist’s rendition of SES 12. Photo: Airbus Defence and Space [Via Satellite 10-27-2015] In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) provider Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has doubled its satellite capacity from SES through a new multi-year, multi-transponder agreement. During the past two quarters, GEE has secured additional SES Ku-band capacity, adding bandwidth on six SES satellites —…
Eutelsat 172A’s Ku-band North Pacific downlink coverage. Photo: Lepton [Via Satellite 10-27-2015] Lepton Global Solutions has launched a managed satellite network service in the North Pacific for Lepton and Eutelsat’s enterprise and government customers. The service will provide a secure satellite network on Eutelsat 172A, located at 172 degrees east, and a Lepton-owned, collocated iDirect hub at the Hawaii Pacific Teleport in Oahu,…
Eutelsat 172A’s Ku-band North Pacific downlink coverage. Photo: Lepton [Via Satellite 10-27-2015] Lepton Global Solutions has launched a managed satellite network service in the North Pacific for Lepton and Eutelsat’s enterprise and government customers. The service will provide a secure satellite network on Eutelsat 172A, located at 172 degrees east, and a Lepton-owned, collocated iDirect hub at the Hawaii Pacific Teleport in Oahu,…
Artist’s rendition of a satellite orbiting Earth. Photo: NASA/Saft [Via Satellite 10-27-2015] Lockheed Martin has awarded a five-year follow on contract to battery manufacturer Saft for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries to use in telecommunications satellites. Through the multi-million dollar long-term agreement, Saft will supply high-energy VL48E Li-ion cells with a 3.6V, 48Ah package designed for the…
AT&T storefront. Photo: Mike Mozart (flickr) [Via Satellite 10-26-2015] AT&T is already seeing the benefits of its merger with U.S. satellite pay-TV giant DirecTV. The telco completed the acquisition in July, after agreeing to certain four-year conditions from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). On the company’s 2015 third quarter earnings call — the first following…
Tank Railway cars. Photo: Vilseskogen (Flickr) [Via Satellite 10-26-2015] Globalstar subsidiary Globalstar Europe Satellite Services, along with wireless partner Ovinto, are equipping Sabic’s European fleet of 500 rail tank cars with Ovinto Sat Machine-to-Machine (M2M) satellite-based tracking and monitoring technology. Sabic uses its European fleet of rail tank cars to transport chemicals, and plans to…