News & Events

Inuvik Satellite Station Facility. Photo: Wikipedia [Via Satellite 06-26-2015] Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has entered a $6 million agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) for in-service support to maintain and operate Canada’s national ground station infrastructure at Inuvik, Prince Albert and Gatineau. MDA is also the exclusive supplier for hosting services to international satellite operators who desire to install…

A Globalstar ground station. Photo: Globalstar [Via Satellite 06-26-2015] Globalstar’s gateway in Gaborone, Botswana has activated, enabling simplex coverage over the African continent. The new gateway, in partnership with Broadband Botswana Internet (BBi), provides Globalstar’s full line of simplex services, including its Spot portfolio of affordable tracking solutions. Globalstar’s network enables infrastructure monitoring, leveraging Machine-to-Machine…

Inmarsat’s Fleetbroadband coverage map. Photo: Inmarsat [Via Satellite 06-26-2015] Inmarsat has signed a new agreement with long time partner World-Link Communications, appointing the company as a Fleetbroadband partner to serve the maritime market. Alongside the agreement, World-Link plans build an Inmarsat Point-of-Presence (PoP) to advance its value-added services globally. “Following the acquisition of BSM’s Telaccount…

Steve Spengler, CEO of Intelsat. Photo: Intelsat [Via Satellite 6-25-2015] Intelsat has joined forces with OneWeb in a key new strategic alliance. OneWeb is planning to launch a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation of more than 600 satellites. The strategic alliance between the two companies will aim to make broadband more accessible to businesses…

Artist’s rendition of the Intelsat 35e satellite. Photo: Boeing [Via Satellite 06-25-2015] IHI Aerospace (IA) has signed a contract with Boeing Satellite Systems International to supply its 500N liquid apogee engine for the Intelsat 35e satellite. The engines, which have a high Specific Impulse (ISP), are used to inject a spacecraft from the transfer orbit…

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…