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Signalhorn’s Backnang, Germany headquarters. Photo: Signalhorn [Via Satellite 06-11-2015] Signalhorn has signed agreements with new and existing customers for satellite services in the South Pacific, the Republic of Congo, and the Middle East. In the South Pacific, one of the company’s main maritime telecommunications customers has signed an upgrade for its maritime Virtual Network Operator…

ViaSat corporate headquarters in Carlsbad, Calif. Photo: ViaSat [Via Satellite 06-11-2015] ViaSat has purchased Engreen, a privately held company focused on network virtualization. According to ViaSat, Engreen’s flagship virtualization product provides a path to enhance network management, lower capital expenses, energy and real estate, and minimize overall network complexity. Through the acquisition, ViaSat expects to…

Sentech Tower at sunset, Johannesburg South Africa. Photo: Avanti [Via Satellite 06-11-2015] Avanti Communications has signed a new multi-year contract with South African telecommunications enterprise Sentech. The state-owned enterprise delivers satellite broadband connectivity to South Africa’s public sector at scale, across hundreds of public state institutions and government sites. Avanti is providing Ka-band capacity from…

Panelist at the “Ku-band vs. Ka-band: Pros and Cons of Each Band” session at the GCA Summit. Photo: Vince Lim [Via Satellite 06-10-2015] The aviation industry’s need for greater connectivity is having a more prominent impact on satellite operators’ decision-making process as they evaluate designs for future spacecraft. Speaking June 9 at the Global Connected…

Spire’s Silicon Valley office. Photo: Spire [Via Satellite 06-10-2015] Scottish Enterprise, the international investment and trade promotion agency of the Scottish government, has awarded up to $2.9 million in grants to Spire. The new funds will support the opening of a new office in Glasgow, Scotland along with further international growth. Spire plans to double…

Photo: US Navy NEXCOM [Via Satellite 06-10-2015] The United States Navy Exchange Service Command’s Telecommunications Program Office (NEXCOM TPO) has expanded its partnership with ViaSat to upgrade its wireless Internet and voice services, and provide a global enterprise-wide Wi-Fi system to Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) facilities, Unaccompanied Housing (UH), Navy Lodges and Navy…

Inmarsat HQImage credit: Inmarsat [Via Satellite 06-10-2015] Inmarsat is relocating the Inmarsat-4 F2 (I-4 F2) communications satellite to a new orbital position above the Indian Ocean. From this position, the satellite will provide L-band services to customers in the Middle East and Asia region, with commercial services scheduled to begin by the end of the…

Artist’s rendition of a SBIRS satellite. Photo: Lockheed Martin [Via Satellite 06-10-2015] The United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company a contract modification to use the modernized A2100 spacecraft based on the company’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Technical Refresh proposal. The effort will modernize the…

David Crawford, managing director of satellite and media at Arqiva. Photo: Arqiva [Via Satellite 06-09-2015] Arqiva, a leading U.K. based communications infrastructure and media services company, expects to see a near-term rise in its domestic satellite capacity needs, but sees compression technology and the increased build-out of fiber slackening demand for satellite elsewhere. David Crawford,…

Artist rendition of an Intelsat EpicNG satellite. Photo: Intelsat. [Via Satellite 06-19-2015] Intelsat has introduced IntelsatOne Flex for distribution partners serving the commercial air transport market. IntelsatOne Flex aggregates Intelsat’s current satellites, the upcoming EpicNG High Throughput Satellite (HTS) fleet and the IntelsatOne terrestrial network into a simplified ecosystem that enables Intelsat’s distribution partners to…