Eutelsat has announced that its multi-mission high-capacity 10B satellite has started operating at the 10° East orbital position. As previously announced, this new addition to the Eutelsat fleet has already secured multi-year capacity commitments with several maritime and in-flight connectivity service providers. Among them, Panasonic and Intelsat will rely on the 10B satellite to serve clients such as ships and airlines. (more…)
July 26, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
London, United Kingdom – Every major industry across Australia and New Zealand, from transport and construction to resources and agriculture, will gain positioning and navigation benefits from the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network’s (SouthPAN) new satellite service. (more…)
June 6, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company, announced availability of Hughes Smart Network Edge software for defense network operations. Leveraging the company’s experience managing widely distributed, multi-transport networks for commercial and government customers, the Hughes Smart Network Edge serves as a virtualised SD-WAN router, interconnecting at the management layer to enable network interoperability across carriers and vendors while meeting U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security criteria. (more…)
April 26, 2023
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Lausanne, Switzerland - Astrocast, a global nanosatellite IoT network operator, announces its participation in the European Union (EU) funded CiROCCO initiative. CiROCCO forms a key part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, a funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion. The CiROCCO research project aims to establish a low-cost and sustainable network of electronic sensing nodes in under-sampled desert areas and ecosystems in Egypt, Serbia and Spain. (more…)
April 19, 2023
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San Diego, United States – Blue Sky Network has announced that its SkyLink Citadel, a resilient anti-piracy solution for maritime, is now available for purchase. (more…)
March 30, 2023
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Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) and ST Engineering iDirect have reaffirmed their long-term technology partnership through deep cooperation on the ground systems infrastructure for Kacific’s fleet of satellites. ST Engineering iDirect, whose Dialog hub platform was instrumental to Kacific1’s program, will provide a next-generation ground infrastructure including systems integration, as part of this partnership. (more…)
February 16, 2023
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Reston, United States – CACI International Inc., has signed a five-year cooperative research & development agreement (CRADA) with the US Army space and missile defense technical centre (USASMDC-TC) to further the development of advanced payload technologies, space sensor applications, and resilient positioning, navigation & timing (PNT). (more…)
February 15, 2023
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Denver, United States – EchoStar Corporation has announced an agreement with Astro Digital, a designer, manufacturer and operator of small satellite systems, for the construction of a global S-band mobile satellite service (MSS) network. Under the agreement, Astro Digital will manufacture the satellites for the constellation, which will deliver global Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) and other data services beginning in 2024. EchoStar will operate the constellation from its Australian subsidiary, EchoStar Global. (more…)
February 7, 2023
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Broomfield, United States – Ball Aerospace has completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, the U.S. Space Force’s next-generation operational environmental satellite system. Ball also finalised environmental testing on the Microwave Imager (MWI) instrument and has started final space vehicle assembly, integration and testing. (more…)
January 17, 2023
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Lausanne, Switzerland and Singapore – Astrocast, a global nanosatellite IoT network operator, and Avirtech, a provider of plantation control systems that monitor site conditions to reduce operational costs and increase yields, announce a smart farming partnership. Astrocast is providing Avirtech with Satellite IoT (SatIoT) connectivity solutions for its BIOTA intelligent farm control system. This includes integrating its technology into Avirtech’s Avirlink – this enables plantation owners to make legacy sensors smart by recording and controlling information remotely over long distances. (more…)
December 7, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar