Hughes Network Systems, a specialist in broadband satellite networks and services, and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), a global satellite operator based in the United Arab Emirates and wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, have announced the commencement of a joint venture to provide satellite broadband services in Brazil. The new venture is now […]
Panasonic Avionics Corporation, a specialist in in-flight entertainment and connectivity, has signed a multi-year agreement for Ku-band capacity on two multi-beam payloads on the EUTELSAT 10B satellite, due to be launched in 2022. This contract with Eutelsat Communications will enable Panasonic to provide multiple gigahertz of new extreme throughput (XTS) Ku-band connectivity to airlines and […]
Nilesat has ordered a new satellite (Nilesat 301) from Thales Alenia Space. The contract covers both the launch of the craft as well as the build. The contract says that Nilesat 301 will be launched in January 2022 to take over from Nilesat 201 which will reach the end of its working life in 2028, […]
Today (December 3rd) is the start of a two-day London High Court hearing which should have seen a routine approval of the agreed buy-out of Inmarsat by a consortium including Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. However, the hearing is far from automatic in that a […]
Satellite Mediaport Services (SMS Teleport), the largest independent teleport in the UK, has been selected by Spacecom to act as the European Gateway for their newly operational AMOS-17 communication satellite. SMS is uplinking the first carriers of data services over C-Band and Ku-Band – Broadband Internet and Telecom – on the AMOS-17 communication satellite located […]
Satellite operator SES and the Luxembourg Government have reached an agreement to renew SES’s concession to operate satellites flying under Luxembourg jurisdiction for 20 years, effective from January 2022 when the current concession expires, with an annual fee of €1 million from 2025 onwards. As part of the agreement and starting from 2022, SES will […]
Preston Padden, the first head of advocacy at the C-Band Alliance (he stepped down in March, and had been EVP of Government Relations at Disney) issued a slice of advice to his former colleagues in the Alliance. In a Tweet this week he said: “C-Band lesson to all Spectrum licensees, Federal and Private – cling […]
Eutelsat has spent the past few days meeting financial analysts, and supplying its mid-term outlook as to its trading expectations. One investment bank, in a note to clients, advised that Eutelsat reaffirmed its mid-term outlook of a return to group top line growth driven by positive stability in revenues of the core Video broadcast business […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing up to four of its Falcon 9 rockets for launch next month. Already in the manifest is the launch of a condominium satellite (Japan’s JSAT-18/Kacific) joint mission which is slated for around December 15th. Earlier than that will see SpaceX on December 4th launch a Dragon re-supply mission to the […]
Arianespace has successfully orbited two geostationary satellites: TIBA-1, for Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space on behalf of the Government of Egypt; and GX5 for Inmarsat. The launch took place on November 26th at 18:23 p.m. (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch also […]