British and Irish viewers will continue to receive QVC’s range of retail channels as the result of a multi-year renewal agreement signed with SES, including services from MX1. The new agreement covers QVC’s continued lease of capacity from SES’ ASTRA 2G satellite and complementary ground services such as encoding, fibre, backup services, and uplinking from […]
SES CEO Steve Collar used the World Satellite Business Week to announce it would shortly begin ordering new satellites, specifically designed to operate over any part of the planet. The concept is to build identical, almost generic, satellites, and not to design craft for specific locations. Moreover, it is also looking to launch 3 satellites […]
British and Irish viewers will continue to enjoy Channel 4 programmes on DTH platforms following a multi-year extension agreement at 28.2/28.5 degrees East with SES. Under the agreement, Channel 4 will renew capacity on SES’s ASTRA 2E and 2G satellites to transmit a full line-up of services for the British and Irish markets. “We have […]
Despite bad weather which held up its initial launch plans by just over 24 hours, SpaceX successfully used a Falcon 9 rocket to launch a Canadian satellite in the early hours of September 9th, and then just 8 minutes later managed to recover the valuable first stage onto a floating barge in the Atlantic Ocean. […]
Arianespace and Eutelsat Communications have concluded a long-term multiple-launch service agreement on the occasion of the World Satellite Business Week in Paris. The agreement covers five launches until 2027 and will provide Eutelsat with assured access to space with schedule flexibility at cost effective prices. With this agreement, Eutelsat is the first commercial customer to […]
Two licensees from Skelmersdale in the northwest of England have been found guilty of ten offices of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Sara Jones and Karl Jones of the Old Toby Inn in Skelmersdale have been ordered to pay £10,908 (€12,156) after […]
SpaceX carried out a test firing of a Falcon 9 rocket on September 5th in preparation for a planned launch of Canadian satellite operator Telesat. Telstar 18 Vantage will launch at 11.28 pm (Eastern Time, and weather permitting, 03.28 GMT) from Florida’s Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. The satellite is a so-called ‘condominium satellite’ […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that Eutelsat has selected the OpenTV Signature Edition user experience to power Eutelsat CIRRUS, Eutelsat’s new video service for satellite and OTT. Leveraging NAGRA’s powerful OTT platform, the solution was customised for Eutelsat to meet the needs of […]
Eutelsat Communications is launching Eutelsat CIRRUS, a hybrid satellite-OTT delivery solution, enabling broadcasters to offer a flexible, seamless content experience across multiple screens. Eutelsat CIRRUS will provide a turnkey content delivery solution via satellite and OTT to operators seeking to launch or upgrade their service, offering the benefits of rapidly deployed video services, low operational […]
The US Air Force is reportedly close to making a decision on an extremely important set of contracts covering future ‘Launch Service Agreements’. NASA has just held a series of Advisory Council meetings, where administrator Jim Bridenstine briefed that NASA believed not just in reusable rockets, but that “private” companies would be playing a major […]