Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Media has rejected as “baseless” accusations made by The Championships, Wimbledon regarding the broadcast pirate entity known as beoutQ. “Wimbledon’s press release baselessly claims that beoutQ is based in Saudi Arabia and suggests that Saudi Arabia is somehow complicit in beoutQ’s broadcasts,” says the Ministry. The response follows a call from […]
Malaysian satellite operator Measat says it is looking to order a major ‘high throughput satellite’ (HTS) that it wants in orbit by 2021. Speaking at the APSAT conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Measat’s COO Yau Chyong Lim said the new craft would be co-located with its other satellites at its ‘hot spot’ at 91.5 degree East. […]
Rocket launch company Arianespace is reported to be anticipating a one-year delay in the readiness of its much-needed Ariane-6 vehicle. The concerns come from a risk analysis carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA). Currently, the rocket is expected to make a test-flight around 2020, but an authoritative report in French business daily La […]
Opening the Casbaa Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore last Monday, CEO Louis Boswell set the tone for the day as he told delegates that those in the satellite communications industry need to “see change as a challenge to grow, develop and become stronger to benefit the larger ecosystem”. Furthermore, “Casbaa is uniquely positioned, with video […]
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit company has received its US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licence covering its debut flight for its LauncherOne aircraft+rocket launcher. The FAA permission was issued June 29th and the aircraft’s flight is expected later this summer. This planned flight will take place from Virgin’s Mojave Desert HQ at the Space Port. […]
Canadian satellite operator Telesat’s latest high-throughput satellite (HTS), Telstar 19 Vantage, has arrived at Cape Canaveral from its Maxar/SSL builder. Maxar/SSL says the Telstar craft is the first of three satellites it will deliver over the next few weeks. The satellite is also the 50th delivered by Space Systems/Loral this decade. Two more SSL communications […]
Measat Satellite Systems has expanded its video neighbourhood in South Asia with the distribution of News24, Sagarmatha TV and Prime TV. “We are delighted to welcome and distribute News24, Sagarmatha TV and Prime TV via the Measat video distribution network” said Raj Malik, Senior Vice President – Sales, Measat. “The addition of these channels is […]
Speaking at the CASBAA satellite convention in Singapore, Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel said that its plans for a record launch of 14 rockets this year would fall short of expectations. Israel said that the plans were not helped by a glitch in January this year which sent two satellites into the wrong orbit, and which […]
Analysts at Dataxis have recently published their Q1 statistics on the European pay-TV market, and say that the total subscriber numbers rose just 0.3 per cent compared to Q4/2017. This has prompted a note to clients from investment bank Exane/BNPP which points out that this is the lowest net growth ever observed by Dataxis. The […]
Bermuda domiciled (but Philippines based) satellite operator ABS told delegates to the CASBAA event in Singapore that it was looking to develop partnerships with other operators and in the process make use of the company’s 15 potentially valuable satellite orbital slots and currently unused. Jim Simpson is the new CEO at ABS (he took over […]