APT Satellite will on September 4th be included in the Hong Kong stock exchange’s Hang Seng Global Composite Index. The news emerged along with the operator’s 6-month results to June 30th which showed flat revenues and a lowering of its all-important fill-rate. Of its 181 available transponders in the fleet they were 68.4 per cent […]
PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia says it is going to “de-orbit” its Telkom-1 satellite, which has suffered battery/power anomalies in orbit. The Lockheed Martin-built satellite was well over its design life of 15 years having been launched in 1999, and has been working – until last week – for 18 years. However, there are well-founded reports that […]
AsiaSat-9 has been delivered to the ILS/Proton launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Built by Space Systems/Loral, the satellite will replace AsiaSat-4 at 122 degrees East. Russia’s Roscosmos space agency says that the satellite will launch on Sept 28th, weather permitting. AsiaSat-9 will provide DTH broadcasts, as well as additional Ku-band capacity for new markets including […]
PT Telkom of Indonesia suffered a satellite malfunction on August 25th on its Telkom-1 satellite. It is not entirely clear whether there’s a problem with the Lockheed Martin-built satellite, launched in 1999, or some sort of operator error. However, PT Telkom is talking of making an insurance claim and thus seemingly accepting that the problem […]
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos says that Madrid-based Hispasat’s Amazonas-5 satellite will launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 11th, weather permitting. The launch, as usual, will be handled by International Launch Services (ILS) using a Proton/Briz-M rocket combination. The satellite arrived at the launch site on August 10th. The satellite has been built […]
SES says it is to change launch vehicles and launch slots for its SES-12 and SES-14 satellites. Under the new agreements, SES-12 will be launched on a Falcon 9 vehicle from SpaceX in Q1 2018 while SES-14 will be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket, also in Q1 2018. SES says the swap of launches […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully landed its 1st stage rocket following the launch of Formosat-5, a science satellite, on August 24th. The rocket’s powerful first stage was landed on SpaceX’s “Just Read the Instructions” floating barge, situated off the coast of southern California. In what is fast becoming a routine event this was the 15th successful […]
Globecast , the global solutions provider for media, has been chosen to broadcast the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 29th Summer Universiade Taipei 2017, being held in Taipei, Taiwan. The signals, being broadcast in 4K HEVC format , are available in Asia via AsiaSat 5 , Europe via Eutelsat, and North & South America […]
The European Commission has given its go-ahead to Italy’s De Agostini Editore and Viacom International Media Networks Italia for the joint control of DeA Broadcast. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns because DeA Broadcast has negligible actual and foreseen activities within the EEA. Moreover, there are only very limited […]
The world knows the names of Jeff Bezos (owner Amazon), Elon Musk (SpaceX/Tesla cars) and Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group) as being more than casually interested in space, rockets and communications. But a report on Bloomberg TV highlighted another dozen or so, drawn from amongst the 500 richest people on the planet, who are backing […]