Abu Dhabi’s Al Yah (YahSat) and its partner SES are examining various options under a “strategic review” now taking place. SES is due to announce its latest year-end financials next week (on February 27th) and more detailed news as to the next steps for the ‘Yahlive’ business division. However, CEO Sami Boustany explains it is […]
Arianespace will conduct its ‘launch readiness review’ on Monday, February 25th, for the six OneWeb satellites currently in its care. Arianespace will use its Soyuz medium-powered rocket from Kourou for the delivery into a circular low Earth orbit at 1,000 km (very close to their target operational orbit). Launch date is likely to be February […]
The second quarter of this year should see the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) make its ruling on whether the C-Band Alliance (CBA) of Intelsat and SES can restructure – and sell – 180 MHz of spectrum over the US for 5G take-up. Much of yesterday’s (February 20th) analyst call with senior staffers from Intelsat was […]
Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined Sky Italia €7 million for failing to provide “clear and immediate” information to potential subscribers that it did not have all Serie A’s games in its football package this season. From this season, streaming platform DAZN has been airing three out of the ten weekly matches, leaving Sky Italia with […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch Indonesia’s PSN 6 communications satellite into orbit on February 21st from Cape Canaveral. PSN 6 (for PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara) was built by Space Systems/Loral (now part of Maxar technology) and will be placed at 146 degrees East. The satellite carries 38 C-band and 18 Ku-band high-throughput transponders […]
In 2018, IPTV overtook DTH as the second-largest multichannel platform in the world by subscribers after cable TV, accounting for 23.4 per cent of the total market of 1.07 billion households. Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, estimates that IPTV is projected to post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of […]
Eutelsat is the first of the three satellite majors to report its H1 results (to December 31st), and the headline numbers were all down on expectations and prompting the market to immediately slash the operator’s share price by €1.67 (9 per cent). Eutelsat posted overall revenues of €658.1 million, down 4.4 per cent compared with […]
Argentina has managed to keep its satellite Ka-band transmission rights – and access to an 80 degrees West orbital position – by taking a short lease on an old SES Astra satellite. The SES craft, Astra 1H, visited the Argentinian position on September 4th last year according to a story in Space Intel Report and […]
Eutelsat Communications and Afghanistan Broadcasting System (ABS) have signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for video capacity on the Eutelsat 53A satellite. ABS will use Eutelsat 53A’s Ku-band resources over Central Asia to provide nationwide coverage for the launch of its new DTH platform, Oqaab HD+. This platform will be enriched in the coming months to […]
Red Eléctrica has acquired Madrid-based satellite operator Hispasat. The Spanish electricity utility company is buying out Abertis’s 89.7 per cent holding in Hispasat for €949 million. Hispasat recorded €235 million in revenues last year, with profits of €80.5 million. The purchase will leave the Spanish state (via its Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales) holding 7.4 […]