The C-Band Alliance (CBA), which supports the reallocation of some of its members’ frequencies over the US, says it is “extraordinarily pleased with the level of support shown for the Market-Based Approach in the opening round of comments”. The Alliance, made up of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat, in a statement December 7th, says its […]
UK-based NSSL Global has bought SES’s ‘Station 711’ business unit, which was part of the SES-owned MX1 play-out and content management division. Station 711 itself is a fully-fledged Inmarsat Tier 1 Distribution Partner and Value-Added Reseller for Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband and Global Xpress satellite operations. Station 711 has been servicing maritime customers for the last twenty […]
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) and its channels are back on the TataSky DTH portfolio of channels. Local reports says that despite the two month blackout of Sony’s channels the carriage dispute with TataSky has been mutually resolved, although the financial terms between the two were not revealed. Sky’s channels went dark on Oct 1st […]
Maxar Technologies, which owns the Space Systems-Loral satellite facility in Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley, California, has sold one of its key buildings at the site for $70 million. The building, complete with some 4.5 acres of land, represents just 14 per cent of the Palo Alto complex of buildings. Maxar/SS-L owns another 24 acres […]
Hopster, the preschool learning and entertainment experience, has launched on Sling TV, making the award-winning preschool service available to millions of Sling TV subscribers in the US. The UK-based BAFTA-nominated service offers preschoolers and their families educational entertainment through a mix of media including kids TV shows, music and video books. For a fee of […]
Arianespace successfully launched two satellites on the evening of December 4th from the spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana. One satellite, for India, was the country’s heaviest-ever craft. Deployed first during Ariane 5’s 33-minute mission to geostationary transfer orbit, GSAT-11 will be positioned at 74 deg. East, providing communications services in Ku- and Ka-bands in […]
US telco AT&T, which owns DTH operator DirecTV, says it will not be buying any more broadcast satellites. Instead, said AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, DirecTV would be concentrating on building out fibre and OTT services for its customers. “We’re kind of done,” he told analysts during a Nov 29th presentation and earnings call. As at […]
An Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled to launch two satellites on December 4th subject to weather conditions. India’s much-delayed GSAT-11 is one of the satellites. India’s satellite should have been launched in May but was recalled from its launch site in French Guiana on April 25th, and an expected launch date of May 25th scrubbed. […]
The French parliament has adopted an important amendment to its planned 2019 budget which will benefit Eutelsat. The amendment, which will need to be approved by President Macron, according to a note to clients from investment bank Exane/BNPP, aims at reducing the tax rate on Eutelsat. “More specifically, pretax income generated on GEO satellites located […]
Orion, a Russian satellite operator, is making test 4K transmissions from multiple satellites to a single antenna receiver. The test is designed to measure the ability to transfer 4K signals to a satellite dish with a multiple feed. The main satellites that Orion uses to operate its services, namely Intelsat-15 and Horizons-2 (a joint-venture between […]