WBMSAT Satellite Industry News Bits 03/07/2014
Crystal Solutions will host a series of satellite interference prevention and Carrier ID detection workshops at Satellite 2014.
[SatNews – 03/08/2014]
Satmex adopts the Eutelsat brand, becoming Eutelsat Americas.
[The Wall Street Journal – 03/07/2014]
Disaggregation gets traction in 205 Pentagon budget request as the U.S. Air Force plans to take its initial steps toward adopting a new military space architecture.
[Space News – 03/07/2014]
U.S. Air Force is halving the number of space launches to be competitively awarded from 2015 to 2017 due in part to anticipated slowdowns in satellite programs.
[Space News – 03/07/2014]
Arabsat and Telesat sign new Hellas Sat agreement under which Telesat will utilise a lifetime Ku-band payload on the new Hellas Sat-4.
[Broadband TV News – 03/07/2014]
Credit: Virgin Galactic photo – Space News
Virgin Galactic nearing approval for SpaceShipTwo launch license.
[Space News – 03/07/2014]
Airbus and Thales poised to solicit bids for components for Neosat, a platform whose goal is to assure European commercial competitiveness with its U.S., Japanese, Chinese, Russian and other competitors.
[Space News – 03/07/2014]
Kratos is selected to upgrade the network operations center for the Vinasat-2 satellite.
[The Wall Street Journal – 03/07/2014]
KVH foresees big lift from rising tide of maritime broadband demand.
[Space News – 03/07/2014]
CEO of Liquid Telecom, builder of the largest fiber network in Africa, explains that the growth of fiber across Africa has actually driven up the need for more satellite services.
[Via Satellite – 03/07/2014]
Intrasky purchases Ka-band capacity on Eutelsat 8 West C satellite to improve Internet connectivity in Lebanon.
[Via Satellite – 03/07/2014]
CPI’s new LifeExtender technology for TWT amplifiers adjusts the heater voltage over time, resulting in up to 50% longer life.
[Via Satellite – 03/07/2014]
Arabsat to order four satellites, including two for Hellas Sat subsidiary.
[Space News – 03/06/2014]
Extreme Networks graphic – BGR
Chief marketing officer of network infrastructure company Extreme Networks posts image on Twitter showing every single satellite in space currently orbiting Earth in a single graphic.
[BGR – 03/06/2014]
Europa – Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR image – Space News
NASA to solicit ideas for $1 billion mission to Europa.
[Space News – 03/06/2014]
TrustComm signs agreements with Inmarsat and Spectra Group to distribute new L-TAC service with Slingshot adaptor.
[CNBC – 03/06/2014]
Global Xpress satellite – Credit: Boeing photo – Space News
Inmarsat remains confident Global Xpress will be a hit with U.S. military.
[Space News – 03/06/2014]
MTN expands into Southeast Asia and Oceania, extending C- and Ku-band satellite coverage in those regions through an agreement with NewSat.
[Yahoo Finance – 03/06/2014]
CSG to support Inmarsat Global Xpress offering with its next-generation convergent billing platform CSG Singleview, and offline and online network mediation platform CSG Intermediate.
[Satellite Spotlight – 03/06/2014]
Orbcomm releases next-generation OG2 satellite modems for OEM integration into satellite M2M applications.
[Via Satellite – 03/06/2014]
South Korean KNS acts as primary sponsor of MSUA-11 at Satellite 2014 in Washington DC March 11-13th.
[SatNews – 03/06/2014]
Iridium chosen by ZTR Control Systems to provide satellite connectivity to its inReach remote monitoring solution.
[4-Traders – 03/05/2014]
Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat – Credit: Astrium artist’s concept – Space News
El Al Israel Airlines to offer ViaSat in-air broadband service.
[Space News – 03/07/2014]
Strategy Analytics survey expects 55 percent of Europeans to buy Ultra HDTV in next two years.
[Satellite Markets & Research – 03/05/2014]
Elon Musk, whose company Space X has made headlines ferrying cargo to the International Space Station, ways the launching of national security satellites should be subject to bidding.
[USA Today – 03/05/2014]
C-COM iNetVu FLY-75V is first auto-deploying flyaway product type approved by ViaSat for use on its Exede Enterprise Service.
[SatNews – 03/05/2014]
Kratos’ RT Logic delivers 60th IP-routing Iridium modem.
[Yahoo Finance – 03/05/2014]
In deal with Disney, Dish secures Internet streaming rights for content from Disney’s ESPN, ESPN2, ABC Family and Disney Channel as well eight ABC television stations.
[LA Times – 03/05/2014]
Intrasky combines Eutelsat Ka-band capacity with Newtec technology for Internet connectivity in the Levant area of France.
[Satellite Spotlight – 03/05/2014]
ETL launches new range of RF over fiber equipment called the StingRay series.
[SatNews – 03/05/2014]
Pivotel joins Inmarsat distribution network for M2M services in the Asia-Pacific.
[ITWire – 03/05/2014]
Skylogic’s DataMiner end-to-end multi-vendor network management platform is expanded to include management of all antennas in its satellite earth station at Torino, Italy.
[Satellite Evolution Group – 03/05/2014]
Intelsat high capacity satellite – Credit: Boeing artist’s concept – Space News
Intelsat CEO pins Intelsat’s return to growth on promise of Epic series of high-throughput satellites and mobility applications, as military demand for bandwidth declines.
[Space News – 03/04/2014]
Iridium announces delivery by Thales Alenia Space of satellite simulators for Iridium Next launch testing.
[Yahoo Finance – 03/04/2014]
Digital Satellite News Gathering (DNSG) operators can now offer free of low-cost public Wi-Fi access to venue and event operators using NovelSat’s new portable, satellite-based wireless internet access solution Sky-Fi.
[SatNews – 03/04/2014]
Pentagon budget scraps two Lockheed satellites, postpones others.
[Reuters – 03/04/2014]
ITC Global debuts new brand and marks milestone as top 3 satellite network provider to remote industrial markets.
[Digital Journal – 03/04/2014]
UK based Ocean Signal, claiming the world’s smallest personal locator beacon, announces the appointment of All Sat Communications as its new distributor in Australia.
[mysailing.com.au – 03/04/2014]
Newly declassified military space program would utilize new Air Force spacecraft as orbital watchdogs to protect U.S. satellites.
[USA Today – 03/03/2014]
Hughes Network Systems is awarded new task order by GSA to provide commercial satellite communications end-to-end services to enable distance learning capabilities for the Education and Training Network (GETN).
[Yahoo Finance – 03/03/2014]
Hispasat and Asiasat, two of several foreign suitors of Israel’s Spacecom, raise their bids.
[Haaretz – 03/02/2014]
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