With a renewal to 45 million satellite TV homes across Europe and ever growing as a result of the Corona virus Japan International Broadcasting renewed its multi-year contract with… Japan International Broadcasting Inc. (JIB), a subsidiary of Japan’s sole public broadcaster NHK and official distributor of NHK WORLD-JAPAN renewed its multi-year contract with SES for satellite […]
Archives for February 2021
Santander Teleport + Kymeta To Open Technical Support Center In Spain
Santander Teleport and Kymeta Corporation have entered into an agreement to open a technical and customer support center at the Santander Teleport facilities in Spain. The new venture will extend Kymeta´s existing support operations to the other side of the Atlantic. The technical center will be operated by highly skilled multilingual engineers and will launch […]
ClimaCell Building A Weather Constellation
ClimaCell, a leading weather intelligence platform, has announced Operation Tomorrow Space. To improve global forecasting technology and capabilities, ClimaCell has designed proprietary, radar-equipped smallsats and will start launching dozens of them into space over the coming years. ClimaCell’s radar-equipped smallsat constellation represents a first in the history of the weather industry. While weather-focused satellites have […]
Inmarsat Names A New CEO
Inmarsat has named Rajeev Suri, the former CEO of Nokia, as CEO as of March 1, 2021. Current CEO Rupert Pearce will step down as CEO as of February 28, 2021. Rajeev will be based in the UK. Rajeev’s most recent role was President and CEO of Nokia, a position he held for six years. […]
L3Harris Technologies Receives USSF + USSC Contract To Continue Tracking Objects In Space
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded $89 million for option-year two of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to continue maintaining and modernizing infrastructure to track objects in space. The Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program has an estimated contract value of $1.2 billion over 10 years. L3Harris won […]
Azercosmos Enables Capacity Via Azerspace-2 For View Satellite Network
Azercosmos has signed an agreement with View Satellite Network, who provides global broadcasting services for television and radio channels over multiple platforms worldwide. View Satellite Network will provide digital satellite services in HD to their customers in Africa, via the Azerspace-2 satellite. The company currently broadcasts more than 20 TV and radio channels in West […]
CGI Enhancing The UK Space Operations Center With AURORA Software
CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), in partnership with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the UK Space Agency (UKSA), have designed, developed and deployed the first element of AURORA software as part of work to enhance the current UK Space Operations Centre — the software went live for operations last month and has been deployed successfully into Defence Digital’s […]
Maxar Funded By U.S. Army For 3D, One World Terrain Geospatial Prototype + Partnering With The New Zealand Space Agency
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has announced that Vricon, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, Inc., was awarded Phase 2 of the U.S Army’s One World Terrain (OWT) prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contract worth $39.3 million. The OWT program delivers 3D global terrain capability and associated information services that support a fully accessible […]
General Atomics-EMS Contracts Rocket Lab To Launch The Argos-4
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch the GA-EMS developed Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite carrying the Argos-4 Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) hosted payload. The contract was awarded to GA-EMS by the United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) under a USSF Hosted […]
UPDATE 1: Mars + NASA Perseverance Rover: Continuing News
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on February 21 after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on February 18. This was the rover’s second panorama ever, […]