Through the Te Conectamos Perú project, Andesat will be able to extend Mobile LTE coverage to traditionally hard-to-reach places across the Amazon rainforest, Andean mountains and deserts, which will now benefit from high-quality communication services. Andesat, a satellite service provider in the Andean Region, has tapped SES to offer enhanced connectivity services via the SES-14 satellite, supporting […]
Archives for May 2022
Speedcast adds 13 GB of new capacity to their Unified Global Platform to meet surging demand
Speedcast has significantly expanded its Unified Global Platform (UGP), adding 13 Gbps of capacity to the network over the last month. Speedcast operates one of the largest technology agnostic networks in the world. Following this latest expansion, the platform now includes 30 Gbps of total bandwidth, which the company leverages in the design and deployment […]
ST Engineering iDirect and ComClark will provide satellite internet services to remote Philippine students
Satellite services being rolled out at more than 2,000 remote schools in the Philippines will use the iDirect Evolution Hub, iQ Desktop modems, gateway antenna and HPA (High Power Amplifier) ST Engineering iDirect, provider of satellite communications, and ComClark, a Philippines-based value-added service provider for broadcast and telecommunications, Network and Technology Corporation, together will improve […]
Sidus Space selects L3Harris for mission critical ops software for the LizzieSat™ constellation
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company that is focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, has selected L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) InControl™ and OnTime™ software for command and control (C&C) and mission planning for the company’s LizzieSat™ (LS) constellation. InControl will provide satellite command and control software for on-orbit, factory test […]
Astrocast acquires Hiber
Astrocast is acquiring Hiber, a Netherlands-based, IoT-as-a-Service provider. Under the agreement, Astrocast agreed to acquire all of Hiber’s shares in exchange for the issuance of new Astrocast shares, representing 16.5% of Astrocast’s share capital, calculated prior to its previously announced public offering on Euronext Growth Paris. Hiber’s shareholders also agreed to invest €10.45 million in […]
Ovzon Derives A Million$ SaaS DoD Order Renewal Thru Intelsat General
Ovzon has received an order for the renewal of Ovzon’s SATCOM-as-a-Service (SaaS) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) through the firm’s partner, Intelsat General Communications (IGC). The 12-month renewal, valued at $1.8 million, will start on June 15, 2022, and represents an extension of Ovzon’s services in specific regions of the world. Ovzon’s SaaS […]
Latest public challenge from ESA… teach an Earth-observing satellite to know what it sees
For decades Earth observation satellites have been monitoring the ever-changing home planet; the next step is to enable them to recognize what they see. The latest public challenge for the machine learning community from ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team is to train satellite software to identify features within the images it acquires — with the winning team getting the […]
ST Engineering iDirect partners with NiAT to deliver critical VSAT connectivity to ACTIVATE Brunei via EVOLUTION
ST Engineering iDirect and Network Integrity Assurance Technologies (NiAT) will answer the heightened demand for satellite-based broadband communication services across Brunei as a result of the global pandemic. Like the rest of the world, Brunei experienced a COVID-driven surge of internet traffic as people were compelled to work-from-home, students relied upon remote learning, and the […]
C-COM’s new products ManPack and Ka98G – DriveAway Vehicle Antenna revealed at Asia Tech X Singapore trade show
C-COM, in cooperation with the University of Waterloo, is also in the late-stage development of a new Ka-band, electronically steerable, flat panel phased array antenna system, with the intent of providing… The uppcoming Asia Tech x Singapore Trade Show will be attended by C-COM Satellite Systems, provider of design, development, and manufacturer of transportable and […]
Open Cosmos signs contract with ESA to develop the smallsat NanoMagSat constellation concept
Open Cosmos has announced their latest contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) on the NanoMagSat mission concept. The NanoMagSat mission concept consist of a smallsat constellation to monitor the Earth’s magnetic field and ionospheric environment with an innovative revisiting time strategy and combination of instruments (one self-calibrated absolute scalar/vector magnetometer combined with star trackers […]