Arianespace announced that on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at 06:50 pm local time, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), and successfully orbited two, geostationary, telecommunication satellites — MEASAT-3d and GSAT-24. “With this Ariane 5 mission, Arianespace is honored to support the ambitions of […]
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Intelsat FlexMaritime now connects more than 10K vessels
Intelsat has announced that there are now more than 10,000 vessels operating on the company’s FlexMaritime service. As the world’s leading provider of broadband connectivity to maritime passengers and crew, Intelsat has added more than 2,000 terminals since November of 2021 in key maritime markets that include merchant shipping, fishing, leisure and offshore energy. Launched […]
Andesat and SES to offer enhanced connectivity solutions over the Andean Region
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 […]
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 […]
Partnership Extended Between SES + COMNET For Central American Network Services
SES and COMNET announced that the two companies have extended their long-term partnership to jointly deliver high-performance, next-generation broadband services to enable applications supporting agriculture, trade, tourism, energy, financial, health and education sectors across Central America. The Guatemalan service provider will leverage SES-17 Ka-band satellite capacity and SES’s managed services to offer a new QUANTTUM […]
SES Contracted By SSi Canada For SES-17 Capacity To Service Growing Customer Needs Plus Meet The Canadian Gov.’s B’Band Goals
Consumers, students, government entities and businesses across Northern Canada, including all 25 communities of Nunavut, will have access to expanded broadband capacity following a partnership signed between SSi Canada, the developer-operator of QINIQ broadband and SSi Mobile services in Nunavut, and SES, a leader in global content connectivity solutions. Under the agreement, SES will provide […]
Cruise Ship “NIPPON MARU” Upgrades High-Speed Internet Access with “JSATMarine” Service
The upgrade to JSATMarine service is intended to boost the speed to meet customers’ increasing demand for internet usage, especially at sea around Japan where cellular network cannot be reached. Mitsui O.S.K. Passenger Line, Ltd. , Furuno Electric Co., Ltd., and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation announced today that cruise ship “NIPPON MARU” *1 operated by MOPAS underwent […]
Kymeta + OneWeb Partner Up For U.S. Government B’Band Connectivity Services
Kymeta and OneWeb Technologies have an agreement now in place to distribute reliable, secure, and cost-effective broadband connectivity services to the U.S. government. The new managed satellite service offering enables Kymeta to provide government customers with hardware solutions that are packaged with secure and resilient network access from OneWeb Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of […]
Lonestar Secedes From Stealth Mode To Develop Lunar-Based Data Storage + Edge Processing Infrastructure With 2 Moon Missions Contracted
Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. is launching a series of data centers to the lunar surface and has contracted for its first two missions and for the build of the company’s first data services payload, the first data center to the Moon. The VC funded startup is revolutionizing data services and communications from Earth’s largest satellite, […]
Astranis Space Technologies To Launch Their MicroGEO Satellites Via SpaceX Falcon 9
Astranis Space Technologies Corp. has signed a contract with SpaceX for a dedicated Falcon 9 launch to put four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellites into service in 2023. The Astranis payload is well below the maximum payload capacity for a Falcon 9 vehicle, translating into a performance bonus that Astranis is using to tailor the insertion […]