Two major events for Inmarsat include the 10,000th Fleet Xpress ship installation and the beginning of a new ‘academy’. Inmarsat, provider of global, mobile satellite communications, has completed its 10,000th Fleet […]
Comms
Optical Comms Collaboration Between Swedish Space Corp. + Airbus D&S Netherlands
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands (Airbus DS NL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaborative activities regarding ground equipment for space-to-ground optical communication. […]
Airbus Meets Milestone, One Step Closer to Building Next Gen Military Satellite
Airbus was awarded the Skynet 6A contract in July 2020 and teams across its sites in Stevenage, Portsmouth and Hawthorn have been working on the program to achieve this key […]
Quintech Matrix Switch Certified For Use In MET WGS Terminals
Quintech Electronics & Communications, Inc., an Evertz company, has announced the XTREME-256 matrix switch is certified for use in METs WGS Terminals. The XTREME-256 matrix switch was certified by Aberdeen […]
Iridium Partner MetOcean Telematics Provides Search & Rescue Buoys to the USCG
MetOcean Telematics (MetOcean) has been awarded a five-year, blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to supply the United States Coast Guard (USCG) with their search and rescue buoy, the Iridium Self Locating […]
NSR’s Latest VSAT + B’Band Markets Report + Analysis
The Non-GEO SATCOM market has been highly speculative over the past decade, especially with the upcoming constellations – Starlink, Kuiper, Telesat, OneWeb and others. However, in 2020, against COVID-19 odds, […]
Aurora Insight’s Charlie To Launch Via The SpaceX Transporter-1 From Canaveral
Aurora Insight is scheduled to launch its second, satellite-based. radio frequency spectrum sensor on SpaceX’s Transporter-1, on Friday, January 22nd from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch is a part of […]
Satcom Global Aura VSAT Selected By Arklow Shipping For Vessel Comms
Arklow Shipping (Arklow) has contracted Satcom Global to install Aura VSAT across 17 new build vessels which will begin delivery in 2021. The new vessels will be activated on a […]
SES Networks’ Satellite Capacity Will Be Delivered To SSI Canada
Vital new satellite capacity will be delivered to Canada’s north, including all 25 communities of Nunavut, following a partnership signed between SSi Canada, the developer-operator of QINIQ broadband and SSi […]
Marlink Group To Acquire ITC Global
Marlink Group, backed by Apax Partners (France), has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of ITC Global, a leading provider of satellite communications solutions, from Panasonic. Upon completion of […]