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CGI to support commercial flight trials of Iris air traffic modernisation programme
London, United Kingdom, June 19 2020 – CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) has been awarded a contract by Inmarsat to support the second phase of its Iris air traffic modernisation programme […]
Intelsat + SES File Their Spectrum Transition Plans
The plans show how some 3,500 cable head-ends and 13,500 Earth stations will have 60,000 blocking filters changed to limit interference and how client receive dishes will be re-pointed.
Astranis’ MicroGEO Passes Milestone to Benefit Alaskans
Alaska will benefit from the efforts of Astranis’ MicroGEO line of small communication satellites, as a result of successful thermal-vacuum testing of a qualification vehicle. This important test furthers the company’s ability […]
Gilat’s Flagship VSAT Delivers Half a Gigabit of Concurrent Speeds
… built with support for Multi Access Edge Computing (MEC) infrastructure that enables next generation edge services, such as video caching and IoT gateways.
Leadership Changes @ SES
Mr. Rubin has been part of the SES Group since 2006. He joined SES upon acquisition of New Skies Satellites and went on to serve in management roles in both SES New Skies and SES World Skies.
Airbus Launches Open Innovation – Space Initiative
The UK’s space industry leader Airbus, has teamed with KBR, Leidos UK, Northrop Grumman and QinetiQ to bring new thinking to future space solutions and to launch the Open Innovation – Space initiative. The aim of Open […]
Super-Sized Satellite Test Chamber for UK Space Sector
The UK’s space industry has received a major piece of new equipment to help get larger, more complex satellites ready for launch. A 16m long space test chamber, among the […]
Forrester Reports: Inmarsat’s In-Flight Data Rates of 100 MB/s
Inmarsat launched its EAN system in March of 2019 and anticipated peak…
Iridium Partner MetOcean Telematics Contracted by UK Royal Navy for MASS Deployment
An innovative marine-based system, MASS is free-floating and consists of a set of operational monitoring buoys. These buoys transmit acoustic event data, point of impact, and precise time over the Iridium® satellite network