Satellite News

Starling Advanced Communication Ltd, Israel, announced that MIJET, a fuselage-mounted antenna for airliners, has successfully passed its airworthiness test. The MIJET antenna system was installed on a Boeing 737 aircraft per applicable U.S. federal aerospace regulations and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements.

SES Americom has been awarded a multi-year contract by West African Gas Pipeline Company, Limited (WAPCo) based in Accra, Ghana.

Loral Skynet has teamed with Global Crossing , a provider of terrestrial-based telecommunications services, to extend the reach of the British Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) network to the world’s most remote island community, Tristan da Cunha. Services to Tristan are being rolled out under Global Crossing’s contract to manage the FCO’s global communications infrastructure.

Intelsat announced that it has secured rights, through The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL), to begin offering a wide range of its GlobalConnex Managed Solutions to businesses and government agencies throughout Brazil.

Mobile satellite services provider Thuraya said achieved a milestone last week when engineers made the world’s first high-speed Internet connection using a handheld satellite phone.

iDirect Technologies (iDirect), a company of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., announced their new spread spectrum technology at AFCEA LandWarNet Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

Boeing , in conjunction with Hughes Network Systems, LLC, has successfully demonstrated the space-based delivery of MP-3 files, a streaming video multi-cast and voice over Internet protocol services to a U.S. government audience, validating key elements of the Boeing communications approach for the Transformational Satellite Communications Space Segment (TSAT SS) programme.

Harris Corporation announced that it is the first company to successfully acquire and track low and medium data-rate waveforms on the Milstar 6 satellite using an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) U.S. Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) prototype system.