Satellite News

SAT Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc., announced that it has been chosen by Argentina’s Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales (AR-SAT) to provide Satellite Monitoring and Interference Detection and Analysis System in support of its ARSAT-1 satellite and ground stations.

Intelsat S.A. announced an agreement with Turksat A.S. which will result in enhanced satellite capacity serving the Middle East region.

Turkish pay-TV platform Digiturk has signed an agreement for the lease renewal of 12 transponders until 2021 at Eutelsat’s 7 degrees East video neighbourhood occupied by its W3A satellite.

O3b Networks Limited has signed a contract with ViaSat Inc. for the production and installation of Ka-band infrastructure. The value of the contract is approximately US$47 million.
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