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The jamming of satellite channels across the Arab world increased significantly since the start of the “Arab Spring” in early 2011, according to Arabsat vice president Nabil Shanti.

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Astrium Americas announced that its subsidiary, Astrium Services Government, Inc., will offer UAE-owned Yahsat Military Ka-band service to the U.S. government.
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Kymeta, a company that designs and commercialises software-enabled metamaterials-based electronic beamforming antennas for satellite communications, announced that it successfully closed a link with a Ka-band DTH satellite transporting high definition TV signals. Kymeta believes that this is the first time a metamaterials-based antenna has established a connection with a Ka-band satellite.

SES, Inverto, Abilis and MaxLinear Inc. announced that they have been jointly designing an essential component for cost-effective IP distribution of satellite television to the home – the first low-noise block down-converter (LNB) that will incorporate eight-channel satellite-to-IP bridging technology.
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