Satellite News

Two major satellite operators announced they were providing capacity for critical communication links to Haiti.
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NewCom International, a telecommunications firm that specialises in the transport of communications via satellite, IP and fibre, has teamed with Brazilian Satellite Operator Hispamar to employ its new satellite, Amazonas 2, for the Latin America market.
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ViaSat, Inc. said it has received a US$21 million contract from Barrett Xplore Inc., Canada’s largest rural Broadband provider, for broadband gateway baseband infrastructure and satellite broadband terminals to be used with the high-capacity ViaSat-1 Ka-band satellite system.
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Loral Space & Communications Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Barrett Xplore Inc., Canada’s largest rural broadband provider, to deliver high throughput satellite Ka-band capacity for broadband services in Canada.

Astrium Services has been awarded a contract by the European Defence Agency (EDA) for a new preparatory study aimed at coordinating the future military communication needs of the European Union (EU).

The BBC said its BBC Persian television channel, which is mainly targeting Iran, is being jammed but continued to broadcast.
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Lockheed Martin announced that it has completed site acceptance testing over the Inmarsat-4 satellite network and delivered the Global Satellite Phone Service (GSPS) gateway in Subic Bay to Inmarsat.
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Elettronica Industriale, the network operator of the Mediaset Group, has renewed its leases for capacity with Eutelsat Communications on the Atlantic Bird 3 satellite in order to secure channel distribution to Digital Terrestrial Television DTT) transmitters across Italy.
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