Satellite News

SES Astra announced that it has signed a new long-term contract with the French Pay-TV operator Canal+ Group for the satellite transmission of its programme bouquet for the French market from Astra’s prime orbital position 19.2 degree East.

Intelsat said it restored services for many voice, video and data providers throughout the Asia-Pacific region following an Earthquake that severed six major undersea fibre optic cables.

General Dynamics C4 Systems has been awarded a US$15.5 million order for satellite communications terminals that will be used in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Support Wide Area Network (SWAN) programme.

Harris Corporation has successfully completed the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal Prototype Testing (PT1) on its tri-band ship antenna and associated RF components five months ahead of schedule.

EMS Satcom, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc., said that Transport Canada has selected the EMS Satcom eNfusion Broadband high-speed data system to enhance marine pollution surveillance and detection on Transport Canada’s National Aerial Surveillance Program (NASP) Dash 8 aircraft.

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd has signed an interim transponder lease agreement with Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd (Astro) for initial Ku-Band transponder capacity on the recently launched Measat-3 satellite.

HisdeSat Servicios Estrategicos, S.A. (HisdeSat) has entered a contract with the Belgian MoD/Direction Generale Material Resources for the provision of X-band communications services using the XTAR-EUR and Spainsat satellites.

Skylogic, Eutelsat’s broadband affiliate, has teamed with ViaSat to provide in-flight communications to business jets flying over Europe.