Satellite News

aeroTelesis, Inc. has signed an agreement with Mabuhay Satellite Corporation to become the first beta partner that will utilise USM-based products. USM, Ultra Spectral Modulation, is a proprietary modulation technique that significantly increases spectral efficiency in satellite and wireless applications.

Intelsat announced that Station 53, a supplier of integrated communications services to luxury yachts, has signed a multi-year agreement to provide voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), data and Internet service through Intelsat’s GlobalConnex managed network.

The downlink phased array antenna developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military satellite communications payload has completed range tests that confirmed performance predictions.

SES Americom and Home2US announced Euro-World Network has signed agreements to have hit Croatian radio and TV shows delivered to viewers in the United States.

Intersputnik Holding, a subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organisation of Space Communications, won a tender to design, build and put into operation satellite Earth stations for Golden Telecom satellite network in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Raytheon Company and NASA successfully achieved early National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) data transfer and system compatibility testing.

JAXA said it has established a broadband environment using the wideband Internetworking Engineering Test and Demonstration Satellite “Kizuna” (WINDS) as support for disaster mitigation measures for areas stricken by the Tohoku Region Pacific Ocean Coastal earthquake.
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XTAR, LLC has been awarded a bandwidth contract from Intelsat General Corporation. The multi-million dollar contract calls for XTAR to provide Intelsat General with 79.5 MHz of high power X-band services from its XTAR-EUR satellite.
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