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Intelsat S.A. announced that Sun TV Network Ltd. (Sun TV) has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for C-band capacity on the recently launched Intelsat 17 satellite (IS-17) at the 66 degrees East orbital location.
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Airbus Defense and Space has expanded its strategic agreement with Inmarsat on Global Xpress high-speed broadband with a new agreement extending reselling of the ultra-fast broadband service to the U.S. government market.

Airbus Defence and Space has delivered the first ACES Ground Terminal to the German National Metrology Institute (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB) in Braunschweig (Germany).

SkyVision Global Networks Ltd. announced a partnership with ABS to launch two new video platforms on ABS-3A. This will provide quality DVB-S and DVB-S2 content, including HD, via satellite across Sub-Saharan Africa, including French speaking Africa and South Africa.

Isotropic Systems Limited (ISL) announced it secured an additional US$1 million in funding to develop satellite antenna technology for high throughput connectivity in mobility markets.

Eutelsat Communications announced a multi-year agreement with Liquid Telecom, an independent data, voice and IP provider in Africa for multiple transponders on the Eutelsat 7B satellite.

On 21 August 2016, contact was reestablished with one of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, after communications were lost on 1 October 2014.

The Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system and Milstar satellites have achieved 100 years of combined successful operations.