Satellite News

Eutelsat Communications and Globecast announced they are partnering on a new media platform over the Americas.

Thales Alenia Space said it will work together with the European Space Agency (ESA) on Iris, a ground-breaking programme that will enhance air traffic management in Europe.

Airbus has launched near real-time satellite imagery capabilities together with its 24/7 Emergency Image Delivery Service to aid those facing emergency situations.

BridgeSat announced the opening of its network operations centre (NOC), the world’s first for free-space optical communications.

JAXA, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and Sony Corporation made a co-operative research agreement with respect to conducting the on-orbit demonstrations of laser communications system. This research to be executed in the Kibo module on the International Space Station (ISS) aims at establishing a communications system of mass data between spacecraft and that which connects Earth and Space.

SES S.A. and Intelsat S.A. announced alignment on a proposal to the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which seeks to protect the wide array of established satellite services in the 3,700-4,200 MHz C-band downlink spectrum while opening a specified portion of that spectrum for terrestrial mobile use.

Eurovision Media Services – the business arm of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) – and Eutelsat announced the renewal and expansion of their partnership for capacity in Ku-band via a number of contracts on the Eutelsat 10A satellite.

Telesat and OmniAccess, a supplier of integrated communications solutions to superyachts and cruise ships, announced that OmniAccess will be co-operating in live, over-the-air trials on Telesat’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite system.