Satellite News

Big Bend Telephone Company, Texas/USA, has become the first commercial user of the EXPLORER MSAT-G3 system for the next generation MSAT service, which combines Cobham SATCOM’s Push-to-Talk technology, the Ligado Networks SkyTerra 1 satellite and ViaSat’s low-latency, IP-based L-band Mobile Satellite Services network.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that the U.S. Government recently awarded its RT Logic subsidiary a Wideband Communications Architecture Study (WCAS) contract to help define the next generation resilient ground architecture for the Department of Defense (DoD).

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide systems that will expand Australia’s ability to fully realise its investment in the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system programme.

Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) said it developed the world’s smallest and lightest quantum-communication transmitter (SOTA) onboard the microsatellite SOCRATES.

EchoStar Mobile Limited, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation and Thales announced that they are collaborating to jointly develop advanced mobile satellite voice and data services for security forces and first responders dealing with emergency situations in France and throughout Europe.

The Konnect Africa broadband venture set up by Eutelsat Communications has this month officially launched new-generation services, starting in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda.

With the Sentinel-2B satellite close to beginning its working life in orbit, this latest Copernicus satellite has linked up to Alphasat by laser, across almost 36,000 km of space, to deliver images of Earth just moments after they were captured.

exactEarth Ltd announced the launch of exactView RT powered by Harris (“exactView RT”) – according to the company the world’s first global, persistent real-time Satellite AIS service.