Satellite News

SES S.A. and Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) announced further significant Ku-band capacity agreements to help usher in the next generation connected airline passenger experience across established and developing markets around the world.

SES Government Solutions was the sole winner of the two U.S. Government TROJAN follow-on contracts which support U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).

Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC and BridgeSat Inc. announced a partnership to work towards developing a free-space optical communications system that will provide secure data downlinks from satellites to a proprietary ground network at faster speeds than equivalent radio frequency solutions.

U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center and the 460th Space Wing have confirmed that Command and Control of the Space-Based Infrared Systems and Defense Support Program satellites and payloads have been transferred from their legacy ground system to the new Block 10 ground system.

SES S.A. announced that HSN, a live content retailer, has signed an agreement to renew and migrate its North American distribution platform to an SES satellite at the centre of the North American orbital arc.

Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) has signed an expanded and extended agreement for ground station support for the European meteorological organisation EUMETSAT .

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been awarded two contracts with a total value of several million dollars from DigitalGlobe Inc. to provide new ground station solutions to two international customers.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Indra a contract to develop the fourth version of the intermediate frequency modem IMBU Mk4, or Integrated Modem and Baseband Unit, which plays a key role in checking and verifying communications across the agency’s ESTRACK network, used to communicate with and monitor satellites and space missions. Indra will deliver the first of the ten ordered units in 2017.