Satellite News

O3b Networks announced a contract to supply trunking services to Miami-based Emerging Markets Communications LLC (EMC).

Airbus Defence and Space has signed a four year framework agreement with the Norwegian Defence Logistic Organisation (NDLO) for the provision of X-band satellite capacity and has committed to deliver up to 30 MHz of capacity annually on the Skynet military satellite constellation.

SES S.A. announced that StarTimes, a Chinese systems integrator, technology provider and network operator, has extended its partnership with SES on the SES-5 satellite.

Intelsat S.A. and BT Group confirmed that BT has renewed and expanded services on three Intelsat satellites, spanning the Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America regions.

STMicroelectronics has announced the world’s first 500 Mbaud High-Symbol-Rate (HSR) satellite demodulator chip.

ort Japan’s ‘touch-and-go’ Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, now en route to a little-known asteroid, helping to boost the scientific return from this audacious mission.

A General Dynamics-led team successfully completed on-schedule the implementation, integration and test of the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) programme Increment A3, the Bearer Network and Basic Ground Terminal hardware and software.

Exelis delivered six enhanced ground encryptors, which will improve information security for the Global Positioning System’s Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX), to Raytheon Company . GPS OCX is part of the U.S. Air Force’s GPS modernisation programme.