Satellite News

Thales Alenia Space announced the launching of the new European project HIPPO (High-Power Photonics for Satellite Laser Communications and On-Board Optical Processing), entailing the development of reliable and robust high-power photonic components for future satellite payloads.

Iridium Communications Inc. and its prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space, announced an important milestone in the development of the new Iridium NEXT constellation by completing the first successful end-to-end test call using Iridium NEXT hardware.

ViaSat Inc. and Eutelsat Communications have entered into a pioneering agreement that will enable service access and roaming on each other’s high-capacity satellite networks (KA-SAT for Eutelsat and ViaSat-1 for ViaSat).

Intelsat S.A. announced that it has signed a 15-year agreement with Encompass Digital Media for capacity on Intelsat 34.

Airbus Defense and Space and its client GeoNorth have inaugurated the first commercially available multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station (DRS) in the world, set to give new markets quick access to both high-resolution and very high-resolution optical and radar satellite imagery.

The first external global government test of Inmarsat’s game-changing Global Xpress (GX) Ka-band network has been completed.

Harris Corporation has installed and integrated a majority of the hardware and software that forms the network infrastructure for the ground segment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — R Series (GOES-R) programme.

Telespazio VEGA UK, together with the international consortium IDEAS+, has been awarded a contract to monitor the quality of Earth Observation (EO) data from European Space Agency (ESA) satellites and selected third party missions.