Satellite News

Eutelsat Communications announced that the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) has concluded a multi-year contract for Ku-band capacity on the Eutelsat 21B satellite that provides coverage of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

A new approach developed in Europe is helping ground stations to acquire signals faster and more accurately than ever before, according to ESA.

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Boeing and TrustComm, Inc., of Stafford, Virginia, are partnering to sell satellite bandwidth to government and commercial users as a way of addressing the increasing demand for satellite communications capacity.

Satellite communications specialist Newtec and Airbus Defense and Space have signed a contract to deploy Newtec’s Dialog platform as the technology of choice for providing global fixed VSAT solutions.

Intelsat S.A. has entered into a new agreement with Airbus Defense & Space, bridging maritime VSAT services to Intelsat’s High Throughput Satellite (HTS) EpicNG platform. This agreement is part of Airbus Defense and Space’s newly launched AuroraGlobal suite of high throughput satcom services.

LightSquared announced a multi-year agreement with ViaSat, Inc. Together, the companies will introduce ViaSat L-band Managed Service, a new mobile satellite service that will combine the power of LightSquared’s SkyTerra 1 L-band satellite, with ViaSat secure, all-IP, true packet-switched satellite technology.