Satellite News

Techno-Sciences, Inc. (TSi) announced the successful installation of the second COSPAS-SARSAT Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) satellite Ground Station for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. government agency responsible for the U.S. SARSAT programme.

Intrasky, a satellite service provider in the Middle East and Africa, has selected Ka-band capacity on the Eutelsat 8 West C satellite.

EL AL has agreed to be the launch customer in Europe for Exede In The Air in-flight Internet service from ViaSat Inc.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered four phased array antennas to Lockheed Martin and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the inaugural test flight of the Orion spacecraft.

SES has signed a long-term renewal with Towercom, a Slovakian telecommunications and TV operator, for the use of a transponder on the Astra 3B satellite at SES’s 23.5 degrees East orbital position.

Inmarsat has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation to field its Spectrum Interference and Monitoring System (SIMS) to government users of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress service.

SES announced the signature of a major capacity agreement with Telefonica Global Solutions to enhance and extend the reach of Telefonica’s VIVO mobile voice and data services across the Northern and Northeast region of Brazil. VIVO is the largest national mobile voice and data service provider in Brazil.

Satellite communications specialist Newtec and the operator of the world’s largest satellite and fibre live video network, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), have signed a multimillion-euro contract. The deal is to deploy Newtec’s satellite broadcast solutions as part of the EBU’s major pan-European news exchange network.