Satellite News

KBR announced that it was awarded two contract modifications totalling almost US$40 million to upgrade remote tracking stations in the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN).

Thaicom Public company Limited announced the signature of an Agreement of Intention with Russian Satellite Communications company (RSCC) to collaborate on the joint development of a service offering for maritime satellite broadband connectivity.

Iridium Communications Inc. and OneWeb announced they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering.

Ball Aerospace and Microsoft were selected to demonstrate agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) project.

Satellite and space tech company mu Space announced it has signed a contract with Malaysian telecom service provider Zeta IOS to provide broadband connectivity across Malaysia and Southeast Asia using mu Space’s own high throughput satellite, to be launched in 2022.

Airbus and Telespazio (Leonardo/Thales) have set up a partnership to market military telecommunications services using the future Syracuse IV satellites.

China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) and Indonesia PT. Satelit Nusantara Tiga (SNT) have signed a contract for 13M RF front-end system for Ka-band Gateway to serve SATRIA, a planned high-throughput satellite over Indonesia.

ThinKom Solutions introduced a new gateway concept, which the company describes as an “array of arrays” that will provide a superior alternative to the large “antenna farms” of parabolic dishes currently used for support of geostationary (GEO) satellites.