Satellite News

Hispasat Group and Pittsburgh International Telecommunications, Inc. (PIT), one of the world’s largest privately-owned and operated teleports and global distributors of audio and video signals, announced a partnership to launch a new DTH platform on Amazonas-2 satellite titled New Winds.
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Officials for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that ASCR Aerospace Corp. has been awarded a contract to operate and maintain the agency’s Fairbanks Satellite Operations Facility (FSOF) located in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Crescent Communications FZ LLC has signed an agreement with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) for multiple transponders on ABS-7 to serve the Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East markets for broadcast and IP-based services.
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RRsat Global Communications Network, Ltd. announced the implementation of its new MCPC platform on Hispasat 1E satellite at 30 degrees west.
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Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited said it is expanding its broadcasting services to offer a new C-band DVB-S2 MCPC (Multiple Channels per Carrier) distribution platform with wide coverage over the Asian and Australasian regions.
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Eutelsat Communications announced a new contract between its Skylogic broadband subsidiary and the French Internet service provider Sat2Way for distribution, from mid-2011, of the Tooway new-generation broadband service on the KA-SAT satellite.
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SES Astra has signed an agreement with the Slovak telecommunications and TV operator Towercom for the use of one additional transponder on its 23.5 degrees East orbital position.
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