From 2015 January, airlines can install satellite connectivity systems from Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) on Boeing 777 aircraft. The company made an anouncement on Dec.22 that Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved it to install Ku-band satellite connectivity systems on ...

Arianespace successed to launch four more satellites in the O3b Networks constellation in its 11th launch of this year. In June 2013 and July 2014, the flight is launched successfully in two batches as the first eight O3b satellites with the Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Center. ...

The 10 satellite of Optus has starting offering commercial service after its launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on Sep 11th. This satellite is operated by Optus Satellite, which is now used to cellular backhaul and connection services of Optus mobile network by optus. The company can offer ...

Xinhua, Chinese state owned news agency, reports the news that China launches the 200th Long March rocket on Sunday Dec. 7, which carrys the CBERS on a Long March 4B. CBERS 4 is namely the Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resource Satellite, which is the fifth satellite in the Earth observation ...

The Greek telecoms operator, OTE, has decided to deliver its new satellite broadband service to Greek home by Eutelsat’s KA-SAT. It plans to reach maximum 6 Mbps upload speeds and maximum 22 Mbps download speeds to deliver the service. And it will provide services to the underserved users...

SmartSky services has made Satcom Direct as its sole supplier for the business aviation community. SmartSky Service is planning to offer real- time and commercial level connectivity with 60 MHz of spectrum for its Air-To-Ground (ATG) data communications which will be 10 times faster than ...

General Dynamics Canada has got a contract of the Mercury Global Project which is worthy of more than $52 million. The Mercury Global Project not only helps Canada will participate in the United States’ Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) constellation but also offers Canadian Armed Forces the ...

Africa has been covered by a new Direct-to-Home (DTH) TV platform which is created by Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and Germany -based Romantis. With this service package, the existing and new broadcasters can launch and improve national and ...

ASC Signal has provided a high performance 9.3-meter gateway for PT Anta Mediakomfor, which is the Indonesian Integrator and bought this for one of its customers. The customer will use this gateway in a VSAT hub for C-band communications. ASC Signal also provides antenna system ...

Intelsat General and Braxton Technologies has began to study the use of commercial systems for Tracking, Telemetry and Command (TT&C) of government satellites for the U.S. Air Force. Recently, the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) employs 15 ground-based TT&C antennas to...