July 2015

The R&D experts for the center of excellence are at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center which accelerates generation-after-next systems for RF technologies and other payload systems. Photo: Lockheed Martin [Via Satellite 07-08-2015] Lockheed Martin has opened a new development center in Denver Colo. for Radio Frequency (RF) payloads known as the RF Payload Center of…

FC Dinamo Tbilisi players celebrate in the match against FC Gabala. Photo: Badri Ketiladze [Via Satellite 07-08-2015] Envivio, a provider of software-based video processing and delivery solutions, supplied encoding support to Canal+ Group for its satellite and Over-The-Top (OTT) distribution trial of the UEFA Championship League soccer final. The Champions League final features the top…

Artist rendition of RadarSat 2. Photo: MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) [Via Satellite 07-08-2015] The Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA), an agency under the purview of the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), has awarded three contracts to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) for Radarsat 2 services. MDA will provide a Radarsat 2…

[Via Satellite 07-08-2015] International Datacasting Corporation (IDC) has promoted Chris Barrett and Steeve Huin as Co-CEOs of the company. Barrett was formerly the vice president of engineering and operations, and Huin was the vice president of products and services. Both have been on the leadership team during the past two years and made significant contributions…

AT&T’s Drive Studio, a connected car innovation center. Photo: AT&T [Via Satellite 07-07-2015] U.S. telco giant AT&T expects to connect nearly half of all new U.S. passenger vehicles this year, and to have more than 10 million vehicles on its network by the end of 2017. By the first quarter of 2015, the company added…

AfDB President at a meeting. Photo: AfDB [Via Satellite 07-07-2015] Hughes Network Systems received a contract from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to expand its provision of managed Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) services. AfDB has been a Hughes managed services customer since 2008, employing a primary communications network of broadband satellite terminals installed at 32…

Members of the Axesat team align the satellite signal using the iDirect Remote Commissioning Solution from a laptop. Photo: iDirect [Via Satellite 07-07-2015] Satellite service provider Axesat has implemented iDirect’s Remote Commissioning Solution to help accelerate the commissioning of its Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) remotes. The solution helps the company deploy new services more…

Artist’s rendition of the Optus C1 satellite. Photo: Optus Satellite [Via Satellite 07-07-2015] Optus Satellite and the Australian Department of Defense have reached an agreement to extend their Optus C1 satellite managed service contract until 2020. Optus has provided satellite services to Australia’s Department of Defense since the launch of Optus C1 in 2003, which…

[Via Satellite 07-07-2015] Gilat Satcom has upgraded its Points of Presence (POPs) in Malawi, Zambia and the U.K. to receive and transmit traffic from Internet Protocol Version Six (IPv6) addresses. Operators in Africa who are now assigning IPv6 addresses to new and existing customers can send traffic within Africa as well as to and from overseas…

The Amos 6 satellite under construction. Photo: Spacecom [Via Satellite 07-06-2015] Spacecom is confident that its Africa business will continue to drive new growth as the company ramps up capacity in the region. In late 2014 the operator teamed up with Eutelsat to cross-commercialize Ku-band capacity; this year Spacecom has signed deals with notable broadcasters…