News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
KSAT’s Svalbard ground station facility. Photo: KSAT [Via Satellite 06-24-2015] Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is now downloading data from its newly installed ground station in the Norwegian peninsula of Svalbard, which will maximize contact with the company’s polar-orbiting satellites. The Svalbard ground station, uniquely located close to the North Pole, will enable satellite contact…
C-Com’s vehicle-mounted Ka-band iNetVu antenna. Photo: C-Com [Via Satellite 06-24-2015] C-Com Satellite Systems has authorized its integrator NJ Albert to resell its ViaSat-approved Ka-Band iNetVu antenna systems across Canada. The company, which develops and deploys commercial grade mobile satellite-based technology for two-way high-speed Internet, Voice Over IP (VOIP), and video services into vehicles, has provided ViaSat…
A heat rate map of BlackSky’s planned revisit rate. Photo: BlackSky Global [Via Satellite 06-24-2015] Satellite imagery startup BlackSky Global has formed a content partnership with commercial imagery intelligence provider AllSource Analysis. BlackSky will provide high-resolution, rapid-revisit, cost-effective satellite imaging data to AllSource for incorporation into its multisource analytics capabilities and product development. The partnership is…
Bill Wade, president and CEO of AsiaSat. Photo: AsiaSat [Via Satellite 06-23-2015] With a new shareholder, two fresh satellites in orbit, and a near-metamorphic rebranding, to call AsiaSat busy would be an understatement. Over the past year, the Hong Kong-based satellite operator has been adding capacity, sizing up new markets, and laying the groundwork for…
Liftoff of Arianespace’s VV05 Vega mission carrying the Sentinel 2A satellite. Photo: Arianespace [Via Satellite 06-23-2015] Arianespace orbited the Copernicus Earth observation program’s Sentinel 2A satellite June 22 from French Guiana aboard a Vega light-lift launch vehicle. From a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 780 km, the 1,140-kg satellite will join the Sentinel 1A…
Professional football players in England. Photo: BT Sport [Via Satellite 06-23-2015] Ericsson has signed a multi-year broadcast and media services deal with BT Sport to help launch three new television channels and an interactive red button service in the United Kingdom. Ericsson will be responsible for designing, building and running BT Sport Europe, Free-to-Air (FTA)…
Airbus Defence and Space’s Wel2Go communications solution. Photo: Airbus Defence and Space [Via Satellite 06-23-2015] Airbus Defence and Space has introduced a portfolio of scalable welfare satcom services for U.K. military personnel. The new mobile connectivity suite is part of the Welfare Communications Everywhere (Welcome) services provided to the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MOD). The…
KVH’s Norway office. Photo: KVH [Via Satellite 06-23-2015] KVH Industries has recently implemented a global private Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network to connect all of the teleports and satellite beams within its mini-VSAT Broadband network. The MPLS network is designed to aggregate all customer satellite traffic and provides Internet egress at KVH’s Point-of-Presence “MegaPOPs” access…
Space debris around Earth, artist rendering. Photo: ESA [Via Satellite 06-22-2015] While recycling and sustainability efforts have taken hold on the earth’s surface, few of us stop to think about the pollution taking place outside of our atmosphere. With nearly 60 years of satellite launches behind us, left over debris is piling up in orbit…
UrtheCast’s Iris high resolution camera. Photo: UrtheCast [Via Satellite 06-22-2015] UrtheCast has teamed up with SSTL and Elecnor Deimos Space to build and launch a constellation of multispectral optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. The constellation is expected to comprise a minimum of 16 satellites — eight optical and eight SAR — flying in…