News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
A Polsteam vessel. Photo: Polsteam. [Via Satellite 06-05-2015] Polsteam, known officially as Polska Zegluga Morska has selected KVH Industries’ mini-VSAT Broadband service for maritime connectivity on its fleet of 60 vessels. The company is one of the largest operators of bulk carriers in Europe and intends to install the TracPhone V7-IP satellite communications systems. KHV’s mini-VSAT…
Iridium Openport, which powers Iridium Pilot. Photo: Iridium [Via Satellite 06-05-2015] Iridium has signed a strategic partnership with Seoul, South Korea-based Arion Communication to distribute Iridium mobile satellite communications services and products in South Korea. Arion, a specialist in maritime, aviation and land-mobile navigation and communications equipment, will resell Iridium Pilot, Iridium GO!, Iridium Extreme…
[Via Satellite 06-05-2015] Inmarsat has approved Hughes’ 9450-C11 terminal, making it the first mobile Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Machine-to-Machine (M2M)-enabled terminal, according to the company. Building upon the BGAN M2M 9502 fixed product line, the 9450-C11 enables the same BGAN M2M service benefits. The terminal can be used for satellite-only applications or as backup…
[Via Satellite 06-04-2015] Airbus Defence and Space, having signed key partnerships with several French Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), aims to establish a major presence in the growing market of the Internet of Things (IoT). The company launched the Mustang project earlier this year with a consortium comprised of CEA-Leti, Sysmeca and Sigfox, the latter…
ST Teleport’s Earth station. Photo: ST Teleport. [Via Satellite 06-04-2015] Singapore-based ST Teleport has formed a strategic partnership with Telespazio, a 67/33 Finmeccanica/Thales joint venture, to jointly establish a global Ku-band communications network for Maritime Oil and Gas (MOG) customers. Under the multi-year agreement, ST Teleport will be Telespazio’s preferred partner in the Asia-Pacific region.…
Photo: SES [Via Satellite 06-04-2015] SATMED, the medical component of Luxembourg’s emergency.lu recovery platform, has been deployed at the Maternité Hospital in Ahozonnoude, Benin to improve childbirth healthcare. The eHealth platform uses SES satellite Internet connectivity to operate as a remote consultation and monitoring tool, providing effective communications between the maternity hospital in Ahozonnoude, the…
Level 3 Communications Network across the Asia-Pacific. Photo: Level 3 Communications [Via Satellite 06-04-2015] Level 3 is providing deep-edge caching services to Optus Wholesale and Satellite that will enable Optus to locally cache high-demand content on its network. The agreement gives Optus quicker access to content while growing Level 3’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) capacity…
A Comtech Xicom SuperPower TWTA [Via Satellite 06-04-2015] Comtech Xicom Technology, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications, has received a $4.3 million order for Solid-State-Power-Amplifiers (SSPAs) and a $1.1 million order for Super-Power Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs). The SSPAs are for use in an airborne In-Flight Entertainment and Communications (IFEC) application, an area in which…
Caption: Image of Typhoon Maysak captured by the AMI on board the Himawari 8 satellite. Photo: JMA [Via Satellite 06-03-2015] With one instrument already in orbit and several others moving toward launch, Exelis, now Harris Corp., is looking to modernize storm tracking and weather forecasting with its Advanced Meteorological Imager (AMI). The geospatial imager has…
MUOS 4, the next satellite scheduled to join the U.S. Navy’s secure communications network later this year, is in final assembly and test at Lockheed Martin’s satellite manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. Photo: Lockheed Martin [Via Satellite 06-03-2015] The United States Navy has accepted the third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite which, having completed…