News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
CNES’ Toulouse, France facility. Photo: CNES [Via Satellite 05-18-2015] The French Space Agency CNES has signed its first bilateral space accord with Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) for greater collaboration on space technology between the two nations. The letter of intent identified three areas of possible cooperation with EDB’s Office for Space Technology and Industry…
American Red Cross IT-Telecommunications Emergency Response Unit (ERU) member in Dhunche, Nepal. Photo: Intelsat [Via Satellite 05-18-2015] Intelsat has donated satellite resources to the American Red Cross and Team Rubicon to aid in their medical and logistical operations in Nepal following the April 25 magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the region. Both organizations are…
Mexico City, Mexico. Photo: Kasper Christensen (Flickr) [Via Satellite 05-15-2015] Latin America is and will continue to be the top region for the addition of new satellite capacity until 2017, according to the latest research from Euroconsult. While the firm pegs the Calculated Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for satellite capacity usage globally at roughly 5…
An onshore oil rig. Photo: jbdodane (Flickr) [Via Satellite 05-15-2015] RigNet announced one of its upstream oil and gas customers has renewed a two-year contract for managed remote communications between its head office, base camp, and five onshore rigs. The contract includes increased bandwidth, backhaul from RigNet’s teleport to the customer’s head office, and 24/7…
Ketapang harbour, Indonesia. Photo: Domy Kamsyah (Flickr) [Via Satellite 05-15-2015] Kacific Broadband Satellites has reached a $78 million long-term agreement with Indonesian satellite service provider BigNet for high speed broadband starting in 2017. The contract is the seventh for Kacific, which plans a Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) known as Kacific 1 to serve the…
An MVS office. Photo: MVS [Via Satellite 05-15-2015] Inmarsat has appointed MVS USA, one of the company’s founding distribution partners, as a Value Added Reseller (VAR) for Global Xpress in the maritime market. The company will sell the FleetBroadband Xtra and Fleet Xpress products, which leverage the high throughput Ka-band constellation. MVS’ representative office in…
[Via Satellite 05-15-2015] Comtech EF Data (CEFD) has named Louis Dubin senior vice president of product development. In this role, Dubin is responsible for crafting business cases around new products and solutions and the prioritizing of product development across CEFD. Additionally, he is tasked with investigating emerging technologies and potential industry collaborations. Prior to this…
Kacific’s Coverage Map. Photo: Kacific [Via Satellite 05-14-2015] Kacific Broadband Satellites, an emerging satellite operator in the Asia-Pacific region, sees a huge opportunity to deliver satellite broadband to underserved remote communities of the Pacific islands, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. With plans to launch the company’s first satellite around the end of 2016,…
2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOPS) at Schriever Air Force Base’s Master Control Station. Photo: U.S. government [Via Satellite 05-14-2015] Raytheon has delivered the first hardware shipment for the United States Global Positioning System’s Next-Gen Operational Control System (GPS OCX) to Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado, the future site of the GPS OCX master control…
Artist’s rendition of a GPS 3 satellite. Photo: U.S. Air Force [Via Satellite 05-14-2015] On May 13, the U.S. Air Force released a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for GPS 3 launch services, marking the first competition for launches in the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program in more than a decade. Launch services include…