News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia. Photo: Wikipedia/ctsnow [Via Satellite 03-24-2015] O3b Networks has swept up a number of customers in Africa this month, most notably in Somalia where the operator’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)-based satellite services have found popularity. Hormuud Telecommunication, the largest operator in Somalia by customer base and coverage, entered a multi-year…
Stril Server support vessel. Photo: Marlink [Via Satellite 03-24-2015] Marlink has concluded a project aimed at increasing Internet speeds aboard the Simon Mokster-owned Stril Server Multi-Purpose Support Vessel (MPSV). Client engineers on a project at the Westernmost Rough offshore wind farm on the U.K.’s east coast required the extra bandwidth. Marlink increased the available bandwidth…
Monitoring of the Space Fence. Photo: Lockheed Martin [Via Satellite 03-24-2015] The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin broke ground at the future 6-acre site of the new Space Fence radar system in a special ceremony on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean — more than 2,100 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu. The event marks…
Erez Antebi, CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks is stepping down. Photo: Gilat [Via Satellite 03-24-2015] Erez Antebi has decided to step down from the position of CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks. Gilat’s Chairman of the Board Dov Baharav, will assume the position of interim CEO until a new person is appointed. The transition between Baharav…
Artist’s rendition of Africasat 1a. Photo: Orbital Sciences [Via Satellite 03-24-2015] Measat Satellite Systems and iSAT Africa have struck an agreement for capacity on the Africasat 1a satellite. Under the terms of the agreement, iSAT will use the capacity for its new managed services platform launched this month. The platform uses the DVB-S2x technology which,…
Bob Roe, CEO of TrustComm. Photo: TrustComm [Via Satellite 03-13-2015] Satellite service provider TrustComm is in the middle of a number of significant investments aimed at making the company more competitive. A series of partnerships over the past few years has led TrustComm into new markets, resulting in critical infrastructure decisions to further expand in…
An offshore oil rig. Photo: Pixelbay [Via Satellite 03-23-2015] RigNet has signed a two-year contract with an ultra-deep water oil and gas Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Gulf of Mexico for the delivery of managed network communications. The company is providing a fully managed end-to-end IP network solution for the facility,…
Austin, the capital city of Texas. Photo: Jims_photos (Flickr) [Via Satellite 03-23-2015] The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has awarded Hughes Network Systems a two-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with two optional one-year extensions for data communications and networking equipment and related services. Hughes is contracted to provide end-to-end solutions for localized…
The ProView 7100. Photo: Harmonic [Via Satellite 03-23-2015] Harmonic has improved the ProView 7100, a single-rack, multi-format Integrated Receiver-Decoder (IRD) to support High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) for Ultra-HD video content. The device enables the decoding of HEVC compressed streams at resolutions up to 1080p, 60 fps to boost bandwidth efficiency. Using a high-density 1RU…
Photo: Skype [Via Satellite 03-23-2015] Inmarsat has certified and approved Quicklink Video Distribution Services’ solution for converting Skype calls into a professional quality video/audio signal, Quicklink TX. Through Inmarsat’s Certified Applications Program (CAP), the solution is now permitted to run over the company’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN). Quicklink TX is a fully integrated hardware and…