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SupremeSAT Chief Commercial Officer Nilakshi Abenayake held a Q&A session with Satellite Finance. This article was first published March 2015. Nilakshi discusses SupremeSAT’s current activities and future development plans. please see attached link for the full story SatelliteFinance Q&A
First Published in Satellite Finance, 24 February 2015 Sri Lanka’s SupremeSAT is close to acquiring a new orbital slot for its first wholly-owned satellite, SatelliteFinance understands. Sources at the operator said it was negotiating with a “globally renowned, listed satellite company”, after earlier plans to use Sri Lanka’s 50E slot were hit by political and technical issues.…
Panelists at Tuesday’s SATELLITE 2015 panel, “Spacecraft Repurposing Debate: Proponents and Skeptics Go Head-to-Head.” Photo: Vincent Lim. [Via Satellite 03-18-2015] The long since thought of but yet to be commercialized in-orbit servicing industry is now closer to becoming a reality than ever before. ViviSat, a joint venture supported by Orbital ATK and US Space, has…
Arianespace’s Vega rocket. Photo: Arianespace [Via Satellite 3-18-2015] Arianespace has signed two new launch contracts; one with Skybox Imaging and one with Airbus Defence and Space for the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces. Under the contract with Skybox, Arianespace will launch a block of high resolution imaging satellites aboard the Vega launch vehicle from…
Eutelsat satellite fleet. Photo: Eutelsat [Via Satellite 3-18-2015] Eutelsat announced the creation of a new division in the United Kingdom that will drive its strategy for serving providers of end-to-end government services, NGOs and institutional agencies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Eutelsat Government EMEA will be located at Harwell, near Oxford, in…
SigX Protect will cancel interfering signals. Photo: SAT Corporation [Via Satellite 3-18-2015] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its SAT Corporation (SAT) subsidiary released SigX Protect, a patent-pending Radio Frequency (RF) signal protection product that can be configured to automatically cancel interference in real time with no human intervention. SigX Protect works by automatically…
Intelsat 29e. Photo: Intelsat [Via Satellite 3-18-2015] Airbus Defence and Space and Intelsat announced that their strategic agreement concluded in 2014 has yielded value for end-users and is setting the course for more maritime customer advantages as part of a transition to Intelsat EpicNG High Throughput Satellites (HTS). Stimulating market demand, the partnership resulted in…
X2nSat ST4G. Photo: X2nSat [Via Satellite 3-18-2015] SES announced X2nSat has doubled its Ku-band capacity aboard the SES 2 spacecraft to power its new generation ST4G broadband service, delivering higher speeds and the reliability of Ku-band satellite capacity across North America. To offer connection speeds up to 15 megabits per second, X2nSat has tapped both…
Advantech Wireless Series 7000 VSAT router. Photo: Advantech Wireless [Via Satellite 3-18-2015] Advantech Wireless is launching a new family of VSAT routers/modems. The new Series 7000 product family provisions Advantech Wireless A-SAT-IITM Bandwidth Optimized Satellite System technology, providing more than 50 percent reduction in the satellite bandwidth, through transmission switching between multiple access schemes achieved…
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides. Photo: Virgin Galactic [Via Satellite 03-17-2015] With a recently christened manufacturing facility, Virgin Galactic is gearing up for regular missions with the LauncherOne small satellite vehicle. The Long Beach, Calif. facility, first announced in February, is now open. LauncherOne is among the most promising small satellite, or “SmallSat,” launch vehicles…