Es'hailSat, Qatar's satellite company, and BridgeSat today announced a strategic relationship that will provide businesses and governments across the Middle East with affordable access to laser-based satellite broadband services. This is the latest milestone toward BridgeSat’s goal of providing organizations worldwide with a faster, less expensive and most secure alternative to traditional radio frequency (RF) solutions for low earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary earth orbit (GEO) applications.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today announced that STN has achieved Tier 3 full certification of its Dob (Slovenia) teleport under WTA’s Teleport Certification Program. STN becomes the first teleport in Slovenia to achieve full certification and bring the number of fully-certified teleports around the world to 26.

Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has announced that its AMOS-7 communication satellite is broadcasting the Ukraine’s first ever 4K TV channel.

Nashe Media Group’s #NASHE HDR channel is being broadcast throughout the entire country by Ukrainian operator UkrKosmos. Following on the new channel’s success, Nashe is planning a Spring 2019 launch of a second 4K channel, ETNO.

Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, today announced it has partnered with satellite communications solution provider Paradigm, which has become the first company to host its Newtec Dialog® SMB3310 high-throughput modem board.

WORK Microwave today announced the availability of the industry’s first V-Band frequency converters as a qualified product. The converters are available in various dimensions of outdoor housings and cover the full ITU uplink bandwidth range from 47.20 to 51.40 GHz, providing full 4 GHz of bandwidth. 

As global consumption of bandwidth-intensive data and broadcast services increases, higher throughput satellites will be a requirement in the future. By offering V-Band-ready equipment WORK Microwave is helping the satellite industry tackle this important challenge.

Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, is providing its M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulator to enhance efficiency on DishTV’s Direct-to-Home (DTH) platform. DishTV is the largest DTH service provider in India and the world’s largest single-country DTH company. The M6100 is part of a wider upgrade that will enable a next-generation viewing experience for its customers. The modulators will provide DishTV with significant cost efficiencies through better bandwidth utilization.

Hispasat, the Spanish telecommunications-based satellite operator, has renewed its agreement with the ATRESMEDIA Foundation to collaborate in broadcasting the FAN3 television channel via satellite, dedicated to hospitalized children. The initiative forms part of the Foundation's “Humanizing Children’s Hospitals” Program.

With the support of specialists from Istar LLC, RSCC successfully completed the installation and commissioning of five central stations based on UHP equipment to provide via-satellite communication using the Express-AM series spacecraft.
This will enable RSCC to use the capacity of its satellites more efficiently and expand the capabilities of the satellite communication network, offering customers modern telecommunications services.

The first subscribers are planned to be connected in February-March 2019.

Satellite communications equipment manufacturer Newtec has provided a Newtec Dialog® hub system to SATSOL, a teleport and Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the Solomon Islands.

The Satellite Industry Association today announced that Integrasys LLC has joined SIA. Integrasys LLC specializes in the engineering and manufacturing of innovative satellite spectrum monitoring systems and VSAT network deployment for the government market. The Company is based in Herndon, VA and is owned by Integrasys SA of Spain. The parent company was founded in 1990 and recently announced that it expects to focus on growth in various regions around the world, especially in the U.S. market, with new offices to support a growing customer base.