Five leading satellite operators – AsiaSat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Intelsat and SES – have announced the requirements for minimum antenna performance for satellite ground stations.

The satellite industry has experienced an incredible expansion of the use of “Comms-OnThe-Move” (COTM) products over the last decade. With this proliferation, the focus on antenna performance and the impact on the interference environment has increasingly become a higher priority among satellite operators.

Advantech Wireless, a global leader in satellite broadband communications solutions, announced the release of the new 3kW C-Band Outdoor Modular/SummitTM Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) System.

Telecommunications and service provider Eurona and Spanish satellite operator Hispasat are collaborating to provide satellite Internet access for high-sea fishing vessels. By means of their satellite subsidiary Quantis and through Hispasat's satellite capacity, Eurona will allow these vessels to make a technological leap enhancing their capabilities of maritime management on vessels and, above all, ensuring the crew’s contact with their family enabling them to keep up to date with ongoing activities back home.

Santander Teleport, a leading independent teleport operator based in Spain, has started to provide uplink services on a new antenna on Intelsat 33e, the second EPIC® satellite launched earlier this year. The fully redundant antenna system operates in one of the gateway beams providing access to Ku-band HTS coverage across Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announces its Government Solutions segment will be exhibiting May 23rd through 25th at the Space Tech Expo 2017, showcasing cost-effective X/Y antenna pedestal technology for precision satellite tracking, as well as frequency tuned radomes and carbon fiber dishes.

Newtec – a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications – today announced the successful commercial deployment of a Newtec Dialog® multiservice platform to provide cellular backhaul for Mattel, Mauritania’s leading mobile operator.

ABS, a leading satellite operator and the SOLAR Group, one of the largest content providers in the Philippines have formed a joint venture partnership to launch the first nationwide Free-to-View Direct-to-Home (DTH) television service in the Philippines.  

Advantech Wireless, a global leader in satellite broadband communications solutions will showcase its new WaveSwitch™ “on-the-fly” SATCOM Waveform Switching Technology for its ASAT II Multiservice VSAT System at CommunicAsia 2017  in Singapore.

Newtec – a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications – today announced its DVB-S2X broadcast technologies are being used in Televisa’s nationwide end-to-end primary distribution system, with its MCX7000 Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateways playing a key role.

The latest Satcom transmission standard, DVB-S2X, enables Televisa to offer six HD channels and improved picture quality using a 36 MHz transponder.

ABS announced a strategic partnership with one of the largest telecommunications operators in SE Asia for the delivery of 500Mbps of IP backbone services on ABS-2 at 75°E.

"ABS is proud to be awarded this contract with one of the largest telecom operators in Southeast Asia for expansion IP backbone capacity. At half a gigabit per second, it represents a significant milestone for ABS for the delivery of GEO-based connectivity services. We strive to guarantee both affordability and fiber-like reliability," ABS CEO Tom Choi stated.