Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, today announced its technology will be used by leading satellite operator NIGCOMSAT as it expands its enterprise, government and consumer Ka-band broadband services in Nigeria.

Following on from its continued success with Newtec’s VSAT platform Newtec Dialog®, NIGCOMSAT – which was founded in 2006 by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Communication Technology – will now deploy a second hub and thousands of Newtec’s MDM2210 IP Satellite Modems and MDM2510 IP Satellite Modems.

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite-based telecommunications operator, is sponsoring a new edition of the Apollo Space Contest for 14 to 16 year old students in Spain and Latin America.

Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, announced that it is expanding sales with a Vertical Solutions Division targeting MNOs, government programs, service providers and other commercial groups operating in the fertile data, mobile, and video markets.

Spacecom's new division adds value to customers by enabling them to reach a broader range of new business opportunities as they add complementary applications and push further into digital markets. The new division's first deal is a multi-year contract with a leading Southern Africa VSAT services provider via AMOS-7.

Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) today announced an agreement whereby AMOS-7 is supplying satellite services to BTC's VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) network throughout all of Botswana.

Spacecom is providing BTC with highest efficiency satellite capacity alongside migrating the existing network towards next generation VSAT technology.

RF-Design has just launched their new QLink RF-over-Fiber system, a high-density and turnkey outdoor/indoor optical transmission solution.

RF Design says the QLink system is a combination of an IP64 rated weatherproof outdoor enclosure and a 1RU/19” rack-mount indoor chassis allowing transmission of max. 4 RF signals via optical fiber. The outdoor enclosure and the indoor-chassis can each be populated with up to 4 optical transmitter and/or receiver modules (mixed TX/RX population possible) making it a perfect fit satellite down- and uplink as well as for VSAT operations.

Advantech Satellite Networks has integrated the VSAT commissioning tool from Integrasys, Satmotion Pocket, with its ASAT VSAT Network System. The integration is part of a project for a major European customer.

Satmotion Pocket is a unique and award winning VSAT auto commissioning tool, available as an easy-to-use mobile app. It greatly reduces the deployment time and effort, as well as minimizing the risk of errors such as CrossPol and Adjacent Satellite Interference. Installers don’t need to be experts in VSAT installations to handle VSAT commissioning using Satmotion Pocket.

Hispamar, the Brazilian subsidiary of the Spanish satellite-based telecommunications operator Hispasat, and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT), have joined together to offer a new high-quality satellite-based broadband connectivity service, focusing on both the residential and corporate market, in order to extend Internet access to the parts of the country that are currently digitally isolated.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in United States, has chosen Thales to develop and build an operational ground station in the southwest part of the country, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, to track Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites operating in medium Earth orbit (MEO).

Satellite communications equipment manufacturer Newtec announced today its modems have become the first to be successfully tested over-the-air on Telesat’s inaugural Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite.

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite communications operator, is bringing broadband connectivity to remote or hard-to-reach areas of the Mexico where there is no access to high-quality Internet, thereby helping reduce the digital gap that currently exists in the Mexican telecommunications market.