ABS and Bluesky Pacific Group (Bluesky) have signed a multi-transponder contract on ABS-6. The multi-year capacity deal will offer expanded satellite connectivity services across the Samoan islands and the Pacific.

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has been chosen by Russian broadcaster Channel One to help them reach the European market (via HotBird) and Asia (via AsiaSat 5), extending its reach to new audiences. Globecast is providing dual illumination on HotBird with an MPEG-4 channel in addition to the existing MPEG-2 service it provides for the broadcaster.

ABS announced today at PTC 2016 that FSM Telecommunications Corporation (FSMTC) has extended its partnership with ABS for the ABS-6 satellite.   FSMTC has contracted additional capacity to provide connectivity to its neighbouring islands in the Micronesia states.   The contract follows shortly after the initial agreement in July 2015.

Advantech Wireless, a global leader for High Throughput Satellite (HTS) broadband communications solutions, today released a lightweight, more powerful Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology-based Block Upconverter (BUC) that is perfectly suited for SATCOM manpack defense and security deployments.

The SPACECONNECTION, Inc., introduces the most effective, efficient service for broadcasting, streaming and managing live events. The state-of-the-art EventCast Live service takes live event management to a new level. 

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, today announced that it has launched a new satellite platform on the AMC-11 satellite. As a result, prospective and current clients can benefit from the most powerful orbital position in the US for distribution to cable headends. This is evidenced by the fact that the satellite already hosts over 70 major Tier-1 American channels.

Inmarsat today announced a new partnership with EM Solutions to develop the world’s first combined MilSatCom/Global Xpress (GX) maritime satcom terminal.  The new terminal is scheduled to receive full Inmarsat accreditation during Q2 2016 and will be submitted for Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) certification.

SkyVision Global Networks Ltd., a leading global satellite communications service provider, today announced a partnership with ABS, one of the fastest growing global satellite operators in the world, to launch two new video platforms on ABS-3A.  This will provide quality DVB-S and DVB-S2 content, including HD, via satellite across Sub-Saharan Africa, including French speaking Africa and South Africa.

XipLink, the technology leader in wireless link optimization, announced the completion of successful testing with a top tier Asian Cellular Service Provider, delivering accelerated voice, data and video traffic exceeding 90 megabits per second (Mbps) to a remote LTE base station over a satellite connection.

Advantech Wireless, a global leader for Satellite and Microwave broadband communications solutions announced today that it had won a major contract for supply of  its new line of Advanced Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) for Electron Accelerator Scientific Applications.