The GVF webinar series will shortly enter into its fourth year. The 46th event in the series (not including additional online panels staged for inclusion in the virtual programs of major satellite industry events impacted by Covid-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions) will take place on Thursday, 25 May 2023 @ 3:00 pm UK time/10:00 am US Eastern time. ‘Connecting Antennas and Satellites: The Critical Link?’ will examine how satellite communications, in fulfilling unique business connectivity needs, presents solutions providers with significant network challenges. 

Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC, a manufacturer Gallium Nitride (GaN) based Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) and Block Upconverters (BUCs) has confirmed that SES has selected their 40-watt Ka-band BUC for use in high throughput customer user terminals for SES’s second generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system -- O3b mPOWER. The order follows several years of work between the companies to implement advanced solid state technologies into the O3b mPOWER system.

A group of European space and telecommunications players have come together to form a partnership to respond to the European Commission’s call for tender related to the future European satellite constellation IRIS² (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). IRIS² aims to bring a new secure and resilient connectivity infrastructure to European governments, businesses and citizens.

ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has announced four new strategic appointments, as the business strengthens its global leadership team.

It is only over the last 20 or so years that the movie industry has made the switch to digital, foregoing costly and cumbersome celluloid reels and hard drives for digitally projected films. In that time, the way that those movies files are distributed has advanced dramatically. 

The movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is not a documentary about the demands of media consumers around the globe. But it could be.  The growth of streaming services throughout the last decade—accelerated by the global pandemic—has had a huge impact on the video distribution marketplace.  And it’s not done yet.

ABS, a global satellite operator, announced today that Ramsey Khanfour has been appointed as the company’s Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), based at the head office in Dubai, UAE. Ramsey will be a key addition to the executive management team and will oversee global sales and marketing activities to drive the company’s next phase of growth as it navigates new markets, solutions and business models.

This year marked the centennial of the NAB show.  From its humble beginnings in 1923 with just 23 attendees, who got together in New York to discuss the future of broadcasting – and at that time broadcasting was only radio - the NAB show has grown dramatically.  It moved to its (so far) permanent home in Las Vegas in 1988.  Previously, the show took place at various venues in the US including Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlantic City and Cleveland.  From 1978-88 it rotated between Las Vegas and Dallas before “settling” in Las Vegas.  This year, the centennial, there were 65,013 reg

Creonic GmbH, the leading provider of IP cores for satellite communications, today revealed its latest solution for free-space optical (FSO) communications with immediate availability. The Space Development Agency (SDA) introduced the Optical Communications Terminal (OCT) Standard V3.0 with the intention to enable interoperability between optical communication terminals where at least one endpoint is space-based.It targets space-to-space (S2S), space-to-air (S2A),space-to-maritime (S2M), and space-to-ground (S2G) applications.

Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) (“Iridium”) today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2023 and reiterated its full-year 2023 outlook. Net income was $9.8 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2023, as compared to net income of $2.8 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2022. Operational EBITDA (“OEBITDA”)⁽¹⁾ for the first quarter was $111.9 million, as compared to $103.2 million for the prior-year period, representing a year-over-year increase of 8%.