Telesat today announced its financial results for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2019. All amounts are in Canadian dollars and reported under International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) unless otherwise noted. For the quarter ended September 30, 2019, Telesat reported consolidated revenue of $237 million, an increase of 4% ($10 million) compared to the same period in 2018.
Pascal Wauthier, Space Operations Senior Vice President at SES, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Space Data Association (SDA) an international non-profit association of satellite operators.
With literally days to go before the world’s most influential Africa-focused technology, media and telecoms event opens its doors on 12th November 2019, organisers have issued an advisory to inform would-be visitors that only a limited number of complimentary tickets remain, and they encourage registration as soon as possible.
The October 2019 issue of the Satellite Executive Briefing magazine sponsored by Spacebridge is now available.
Denis Allard has been named General Manager of the Thales Alenia Space plant in Toulouse. He replaces Albert Cerro, who has retired.
On August 6, 2019, AMOS-17 was successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite is located at 17 degrees East where it covers the African continent, along with Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It is positioned right over central Africa, to optimize service in the region.
Scheduled to be operational in November, AMOS-17 is the most advanced high-throughput satellite (HTS) to date, providing satellite communication services to Africa.
Link budgets are living a new era. Not only capacity engineers are capable to make this calculation for the quotes. This way of calculating all the gains and losses between transmitters and receivers in satellite communications have significantly changed.
I’ve been to many teleports all over the world and having worked in one for several years, it never ceases to amaze me how teleports which provide essentially similar services can still be unique in their own way. This was the case when I visited the sprawling VIVACOM teleport in Plana, Bulgaria about 30 kilometers south of the capital city of Sofia. This is one of the largest ground station facilities in Eastern Europe with more than 50 antennas ranging in size up to 18.3 meters.
The boost in non-stop airline traffic between the USA and Africa is on the rise and access to the continent and its cities has as much to do with technology as it has to do with demand. According to travel writer Shannon Sims, developments in plane construction makes it possible to fly longer routes. And ultra long-haul flights, such as next month’s launch of a non-stop flight from Newark Liberty Airport to Capetown will provide access to South Africa three times per week. Distances of 9,500 miles (15,300 kilometers) covered in less than 15 hours on a non-stop flight is truly a testamen
Last month I spoke at an event for information technology security professionals in Riga, Latvia. The theme of my presentation was a little off the mainstream of topics addressed during the several tracks of the program – unsurprisingly heavily focused on cyber security, but also covering the continuing evolution of 5G, the upcoming generation of terrestrial mobile broadband communications.