Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications, was today awarded with the Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA)’s Top Infrastructure Award.

Presented at an exclusive ceremony taking place as part of SATELLITE 2019, the accolade was given to highlight the flexible merits of Newtec’s ability to deliver and enhance in-flight connectivity.

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI), a leading provider of commercial grade auto-acquire mobile satellite antenna systems, announced today that it has been granted US patent No.10,211,527 for its invention of a phased array antenna calibration method and apparatus.

AvL Technologies will be holding a year-long celebration for the company’s 25 years in business. What began in 1994 as Jim Oliver’s humble one-man engineering company making custom broadcast antennas has flourished into a company with 250 employees and a technology campus with 100,000+ square feet of product development, manufacturing and testing space.

Hispasat , the Spanish satellite communications operator, is partnering with Facebook to offer satellite-based Wi-Fi connectivity in Brazil, supported by the Facebook Express Wi-Fi platform. In collaboration with local Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the satellite-based Wi-Fi hotspots will provide Internet access in areas of Brazil with limited connectivity.

Today, connectivity is a basic requirement for economic and social development, and satellites are a key infrastructure to bring communications to regions that are not reachable by high speed terrestrial networks.

Humans are using space to improve life on earth. Climate change monitoring, natural crisis mitigation, food production and natural resource management, security and disaster management, transportation are just some of the examples where space data improves our everyday life. Reliable and timely space data is a priority. New sophisticated optical and radar payloads and new satellite constellation with frequent revisits are putting pressure on the satellite ground segment performance. More and more data are coming from the above from both traditional and NewSpace constellations.