To jump-start the 2019 year, Terrasat has recently surpassed shipping out 20K IBUCs worldwide, and it continues to charge forward by expanding its sales team. Terrasat welcomes Paul Gorton to the team as Director of Sales, EMEA, who will be combining forces with Ron Merritt, Regional VP of EMEA.

Iridium Communications has announced that COO Scott Smith has decided to retire effective March 15th and  the company is welcoming back to Iridium new chief operations officer Suzi McBride.

SES is streamlining customer support and services by forming a global services delivery team under the leadership of a Chief Services Officer (CSO). John Baughn, formerly executive vice president global services at SES Networks, is appointed to this newly created position.

SES said this move underscores the company’s commitment to place customers at the heart of its business and deliver exceptional customer experience following the successful implementation of two market-facing business units in 2017, SES Video and SES Networks.

CABSAT – the leading specialist event for the broadcast, satellite, digital media and filmed entertainment industries for the Middle East and North Africa –  is entering its 25th edition with a fresh, newly evolved format that will bring the full content creation, production, post production satellite, OTT video, e-sports, digital media and entertainment ecosystem to center stage.Taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), March 12th-14th, CABSAT 2019 will unite the media industry’s creative experts and most sought-after tech s

Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, today announced it has partnered with satellite communications solution provider Paradigm, which has become the first company to host its Newtec Dialog® SMB3310 high-throughput modem board.

Ariane 5 placed the geostationary satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 (HS-4/SGS-1) and GSAT-31 telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), lifting off from the European spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana).

The GVF-EMP Partnership has announced final details of the populated programme for Mobile Connectivity 2019: Air, Sea, Surface, Rail – Evolving the New “New” Verticals taking place on February 27, 2019 at London’s ETC Venues, located at 8 Eastcheap, London EC3M 1AE.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released High Performance: Service Continuity, a new research report that explores the hidden threats to service continuity and how teleport operators can best address them. The report is based on research coming from anonymized data collected since 2015 through WTA’s Teleport Certification program, and is the first of a series focusing on under-appreciated issues that have an impact on quality of service. 

NSR’s Flat Panel Satellite Antennas, 4th Edition(FPA4) report, released today, forecasts cumulative FPA equipment sales to reach approx. $11 billion by 2028.

WORK Microwave today announced the availability of the industry’s first V-Band frequency converters as a qualified product. The converters are available in various dimensions of outdoor housings and cover the full ITU uplink bandwidth range from 47.20 to 51.40 GHz, providing full 4 GHz of bandwidth. 

As global consumption of bandwidth-intensive data and broadcast services increases, higher throughput satellites will be a requirement in the future. By offering V-Band-ready equipment WORK Microwave is helping the satellite industry tackle this important challenge.