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HISPASAT and Gilat Renew and Expand their Contract to Offer Cellular Backhaul Services in the US

Washington, D.C., January 26, 2021--HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite telecommunications operator, has signed a multi-year and multi-transponder agreement with Gilat Satellite Networks, to renew and expand the contracted satellite capacity to extend the mobile networks in the United States using Amazonas 2 and 3 satellites located in the 61º West orbital position. As part of this agreement HISPASAT will connect hundreds of base stations of Gilat’s strategic customers, including several mobile operators. 

HISPASAT renews its collaboration with Fundación ATRESMEDIA

Madrid, Spain, January 18, 2021--HISPASAT, Red Eléctrica Group’s Spanish telecommunication satellite operator, has renewed its agreement with Fundación ATRESMEDIA once again this year to collaborate in providing a satellite broadcast of the FAN3 television channel, dedicated to hospitalised children. This initiative forms part of the Foundation's Humanising Children's Hospital Program.

RF Design Introduces PwrMxG series, a New Flexible and Innovative RF Power Monitoring Solution

Lorsch, Germany, January 11, 2021--RF-Design is leveraging 2020 in innovation and development to fulfill the sophisticated market and customer needs also for RF monitoring solutions by announcing the release of its latest solution for monitoring applications, the PwrMxG series. The PwrMxG is a broadband dual channel power meter designed to measure and monitor RF carriers’ power targeted to Satellite-, Broadcast- & Cable communications industry such as Satellite operators, Teleports, Earth stations, VSAT hubs and Broadcasters.

 

HISPASAT and Barcelona's Opera House, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Renew their Collaboration Agreement to Broadcast Operas via Satellite

Barcelona, Spain, December 21, 2020--HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite telecommunications operator, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu Foundation have signed a renewal agreement today in Barcelona to broadcast three operas live via satellite, both in Spain as well as abroad. These broadcasts form part of the theatre's Multimedia Project, which is focused on developing and promoting opera culture.

Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural Africa with Satmotion and Alusat

Herndon, Va,  December 17, 2020 - MSTelcom, a telecommunications company and leader in satellite communication based in Angola is fighting against the digital divide in rural Africa, providing connectivity to rural Angola. MSTelcom has successfully deployed a large network across Angola supported by ST Engineering iDirect’s Evolution platform.

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Altán’s Red Compartida to Multiply Base Stations Connected through HISPASAT’s Ka-band

Mexico City, Mexico, December 16, 2020--Building upon an earlier agreement reached in the middle of the year, HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite telecommunications operator, has finalized a new agreement with Altán in Mexico to significantly increase the cellular backhaul services to expand its cellular network. This way, the Amazonas 5 satellite will provide Altán coverage in the Ka-band to connect 665 new base stations from its Red Compartida which are added to the 65 stations in the original proposal. All told these stations provide a total of approximately 4 Gbps of satellite connectivity. Thanks to this increase, that will take place between 2021 and 2023, the company expects to provide services to more than 3 million people who will benefit from the 4.5G LTE coverage that Altán’s Red Compartida provides.

WORK Microwave Delivers Ka-Band Up- and Downconverters for the European Space Agency's Deep Space Network

Holzkirchen, Germany, December 14, 2020 — WORK Microwave, a leading European manufacturer of advanced satellite communications equipment, today announced that it has delivered the first set of Ka-band up- and downconverters to the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Space Operations Center for deep space antennas. The deep space converters are optimized for telemetry, tracking, and command operations of different categories of ESA missions, with signals crossing more than 1.4 billion km of space.

Spacecom,Yahsat and Geeks Without Frontiers Working to Deliver Humanitarian Satellite Services During COVID Crisis

Tel Aviv, Israel, December 9, 2020--Satellite operators AMOS-Spacecom of Israel and Yahsat of the United Arab Emirates are working with Geeks Without Frontiers to identify areas of cooperation emerging from the historic Abraham Accords to deliver desperately needed Humanitarian Satellite Connectivity during the ongoing COVID crisis in Africa.

One of the Largest Mobile Operators in Mexico Continues to Expand its Coverage with AXESS

Mexico City, Mexico, December 3, 2020--With the aim of continuing to expand cellular coverage to the entire Mexican territory, one of the largest mobile operator in Mexico, part of a leading global mobile group, has resumed the satellite coverage project in alliance with AXESS Networks, which continues to position itself as a technological partner in cellular backhaul solutions for Latin America and that after outstanding work during the homologation process, was initially awarded with 95 satellite sites.