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.
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.
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.
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.
Tempe, Ariz., December 2, 2020--Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today that during its first quarter of fiscal 2021, its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., which is part of Comtech’s Commercial Solutions segment, received US$ 1.0 million in delivery orders in support of a previously awarded US$ 58.8 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (“IDIQ”) contract from the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. Funded orders received to-date under this IDIQ contract now total US$ 30.7 million.
Herndon, Va., December 2, 2020--ST Engineering iDirect today announced that its MDM5010 modem has achieved an aggregate speed of 600Mbps, making it the industry’s fastest satellite modem for shared bandwidth capacity networks. While these speeds have previously only been achieved with single channel per carrier (SCPC) point-to-point modems, bandwidth-sharing efficiencies can now be augmented to satisfy the most demanding throughput requirements in markets such as cruise, trunking and cellular backhaul.
Friedrichshafen, Germany, December 1, 2020–ND SATCOM unveiled a new dimension in satellite communications with the SKYWAN 5G Release 2.0, redefining customers’ possibilities by powering the next level of immersive VSAT experiences. SKYWAN 5G is the world’s only VSAT technology allowing multi-channel TDMA networks with True-Mesh ACM for hubless secure communication.
Madrid, Spain, November 25, 2020--Integrasys was awarded with a €1. 5 million (approxiamtelly US$ 1.7 million) ESA project for Interference Cancellation and Removal Technology. Integrasys is a leading signal monitoring and interference detection company with more than 30 years experience on fighting against interferences.
Tel Aviv, Israel, November 25, 2020--Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, announce the signing of a contract with Paratus, a pan-African telecommunications service provider that offers a wide range of connectivity solutions to more than 22 African countries through an extensive independently owned network, via the fully digital AMOS-17satellite.
Holzkirchen, Germany, November 23, 2020—WORK Microwave, a leading European manufacturer of advanced satellite communications equipment, today announced one of the first end-to-end solutions for CubeSat missions thanks to a new collaboration with IQ Spacecom, a leading provider of satellite radio solutions. By combining WORK Microwave’s AX60 IP modem with IQ Spacecom’s XLink advanced transceiver system, a brand of IQ wireless GmbH, operators have an affordable, one-stop-shop solution for new space applications, including low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite missions for Earth observation.