The Asia Satellite Business Week (ASBW), part of the larger Asia Tech X Singapore (ATxSG, formerly known as CommunicAsia), took place from 7-8 June at the Singapore EXPO. Organized by Euroconsult, the conference brought together leaders from across the Asia-Pacific space and satcom industry, and featured two days packed full of panels, networking, and fireside chats with local space agencies and other stakeholders. 

An impressively varied list of topics was fit into two jam-packed days, but three stood out as particularly interesting or poignant: 

The winners of the German Brand Award 2023 have been announced - one of the most important German prizes for exemplary brand management, sustainable campaigns and exceptional marketing projects. This year, ND SATCOM is once again the winner in the category "Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation - Classic Campaign", this time for the project #ZusammenGegenCorona.

The Asia Video Summit marked a successful return to Hong Kong, with almost 300 delegates attending the conference in person and virtually.

The Board of The Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) today announced the election of Telesat’s CEO Dan Goldberg as its new Chair. Eva Berneke, CEO of Eutelsat was also elected co-Vice Chair, alongside Ali Al Hashemi, CEO of Yahsat, who was appointed earlier this year.

USSI Global, a turnkey provider of customized network, broadcast and digital signage systems and services worldwide, has promoted Dan Roberts to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective immediately. His promotion follows five years as Vice President of Accounting and Finance, a period over which USSI Global revenues doubled with the help of his vision and leadership. Roberts will continue to report to CEO David Christiano, with his focus shifting from daily financial operations to executive management and strategic growth initiatives.

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has released the second phase of its research into differences between advertising in premium OTT and mass streaming video environments (UGC / video sharing services).  While phase 1, completed in 2022, looked at consumer usage and attitudes towards advertising in both environments, phase 2 gauged consumer attention and recall to ads in both a premium and mass environment.  Research was conducted between January to April 2023, and conducted by Milieu Insight.

Alén Space, the pioneering New Space startup based in Spain, has just entered into an acquisition agreement with the multinational tech firm GMV, which will make it part of GMV’s global business group. 

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat), Asia’s premier satellite solutions provider, has announced its 100% acquisition of Lightning International Limited, the content distribution and media solutions company based in the UK and Hong Kong. The addition of Lightning into the AsiaSat family is a strategic move to expand the company’s services and extend its clients’ reach to global audiences through traditional and new distribution platforms including OTT and FAST.

Vyoma, a Germany-based Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Traffic Management (STM) company, announces the closure of its Seed round with Safran Corporate Ventures as co-investor. Safran’s venture capital arm funds transformative technologies and supports deep-tech companies that have the potential to reshape the European aviation, space and defense sectors.

Creonic GmbH, a leading IP core provider in the field of communications, today announced immediate availability of its Ultrafast BCH Decoder. Its unique pipeline architecture allows it to decode one BCH codeword per clock cycle, achieving tremendous data rates. For instance, a coded block size of 1023 bits with 973 payload bits and the capability to correct up to 5 random bit errors can achieve a throughput of 1 Tbit/s when running at a clock frequency of 1 GHz on an ASIC technology.