Arianespace celebrated its 300th satellite launch from its Kourou space centre by successfully lifting Japan’s JCSAT-13 and Vietnam’s VinaSat-2 satellites into orbit. The Japanese satellite will be used by Sky Perfect/JSAT for DTH transmissions, while Vietnam’s craft is to be operated by the country’s Posts & Telecoms company. These were the 300th and 301st satellites to be launched from French [...]
An NSR report has found that the satellite manufacturing and launch markets are facing both softening demand and increasing competition until 2016. However, in the second half of the next decade the manufacturing market will be back on an upward track, while the launch services market will see more years of stagnant growth. Driven by intense competition and soft demand [...]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by offering content management, digital archival, content localisation, disaster recovery [...]
SatLink Communications, a teleport delivering content to every corner of the world, has announced that it is enhancing its service and product offering with the opening of a new HD Playout Centre in the heart of the broadcast district in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Playout centre strengthens SatLink’s provision of global satellite transmission services by offering content management, digital archival, [...]
Avanti Communications is the London-based satellite operator offering broadband and data capacity in Ka-band to Europe. A May 14th interim statement, unusually covering the four month trading to April 30th, says that revenues are in line with “[our] house broker estimates for the financial year to June 30th 2012”. Unusually, Avanti did not issue any actual financials, other than to [...]
Thailand’s satellite operator Thaicom, formerly known as Shin Satellite, has moved from loss into profit helped by revenues from its iPSTAR-1 and Thaicom 5 satellites. Thaicom on May 14th said it had posted a net profit in Q1 (to March 31st) of Thai Bhat 42 million helped by a gain on foreign exchange of THB 12 million, while the company [...]
Luxembourg-based SES reported that it was continuing on its growth track in reporting its first quarter-year results early on May 11. Its y-o-y revenues grew 5.1 per cent (to €450 million), generating EBITDA of €337.3 million (up 4.9 per cent) and a margin of 74.9 per cent. Its contract backlog rose some €260 million from €6.83 billion to €6.59 billion. [...]
Eutelsat’s quarterly and 9-month financials show that its revenue growth remains firmly upward, although there are signs that its important ‘multi-usage’ segment is slowing in growth terms. Overall revenues are up 4.6 per cent for the quarter-year (to March 31st) and a matching 4.6 per cent for the 9 months to the same date. Video-based clients helped drive revenues up [...]
Intelsat’s CEO Dave McGlade confirmed that the satellite operator is on track to launch a total of four satellites over the current six months period. Intelsat-22 launched on March 25, while Intelsat-19 is due to launch during this next few weeks. Intelsat 21 and 23 are both slated for launch in July. McGlade also reported revenues for the three months [...]
Global satellite network Inmarsat has reported a slight increase in its quarterly core earnings on growth in its maritime unit. “Subscriber growth of over 10 per cent in the first quarter continues to underpin our expectations for improved results in 2012.” Chief Executive Rupert Pearce said in a statement. Core earnings at Inmarsat Group rose 1 per cent to $205 [...]
