Back on June 28th a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket exploded shortly after take-off. Within a month SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk had spoken publicly about the cause “probably” being a failed support strut which held a canister of helium in place. The failed rocket was carrying a cargo of supplies for the International Space Station. The failure […]
A Russian spy-satellite reportedly occupied an orbital position allocated to Intelsat for 5 months earlier this year. The Russian satellite deliberately parked itself directly between the Intelsat 7 and Intelsat 901 craft (at 18.1 degrees West), says a report in trade mag Space News, and on one occasion came to about 10 kilometres of the […]
Arianespace in French Guiana has received Arabsat’s latest satellite, 6B, as well as India’s GSAT-15, which are both now being integrated into an Ariane-5 rocket. The launch will take place as Flight VA227, the sixth launch of this year by an Ariane-5 and scheduled to take place early in November. Arabsat-6B is being orbited in […]
AsiaSat plans for an UHD TV broadcasting service over satellite have taken a major step forward with the imminent launch of its first channel following an extensive technical evaluation carried out at the AsiaSat UHD laboratory. Through AsiaSat 4’s high-power coverage, broadcasters and pay-tv platforms with an AsiaSat 4 C-band antenna in the Asia-Pacific region […]
India’s satellite and launch community is in turmoil over a massive $672 million legal arbitration award and penalty to VSAT operator Devas Multimedia by an international court last week. The former head of ISRO (India Space Research Organisation), Madhavan Nair is firmly blaming his successor for not following the correct procedures when ISRO cancelled the […]
Italian thematic channel producer Giglio Group has acquired M-Three SatCom, a Milan-based provider of services and solutions for the broadcast sector. M-Three Sat-Com operates two satellite teleports (in Milan and Rome), a fleet of outside broadcast units for production and transmission, and a fibre optics infrastructure able to reach points of access and media centres […]
Eutelsat’s co-located 8 West B satellite, which works alongside Nilesat’s pair of craft in the 7/8 deg West neighbourhood, is now up and earning its keep. Some 210 channels were seamlessly switched over on the night of September 30th from two older satellites at the location. Launched on August 20th by an Ariane rocket from […]
NSR’s Satellite Operator Financial Analysis (SOFA), 5th Edition finds that as GEO-HTS payloads continue to become more prevalent, satellite operator business models are encountering dramatic effects, including altered CAPEX cycles, lower backlogs, and falling revenues per transponder. “GEO-HTS payloads have had a dramatic impact on CAPEX cycles of satellite operators. We now see operators being […]
AsiaSat, Asia’s leading satellite operator, has announced that TV5Monde, the French-language network, has entered into a long-term service agreement to broadcast both ‘TV5Monde Asie HD’ and ‘TV5Monde Style HD’ across the Asia-Pacific via AsiaSat 5. This new agreement also marks the service extension of TV5Monde’s new lifestyle channel TV5Monde Style HD’, which was successfully launched […]
Al Jazeera Media Network’s channels will be moving to a new frequency affecting viewers across the entire Middle East and North Africa region on the Nilesat position. Ibrahim Nassar, Al Jazeera’s manager of teleport, revealed that starting October 1st, viewers on the 10992V and 11636V satellite frequencies will experience a permanent blackout and will have […]