Abu Dhabi’s Yahsat-3 satellite will be built by Orbital Sciences Corp, and launched by Arianespace. The news emerged at the Paris ‘World Satellite Business Week’ event, organised by Euroconsult. Launch date is scheduled for Q4 2016, and will be an all Ka-Band satellite covering an “extra 17 countries” mostly over Africa including Brazil and a […]
Satellite operator MEASAT has confirmed that the MEASAT-3b craft will launch at 5:21am 12 September MYT (6:21pm 11 September GFT) from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. “MEASAT-3b was initiated in June 2011. This spacecraft, Malaysia’s largest and most advanced to date, is the result of more than three years’ co-operation between MEASAT, Airbus […]
Abu Dhabi-based Yahsat says it wants a third satellite, and wants to operate it for the Brazilian market. Its 3rd satellite will cover some 95 percent of Brazil, and Yahsat says that some 31 percent of Brazil’s population are not served by a fixed broadband infrastructure which it will help provide, and this translates into […]
Eutelsat Communications, MStar Semiconductor, Aston and Quadrille Ingénierie announce they have combined their skills to implement and validate Push Video-On-Demand (VOD) services using the HbbTV v2.0 standard. The four companies will partner on showing the performance of an end-to-end HbbTV-based Push VoD system at IBC 2014. Push VoD and the HbbTV standard Push VoD functionalities […]
Arianespace told the Euroconsult Satellite Business Week in Paris it had won four new contracts to be launched on its Ariane 5 ECA rocket. Arianespace also has another two potential contracts in the pipeline. These four take the total contracts won this year to 11. The new contracts cover launch orders from: Intelsat (Intelsat 36) […]
Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) has won a tender for Qatar’s second satellite. Es’hail-2 is scheduled to be launched at the end of 2016. Es’Hail-2 will be co-located with Es’Hail-1 (itself a joint-venture satellite with Eutelsat) at 26 degrees East hot spot over the MENA region. Al Jazeera and beIN Sports are already using Es’hail […]
Raycom’s 53 local stations that it either owns or manages have been dark on DirecTV’s DTH service for the past 7 days, but with the all-important NFL kick-off start-time of 1pm Sunday looming, the two protagonists reached a – literally – 11th hour deal “in principle”. The important local stations went dark on September 1 […]
RRsat a leading provider of global digital media services to the broadcast industry, announced a company-wide rebrand to RR Media to reflect a significant expansion in its global service offering. This includes: an advanced, scalable media services platform turning ever richer content into ever richer experiences; enhanced media centres including hubs in the New York […]
Japan’s Internal Affairs & Communications Ministry has issued the most bullish forecast yet of the country’s take-up of Ultra-HD, in both 4K and 8K versions. The ministry says that both 4K and 8K experimental broadcasts will start in 2016 paving the way for full-scale transmissions – in both formats – starting in 2018. All broadcasting […]
SpaceX, the new rocket launch business owned by billionaire PayPal founder Elon Musk, successfully launched the joint AsiaSat-6/Thaicom-7 satellite. The J-V satellite was built by Space Systems/Loral. SpaceX’s giant Falcon-9 rocket successfully lifted off at 1am local time (05.00 UTC) on early Sunday morning, September 7, from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida. The AsiaSat-6 […]