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Hispasat’s Amazonas Nexus to enter into service

Hispasat’s new satellite has completed the necessary ground infrastructure for its entry into service in the middle of this year. Amazonas Nexus is specially designed to offer high quality connectivity for air and maritime mobility services and will effectively contribute to reduce the digital gap in Latin America in an efficient way. Hispasat has reached […]

May 4, 2023

Hispasat to provide satellite capacity in Greenland

Hispasat, the Spanish telecommunications satellite operator, has signed an agreement with Tele Greenland, the national communications company in Greenland, to lease space capacity on the Amazonas Nexus satellite until the end of its lifetime. The agreement will make it possible for Tele Greenland to improve Internet access in all remote towns and villages in North […]

October 8, 2021

Greenland: Extreme E on KNR

Off-road electric racing championship, Extreme E, has confirmed that Greenland’s flagship national television broadcaster, KNR (Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa), will air the championship’s Arctic X Prix live on its digital, terrestrial and cable television channels. The sport for purpose championship, which made its global debut in Saudi Arabia back in April this year, will make motorsport […]

August 4, 2021By Nik Roseveare

SES secures $14.5m Thule contract

The Government Solution division of satellite operator SES has secured a US contract to extend connectivity at the Thule, Greenland air base. The contract is valued at $14.5 million. SES says its solution leverages C-band technology, which is highly resilient to weather effects, and provides a dedicated reach-back beam leveraging single hop connectivity directly to […]

July 19, 2021By Chris Forrester