Month: November 2018

Cubic‘s Mission Solutions business division deployed its Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive (GATR) satcom and networking systems, as well as personnel, to support Florida’s hurricane disaster recovery efforts. Partnering with the United States Army‘s Transportable Tactical Command Communications (T2C2) project office, Cubic’s GATR satcom and networking systems have been set up in several locations throughout...

  Raytheon’s Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) completed a round of testing, preparing the program for its use on the GPS III launch next month. The tests were cybersecurity vulnerability assessments that tested the system’s ability to defend against both internal and external cyber threats. GPS OCX prevented the broadcast of corrupt navigation and...

China launched a BeiDou-3 satellite into Geostationary Orbit (GEO) for the first time, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 41st of the BeiDou navigation system, and will work with 16 other Beidou-3 satellites already in-orbit. It is also the first BeiDou-3 satellite in high orbit,...

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide its ground network for China Satcom‘s ChinaSat-18 (CS-18). The nationwide Ka-band coverage, now to be provided by CS-18 and ChinaSat-16 (CS-16), will be supported by Gilat’s single platform, supporting multiple applications across China. China Satcom’s CS-18 Ka-band will be launched in mid-2019, thus completing the company’s Ka High Throughput Satellite...

Airbus will deliver the first European Service Module (ESM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft from its aerospace site in Bremen, Germany on Nov. 5 2018. An Antonov cargo aircraft will fly the ESM to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the result of four years of development and construction, and is a key milestone...

Harris provided Lockheed Martin with its sixth of ten navigation payloads contracted for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III satellite program. The GPS III navigation payload features a Mission Data Unit (MDU) with a 70 percent digital design that links atomic clocks, radiation-hardened processors and powerful transmitters – helping enable signals to be more accurate than...

Telesat reported its latest set of results, in which it saw total revenue remain relatively stable – with an increase in consolidated revenue, but a major dip in net income. Total revenue for the nine months to the end of September was $513 million (CA$671 million), a decrease of about $3 million (CA$4 million) compared...

Telefónica said it is further expanding its service coverage into Latin America as a result of sustained growth and increased demand in 2018.The company’s wholesale business unit, Telefónica International Wholesale Services (TIWS), is adding geographic numbers for Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panamá into its Global SIP Trunk service, Voice in the Cloud. TIWS...

Viasat achieved revenues of $517.5 million in the three months to the end of September. This represents a year-on-year increase of 31.6 percent, compared to $393.1 million in the same quarter last year – a significant increase. As for its satellite services segment, it achieved revenues of $163 million, representing an increase both year-on-year and sequentially....

Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have re-elected China’s Houlin Zhao as ITU Secretary-General during the Union’s 20th Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-18) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The election took place during the Plenary session of the PP-18 conference. Zhao, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) engineer who has served in a variety of...