Focus: Asia-Pacific

Three months ago, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise announcement that India successfully took down a redundant satellite with an Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile from Earth. A new report...

Tom Choi is wasting no time as he looks to make his mark in the satellite industry, post ABS. Having launched Curvalux, an affordable and power efficient wireless broadband platform,...

Hughes Network Systems’  JUPITER System platform was selected by five service providers to help bridge the digital divide across Indonesia. The service providers – including Lintasarta, Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN),...

The governments of South Korea and Japan are each in the midst of building up their respective position, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite constellations to provide more accurate service to...

MEASAT Satellite Systems revealed its agreement with Celebrities Management Private Limited (CMPL) to distribute the Travelxp 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) channel across the Asia Pacific. The international travel channel...

Spaceflight will launch seven spacecraft from five organizations later this month on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 at the southern tip of Mahia Peninsula, on the east...

Viasat revealed its plans to launch a Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Alice Springs, Australia. Viasat has partnered with the Center for Appropriate Technology Ltd (CfAT), an Aboriginal not-for-profit science and...

Orbital Insight opened an office in Singapore. This is the company’s seventh office location, and the second dedicated sales office to open in Asia in the past 16 months. The...

Virgin Orbit signed an agreement with ANA Holdings (ANA HD), parent company of All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest airline, to bring the company’s LauncherOne service to Japan. Subject to...

Russia successfully launched the Proton M/Breeze M integrated launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on May 30 at 8:42 p.m. (Moscow time), and injected the Yamal-601 telecommunication satellite into orbit....