Focus: Ground Systems

KSAT is providing ground station support for a smallsat mission from a Norwegian university that is working to detect toxic algae blooms that threaten the region’s fish farm industry. This is the first time KSAT will provide ground station services to a Norwegian university mission.  On Tuesday, KSAT announced that under its contract with the...

Gilat Satellite Networks has been awarded more than $10 million for a five-year service project to provide 4G backhaul services in Latin America. Gilat said in a Monday announcement that this contract calls for providing coverage to half a million people in hundreds of sites in rural areas, and comes with tens of millions of...

ViaLite has released new technology that enables users to see what is happening at the antenna end of smaller Satcom and GPS receiver applications, the company announced Aug. 3. The company’s Embedded Site Controller is now available for ViaLite ODE-A4 outdoor enclosures, as well as the ODE-MINI; ViaLite’s smallest outdoor enclosures. The hardware and software...

The Russian Government referred Comtech Telecommunications’ application for regulatory approval of its acquisition of UHP Networks to its Commission for Supervising Foreign Investments for review under Russia’s Foreign Investment Law.  Comtech said that it now plans to submit its application for regulatory approval to the Commission “as soon as possible.” Comtech entered into an agreement...

Smallspark Space Systems and Leaf Space, an Italian ground segment services provider, revealed on July 17 that they entered into an agreement to offer ground station services to the U.K. government and U.K. private sector clients. Smallspark and Leaf Space plan to deliver joint bids for projects with the U.K. government and other commercial operators...

Gilat Satellite Networks has delivered a solution for Telefonica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) for a satellite communication project in Argentina including rural broadband services and cellular backhaul.  The companies announced Thursday that Telefonica chose Gilat’s SkyEdge II-c multi-service platform. Gilat delivered the SkyEdge II-c hub and 1700 VSATs within a couple of weeks, despite obstacles...

“It’s a satellite terminal that behaves like a mobile phone.” This is how Robert Bell, executive director of the World Teleport Association (WTA) describes a successful modern-day Earth Station in Motion, or ESIM. “Nobody has to think about where a cell tower is in relationship to their phone, or about its changing relative position when...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s acquisition of Gilat Satellite Networks looks to be in trouble as Comtech has filed a complaint against Gilat alleging its business has taken a major hit, and taking issue with the restructuring of a Russian subsidiary.  On Tuesday, Comtech and its subsidiary, Convoy Ltd. filed a complaint against Gilat in the Delaware...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. subsidiary Comtech Xicom Technology has received a $1.5 million contract from a major satellite service provider for Ka-band Gateway Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs), Comtech announced Monday. The 500W Ka-band TWTAs will be delivered later this year for a Tracking, Telemetry, and Command (TT&C) application. The contract is worth more than $1.5...

Viasat Inc. and Indigenous companies in Australia’s Northern Territory have opened a ground station facility in Alice Springs. The facility was built, project-managed, and owned by Indigenous companies, the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CfAT) and its subsidiaries Ekistica Ltd. and CfAT Satellite Enterprises, in partnership with Indigenous Business Australia (IBA).  The Viasat Real-Time Earth (RTE)...