Focus: Ground Systems

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, a U.S. national security solutions provider, was awarded an $11 million contract by Kacific Broadband Satellites, to design and build ground stations for Kacific’s new Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) network. The Kacific-1 High Throughput Satellite (HTS), launching in 2019, will deliver broadband services to Pacific Rim and South East Asia. Kratos will help address...

Cubic‘s Mission Solutions (CMS) business division received orders worth more than $55 million to deliver its inflatable satellite communication and networking systems to the U.S. Army. These orders will satisfy the Army’s upcoming fielding need for 1.2- and 2.4-meter Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive (GATR) systems, associated spares, as well as training and sustainment support....

Gilat Satellite Networks signed an $18 million contract to provide ground infrastructure that Russian satellite operator Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) will use to launch a nationwide broadband network. Gilat will contribute a multiservice platform and user terminals that will operate over Gazprom’s Yamal 601 Ka-band satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2019. The satellite’s 32...

Earth station weather protection solutions provider Walton De-Ice won a contract to provide de-icing systems to a major U.S. teleport. US Electrodynamics (USEI) will add Walton’s Plenum Hot-Air De-Icing systems to its new antennas to protect its teleports during the winter season. USEI, headquartered in Brewster, Washington, provides government, commercial and private satellite and terrestrial teleport...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions demonstrated successful performance on the second phase of a pathfinder study for migrating the Command and Control System – Consolidated (CCS-C) ground system to the Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) architecture. CCS-C currently operates a fleet of over 20 Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) satellites from four different spacecraft families. In phase two,...

Communications and Power Industries (CPI) acquired Orbital Systems and Quorum Communications from its co-founders. The acquired companies design and manufacture associated ground-based full-motion antenna products that play a key role in communications applications. Orbital Systems provides antenna systems primarily for communications with earth observation satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Telemetry, Tracking, and Control...

IMT Vislink, a XG Technology brand, will display new Advent satellite communication products at this year’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) show in Amsterdam at Stand 1.A69. IMT Vislink’s Advent satellite products help operators access end-to-end satellite communication workflows and provide turnkey deployments in the field. IMT Vislink has updated its satcom line to include the new...

The satellite world is buzzing with the emergence of new HTS players in Geostationary Equatorial Orbit (GEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), and mega constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As users of technology, we all want more. More data, ubiquitous connectivity, and high reliability, so satellite operators are meeting our hunger for bandwidth by building...

Atlas Space Operations believes its new X-Band electronically steered array system could well turn out to be a defining moment for the company. The company yesterday that it has deployed this array system – LINKS, for the first time, which the company is hailing as a major breakthrough. The 4-element array consists of 16 individual...

Dutch Hiber and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) are teaming up to create a state-of-the-art and reliable ground station infrastructure for Hiber’s Low Power Global Area Network (LPGAN), named Hiberband, the companies announced today. The first two satellites of the Hiberband constellation (Hiber One and Hiber Two) will be launched in the last quarter of this...