Focus: Middle East

Yahsat has selected Cobham Satcom to deliver a mobile broadband system, including ground infrastructure and products, to operate as part of Yahsat’s next-generation Thuraya 4-NGS system. Under the contract announced...

Khalid bin Ahmed Balkheyour has resigned as CEO of Arabsat, and the company’s board of directors has assigned Dr. Badr bin Nasser Al-Suwaidan to head the organization. The Arabsat board...

The Israel Space Agency awarded a contract to space computing systems company Ramon.Space to provide a space computing payload for a mission scheduled to launch in early 2022. Under the...

Gilat Satellite Networks grew its revenue by nearly half in the second quarter of 2021 compared to last year. The Israeli satellite networking tech company reported $56.9 million in revenues...

Spacecom has signed an extension deal worth $14 million with D.B.S. Satellite Services, which operates Yes DTH in Israel. Yes will continue to lease capacity from the AMOS-7 and AMOS-3...

Airbus has shipped Eutelsat’s QUANTUM satellite to French Guiana ahead of its July launch. The QUANTUM launch has been pushed back multiple times, and is now set for Arianespace launch...

AXESS Networks has deployed two new ST Engineering iDirect hubs into operation, the company announced June 24. This will aim to support increased demand of several clients in the Americas and EMEA....

Russia is preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite system that will give Tehran an unprecedented ability to track potential military targets across the Middle East and beyond, according...

Yahsat and Airbus have completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Thuraya 4-NGS next generation mobile telecommunications system, Yahsat announced  June 9. This step provided a comprehensive review, validating...

UAE-based mobile satellite service provider Thuraya has launched a new web-based maritime tracking and monitoring service called SatTrack. SatTrack is a turnkey subscription-based service that Thuraya developed in partnership with...