Focus: Middle East

ST Engineering iDirect revealed Tuesday that its long-term customer Paratus, an African telecommunications provider, deployed its iDirect modems with marine antenna from manufacturer and integrator KNS Inc. These modems and...

Arabsat contracted Airbus to build the BADR-8 telecommunications satellite. BADR-8 will replace and increase Arabsat’s capacity at the BADR hotspot at 26 degrees East. Additionally, the BADR-8 satellite will be...

Eutelsat Communications entered into a master service agreement with Strong Roots Ethiopia Broadcasting Service for Ku-band capacity on a 36 MHz transponder on Eutelsat’s EUTELSAT 8 West B satellite. The...

Maxar Technologies received more than $120 million in constellation service contract extensions from various, unnamed defense and intelligence customers in the Middle East and Asia, the company announced July 20....

SES launched a Free-to-Air (FTA) satellite channel delivering reliable, informative content about COVID-19. The channel – Fight COVID-19 – broadcasts content that is aimed at providing underserved and rural communities...

The acrimony between Comtech Telecommunications Corp. and Gilat Satellite Networks over the ongoing acquisition has heated up, as Comtech argues it is not required to close on the acquisition, and...

Intermap Technologies revealed a new contract with Zipline to deliver geospatial Elevation-as-a-Service to support their expanding medical operations in Africa, including on-demand emergency response to COVID-19 outbreaks. The subscription contract...

Yona Ovadia has stepped down from his position as CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks. The Israeli satellite networking company confirmed that its CFO and Chief Integration Officer Adi Sfadia will...

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) goes all the way to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to talk to Masood Mahmood, the CEO of Yahsat, one of...

Space Communication Technologies (SCT) selected SpaceBridge to supply an High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Multiple Spot Beam (MSB) Broadband Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Network. The network incorporates SpaceBridge’s ASAT System...