Focus: Middle East

Eutelsat has selected Satellite Mediaport Services (SMS Teleport) to provide back-up teleport-based broadcast satellite services for its EUTELSAT 8 West B satellite. SMS Teleport said it is providing Eutelsat with...

Infostellar’s customers will have access to Azercosmos’ satellite constellations from the Azercosmos Ground Station (AGS), located in the Absheron Peninsula, according to an agreement the companies announced on Feb. 6....

Comtech Telecommunications has agreed to acquire Israeli ground segment company Gilat Satellite Networks in a transaction that could produce a “dominant” force in the cellular backhaul market. Comtech announced Wednesday...

Eutelsat Communications’ has announced that its EUTELSAT 7C satellite has entered full commercial service and is ready to support broadcast customers across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Turkey. On...

Arianespace successfully launched a dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission from French Guiana on Thursday, placing the EUTELSAT KONNECT and GSAT-30 into geostationary transfer orbit. The launch, designated Flight VA251, was Arianespace’s...

Defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will develop and build the State of Israel’s national communications satellite, “Dror 1,” the company announced on Thursday. Dror 1 built by the state-owned...

Over the next hundred years, space could become more accessible to people than ever before — and not just the preserve of the few and the super rich. For that...

El Al Israel Airlines and Viasat expanded their relationship by adding the Boeing 777 widebody fleet to the mix of El Al aircraft with Viasat’s equipment for In-Flight Connectivity (IFC)....

Agreements between SES, the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters (AEB), and the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) helped enable the recent launch of Ethiosat – the first-ever dedicated Ethiopian TV platform to...

NanoRacks is opening and staffing its first office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi’s Hub71, a global tech ecosystem driven by Mubadala Investment Company, backed by the...