Focus: Middle East

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched the GSAT-29 satellite into Geostationary Orbit (GEO), carried onboard the GSLV Mark III launch vehicle. The satellite was launched from Satish Dhawan Space...

With the huge amount of attention given to High Throughput Satellites (HTS), Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations, and NewSpace, it is easy to forget that the bread and butter of...

Three African telecom companies have selected the Hughes Jupiter System to power delivery of satellite broadband services for their customers. According to the release, Botswana Telecommunications, Satcom Networks Africa (SatCoNet), and an East...

CETel signed another contract to deliver fiber-like connectivity into Africa utilizing O3b‘s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation. The long-term contract supports an African communications and technology solutions provider to...

Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have re-elected China’s Houlin Zhao as ITU Secretary-General during the Union’s 20th Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-18) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The election...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) successfully delivered the KhalifaSat satellite into orbit today, via the H-IIA launch vehicle F40. KhalifaSat was manufactured by the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC). The...

Fleet and mobile asset management technology company MiX Telematics has entered into a contract to provide telematics solutions to Algeria’s leading oil & gas producer, Sonatrach. MiX’s channel partner in...

African connectivity service provider Q-KON will combine a cloud-based management platform with the IntelsatOne Flex platform to deploy affordable broadband services and applications for smaller businesses throughout Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia,...

Intelsat has made a strategic investment in Africa Mobile Networks (AMN),  to accelerate the deployment of mobile connectivity to unserved communities across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa. AMN aims to provide...

Garmin announced Instinct, a watch with Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), and Europe’s Galileo satellite support, built-in 3-axis compass, and a barometric altimeter. In addition...