News and Products of Note for SATCOM

News and Products of Note for SATCOM

​News and Products of Note for SATCOM

Media companies and broadcasters invest millions in contribution networks to provide real-time news to the public—ND SatCom’s News-On-The-Move system enables news teams to instantly transmit live streams of moving scenes from any location via VSAT networks.

Although High Throughput Satellites (HTS) using spot beam technology began to emerge in commercial satellite communications more than a decade ago, only over the last five years has the market for HTS exploded, with new market entrants such as Avanti and Yahsat launching a fleet of Ka-band HTS to start offering high throughput satellite services—the traditional satellite operators have quickly followed suit and are establishing HTS capacity in orbit to the point where the majority of operators now have, or are planning, HTS launches.

In a remote region of Norway, an innovative network that provides Internet access, telephony and TV programming has been created to serve this area’s scattered and often isolated population.

There’s something of a ‘battle Royale’ going on in Europe between two rival shareholders in Spanish satellite operator Hispasat—this disagreement concerns Eutelsat and a Spanish infrastructure company, Abertis. Eutelsat owns 33.69 percent of Hispasat, Abertis owns 57 percent.

IBC forms an important reference point in the business timeline of any broadcast equipment manufacturer or systems integrator.

After the satellite’s 2015 launch and an extensive testing period, Telenor’s first growth satellite, THOR 7, is ready to initiate commercial service.

The biggest cause of interference we experience are power levels that exceed nominal levels, malfunctioning equipment, RFI caused by human error, mis-pointed antennas, intentionally induced interference and piracy.

The world is entering a renaissance age for the smallsat.

During recent years, the smallsat (below 150 kg) market has rapidly expanded—from 180 launches in 2014 to an expected 630 launches in 2018—such an expansion signals some exciting changes are ahead for the industry.

People around the world are seldom aware of how satellites are truly beneficial to their everyday lives.

Space-based research and utilization are at an all-time high right now, and the industry is only growing.

One hundred and four years ago, the HMS Titanic embarked on an historic first—and last—voyage.

From the various experiences all have had with landline Internet connections, a general understanding is that a satellite Internet connection is performance limited to a given bandwidth.

Transportable VSAT antennas are used in many places—on the roof of a news truck, on the ground next to an emergency response trailer at the site of a natural disaster, in a parking lot at a large special event, mounted onto a camouflaged army transporter in a war zone, to name but a few locations. 

Life is changing at sea and competition in maritime communications is driving that change.

Many comments have been made regarding High Throughput Satellites (HTS)—and some of them are even true.

A new satellite era has arrived, one in which the dynamics of the industry are in continual transformation—the manner in which business is conducted will never again be the same. 

Mobile telephony has been in existence for more than 40 years—the first generation (1G) developed in the 1970s was based on analog standards, including Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) and Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT).

STN, the Satellite Telecommunications Network, transmits more than 600 TV channels and delivers global services via satellite and fiber from their massive, cutting-edge, teleport facilities in Dob, Slovenia, in the European Union (EU). 

Space-COTS are Commercial-Off-The-Shelf components that have been qualified for space applications and that follow international standards. Thanks to a new industrial test concept, Space-COTS match small satellite mission requirements efficiently and offer the best Price/Quality ratio for space hardware manufacturing.

In a recent Northern Skies Research report, the company stated that “the global market for Commercial Satellite Ground Equipment will grow from $5.6 Billion in 2015 to $11.5 Billion in 2025, generating over $100 Billion in cumulative revenue”—certainly such an analysis offers ground equipment manufacturers a reason to be optimistic as well as motivated for the future of their businesses and prompts them to develop and deliver the latest, most efficient technologies to address these growing markets.

With the rise of Over The Top Content (OTT) delivery and an ever-more competitive landscape, satellite broadcasters are under increasing pressure to deliver the targeted content at the correct time to the right platforms.

On November 28, 2016, 50 years will have passed since the first pre-cursor of the Soyuz spacecraft was launched as Kosmos-133. 

In a little more than a decade, KSAT has moved from being a newly established station operator in Svalbard with a few antennas to support polar orbiting satellites to be one of the world´s leading ground station providers.

As IBC2016 draws ever closer, Spacecom and the AMOS brand is generating praise in the Central and Eastern European, African, the Middle Eastern and Asian markets.

Wine is nature’s magical accident,” wrote former champion jockey and mystery writer Dick Francis. We enjoy wine today because naturally occurring yeast on grapes turns the sugar within them into alcohol. 

The world of satellite communications continues to evolve, demanding ever increasing diverse solutions for uplink amplifiers; new frequency bands, higher powers, smaller size, improved connectivity—providing products to satisfy this demand is the business focus of Spacepath Communications.

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