KT Corp to use Koreasat satellites to connect families in the 2 Koreas
Following the landmark summit between North and South Korea last month, South Korea’s largest telco KT Corporation (KT) has announced it will use its Koreasat satellites to reunite families across the...
India launches GSAT-6A using improved GSLV Mark II
Update, 1 April 2018: ISRO has lost contact with the GSAT-6A, with the following statement being released on the website:
"After the successful long duration firings, when the satellite was on course...
DS-SAR satellite acquired by Singapore’s defence technology agency & ST Electronics
Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), the executive technology agent for the country’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), has jointly acquired a new earth observation satellite with ST Electronics, a Singapore-based...
US Air Force Research Lab and Saber Astronautics sign space ops contract
According to a Saber Astronautics press release, the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate has awarded space engineering company Saber Astronautics a contract to develop new capabilities for...
Ariane 5 launches DSN-1/Superbird-8 & HYLAS 4
On Thursday April 5, Arianespace conducted its third launch of the year and the 98th launch of Ariane 5. The launch saw Ariane 5 orbit two geostationary communications satellites - DSN-1/Superbird-8,...
Interview: Spire Global
Spire Global is a prominent NewSpace company with offices in San Francisco, Boulder, Glasgow and Singapore. The company develops its own CubeSats, which it uses to collect data that it monetises.
Founded...
Interview: Audacy aspires to be the ‘telco’ for spacecraft
Audacy, a space communications service provider, is working towards developing a space-based data relay system using three Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites (scheduled to launch in 2019) and two ground stations....
AsiaSat issued US patent for mitigating spectrum imbalance
AsiaSat has just been issued a U.S. patent for methods and systems to mitigate the imbalance of uplink and downlink spectrum allocation in satellite communications.
This patent will be used to address...
Russia & China to extend GLONASS-BeiDou collaboration
On October 13 2017, the 4th meeting of the Russia-China Committee for Projects on Strategic Cooperation in the field of Satellite Navigation was held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The meeting was...
Satellite innovation in APAC
We are at an interesting juncture for the satellite industry on a global scale. The market is evolving with more demand than ever before for satellite connectivity. Indeed, at a recent...
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