Latest Ku band Stories
SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announces that Crawford Communications, Inc. (Crawford) has contracted a total bandwidth of 20 MHz on the NSS-7 satellite at the orbital location of 338 degrees East for a period of five years. Crawford has been awarded a long-term contract to provide content aggregation, media, Internet and satellite services for the U.S. military's Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS). This dedicated operation provides a reliable...
SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced today a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement with the Essel Group for the provision of C-band satellite capacity to support the digitalization of India's vast cable infrastructure comprising more than 70 million homes. The agreement is for capacity ramping up to six transponders over a five year period, and initially covers capacity on NSS-703 at 57(degrees) East, transitioning to NSS-12 in 2009. The Essel Group is...
MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Measat Global Bhd, said the Measat-3a satellite has secured a launch on August 21. The fourth satellite in the Measat fleet, Measat-3a has been designed to expand Measat's C-Band and Ku-Band satellite capacity at the organisation's key 91.5E orbital location. Constructed by Orbital Sciences Corp, Measat-3a will be launched on a LandLaunch Zenith-3SLB launch vehicle. (c) 2008 New Straits Times. Provided by ProQuest Information and...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath company specializing in compact, quick-to-air and easy-to-use mobile satellite communications equipment, is expanding its innovative line of CommuniCase(R) Technology (CCT) terminals to feature Ka and X band capability as well as Ku band capability. The new CCT systems, the lightest and most compact high-bandwidth systems available, will enable mobile warfighters operating beyond the edge of the network to...
EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) today announced that its subsidiary, EchoStar Satellite Operating Corporation (ESOC), has entered into a contract with National Programming Service, LLC (NPS) to provide domestic satellite capacity. The multi-year contract will provide full-time capacity to support the NPS consumer satellite programming business. "We are extremely pleased to be in a position to support the satellite capacity needs of NPS," said Michael Kelly, executive...
