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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been selected by SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) to provide a new satellite that will expand direct-to-home broadcasting and other communications services to the fast-growing markets of Northeast Asia, South Asia and Indonesia, as well as maritime communications for vessels in the Indian Ocean. SES-9 - ordered through SES' affiliate company SES Satellite Leasing Ltd. - will be a...
EVRY, France, Dec. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new global, high-speed, satellite-based internet network for telecommunications operators and ISPs, has exercised the first of the two options in its contract with Arianespace for an additional launch in 2014 for the O3b Networks' satellite constellation. By exercising this option, O3b has allocated a total of three launches of 12 satellites to Arianespace. The first eight O3b satellites are...
A Canadian company has announced plans to place 78 satellites in orbit in order to provde Internet in space. The "CommStellation" project would be deployed from 2014-2015. It would require six rockets to take the platforms to an altitude 621 miles above the Earth. The network will link the traffic of local telecoms and Internet service providers to the global fiber infrastructure. Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) has not revealed the details of financing. MSCI said many...
ST. JOHN, Jersey, Channel Islands, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new global, high-speed, low latency, fiber-like satellite-based Internet service for telecommunications operators and ISPs in emerging markets, has signed a contract with ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) for the production and installation of Ka-band infrastructure. The value of the contract is approximately $47 million. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091216/VIASATLOGO) ViaSat will...
ORLANDO, Fla., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of people around the world are searching for God. In response, Global Media Outreach (GMO), a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International, is sending faithful churchgoers ... to their computers, training them to become online missionaries out of their homes. "People are looking for answers. And, not surprisingly, they are looking for those answers on the Internet," says Dr. Allan Beeber, director of GMO's Orlando office. According to...
MONTREAL, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantech Satellite Networks announces it has entered into a technology partnership with O3b Networks, Ltd, a newly established satellite operator headquartered in Jersey, Channel Islands. Recognized for pioneering satellite-based DVB standardized communications technology, Advantech will build features into its SatNet DVB-S2/ACM platform to interoperate with O3b's Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Satellite Constellation, enabling partners to access O3b's...
HERNDON, Va., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), today announced that it has entered into a technology partnership with O3b Networks Ltd., a newly established satellite operator headquartered in Jersey, UK. iDirect will build features into its iDX platform operating software so that its partners can access O3b's Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite network through the Evolution DVB-S2/ACM product line. iDirect is a world leader in...
In response to the international credit crisis, telecoms have stepped up their level of collaboration with uncommon partners in a strategic move towards recession-proofing. Sharon Nakama, Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC), forecasts a major reduction to the number of costly projects - such as network infrastructure-building - which are financed and operated by just one entity. Instead, she points to consortiums of varied and diverse members such as the...
KYIV. Sept 24 (Interfax) - The Sea Launch international consortium has signed an agreement on two cluster launches of a Zenith-3SL launch vehicle carrying 16 telecommunications satellites for the O3b Networks satellite system, which is currently under construction, from a launch pad in the Pacific Ocean. The consortium's spokeswoman Paula Korn told Interfax that eight Thales Alenia Space satellites weighing 700 kilograms each are to be put into near-equatorial orbit with a height of 7,825...
By From news reports Google and HSBC have thrown their weight behind a plan to provide inexpensive high-speed Web access by satellite to millions in Africa and other emerging markets. The system will become operational by late 2010, according to a statement Tuesday from O3b Networks, based in Britain and backed by the two companies and Liberty Global, the U.S. cable operator controlled by John Malone. Thales, the largest defense electronics maker in Europe, said it had started construction...
