Latest X-band Satellite Communication news
April 16, 2013
16 April 2013 - Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, will soon be able to offer near-global coverage in X-band with the successful entry into service of Skynet 5D and the launch of its hosted payload on Telesat’s Anik G1 satellite.
Evert Dudok, CEO of Astr
April 11, 2013
27 November 2012 - Astrium Services has received an order to fit six UK Royal Navy mine countermeasure vessels with a military X-band satellite communications capability via the Skynet 5 constellation. This will be achieved by fitting Astrium’s latest milspec maritime satellite terminals. Known as Deployable Maritime Milsat (DMM), this project will a
January 24, 2013
December 19th 2012 - Ariane 5 has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 53rd time in a row and the seventh time this year, once again confirming the extraordinary reliability of the European launch vehicle under industrial prime contractorship of Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company. Astrium played a triple role in this launch, res
July 10, 2012
MELBOURNE, Fla./FAIRFAX, Va. – July 10, 2012 — Harris CapRock Communications, a global provider of fully managed communications for remote and harsh environments, has signed a multi-year, multi-channel agreement with Astrium Services to offer end-to-end Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Tactical Satellite solutions to international and U.S. Government users. The joint Harris Ca
May 31, 2012
OTTAWA, CANADA, May 31, 2012 – Telesat, a leading global satellite operator, and Astrium Services, through its Telecom Governmental Division, announced today that they are combining capabilities to meet the growing satellite communications needs of Canada’s federal agencies.
“Telesat and Astrium are able
October 13, 2010
OTTAWA, CANADA, October 13, 2010 – Telesat, the world’s fourth largest fixed satellite services operator, announced today that Paradigm Services, a part of Astrium Services’ Telecoms Division, has entered into a 15 year contract for the full X-band payload of three transponders on Telesat’s Anik G1 satellite.
Anik G1 is a multipurpose satellite that will operate in geos
March 17, 2010
Bethesda, MD, Mar. 17, 2010 – Intelsat General Corporation has been awarded a contract by DRS Technical Services, Inc. to provide X-band satellite connectivity in Southwest Asia on two X-band satellites owned and operated by XTAR, LLC and Paradigm Secure Communications.
In addition, IGC will offer managed network services from its teleport in Fuchsstadt, Germany, to provide o
March 15, 2010
Bethesda, MD, March 15, 2010 -- Intelsat General Corp. and Paradigm Secure Communications, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astrium, have teamed to develop broadband satellite service to the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
The contract is with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center of Charleston, SC, for the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs,
March 9, 2010
Portsmouth, 9th March 2010 – Paradigm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium Services, has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to extend and enhance the Skynet 5 private finance initiative (PFI) programme. This will involve the manufacture, launch, test and operation of a fourth satellite, Skynet 5D, and the extension of the Skynet 5 contract by two years unti
