SAT Expo News

Paris, April 4, 2011 – Eutelsat Communications announced a new contract between its Skylogic broadband subsidiary and the French Internet service provider Sat2Way for distribution, from mid-2011, of the Tooway™ new-generation broadband service on the KASAT satellite. The agreement builds on a long-term collaboration, since early 2008, when Sat2Way launched the first-generation Tooway™ service using [...]

Frascati, April 4th, 2011 – Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, visited ESA’s ESRIN facility in Frascati, near Rome, on Monday 4 April. During his visit, he was briefed by Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation programmes at ESA, on the operations of the International Charter on Major Disasters [...]

Roma, April 8th, 2011 – Telespazio is taking part in LAAD (Latin American Aero and Defence) Exhibition 2011, which is held in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, from 12-15 April. Telespazio is present within the Finmeccanica Group stand, together with AgustaWestland, Alenia Aeronautica, Alenia Aermacchi, DRS Technologies, Oto Melara, SELEX Communications, SELEX Galileo e SELEX Sistemi [...]

Paris, April 4th 2011 – The European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation with the European Commission and the Telemedicine Task Force (TTF), has awarded the SAHEL demonstration project (Satellite African e-HEalth Validation) to a consortium led by Astrium. The demonstrator, which will be installed in Kenya and Senegal, will play a key role in the [...]

Paris, Berlin, March 28th 2011 – Skylogic, the broadband subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, and skyDSL Global GmbH, a European pioneer of satellite Internet services, announce the extension of their longstanding partnership with an initial five-year contract amounting to €3 million enabling skyDSL to market the next-generation Tooway™ service provided by KASAT, Eutelsat’s powerful new High [...]

Warsaw, 24 March 2011 – Eutelsat has been awarded a ‘Crystal Antenna of the World of Media’ for spearheading Poland’s first live satellite transmission in 3D for CANAL + Cyfrowy, operator of the Cyfra +, premium TV platform in Poland. The Award was announced at the Great Gala Award ceremony, held in Warsaw on 23 [...]

Paris, San Diego (CA), March 15 – Tachyon Networks, developer of the aXiom Series of end-to-end remote networking solutions for fixed, portable and comms-on-the-move (COTM) applications and Eutelsat America Corp., the American subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), one of the world’s leading satellite operators, today announced that Tachyon is expanding its broadband capacity [...]

Paris, 22 March 2011 – ESA Member States participating in the International Space Station (ISS) exploitation program have decided to concur with the ISS partners’ objective to extend the duration of their involvement in ISS cooperation until the end of 2020. Participating States have committed €550 million to cover the period until the next Ministerial [...]

Paris, Hannover, March 14th  2011 – Skylogic, the broadband subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, and Sat Internet Services GmbH today sealed a distribution agreement for broadband services using the powerful KA-SAT High Throughput Satellite. The initial three-year broadband utility contract, worth more than €5million, will enable Sat Internet Services to market Eutelsat‘s next generation Tooway™ service [...]

Rome, March 14th 2011 – Ultra-high resolution satellite images of the areas of Japan hit by the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March are now available on the website of e-GEOS, a Telespazio/Italian Space Agency (ASI) company. In the wake of the disaster, e-GEOS acted immediately to document the situation in the areas affected using [...]