SAT Expo News

Paris, February 17th  2011 – The Board of Directors’ of Eutelsat Communications under the chairmanship of Giuliano Berretta, adopted the financial results for the halfyear ended December 31, 2010. Commenting on the half year 2010 2011 results, Michel de Rosen, CEO of Eutelsat Communications, said: “The excellent results of this first half underscore, once again, [...]

Paris 23 February 2011 – New Media Legend, one of Russia’s principal suppliers of uplink services for pay-TV platforms and channels, has selected the 36° East satellite neighborhood operated by Eutelsat  Communications for a new broadcasting platform providing Russian and international channels to complement the NTV Plus and Tricolor TV platforms. Following the signature of [...]

Paris, February 15th 2011 – Elettronica Industriale, the network operator of Italy’s Mediaset Group, and Eutelsat  Communications today announced the signature of a 12-year contract for capacity at the HOT BIRD™ video neighbourhood. The new contract for one transponder further consolidates a 20-year relationship between the two companies, increasing Mediaset’s HOT BIRD™ resources to five [...]

Kourou-Paris,  February 24th 2011 – Eight days after launch, ESA’s latest Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, completed a flawless rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station, to deliver essential supplies. The approach and docking were achieved autonomously by its own computers, closely monitored by ESA and French space agency (CNES) teams at the ATV [...]

Rome, March 3rd 2011 – Telespazio, Finmeccanica-Thales group, took part to the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit  hold from 1 to 3 March in Munich. The event  is dedicated to the issues and prospects surrounding the development of global satellite navigation systems. Telespazio in its own stand presented its services in the field of satellite navigation. [...]

Rome, 10/02/2011 The Emergency Team of e-GEOS, an ASI/Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) company, has acquired COSMO-SkyMed satellite images of the Italian oil tanker “Savina Caylyn”, seized by pirates in the Indian Ocean on 8 February. The data provided by the Italian COSMO-SkyMed radar satellites has enabled the location of the ship to be pinpointed, confirming the position [...]

Paris, 27 January 2011 As France enters its second year of transition into a fully digital broadcasting environment, with complete analogue switch-off set for 30 November, Eutelsat’s FRANSAT subsidiary reports that over 800,000 set-top-boxes have been shipped to receive Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) channels by satellite via the FRANSAT platform. A further 200,000 FRANSAT connections [...]

Dubai, 7 February 2011 With the Middle East and North Africa representing some of the most vibrant markets for satellite-delivered digital entertainment, enterprise and government services, key players assembled in Dubai for the annual CABSAT exhibition and conference. Eutelsat Communications, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, has been exhibiting once again at this major [...]

Vicenza, February 16th  2011 – In its recently released report, “Video Transmission Services over Satellite, Global Market Analysis & Forecasts to 2020”, Euroconsult, a leading international consulting and analyst firm in the satellite sector, forecasts that the market value for video transmission services over satellite — including video distribution services for TV channels and contribution [...]

Rome, February 01st  2011 – e-GEOS, a Telespazio/ASI company, took part in DGI 2011 (Defence Geospatial Intelligence), the conference and exhibition devoted to geospatial information for defence and security applications,  held from 24 to 27 January, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London. e-GEOS presented in its own stand its integrated range of [...]