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From http://advanced-television.com/2017/01/04/eutelsat-scales-up-ultra-hd-content/ One day ahead of the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, where Ultra HD is set to be a continuing hot trend, satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has confirmed the launch of two new Ultra HD channels at its popular HOTBIRD video neighbourhood. Fashion TV’s new Ultra HD channel, FTV UHD and Travelxp 4K, the […]

From http://www.satnews.com/story.php?number=691763984 News of an agreement for production of a communications satellite for Japan, courtesy of builder, Lockheed Martin and launch services of Arianespace. Today’s contract reflects the transaction between SKY Perfect JSAT and Arianespace.   On January 4, 2017 Arianespace announced a launch service contract with SKY Perfect JSAT for JCSAT-17. It will be […]

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/mark-skelsey/space-is-no-longer-the-final-frontier-for-aussies/ We’re back in the space race. December was somewhat of a turning point for this fledgling industry. For decades, Australia has been left behind in the space race.   With no dedicated launch facility, nor a dedicated government space agency, Australia has looked on as overseas multinational companies and governments have dominated space-related […]

Intelsat 19 12432 H Sr 7500 Fec 5/6 “STS 12 Enc/ Mod 1” FTA NBL Feed Planned Satellite Launches in the Asia Pacific region for 2017   Telkom 3S Ariane 5 – VA235 Kourou 118.0°E 10 Ku tps and 32 C tps will replace Telkom 2 Koreasat 5A Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral 113.0°E G-Sat 9 […]

As of January 1st, the sale of TV sets with DVB-T/MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 encoding is no longer allowed in Italy. Retailers can market only TV sets with tuner compatible with the new second-generation digital terrestrial standard DVBT-2/HEVC, which allows for more efficient use of frequencies by an estimated 30 per cent compression of the signal. […]

China has opened what promises to be a busy year for space with the launch of the TJS-2 experimental communications technology satellite to geostationary orbit on Thursday. A Long March 3B carrier rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwestern China at 23:18 Beijing time (15:18 UTC). State media confirmed the launch […]

The sale of Harris Corp’s subsidiary CapRock Communications to Speedcast International, has closed. Harris announced the sale of CapRock to Hong-Kong and Australia-based Speedcast last October, for $425 million (€404.8m) in cash. The sale has now wrapped.   The sale places Speedcast as one of the world’s largest satellite communications networks, with an especially large […]

Right behind yesterday’s Explorer mission announcement, NASA has just announced two new Discovery missions to study the very early history of our solar system — the period about 10 million years after the hydrogen and helium in the sun burst into life. Known as Lucy and Psyche, the two missions will peer back in time […]