Visio sat sells a PC card that allows:
The availability of high speed Internet access via satellite will depend on whether agreements are signed between an archive exchange host and Eutelsat.
This card is sold with an SMC Visiosat Antenna 60 cm diameter. Read the rest of this entry »
Scandinavian satellite platform Canal Digital started using a new SIP trunking provider on the satellite Thor 5 ( 0.8), bearing the number 4 was previously used by another platform – Digi TV. The new multiplex DVB -S2 Digital Channel operates at a frequency of 11.785 GHz and is designed for HDTV. The package currently includes stations Rush HD , Nat Geo HD and HD Plata, encrypted in Conax . The end of April, increases with the ESPN HD channel multiplex. Read the rest of this entry »
Perhaps nothing distinguishes Man from all other creatures as much as his ability and his desire to communicate. Satellite technology, in a few short decades, has radically revolutionized how we communicate.
Making connections
When, in 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke published an article in the magazine ‘Wireless World’ describing the possibility of a global communications network based on three geosynchronous orbit (that is, with the same period of rotation as the Earth), reactions were skeptical, to say the least. No-one at the time could remotely imagine the immense developments in store for space communications.
Today, millions of users around the globe routinely use satellite services for a vast array of applications in work, for leisure, or just to keep in touch. Communications between people that used to take days or even months now take only a few moments or seconds via satellite television news from remote parts is beamed into our living rooms, colleagues in different countries can hold ‘face-to-face’ videoconferences, journalists can file their copy immediately from abroad, an anthropologist doing fieldwork in deepest Amazonia or a sailor on board ship on the high sea can call home, students in Africa can access the World Wide Web … Read the rest of this entry »
The UK MoD’s Skynet 5 program is delivering secure global music magazine communications services under a groundbreaking Private Finance Initiative (PFI) approach pioneered by Astrium Services’ subsidiary Paradigm, the first commercial provider of secure military communications services. Under the contract, signed in 2003, the MoD transferred ownership and operation of the existing Skynet 4 infrastructure to Paradigm, and the company is procuring and managing the introduction into service of three new-generation Skynet 5 satellites (due for launch in 2007-2008 ), a major upgrade of the fixed terrestrial infrastructure, networks and management systems in the UK and provision of a range of new terminals. All UK secure satellite communications needs, including maintenance and operation of the complete ground infrastructure, are delivered by Paradigm.
The program provides a range of services, including global mobile voice communications, video conferencing, multimedia-based communications and broadcast communications, as well as supplying a versatile range of shipborne and land-based terminals, for purchase or lease. Offering a ‘catalog of services’, Paradigm delivers tailored in-theater and back-to-base communications solutions for voice, data and video services from a single voice channel to a complete turnkey system incorporating terminals and network management, with supplementary services in training and consultancy. Under the Skynet 5 contract Paradigm is delivering the highly successful ‘Welfare’ Communications Service designed to keep troops serving abroad, on land or at sea, in touch with their friends and families back at home through voice and internet connectivity. Read the rest of this entry »
Stevenage and Guildford, on 13 January 2009 – Astrium, the European leader in space, has acquired the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). SSTL is the branch of the innovative University of Surrey, which specializes in the design and manufacture of small satellites and web directory subsystems. Approved by the European Commission in December 2008, this acquisition was announced today by Louis Gallois, CEO of EADS, at its January meeting with the press.
Colin Paynter, CEO of Astrium in the UK said “The acquisition of SSTL is great news. The UK space industry is now in a strong position. Astrium has a comfortable order book and is recruiting engineers, scientists and technicians to make scientific satellites, telecommunications, Earth observation and navigation This acquisition will complement the offer of Astrium with the expertise of SSTL in the field of small satellites and its method of developing new markets in space. ” Read the rest of this entry »