https://spacewatch.global/tag/geostationary-orbit-geo/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:00:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/geostationary-orbit-geo/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2021/04/esa-and-airbus-set-new-geo-standards-with-onesat-design/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:00:26 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=32193&preview=true&preview_id=32193 Paris, 23 April 2021. – Fresh wind in GEO: The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus completed the design of OneSat, a new standard of a software defined and fully reprogrammable satellite platform, Airbus and ESA said. The fully reconfigurable OneSat product line features major innovations and disruptive technologies, ESA and Airbus said.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/spacewatchgl-oped-the-case-for-leosat-new-orbits-new-opportunities/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11631 When talking about GEO versus NGSO systems – predominantly LEO and MEO – one typically ends up in a discussion about latency and how MEO and LEO are capable of offering much lower latencies relative to the traditional GEO satellites. Alternatively one may also end up in an endless debate about satellite pricing and how it will come down by virtue of so much (NGSO) capacity flooding the market, causing many challenges for many satellite operators.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/07/facebook-building-leo-broadband-satellite-to-bridge-digital-divide-in-africa/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:00:46 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9571 Social media giant Facebook has confirmed that one of its subsidiaries, PointView Tech LLC, is building a satellite dubbed Athena that will be placed in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and provide Gigabite-quantity Internet services in digitally deprived areas such as Africa.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/01/early-indications-suggest-successful-al-yah-3-launch-opening-new-markets/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:00:01 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7259 Early indications suggest that Arianespace has successfully launched Yahsat’s Al Yah-3 and SES’s SES-14 communications satellites into geostationary orbit. The launch, designated VA241 by Arianespace, was conducted by an Ariane 5 space launch vehicle from the Kourou space launch centre in French Guiana, located in Latin America. An Arianespace press release issued at the time […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/01/uaes-yahsat-prepares-al-yah-3-satcom-launch/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 05:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7255 Arianespace have completed the integration of Yahsat’s Al Yah-3 communications satellite to the Ariane 5 space launch vehicle (SLV) that is due to launch it and another satellite on January 25, 2018, from the Kourou launch facility in French Guiana. The other satellite, SES-14, belonging to satellite communications provider SES, has also been integrated to […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/01/satcom-along-belt-road-sri-lankas-supremesat-receives-investment-chinas-tatwah-smartech-co-ltd/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 05:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7148 Xiaoru Cai, the Chairman of China’s Tatwah Smartech Co. Ltd., took part in a ceremony on January 15, 2018, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, announcing a U.S.$30 million investment in SupremeSAT, the only Sri Lankan satellite communications company. The investment is intended to help SupremeSAT expand its geographical reach with its satellite communication services. SupremeSAT is […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/12/airbus-reaches-new-heights-satellite-communications-2018/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:00:17 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=6710 Airbus will mark new milestones next year with launches of innovative communications spacecraft that range from large, high-power relay platforms incorporating electric propulsion systems to compact, mass-produced units for a 900-satellite constellation providing affordable global internet access. Starting off 2018 will be the orbiting of the Airbus-built SES-14 for Luxembourg-based telecommunications satellite operator SES, scheduled […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/09/airbus-reshape-earth-observation-market-pleiades-neo-constellation/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 05:45:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5661 The production of Airbus’ four new very high resolution satellites, which together will form the Pléiades Neo constellation, is well on schedule for launch in 2020. They will join the already world leading Airbus constellation of optical and radar satellites and will offer enhanced performance and the highest reactivity in the market thanks to their […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/08/spacewatch-middle-east-interviews-qa-j-alberto-palacios-ceo-globalsat-group/ Sun, 06 Aug 2017 08:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5325 In the latest of our #SpaceWatchME Interviews, we speak to J. Alberto Palacios, CEO of Globalsat Group. This forward-thinking company is at the very forefront of satellite connectivity across the emerging and developed markets of the Americas. Here, Palacios explains the importance of being able to work with diversity across a fragmented market, the changes […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/04/israel-looking-use-brazilian-alcantara-site-space-launch/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=4112 Israel, along with France, Russia, and the United States, is seeking to use the Alcântara Launch Centre (CLA) located on the northeast Brazilian coast close to the equator, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. The Alcântara Launch Centre is the closest launch site to the Earth’s equator anywhere in the world. This special location provides […]]]>