https://spacewatch.global/tag/qatar/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:00:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/qatar/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2022/09/spacewatchgl-share-satellite-services-from-qatars-eshailsat-for-all-of-mena/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=43111 The State of the Satellite Industry Report about a decade ago had estimated global industry revenues for 2013 as $189 Billion. The same report today, in its June 2022 edition estimates the global industry to be worth about $386 Billion annually. For an industry that has been carefully regulated and closely tracked by Governments around the world, the last decade of nearly doubling annual revenues is a stellar achievement.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/03/mitsubishi-electric-completes-new-satellite-production-facility/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:00:52 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=20686 This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/01/azerbaijans-azercosmos-inks-deals-with-digiturk-and-vodafone-for-satellite-services-in-turkey/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 06:00:34 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=18307 Azercosmos, Turkey's leading digital broadcasting platform Digiturk, and mobile phone operator Vodafone signed cooperation agreements on 27 December 2019. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/11/qatars-eshailsat-looking-to-enter-over-the-top-media-services-market/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 06:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17183 The Qatar Satellite Company, Es'hailSat, broadcaster of over 180 TV channels across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is mulling expansion into the growing over-the-top (OTT) media services market, an Es'hailSat executive said in a recent interview with Qatari newspaper The Peninsula.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/11/eshailsat-showcasing-the-capabilities-of-eshail-1-and-eshail-2-at-africacom-2019/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:44:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17004 Cape Town 12th November 2019 - Es’hailSat is exhibiting at the annual AfricaCom exhibition in Cape Town international convention center, the biggest and best tech event in Africa that gathers together senior decision-makers from the entire digital ecosystem. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/08/spacex-successfully-launches-amos-17-for-israels-spacecom/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:00:49 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=15509 On Tuesday, 6 August 2019, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, carrying the AMOS-17 satellite for Spacecom. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/06/arabsat-welcomes-french-tribunals-verdict-in-bein-satellite-television-dispute/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:00:13 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14630 The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) welcomes the Thursday, 13 June 2019, ruling issued by the President of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris on the false allegations made by Qatar’s beIN Sports and its French-based branch.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/eshail-2-in-commercial-service/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 06:00:49 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12988 https://spacewatch.global/2019/02/qatars-eshailsat-teams-with-bridgesat-to-provide-laser-satellite-communications/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:00:39 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12818 Es'hailSat, Qatar Satellite Company and BridgeSat have announced a strategic relationship that will provide businesses and governments across the Middle East with affordable access to laser-based satellite broadband services. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/syria-seeks-to-build-satellite-establish-a-space-programme/ Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11931 The Syrian Minister of Communications and Technology, Iyad Khatib, has stated the need for Syria to develop a space programme and launch its first satellite into orbit, the ministry said on 11 December 2018, according to Russian news outlet Sputnik International.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/qatars-eshail-2-successfully-launched-by-spacex-falcon-9-slv/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11395 SpaceX successfully launched the Es’hail-2 satellite for Qatar’s Es’hailsat on Thursday, 15 November 2018, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States. Liftoff occurred at 3:46 p.m. EST, or 20:46 UTC, and the satellite was deployed to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) about 32 minutes after launch.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/qatars-eshail-2-to-launch-on-spacex-falcon-9-slv-on-15-november-2018/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11238 Qatar’s Es’hailsat is expected to have its Es’hail-2 communications satellite launched on Thursday, 15 November 2018, on board a SpaceX Falcon-9 satellite launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/08/qatars-eshailsat-purchases-satellite-it-shared-with-eutelsat/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 05:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9888 Qatar’s Es’hailSat satellite communications company has purchased outright the satellite it has been sharing with Eutelsat - EUTELSAT-25B/Es'hail-1 - taking full control of the satellite now just named Es'hail-1. The purchase comes as the Qatari company awaits the launch later this year of Es'hail-2, built by Japanese satellite manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric Company (MELCO).]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/07/irans-leafminer-is-tehrans-latest-proxy-hacking-group-with-ambitious-espionage-agenda/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 05:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9657 U.S. cyber security company Symantec has revealed the existence of a new Iranian proxy hacking group they have named ‘Leafminer’ and that have been operating since early 2017. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/07/bahrains-inaugural-satellite-launch-slated-within-two-years/ Thu, 19 Jul 2018 05:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9506 The Bahrain News Agency has reported that the Kingdom is expected to launch its first satellite within the next two years. The country’s Space Agency has been dedicated to assembling an expert team that will oversee its development.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/middle-east-satellite-tv-geopolitics-saudi-owned-mbc-pulls-turkish-programming-off-air/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:00:46 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7745 This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/12/spacewatchme-review-2017-year-content/ Sun, 31 Dec 2017 06:00:25 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=6866 This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/11/qatars-eshailsat-talks-eshail-2-doha-teleport-discussions-eshail-3-4/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:05:12 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=6354 This content is for members only. 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