Calian® Group Ltd., a diverse products and services company providing innovative advanced technologies in communications, learning, cybersecurity and healthcare, is pleased to announce that NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has once again entrusted Calian to provide a third high-performance antenna for NASA’s Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Global Observing System (VGOS).

ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has today signed a multi-million dollar contract with leading regional satellite operator, Türksat, for the ground systems required to run a variety of services over the Türksat 5B satellite.

Eutelsat Communications announced today that Richard Mortellaro has been appointed to the position of President and CEO of Eutelsat America Corp. (EAC). He will succeed David Bair who is retiring.

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group has partnered with Vodafone PNG to deploy the satellite operator’s Mobile Backhaul services, helping to greatly expand Vodafone PNG’s voice and 3G/4G data network into rural areas of Papua New Guinea.

AvL Technologies (AvL), Datum Systems and Wavestream collaborated on an over-the-air digital interface demonstration in July.

AWS Ground Station has now added support for wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DifIF) in Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

Leading Philippine telco company PLDT's wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is collaborating with US-based Omnispace to explore and demonstrate the capabilities of space-based 5G communications using low earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has selected Microchip Technology Inc. of Chandler, Arizona, to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor that will provide at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers.

Europe’s first commercial satellite capable of being completely reprogrammed while in space is now in commercial use.