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Mexico’s CFE TEIT Taps SES’s Mobile Backhaul Service via SES-17 to Boost Digital Inclusion

Expanding on a partnership committed to close the connectivity divide across Mexico, CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (CFE TEIT) and SES today announced the delivery of voice and data services enabled by SES’s Mobile Backhaul solution to 400 underserved, remote villages and communities across the country via the very high throughput SES-17 Ka-band satellite.

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AAC Clyde Space to Launch Ymir-1 Satellite in November

AAC Clyde Space and its partners Saab and Orbcomm are planning to launch Ymir-1, a Swedish built VDES spacecraft, in November 2023. The research project, that is partially funded by the Swedish Transport Administration, intendeds to launch a test satellite which will make way for a future constellation to provide a next generation VDES service.

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SWISSto12 Appoints Chris Larmour as Chief Commercial Officer

SWISSto12, one of the fastest-growing aerospace companies, recognized leader in manufacturing advanced Radio-Frequency products, payloads and subsystems, and pioneer of Geostationary SmallSats, today announced the appointment of Christopher Larmour as Chief Commercial Officer.

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U.S. Space Force Awards Viasat Contract for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellite Services

Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, today announced that Inmarsat Government, now part of Viasat, was awarded a Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services (SBS) contract by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on behalf of the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC).

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Iridium Provides Global Connectivity for XCMG Heavy Equipment

Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM), a leading provider of global voice and data satellite communications, announced today that Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG), a leading global heavy original equipment manufacturer (OEM), will deploy Iridium® IoT services on its global fleet of heavy equipment, starting with excavators and expanding to loaders and crane trucks as needed.

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Intelsat Selected by Air Canada for Expanded Fleet Connectivity

Air Canada and Intelsat, operator of one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and leading provider of in-flight connectivity (IFC), today announced an agreement for Intelsat to provide connectivity systems for nearly 100 additional aircraft across the airline’s fleet, including Intelsat’s new multi-orbit electronically steered array (ESA) antenna for aircraft in the airline’s regional jet fleet.

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Eutelsat partners with Karista's Spacetech fund

Karista and Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced a new strategic partnership which will see Eutelsat become a new subscriber to the venture capital (VC) firm's Spacetech fund. This will add to Karista's ability to fully harness the unprecedented momentum that is building up in the space economy.

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Arianespace Targeting October 4 for its Next Vega Launch VV23

Arianespace’s next mission is targeted on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 10:36 p.m. local time (October 5, 01:36 a.m. UTC), from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana with a Vega launcher. The mission, called VV23, will place its passengers into sun-synchronous orbit.

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