WORK Microwave will demonstrate its latest space technology solutions at SATELLITE 2022, a key event for the space and satellite industries. Using WORK Microwave's solutions, operators can cross the edges between space and ground, RF and digital, optical and digital, and virtual and hardware on ground stations.

Three years ago I had the privilege of visiting an exceptional teleport in the English countryside, a teleport with state-of-the-art facilities laid out in beautiful, well-landscaped gardens and bucolic surroundings.  This teleport located in Rugby, England and operated by Satellite Mediaport Services (SMS) was featured in this magazine's May 2019 issue (

HISPASAT, the Spanish operator and satellite solutions and services provider of the Red Eléctrica Group, has reached an agreement with NAGRA, the world's leading independent provider of streaming, content protection and monetization solutions for digital television, to develop a wholesale OTT (Over-The-Top) television solution. While its launch is planned for Spring of 2022, a demonstration is now available for interested clients.

Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC, announces that it has reached a milestone in the manufacturing of more than 10,000 Solid State Block Upconverters for their customers.  The company was founded in 2014 to bring advances in Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors to the satellite terminal business. The majority of the 10,000 units manufactured since inception were built and shipped over the past 2 years and have supported the rapidly growing SATCOM Mobility market in X-, Ku- and Ka-band at power levels up to 400 watts.

INTEGRASYS has developed a solution, FWSEC, to protect critical infrastructures from potential cyber-attacks. Nowadays, securing supply chains against imminent cyber-attacks has become a challenge, especially in Europe. The battlefield extends to the online field, which is the engine of the current intelligence.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today announced the finalists for its 2022 Teleport Awards for Excellence. From this group of finalists, WTA will name the winners at the 27th annual Teleport Awards for Excellence Luncheon on March 22 during the SATELLITE conference in Washington, DC.

INTEGRASYS has joined the Mobile Satellite Users Association community, a non-profit association dedicated to promoting satellite innovations globally. For 30 years MSUA has been representing the interests of mobile satellite service providers and users universally.

XipLink, the technology leader in Wireless Link Optimization, is pleased to announce that it has teamed with Lanner Electronics to make its disaggregated virtual network functions available to the Lanner ecosystem.

WORK Microwave, a leading European manufacturer of advanced satellite communications equipment, today announced that it has joined the Digital IF Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium, an independent space-industry group that formed to advance interoperability in satellite and ground-system networks. As a new member of DIFI Consortium, WORK Microwave joins a growing roster of leading organizations in the space industry committed to bringing innovation to the digital transformation of space, satellite, and related technologies.

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite operator and satellite services and solutions provider of the Red Eléctrica group, is once again attending the Mobile World Congress. MWC is the leading global trade fair in the connectivity industry, held in Barcelona from February 28 to March 4.