AvL Technologies has been selected by SES to develop and produce 2.4m X-Y Ka-band transportable antennas to operate with O3b mPOWER, SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation. The antennas are now in development and a pre-production prototype is featured in AvL’s booth this week at the SATELLITE 2022 show.

Satellite operator Thaicom, in partnership with SpaceBridge Inc., the OEM designer and manufacturer of VSAT platform, of broadband satellite communications systems technology, and WTD, an Indonesian ISP, allowing for high-speed connectivity anywhere in the Indonesian territory,  announced today the delivery and commissioning of an HTS multiple spot beam (MSB) Ku-band broadband VSAT network. SpaceBridge Inc.

Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC, a manufacturer Gallium Nitride (GaN) based Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) has confirmed the initial production orders for high power SSPAs in support of SES O3b mPOWER gateways. The order follows nearly three years of work between the companies to implement this forward-looking technology into the O3b mPOWER system.

For many people one of the numerous frustrations of the last two years has been being “grounded”. Travel was one of the hardest hit sectors during Covid.  Not only did many countries close their borders, in many parts of the world local restrictions, coupled with fear of catching the virus, kept people close to home, so similarly impacting domestic and international travel.

XipLink Inc., the technology leader in Wireless Link Optimization, is pleased to announce a successful collaboration with GTD in Chile to support the government project Conectividad para La Educación 2030 in that country. The solution utilizes XipLink’s XipOS version 6 software and XA appliance technology, allowing the intelligent aggregation of several VSAT Links into one single bandwidth pool for remote sites requiring higher capacity and always-on connectivity.

XipLink, Inc., the technology leader in Wireless Link Optimization, is pleased to announce a successful collaboration with Telenor Satellite that has further enhanced their Anker Managed Service offering. The Anker Managed Service, delivered over an iDirect Technologies Velocity platform, provides Ka connectivity over the THOR 7 satellite to clients requiring higher bandwidth capacity and always-on connectivity in the maritime mobility sector.

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.