A group of European space and telecommunications players have come together to form a partnership to respond to the European Commission’s call for tender related to the future European satellite constellation IRIS² (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). IRIS² aims to bring a new secure and resilient connectivity infrastructure to European governments, businesses and citizens.

Creonic GmbH, the leading provider of IP cores for satellite communications, today revealed its latest solution for free-space optical (FSO) communications with immediate availability. The Space Development Agency (SDA) introduced the Optical Communications Terminal (OCT) Standard V3.0 with the intention to enable interoperability between optical communication terminals where at least one endpoint is space-based.It targets space-to-space (S2S), space-to-air (S2A),space-to-maritime (S2M), and space-to-ground (S2G) applications.

Travelxp, the creator of exclusive specialised travel content, has selected Hispasat as the satellite operator to distribute its high-definition channel in Latin America for the next three years. The teleport at Lurin (Peru) and the Amazonas satellite fleet, located at 61° West, will be used for this purpose.

Travelxp HD is a pay-per-view thematic travel channel offering premium content filmed around the world and distributed to nearly 200 million households in more than 100 countries and 25 languages.

Comtech announced today that the company recently secured multiple orders for significant quantities of its CDM-780 high-speed software defined modems. These modems will be delivered to innovative, next generation satellite operators as well as to the U.S. Department of Defense who will be assessing, evaluating, and fielding these modems in a variety of scenarios to enable broad scale government and commercial deployments to provide end users with access to high-speed connectivity in some of the hardest to reach places in the world.

ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has reinforced its long-standing partnership with Roberts Communications Network (RCN) to further augment the latter’s performance and efficiency to deliver live events for some of the biggest names in live sports broadcasting.

SKYflow ecosystem solution will deliver free educational TV channels, OTT content and media products to people across Peru, allowing access to information and transforming learning experiences

Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today that Descartes Labs will become the Company’s third publicly revealed EVOKE technology partner.

INTEGRASYS is proud to announce that the company and its new products have received two different prizes (MSUA and WTA) during exclusive award ceremonies at the SATELLITE 2023 show in Washington (USA) last week.

Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today that Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat), the United Arab Emirates’ flagship satellite solutions provider listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX; under the symbol: YAHSAT), awarded the company $29 million to deliver communications technologies and location services that will operate on Yahsat’s Thuraya 4-NGS satellite constellation.

Comtech announced today, in collaboration with three global technology leaders: Cloud Signals, Hellas Sat, and a leading Mobile Network Operator (MNO), that the companies successfully tested and validated 5G connectivity over a satellite network in Greece.

During the demonstration, a commercial 5G node was connected to the leading MNO’s 5G testbed network and relayed over a satellite link provided by the Hellas Sat.