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Airbus Defense and Space and Intelsat plan new high throughput maritime VSAT services with EpicNG platform

11.03.2014  |  Press release

New agreement reinforces leadership of Airbus Defense and Space and Intelsat in maritime broadband connectivity

Hitching a ride on the satellite super-highway

11.11.2013  |  Press release

Poynton, Cheshire: The Ka band or “satellite super-highway” – a fast, uncongested and rarely used satellite network – has been opened up by a team of engineers, including BAE Systems, with the aim of supporting UK unmanned aircraft missions in the future.

Astrium delivers new tactical, land and maritime X-band satcom capability to UK MOD

07.11.2013  |  Press release

Astrium Services is delivering 25 terminals for land forces, as well as the first two maritime terminals for small Royal Navy ships and related IP baseband, to the UK Ministry of Defence to enable secure communications on frontlines overseas.
The new terminals will draw on Astrium Services’s new IP core based infrastructure, ensuring UK Armed Forces have the best capability for secure communication that supports voice and data traffic with encryption from tactical, land and maritime operations worldwide.
These new deliveries are based on communications via Astrium Services X-band satellites through the Skynet 5 programme, now in its 10th year.

Astrium adds Yahsat’s Military Ka-Band to its multi-band offering to the US Government

06.05.2013  |  Press release

Service provided by UAE-owned Yahsat

Astrium’s secure milsatcoms now cover the world

16.04.2013  |  Press release

Anik G1 launch and Skynet 5D service entry give Astrium Services world’s only commercially owned X-band milsatcom constellation with near-global coverage.
Thanks to leased Anik G1 hosted payload, Astrium Services will extend its X-band coverage over the Americas and Pacific Ocean.
Fourth Astrium built and operated Skynet 5 satellite, 5D, entered service on 2 April