Satellite broadcasting

While parked ahead of a pause in duties for the Mars solar conjunction, Curiosity put its Hazcams to another use

The number of Turkey's active communications satellites will climb to six while providing services to three continents, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Cahit Turhan has said.

India slowly but steadily becomes an important international player in the space sector. On Wednesday India made yet another important step towards that direction, as the country successfully launched 104 nano-satellites into orbit.

Of the 104 satellites, 96 belong to the USA, one to Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UAE.

A survey presented by Spiegel reveals that European companies are the ones that provide satellite Internet to ISIS fighters.

The development of the SAS in Nemea, Peloponnese, will be a key infrastructure milestone for EAN, which was unveiled by Inmarsat last month as the first aviation passenger connectivity solution in Europe to combine an advanced satellite network and LTE-based ground network, the latter of which will be operated by Deutsche Telekom.

European satellite operator Eutelsat Communications and social media giant Facebook said Oct. 5  they are working jointly to deliver satellite broadband Internet to connectivity-hungry sub-Saharan Africa.