Astrium To Sell Yahsat Bandwidth to U.S. Military

摘要

The competition between Astrium Services of Europe and Boeing Commercial Satellite Services of the United States in selling satellite bandwidth to military customers now extends to the military Ka-band capacity on the Yahsat 1B satellite over the Middle East. Astrium Service announced May 6 an agreement with Yahsat to market that capacity to the U.S. military. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-based Yahsat announced in March that its military Ka-band service had been certified by the U.S. Defense Department as compatible with the Ka-band services from the U.S. Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) constellation, which eventually will include 10 satellites in geostationary orbit. Yahsat 1B was launched in 2012 and is operational at 47.6 degrees east longitude. Its coverage includes all of Africa and the Middle East, South and Central Asia, much of Southern Europe and extends east as far as Southeast Asia.