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MOSCOW — Russia on Monday put into orbit the European Ka-Sat satellite launched overnight by a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, space officials said.



"The satellite was successfully put into orbit at 10:03 Moscow time (0703 GMT)," the Khrunichev space centre said Monday in a statement.

This was Proton's first successful launch after a failure on December 5 of three Russian navigation satellites, Glonass, to reach orbit. They fell into the ...

The new KA-SAT Tooway modem made by Viasat, is going to be released soon. The new antenna will be a bit larger (71cm instead of the previous 67cm) and a new, more simple, configuration with just a primary reflector.



This will be easier to setup secondary LNB allowing the reception of multiple satellite TV channels. The LNB included in the new Tooway Kit will include a "Sat Beeper" to facilitate the antenna pointing towards ...

HYLAS 1

It's going to be busy in space soon. Beside the launch of the Eutelsat KA-SAT in December this week Avanti is planning to launch also a Ka-band satellite into space.

HYLAS 1 is the first broadband satellite and uses the latest Ka-band technology to deliver high speed, two-way data services across Europe. It has a unique flexible payload which enables Hylas to change the bandwidth of its 8 Ka-band beams, whilst in orbit, ...

Hello. I started looking for a satellite broadband provider quite a while ago when our main dsl connection failed for a few days. We are based in London. I want to set up a secondary load balanced wan link in our office for redundancy and failover that is not dependent on terrestrial cabling. But I am totally confused by the whole satellite provider market. I don't know what criteria to use when choosing a provider. ...