Aerospace Diary

Posted by- Neelam Mathews Oct 11, 2012 SES-8 SES has selected Boeing to build a new communication satellite. SES-9 ,  The new satellite will expand SES’ capabilities to provide direct-to-home broadcasting and other communications services in Northeast Asia, South Asia and Indonesia, as well as maritime communications for vessels in the Indian Ocean.  T he spacecraft will be positioned at the orbital slot of 108.2 degrees East and provide incremental as well as replacement capacity to this well established SES slot over Asia, where it will be co-located with the existing SES-7 and NSS-11 satellites. Romain Bausch, President and CEO of SES said:  “SES-9 will greatly expand our transmission capacity over Asia, while adding increased flexibility and redundancy to a strategic orbital slot. SES is convinced that Boeing’s 702HP will prove to be mission-critical in order to provide state-of-the-art, high-power satellite capacity to the...

Posted by- Sitanshu Kar from Singapore Saturday, June 02, 2012 Defense Minister AK Antony  said contentious issues relating to maritime domain should only be ‘resolved through the process of dialogue, consensus building and within the framework of accepted principles of international law’. Addressing the 11th Asia Security Summit, also known as Shangri La Dialogue, in Singapore,  Antony said the international community must ‘remain sensitive to the problems of smaller nations and ensure that their rights, as equal members of the global community, are not overlooked or compromised’. He said the spirit of cooperation among international community shown in anti-piracy measures can be extended to ‘de-conflict contentious maritime issues’. “Large parts of the common seas cannot be declared exclusive to any one country or group. We must find the balance between the rights of nations and the freedoms of the world community in the maritime domain. Like individual freedoms, the ...

Posted by- Neelam Mathews Sept 5, 2011 In Parliament today The government has taken cognizance of security implications of the import of electronic components from China especially while manufacturing encryption products. Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL), a Defense Public Sector Undertaking, which is a manufacturer of strategic defense electronic systems has been advised to ensure that components of encryption products manufactured by BEL are not imported from China, Minister of State for Defense MM Pallam Raju said in parliament today.   DEFENSE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT   Defense cooperation agreements/Molls have been signed with Colombia, Namibia, Sweden, Vietnam, Russia, Republic of Korea, Ecuador and Mongolia in the last three years. The details of joint training exercises conducted with other countries in the last three years are as stated below. No training exercise was conducted with New Zealand during this period. Joint Exercise held with foreign countries durin...