ARABSAT selects GMV Satellite Monitoring and
Control Products for its entire fleet of GEO
satellites
23July 2014
GMV has
been awarded a contract by ARABSAT to provide a
complete Satellite Control Center (SCC) for its
existing and upcoming fleet of satellites.
ARABSAT has been using a heterogeneous SCC
solution for the past ten years to operate its
satellite fleet but has recently decided to
establish a more direct and long partnership
with a specialized SCC vendor and move to a
homogenous, flexible and robust system that
enables seamless operations of various satellite
platforms with an increased level of operational
reliability.
The
agreement calls for procurement of a turnkey
solution comprising of RTS (Real Time System
based on GMV hifly product) and FDS
(Flight Dynamics System based on GMV focusgeo
product) along with all auxiliary and support
applications that incorporate ARABSAT’s existing
fleet of six satellites with option to include
two more satellites before the end of 2014.The agreement also includes provisions
for addition of more satellites from different
known platforms in the long term.
“This
partnership with GMV further highlights
ARABSAT’s drive to remain a global leader in
Telecom satellite operations.
The GMV solution will increase reliability of
our monitoring and control operations through
system homogeneity and automation.It will also enable us to better optimize
our operations and engineering resources in
order to deliver the best service to our
customers” said Khalid Balkheyour, President and
CEO of ARABSAT.
In the
words of Jorge Potti, GMV’s General Manager of
Aerospace “This new contract award will help
forge an even closer partnership between GMV and
ARABSAT, a relationship that now dates right
back to ten years ago; and will consolidate our
leadership worldwide as Ground Systems supplier
for commercial telecommunications operators”
Founded
in 1976, Arabsat has been serving the growing
needs of the Arab world for over 30 years. Now
one of the world’s top satellite operators and
by far the leading satellite services provider
in the Arab world, it carries over 500 TV
channels, 200 radio stations, 2
Pay-TV networks and wide variety of HD
channels reaching tens of millions of homes
in more than 80 countries across the Middle
East, Africa and Europe—including an audience of
over 170 million viewers in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) region alone tuned
into Arabsat’s video “hotspot” at 26° East.
Operating a growing fleet of owned satellites at
the 20° East, 26° East, 30.5°East, 39°East and 44.5°
East positions of the geostationary orbit,
ARABSAT is the only satellite operator in the
MENA region offering the full spectrum of
Broadcast, Telecommunications and Broadband
services. This capacity will continue to expand
with the launching of new satellites, making the
ARABSAT satellites’ fleet the youngest in the
region.
