Arab Satellite Communications Organization – Arabsat – participates in SATCOM Conference & Exhibition held in Johannesburg – South Africa during the period from 27-30 May 2013.
Eng. Khalid bin Ahmed Balkhyour President & CEO of Arabsat, stated that “Our participation in SATCOM came after Arabsat active geographically expanding at the beginning of this year as we have signed the 6th generation satellites contracts, which will provide extra massive satellite capacities covering the whole African continent and its potential market with full in Orbit–Back up, we also have directly acquired the majority stake in the Greek Hellas-Sat Consortium Ltd (“Hellas Sat”) to expand in the European continent”.
Balkhyour added, Arabsat will showcase Badr-7 Satellite with its new payload that will create new era of convergence between Satellite communication and TV broadcasting at one Orbital position at 26° East (Hot Spot), Expected to be launched by the end 2015 covering the EMEA and Central Asia regions. Balkhyour also added “We are currently working with a number of countries in the Middle East and the African continent on important & strategic projects and partnerships that will be announced soon within Arabsat strategic plans to fill in all its orbital locations and launch more satellites.”