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May 2015 SIA REPORTS MODEST GROWTH IN 2014 TWO According to the annual State of the On May 27, Arianespace S.A. successfully Industry Report just released by the Satellite launched the DirecTV-15 satellite for DIRECTV, CONTACTS: Industry Association, the Washington D.C.- LLC (DIRECTV) and the SKY México-1 satellite based industry group, the global satellite services for SKY México on an 5 Dara A. Panahy 202-835-7521 industry produced $123b in revenues in 2014. from the in , French [email protected] The consumer services segment – mainly direct- Guiana. DirecTV-15, which was manufactured by to-home (DTH) – comprised Defence and Space based on the Bijan Ganji the vast majority of these revenues with $101b, E3000 satellite platform, is among the 202-835-7543 representing a modest 4% growth over 2013 most powerful broadcast satellites ever [email protected] figures. Meanwhile, the mobile services segment, manufactured for the United States. SKY México- including data to aircraft, was the industry’s 1, which was manufactured by Orbital ATK, Inc.

fastest growing segment, with 25% growth over based on its GEOStar-2™ satellite platform, is To learn about Milbank’s 2013 figures but only $3.3b in revenues. the first satellite procured by SKY México, jointly owned by Mexico’s Grupo Televisa S.A.B. and Space Business Practice, or ILS DECLARES PROTON ANOMALY DIRECTV. Equipped with Ku- and R-band view previous issues of the On May 16, Khrunichev State Research and Space Business Review, transponders, SKY México-1 will provide DTH Production Space Center (Khrunichev) and ILS please visit www.milbank.com. television broadcast services to users in Mexico, International Launch Services Inc. (ILS) Central America and the Caribbean. The information contained announced an anomaly on the Proton launch herein is provided for vehicle carrying the Centenario satellite (also U.S. AIR FORCE CERTIFIES FALCON 9 informational purposes only known as MexSat-1) for the Secretaría de On May 26, the U.S. Air Force announced that it and should not be construed Comunicaciones y Transportes (Ministry of certified the Technologies as legal advice on any subject Communications and Transportation) of the Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 launch vehicle to matter. Recipients of this Mexican government. A Russian State launch U.S. military satellites. With the publication should not take or Commission and an ILS Failure Review certification, coming after an almost two year refrain from taking any action Oversight Board are investigating the anomaly process involving 2,800 discrete tasks, based upon content included herein. If you do not wish to to determine the root cause. Proton launches including verification of 160 payload interface receive this newsletter, please have been temporarily suspended, with the requirements, 21 major subsystem reviews and send an e-mail to concern that certain scheduled upcoming 700 audits to establish a technical baseline, [email protected] launches will be delayed, including the launches SpaceX may now compete with United Launch with the word “unsubscribe” in of the third Global Xpress satellite for Alliance for U.S. military launch missions. the subject line. plc, the Türksat 4B satellite for Türksat A.Ş., the TSGN SECURES PAYLOAD ON APSTAR 9 9B and Eutelsat 36C satellites for © 2015 - Milbank, Tweed, On May 19, APT Satellite Company Limited Eutelsat S.A. and the Express-AM8 satellite for Hadley & McCloy LLP. (APT) and TS Global Network Sdn Bhd (TSGN), Russian Satellite Communications Co., all a leading Malaysian VSAT connectivity provider, originally scheduled to take place in 2015. jointly announced an agreement whereby TSGN BRAZIL CONCLUDES SLOT AUCTION will invest in a designated payload, to be called On May 26, Telesat Canada (Telesat), , TSGN MySAT-1, on APT’s APSTAR 9 satellite, S.A. (Hispasat) and Al Yah Satellite scheduled for launch in Q4 2015. TSGN intends Communications Company PrJSC (YahSat) to use the payload to provide C-band satellite were announced as the high bidders in an communications services to both government auction – the second of its kind in 12 months – and commercial customers, including in by the Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações underserved and unserved areas, in Malaysia and (known as Anatel), Brazil’s the broader ASEAN and Asia-Pacific markets. regulatory body, of Brazil’s rights to certain DIGITALGLOBE AND SAAB FORM JV orbital locations and associated frequencies. For On May 26, DigitalGlobe, Inc. (DigitalGlobe) roughly $28.3m, Telesat won two licenses, one and Saab AB (Saab) announced the for Ka-band services and the other for Appendix establishment of Vricon, Inc., a 50-50 30B services, at the 63°W orbital position; for DigitalGlobe-Saab joint venture that will roughly $13.9m, Yahsat won a license for Ka- produce highly accurate, photo-realistic 3D band services at the 26°W orbital slot; and for products and digital elevation models of the roughly $15.8m, Hispasat won a license for Ka- , available through a visualization platform band services at the 74°W orbital location. and standard-based data formats.

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