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October 29, 2016 Moving On Up... Lorger & Herzberger Are Co- Co's @ DEV Systemtechnik Mr. Lorger will focus on the administrative and sales functions and Mr. Herzberger will head up the engineering and technology responsibilities.
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Moving On Up... White To Win US Government Biz For SSL His work with USG over the past 30 years in providing mission critical solutions will hold him in good stead in this position.
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Good Boy, Pluto...NASA's New Horizons Sent The Last Bit Of Data From Pluto It’s taken 15 months for New Horizons to send back all of its Pluto flyby data — a process that was always meant to be slow.
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An Act Of GRACE By Airbus Defence & Space This is a follow-on to the GRACE mission, which has been successfully in operation since 2002.
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October 28, 2016 General Raymond Installed As Commander Of US Air Force Space Command The vast majority of Raymond’s career has focused on integrating space into the joint environment, and bringing space and cyberspace to the forefront of joint operations.
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Harboring A European Distributorship For RedPort Is Global Telesat Communications Becoming one of RedPort’s European distributors further strengthens the firm's ability to give customers the best airtime packages.
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October 27, 2016 SES' Stress Sequestration Nature Relaxation Ultra HD TV results from a partnership between the world’s leading HD relaxation channel NatureVision TV and the highly acclaimed nature cinematographer David Huting
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A Major Magellan Contribution By TeamCast The focus of the project is the building and testing of the ground segment of an advanced broadband and broadcast access network.
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How Serendipitous For EUMETSAT The imagery has now been provided to EUMETSAT, which operates and disseminates data from Meteosat-1’s “descendants.”
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Xytech Has The Floor At NAB New York These two initiatives embody the Xytech promise of providing flexible, scalable and innovative solutions to clients.
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A Bestirring In French Guiana For Galileo x4 Launch An Ariane 5 ES is set for integration of its payload: four global positioning satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.
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Masters Of EO The Satellite Masters Conference has become a must-attend event for industries, scientists, and start-ups involved in the commercial use of EO and satellite navigation.
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October 26, 2016 SES TERNs Interactive... Delivers Interactive UHD INsight TV INsight TV is the latest in a series of channels to join SES’s 4K Ultra HD distribution neighborhood...
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Phasor Solutions Are Gogo Bound Gogo's breakthrough technology is powerful and flexible and can, therefore, facilitate multiple in-flight connectivity applications.
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A Resolution Of An Even Higher Order Is Verified For KOMPSAT-3A PhotoSat produced a 1meter grid of elevations using their proprietary geophysical processing technology with stereo satellite images taken by KOMPSAT-3A.
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ISRO Ground Tests ... A Mock Moon In India? Chandrayaan-2 Preps Lunar Landing ...the lead center for the country’s second moon mission, has artificially created eight to 10 craters to make the terrain resemble the lunar surface.
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Gilat Satellite Networks Sprints With Their Backhaul Sprint expects to deploy Gilat's high-speed Capricorn VSATs as a cellular backhaul solution.
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Heightening South Korea's Satellite System Will Be Thales Alenia Space The Korean regional system KASS will enhance the positioning performance provided by the current GPS satellite navigation system and will also address Glonass and Galileo in the future.
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Schiaparelli Mars Lander Done In By A Computer Glitch? But at 4 minutes and 41 seconds into an almost 6-minute fall, something went wrong.
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Antwerp Space Cleaning Up For Important Projects In this ultra-modern, secured work space, the Antwerp based company will be making components for various, international space projects.
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Satellite Collision Considerations By The FAA The FAA is still researching how to take on that responsibility, and one of the purposes of the industry day was to solicit feedback from companies and organizations about how to do so.
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A Wending Its Way November 6th Launch Date Set For WorldView 4 This launch had to be cancelled on the original launch date of September 18th due to an extremely aggressive fire that consumed some 12,000 acres across Vandenberg's South Bases.
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Will They Bring Bagpipes? Scotland's Clyde Space Envisions Small Sat Offices In US A sales office in Northern California, and a manufacturing center will open on the east coast, to complement the six satellites a month being delivered...
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du Does It... First Middle East Teleport Receives WTA's Tier 3 Certification ...'du', the UAE-based telecommunications service provider, as the first company in the Middle East to receive this certification.
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Pacific Marine Expo... We're Talking Safety And SATCOM At Sea You won't get wet or seasick when attending the Pacific Marine Expo...
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October 25, 2016 The Astrome Plan Is to Launch 150 Satellites By 2020 About 150 satellites weighing 120 kg each would be orbiting the Earth, taking turns in Internet beaming, thereby forming a network in space.
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Honeywell Aerospace & Satcom Direct Tie In For Inmarsat Aviation Service Distribution SwiftBroadband-Safety hardware is available for initial retrofit installation on existing aircraft today and will become a standard option on new aircraft deliveries from 2018.
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SES Subsidiary MX1 Extends The 1-2-3.tv Contract 1-2-3.tv offers a wide range of products to consumers via their TV auction format.
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Intelsat 19 Engages With Nine Network Australia Services will be initially provided via Intelsat's Australia/New Zealand Ku-band beam resident on Intelsat 19.
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Inmarsat Goes Deep To Appoint COO...Former President Of Rolls-Royce's Submarine Business
He was the former president of Rolls-Royce's nuclear business.
NOAA Distributing Millions To Improve Severe Weather Forecasting NOAA focused this year’s grant competition on projects that improve severe storm and water forecasts through improved forecast models, new observational capabilities and better methods of assimilating data into weather forecast models.
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Inmarsat And Vodafone Roam For The IoT
The extensive coverage and high network availability, even in extreme environmental conditions, enable satellite-powered IoT organizations to extend their services beyond terrestrial networks...
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Into The Black Sea Goes Thuraya With A New Service Partner The agreement to distribute services and products to European end users follows Thuraya’s recent expansion of its maritime portfolio with the launch of Atlas IP.
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GÖKTÜRK-1A Has A December 5th Vega Propulsion Date With Arianespace The four-stage Vega serves as the lightweight vehicle in Arianespace's launcher family operated from French Guiana.
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Ciao! And G'day! Come Together To Go Up Together... Italy & Australia Collaborate In Space Endeavors “The success of this test launch takes us one step closer to the realization of hypersonic flight.”
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How To: Get Booted Into Space Even Faster... Copernicus' Accelerated Bootcamp "We need business to develop tailor-made applications for specific users; reach out to new users, communities and sectors; and sell products to international markets.
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NASA Selects Orbital ATK...Will Be Busy Building Another Advanced Land Surface Mapping Sat Landsat represents over four decades of imagery, providing valuable data for agriculture, global change research, emergency response, and disaster relief.
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Inmarsat Goes Soft For Lufthansa... With Launch Of High-Speed GX For Aviation It's always nice to have a party when you're unveiling a new product. This one was held by Inmarsat for airlines, partners and the media at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore...
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NASA Awards Big Prize For Small Sats...$30,000 In Third Round of Cube Quest Challenge CubeSats are helping NASA advance scientific and human exploration, reduce the cost of new space missions, and expand access to space.
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October 24, 2016 SmallSats In The White House The recent advent of smallsats, spacecraft that weigh anywhere from an ounce to as much as a few hundred pounds, has upended that status quo.
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Thaicom Contracts With China Great Wall Industry Corporation For A New Satellite The satellite project is valued at approximately $208 million.
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Smallsat Ejected By China's Spacelab Into Orbit On Sunday, a smallsat the size of a printer was launched from the lab.
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South Asian Satellite Launch Looks "Iffy" India's launch calendar is packed and it looks difficult to launch the South Asian satellite in December.
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China's Chang'e 5 Lunar Probe Set For Mineral Mission The scientist said the analysis of the structure and component of the samples to be collected by Chang'e-5 would help scientists deepen the study into the formation and the evolution of the moon.
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Modular Devices Inc.'s Presents Series *3678 Hybrid EMI Filter MDI's model *3678 is a compact standalone, low attenuation solution that permits users to meet newer...
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions JFCC Space Contract Mod Brings The DoD Into Their Service Domain JFCC Space is responsible for executing continuous, integrated space operations to deliver theater and global effects in support of national and combatant command objectives.
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SES & Emergency.Lu Come To The Aid Of Hurricane Whipped Haiti Communication services offered by emergency.lu provide connectivity to humanitarian responders in Haiti and are being deployed in close collaboration with the World Food Program (WFP) as global lead of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC).
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Space Foundation's CEO, Elliot Pulham, Resigns In a world filled with PC comments we always appreciated Elliot's candor and his ability to 'tell it like it is'...
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October 23, 2016 Additional Distribution Support For Inmarsat's SwiftBroadband-Safety Aviation Service By SITAONAIR SwiftBroadband-Safety represents a paradigm shift in the advancement of aviation safety services by using secure IP-based broadband connectivity.
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Four Galileos Are Nourished By Arianespace The fueling activity is now underway in the Spaceport's S3B payload preparation facility.
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Optus Satellite Signs With Aeeris To Keep Aussies Safe...What Have They Got Up Their Sleeve? Specifically, managers will know where their remote staff are, view check-in’s and outs, and be notified of ‘man down’ situations automatically and alert staff.
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Cape Town, South Africa, The Venue For The DSA's 2017 Global Summit The 2017 Global Summit will build on the success from 2016 and be supported by 11 new members, spanning four major continents—Africa, Asia, Europe and North America
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South Korean Concerns Over Potential North Korean Hostilities Could Result In Acquisiton Of An Israeli Satellite The development also suggests that South Korea does not completely trust that the US will provide the defense it has promised in the event of a military conflict.
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New Converters Debut From POWRMOD Several new models have been released in the firm's POWRMOD series...
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Getting Prepped For NAB Show New York... Keynote Speakers Announced for SATCON This trade show spotlights SATCON and there will be numerous opportunities to meet with exhibitors who will be showcasing their latest in satellite technologies.
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Qwaltec Receives Salute From US Navy... $19 M Contract To Operate, Manage & Maintain Ground Systems support services for NAVSOC to operate, manage, and maintain ground systems, providing continuous, reliable and endurable global space communication...
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Satellite Mobility Markets: The Crowd Favorites — An NSR Webinar Upcoming Next Week Satellite mobility markets and growth prospects are the points of discussion...
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Orbital ATK's Cygnus Delivers Supplies To ISS... Is The Pizza Still Hot? The payload will intentionally light a fire in the pressurized cargo module that will grow and advance until it burns itself out.
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October 20, 2016 Pakistan's PRSS-1 Prelude During World Space Week Khurram said that with the successful launch of Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS-1), Pakistan will achieve yet another milestone by achieving self-reliance in the observation of Earth through satellite remote sensing.
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World Teleport Association Bringing Cytaglobal Into The Certification Fold To achieve Provisional Certification, a teleport operator completes a +170-item questionnaire and submits their answers to WTA.
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Ramping Up For The Space Symposium 2017 One of the Space Foundation's major events is their annual Space Symposium, and this 33rd year of the event will boast a larger and more global roster of speakers than in past year.
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Indian Ocean Archpelago Getting Mobile SATCOM The initial phase of the agreement will provision fisheries and anglers with voice products and broadband connectivity over Thuraya’s satellite network.
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Three Day Global MilSatCom Conference Is Just Days Away... More than 35 key presentations are planned...
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Marlink's XChange Media Is A Big Deal For Crew Satisfaction Deployment of XChange Media across the UASC fleet was carried out remotely and completed in less than a week.
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Raytheon’s OCX, As Expected, Gets OSD Nod Even though it was the most screwed up program in the Air Force, was behind schedule and had gone grossly over budget...
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Property Polygon Precision From LandWorks Clients can now have their property polygons mapped against USLandGrid’s national land base, with the option of buying land grid townships containing the mapped property.
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GVF Summit Success In Africa The high-level and widely encompassing Summit audience of more than 270 people representing 124 organizations included...
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The Fifth Annual Space and Satellite Regulatory Colloquium — An Occasion Of Success The event offered 11 panels of legal and regulatory experts who discussed the most pressing of issues.
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Airbus Defence and Space And Intelsat General Add A Layer... A MilSatCom Layer For European Defense
The satellite solutions support national and international voice and data applications for the end-user well into the next decade.
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ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Gains Elliptical Orbit Around Mars — Concerns Over No Word Regarding The Schiaparelli Lander The ESOC teams are trying to confirm contact with the Entry, Descent & Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), Schiaparelli.
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October 19, 2016 Raytheon Is Pals With JPALS The US Navy has now awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a $255 million contract for the development and production readiness of their GPS satnav nexgen precision landing system.
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Myanmar Satellite Forum Enlightenments Event Set For December Co-located with the CommuniCast Myanmar Exhibition, the Forum takes place at Novotel Yangon Max on Wednesday, December 7th.
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Togetherness For Two Chinese Spacecraft The rendezvous occurred about 393 kilometers above Earth
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Telescope Transition To Air Force Space Command By DARPA SST has developed many technological firsts that are helping redefine what telescopes can do.
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Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Kudos Regarding Orbital ATK And NASA's Successful Launch
Founded in 2006, CSF and its 70+ members are laying the foundation for a sustainable space economy and democratizing access to space for scientists, students, civilians, and businesses.
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Plenty To Drone On About For Kratos The award is a $12.6 million contract with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), in coordination with STRATCOM and the Strategic Capabilities Office.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Pushes Forward For The US With Propulsion Hardware For Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft
"...marks a significant milestone in the history of our nation’s leadership in space and its ability to send astronauts to the International Space Station from American soil once again.
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CPI's ASC Signal Division Bringing New Earth Station Antennas To Telekom Austria Group This is the second order that Telekom Austria Group has placed with ASC Signal within the past five years.
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October 18, 2016 An Australian Buccaneer Beginning Build For Mission Buccaneer will perform calibration experiments for Australia’s world-leading over-horizon Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) from LEO.
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Canadian Astronaut Saint-Jacques Introduces A New Concept To Students... Floor Maps We're not talking about the kind of map that you can fold up and put in your car's glove box, or track using your pocket-size smart phone.
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Network Infrastructure Upgrade & Into The Cloud For MVS USA Once complete, MVS and the company’s service providers will be able to manage traffic more easily and effectively...
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Providing Satellite Transponder Market Share & Revenues Analysis Is A New Report From The Insight Partners The global satellite transponder market is also segmented by region into North America, APAC, Europe, South America and Middle East & Africa (MEA).
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European Satellites & Sensors Study Divulged By Strategic Defense Intelligence This offering is an essential resource for professionals active across the industry value chain and for new players considering entry into the market.
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The MAVEN Mars Movie Images from MAVEN's Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph were used to make this movie of rapid cloud formation on Mars on July 9-10, 2016.
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Joining The SES North American 4K UHDTV Neighborhood... SES S.A. now has a capacity agreement to launch the new C4K360 Ultra HD channel.
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Only 30 Days Remain For Early Bird Savings Registration For The SmallSat Symposium Meet and great the foremost experts in the smallsat industries.
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Inmarsat & Rockwell Collins In-The-Air Ops Relationship Expansion With SwiftBroadband-Safety Rockwell Collins is now set to provide Inmarsat’s nexgen SwiftBroadband-Safety service to existing and new customers from across the aviation industry.
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C-COM Antennas Reap Telenor Satellite Approvals C-COM’s nexgen vehicle mounted and transportable antennas continue to rack up approvals.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's Rockets Really Rip ...Deliver Supplies & Materials to International Space Station
Aerojet Rocketdyne has delivered and flown more than 2,000 5-lbf monopropellant hydrazine thrusters over the past 40 years with 100 percent mission success.
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Gilat Satellite Networks' Solution In-A-Box...Scorpio VSAT-In-A-Box ISPs will be able to save in installation and maintenance expenses while Internet users will enjoy rapid self-installation and activation, in addition to low power consumption.
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October 17, 2016 Orbital ATK's Antares 230 Sends Supplies Soaring To Space Station Did you ever wonder if the astronauts get any of their favorite goodies? According to NASA's list of types of food apparently they do get treats such as: Brownies (NF), Candy:
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Attention To BRICS PayTV Details... The report provides holistic historical and future prospects of payTV service penetration, adoption by technology, by operator and by account types, market share analytics of operators and technology use and overall market revenues from 2011 to 2020 at country level.
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Soaring With GVF In London For AeroConnect 2016 The event program will seek to characterize the various determinants of, and the prime drivers of, in-flight connectivity.
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On The NAB Show New York Show Floor: Crystal & Actus Combo Collusion These two companies will be co-exhibiting and demonstrating a range of solutions for operational efficiency and intelligence.
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Retiring From AsiaSat — William Wade, Executive Director, President & CEO William Wade is going to retire from the firm effective November 1st.
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A VoIP Comms Bridge At Sea This is an advanced VoIP app that allows users to access free voice and HD video calls as well as other messages at sea as well as other remote locations, all the while maintaining minimal bandwidth consumption.
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NanoSpace Is GomSpace'd GomSpace and NanoSpace have an established partnership where NanoSpace propulsion technology is integrated with GomSpace nanosatellite platforms.
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Raytheon Morphing Missile Interceptors Into Smallsats Raytheon has modified some of their manufacturing lines in Tucson to produce relatively inexpensive satellites for a program called SeeMe.
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Goonhilly Earth Station's New Executive Board Member Is Not Boring...Former Member Of ExoMars Mission Team “This is a brilliant appointment for Goonhilly and will help us to drive more new opportunities and...
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Thales Alenia Space Spain Sees Red...To Make Infrared Earth Observation For ESA will be used for remote sensing applications such as water resource management and crop monitoring, a key to addressing the nutritional needs of the world’s population over the next few decades.
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EUMETSAT Makes A Move That Enhances Jason Satellites' Scope The Jason-3 satellite will continue the long term climate data record on the ground track previously occupied by Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and, until recently, Jason-2.
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GEE Is Elcome'd Home For Middle East Sales & Service Elcome will also provide shipboard service and satellite airtime plans.
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Still Slotting After All These Years MetOp-A was the first of the LEO (approx. 830 km) meteorological satellite for Europe and is one of three identical spacecraft.
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ExoMars' LaRa Nod To Antwerp Space LaRa, a Belgian experiment conceived by a scientific team from the Royal Observatory of Belgium, is one of the two European instruments selected for the mission and consists of sophisticated communication equipment.
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Seeking UFOs — Disclosures' Mission Every five seconds, Disclosures’ two HD cameras (one camera pointed toward Earth and the other pointed toward space) will be sending thumbnail photos to mission control.
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Turnkey SATCOM Solution For Maritime Markets Enhanced By ITC Global This is a turnkey solution for crew welfare that delivers wireless communications and entertainment to remote personnel.
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NASA's STEREO & SOHO Reveal The Dark Side Of The Sun's Mystery Of Spiraling SEPs What kind of explosion on the sun could send the particles so far they ended up behind where they started?
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NASA & JAXA's GPM Satellite Looked Into Naughty Nicole's Eye... Revealed Heavy Rainfall Just as Matthew's devastation is still fresh in everyone's mind, along comes the destructive lass, Hurricane Nicole, a wet and wild storm.
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IAF After Discussions Of Colonizing Mars, President Le Gall 's 2016-2019 Agenda For Global Innovation It will transform it into the instrument required to lead the space community towards a more inclusive world.
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Astronaut Tim Peake Is For Real, Down To Earth With Youngsters While Visiting Clyde Space
During the Principia mission, which took him on about 3,000 orbits of the Earth, he became the first UK astronaut to make a spacewalk.
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Chinese Astronauts Heading To Tiangong II For An Extended Visit On Monday morning, China's Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China atop a Long March 2F rocket.
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October 16, 2016 The World Is A Better Place, Thanks To Satellites — And Here's A Celebratory Dinner To Honor Those Who Have Made It So The Awards and Dinner are produced by SSPI and the organization's UK and Isle of Man Chapters.
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EOMall Movement By The EARSC The EARSC board has decided that the industry should move immediately towards establishing an EOMall which would be a completely separate legal entity to EARSC.
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National Science Foundation's $12 Million In Awards For Challenges Faced By Wireless Comms Experts These three-year awards continue NSF's ongoing investment in radio spectrum research, which over the past five years has supported more than 140 awards through an investment of over $60 million.
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RUAG Space Is Intent On Sensational Separation For Schiaparelli Technology provided by RUAG Space is set to play an important role in the success of this ambitious mission.
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Image Is Everything For LizardTech The latest version of GeoExpress® 9.5.3 has released...
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General Dynamics Mission Systems Supports USCG Rescue Structure The General Dynamics-built Rescue 21 system enables the Coast Guard to execute its search and rescue (SAR) activities with far greater agility and efficiency.
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Vector Space Systems Builds Big To Create Micro Sats The company, whose vision is to reshape the multi-billion launch market, combines dedicated low-cost micro satellite launches (Vector Launch) and software defined satellites (Galactic Sky) to dramatically increase access and speed to orbit.
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Virgin Galactic...No Parting Of The Red Sea Was Necessary To Promote This Moses To President
For his services, Mike was twice recognized with the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, one of the space agency’s most prestigious medals.
US Air Force To Meet In Europe... Share Technology And Ideas, Good Idea Or Not? ... the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) would lead Microsatellite Military Utility to determine how miniature satellites could enable allies to work together better...
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October 13, 2016 CNES' President Le Gall Also Becomes The President Of IAF Jean-Yves Le Gall, CNES President, was inaugurated as the President of the International Astronautical Federation.Full Story
InfoSat-Laos Give 'em What They Want... Launches New DTH TV Platform On THAICOM 8 Thaicom Public Company Limited and InfoSat-Laos states it includes the launch of its new DTH platform on the THAICOM 8 satellite.
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A Lockheed Martin Oldie, But A Goodie, Supports Cold Comms For The National Science Foundation At The South Pole A Lockheed Martin-built satellite within the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) recently acquired a new mission, to support this National Science Foundation’s (NSF) station at the South Pole.
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Exploding Frequency Ranges & Bandwidths To Be Tackled In New Keysight Technologies Free Webcast Keysight Technologies will cover the latest cmWave and mmWave scenarios at 28, 73 and up to 110 GHz.
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The Rescue Minded ResQLink From ACR Electronics ResQLink weighs just 5.4 ounces and measures 4.5 inches in length.
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Asia Is Now All Wrapped Up By PlanetObserver Satellite images are assembled and processed homogeneously with high quality color balance.
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Emergency Calling Test, Sim & Monitoring For 911, E-911 and NG-911 From GL Communications Emergency services are the backbone of a civilized society. Police, fire, and ambulance are contacted by a single emergency telephone number.
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A HALO For Equinix Bestowed By Laser Light Global This all optical hybrid global network, when deployed at DC11, will find Laser Light then commencing installation, testing and demonstration of their laser communications and SD-WAN equipment.
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International Launch Services To Move New EUTELSAT Satellite To Slot The shared launch on Proton Breeze M will carry the EUTELSAT 5 West B satellite, built on Orbital ATK’s GEOstar ™ satellite platform, with an Airbus Defence and Space-built payload stacked on top of Orbital ATK’s MEV-1 spacecraft.
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NSS Joins In Reach For The Stars... National Rocket Competition STEM Challenge The winners get to conduct a victory launch of their rockets from Homer Hickam Field
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United Launch Alliance and Boeing Reveal Atlas V's New Skirt & Improves Starliner's Service Module “This configuration is unique because it combines the Atlas V launch vehicle without a payload fairing with Boeing’s Starliner capsule, resulting in different aerodynamic interactions.”
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SES And ESMT Take Satellite Installation To New Heights With SES ELEVATE The unlimited Internet connectivity will ensure students are able to undertake part of their training online and have access to the Internet for additional information.
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October 12, 2016 On The 2016 NAB NY Show Floor—Appearance Of Artel Product Accomplishments Among Artel's product showcases will be their Dual-Port L-band Demodulator and Satellite Scanner.
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MOU Takes Flight Between OHB Systems AG, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Telespazio & ESA OHB System AG (Germany), Sierra Nevada Corporation (USA) and Telespazio SpA (Italy) have teamed with ESA to create the Dream Chaser for European Utilization (DC4EU).
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SpeedCast Casts Its Coverage Over Ghana... Pan-African Coverage Increases An important part of SpeedCast’s energy strategy is to anticipate oil field trends and proactively build support networks in these countries
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Two Birds Shake Things Up... Global Eagle Entertainment & Seabird Exploration Double Sat Com Services Besides EMC doubling the existing bandwidth available to each of the vessels it is also installing its patented SpeedNet™ web browsing acceleration technology for crew Internet access...
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Airbus Defense And Space... Host And Stream With A GATOR In North Carolina After Matthew The GATOR device is an encapsulated and portable geospatial server for disconnected field use. It’s a ‘grab and go’ appliance that provides Humanitarian Relief Workers and Disaster Response Teams...
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Is It Possible? A Satellite That Holds A New Nation In Space... Would You Go? The idea of starting a nation in space is fraught with difficulties.
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October 11, 2016 ULA's WorldView-4's Saga... Fire Damaged Equipment Causes Another Launch Delay The launch of WorldView-4 has been plagued with catastrophes—one after the other.
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Salute To... Royal Military College Of Canada No More Missing Flights With CanX-7 Satellite This means no more flights would go missing even if a plane is taken down by severe weather or even captured by terrorists. Full Story
Finger On The Pulse... China To Launch First X-Ray Pulsar Navigation Satellite The system, which will rely on a pulsar signal database and is set to exceed current ground-based space navigation systems in timing and accuracy...
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Terra Bella & Spaceflight Industries Sign The Big Bird To Launch Small Imaging Satellites Spaceflight’s 2017 SSO-A dedicated rideshare mission at near capacity with spacecraft from 10 countries Full Story
EUTELSAT Says To Airbus Defence and Space & Orbital ATK, "Build Our Video Satellite, EUTELSAT 5 West B" The trust and confidence is in Airbus Defence and Space as well as Orbital ATK who have been selected as a partnership by Eutelsat to construct their latest video satellite...
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Orbital ATK's To Do List... Task Delineation In Building EUTELSAT 5 West B Satellite "...With Airbus Defence and Space providing the payload and Orbital ATK using our flight-proven bus design, we are confident the team will deliver a high-quality broadcast satellite.”
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Schiaparelli Is Red Planet Ready... Commands Uploaded To Touchdown On Mars This week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander’s descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA’s ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red Planet.
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Blue Origin... How A Tortoise Won The Race Of A Lifetime, And Lives To Enjoy Retirement The company moved along for 15 years before sending its first suborbital rocket ship to outer space and back successfully nearly a year ago.
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October 10, 2016 An Environmentally Sound Award For Aerojet Rocketdyne The total success of this project is due to the success of a collective group of community-minded organizations led by Aerojet Rocketdyne.
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High Reliability, Low Energy Consumption, Features Of New Advantech Wireless 2Gen GaN SSPA These units have been designed for the next generation of HTS Constellations offering the highest efficiency in use of satellite bandwidth and power.
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The Only Space Station Possibly Remaining By 2024 Will Be A Chinese Entity? A Long March 5 launch vehicle is scheduled to propel China's experimental core module for their space station around 2018.
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Pakistan & China To Build An Economic Corridor Satellite Monitor Shah was speaking at the inaugural session of a national conference on space science and technology on Saturday.
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Oui! Cobham Microwave/SALIES S.A. Gets Testy... Exclusive French Distributor Of AtlanTecRF’s Test Equipment
That must make for some nice business dinners in Paris.
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India's Students Complete Big Project With A Small Result ...A Nano Satellite “One of the areas in which most of our institutions are yet to make considerable progress is in taking the fruits of research to the people."
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INTEGRASYS Jumps In And Speaks Up At Two Events Global VSAT Forum and SatProf has developed a training course for Satmotion Pocket System for allowing the VSAT installers to get trained and qualified for minimizing the deployment time...
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ESA And GomSpace's Smiles Sign Small Sats... Contract For Advanced Nanosatellites ...will demonstrate inter-satellite linking and station keeping capabilities; key enabling technologies for future nanosatellite constellations.
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MT Aerospace's Big Contract For Big Mechanical Job At ARIANE 6 Ground Facilities This move is associated with a change in the governance of the European launcher sector, based on a sharing of responsibility...
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Airbus Defence and Space, TFT & SarVision Count Trees ...New Imagery For No Deforestation Commitments It will be the first time a technology of this kind is made available to companies to help them make the right decisions in their forest conservation policies.
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Digital Globe's Tragic Photos... Haiti Before And After Hurricane Matthew Of course when the water came it triggered entire walls of mud that slithered down smothering those in its way causing death and destruction.
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Arianespace Continues Buildup Of Ariane 5's Final Steps To Launch Quartet Of Galileo Sats The upcoming Ariane 5 launch will mark the initial utilization of Ariane 5 in deploying Galileo constellation satellites.
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October 7, 2016 Orbital ATK To Take Satellites Under Their Wing Under this partnership, Orbital ATK will initially provide multiple Pegasus XL air-launch vehicles for use with the Stratolaunch aircraft.
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Mining A New Partnership Partnerships such as this one are an important step in developing a thriving, international ecosystem of space companies and organizations.
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Hitachi Goes Where Others Can't ...Provides Azerbaijan Ministry of Emergency Situations Mobile Communications Vehicle
Hitachi communications and video production vehicle goes where other trucks cannot; provides communications and video links from heart of a disaster zone
Satellite Service On A Shelf...Detection Of Oil Spills On Norway's Continental Shelf Radar Satellite imagery can cover such large areas that several fields are covered in the same image, which leads to cost savings for the operators...
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Global Teleports To The Rescue At The Welsh Business Shows With Fast Wifi “We struggle with poor connections at the events, which means that a lot of the registration and pre-booking has to be done manually and then copied across electronically later."
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October 6, 2016 Enhancing VSAT Services In Africa With SatMotion GIN has rolled this technology out to ensure the customer experience is enhanced.
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The HPA's Hosted Payload's Summit Is Rapidly Approaching HPA Chair Al Tadros will reflect on progress made by the hosted payload community.
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A Fixation On Earth Station Antennas By AvL Technologies These new antennas feature reflector sizes from 85 centimeters to 3.4 meters.
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Globecomm's IoT Group Taps An In-House Wireless Veteran ...is a veteran of the US Army and is a recipient of the Presidential Service Badge, a prestigious award earned by service members who serve in direct support of the President of the United States.
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Arianespace's Announcement Following Today's Successful Launch ...confirming this workhorse vehicle's role as the launch services industry reference in availability, reliability and performance.
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Aurora Enrichment For Canadian Department Of Defense By Newtec Newtec will deliver the MDM9000 which will provide High Data Rate (HDR), Beyond Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) airborne communication between the airborne platform and the DND ground network.
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Mustering Marvelous Mission Maneuverings By SSL For nbn™ This SSL second HTS was designed and built for Australia’s national broadband network (nbn™) and is now successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan.
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Ta-Da! Aerojet Rocketdyne's Motor Sends Blue Origin Up For Test & Brings It Right Back Down
This system provides for crew escape in the event of an emergency during any phase of ascent of the Blue Origin New Shepard launch system.
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October 5, 2016 No Neckties Were Involved In The Success Of Arianespace's Sky Muster™II & GSAT-18 Launch From Arianespace's Spaceport in French Guiana the Sky Muster™ launch went without a hitch, indicating that SSL's president, John Celli was not wearing a tie. Full Story
Comtech Telecommunications Says "Hello Again" At The Return Of CEO, New COO & Other Management Changes Some executive changes are underway at Comtech Telecommunications Corp. in which 'hello again' might be an appropriate greeting Please see corrected photo of Mr. KornbergFull Story
Gee, A New Distribution Agreement With Lagardère For GEE GEE has the rights to distribute more than 10,000 hours of live and produced sports programming to commercial flights and ships at sea through its global VSAT networks.
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Congress Chimes In On The SpaceX Explosion Investigation We encourage FAA to continue to leverage its considerable investigative expertise to help SpaceX come to resolution swiftly and safely.
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MDA's US Plans Include New Board & Executive Appointments MDA has revealed several important appointments as the firm continues their previously announced US Access Plan strategy.
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Orbital ATK Implements New Engines To Empower Antares Drive To ISS The launch of the Antares 230 vehicle is scheduled to occur on October 13th.
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MOU Between KSF & IOS For Smallsat Shots Under the agreement, Interorbital Systems will identify launch opportunities and provide associated pre-launch support to KSF Space Foundation.
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SpeedCast's Beylier Gains Another Award The accolade recognized Beylier's contributions to the SATCOM industry and was presented to him during an October 4th awards ceremony.
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What A Good Blue Origin... Rocket Went Up And Came Down So, Jeff, Time For A Party Mr. Bezos, you'd better make room in the museum and hire the caterers. Looks like the mission ran without a hitch...
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PerúSAT-1 Is Snapping... Earth Observation Satellite Sends Back First Images Constructed in a record time of less than 24 months, PerúSAT-1 is currently the most powerful Earth observation satellite in the Latin American region.
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October 4, 2016 A Look At "Big Data" In Earth Observations Markets Scrutinized By NSR Big Data analytics provides the satellite EO industry with means to engage with customers with more insight.
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AsiaSat Examines How To Mitigate Airline C-Band Interference AsiaSat has developed the mitigation strategy necessary to minimize the impact of altimeter interference on C-band satellite reception.
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Firefly's Flame Is Diminished... For Now... The company has placed all of their employees on furlough.
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New Remote Sensing Satellite For Iran Forthcoming Iranian Communications and Information Technology Minister, Mahmoud Vaezi. stressed that the country is mainly focused on the construction of two operational satellites.
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Successful Testing Of The Increments For WIN-T Is General Dynamics Mission Systems Goal Mission Systems has delivered four TCN-Ls and two NOSC-Ls to the Army to begin the test and evaluation process.
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Roscosmos Gathers A Big Bundle Of Rubles To Compete For Next Gen ISS Transport Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos plans spending more than 57 billion rubles ($900 mln) to develop...
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Globecomm It's A First Inmarsat's Fleet Xpress
Currently the ships should be ready for sea trials in October, making this the first commission of Fleet Xpress by Globecomm.
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Blue Origin's Abort Test May Be Blown Up... Or Not? Now, will the New Shepherd find its way, or be a lost lamb?
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October 3, 2016 Riding With Globecomm Sat Phones Support For Wounded Vets The phones will enable ride organizers to contact public safety officials if there is an emergency when the riders are beyond the range of cell phone coverage.
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In Memory Of Jos Heyman, Senior Contributor Jos succumbed to his illnesses on September 30th in Perth.
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Advantech Wireless Has 'em Coming Back For More & They're Certified Military-Grade Modems AMT-83L line of modems from Advantech Wireless, are the first satellite modems to be MIL-STD-188-165A certified.
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Orbital ATK Paving The Way To Mars — See For Yourself... Cislunar space is the ideal environment to prove out the systems required for human exploration of Mars.
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Telesat’s Anik F2 Satellite Service Restored Many Frustrated Agencies Such As... The outage would also have impacted ATMs and aircraft in some communities, said John Flaherty, vice-president of marketing for Telesat, early Monday morning.
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A Lofting They Will Do... Arianespace Preps For The Upcoming Galileo Mission This launcher is an Ariane 5 ES version that began the integration process earlier in the week.
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Launch Reminder: nbn™'s SkyMuster II & ISRO's GSAT-18 Satellites To Advance To Orbit Tomorrow This Ariane 5 flight will be the 280th mission empowered by the Arianespace launcher family.
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DoD Modernization Efforts Result In GPS Source Enhanced D3 Offering The Enhanced D3 is a cost effective and comprehensive solution that supports Department of Defense (DoD) GPS modernization efforts.
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NOAA/NASA What GOES-R Around Comes Around As An Advanced Weather Sat will significantly improve the detection and observation of environmental phenomena that directly affect public safety, protection of property and the nation’s economic health and prosperity.
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SpaceX And The Mystery Of The Explosion... May Include Sabotage A real page turner if this was a suspense novel, but it's real life and real companies—and real interesting.
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October 1, 2016 The Mix Is In From Fairview Microwave The company's new MMIC IQ mixers (also known as IQ modulators) use a highly reliable GaAs MESFET semiconductor process.
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Launch Support For USAF's STP-3 Mission Results In An RFP The Air Force will award a firm-fixed price contract that will provide the government with a total launch solution including launch vehicle production, mission integration and launch operations for the STP-3 mission.
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TeleCommunication Systems To Manage USMC Satellite Services The services include Ku- satellite bandwidth, terrestrial support and 24-hour support.
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Get The Info Regarding Smallsat Launchers At The Next Washington Space Business Roundtable At present, launch opportunities for smallsats are limited to rideshares, flying only when space is available on larger vehicles.
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Russia's Most Difficult Goal...By 2020 GLONASS K-2 Satellites Made 100 Percent Russian “making a satellite 100 percent Russian” is a hard task."
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Rosetta's Final Curtain Call A journey of more than six billion kilometers over ten years was required for Rosetta to reach comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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