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April 30, 2008 SES Is In Dutch... And Belgium... SES ASTRA has launched a new HD bouquet on ASTRA, targeting the Dutch and Belgian markets.
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Go West, Jason-2, Go West... and Launch The Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellites has managed to complete its long journey to the United States and is currently scheduled for its launch on June 15th from Vandenberg AFB in California.
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Shuttle Off To A Discovery Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Saturday, May 3rd, as preparations for the STS-124 mission move forward.
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Better Martian Downloading Through AI for ESA As the European Space Agency's Mars Express continues its hunt for evidence of past or present life on the Red Planet, AI is being used at the European Space Operations Center to give the space vehicle a boost. Mars Express generates huge volumes of scientific data.
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A Healthy GIOVE-B The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported the GIOVE-B is well underway with the completion of its Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP).
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Astronauts To Be Honored On May 3rd Did you know there is a U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame?
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Glowing Success For Glowlink With WGSMS Glowlink has announced the Wideband Global Spectrum Monitoring System (WGSMS) the company designed has begun to actively monitor traffic carried on the first US DoD Wideband Global SATCOM satellite (WGS-1).
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RSCC With Express Dual Launch The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) received the payloads for the Express-AM44 and Express-MD1 satellites from Thales Alenia Space.
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Financially Speaking... Telenor... In Q1 2008, Telenor's pro forma revenues (including Kyivstar) increased by four per cent compared to the first quarter of 2007, reaching NOK 26.3 billion.
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Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation... Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] reported revenue for its Q3 of fiscal year 2008 of $1.33 billion, an increase of 24 percent compared to $1.07 billion in the prior-year quarter.
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SkyPort + AGT Join Florida's National Guard SkyPort Global Communications and Applied Global Technologies (AGT) have been selected by the Florida National Guard to provide satellite communications services and solutions in emergencies.
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More Chopper SatCom For SkyTrac SkyTrac has been selected to provide satellite communication and flight following systems to Sloan Helicopters, a provider of helicopter charter services for the oil and gas and forest management.
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iDirect Has Malaysian Connection iDirect, Inc. has a contract with ScopeTel Sdn. Bhd., a major provider of satellite-based telecommunication and networking solutions headquartered in Malaysia.
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Tanks A Lot For Lockheed Martin NASA has signed a $39.5 million contract modification with Lockheed Martin Space Systems to implement an external tank program employee retention plan.
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Gilat To Post VSATs For Russian Post Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been selected by Synterra, one of Russia's largest telecom operators, to provide a 1,000-site SkyEdge broadband satellite network for use by Russian Post.
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April 29, 2008 Southeast Asia Targeted For Improved SatCom Services... Joining forces are IEC Telecom and its Dubaï subsidiary SAFA Telecom, as the company has acquired a majority stake in DEVOR technologies and intends to sell and support value-added products and services into Asia.
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Repositioning and Renaming Has SES ASTRA SATurated SES ASTRA has started a new orbital position at 31.5° E.
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Proactive Communications To Provide More Milsatcom Services Proactive Communications, Inc. (PCI) now has an agreement with the Joint Contracting Command Iraq (JCC-I) for Task Force Iron (TFI), a military force operating in northern Iraq consisting of soldiers from multiple units based in Germany and United States, to deploy a satellite Internet and voice solution.
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C2SAT's VSAT's Stability Proves Worth C2SAT [NGM Stock Market Exchange, C2ST] has received a follow-up order from an Oil & Gas customer in the Middle East.
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Remote Sensing Imagery Assembly Automated by PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics has released ProLines, highly automated image processing chains that are used to correct, mosaic, and enhance imagery, as well as extract elevation data derived from satellite and airborne sensors.
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Partnership Drives GigaSat Terminal To New Heights GigaSat has announced the interoperability of GigaSat’s FA-120 satcom terminal with Vados’ range of rapidly deployable communications solutions.
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Financially Speaking... SES... SES S.A. reported their financial performance for the three months ended 31 March 2008. Their recurring revenue of 390 million euros was up 9.1 percent higher than the prior year period and reported revenue was stable at 390.6 million euros (Q1 2007: 392.0 million euros).
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Garnering A Five Year NASA Contract Is QinetiQ QinetiQ North America's (QNA) Missions Solutions Group has been awarded a five year, $190 million contract with NASA to provide mission-critical engineering, IT, and security support services to customers in the Space, Security, Defense and Intelligence communities.
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Moving From DVB-S To DVB-S2 Aided By Comtech Comtech EF Data's new CMR-8500 is the nexgen IP encapsulator.
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Advantech Pushes Production Higher and Faster and Offers Antennas... Advantech AMT has launched its new, expanded production line for Frequency Converters.. Plus, the company has launched their new mobile antenna systems.
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Raytheon Gets SMART-T Raytheon Company [NYSE:RTN] has won an $86.7 million contract to produce and install upgrade kits for the Army's Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal, otherwise known as SMART-T.
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April 28, 2008 Financially Speaking... Integral Systems... With revenue up for Q2, Integral Systems is reporting their financial results, with $44.9 million in revenues, up from the $15.8 million (55 percent) for Q2 of 2007.
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Hunt Goes Tracking WITH SkyBitz J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. [NASDAQ: JBHT] has selected the patented SkyBitz Global Locating System (GLS) to assist with asset tracking technology.
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ViaSat LinkStarS2A VSAT System Is A Step Above ViaSat Inc.’s [NASDAQ: VSAT] LinkStar VSAT system with bandwidth-efficient Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) is now available and implements additional bandwidth saving technologies that exceed the industry standard
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COM DEV Int'l Proud Of Nanosat... With the successful Antrix PSLV-C9 launch that occurred yesterday by the ISRO at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, COM DEV International's role with the University of Toronto in building an experimental nanosatellite has met with success.
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IDC On The Receiving End... International Datacasting Corporation [TSX:IDC] has successfully passed the conditions of a Letter of Intent previously announced on January 10, 2008 for the supply of a new generation of satellite receivers for the upgrade and expansion of an international broadband data delivery network.
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Financially Speaking... Iridium Satellite... Iridium Satellite LLC has announced record-setting financial results for their Q1 ended March 31, 2008.
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Land Launch of AMOS-3 The Land Launch Zenit-3SLB system debuted its first launch from the Zenit launch site at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on April 28, with the successful launch of the AMOS-3 communications satellite.
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Nowhere to Go But Up for Global Positioning Satellite Devices The count and the amount are in, and by 2013, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) end-user devices and systems will generate yearly revenues of $240 billion.
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April 27, 2008 AMOS-3 Back On Track Spacecom has announced their AMOS-3 communications satellite will now launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, May 28th.
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Financially Speaking... Orbital Sciences Corp... Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE:ORB] Board of Directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock over a 12-month period, starting April 25th.
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By 2012, 3.5 Million Units In M2M Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Satellite Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Market Study" to their offering.
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Moving On Out... EMS Technologies, Inc... EMS Technologies, Inc. has announced James S. (Jim) Childress, President and General Manager of LXE Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of EMS Technologies, Inc., is retiring from the business.
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GIOVE-B Going, Going... GREAT! The successful launch of the European Space Agency's second Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE-B) occurred on April 27th from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz/Fregat rocket at 04:16 local time.
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NASA + Nanosats... NASA's Ames Research Center and m2mi Corp. now have a cooperative research and development agreement.
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ISRO Indicates MultiSats To Launch on April 28th The Indian Space Research Organization has announced that April 28th is the date now set for the launch of their Polar Satellite Vehicle, PSLV-C9 carrying aboard their latest remote sensing satellite, known as CARTOSAT-2A, along with Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) and eight nanosatellites, will launch at about 9:20 a.m.
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April 25, 2008 digiGO! Debuts! digiGO! The Digital World is now available...
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April 24, 2008 A Moving Day For GIOVE-B The second experimental satellite that's part of the Galileo constellation, GIOVE-B, is set to starts its journey into space from the Baikonur spaceport.
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Global Satellite Brings Speed To Moving Video High speed, live video, even while driving up to 80 m.p.h. anywhere in the world, is now possible through the use of VideoMover Plus from Global Satellite
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Integral Is Grounded With ProtoStar-II + Moving On Up... Integral Systems, Inc., [NASDAQ-ISYS] has a contract with ProtoStar-II Ltd., of Bermuda to provide a completely integrated ground control system for ProtoStar-II, a 601HP satellite currently under construction by Boeing. Plus, there's a new Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions...
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RT Logic Signals New Generator RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. has unveiled their Waveform Signal Generator product, the Telemetrix 400TSS (T400TSS).
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"Quality Initiative" By Khrunichev + ILS Khrunichev Space Center and its partner, International Launch Services, has announced a broad-based quality initiative for Khrunichev and all of its subcontractors.
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Herschel Mirrors Assembly Success The European Space Agency is reporting that the mirror of the Herschel telescope has now been assembled with the payload and service module, completing the spacecraft structure, an important milestone in the days following through to launch.
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ASTRA2CONNECTs to Belgium and Netherlands SES ASTRA has signed a contract with the Belgium-based provider Satellite Electronics for the marketing and sales of its satellite based two-way broadband service ASTRA2Connect in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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AMOS-3 Launch Is Delayed Due to the launcher arm at Baikonur not reaching nominal separation distance from the launch vehicle, the launch of the AMOS-3 satellite will be delayed.
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No Worries for NASA—Not So For Passengers In Soyuz’s Superfast 8 G Re-entry The Russian Soyuz TMA-11 capsule did return to Earth on schedule, but not exactly as planned, per the dramatic re-entry on April 19th for the crew—Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Peggy Whitson, and South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon.
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April 23, 2008 AMOS-3 Prepped and Ready To Launch The newest comsat for Spacecom, AMOS-3, is now scheduled to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 24th.
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GD + LDCM + NASA + USGS = Landsat Continuance NASA has selected General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft.
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ONDAS SATuration ONDAS Media has entered into an extensive Framework Agreement with the State of the Netherlands, as represented by the Radio Communications Agency Netherlands, completing another key component of its regulatory strategy.
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Russian Satellite Now Operational Word has come from the Russian Federal Space program that the new telecommunication spacecraft Express-AM33 was successfully put into operation, located at 96.5º E.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Make Way For MUSA-3 - Financially Speaking... Boeing... - AT&T Bullish On SatTV - Change Thru Collaboration—PTC '09 Conference Info...
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April 22, 2008 Gilat Satellite Gets the Axesat Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has started deployment of a 1,500-site SkyEdge II broadband satellite network for Axesat, one of Latin America's leading satellite service providers.
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iDirect Gets To The Hub Of The Matter iDirect, Inc. has officially established a relationship with the iDirect Hub Owners Group (iHOG), a global forum for owners of iDirect’s universal satellite hubs.
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Boeing + Ball's Sensor Success The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) System Block 10 team, led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. [NYSE: BLL] providing the space vehicle, have completed the payload electronics, high-speed gimbal, and testing of the space vehicle's visible sensor.
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SS/L To Dish Up New Sat Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to provide a new direct broadcast satellite (DBS) for DISH Network Corporation.
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World Teleport Assoc.'s PRODUCT OF THE MONTH Through the World Teleport Association's Uplink newsletter, the organization's PRODUCT OF THE MONTH is the StellarMini e2v high power Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) outdoor satellite uplink amplifier.
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SatMex Sat Sets Schedule The Satmex 7 satellite will be launched between the close of 2010 and the start of 2011, according to the company.
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DataPath Offers ITT A MaxView For Ka-STARS DataPath, Inc. has been selected by ITT Corporation [NYSE: ITT] to provide the MaxView Network Management System for managing and automating the nine-meter AN/GSC-70(V)1 Ka-band Satellite Transmit and Receive Systems (Ka-STARS), under contract to the U.S. Army Program Manager, Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (PM-DCATS).
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NASA IS Playing Around! Who'd a thunk it... MMO game development for NASA... Correct! NASA Learning Technologies sponsored a workshop that presented their concept of delivery NASA content through a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) educational game to interested development partners.
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Breeze M Had Gas Duct Rupture As Cause Of AMC-14 Failure The Russian State Commission investigating the AMC-14 failure of a Proton Breeze M launch has traced the cause to the rupture of the gas duct between the gas generator and the propellant pump turbine in the Breeze M main engine.
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NASA Climbs Aboard SpaceX' Falcon NASA Launch Services contract are multiple awards assigned to many launch service providers. Twice each year, existing and emerging domestic launch service providers may submit proposals to NASA placing them into consideration for these contracts, if their vehicles meet the minimum contract requirements.
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NASA's Admin Services Contract Assigned... Bids were returned and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has awarded a contract to Deltha-Critique Joint Venture of New Orleans, Louisana, to provide administrative support services for the center.
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ORBITS: News Briefs SI Is Most Enterprising... - Telenor To Serve Up Moldovian DTH - Future Of Space Exploration Summit - GSA Gain For Vizada Via AOS - TerreStar Slices Staff
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April 21, 2008 Arianespace Adds Another Accomplishment — Ariane 5 Aloft Arianespace successfully launched telecommunications satellites for Brazil and Vietnam on the company's 24th consecutive mission success of Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
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Satmex Sits With SECOM + CNC + ARSAT From Convergencia Latina's newsletter, we learn that last week, representatives of the Mexican satellite operator Satmex visited Argentina.
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Globecomm Garners More JIPM "Juice" Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM] has notified all that the U.S. Army has exercised a $5.5 million contract option for the continued production of the Joint IP Modem (JIPM).
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — digiBITZ (Aruba Networks, Juniper Networks, Sony, Careefour, CNN) — ABI Research — SES NEW SKIES — Tiffen — Westinghouse Digital — — digiBITZ (Aruba Networks, Juniper Networks, Sony, Careefour, CNN) — ABI Research — SES NEW SKIES — Tiffen — Westinghouse Digital —
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ORBITS: News Briefs New Broadband Services in MENA Via SES NEW SKIES - New CTO At Asia Broadcast - SOHO Suddenly Sees Super Sunshine - Moving On Out... Moving On Up... At TerreStar...
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April 20, 2008 digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — digiBITZ (DirecTV, GizMac, CTC Media, DiGiCo + Neumann, The NPD Group, OmniGlobe Networks, Sci Fi Channel) — Aspyr Media — Avocent — CBS Interactive — DISH Network — Fujitsu — Microsoft + AT&T — NBC Universal — SES ASTRA — TV One — — digiBITZ (DirecTV, GizMac, CTC Media, DiGiCo + Neumann, The NPD Group, OmniGlobe Networks, Sci Fi Channel) — Aspyr Media — Avocent — CBS Interactive — DISH Network — Fujitsu — Microsoft + AT&T — NBC Universal — SES ASTRA — TV One —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Expedition 16 Soyuz Safely Lands In Kazakhstan - USFA GPS IIIA Contract Award To Occur In MayUSFA GPS IIIA Contract Award To Occur In May - OmniGlobe Accolade From Branham
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ORBITS: News Briefs Expedition 16 Soyuz Safely Lands In Kazakhstan - USFA GPS IIIA Contract Award To Occur In MayUSFA GPS IIIA Contract Award To Occur In May - OmniGlobe Accolade From Branham - Boeing Suppliers Blessed
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April 19, 2008 HD At SD Rates For SNG From Fujitsu Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. has announced the latest version of its IP-9500 MPEG-4 AVC Encoder.
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ASTRA Sprekens HD in Germany SES ASTRA will launch ORF HD on ASTRA.
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MSS Provider Getting Terminal ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited [NASDAQ: ICOG] has entered into a contract with Delphi Corp. [PINKSHEETS: DPHIQ] to develop advanced DVB-SH user terminals for its ICO mim mobile interactive media service.
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April 18, 2008 A WIN-T For Expand Expand Networks revealed General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) and the United States Army have awarded the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2–3 TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) contract to Expand Networks.
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April 17, 2008 Critical Abort System For NASA's Orion Works Well Orion is going to be the U.S.' next human spacecraft, designed to fly to the International Space Station and be a integral part of a space flight system to return humans to the moon.
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Ariane 5 Prepped + Ready To Roll... The launch readiness review completed, Arianespace could make it official — the second Ariane 5 flight for this year has the green light.
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Moon Mission Materials Makeover Move Designed to bring the moon into sharper focus, and to reveal new lunar insights, a number of instruments have now been installed on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
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Make Certain Your SatPhone Works! Partnering with ProtectingAmerica.org and the American Red Cross is Iridium Satellite. This partnership is to promo the second annual "Test Your Satellite Phone" Week that kicks off on Mary 25th.
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Astrium To Guide Sentinel-2 Into Action Sentinel-2, the first optical satellite in the Sentinel series, will have Astrium as its prime contractor.
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Moving On Up... At The Space Development and Test Wing... A Change of Command Ceremony has been held at The Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico... Colonel Kevin McLaughlin has relinquished command to Colonel B. Edwin Wilson.
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Wipe That Jamming Off Your GPS App BAE Systems has developed a satellite navigation receiver system that provides uninterrupted operation of the Global Positioning System for air, land, and sea platforms and applications.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — digiBITZ (CyberLink, Factum Electronics, Harmonic, Juniper Networks, MultiDyne Video, Nokia Siemens) — Home2US — S3 Graphics — Strategy Analytics — TIA — — digiBITZ (CyberLink, Factum Electronics, Harmonic, Juniper Networks, MultiDyne Video, Nokia Siemens) — Home2US — S3 Graphics — Strategy Analytics — TIA —
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ESA's MARSIS "Digs" Below Mar's Surface ESA’s Mars Express radar sounder, MARSIS, has looked beneath the martian surface and opened up the third dimension for planetary exploration.
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Mad at Telenor, Virgin Islands Company Chills in Siberian Court Legal matters can be confusing. Especially when they involve a British Virgin Islands company, Farimex Products, Inc., which claims that Telenor Russia harmed VimpelCom by preventing VimpelCom from purchasing Kyivstar and delaying VimpelCom's purchase of Ukrainian Radio Systems.
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Astronauts' View Of Earth In HD Since humans first flew in space, nothing has captivated astronauts more than the view of home out the window of their spacecraft.
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Major Changes At Thales Denis Ranque, Chairman and CEO of Thales, has announced the reorganization of his team.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Moving On Up... At The Space Development and Test Wing... - Raytheon To Play MilHost In San Diego - Financially Speaking... SkyTerra... - SkyBitz Enjoys Innovation Accolade
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April 16, 2008 Everest Base Camp Reached By Musey On Climb To Benefit The American Red Cross After a nearly two-week trek carrying supplies through the panoramic Khumbu region of Nepal, J. Armand Musey and eight fellow climbers have reached base camp at 17,500 feet to start final preparations for their ascent of Mt. Everest.
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Arianespace Raking In The Good News... GIOVE-B + BSAT-3b + Ariane 5 Preparations for the next Soyuz mission by Arianespace’s Starsem affiliate moved into a new phase with this week’s integration of the European GIOVE-B navigation satellite on its Fregat upper stage. Plus, Japanese operator Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation, known as B-SAT, has selected Arianespace to launch their BSAT-3b satellite. Plus, Star One C2 installation...
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SMC + OSC Launch New Contract Three additional Minotaur space launch vehicles, to support the new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office, have been ordered by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) — and the recipient of the order is Orbital Sciences Corporation.
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SatLink Challenges Tackled By Expand Networks Expand Networks is addressing application performance issues over satellite links enabling global enterprises to reliably deliver all business applications. With increasingly dispersed offices in remote locations, satellite networks have become common practice to assist organizations in business agility.
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Secure Digital Flix Delivery Via IDC SuperFlex International Datacasting Corporation (IDC) announced the European debut of its SuperFlex Pro Cinema 3D Live product line with embedded Sensio 3-D technology at the recent SatExpo tradeshow in Rome, Italy.
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SMC Is Spot On To Prevent Satellite Systems Off An impressive effort, to say the least, as an awesome team celebrates their success.
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ESA Seeking Recruits—Those Interested, Step OUT— Into Space It’s been a good run, as evidenced by The European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts working in the Columbus laboratory onboard the International Space Station (ISS) as well as the first of ESA's new ATV cargo ships having delivered fresh supplies to the station.
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A Better View Of The World Coming Soon From DigitalGlobe + More... The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], through its commercial launch business, Boeing Launch Services, has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe's second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle. Plus, DigitalGlobe looking at an IPO...
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — digiBITZ — Arqiva — FCC — Harmonic — International Datacasting — Nintendo — Scopus — ViewCast — — digiBITZ — Arqiva — FCC — Harmonic — International Datacasting — Nintendo — Scopus — ViewCast —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Moon Moments Extended For Cassini - Sagittarius A Sends A Message - SkyTrac Communicates Their Way Into New Zealand... - Power On, Thanks To Rocketdyne + RD AMROSS - Moving On Up... At Boeing... - Shin Satellite Renamed Thaicom
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April 15, 2008 ICO G-1 Experiences Launch Success The first satellite to use Ground Based Beam Forming Technology (GBBF), as well as the largest commercial satellite ever launched, has successfully entered "space."
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NDS On Guard Duty For Premiere NDS, a provider of digital payTV solutions, has announced that Premiere, the largest pay-TV operator in Germany and Austria, will deploy the company's VideoGuard to secure its pay-TV satellite platforms in those countries.
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SatDTH Services In 10 Countries Analyzed NSR has released its newest market survey and forecast report: Direct-to-Home (DTH) Satellite Services: An Analysis of Ten Emerging DTH Markets.
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Arqiva + SatGE Combo To Drive HD Into Asia Pacific Homes Arqiva’s Satellite Media Solutions division is joining forces with SAT-GE to provide an Asia Pacific satellite-based High Definition (HD) video platform.
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Open and Say AHHH, The TeleDoctor Is In... In Pakistan A vital service is now available to Telenor phone subscribers in Pakistan
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Major MILSATCOM Event For WGS-1 The U.S. Air Force revealed USSTRATCOM has accepted command and control of its first Wideband Global SATCOM space vehicle, WGS-1.
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iDirect Is Hub-Knobbing With Ericsson iDirect, Inc. has announced their intelligent platform has been tested and certified to be fully interoperable with Ericsson’s Abis over IP GSM satellite backhaul solution.
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SES ASTRA Says "Cheese (Heads)" During UEFA EURO 2008 SES ASTRA will serve as a major hub for the content delivery and distribution of the UEFA EURO 2008 hosted in Austria and Switzerland in June.
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digiGO! The Digital World... featuring — ABI Research — DisplaySearch — Envivio — Ericsson — IP-PRIME — iriver — GlobeCast — Miniweb Interactive — NAVTEQ + BTC — NDS + Premiere — Network Electronics/VPG — NSR — Ross Video — SES ASTRA — Westinghouse Digital — — ABI Research — DisplaySearch — Envivio — Ericsson — IP-PRIME — iriver — GlobeCast — Miniweb Interactive — NAVTEQ + BTC — NDS + Premiere — Network Electronics/VPG — NSR — Ross Video — SES ASTRA — Westinghouse Digital —
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April 14, 2008 Thales Space Selected For Sentinel Sat Worth 305 million euro is the new contract just signed by Thales Alenia Space with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply the Sentinel-3 Earth observation satellite for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program.
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Awards Don’t Get Any ‘Biga’ for GigaSat Imagine taking the top title of the top titles. That’s exactly what GigaSat, a designer, manufacturer and integrator of fixed, flyaway and vehicle mounted satellite systems to the media and broadcast industries and military forces, was happy to learn
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Silver Anniversary for Northrop Grumman TDRS 1 Satellite Pop open the champagne! A celebration is in order for the first of six Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) system spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC) that has now completed 25-years of successful, on-orbit operations, setting a new standard for long life and reliability.
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ORBITS: News Briefs SES AMERICOM Gets Dual Deals - Financially Speaking... International Datacasting - Protection for United Arab Emirates is Foremost with Yahsat - Intelsat IPTV Says No Need to Miss American Idol While Cruising - With The Rainbow Is Intelsat - Learn About Emerging Markets - Avoiding Them Martian Rocks... - Rocketdyne Rockets On With NASA Extension
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ORBITS: News Briefs - Financially Speaking... International Datacasting - Protection for United Arab Emirates is Foremost with Yahsat - Intelsat IPTV Says No Need to Miss American Idol While Cruising - With The Rainbow Is Intelsat - Learn About Emerging Markets - Avoiding Them Martian Rocks... - Rocketdyne Rockets On With NASA Extension
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April 13, 2008 Encapsulating New Comtech EF Data Product Comtech EF Data Corporation debuted their nexgen DVB IP encapsulation platform, the CMR-8500 DVB IP Encapsulator.
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April 12, 2008 NOAA To The Rescue On April 11, 2008, NOAA satellites helped the U.S. Coast Guard respond to a major engine room fire aboard the merchant vessel M/V Sea Venus, located 1,200 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — NAB NEWS: Digital Rapids, Microspace, Ross Video, Strategy & Technology, T-VIPS — ABI Research — digiBITZ — Axia Audio — IABM — Nikon — Omenon — Pinnacle Systems — Revision3 — — NAB NEWS: Digital Rapids, Microspace, Ross Video, Strategy & Technology, T-VIPS — ABI Research — digiBITZ — Axia Audio — IABM — Nikon — Omenon — Pinnacle Systems — Revision3 —
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Talia Is iDirect With MENA Talia Limited is going to introduce a new network based on SES New Skies NSS-703 satellite.
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Newtec's MENOS Is MENA Meaningful Newtec has completed the installation of its multimedia networking concept, MENOS, which allows video and audio material to be shared amongst sites across a large geographical area, at the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) facility in Algiers.
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Moving On Up... At SkyTerra Communications + Mobile Satellite Ventures... Just added to the SkyTerra board is Alexander H. Good and new to SkyTerra and MSV boards are Jose A. Cecin, Jr., and Paul. S. Latchford, Jr.
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Paradise' New SatModem Quadling Along Now debuting from Paradise Datacom is the company's Vision-Series DVB S2 modem, built on the field-proven platform of their Evolution high-speed IP satellite modem featuring a host of IP features and remotely-accessible diagnostics tools.
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Becoming Part Of GBS Pursuit Team Is Raytheon Raytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] has exclusive teaming agreements with Harris Corporation and HP as part of an industry-leading team in pursuit of the 30M/USD U.S. Air Force Global Broadcast Service Satellite Broadcast Manager transition contract.
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NSSL Offers A Far Faster Experience NSSL will become the first satellite broadband operator to offer 3Mb download speeds to its land and maritime broadband customers.
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Trailering Com Security Is A DataPath Specialty for Nat'l Guard DataPath, Inc. is starting the delivery of 32 mobile incident site command trailers to the U.S. Army National Guard for the nationwide JISCC program.
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Telenor THOR 5 Tests Triumphant Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) completed conducting in-orbit testing of THOR 5.
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ORBITS: News Briefs With The Rainbow Is Intelsat - Learn About Emerging Markets - Avoiding Them Martian Rocks... - Rocketdyne Rockets On With NASA Extension
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April 11, 2008 AMC-14 A Complete Loss... AMC-14 A Complete Loss...SES AMERICOM, the North American subsidiary of SES S.A., has announced their recently launched AMC-14 satellite is now considered to be a total loss.
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Globecomm Trots Out Goodies At NAB Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM] will be offering three Screens and no waiting for their demos at this week's NAB '08 in Vegas..
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Payload Pair Prepped By Arianespace The final phase of Arianespace's second mission of 2008 is nearing completion.
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GeoEye-1 Looking Ready To Roll, Thanks To General Dynamics General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has completed satellite integration and environmental testing for GeoEye's nexgen earth imaging satellite, GeoEye-1.
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April 10, 2008 GOVERNMENT HALTS ATK/MDA ACQUISITION The Canadian government has blocked the 1.3B/USD acquisition of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) by U.S. defense contractor Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK).
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A TRUE RUSH FOR ARQIVA Arqiva has announced that it has been selected by VOOM HD Networks to provide fibre connectivity and uplinking of RUSH HD.
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TSAT's TESTING IS TWO THUMBS UP FOR BOEING + IBM The advanced electronics that'll be incorporated into the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) has been demo'd by The Boeing Company and their TEAM TSAT industry partners.
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MOVING ON UP... AT BSKYB... The new Chief Financial Officer for British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) is the company's former Director of Group Finance, M&A and Investor Relations, Mr. Andrew Griffith.
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DYNAMIC AWARD FOR DYNAMICS RESEARCH CORP. Dynamics Research Corporation [NASDAQ:DRCO], a company that provides engineering, technical, and information technology services and solutions to federal and state governments.
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DOING THE GALILEO WRITE The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) has released a new version of the Galileo Open Service Signal-In-Space Interface Control Document, the 'Galileo OS SIS ICD'.
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HARRIS HAS SMC SUPPORT AT HEART The firm has been awarded a 10-year contract, valued at more than 40M/USD, to supply depot support and engineering services for multiple space control systems for the U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center's (SMC) Space Superiority Systems Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
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HARRIS RECORDS ENDEAVOR SUCCESS A success, certainly, as last month the Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully delivered an array of specially modified Harris Corporation NEO VR digital video recorders to the International Space Station (ISS) to help astronauts conduct a variety of scientific experiments.
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MOVING ON OUT AT INTELSAT + DARN GOOD DEALS Resigning as the Chairman of the Board and Director of Intelsat, Ltd., is Mr. Joseph Wright, effective May 1st.
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MOVING ON UP... AT ND SATCOM... MOVING ON UP AT ND SATCOM—is 27-year satellite industry vet Roger L. Wieting.
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FINANCIALLY SPEAKING... PROTOSTAR LTD. A 245M/USD satellite financing arrangement has been completed by Milibank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP for ProtoStar Ltd.
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SES AMERICOM + OSC AGREE GOOD THINGS COME IN THREE SES AMERICOM + Orbital Sciences Corporation have announced the order of a third spacecraft under the multi-satellite contract both companies revealed in May of 2007.
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NEW AGREEMENTS RING OUT FOR TIA The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has now renewed its collaboration agreement with BICSI, the professional association supporting the information transport systems (ITS) industry.
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TRIMBLE TAPPED BY TURKEY Trimble has been contracted to supply 150 Trimble NetR5 Reference Stations, 150 Trimble Zephyr Geodetic 2 Antennas, and Trimble VRS technology.
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THE SPACE FOUNDATION REVEALS BILLIONS + BILLIONS... The Space Report 2008: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity was released by the Space Foundation during the National Space Symposium conference, revealed there was more than 251M/USD billion in global space activity in 2007.
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ELEMENTAL GROWTH FOR MSS, STATES TMF Telecom, Media and Finance Associates, Inc., otherwise known as TMF Associates, has released its latest report on MSS market developments.
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ALWAYS NICE TO RECEIVE AN ACCOLADE AND VIZADA AGREES + INTO THE OUTBACK... Vizada has been named 2007 Best Service Provider by Thuraya.
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April 9, 2008 TSAT's Testing Two Thumbs Up For Boeing + IBM The advanced electronics that'll be incorporated into the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) has been demo'd by The Boeing Company and their TEAM TSAT industry partners.
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SES AMERICOM + OSC Agree Good Things Come In Three SES AMERICOM and Orbital Sciences Corporation have announced the order of a third spacecraft under the multi-satellite contract both companies revealed in May of 2007.
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Doing The Galileo Docs Write
The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) has released a new version of the Galileo Open Service Signal-In-Space Interface Control Document, the 'Galileo OS SIS ICD'.
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Time To Play Catchup For SatNews... Time to play catchup! Our attendance at the National Space Symposium (NSS) placed us behind on the news front... but, what an outstanding and effective exhibition! Thoroughly enjoyable, extremely valuable, and an event SatNews Publishers will attend in the future.
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New Agreements Ring Out For TIA The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has renewed its collaboration agreement with BICSI, the professional association supporting the information transport systems (ITS) industry.
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Elemental Growth For MSS States TMF Telecom, Media and Finance Associates, Inc., otherwise known as TMF Associates, has released its latest report on MSS market developments.
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The Space Foundation Reveals Billions + Billions Of... The Space Report 2008: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity, released by the Space Foundation during the National Space Symposium conference, revealed there was more than 251M/USD billion in global space activity in 2007.
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Always Nice To Receive An Accolade... Vizada Agrees... Vizada has been named 2007 Best Service Provider by Thuraya.
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April 7, 2008 Yahsat On Display The first, nationally-owned sat operator in the United Arab Emirates, Yahsat, will be present and displaying their "satwares" at SATCOM 2008 for the very first time.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know... EADS Astrium + SSTL Here' another major blending in our industry... EADS Astrium has signed an agreement to acquire the University of Surrey's spin-off company, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), a firm that specializes in the design and manufacture of small and micro satellites.
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Spaceport in French Guiana Receives Arianespace AssetSpaceport in French Guiana Receives Arianespace Asset The French Guiana launch site, the Spaceport, has received another launcher—the Ariane 5 arrived at the location aboard the MN Colibri and all components have been unloaded at the port of Paricabo and then transferred to the Spaceport.
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Spaceport in French Guiana Receives Arianespace Asset The French Guiana launch site, the Spaceport, has received another launcher—the Ariane 5 arrived at the location aboard the MN Colibri and all components have been unloaded at the port of Paricabo and then transferred to the Spaceport.
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MITEQ Is A Beacon Of New Info MITEQ’s BR Series Beacon Receiver is a versatile receiver designed to lock onto a CW or modulated carrier and provide accurate and reliable relative power measurement indicators for either antenna positioning or uplink power control applications.
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Banking on Satellites They’re taking it to Paris, France that is, this year.
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Moving On Up... At Lavell Systems... The new Chief Operating Officer at Lavell Systems is Brian Skimmons.
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Working Well, Thank You, Says Lockheed Martin + U.S.A.F. A combined U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team has completed a rapid on-orbit deployment of the modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite that was launched on March 15th from Cape Canaveral.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — RTW — Strategy & Technology — Sintec Media — Nintendo Wii — — RTW — Strategy & Technology — Sintec Media — Nintendo Wii —
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April 6, 2008 digiGO! The Digital World... — Entropic Communications, Inc. — NVISION + Sweetwater Digital — Signals Telecom Consuling — TEITAC — — Entropic Communications, Inc. — NVISION + Sweetwater Digital — Signals Telecom Consuling — TEITAC —
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SatNews Settles In For The Rigors of Exhibition Attendance The next two weeks are rather hectic for us at SatNews Publishers... starting today, Monday, April 7th, we'll be attending the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado...
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ARABSAT Finds The Doctor Is Definitely A Winner ARABSAT has won from Dr DISH TV of Munich, Germany, the 2008 award of “Best Satellite Organization” at a recent ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Moving On Up... At Boeing... The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has named Paul Kinscherff President of Boeing Middle East.
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COM DEV Catches Contract COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX: CDV] has been awarded an Authorization to Proceed (ATP) from an Asian customer for work on a major subsystem of an instrument that will fly on a future Earth observation satellite.
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Monitoring Via Satellite Is Eumetsat Project Goal EUMETSAT and the African Union Commission have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on how the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites will contribute to the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) project.
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Northrop Telescopes Another Win Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] is a partner on five contracts awarded by NASA to investigate concepts for nexgen space telescopes.
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Accessibility Standards Are Updated By TIA After over a year and a half spent tackling the complicated process of updating accessibility standards, the Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC) presented its final report to the U.S. Access Board on April 3, 2008.
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ORBITS: News Briefs ARABSAT Finds The Doctor Is Definitely A Winner - SatNews Surrenders To The Rigors of Exhibition Attendance - Northrop Telescopes Another Win - Monitoring Via Satellite Is Eumetsat Project Goal - Accessibility Standards Are Updated By TIA - Moving On Up... At Boeing... - COM DEV Catches Contract
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April 3, 2008 Intelsat Has A SkyVision Moment Intelsat, Ltd. and SkyVision Global Networks LLC (“SkyVision”) have signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for capacity on the Intelsat 601 satellite.
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No Doughnut Hole This... A True Cluster Hole Found By Hubble... Omega Centauri has been known to be an unusual globular cluster for a long time.
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Amazing ATV Accomplishment The first fully automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) has been accomplished by the European Space Agency's ATV Jules Verne.
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Nabbing NASA Training Is Raytheon Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), has been selected by NASA's Johnson Space Center to assist in implementing a new training model for flight controllers and instructors.
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Busy Days Ahead For Arianespace + Dual Sat Launch The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's next dual-satellite mission has been moved to the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building.
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DataPath And CENTCOM Communicate DataPath, Inc. has been awarded 11.5M/USD to provide field services for a critical network of DataPath Deployable Ku-band Earth Terminals in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility.
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Acquisition Mode... Telespazio... Telespazio has acquired full control of Aurensis SL.
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Roaming Allowed In Norway Network Norway AS and Telenor Mobil AS have entered into a roaming agreement for Norway.
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Grand GPS IIR Performance By Lockheed Martin + Team In a ceremony heralding the success of the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System Block IIR modernization effort (GPS IIR-M), Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced the company has completed work on the last satellite in the program constellation, which features a demonstration payload that will transmit the new civil signal, known as L5.
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Task Completed Ahead of Schedule By Space and Missile Systems Center Mission completed ahead of time—what a terrific accomplishment for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
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Tough Job, But Someone’s Gotta Go to Hawaii for SatTraining All volunteers, please step forward. Usually "volunteering" is not a good thing! However, in this case, Hawaii Pacific Teleport, an independent teleport in the Pacific Ocean region, is launching their new training business called Hawaii Satellite Center (HSC).
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — ABI Research — Calrec + NBC Olympics — Comscape + DIRECTV — MultiDyne — OmniBus Systems — Selig Multimedia — Snell & Wilcox + Harris — Wohler's PANORAMAdtv — — ABI Research — Calrec + NBC Olympics — Comscape + DIRECTV — MultiDyne — OmniBus Systems — Selig Multimedia — Snell & Wilcox + Harris — Wohler's PANORAMAdtv —
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April 2, 2008 Boeing Going, Going, GOES... The Boeing Company has submitted a proposal to NASA for the production of two nexgen Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites.
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Lifetime Achievement Award For SSTL's Sir Martin Sweeting Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) Chairman, Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, has won the 2008 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award.
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More For MUOS Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.is being awarded a modified firm fixed price contract for 124.1M/USD.
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Sensing Funding Is SAIC For AISS Providing for the upgrade of the integrated sensor assembly components for the Alternative Infrared Satellite System is a new contract to Science Applications International Corp.
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A Plane Deal For TriaGnoSys TriaGnoSys has been selected by Thales for their new inflight broadband Internet connectivity solution, specifically designed for the high-growth business and regional jet markets.
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GMV On Trajectory With ATV The Jules Verne ATV, the largest cargo-carrying space vehicle ever developed in Europe, was successfully launched on March 9th from Europe’s Kourou space center in French Guiana.
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C-band Inventory Adds By The SPACECONNECTION Two C-band transponders have been acquired SPACECONNECTION as the demand for HDTV contribution services continues to rise.
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GeoEye-1 Becomes A Maven For Mitsubishi GeoEye, Inc. [NASDAQ:GEOY] has signed a multi-year agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation to allow its Regional Affiliate, Japan Space Imaging Corporation (JSI), a Mitsubishi Corporation subsidiary, to collect and sell Earth imagery and related products from the GeoEye-1 satellite.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — Apple — Broadway Systems — Consumer Electronics Assoc. — DNF Controls — DVEO — Echolab Corp. — European Audiovisual Observatory — Eyeblast — Front Porch Digital — I-Movix — Microvision — Telecast Fiber Systems + Inertia Unlimited — Uplogix — Velocita Wireless — Volicon — XOrbit — Yahoo! — — Apple — Broadway Systems — Consumer Electronics Assoc. — DNF Controls — DVEO — Echolab Corp. — European Audiovisual Observatory — Eyeblast — Front Porch Digital — I-Movix — Microvision — Telecast Fiber Systems + Inertia Unlimited — Uplogix — Velocita Wireless — Volicon — XOrbit — Yahoo! —
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April 1, 2008 Content Is King @ WTA Forum @ NAB The World Teleport Association is going to host the Content Distribution Forum during NAB '08 in Vegas.
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New IsatM2M-Ready SatTerminal Debuts From Satamatics Satamatics has launched their SAT-201i satellite terminal.
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MITEQ Receives Loud And Clear The new MITEQ BR Series Beacon Receiver is a versatile receiver designed to lock onto a CW or modulated carrier and provide accurate and reliable relative power measurement indicators for either antenna positioning or uplink power control applications.
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Failure Analysis' Oracol To Get Sat Act Together... Failure Analysis has released its Oracol® telemetry behavior prediction service.
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VINASAT-1 Fuels Excitement For Arianespace The VINASAT-1 payload for Arianespace's upcoming dual-passenger Ariane 5 mission has been fueled at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a key milestone in its pre-launch preparations.
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Boeing Mentoring Brings Protege Into Ares 1 Project + Moving On Up... The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Orion Propulsion Inc. (OPI) have signed a government-sponsored Mentor-Protege agreement to work together on NASA's Ares I rocket.
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LDRA Verification Tool Scores Big With Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMCO) has selected the LDRA tool suite to enable developers on the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) program to achieve all software development goals.
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Jules Verne Is Highly Competent The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that the Jules Verne ATV approached the International Space Station to within 11-m of the docking port on the Russian Zvezda module.
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Danke SES ASTRA SES ASTRA has signed another important framework contract for the marketing of its satellite-based, two-way broadband service, ASTRA2Connect, in Germany with Deutsche Telekom.
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Globecomm's Government Goodies Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ:GCOM] has announced they’ve been awarded multiple contracts from a U.S. Government agency valued at 16.9M/USD.
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Virgle Asks Is Red Really Your Color? A most remarkable announcement involves a collaboration with Richard Branson of Virgin Air and Google entitled Virgle, and they’re looking for volunteers to go to the red planet—Mars.
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Financially Speaking... ProtoStar... ProtoStar Ltd., a Bermuda corporation, announced the closing of 245M/USD of debt and equity financing to complete the on-going development and launch of its second satellite.
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Choppering At The Bits With SkyTrac SkyTrac has now added Quantum Helicopters to its steadily growing list of customers.
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Financially Speaking... Loral Space & Communications... Loral Space & Communications Inc. [NASDAQ: LORL] has reported its unaudited pre-tax financial results for the periods ending December 31, 2007.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — Aruba Networks — CHIEF — Gefen — Jampro — Juniper Networks — NAB — The ISIS Group — SES ASTRA — SintecMedia + STAR Group — Streambox + Earth-Touch — The Tiffen Company — WEGENER — World Teleport Association — YouCom — — Aruba Networks — CHIEF — Gefen — Jampro — Juniper Networks — NAB — The ISIS Group — SES ASTRA — SintecMedia + STAR Group — Streambox + Earth-Touch — The Tiffen Company — WEGENER — World Teleport Association — YouCom —
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The Space Report Is Released At the 24th National Space Symposium held in Colorado Springs next week, the Space Foundation's Research & Analysis division will release The Space Report 2008: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity.
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