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February 28, 2019 ICEYE Appoints Seasoned Satellite Industry Vets to Vice President Positions Steve Young and Leola Moss bring ICEYE the kind of experience and expertise that helps the company to focus on the value the firm creates for...
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Boeing's Nomination for Election to Board of Directors ... She Was the First Female Governor of Her State Not only is Boeing the largest aerospace company in the world and America's biggest exporter, it also understands the importance of teamwork and ...
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University of Virginia, Old Dominion University and Virginia Tech Smallsats Delivered to NanoRacks for ISS Launch Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will release the CubeSats so they can orbit together as a constellation. The ODU satellite, which has a...
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Boeing Appoints Senior VP of Communications ... She Leads Already from Within Toulouse has served as interim SVP of Communications since September 2018. Effective immediately, she continues in the role on a permanent basis...
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Maxar Technologies’ MDA's RADARSAT-2 Does More than Count Indonesia's Trees with Forest Alert Service APP's losses of natural forest cover in their forest concessions has dropped from between 5-6 percent[1] to just 0.06[2] percent in the conservation area
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ISRO is Preparing Emisat and 28 Satellites for Launch An electronic intelligence satellite — Emisat — for the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation is set for launch...
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Aussie University Demonstrates Revolutionary Space Imaging ... Inspired by Eyes and Brain Using biologically-inspired event-based cameras, i.e. cameras that function like the to overcome limitations of cameras exposure times and saturation
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Homeland Security Reports ... Polar Scout Satellites Assist in Polar Marine Traffic “In space, things don’t last. You can’t wait for them to fail. You have to have a solution in the cargo pocket, so when it fails you can implement it quickly.”
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February 27, 2019 Comtech EF Data's SLM-5650B Satellite Modem Ordered by U.S. Naval Warfare Systems Command The delivery order specified Comtech EF Data’s SLM-5650B Satellite Modems and firmware upgrades. The SLM-5650B Satellite Modem is...
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The SES-12 Satellite is Now Fully Operational The satellite, which is designed with state-of-the-art wide beams and high throughput beams, will join SES-8 at 95 degrees East. SES-12 is the latest...
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Astrobotic's Peregrine Lander Study Initiated by Airbus-Led Team for ESA Mission As part of the team, Astrobotic is in charge of showing how the Peregrine lander’s international payload delivery service is best suited to carry this...
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Cobham SATCOM to Supply Ground Infrastructure for the World’s most Advanced L-band Satellite Constellation The network will extend Inmarsat’s L-band BGAN offering, delivering additional capacity while enabling future capabilities from advanced...
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Insights at Night: SecureWatch Integrates VIIRS Nighttime Lights a common thread among national security analysts throughout the world: they are looking for every advantage to protect their interests at home and abroad.
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Speedcast Selects Hughes to Implement the JUPITER™ System for Cellular Backhaul in Central America The operator will employ a JUPITER Ku-band hub and nearly 100 satellite terminals to expand its cellular 3G and 4G services in Nicaragua and...
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Forrester Reports: A Breakout Year for SES SES says it has been a “breakout year” for SES Networks which delivered double-digit underlying growth and growth in all three market segments. Collar said...
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Master Service Agreement Signed Between Speedcast International and Sapura Energy Berhad The scope of the contract is to provide secure satellite communications systems for the customer's fleet of engineering and construction vessels...
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Successful Launch of the First Six OneWeb Satellites by Arianespace Lifting off from the Spaceport precisely at the scheduled 6:37 p.m. launch time in French Guiana, the workhorse medium-lift vehicle delivered its payload...
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February 26, 2019 Northrop Grumman Successfully Completes the Cygnus ISS Cargo Supply Mission — Smallsat Hosted Payloads Launched During the mission, the “S.S. John Young” Cygnus met the needs of multiple customers throughout this flight to the International Space Station. The...
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Marrakech, Morocco, is the Venue for the IAF's Global Conference on Space for Emerging Countries Given the many competing social and economic priorities of emerging countries, the finances usually committed to national space programs are...
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University of Surrey Partners to Take On Security Challenges of Hacking Satellites it is more vital than ever that engineers and coders ensure what is sent into orbit cannot be taken down with a string of code.
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Pentagon Wants Satellites That Can Dodge Incoming Fire In the event of a shootout in space, the Defense Department is working to create satellite constellations that can dodge missiles or even satellite-based weapons
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India's Two Firsts ... ISRO's New SmallSat Launch Vehicle Will Launch Two Small Defense Satellites Sivan said the increase in production is sought to be achieved partnering with the private sector.
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The Morpheus Space NanoFEEP Propulsion System Successfully Tested in Space The primary objective of the satellite mission is to test the propulsion system in orbit in order to obtain space qualification, the final and most important...
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Forrester Reports: Russian Majority Share Investment in OneWeb OneWeb should now be able to gain access to Russian consumers, the president of a joint-venture partner said. Dmitry Bakanov, DG of JSC Satellite System Gonets...
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Thales Alenia Space's Key Communication Equipment to be the WFIRST to Keep the PACE for NASA's Missions WFIRST is a NASA strategic mission rated as the top-priority large-scale project in the “New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics”.
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An IoT Collaboration Between Inmarsat and Microsoft The collaboration will initially focus on the delivery of Industrial IoT-based solutions to the agriculture, mining, transportation and logistics sectors...
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Thuraya and ITC Global Together Bring First Class Maritime VSAT Service ensures optimum flexibility by combining Ku-band and L-band. The service is scalable for essential communications such as voice calls, email and position
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February 25, 2019 Why an Elementary School's Name in Anchorage, Alaska, was Selected to be on a OneWeb Satellite Eventually, an iPad-sized antenna will be installed on the roof of Government Hill Elementary to receive the satellite internet signal
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Speedcast to Bring Intellian's Antenna into Cruise and Energy Customer Service Innovative antenna technologies are in high demand in the Cruise and Energy sectors to support data-rich applications. The Intellian v240MT is specifically ...
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The ArianeWorks Acceleration Platform is Launched by ArianeGroup and CNES Both longstanding stakeholders in the Ariane series, ArianeGroup and CNES are currently developing Ariane 6 for ESA. Since 2015, they have...
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VT iDirect Enters Proof of Concept Testing for 5G Content Distribution The OSMOSIS proof of concept is demonstrated using the SATis5 testbed network showcasing 4G and 5G satellite-enabled user applications. Users will...
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Israel’s Gilat To Provide Satellite Broadband Solution for India’s GSAT-11 Satellite
will enhance public welfare systems like e-banking, e-health, e-governance as well as provide a platform to demonstrate new generation applications.
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Anti-Icing Systems from Surface Heating Systems Deployed on Alpha Satcom Antennas These systems heat the antenna directly and are via a fully automated snow sensor and smart control panel, which gives the operator the capability to...
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Former NASA Astronaut Pamela Melroy Joins Myriota's Board of Directors Melroy brings expertise in the global space industry, having spent more than 30 years at the forefront of space exploration, including as a shuttle pilot and...
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Fleet Space Technologies Brings Their IoT Gateway to Kennards Hire Kennards Hire is on a fast-track to deploy Fleet’s innovative IoT solutions to its equipment range across specialist branches and customers sites in...
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Ubiquitilink's Claim Means Every Phone is Now a Satellite Phone “We went to NASA and JPL and asked what they thought. Everybody’s gut reaction was ‘well, this won’t work,’ but then they just said ‘well, it works.’ ”
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February 24, 2019 Virgin Galactic’s Successful Fourth Rocket-Powered Flight and Highest Speed and Altitude In addition to this element of envelope expansion, VSS Unity flew higher and faster than ever before,
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Addvalue Innovation Acquires Design Contract for SBB Terminals with Avionica The development of the new generation of SBB terminals — based on the highly reliable Inmarsat BGAN system — is an integral part of this new,,,
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Space Foundation's 2019 Winner of the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award presented jointly by the Space Foundation, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...
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U.S. Army Cyber Command Awards Perspecta™ with a Maximum $906 Million Cyberspace Ops Task Order Perspecta currently holds a prime position on the cyberspace operations support and services contract for USCYBERCOM and is one of the leading...
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Reuben Brothers' Investment Aims to Keep hiSky Low Cost Satellite Network Leader The new investment will enable hiSky to further capitalize on its position as the low-cost leader in the voice and data and IoT/M2M satellite industry.
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How Did ANTONOV Airlines Transport ISRO's GSAT-31 Satellite? Very Carefully The move required careful measurements from ANTONOV Airlines before, and cautious movements when moving ISRO's GSAT-31 satellite from HAL
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CATS in Space ... Johns Hopkins' APL Dishes the Data ... Achieves CubeSat Communications APL used its 60 foot satellite dish to send and receive data with the two smallsats, launched at 5:28 a.m., and confirmed they were operating as...
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Airbus Opens Their Integrated Technology Center for Space Technologies Development The ITC, which triples the area of clean room space to 4,200 m2, is dedicated to building satellites, probes, space instruments and experimental...
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Newtec Collaborating with Wind River for Development of 5G Solutions Wind River’s complete Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) software platform infrastructure will help Newtec Dialog leapfrog these 5G...
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Firefly Aerospace to Establish Business and Launch Ops at Cape Canaveral Spaceport Firefly’s announcement is concurrent with its receipt of a Statement of Capability from the 45th Space Wing. As Florida’s spaceport development...
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February 22, 2019 SpaceX Sends Nusantara Satu, Beresheet Lunar Lander and U.S.AFRL's Spacecraft Soaring On Thursday, February 21, SpaceX launched important payloads from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida...
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Landsat-7 Flight Ops Contract Awarded to KBRwyle by the U.S. Geological Survey Under this contract, KBRwyle will perform flight operations, system maintenance, testing, and sustainment engineering activities to support the...
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EgyptSat-A Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome Egypt’s third Earth Observation (EO) satellite — EgyptSat-A — was launched via a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket following the EgyptSat-1 spacecraft that was...
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February 21, 2019 AST Sets their Sails and Floats the First Commercial Iridium Certus on an Old Herring Lugger The accomplishment took place on the vessel originally built as a herring lugger in the last century now used for cruise expeditions in the polar regions.
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CETel Acquires SES-12 Capacity The coverage reaches from Cyprus in the West to Japan in the East, and South to Australia and North to Russia, enabling CETel to provide optimized...
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Exos Aerospace Schedules Company's Reuse Viability Test for SARGE ... March 2 The “Mission 1” test flight of the SARGE reusable system will carry the commercial payloads flown under the programs listed below. A successful...
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Virgin Galactic vs. Mojave Desert ... Mojave Wins... Delays Fifth Test Run “On the way back down in the feather configuration, we’ll be looking at how it handles in the feather, how easy it is to control in the feather."
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ORBCOMM's Analytics Services Empower Rehrig's Vision™ Customers integrating ORBCOMM’s analytics solution with their Vision platform, customers can query massive amounts of real-time asset data in seconds
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Comtech Mobile Datacom's $1.1 Million Incremental Funding for U.S. Army's Blue Force Tracking-1 Comtech continues to perform engineering services, satellite network operations and program management through a Firm Fixed Price (“FFP”)...
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Integrasys' Beam Budget Tool Ensures Accurate Link Budget Calculations Beam Budget drastically reduces the complexity surrounding link budget calculations and makes it simple for anyone to perform link budget ...
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Harris Commercial Broadband Satellite Program Receives Contract Mod from SPAWAR The CBSP ULV provides terminal-to-shore, space and terrestrial connectivity to significantly increase throughput for commercial satellite communication...
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February 20, 2019 Nilesat's Expansion of Broadcast Playout Facility .... 40 AirBox Neo Playout Servers PlayBox Neo's Channel In a Box was the logical choice given its proven success at many leading broadcast networks and playout service-providers
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Forrester Reports: Intelsat Continues to Lose Money + EL AL Airlines Viasat-2 Connection Those cold numbers reflect much of what the market was expecting... and Passengers can access high-speed, internet to key EL AL routes...
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ST Engineering and DSO Sign Agreement for Satellite Analytics and New Space Technologies will leverage the strengths of its parent companies to offer analytics, information products and value-added services based on satellite imagery
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Wavestream Introduces the First of a Series of Ka-Band Solutions for LEO/MEO Market The new BUC provides 65W of linear power. Leveraging Wavestream’s patented Spatial advantEdge™ technology, this new gateway-focused BUC...
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Newtec to Present Cellular Backhaul Solutions @ Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Satellite knows no boundaries and fulfills delivery of essential broadband connectivity to even the most rural and remote areas.
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ManSat Group Shared the Latest SmallSat Trends at SmallSat Symposium 2019 ManSat Group CEO Chris Stott and Katherine Gizinski, the VP of Sales and Marketing, represented ManSat at the 4th annual SmallSat Symposium...
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Pentagon Issues Solicitation for Time-Sensitive Target Mission Payloads Demo The objective of this effort is to advance space-based payload and enabling technology concepts that support attack operations against time-sensitive...
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MUOS Maintenance Contract Announced by SPAWAR W5 Technologies is the only source of the aforementioned product to ensure continuity of development, testing, and execution of performance while...
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Prime Contract to Support U.S. Antarctic Communications Program Received by DataPath the contract, DataPath has been designated as the software subcontractor for the Ross Island Earth Station (RIES) project, a multi-phased...
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Sky & Space Global's Batch of Pearls ... Closes $15 Million Funding Round for Nanosatellites “We have undertaken this raise at a pivotal time for the Company, as we prepare to launch our first batch of Pearls nano-satellites into space,"
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February 19, 2019 Historic Israeli Lunar Launch Press Conference Scheduled by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) This is the world’s first privately funded lunar mission — Israel’s lunar journey will begin this month when the lunar lander “Beresheet” (“In the Beginning”)...
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UPDATED: New Transmission Gateway Established Between PSSI Global Services and Sydney Teleport Services This new bidirectional connection means PSSI Global Services customers now have unique access to Asia-Pacific satellite fleets as well as STS’s...
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NASA's Opportunity of a Lifetime Comes to an End Designed to run for 90 days, the exploration spanned more than 15 years from 2004 to 2019. Along the way, it discovered definitive proof of liquid water
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New Version of Airbus Defence and Space Geospatial Tool Now Available The OneAtlas Platform provides access to data within the Living Library as well as value-added layers, Basemap and WorldDEM. The Living Library...
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Strategic Relationship Initiated Between BridgeSat and Es'hailSat BridgeSat owns and operates a growing global network of optical ground stations (OGS) and complimentary satellite terminals that provide high-bandwidth...
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Smallsat Growth on Shaky Ground, According to NSR Analysis and Report From technology development and on-orbit demonstration missions, to mega satellite constellations, it has brought a palpable change in the space...
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U.S.A.F. Awards SpaceX and United Launch Alliance Launch Service Contracts Both contracts provide the U.S. Government with a total launch solution for these missions, which includes launch vehicle production, mission integration...
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COMSAT Goes to Extremes to Provide Iridium Certus to U.S. DoD, Government and Commercial Users
service also enables military, government and enterprise users to transmit classified or sensitive information, using the highly secure and reliable voice... Full Story
Santander Teleport Supports Satellite Drift in Collaboration with RBC SIGNALS A 9 meter ground station operated by Santander Teleport is being used to telecommand the satellite and track its position, with the TT&C system being...
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Norman Lee Named by ATLAS Space Operations as the Firm's VP of Marketing Previously, Lee held managerial positions at Ford Motor Company, and Jaguar Land Rover NA with an emphasis on global marketing, regional market...
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February 18, 2019 NASA's Newest Mission is Ambitious ... $242 Million and Plans to Explore Origins of Universe Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way.
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Speedcast and Newtec Cook Up a Solution ... Create New Domestic Hub for Cook Islands' Remote Islands With a new Newtec Dialog hub solution by Speedcast, Cook Islands residents on the outer islands will have significantly improved capability to connect to
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Arianespace and Open Cosmos Sign Launch Contract Launched from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana using a Soyuz rocket, the CubeSat deployment platform is a key to the commercial offering...
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Ball Aerospace's Spacecraft Selected by NASA to Investigate the History of the Universe The Medium-class Explorer will probe the origin of the universe, evolution of galaxies and explore whether planets around stars could harbor life
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Time-Sensitive Target Mission Payloads Demonstration (TSTMPD) BAA Posted The objective of this effort is to advance space-based payload and enabling technology concepts that support attack operations against time-sensitive...
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Sierra Nevada Mountains Snow Inundation Captured by NASA In many areas, snow reports have been coming in feet not inches. Back-to-back storms in February dropped 11 feet (3 meters) of snow on Mammoth Mountain...
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Threats in Space Finds the Aerospace Industry Outpacing and Taking Action In this threat environment, the 2018 National Defense Strategy challenged the Department of Defense to “deliver performance at the speed of relevance.”
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The STN Dob Teleport Receives the WTA's Full Tier 3 Certification STN becomes the first teleport in Slovenia to achieve full certification and bring the number of fully-certified teleports around the world to 26...
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Russia Planning for Angara-A5 Rocket Launch in December The first launch of the Angara rocket occurred in 2014 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Head of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos...
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Hiber's Internet of Things SmallSat Tested for Space Evaluation of a test smallsat took place in ESA’s metal-walled Hybrid European Radio Frequency and Antenna Test Zone (Hertz) at the Agency’s...
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SSTL's RemoveDEBRIS Satellite Has Removed Debris ... Successful Capture Mission The harpoon was fired at a speed of 20 meters per second and penetrated a target made of satellite panel material. The harpoon and 1.5 meter target...
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Satcom Global's Aura VSAT Upgraded to iDirect's Velocity Platform The Velocity platform equips the Aura network with advanced mobility capabilities, ensuring vessels using the VSAT service maintain a high-quality...
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OneWeb Receives £18 Million from UK Space Agency for Next Gen Satellite Constellation A global communications network in space, the system will be initially comprised of approximately 650 satellites and will scale to more than 900...
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Israel's Historic Mission to the Moon ... Now Underway Once launched, the spacecraft will start a long and complex orbit. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral...
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February 17, 2019 SES Selected to Boost Connectivity and Improve Safety and Security of EU's Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems These maritime surveillance activities supported by SES Networks are aimed at improving maritime security and safety operations, as well as response to...
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Methera Global Introduces Their New Brand Identity The new brand consists of a green and blue logo representing the Earth and sky, and technology as a change for good...
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State-Of-The-Art SmallSat Production Facility Inaugurated by LeoStella The company is a joint venture between Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales (67 percent) and Leonardo (33 percent), and Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries...
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February 15, 2019 Curtiss-Wright is Preparing for Moon and Mars Missions Curtiss-Wright is working with NASA and aerospace leaders to return Americans to the Moon and send astronauts to Mars in the early 2030s. With...
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February 14, 2019 Spectra Group to Engage with Attendees at IDEX 2019 Spectra’s SlingShot is a small appliqué that provides in-service tactical VHF and UHF radios with a Beyond Line of SightCommunications-On-The Move (BLOS COTM) capability...
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Arianespace Closes With Open Cosmos and Seals the Deal for Launching Turnkey CubeSat's delivers solutions for tackling global challenges and specializes in missions for small, low-cost satellites (up to 50 kg.), with short lead times less than a year.
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Pentagon: China, Russia Developing Satellite-Killing Lasers Pentagon says both countries are likely developing an arsenal of anti-satellite weaponry including missiles, cyber attacks and 'directed energy weapons,
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Senior Leaders from SpaceX and Virgin Orbit Join the Relativity Space Executive Team The company has announced that 12 former senior leaders from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Orbit, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla...
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RS-25 Engine Testing Restarted by NASA at Stennis Wednesday’s test was the eighth in the “Retrofit 1b” series for prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne’s production restart program. Four RS-25s will...
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Pentagon Review Of SpaceX’s Air Force Certification is Unlikely to Keep the Company Grounded ULA enjoyed a virtual monopoly on national security launches for over a decade prior to SpaceX’s government certification, but the joint venture faces..
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SPAWAR Contracts with Comtech EF Data Corporation for Satellite Modems The delivery order specified Comtech EF Data’s SLM-5650B Satellite Modems and firmware upgrades. The SLM-5650B Satellite Modem is...
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NanoRacks Continues Their Historic Program — Sixth SmallSat Deployment from Cygnus Completed Cygnus maneuvered to a higher-than-Space Station altitude (445 kilometers) where the NanoRacks External Cygnus Deployment mission released two...
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C-Band RF Over Fiber Link Debuts from ViaLite The link's full frequency range is 500 MHz to 7.5 GHz. By removing the requirement for an up/down converter to convert signals to an IF band, the...
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Arabsat's BADR-4 Satellite Delivering TRT Arabi HD via Globecast to Viewers TRT Arabi (عربي TRT) is an Arabic language channel from TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation), broadcasting to Arabic-speaking audiences in...
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Teledyne e2v Completes Image Sensor Delivery for the Sentinel-5/UVNS Mission The Sentinel-5/UVNS instrument onboard MetopSG-A is focused on global monitoring of key air quality trace gases and aerosols as a part of the...
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Yahsat and Thuraya Specialize in Security, Services and Solutions for Military and Government at IDEX 2019
Yahsat’s wider diverse offering of integrated satellite solutions meet the most complex security requirements of governments and defense clients.
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Abundant Weather and Ice Results in Ending Search in Antarctica for Shackleton's Ship Endurance We are, however, very proud of our other achievements... surpassed our primary Expedition objective of undertaking pioneering scientific research at the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
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February 13, 2019 Forrester Reports: Hispasat Acquired Red Electra is a Spanish electricity utility company and is buying out Abertis’ 89.7 percent holding in Hispasat for 949 million euros. Hispasat recorded 235...
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GOES-17 is Now NOAA's Primary Satellite for All Pacific Weather Phenomenon The latest milestone for GOES-17 comes exactly 11 months after the satellite first reached its geostationary orbit 22,000 above Earth. Launched March 1, 2018...
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Airbus to Appear at the New Space Hub at Defence & Security Equipment International 2019
The Space Hub will be the perfect showcase for our Skynet military satellite communications and Earth observation capabilities.
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Leo Aerospace Plans to Make SmallSat Launches Far More Accessible The company aims to revolutionize access to space for those looking to launch smallsats that weigh up to 25 kilograms, or about 110 pounds. The...
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And this Year's Space Foundation’s Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award Goes to ... The National Space Council
When the National Space Council was reestablished it created a wave of new public attention regarding the importance of space in the United States.
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Patriot Broadband, a Disabled Veteran's Company, Brings Jobs and Solves Rural Broadband Needs Ballance went on to announce that preferential treatment will be given to fellow veterans who have the desire to own a franchise.
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Chris Deeble Appointed as Chief Executive for Northrop Grumman Australia Deeble replaces interim chief executive, Warren King, who will continue in his role as the chairman of Northrop Grumman Australia’s Advisory Board...
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Integration of Six OneWeb Spacecraft Completed by Arianespace for Upcoming Launch The spacecraft — produced by the OneWeb Satellites joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus — will be orbited on Arianespace’s first Soyuz mission...
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February 12, 2019 The First 3D Printed Part for a SpaceIL Moon Landing is Developed by RUAG Space A 3D engine mount from RUAG Space will be the first 3D printed part on the moon — the lunar lander of the private Israeli company SpaceIL
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Spaceflight Prepares for the First, Privately-Funded, Lunar Lander and AFRL Satellite Launch This will be Spaceflight’s first mission beyond LEO and the company's first combined launch with SSL. In addition to securing capacity aboard the launch...
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Plexscape Partners with a Start-Up, Bird.i, to Create Satellite Imagery Within CAD Platform
enable businesses of any size, in various sectors, to bring satellite images, on-demand, right into AutoCAD and other CAD platforms.
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Iran's Burn Marks on Launch Pad Indicate Failure to Launch a Second Satellite Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri said that his country would “not fear threats” aimed at forcing it to negotiate its defense and missile capabilities.
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ManSat Group Presents Subject-Matter Experts During the Recent PTC'19 Event in Hawaii At the conference, ManSat co-sponsored the Satellite Leaders Lunch with ManSat CEO Chris Stott co-moderating a six-strong panel of satellite industry...
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NavVis Can SLAM Point Clouds to Remove Artifacts ... the Fringe Benefits Points No More Scattered Beams Fringe points and dynamic objects are two common types of point cloud artifacts that affect all 3D laser scanning devices. Fringe points arise when a...
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Space-Focused Accelerator Program Announced by Techstars and Starburst With recent technological breakthroughs such as reusable rockets, 3D printing, advanced materials, and miniaturization of satellites (“smallsats”), as...
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DISA Releases their Challenges to Security in Space Report The advantage that the United States holds in space – and the nation's perceived dependence on it – will continue to drive actors to improve their...
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CM Technology Gains Antennas and Services Contract from RBC Signals During the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, the company received an order for $1.3 million for antennas and other services...
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UltiSat's Multi Million Dollar Contract to Provide Airborne SATCOM-On-The-Move Services to Support AISR Programs
to supply an airborne system kit of Multi-INT sensor payload information through near real-time satellite communications onboard a King Air 350ER
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Airbus and Hisdesat's Say It's a Flat World... Flattens TerraSAR-X / PAZ Radar Interferogram
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Mr. Steven's 'Home Run' as SpaceX's 'Catcher's Mitt' on a Ship to Capture Nose Cones, Arrives in Florida Via Panama Canal The ship, with four massive arms that support a "catcher's mitt", sailed 5,500 miles, from California, through the Panama Canal, and north to Florida.
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Phase Four's Maxwell Engines to Empower Capella Space SAR Satellites and Tyvak SmallSats Phase Four’s Maxwell is the first turnkey RF thruster-based propulsion solution targeted at small satellite constellations and is gaining swift traction...
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February 11, 2019 Telespazio and Grimaldi's 5 Million Euros Agreement Provides Upgrades to the Neapolitan Shipping Group The overall value of both agreements signed between Telespazio and the Grimaldi Group is about 5 million euros.
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The Orbex Prime Rocket Facility for SmallSat Delivery to Orbit Debuts in Scotland The rocket is designed to deliver smallsats into Earth’s orbit — the rocket was unveiled at an opening ceremony attended by VIPs from the UK and European...
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AlbertaSat to Host Ascension Space Conference This conference attempts to close the gap between industry and students by creating a place for students to find their own place in Canada’s space...
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NovelSat Debuts New Multi-Rx Satellite IP Demodulator The NS HUB4000 is a multi-receiver satellite transmission IP unit designed for mobile backhauling and enterprise satellite data transmission network...
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Airbus Expands Their Optical Production Capabilities for Satellites In February of 2019, Airbus will begin building an Industry 4.0* factory to automate and digitize the production of solar arrays for satellites. This will...
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Next Generation Navigation System Contract from the U.S. Air Force Awarded to Northrop Grumman Based upon modular and truly open systems architecture, the EGI-M system will support the rapid insertion of new capabilities and adaptability based on...
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Avanti Communications to Provide SATCOM Services to MainOne for Nigerian Coverage Under this arrangement, MainOne will leverage Avanti’s newest satellite, HYLAS 4, launched in April of 2018, to enable highly flexible capacity services...
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Discovery Deutschland Extends Their Partnership With MX1 for Managed Playout Services and More
The channels include TLC, DMAX, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and Shop 300 in Germany, as well as DMAX Austria in SD.
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Emerging Space Markets Analysis, 2nd Edition, Now Published by NSR A market pushing for commercialization of space, coupled with increased investor interest in a bigger and bolder vision of Emerging Space startups...
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February 10, 2019 SES Partners With RCN and Launches Seven New Ultra HD 4K Channels In addition to the new 4K programming, RCN customers can utilize 4K technology through streaming apps including Netflix, Hulu, HBOGO and more
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SES' New Additions... Four O3b MEO Satellites Arrive at Arianespace for March Launch The new Ka-band satellites will join SES’s existing constellation of 16 MEO satellites manufactured by Thales Alenia Space, orbiting at approximately...
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A Study of Satellite Navigation Services in Africa Underway by ASECNA ASECNA’s SBAS is based on EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service). In line with the agency’s strategic plan, it aims to enhance...
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Northrop Grumman Completes Acoustic and Sine Vibration Testing of NASA's James Webb Telescope Acoustic and sine vibration testing validates the structural design and verifies the mechanical workmanship and integrity of the actual flight SCE...
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Alex Fox Joins HawkEye 360 as an Executive Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Marketing Prior to joining HawkEye 360, he was director of Space ISR Solutions for Harris Corporation, where he led new business efforts within Harris’s Space
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Ecliptic Enterprises' Avionics Succeeded in Spaceflight's Successful Sun-Synchronous Orbit-A Mission The UFF and LFF were both outfitted with a redundant suite of Ecliptic-supplied control avionics, battery packs, radio transmitters and wire...
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The Guidance and Navigation Systems for the HERACLES Moon Mission to be Designed by GMV The HERACLES mission has to meet several concurrent technological challenges: to demonstrate human-controlled subsystems, such as...
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Airbus and SKY Perfect JSAT ... Node How to Communicate on the SpaceDataHighway System This allows the observation satellites to continually downlink the information they are gathering, instead of storing it until they travel over their own ground station.
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February 8, 2019 TriSept and Equatorial Launch Australia Agree to Meet 'Down Under' and Get Ready to Launch Leveraging the Earth’s speed, a launch vehicle can carry more to space than if launched at higher latitudes resulting in a lower price for customers.
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February 7, 2019 Incubator Program for Space Industry Startups Initiated by Australia In December, the Australian Government announced the newly-formed Australian Space Agency would be based in Adelaide, cementing South Australia’s...
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Astronics AeroSat Debuts Their NexGen SATCOM Solution for Business Aircraft The FliteStream T-310 SATCOM connectivity solution includes the next generation iDirect CX780 modem, providing compatibility with Ku-band wide...
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Link Microtek Develops Space-Qualifed Ka-Band Microwave Rotary Joint for new SSTL Antenna Pointing Mechanism Destined for use on LEO satellites, the Ka-band APM will enable the maximum amount of high-data-rate information, such as high-resolution...
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Forrester Reports: Satellite Sector Urged to Share Spectrum by the ESA and ITU But ahead of the four-week confab, the European Space Agency (ESA) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have issued similar messages...
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New EMEA Director Named by Terrasat Terrasat welcomes Paul Gorton to the team as Director of Sales, EMEA, who will be combining forces with Ron Merritt, Regional VP of EMEA...
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IEEE Honors Hughes' Dr. Lin-Nan Lee with "Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications" Award In his over 25 year career at Hughes, Dr. Lee has played a prominent role at both a company and an industry level in developing international satellite...
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Where in Outer Space Is the Tesla Roadster One Year after Launch, Traveling at 4,641mph? What we can be sure of is that wherever it is, the Roadster carries with it samples of human ingenuity and insanity in equal amounts.
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Northrop Grumman is Selected for Contract with the U.S. Coast for Homeland Security Missions The OPC will provide the majority of the USCG offshore presence for homeland security missions,
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Maxar's Radiant Solutions Offers a New Look Via a Refreshed Website The newly expanded capabilities section of the Radiant Solutions website better educates visitors on the company's mission to reveal insights where...
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Aireon Receives ADS-B Payload Control from Iridium Communications Hosted on the Iridium® NEXT satellite constellation, Aireon’s space-based ADS-B system will deliver — for the first time in history — 100 percent...
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February 6, 2019 Satellite Map of Queensland, Australia, Completed for the Third Time by Earth-i Around 6,000 very high-resolution images from the DMC3 Constellation were used for the 2018 update of the map with multiple re-visits to tropical...
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Contract Initiated Between Momentus and EXOLAUNCH for SmallSat LEO Support The Vigoride service is designed to support smallsats and cubesats in LEO. Vigoride Extended is capable of delivering smallsats throughout HEO and...
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Fractals Brighten Radar Reflections for Satellites and Driverless Cars The new patented and patent pending technology uses a discovery made over a dozen years ago during the research on invisibility cloaks,...
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Horizon 2020 Hatches HATCH Offering Opportunities to be Involved in Space Research and Innovation The topics are unlimited: satellites, black holes, telescopes, research results, planets, what astronauts eat, etc.
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The Final Mobile Connectivity 2019 Conference Program is Announced by GVF-EMP The Mobile Connectivity 2019 event — for which around 509 key connectivity suppliers have already confirmed attendance — will examine...
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Russian Specialists Use Ordinary Repair Kit to Mend a Micro-Hole on Fregat Booster used standard materials and have already eliminated the micro-hole, using an ordinary repair kit.
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Prometheus: The Engine that Could ... or Will ... Demonstrate the Future Passes Its Definition Review the first two examples of the very low cost engine demonstrator, which uses liquid oxygen and methane technology and is potentially reusable.
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Gilat's LEO Modem Test is Successful over Telesat's LEO Satellite The performance with latency as low as 16 msec was achieved in the tier-1 maritime service provider’s teleport in Northern Europe. The test was...
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Newtec and Paradigm Partner to Become the First Company to Host Newtec's High-Throughput Modem Board The integration of SMB3310 and the PIM instantly gives customers access to the Newtec Dialog VSAT platform via Paradigm’s range of high-performance...
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Spacecom's AMOS-7 Satellite Delivers Nashe Media Group Content to the Ukraine The success and positive reception by consumers of the company's 4K channel #NASHE HDR is exciting. Working together with UkrKosmos and...
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Iridium's $3 Billion Satellite Constellation Upgrade is Completed "We did it! And we did it together – together with the Iridium team, our customer with whom we worked all these years much more as a partner than..
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February 5, 2019 Canadian Government Bestows Arctic Surveillance SmallSat Contract Upon Space Flight Laboratory The UTIAS SFL smallsats being developed will include multiple sensors on a constellation operating in close formation in LEO to allow for quick and...
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Forrester Reports: Belgium Puts Inmarsat Questions to EU Tribunal A Belgium Court of Appeal’s Market Court ruled on January 23rd that it wanted greater clarity on two specific legal questions and has asked the higher...
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Rwanda's Telecom Satellite to Launch Sooner than Original Schedule between the Rwandan and the Japanese government on Space Inclusion in Africa, 6 young Rwandans are being trained in Japan ahead of the Launch.
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SatixFy Debuts the World's First ESMA Antenna at the SmallSat Symposium The ESMA antenna can serve both as a stand-alone IoT terminal or a building block for a larger sized antenna and is currently available in...
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Forrester Reports: "Microhole" Discovery on Russian Rocket to Delay OneWeb Satellites Launch + However, last week it was reported that a “microhole” problem was discovered on part of the Russian rocket. At the time, it was said that...
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SES Leadership Team is Strengthened Through Establishment of a Global Services Organization and Chief Services Officer The newly created CSO position consolidates all customer support and operational delivery, logistics and services related resources across the///
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Shetland Space Centre and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Space Projects MoU SSC is planning to construct a commercial rocket launch center on the island of Unst and is developing a teleport and other space-related ground infrastructure, while Goonhilly will...
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Orbital AI is the Stated Goal of Hypergiant Industries as the Company Launches Their Galactic Systems Division In its first step toward realizing this vision, Hypergiant Galactic Systems has acquired Satellite & Extraterrestrial Operations & Procedures (S.E.O.P.s), a...
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NanoRacks Racks Up Another International Educational CubeSat Mission on the International Space Station NanoRacks platforms enable affordable opportunities for everyone from high school, to the university, to the professional researchers at the laboratory...
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Arianespace Successfully Opens Their 2019 Launch Season with Flight VA247 Flight VA247 included two spacecraft along with the dispenser system and integration hardware in Ariane 5’s dual-passenger configuration.
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Singapore's NTU Singapore Successfully Do It Again... this Time It's Number Nine Satellite The scientists believe that a lunar mission may be achievable within five years, using satellites weighing no more than 100kg each
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February 4, 2019 UK Space Agency's Case Studies of Oxford Space Systems, Spire Global, and Thales Alenia Space's Healthy Growth Beyond the direct effects of the space industry, the satellite services industry supports a wealth of other sectors worth an estimated £300 billion...
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On the SmallSat Symposium Show Floor: KenCast to Demo Their Fazzt Platform The current dramatic changes — in satellite (HTS GEO, MEO, and LEO constellations) and terrestrial networking and cloud storage — bring new...
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Head of Australian Space Agency Has a Vision and She Shared Her Plans “We access many of the positioning satellite systems that are available…but we did not have world-class positioning.
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What's NEXT After Iridium's Retiring COO... the New COO is Returning ... She Comes from OneWeb Iridium NEXT was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity, and I’m proud to have played my part in bringing such an extraordinary system to life.
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Satellite Services Protection for DoD Terminals Demo'd by Kratos Defense and Security Solutions The prototype Enterprise M&C system was implemented in conjunction with a multi-band U.S. government satellite communication terminal and...
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Teledyne Paradise Datacom and Infostellar Create Interoperability Between Stellar Station and QubeFlex LEO Modem. Infostellar and Paradise aim to provide LEO Satellite operators and ground station owners with a single seamless system able to integrate with existing...
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The Precision Farming Portfolio from Airbus Adds A New Service — Verde The new service primarily addresses in-season monitoring, to help anomalies detection, optimize field scouting, irrigation, seeding, fertilization,...
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February 3, 2019 Newtec's M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulator Brings Efficiency to India's DishTV’s Direct-to-Home Platform DishTV is the largest DTH service provider in India and the world’s largest single-country DTH company.
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Myriota's IoT Product Uses Low Cost Earth-To-Satellite Comms Technology is expected to be commercially available in the second half of the year and will be the first mass-market water-level sensor to be connected via Myriota’s
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New West Coast Hub for SageNet Services Via COMSAT Teleport The Santa Paula facility becomes the third major satellite Earth station in SageNet’s fleet. The company also operates two enterprise-grade teleports...
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NASA's Lucy Mission to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids to be Launched by United Launch Alliance The Lucy mission is scheduled to launch in October 2021 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This...
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The New Space Force Enjoys an 'Uptick' in Satellite Spending The U.S. military and intelligence community’s appetite for satellites and gear is growing, and the reorganization dubbed Space Force may boost it further.
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Hubble Accidentally Discovers a New Neighborhood in Cosmic Galaxy In a celestial game of "Where's Waldo?" Hubble's sharp vision uncovered a new dwarf galaxy located far behind the cluster's crowded stellar population.
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February 1, 2019 Market Insight from BIS Research — Small Launch Vehicles (SLV) This demand for small launch vehicles is fueled by the non-availability of space for the small payload in heavy launch vehicles and the long wait-time...
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SSL Pulls the Plug on DARPA's Robotic Servicing Program SSL has notified DARPA that it has decided to discontinue its participation in RSGS, an option available at this time under the terms of the Other ...
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OneWeb's Satellite Launch is Being Delayed Due to Soyuz ST Anomaly The statement comes after Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos told Sputnik on January 30 that preparations for the launch of OneWeb...
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UPDATE: Telesat Selects Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket to Launch Their LEO Constellation and Into Balloons with LOON With this agreement, the two companies are combining their expertise and have established a strong, working relationship and will collaborate on a...
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UPDATE: Just Hours Away, Arianespace's Flight VA247's Vehicle Ready to Launch Saudi Satellite Riding atop a mobile launch table, Ariane 5 today completed its transfer from the Spaceport’s Final Assembly Building — where its two passengers...
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