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January 30, 2016 2016 To Be A Highly Promising Year For Airbus Safran Launchers Airbus Safran Launchers is the lead contractor for Ariane 6 and is developing the new launcher under a contract signed with the European Space Agency on August 12, 2015.
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Clyde Space Updates — Expansion Into The USA + More... American customers will be able to receive 'made in the USA' products, made by Americans for Americans.
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New VSAT Router Rolls Out From Advantech Wireless Building capabilities on the recently announced VR7400, this new router is able to support a wide range of critical applications.
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PXI Reference Solution Introduced By Keysight Technologies The Keysight Reference Solution enables engineers to quickly evaluate and integrate core radio test measurement capabilities into validation, production or depot test systems.
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A Path Forward for Commercial Use of Higher Frequency Spectrum For IoT Proposed By TIA TIA proposed that fixed-satellite service (FSS) be permitted to continue operating under existing rules...
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Gilat @ MWC Barcelona 2016 Gilat presents its turnkey cellular connectivity solutions over satellite.
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EMC's Global X-Band Coverage To Be Enhanced By XTAR This contract signifies a renewal of a service that began in 2014 and XTAR’s services provides EMC with seamless coverage and plays a crucial role in supporting airborne communications requirements.
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DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 Gains DigitalGlobe accelerated the launch of WorldView-4 to meet strong international demand for the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite imagery.
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Sensing The Tilt With Fredericks Company's Latest Release The inclinometer uses a Fredericks TrueTILT wide-range electrolytic tilt sensor and RS-485 signal conditioner to provide reliable tilt measurement.
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New RF Switches Launch From Fairview Microwave These new RF switches offer exceptional reliability and repeatable performance.
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The HD Viewing Experience For Korea Telecom Is Upped By Ericsson Ericsson’s AVP 4000 MPEG-4 HD system meets the needs of satellite, IPTV, cable and transmission, delivering greater reliability and flexibility to withstand the demands of a new TV landscape.
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GPS IIF-12 Travel Schedule Booked By United Launch Alliance The GPS IIF-12 spacecraft mate to the Atlas V launch vehicle is on track to support a February 5 launch.
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CTO Botti To Leave Airbus Group Botti’s perhaps most well-known initiative, the E-Fan all-electric aircraft, is a pioneering project for which he has received many international awards.
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Two Payloads For NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System To Be Produced By Harris' Exelis Space Systems The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument produces high-resolution, three-dimensional temperature, pressure and moisture profiles used to enhance weather forecasting models.
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Subscriber Growth For SES HD+ Experiences Growth HD+ had 1.84 million subscribers at year-end 2015, compared to 1.65 million at year-end 2014.
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Traveling Down The Space Data Highway Is EDRS-A + EUTELSAT 9B Is Slotted After a test period, this satellite will become operational for its first end-user customer by mid-2016.
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January 28, 2016 Advanced Cloud Services Now Available From NewCom The comprehensive suite of cloud video services—powered by Primestream—are being facilitated through NewCom’s world-class teleport in Miami.
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Ten Awards For Booster Propulsion Technology and Risk Reduction Awarded By Space & Missile Systems Center "This is essential in order to solidify U.S. assured access to space, transition the EELV program away from strategic foreign reliance, and support the U.S. launch industry's commercial viability in the global market."—Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, the Air Force's Program Executive Officer for Space and SMC commander.
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EUCLID's Micro-Propulsion System Will Be Courtesy Of OHB Sweden Euclid will explore dark energy and dark matter, the essential but still mysterious ingredients in today’s “Standard Model’ of cosmology.
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Flat Panel Probe By NSR This new report forecasts the global industry growth of in-service units, shipped units, and equipment revenues across nine regions and by frequency band.
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SOTM Terminals To Possess Faster Market Entries The breakthroughs reduce ‘time to market’ with streamlined product-quality validation.
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The Way Forward For A Complete US-Built Space-Launch System But, while there is hope in the future, there is no alternative to the Russian rockets.
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And The Beat Goes On...For Arianespace The 70th Consecutive Successful Ariane 5 Launches A Telecommunications Satellite ...the ability to respond to the specific needs of one of its clients in record time, as the launcher was adapted to accommodate a single satellite rather than the customary two satellites for which Ariane 5 ECA has been optimized. Full Story
Airbus Defence + Space Proudly Announce Another Successful Launch Of Ariane 5 “This first successful flight in 2016 underlines again the extraordinary reliability of Europe’s Ariane 5 launcher, one of the world’s largest and most complex launch systems."
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January 27, 2016 Powered By Thomson Video Network, DISH HD Asia Launches HD and Ultra HD 4K Service Leverages All-New HEVC Capabilities Built Into Latest Version of MediaFlexOS Software and ViBE® VS7000 Encoder.
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FreeWave Technologies Launches Sensor-2-Server (S2S) Strategy WP201 provides customers with a comprehensive IoT communication system to enable data transport for a variety of business applications.
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a.i. solutions Celebrates 20 Years From its simple beginnings the company has grown to more than 400 employees nationwide.
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Vimond Takes A Bite From The Big Apple Opens a NY Office following large scale successes in North America
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ORBCOMMs Isatdata Pro (IDP) Core Modem Goes Commercial ORBCOMM has demonstrated compliance with Inmarsat communication requirements and network protocols.
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For Those In Samoa + The Pacific, Bluesky + ABS Improve Their Internet Connectivity "ABS aims to reset both the quality and affordability expectations in the Pacific region for the betterment of all the customers who we aim to serve,” said Tom Choi, CEO of ABS.
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Ariane 5 Launches...Arianespace's Year-Opening Mission Intelsat 29e...One Of The Most Advanced Digital Payloads "It was cloudy all day today, and Stéphane—I don't know how you did it—but as the rocket was ready to go, the clouds parted and it was a beautiful evening."
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Rocket Engines Support Intelsat 29e Telecommunications Satellite Mission “Aerojet Rocketdyne is thrilled to be a part of another successful satellite program for Boeing, as well as part of another successful Intelsat mission...”
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January 26, 2016 ORBIT Finds Itself In A Good Position They secure an order for the development and delivery of Airborne Positioning Antenna Systems valued at $1.7 million.
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Telenor Satellite Broadcasting Becomes Telenor Satellite The change reflects the company’s increasingly broad satellite communications portfolio.
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A Fast Turnaround by UK-based Paradigm Communication Systems Paradigm has been selected to urgently provide multiple VSAT systems for an EU funded project In Africa.
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Old Enough To Be In A Museum The Viking Mars Missions Education and Preservation Project (VMMEPP) along with the Google Cultural Institute present the online Viking Mission Museum
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Getting Set To Go Is Intelsat 29e Via An Arianespace Ariane 5 This milestone confirms that the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and its Intelsat 29e payload are flight-ready.
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The COM DEV + Honeywell "Arrangement" Obtains Final Court Approval COM DEV currently anticipates that the Arrangement will become effective on or about February 4, 2016.
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SpaceX Has Set May For The Launch of Spacecom's AMOS-6 Satellite AMOS-6, to be co-located with AMOS-2 and AMOS-3 at the 4 degrees West prime orbital position, will provide services to Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
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Deep Space Industries + Space Flight Laboratory Execute A First With Nanosatellites To the best of each organization’s knowledge, this is the first time in history that one satellite has autonomously commanded another to execute propulsive maneuvers, with no operator in the loop.
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OneWeb Satellites Company Given Birth By Airbus Defence and Space + OneWeb The new joint venture, equally owned by Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb, will design and build the 900 satellites of the OneWeb constellation.
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Two New Sentinel-2 Satellites For ESA To Be Built By Airbus Defence and Space These two new models, called “Sentinel-2C” and “Sentinel-2D”, will observe the environment and land surfaces.
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ULA Delay Electrical Connectors On GPS IIF-12 Satellite...Set For February
The GPS IIF-12 spacecraft mate to the Atlas V launch vehicle has been delayed pending assessment.
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FREQUENTIS + ND SatCom Announce Cooperation: ATM-Grade Voice Quality Through Dynamic Delay Compensation Air Traffic Control requires safety-critical radio communication delays to be predictable in order to eliminate any echo.
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The Intelsat 29e Launch Set For An Ariane 5 Push Off On January 27 The Intelsat 29e will be deployed to geostationary transfer orbit during a flight sequence that will last for just under 30 minutes.
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January 25, 2016 Now Open For Business Inmarsat has opened a new office in Toa Payoh, Central Region Singapore.
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Aerospace Test Controller Delivers to Gulfstream Moog Supplies Gulfstream with 500-channel Aerospace Test
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ESA / Hubble Gives You Dazzling Diamonds Hubble Space Telescope image features the star cluster Trumpler 14.
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The Readiness Soak For SBIRS IT&E Is Completed By USAF's SMC + 40th Space Wing This is the final Block 10 Increment 2 system test prior to the formal evaluation by the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.
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Shareholders Vote In Favor Of Honeywell Limited's Acquisition Of COM DEV International Approval was given at a special meeting of COM DEV shareholders held in Cambridge, Ontario on Thursday, January 21, 2016 (the "Special Meeting").
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Enhanced LightSpeed1000™ From GL Communications GL's LightSpeed1000™ comes with all the necessary software for capturing, monitoring, emulation, and protocol analysis over SONET-SDH links.
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European Space Agency Set To Launch Two Proton is to be launched on January 27 via a Rokot booster with European Sentinel-3A on February 4.
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USAF's SMC Updates The Base Configuration For SpaceX Falcon 9 Upgrade Launch Vehicle SpaceX is eligible for award of NSS launch missions, in accordance with the updated Certification Letter, as one of two currently certified launch providers.
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A Youth Movement Brings Oxygen To Space 13-Year-Old Israeli Girl Develops Satellite System for Producing Oxygen in Space
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Cobham RF Microelectronics For Harris A $35M order for Electronic Warfare Systems from Harris Corporation
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Assembly Started By Arianespace For Their Second Ariane 5 Launch Of 2016 The process began with this week's positioning of the launcher's central core cryogenic stage over one of two mobile launch tables utilized for Ariane 5.
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Moo Management Cattle-Watch will incorporate the Smart m2m Solution, the platform developed entirely by Telefonica to manage and control IoT communications, into their products.
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The Fully Funded MET Now Operational @ Al Udeid Air Base In Qatar The terminal provides secure communication capabilities including voice, video and data services.
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iPass Partners and Panasonic Avionics Go Airborne WiFi iPass partners with Panasonic Avionics to offer In-flight Wi-Fi on 23 airlines.
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Blizzard by Moonlight By late afternoon on January 23, snowfall totals were approaching records in many states, and hurricane-force winds were battering the coastlines.
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Voyager Celebrates 30 Years With Uranus NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft got its closest look at the mysterious, distant, gaseous planet on January 24, 1986.
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SPOT Surges SPOT delivers affordable, location-based messaging and life-saving emergency notification technology to tens of thousands of EMEA users, completely independent of mobile phone coverage.
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EUTELSAT 9B Set For A January 30 ILS Push For Slotting The Proton M launch vehicle, using a 5-burn Breeze M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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January 23, 2016 Creating, Update, Troubleshoot and Publish With DataMiner Skyline announces the DataMiner Integration Studio
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Upconverters For The Next Generation Norsat announces the launch of the next generation of MEDIAN series of Ku-band Block Upconverters.
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A Strategic Move For Satellite Switches COM DEV Enters into Strategic Supply Agreement with Major Customer
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The 6th Edition Of NSR's Energy Markets Via Satellite Is En Route This report provides a deep-dive into where the market is going for In-service Units, Capacity Demand, and Revenue Opportunities.
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Antennas From C2SAT Ordered By Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Deliveries of the technically advanced 1m antennas will run over a three year period.
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Key Vendors For Global Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems Announced Global Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems 2016-2020 - Key Vendors are Garmin, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Thales & Universal Avionics
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January 22, 2016 All In the Space Talent Pool! INTERNATIONAL space experts are pooling their talents to use the space industry to help solve global food and water security issues.
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January 21, 2016 Pivotel Gives Voice To Australia Pivotel Satellite announces the launch of Inmarsat voice services for its customers.
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Harris Corporation Reaps DISA Contract with $4.3 Billion Ceiling Multi-year IDIQ contract will provide telecommunication services to more than 1 million DoD users
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The Space Tech Expo Conference Speakers, Topics & Registration With specific sessions examining the wide-range of on-orbit services and emerging technologies. Full Story
A Super Deal To Provide SuperLinear® High-Power Amplifiers Communications & Power Industries (CPI) Awarded $4.5 Million To Provide SuperLinear® High-Power Amplifiers For Shipboard Satcom Program
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SES And Vivicast Go Ultra HD The First Satellite Operator To Introduce Ultra HD In The U.S. And Europe Now Has Eight Ultra HD Channels Worldwide. Full Story
Exploring Seamless, Mobile Connectivity @ GVF's Connectivity 2016 Event The program will examine key themes in technological developments, service trends, and market evolution that feature on the path to a universal connectivity ecosystem.
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ORBIT receives a follow on order for its Ka-band OceanTRx™ 7 Maritime Satellite Communication Systems The order is from a Global Satellite Service Provider and is valued $2.1M
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A New Line Of RF Switches Debut From Fairview Microwave Inc. The package assembly is fully RoHS compliant and the bottom side consists of a PWB mounting surface that’s gold plated and designed to resist the effects of oxidation for ease of soldering.
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Additional Capacity Acquired On Eutelsat-E10A By SIS LIVE For Middle East Net Services Customers from the major events and news sectors can now use SIS LIVE’s occasional use booking service to secure instant, robust capacity for their connectivity requirements.
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The National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award Goes To The New Horizons Team This Award recognizes the team's success in conducting a mission that has lasted now over a decade, starting with the launch on Jan 19, 2006.
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Weather Or Not — Not! ILS Delays EUTELSAT 9B Launch The launch vehicle processing continues without any technical issues.
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Initial Testing By USAF Is Successful For OPIR Battlespace Awareness Center The Space and Missile Systems Center Remote Sensing Directorate is currently establishing a Remote Sensing Data Exploitation Lab in Boulder, Colorado.
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Four Days Post Launch, Jason-3 Is Delivering Data The data started to be acquired, processed in real time by CNES and products started to be delivered shortly after the successful completion of the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) carried out by CNES.
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Satellite Internet Supports Welsh Broadband Access Updated Access Broadband Cymru program will help bridge the digital divide.
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Top Download Speeds And Bandwidth Savings For All Hughes JUPITER System with Sevis Optimization Deliver
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And The Award Goes To... Richard Hadsall to be Inducted into SSPI 2016 Satellite Hall of Fame
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Advantech Wireless To Construct Brazil’s Broadband Access Initiative Advantech Wireless has received an order for Ka-Band hub facilities from Telebras, the Brazil telecommunications infrastructure company
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Intelsat 29e Installed Atop Arianespace Ariane 5 For January 27 Liftoff Intelsat 29e will be a solo payload on this January 27 delivery mission to geostationary transfer orbit.
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A Harmonic Relationship With AsiaSat The UHD channels on AsiaSat 4’s UHD platform are available free-to-air across the satellite’s enormous footprint
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O3b Connectivity Assured For Lae (PNG) Via New Agreement With SpeedCast SpeedCast operates the new O3b service in Lae, which is the second O3b terminal deployed by the SpeedCast Group in PNG and the sixth overall.
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Christmas Every Day Of The Year For O3b Networks + SpeedCast International Since launching the O3b service on Christmas Island, there has been a 300 percent increase in data usage.
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Telenor Digs Into 2016's Telco Trends The current digitization will transform all aspects of the telco industry and the way consumers increasingly use and rely on mobile technology.
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On Orbit Test Results For AddValue Prove Fruitful Addvalue’s IDRS is an innovative new service that addresses a long standing constraint confronting the operation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.
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ETL Systems Product Showcase @ Convergence India Among the products on display at ETL’s booth at Convergence India are the 32x32 Enigma Matrix and the 16x16 Victor Switch Matrix/Router.
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Intelsat 29e Encapsulation Completed By Arianespace With the 6,550-kg. Intelsat 29e as its solo payload for this mission to geostationary transfer orbit.
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January 19, 2016 Keeping Eyes On An Eruption San Miguel is one of the most active volcanoes in El Salvador.
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The Intelsat 29e Satellite Is Fueled And Ready For a Heavy-lift Ariane 5 This liftoff is the first of up to 11 missions planned for Arianespace's
launcher family this year.
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Please Call Home... Airbus Defence and Space Airbus Defence and Space To Provide Free Satellite Communications And Calls For German Troops
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Keysight Technologies Is Pumping Up The Analog Bandwidth For Their Arbitrary Waveform Generator The AWG’s memory also increased to 16 GSa per channel for a playtime of 250 ms at maximum sample rate.
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Joining In With Award For INNOspace Masters Is Airbus Defense and Space The winner of the Airbus Defence and Space Challenge will have the chance to become an Airbus supplier or partner and gain access to the company's knowledge pool and expert network.
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NSR Keeps In Tune w/Battle Of The Bands ( M2M/IOT) So in the battle of the bands, the clear winner was, is and will continue to be MSS; however,...
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KORE Is A Pro ...To Show PRiSMPro™ @ London's M2M World Congress 2016 Taken together, these enhancements are designed to bring “managed M2M” to an entirely new level of effectiveness, efficiency and/
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Avere Systems Packs Up Storage + Gets Moving For NASA “The stakes are high when it comes to the transferring data to and securing it in the cloud
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January 18, 2016 The Dream Chaser Cargo System From Sierra Nevada Corp. Will Be Heading To The ISS SNC is the owner and prime operator of the reusable Dream Chaser spacecraft, which has been in development for over 10 years.
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Sencore Introduces Their Next Generation Of Portable RF Analysis The DSA 1491 portable RF Analyzer brings new features and an enhanced user experience.
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Airbus Group Ventures West To Silicon Valley Airbus Group Establishes VC Fund + Innovation Center in Silicon Valley
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Satellite Number Five For India's Navigation System To Storm Space On January 20 ISRO said navigation payload will transmit navigation service signals to the users, and will be operating in L5-band and S-band.
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Moving On Up... SES Names Mathur As Senior Sales Director For Asia Vishal has led the sales & marketing, business development, strategic planning and regulatory approval efforts of broadcasters such as ESPN Star Sports Channel and ZEE TV, and of satellite services provider MEASAT during his career.
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Orion Spacecraft Support @ NASA's Stennis Space Center Is All Fired Up Earlier this fall, Stennis engineers completed a series of tests on a subscale diffuser system.
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Space Foundation's Out-Of-This-World Education...Science On A Sphere®, Tesla's Toolbox + Math Alive! In El Pomar Space Gallery, students study artifacts and models depicting the story of historic and future space exploration. Full Story
Moving On Up... LeoSat Names van der Breggen As New CCC Van der Breggen has more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and satellite industries.
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Global Branding Now In Effect For SSC Space U.S. Inc. The purpose of the name change is to leverage the strength and global capabilities and efficiencies of USN’s parent corporation.
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An Additive Attitude @ Orbital ATK Proves To Be Successful The combustor, produced through an additive manufacturing process known as powder bed fusion (PBF), was subjected to a variety of high-temperature hypersonic flight conditions over the course of 20 days.
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ESA's ExoMars 2018 Mission Brings Thales Alenia Space-UK Into The Project Thales Alenia Space-UK will be responsible for the Reaction Control Subsystem (RCS) in the Carrier Module, performing the design and engineering activities.
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FSM Telecommunications Extends Their Partnership With ABS For The Federated States Of Micronesia FSMTC has contracted additional capacity to provide connectivity to its neighboring islands in the Micronesia states.
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January 17, 2016 China's First Launch In The New Year Is A First...A European Communications' Satellite Soars ...providing widely demanded services: satellite Internet; mobile satellite communication; solutions for mobile operators; corporate networks provisioning; and live TV broadcasting.
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NOAA's Jason-3 Driven Into Orbit From Vandenberg AFB Via A SpaceX Falcon 9 Jason-3 measurements will also be ingested by numerical prediction models coupling the atmosphere and the oceans used for seasonal forecasting.
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Going Up That SpaceDataHighway On January 28 The SpaceDataHighway will provide high speed laser communications in space of up to 1.8 Gigabit per second.
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On Orbit Servicing Commitment Signed by Effective Space Solutions The company’s on orbit service spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with the customer’s GEO communication satellite to perform station-keeping...
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January 16, 2016 Smallsat Surveillance Network Planned By Asian Nations + Universities Hokkaido University and Tohoku University will lead the creation of up to 50 microsatellites by 2020.
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New SATCOM Network From Arqiva For UK Power Networks Arqiva is providing the design, installation and on-going management of the new VSAT network via one of its award winning teleport facilities.
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Record Setting Satellite Acquisition Speeds For C-COM's Newgen iNetVu Antennas With just one push of a button on the ACU, the iNetVu® Nexgen products can now lock onto satellite in under 60 seconds.
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A Multi-Stream IP WAN Emulator Debuts From GL Communications IPNetSim™ emulates an IP network with access to 10 Gbps full duplex link or a 10/100/1000 Mbps full duplex link.
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Eight Year Contract For Orbital ATK For Cygnus Resupply Missions To ISS These initial missions will deliver approximately 22,500-26,500 kilograms (or 49,000-58,000 pounds) of supplies and equipment to the orbiting laboratory.
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January 14, 2016 Designed For SATCOM Manpacks, Advantech Wireless Offers A New Lighter BUC These weatherproof, hub-mounted units are the smallest fully integrated units on the market today.
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EMC's New Online Showcase For Technology + Services EMCConnected.com delivers access to the industry’s most powerful and tailored solutions that enable remote communications services.
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Solar Power Distance Record Is Managed By NASA | JPL's Juno The milestone occurred on Wednesday, January 13, when Juno was about 493 million miles (793 million kilometers) from the sun.
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ONE CONNXT Has The Connections To The Jewels... Delivers 24/7 Transport Signal For The Liquidation Channel is a global leader in direct sales of colored stones, diamonds, precious metals, and a variety of luxury goods and innovative products whose goal it is to...
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NASA Selects Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser® Spacecraft... ISS Resupply Services 2 Contract ...receive a multi-year contract to provide cargo delivery, return and disposal services for the International Space Station (ISS).
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Gilat Brings Defense + HLS Satcom Solutions To The Singapore Airshow 2016 ...increase productivity, maximize reliability, improve quality of service, train technical staff and still find time to manage dynamically changing satellite networks.
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January 13, 2016 Commercial Satellite Market Analysis: Government Spending Remains Strong Despite Decreased Military Activity This due to the continued need to retain communications, operate UAVs, and monitor locations on a global level.
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Solveforce Enables Searching For Satellite Internet Providers in Albuquerque Via New Real-Time Quoting Tool High speed satellite Internet can be the best option.
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Analysis Of The Flat Panel Satellite Antenna Market Upcoming From NSR This NSR report is structured into two parts – Mobility and Fixed Applications.
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COM DEV Confirms Satisfaction Of Regulatory Approval + Key Consent Conditions For The Acquisition By Honeywell COM DEV anticipates that the Arrangement will become effective in early February 2016.
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High Speed Car Connectivity Evolving Through Kymeta + Intelsat Technologies Last month, in an industry first, Kymeta and Intelsat proved that a “dish” ground antenna was unnecessary for on-the-move satellite connectivity.
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Severe Weather Warning Betterment With Lockheed Martin's GLM Delivery For GOES-S The sensor will fly on the second next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, known as GOES-S, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Federal Regulation Compliance Focus Of ASDEvents EAR/ITAR Boot Camp Avoid costly fines and penalties through compliance with, and an understanding of, EAR and ITAR.
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For SATCOM + Defense Infrastructure, Microsemi Ushers Forth Security-Hardened NTP Timing + Sync Platform Provided is a highly secure, accurate and flexible timing and frequency platform for synchronizing network elements and mission-critical electronics systems.
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Shake, Rattle & Roll Have Their Place In Bruel & Kjaer's Training Classes The courses start in March with the intensive two-day PULSE User Training.
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Portal360 Released By Airbus Defence and Space For Online Management Of SATCOM Portal360 is a 24/7 connected solution enabling Service Provider Partners to access a variety of business critical data to proactively and efficiently manage their customers, while staying in full control of their own accounts and business.
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SES SatBroadcasting™ Channel Growth Outperforms The Industry SES’s TV channel count grew by 11.3 percent to 7,268 channels during 2015, compared with an overall growth of 2 percent for the remainder of the industry.
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An IMU From Northrop Grumman For Lockheed Martin's LM 300 Satellite Bus The LN-200S is a small, lightweight navigational element that senses acceleration and angular motion, providing data outputs used by vehicle control systems for attitude control and guidance.
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NSR: New Metrics for New HTS Models HTS systems will grow to reach an astonishing 96 percent of data traffic for fixed broadband services in 2024.
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SES TV Channels Grow By 11.3 percent In 2015—Outstanding! Growth is driven by HDTV in developed markets.
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SpaceX, Orbital ATK + Blue Origin Signed On By SMC For Propulsion Prototypes The OTA awards are part of a comprehensive Air Force plan to transition off the Russian-supplied RD-180 propulsion system.
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Asian Universities + Asian Nations Go Small... Monitor Natural Disasters w/Network Of Microsatellites The satellites will be launched using Japanese rockets, or released from the International Space Station.
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Raytheon BBN Technologies Advances In Office of Naval Research STEM Grand Challenge Company-developed artificial intelligence system is already teaching high school physics...
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NSR Polar LEO-HTS: A Game Changer Polar Satellite Markets report projects Polar satellite capacity revenues increasing from $151 million in 2014 to approximately $290 million in 2024.
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January 12, 2016 A $7 Million Contract For Anaren The Syracuse-based Company will deliver its first flight-set hardware to Airbus Defence and Space in 2017.
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US Navy Evaluation Of General Dynamics Mission Systems AN/PRC-155 Manpack Connects With MUOS The General Dynamics PRC-155 MUOS-Manpack radio is equipped with a high-power amplifier that provides the radio signal strength needed to reach the MUOS satellites that are in geo-synchronous orbit above the Earth's equator.
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A Boost From Moog For The US Air Force Moog will focus its efforts on additive manufacturing of parts for liquid fueled first stage rocket engines.
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Moog Gives A Big Boost To USAF... Advances Launch Vehicle Booster Technology w/Metal Additive Manufacturing Techniques
...explore the material properties unique to additive manufacturing and discover the fault tendencies of the materials using in-house additive manufacturing technologies and failure analysis techniques.
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KVH's FOG-Based Inertial Navigation Systems Can Roll + Pitch For Demanding Unmanned + Autonomous Applications a proven inertial measurement unit incorporating three axes of KVH’s DSP-1750 FOG—the world’s smallest high-performance fiber optic gyro—with three axes of advanced accelerometer technology. Full Story
SSPI's Super Six Satellite Hall of Famers...These Six Stars Join A Stellar Cast They will join more than 40 Hall of Fame members including Dr. Arthur C. Clarke, Dr. Harold Rosen, Olof Lundberg, and...
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January 11, 2016 A Win For NetComm Wireless @ CES 2016 The NetComm Wireless 4G WiFi M2M Router (NTC-140W) was selected by over 40 industry-leading analysts, consultants, journalists and editors that cover the mobile and wireless market.
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USAF Space & Missile Systems Center Invitation For GPS III Satellite Builds Operated by U.S. Air Force Space Command, the GPS constellation provides precise positioning, navigation and timing services worldwide seven days a week, 24-hours a day.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Working On Replacement For Hydrazine Propulsion Systems SSTL has identified HTP as an environmentally friendly monopropellant with the potential for providing the high performance required for future small satellite missions.
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Annual Award Recipients Named By The National Space Club & Foundation The Awards are selected by panels of experts from across the aerospace and defense industry, government and academia, and are a testament to the inspiring work of individuals across the United States.
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Celestial Tiger Entertainment Roars w/PT MNC Sky Vision ... Launch Mandarin Kids Channel Miao Mi In Indonesia
“PT MNC Sky Vision has always made it a priority to entertain, educate and empower their subscribers..."
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Ingenu + WellAware Expand Machine Network™ To Provide More Than 50 Percent Coverage Of US Oil + Gas The expanded network will provide coverage for the most active US oil and gas fields, representing more than 50 percent of total U.S. production.
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Staff Safety Concerns Brings Globalstar Europe's SPOT GEN3™ Into The Pool Northumbrian Water Group allows its most at-risk staff to have their own SPOT Gen3 device, making operations more efficient as staff do not need to return to central offices to sign devices in and out.
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Jason-3 Set For SpaceX Falcon 9 Push From Vandenberg AFB Colonel Shane Clark, 30th Space Wing Vice Commander, will be the Launch Decision Authority.
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Arianespace Hosts Intelsat's EpicNG...Inside Final Assembly Building...First Launch Of 2016 ...Intelsat 29e will have one of the most advanced digital payloads commercially available...
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Broadcast Partners Chooses 2wcom’s MM01 From Studio To Maximum 250 Transmitters In Netherlands + Belgium
Combining both encoder and decoder roles within the same device, and with its redundancy capability and monitoring functions...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne + NASA Think Small + Go Green... Partnership To Further Develop CubeSat's Green Propellant “We’re excited about this partnership with NASA to advance CubeSat propulsion with green propellants.”
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January 8, 2016 Hughes Garners FCC Lead Ranking On Advertised Satellite Broadband Performance HughesNet satellite broadband service serves more than one million subscribers and is delivered by Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes).
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Dubai's KhalifSat Is Planned For A Launch In 2018 The project is ongoing at the MBRSC headquarters in Dubai, although the satellite will be transported to a partner country for launch.
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Jason-3 Continues Prep For January 12 Launch The Earth-observing satellite is scheduled to be sealed inside the rocket’s protective payload fairing on January 8.
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Twenty Space Missions Planned By China During 2016 With these ambitious space projects proceeding well, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp is finalizing the development of the next-generation carrier rockets.
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Boundless Open-Source Geospatial Technology For Harris This partnership makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to access, manage and share the huge amount of location-based data available from devices, sensors and satellites.
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Chipping In For The 8k DTV Via Satellite Market Is SiTune Corporation The STN6528 supports satellite and terrestrial RF inputs while concurrently providing satellite and terrestrial outputs at the same time.
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Planetary Defense For Earth "Asteroid detection, tracking and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously."—John Grunsfeld, associate administrator, NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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January 7, 2016 I.D. Systems Goes Holistic The systems generate asset performance metrics, site-by-site assessments, enterprise-wide benchmarks, and peer industry comparisons.
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Inmarsat + Partner Honeywell Nominated For Prestigious Laureate Award These renowned industry awards, now in their 59th year, acknowledge the accomplishments of individuals and companies in aerospace, aviation and defence.
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USAF GPS Modernization Contract Rec'd By Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman will evaluate new GPS receivers' modes of performance, including M-Code and Selective Availability Anti-spoofing Module.
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Saft LEO The Lion Roars... Li-ion Batteries Ensure 17 LEO Satellites Provide A Strong Telecommunication's Network The successful launch demonstrates the reliable performance of Saft’s low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation batteries using Li-ion chemistry.m
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2016 Launcher Deliveries Begin In Support of Arianespace's Busy Mission Manifest The first 2016 delivery of an Ariane 5 to French Guiana for Arianespace has occurred.
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NASA Reflects On A Job Well Done For The James Webb Space Telescope The Near InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) has programmable microshutters which enable observation up to 100 objects simultaneously.
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Slovak's Show Off A First... skCUBE Satellite The first Slovak satellite named skCUBE will be carried into space by the Falcon 9 launch
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January 6, 2016 New Satellite Front End Featured In MaxLinear's New Receiver For Sky Q STB Sky Q’s multi-channel reception features are powered by MaxLinear’s MxL5x2 Full-Spectrum Capture satellite receiver ICs.
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MDA Signs On With Orbital ATK To Provide Antenna Subsystem Antenna subsystem now in the works by MDA.
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Aerojet-Rocketdyne's Additive Advantage The use of additive manufacturing technology reduces the cost to produce components, shortens build times and provides flexibility to engineers to design components that were once impossible to build using traditional manufacturing techniques.
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O Canada! As SES Expands Government Services In Canada + The Largest Government Transponders Award In 2015 This was the largest government award in Canada in 2015 in terms of number of transponders.
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Sea Tel Antenna For exactView-9 AIS Satellite Deployed Successfully By MIL-SAT Global Communications MIL-SAT completed the antenna installation in eight days without benefit of a crane or fork lift.
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KhalifaSat Engineering Model Completed By MBRSC In addition to the flight model of KhalifaSat, Emirati engineers will start the development of the ground station programs that will manage all post launch communication with the satellite.
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African Movie Channel Comes To Comsat ...can now access premium and classic Nollywood movies and drama series and other African programming from a variety of genres...
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HughesNet® Gen4 Internet Service Receives Super Report Card From FCC ... #1 Among All Major Broadband Services HughesNet is America’s #1 satellite broadband service with more than 1 million subscribers, and...
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Unlike traditional maritime antennas, which weigh several hundred kilograms, require weeks of vessel downtime to install, and use mechanical components that can easily break and are difficult to maintain
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NSR's Analysis After A Slow-Moving Year...With Some Exceptions... MSS Players NSR noted that this core market for the MSS players, be they operators, service providers or distributors, will show constant upward revenues over the next ten years.
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January 5, 2016 A New Year That's Ripe For Accomplishments By Arianespace Arianespace set a new record in 2015 for its family of launchers operating from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana, with 12 successful launches in 12 months.
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January 20 Set As Launch Date For India's Fifth Navigation Satellite Once launched, the satellite will help in disaster management, vehicle-tracking and fleet management, mapping and geodetic data capture, visual and voice navigation for drivers and others.
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COM DEV International Gets The Green Light For Satellite #3 The contract is valued in excess of CAD$12 million.
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Moving On In... Alaska Aerospace Action In Alabama The new AAC Huntsville office is located at 7027 Old Madison Pike NW, Suite 108, Huntsville, Alabama - 35806.
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DoD To Receive RF Interference Monitoring + Geolocation Services From Kratos Defense & Security Solutions' SAT Corp. Kratos has been tasked with end-to-end protection of the commercially-leased bandwidth for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM).
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EMC Wins Again...Second Year Number One + Ninth Year EMC Makes WTA's 'Fastest-Growing Teleport Operators' "...the ‘fastest of the fast’ in terms of revenue-generation thanks to our expert engineering team, unmatched number of patented technologies..."
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The Second Atlantic Energy's Forum Results In Enormous Excitement About The Possibilities
The goal of the Atlantic Energy Forum is to enhance development in the oil-rich nations of the Atlantic Basin and their economies, as well as help address energy and electricity poverty in developing countries.
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GeoSync Microwave's New Year's Big News... Expansion = Increase Of Satcom Products The new building significantly increases GeoSync’s manufacturing space which will be immediately used to increase production capacity of its RF Satcom products
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January 4, 2016 NASA Having A Ball With Landsat 9's OLI-2 Build The contractor will build a second Operational Land Imager (OLI) for the Landsat 9 project.
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India Establishes Satellite Monitoring Station In Vietnam For South China Sea Activities Delhi has set up a Data Reception and Tracking and Telemetry Station at Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam.
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On Orbit Ops For SSTL's GIOVE-A Reach A Full Decade SSTL has operated the spacecraft at 23,300 km, where it provides valuable data about the radiation environment in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO).
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No Matter The Location, Etisalat + Thuraya Have The Connections The new mobile bundle is designed to meet the demands of customers who spend their time outdoors.
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Proposed Changes For Australians... Will Encourage Innovations In The M2M + IoT They support a variety of applications such as data telemetry, machine data and monitoring, sensor networks, smart metering, security systems and industrial control...
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A Good Year For Haigh-Farr Was 2015... Haigh-Farr has continued to expand its design, simulation, testing and manufacturing capabilities.
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European Space Propulsion Enjoys Success...Tests Five-Kilowatt Hall Thruster w/Thales Alenia Space Belgium PPU ESP is in the process of transferring production capability of the industry-leading XR-5 thruster, the only flight-proven five-kilowatt Hall Effect Thruster...
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Intersil CAN Transceivers For On Orbit Satellite Databus Control Are Rad Tolerant The devices provide serial data transmission between a CAN controller and CAN bus at speeds to 1 megabit per second.
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NAGRA's intuiTV Provides An All-In-One TV Experience @ CES 2016 ...delivers television and Internet TV to pay-TV subscribers through an intuitive and immersive viewing experience in 4K Ultra HD and HD.
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CABSAT 2016 A Gathering Place For Broadcast, Production, Content, Digital Media + Satellite Sectors In a region where more than 900 free to air TV channels serve the Arab world, satellite distribution still accounts for over 80 percent of the regional market.
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ORBCOMM Enjoys Honors On 'Shopping List' ...Top 100 Of Food Logistics Magazine "...advanced telematics solutions help our customers significantly increase in-transit visibility and efficiency of their end-to-end transport operations."
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NASA Readies For Launch Of Jason-3... Installation Into Payload Faring TOPEX was started in 1992 by NASA and French space agency CNES to map ocean surface topography using satellite technology.
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January 1, 2016 Thaicom to Power Nok Air Complimentary In-Flight Broadband Thailand's premium low cost airline provides passengers with access to broadband.
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