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December 30, 2015 Space Systems Loral Gets The Nod From PT Telkom Indonesia To Build TELKOM-4 The TELKOM-4 satellite will be used for fixed satellite services in Indonesia, India, and Southeast Asia.
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December 29, 2015 Gemini Routers From Gilat Deployed By Avanti Communications Group The Gemini compact, high-performance satellite routers are designed for cost-effective residential use, as they are super-fast and easy to self-install.
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An Electrifying Contract For Airbus Defence & Space From Inmarsat The two I-6 satellites will be based on Airbus Defence and Space’s Eurostar E3000e variant platform.
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Express-AMY1 Expressed To Orbit This was the last carrier rocket launched from Baikonur this year and 18th since the start of 2015.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... SpeedCast International + NewCom International Join Forces The acquisition will strengthen SpeedCast’s capabilities to serve and support its customers globally, including in the important and growing South American market.
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December 24, 2015 The US Government Accounting Office (GAO) Examines The James Webb Space Telescope Project JWST currently has almost nine months of schedule reserve—down more than two months since GAO's last report in December 2014—but still above its schedule plan and the Goddard Space Flight Center requirement.
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More Flexibility For DigitalGlobe's Share Repurchase Program The amendment gives the company additional flexibility to continue its share repurchase program.
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UAS West Symposium Set For March Of Next Year In San Diego Analysts still predict growth in this industry, estimating a total increase to just over $89 billion in the next decade.
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Multi-Format LTE Devices Can Now Be Validated With A Single UXM Test, Thanks To Keysight Technologies The new GSM and TD-SCDMA test applications allow fast-switching between W-CDMA, GSM and TD-SCDMA formats in a single UXM with just one transceiver hardware set.
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December 23, 2015 1-Newton GR-1 Thruster Maturation To Be Handled By Aerojet-Rocketdyne The 1-Newton GR-1 is a small rocket engine used for attitude, trajectory and orbit control of small and medium-sized satellites and spacecraft.
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Moving On Up... DataPath Appoints Drachmann and Tong As Two New Vice Presidents "Carsten and George will be great additions to our executive team and will help us to diversify the business and introduce exciting new technologies to the market.”—David Myers, President + CEO, DataPath
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Milbank Advises O3b Networks With A $358 Million Finance Package Restructure The additional financing which has followed this year is designed to enable the company to radically expand its business and connectivity of customers across the globe to service the project debt in a sustainable manner.
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Addvalue's Data Relay Terminal Launched Into Orbit Aboard The Velox-II Satellite The VELOX-II satellite, which was built by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) under a contract by Addvalue, carries the Addvalue’s proprietary data relay terminal as the primary payload.
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Launch Mega-Session Panel To Be Featured At The 32nd Space Symposium Plan now to attend the April 14 Launch Mega-Session panel, with dynamic discussion by the heads of the world's leading launch companies.
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Nexgen Ka-Band Transceiver Developed By Skyware Technologies Earlier this month Skyware Technologies developed, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA), a new next-generation Ka-band transceiver for use with SATCOM terminals.
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Contract To Boeing For Space Based Space Surveillance Block 10 Sustainment This effort includes systems engineering, operations, operations support, and contractor logistics support.
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UTAP-22 Success For Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Throughout the mission multiple UTAP-22 were controlled by a single operator.
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Forest Monitoring Systems Resultant Of JAXA + JICA Initiative JICA and JAXA signed a partnership agreement in April 2014 with the objective of using aerospace technology to solve the many development challenges that developing countries face along with global issues.
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New Military Satellite For The French Defence Procurement Agency To Be Produced By Airbus Defence & Space Airbus Defence and Space will also be co-responsible, together with Thales Alenia Space (lead contractor), for the entire space program.
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Telstar 18 VANTAGE To Be Built By Space Systems Loral For Telesat + An Agreement With APSTAR The new satellite will operate from 138 degrees East and is expected to be in service in the first half of 2018.
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Thales Alenia's Spacecraft For ExoMars 2016 Mission Arrives At The Baikonur Launch Site The launch campaign will start, including propellant filling, final functional tests and mating with the launcher.
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KVH Expands And Goes Big With mini-VSAT Broadband Network... Capacity Doubles ...added a new beam across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to add 30 percent more capacity across areas such as the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Harris Celebrates 120-Year Anniversary...Print Company Begins In Jewelry Store To $8 Billion Top 10 Defense Contractor the world’s first automatic and four-color printing presses, the Washington-Moscow hotline, GPS navigation space antennas, multi-band military radios, and advanced air traffic management and weather forecasting solutions.
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Canadian Space Agency Works w/NASA On OSIRIS-REx Mission To Return An Asteroid Sample To Earth OSIRIS-REx will study Bennu, an asteroid that has the potential to impact the Earth in the late 2100s. It is Canada's first international mission to return a sample from an asteroid to Earth.
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December 22, 2015 Moving On Up... GVF Names Haslam To Board Of Directors The vote was held in conjunction with the GVF High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Roundtable London 2015: Game Changer or New Game event on December 2.
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Sierra Nevada's Space Diagnostics All Up To Snuff... 11 Small Sats On-Orbit Performance Exceed Or Meet Standards “The initial results of the on-orbit performance of the spacecraft have met or exceeded our performance criteria.”
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NASA Springs A Leak... Suspends Mars March 2016 Launch Of Interior Exploration “It’s the first time ever that such a sensitive instrument has been built.
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NASA’s Space Launch System Hoists Its First Work Platform Installed In Vehicle Assembly Building An overhead crane that can hold as much as 325 tons was used to lift the first half of the K-level work platforms up from High Bay 4...
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December 21, 2015 United Launch Alliance Brings Home A Perfect Report Card... And Celebrates A 10th Anniversary ...unveiled the Vulcan rocket, ULA’s next-generation launch system, which will be the highest-performing, most cost-efficient rocket on the market.
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Bold IoT Predictions For 2016 From FreeWave Technologies... “Discrete Radio Frequency (RF)-based technology manufacturers will be obsolete within the next three years."—Kim Niederman, CEO, FreeWave Technologies.
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A Celebration For AFSPC SMC As SBIRS Ground System Achieves Two Major Milestones ...the Block 10 plan has successfully implemented a "crawl, walk, run" approach as it has incrementally demonstrated the functionality of the new integrated command and control for...
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DARPA Solicits Innovative Research Proposals In The Area Of Integrated Photonics For Free-Space Optical Systems The capability of this technology will then be demonstrated in a packaged LIDAR system.
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Jason-3 Satellite To Focus On Short-Term Hurricane-Intensity Forecasts + Continue Tracking Global Sea-Level Rise
will use a radar altimeter instrument and fly in a low-Earth orbit, allowing it to monitor 95 percent of Earth’s ice-free oceans every 10 days.
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MEASAT's New Senior Sales Director - South Asia... He Will Build The Customer Base + Manage Government Agencies He will be responsible for building and supporting MEASAT’s customer base and managing government agencies across the South Asian region. Full Story
Ja! SES + Viasat Extend Partnerships Of Their 230 Channels In Nordic + Baltic Countries This agreement represents a major step to secure business in the region on a long-term basis.
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The Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) Reflects On 2015's Advances For The Organization, by HPA Chair Nicole Robinson Leveraging the momentum from the HoPS IDIQ announced in 2014, industry and government alike anticipated increased activity in the area of hosted payloads for 2015. Yet, here we find ourselves in December without a tangible procurement activity pointing to the success of the contracting vehicle.
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NSR's M2M + IoT via Satellite, 6th Edition... Connected Cars Cause For Concern? This all is pushing satellite M2M/IoT players further down the value chain...
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SES' AMC-9 Now Affords Mexico's Televisa C-Band Capacity As part of the multi-year agreement, Televisa will use three C-band transponders to broadcast its premium channels Canal 2, Canal 5 and Canal 9 to millions of homes across Mexico.
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World Teleport Association's 2015 Top Operator Rankings ...Are You In These Lists? “The top seven companies in our Fast 20 list reported double-digit growth over the prior year. "
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World Teleport Association's Report Examines The Remarkable Evolution of SCPC + TDMA For Data Services. “In our report, we look at the remarkable evolution of SCPC and TDMA systems..."
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SpaceX Holds On To The Falcon For One More Day... ORBCOMM's Launch Delayed The launch is part of ORBCOMM's second and final OG2 Mission and will lift off from SpaceX's launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Sample Imagery From DMC3 / TripleSat Constellation Being Offered By Earth-i The company is already supplying data to early adopter customers and anticipates a significant ramp up of commercial delivery early in 2016.
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Yippy For Globalstar Globalstar’s subscribers will be able to access services that materially enhance the subscriber experience for data transfer, including web content.
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Moving On Up... OHB SE Appoints Perez To CTO Guy Perez has been working very successfully in the space industry for more than 30 years.
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Falcon III Tactical Radios From Harris Heading To A Middle East Nation Harris will provide several configurations of its Falcon III® radios.
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Media Milestone For EMC + Norwegian Cruise Line Thousands of guests and media were able to participate in a variety of inaugural social media events, from a sail-along Instagram scavenger hunt to a secret menu that could only be unlocked with a tweet.
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Cubic Squares Off With Two Year End Acquisitions... Expands + Takes A Bite Into C4ISR + PED w/GATR + TeraLogics “The acquisition of TeraLogics and GATR represents powerful next steps in achieving our C4ISR growth strategy as they expand our footprint in the C4ISR and SATCOM markets.”
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Teleena™ Gains Ground In The IoT Area ... Validation As They Are Accepted Into LoRa Alliance ...accepted into the worldwide LoRa Alliance and participates in the exclusive Gemalto On-Demand Provisioning Program.
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Historic 'Mission Possible' For SpaceX... Falcon 9 Goes Up AND Successfully Comes Back Down AND Releases 11 ORBCOMM Small Sats The clock was running and in less than an hour history has been made at Cape Canaveral.
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Airbus Group Divests Their Commercial SATCOM Biz Airbus Defence and Space announced in September of 2014 that a detailed and comprehensive portfolio assessment had defined Military Aircraft, Space, Missiles and related Systems and Services as its future core businesses.
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3D Printing Of The First Space-Bound Airframe Now Underway Once in orbit, the NSS Enterprise will be the first 3D printed airframe in space and will also carry more than 100 passive and active student experiments into space and back to Earth.
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December 18, 2015 UK's Discovery... Loose Loyalty... Online Pay TV Overtakes Free Online TV ...warns that its research also shows that the UK’s Internet TV subscribers have rather loose loyalty: as many as a fifth said were planning to end subscriptions in January and half (49 percent) of all subscribers were...
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NSR Examines The Polar Satellite Markets The detailed assessment of the Polar market relies on the latest results reported as well as input from key vendors that are currently the market leaders serving the Polar region.
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Boeing Makes Morelos-3 Mexico's The satellite is a key element of one of the world’s most advanced mobile satellite systems, enhancing Mexico’s national security, civil and humanitarian programs.
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Aerospace Industry Revolutionized By Smallsats + Startups—INNOspace Master Competition Underway The new idea competition INNOspace Masters is to award prizes to creative ideas for optimizations along the entire value chain in satellite manufacturing under the theme "Satellite 4.0."
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James Webb Space Telescope Brings ESA + Arianespace Together With its 6.5 meter diameter telescope, the observatory will be folded up inside the fairing of the Ariane 5 ECA, the heavy-lift vehicle in Europe's family of launchers.
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Orbital ATK Composites Of Interest To United Launch Alliance Orbital ATK will produce large composite structures for ULA, with deliveries commencing in 2016 and continuing into early 2019.
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December 17, 2015
World's First Inflight 3G Service Flies In From AeroMobile Via Panasonic Avionics Technology "It’s extremely exciting that we now offer passengers 3G connectivity—another world first."—Kevin Rogers, CEO, AeroMobile.
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A Sounding Decision By NASA For Galaxy Spectrum Analysis FORTIS will use an instrument called a spectrograph to split the light from the target galaxy into its composite wavelengths.
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Mercy Delivered To The Developing World With SATCOM By EMC EMC will roll out its HD Connect® global on-demand video service aboard the charity’s hospital ship Africa Mercy.
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Moving On Up... United Launch Alliances Appoints Lietzau As Vice President Lietzau began his career as a flight test engineer and project manager for the US Air Force.
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Arianespace Sees Soyuz Soar... Last Launch Of Year, Galileo's 11th + 12th The European Commission has budgeted seven billion euros for the project until 2020. Full Story
ESA + Arianespace Collaborate On The Webb... Prepping A Telescope For A Long Space Jaunt The mission will tackle a wide range of subjects, including detecting the first galaxies in the Universe and following their evolution over time,
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JAXA's Hayabusa2 Cruises + Does A Post-Earth Swing-By With the swing-by, the explorer’s orbit turned by about 80 degrees and its speed increased by about 1.6 km per second to about 31.9 km per second (against the sun) thus the orbit achieved the target numbers.
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Launch Of ST Electronics's TeLEOS-1 Assists w/Security + Safety Currently, the engineering team is conducting the IOT for TeLEOS-1 which is expected to take about six months, which include...
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Gilat's Vote Of Confidence From Peru Delivers $108 Million To The Bank "The fact that Gilat was awarded an additional regional project by Fitel for $108 million testifies to the confidence placed in our ability to deploy massive telecommunications projects under challenging conditions."
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December 16, 2015 Communication At The Theoretical Limit... This method could enhance flexibility and reduce costs in the engineering of satellite, wireless, wireline, and optical fiber systems.
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This is the eleventh flight of PSLV in ‘core-alone’ configuration (without the use of solid strap-on motors).
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China's DAMPE Satellite Is Now Seeking Dark Matter The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), named Wukong, was announced by the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Wednesday.
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SIA + DoD 11th Annual SATCOM Workshop Will Also Feature Inmarsat SATCOM Demos Inmarsat will showcase “a new era for SATCOM” through its live demonstrations and user applications.
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Singapore Technologies Electronics Slings TeLEOS-1 Into Orbit It marks the completion of a very intensive and challenging phase in which we have not only designed and built this highly advanced satellite but...
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Arianespace Gets The Green Light For Last Launch Of The Year To Send Up Two Galileos Capping off a record year for Arianespace, Flight VS13 will be the company's 12th and final mission in 2015...
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December 15, 2015 SSPI Requesting Your Invaluable Assistance In Formulating The Satellite Industry Workforce Study... You probably receive many survey requests and ignore them. However, this one is about your career and your industry and only takes about 15 minutes required to complete.
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Arianespace Has Soyuz Ready To Go With Galileos + An Epic Getting Set For A January 2016 Excursion Arianespace’s Soyuz marked a key step toward its December 17 mission that will deploy the latest two FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites for Europe’s Galileo space-based navigation system.
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Keysight Technologies Gets The Silver... Keysight has continued to consistently achieve above 95 percent on quality and delivery performance metrics.
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In The Clean Room @ Airbus Defence & Space Is PerúSAT-1 The launch of PerúSAT-1 is scheduled for mid-2016.
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Coming On Line... Telstar 12 Telstar 12 VANTAGE uses Ku-band for all customer services assuring backward compatibility with existing Ku-band terminal equipment.
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Thales Alenia Space Gets The Nod From ESA To Build Both Copernicus Sentinel 1-C + 1-D Thales Alenia Space Italy was once again named prime contractor for these new satellites, as for Sentinel-1A and 1B.
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And Speaking Of Sentinels, Airbus Defence & Space Has A SAR SAS Project Sentinel-1C and -1D will carry the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Antenna Subsystem (SAS), which will be almost identical to those on the current Sentinel-1-satellites.
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Arianespace's 2015 Grand Finale = 11 Successful Missions ...Soon To Be 12th With The Launch Of Galileo Satellites This upcoming mission's payload, a pair of FOC (Full Operational Capability) spacecraft that will further augment Europe's Galileo global
navigation satellite system...
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Kymetra Goes Flat In A Good Way On Intelsat's Network Of Automotive + Maritime Kymeta has also completed building and testing its first glass-on-glass, thin-film-transistor-based antennas, with receive and transmit on the same aperture.
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GVF's New Board Elected Executives Ensure Industry Initiatives "As the satellite communications industry addresses major challenges and opportunities, the need for a strong, well-credentialed GVF Board has never been greater...”
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General Dynamics Wins $450 Million Contract For Com Services To USAFCENT In Southwest + Central Asia Under this contract, General Dynamics will provide communications systems acquisition, integration, installation, operations and maintenance support.
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SES + SOLARKIOSK Agree... To Provide Internet To Underserved Villages Worldwide Beginning In Africa ...which use solar technology to provide electricity to all systems, including the satellite dish, to enable a wide range of connectivity services to the local community. Full Story
Counting Collared Cows + More... Cattle-Watch Enlists Gilat Satcom's Global M2M Satellite Solution Every animal is fitted with an Ear Tag device that feeds information wirelessly to the 4-5 percent of the herd which have solar-powered collars...
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December 14, 2015 EUMETSAT + CNES Agree To Begin New Generation for IASI-NG Instruments These improvements will also allow the retrieval of more quantitative information on trace and greenhouse gases (e.g. ozone, methane and carbon monoxide) compared to IASI...
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Sweet Reward...Surrey Satellite's Professor Sir Martin Sweeting Named Honorary Fellowship By Royal Aeronautical Society The Honorary Fellowship of the RAeS is the world’s highest distinction for aerospace achievement and is awarded only for the most outstanding contributions to the aerospace profession.
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Inmarsat Bonds With EM Solutions For MILSATCOM GX Terminal + With Turksat For A Strategic Partnership The EM Solutions terminal is scheduled to receive full Inmarsat accreditation during Q2 2016 — and under the MoU, Inmarsat would be the preferred mobile satellite communications provider for Turksat.
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ISR's ASTROSAT Sends First Images From A Field Of View 100 Times Larger Than Hubble's The picture was taken using ultraviolet light, invisible from the Earth, and covers a field of view some 100 times larger than the Hubble telescope.
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January 17th Launch Date For Jason-3 Via SpaceX Jason-3 is the fourth mission in U.S.-European series of satellite missions that measure the height of the ocean surface.
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More Than A Half-Decade Of Vandenberg Launches... The successful test was conducted only a year after the base was activated—and ignited a launch legacy spanning more than five decades.
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Showtime For Arabsat @ Cairo ICT2015 The event will be conducted from December 13 to 16 at the Cairo International Convention Centre.
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GAO's Account Of NOAA's GOES-R Program + Pitfalls However, the program has experienced technical issues that have affected internal schedule deadlines, such as an issue with debris in an instrument's subsystem that delayed its delivery by approximately 8 months...
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Help To Make This Industry Better The Satellite Industry Workforce Study provides a multi-company, multinational view of the people who work in this industry.
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IDC Sees IoT Growing To Nearly $1.3 Trillion By 2019 This comprehensive spending guide was designed to help vendors clearly understand the industry-specific opportunity for IoT technologies today.
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NSR... The Polar Region Isn't Just For Bears... Sea Lanes, Oil & Gas + Mining + More Yet, the region’s geography presents technical and coverage challenges for satellite operators that must assess the risks associated in launching capacity dedicated to serving the region.
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China's Juneyao Airlines Goes With Thales For Their Avionics Suite The contract signed with Thales will equip an initial 17 Airbus single aisle aircraft with the Thales Flight Management System (FMS).
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DigitalGlobe Selects Raytheon To Assist w/WorldView-4 Mission The system runs routine planning and scheduling automatically, yielding more efficient schedules
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Four To Go For O3b Networks Via Arianespace Soyuz Propulsion The launch will occur from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in early 2018 and will put four O3b spacecraft in an equatorial Medium Earth Orbit (MEO).
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Russian Military Satellite To Orbit The lift-off and flight of the Proton M launch vehicle were nominal.
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Headend Heaven With Globecast's New Platform On AMC-11 Prospective and current clients can benefit from the most powerful orbital position in the US for distribution to cable headends.
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Gilat Signs New Agreement To Develop Affordable Phased-Array Antenna Gilat has been developing its own Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) technology for Phased-Array Antennas since 2009.
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XCOR Engineers' Major Breakthrough... Say 'No Tanks' As They Close The Loop w/ Instant Reusability ...includes a novel method to drive essential engine parts using waste heat from the rocket engine, thus eliminating the need for adding large, heavy compressed gas tanks to the vehicle.
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ESA's Mission Moves Forward...The Dark Universe Enlightens w/High Precision Grisms for Euclid Mission "The Near Infrared Spectrophotometer lies at the heart of making critical measurements on the Euclid mission."
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Husqvarna Enlists Telenor... Linking Lawns Remotely w/Smartphones “Husqvarna is harnessing the power of the Internet of Things to make its equipment smarter and more efficient."
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IDC's Spending Guide Reveals Huge Growth ... IoT From $698.6 Billion Currently To Nearly $1.3 Trillion By 2019 In Asia/Pacific, insurance telematics is being used to monitor driver behavior through a vehicle-mounted device and the data is rapidly being employed as a means of determining insurance policies and rates.
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Global Critical Communications In The Oil + Gas Sector Will Gush... To Reach Over $1Billion By 2019
Locations are often remote, temperatures may be extreme, and there is constant exposure to hazardous environments.
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The Express-AMU1 Satellite's Second Launch Reset — Now To Head Out On December 25 A real-time launch broadcast will be available for viewing 30 minutes before the countdown.
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December 10, 2015 45th Space Wing Reinforces ULA Atlas V Launch Of Orbital ATK's CRS-4 To ISS "The launch of this mission clearly demonstrates the successful collaboration our wing has with our partners at NASA Kennedy Space Center, the Space and Missile Systems Center and industry."—Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing Commander, U.S.A.F.
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Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometers To Fly On Three Metop-SG A Satellites The agreement continues the successful cooperation established for the development of the first generation of IASI instruments flown on the current Metop satellites.
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North Korean Rocket Launches Could Start In Q1 2016 As Three Year Upgrades Appear To Be Completed The recent images studied by analysts at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University suggested that construction had almost ended with fuel storage bunkers and an engine test stand at the main Sohae Satellite Launching Station.
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The Final Arianespace Flight Of 2015 For Dual Galileos Set For December 17 After this flight, 12 Galileo satellites will have been deployed by Arianespace.
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Eight More From Thales Alenia Space For O3b Networks Constellation These satellites are in addition to 12 already delivered by Thales Alenia Space and operational in orbit.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Static Fire Test In Prep For ORBCOMM OG2 Satellites' Launch Once the static fire is completed to verify the readiness of the Falcon 9 rocket, ORBCOMM’s second OG2 Mission is targeted to launch about three days later between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m., ET.
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SES Next Satellite For Their 108.2 Degrees East Video Neighborhood Arrives @ Cape Canaveral The spacecraft will be co-located with SES-7.
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Space Systems Loral Reaches The Tipping Point With NASA SSL will partner with NASA researchers to develop systems that will benefit both government and commercial spacecraft.
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NASA Awards ORBITEC Research + Technologies Contract... Valued Up To $50 Million... Rev Up The Rockets
...a competitive indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) task order contract to support the development, demonstration and verification of advanced propulsion system technologies...
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Advantech Wireless Gains Points As LAN-COM-East GmbH Germany Selects Point-to-Point Microwave Network "The Transcend 800 is a disruptive technology platform for the microwave industry and does not share the risk associated with typical leading–edge technologies."
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UltiSat's New Senior VP Of Government Solutions... She Comes w/20 Years Leadership Experience ...she graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy where she served as an active duty navy cryptologist and tactical communications officer...
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DE-CIX Super Speedy... Breaks 5 Terabit Per Second Record Peak Data Traffic
The milestone 4 Tbps-mark was first cracked in April of this year.
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SSPI Hall Of Fame Benefit Dinner... Buy Your Tix Now What will be the headline story in satellite industry media on March 8 of 2030?
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December 9, 2015 VSAT B'band Upgrades From Marlink To Benefit Maridive Group Vessels This latest contract adds a further five vessels operating in Venezuela and Brazil, while enhancing Maridive’s communication capabilities for business, crew and safety by upgrading to WaveCall Plus.
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STPSat-5's CDR Is Completed By Sierra Nevada Corporation For The DoD's Space Test Program SNC is the prime contractor on the STPSat-5 program, leading the design and integration of this next-generation science and technology demonstration satellite for the DOD.
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Jovian System Investigation Will Result From Airbus Defence & Space Building JUICE For ESA JUICE is the first European mission to Jupiter; its overarching theme is the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants.
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NSSLGlobal + Eclipse Debut A New JV + Also Become An Inmarsat GX VAR AEROSATCOM will resell Inmarsat airtime (L- and Ka-band) and work closely with Inmarsat on the design, delivery and certification of government aero solutions.
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New Alpha Satcom 9 Meter, Ku-Band, Low PIM Antenna Debuts The satellite frequency plan requires the antenna system to operate in such a manner as to provide Low Passive Inter-Modulation (PIM) performance
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Supporting American Jobs...Satellite Industry Association Welcomes Reauthorization Of Export-Import Bank Of The US Reauthorization levels the playing field and supports American satellite industry jobs and technological innovation.
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ChinaSat 1C Launches On The Long March-3B Carrier Rocket Thursday’s launch is the 220th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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First Element Of The European Data Relay System Shipping With Eutelsat-9B To Baikonur For January Launch EDRS-A is the first element of the European Data Relay System, which will collect information from low-orbiting satellites via laser and send it down to Earth in near-real time.
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NASA's Nodes... Small Satellites To Demonstrate Swarm Communications + Autonom A first for small satellites, Nodes will demonstrate the ability to receive and distribute commands in space from the ground...
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NSR... Fasten Your Seat Belts For A Satellite Traffic Data Explosion This unprecedented push in data volume via satellite (and thus capacity demand) is driven by both the addition of new Consumer Broadband subscribers and the higher consumption of bandwidth per site
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Orbital ATK's Latest Cygnus ISS Resupply Effort IS Berthed + Ready For Opening This is the company’s fourth successful berthing with the orbiting laboratory, and the third under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.
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Satcom Direct Achieves Jet ConneX Milestone Over I-5 F2
The service will support high data rate applications in-flight, including streaming YouTube videos and Skype video calls in real-time.
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December 8, 2015 Keysight Technologies Intros AXle Multi-Channel Streaming + Recording Capabilities Enabled is multi-channel phase coherent digital down conversion (DDC) which has applications in 5G, Radar and SATCOM, and Aerospace & Defense.
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Success For GMV With Their Organization At The GUC 2015 Users Conference The conference dealt with issues such as automation of operations, fleet management, new technology applied to satellite and payload ground control systems, monitoring of space debris, network security and new challenges in the provision of flight dynamics solutions, especially in the use of electric propulsion.
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RSCC's Express-AM8 Satellite Now Has Capacity For Castor Networks Castor Networks will use the capacity of two transponders on Express-AM8 satellite to provide communications services in the European, Latin American and Europe – African regions.
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Scene Sharp USA's Fuze Go® MS Sharp Software Signs On The First Reseller Now users can also build analytical scripts that leverage the Fuze Go MS Sharp image fusion capability within the IMAGINE Spatial Modeler.
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Arabsat Clarifies Operational + Legal Issues Regarding The Company's Satellite Broadcasting Policies Arabsat is taking this opportunity to address all mass media to ensure accuracy and credibility in dealing with any broadcast issues related to Arabsat satellites.
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NSSLGlobal Becomes An Inmarsat VAR For Global Xpress NSSLGlobal will now also be offering GX services to its customers in media, mining, oil and gas and multinationals.
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Thuraya Celebrates The UAE's 44th National Day With Senior Citizens Thuraya staff spent quality time with senior citizens discussing the nation’s innovative plans for the future and listening to tales of days gone by.
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A Three Year Satellite Positioning Contract For Fugro Fugro will supply PGS vessels with a number of completely independent Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
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Globalstar's SPOT Chalks Up Four Thousand Rescues... A Life Saving Milestone SPOT is currently being used by customers to initiate almost two rescues a day and delivers affordable location-based messaging and life-saving emergency notification technology to hundreds of thousands of users, completely independent of mobile phone coverage.
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PTC + Bosch Software's Alliance Works For Integrating ThingWorx® Platform + Bosch IoT Suite ...tested the integrated technology stack .... wirelessly connecting tightening tools to operate seamlessly together on the factory floor.
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Galileo's Last Two... The End + The Beginning Of A Legacy As They Are Fired In Opposite Directions Under civilian control, it will offer a guaranteed, high-precision positioning service and will end Europe’s dependence on the American GPS system.
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Arianespace Marks Milestones... Last Launches Of The Year + Last Two Galileo Satellites To Soar ...pair was mated with their dispenser, which will deploy the satellites by firing a pyrotechnic system for separation in opposite directions at the orbital insertion point. Full Story
RigNet Welcomes New Senior VP + Chief Financial Officer... His Fiduciary Talents Go Far + Wide
"... serving as our next CFO, leading our accounting, treasury, tax, audit, financial planning, investor relations and supply chain functions..."
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Ooredoo + Es’hailSat Collaborate = Satellite Communications Just Got Better For Qatar
Demand for VSAT services has risen sharply in recent years, particularly from businesses with operations in remote locations, such as deserts and coastal areas...
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Indosat Ooredoo Gets Down To Business To Help Businesses Win in a Digital World ...believes that every business has the potential to be the game changer and change their business landscape.
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Aireon To Provide Space Based Air Traffic Surveillance w/ South Africa...Majority Of Airspace Outside Of Any Coverage Today, over 70 percent of the world’s airspace is outside of any real-time air traffic surveillance, limiting it to mainly terrestrial and densely populated areas.
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December 7, 2015 MiniXSS From University of Colorado Boulder To ISS For Launch In January The MinXSS mission continues a successful tradition of CU-Boulder students designing and flying CubeSat missions, including the Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment, which launched in September 2012.
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A Historic Event For EUMETSAT: Twenty Years Of METEOSAT Operations Not everyone expected the EUMETSAT system to be fully operational from day one.
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Final Tests Completed For Russia's GLONASS Satellite Navigation System GLONASS has now passed the system for final tests to the client.
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Keysight Technologies @ GLOBECOM Will Demo IoT, 5G + LTE-Advanced Test Solutions Keysight, a platinum sponsor of GLOBECOM, will also be participating in two executive forum panels.
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Moving On Up... Globecast Names Bernard As New Chairman + CEO Philippe Bernard will drive Globecast’s strategy to position the company as a fully global and integrated media solutions provider that addresses the changing needs of markets and customers.
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SAR EO Sats Will See A Colorful World The next generation of SAR satellites will be able to offer high-quality, 25cm resolution imagery and quad polarimetry data to visualize imagery in color and better analyze surface features.
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Contract Win For Avanti Communications Group With BT For B'band Services The scheme is expected to go live during December.
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SES Techcom Services Receives SSPI Better Satellite World Award Recipients of the Better Satellite World Awards were evaluated by SSPI in four categories of impact: global or regional impact.
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RigNet Has The Key... Awarded Master Services Agreement... Turnkey Services w/Large U.S. Independent Oil & Gas Operator
... extends RigNet’s track record of successfully deploying fully managed connectivity solutions to support exploration and production in unconventional shale basins.
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Thomson Video Networks Receives Binding Offer From Harmonic ...strategy to accelerate its development by giving the company greater global scale and resources needed to drive more value and continuous innovation to the benefit of its customers.
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USAF's 45th Space Wing Supports + Celebrates...Launch Of Cygnus + More Than 50 Years History w/ULA + NASA This will be the first flight of an enhanced Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS.
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Harmonic Acquires Thomson Video Networks...Announces Binding Offer
"This combination of Harmonic and TVN will, if completed, set the bar for video innovation globally."
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PTC'16 Hello Hawaii... Discount Early Registration Ends Soon This event with over 35 year historyevent is held in Hawaii.
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December 6, 2015 Whew! Happy Holidays As Cygnus Finally Launches With Supplies For ISS At last Cygnus takes off with deliveries to ISS.
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Advantech Wireless Offers A Longer Life...2016 Bookings For GaN-Based SSPAs On The Rise second generation of GaN based units has opened new opportunities in market segments that traditionally relied on Traveling Wave Tube (TWT)-based amplifiers.
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Navigation Signals Issued By Adam + Anastasia — OHB Reports The Two Newest Galileo's Are Fully Operational "These are the versions that will make up the bulk of the Galileo constellation in space, with 16 satellites still to be launched."—David Sanchez-Cabezudo, Galileo In-Orbit Test Manager, ESA.
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Thales Module Sends Off Cygnus Resupply Items To ISS In addition the new design is able to accommodate bags with both irregular shape and stiffness.
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Kratos' Successful Second Flight Of Unmanned Tactical Aerial Platform Validates Valuable Tool For Warfighter
"I firmly believe our UTAP-22 concept of a tactical manned aircraft teamed with unmanned aircraft capable of operating at tactical speeds, in a hostile environment, will be an affordable, effective and valuable tool for the warfighter, addressing a critical need."
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Russia Experiences 'Issues' ...One Of The Two Defense Satellites Did Not Separate From Upper Stage One of the satellites launched on December 5 by a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket did not separate from the upper block, and may be sunk, a source in the space industry said Sunday.
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December 3, 2015 An Acceptance Of The Lockheed Martin Built MUOS-4 Satellite By The U.S. Navy MUOS-4 will be relocated in Spring 2016 to its on-orbit operational slot in preparation for operational acceptance.
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First Two PlanetiQ Weather Satellites To Be Launched By Antrix Each of PlanetiQ’s 10-kilogram microsatellites will fly PlanetiQ’s Pyxis-RO™ sensor, the most advanced satellite weather sensor.
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ONE CONNXT Has Their Heads In The Cloud “From any source we are now able to transcode and process then distribute content to every platform a client needs.”—Chris Lavin, CTO, ONE CONNXT.
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Paradise Debuts Breakthrough 100W Ka-band Outdoor SSPA The new product, Model A2100, is a compact outdoor SSPA that weighs less than 44 lbs. (20.0 kg).
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Sea Launch On The Sales Block? A buyer and/or investor are possibly being sought to purchase Sea Launch.
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Getting The Business—Hughes Wins Best Biz Company Award The Company of the Year award recognizes companies for achievements and excellence over the preceding year.
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Moving On Up... Media Global Links Names Antonovich As New Senior Veep Antonovich will have full P&L and management responsibilities over Media Links’ sales operations worldwide.
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Inmarsat's GX Satellites Are Now Fully Operational The latest of the GX spacecraft is now fully operational and station-kept in final orbital position.
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Appreciation Expressed By Boeing For The Reauthorization Of The U.S. Export-Import Bank "With these votes, Congress did the right thing for workers at companies large and small across the nation."—Dennis Muilenburg, President + CEO, Boeing.
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NSR's Year's End Finds Government + Military Soul Searching In Preparation For Next Gen's Satcom Networks with many questions: how much commercial, how much jam protection and resiliency, and fundamentally, how much do we spend... or pay for it?
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The Geek's Speak + Recognize Spaceflight's CEO Jason Andrews "Newsmaker Of The Year" Each year, GeekWire selects executives from seven companies who are responsible for the most significant technology stories of the year.
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Russia's Successful Test Flight Of Nudol... An Anti-Satellite Missile Moscow recently announced plans to upgrade its Moscow missile defense system, which uses nuclear-tipped interceptors. Full Story
December 2, 2015 Polar Satellite Markets Are Examined By NSR In An Upcoming Analysis Report This industry benchmark NSR report assesses current and future Polar satellite requirements by application, vertical and by frequency platform.
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"Launching Into 2016" Is SSPI's Silicon Valley Chapter Event — Reserve Space Now... This is a special night that highlights DoD DIUx activities as well as initiatives being launched by members of the satellite community in Silicon Valley.
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USAF Awards General Dynamics Contract To Support NORAD + PACAF Air Defense Comms The company will also deliver communications to enable sustained command and control (C2) for Air Defense of the United States.
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Getting More From Imagery Is The Focus Of An Upcoming PCI Geomatics Webinar A number of informative topics will be offered during this webinar.
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Now Operational Is Russia's Express-AM8 @ 14 Degrees West The coverage zones of Express-AM8 in the С- and Ku-bands include Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
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Arianespace Scores... Selected By Azercosmos + Intelsat To Launch Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 Telecommunication Sat “We are pleased to collaborate with two world leaders in the satellite industry.”
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ESA's LISA Pathfinder's Inertial Sensor Most Sensitive Ever Manufactured ... Measures + Detects Smallest Gravitational Waves It is the most sensitive inertial sensor ever manufactured and will enable the detection and measurement of the extremely small movements induced by a passing gravitational wave.
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EUMETSAT + NOAA Sign... Agree To Provide Observations From Two Complementary Polar Orbits = Joint Polar System "This agreement is a new landmark in our strategic cooperation with NOAA."
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Norsat's New Compact ATOM 25 Watt Smaller + Lighter = Transmission Of Commercial + Military Satellite Signals The ATOM Ka- dual-band BUC and SSPA are up to 70 percent smaller and up to 65 percent lighter than equivalent BUCs...
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NSR...Question Most Frequently Asked...What Happens To FSS Satellites Now With All This HTS? “what happens to the traditional FSS satellites in the face of all this HTS? Won’t most data applications migrate over to lower cost per bit and better efficiencies offered by HTS payloads?”
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Arianespace Launches A Pioneer... LISA Pathfinder Ready To Ripple As Predicted By Einstein's Theory Of Relativity In a major milestone, tonight’s mission was the sixth and final flight as part of European Space Agency-managed VERTA program to showcase this vehicle's flexibility and versatility in a variety of mission types.
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LISA Pathfinder's Successful Morning Launch From The Kourou Spaceport
Airbus Defence and Space built space science spacecraft begins its eight-week journey to the L1 Lagrange point.
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December 1, 2015 SSPI Requesting Your Invaluable Assistance In Formulating The Satellite Industry Workforce Study... You probably receive many survey requests and ignore them. However, this one is about your career and your industry and only takes about 15 minutes required to complete.
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IoT + Satellites — A Webinar Packed With Information The IoT ecosystem is enormous and is projected to result in over $2 trillion in economic impact in the next decade.
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INNOspace Masters — Optoelectronics Technologies For Nexgen Satellites The INNOspace Masters is seeking bleeding edge technologies from the optoelectronics industry to boost the next generation of satellites.
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World's First 5G, 100 To 200 Meter Comms Link Up To 2 Gbps Demo'd By Keysight Technologies + UCSD With this demonstration, Keysight and UCSD have now proven that a 5G communication link is not only possible, but can deliver record performance.
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Sub-Saharan Africa Is Receiving Internet Connectivity Via AfriqueTelecom + Eutelsat The company's “TamTam” service extends access to the Internet in rural areas using WiFi hotspots for collective access.
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Contract Beefed Up For Marlink By Geoscience Firm CGG Marlink will continue to deliver dual C-/Ku-band connectivity to support efficient operations on CGG’s high-end survey vessels.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation Workin' Hard + Ships 11 Satellites For ORBCOMM’s OG2 Mission 2 Launch
“These 11 satellites were integrated and tested in a high-volume production environment, demonstrating our ability to efficiently integrate and produce constellations in this class...."
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ESA's LISA Pathfinder Launch Countdown Resumes The launch countdown now resumes...
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Orbital ATK Ready To Launch Cargo To ISS... Bittersweet...Vehicle Honors Mercury Seven Astronaut “With the naming of this spacecraft, we continue our commitment to honor the late Donald ‘Deke’ K. Slayton, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and a champion of America’s commercial space program and leadership in space,”
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Canada Likes Latitude DL150 Satellite Data Unit ...Earns CAN-TSO-C159b Approval
...to provide global pole-to-pole coverage and also meets the component fitment requirement of AC 20-140B Guidelines for Design Approval of Aircraft Data Link Communications System Supporting Air Traffic Services
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