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June 30, 2015 Fair Weather Ahead As Spire Closes Series B Round Of Funding... Plans Expansion Of Weather Sats From 20 To 100+ The latest round of financing comes at a time when the need for advancements in weather and maritime data is at an all-time high.
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Iridium Pushes Their Go-To-Market Partners Forward "This is a stellar group of service providers that represent some of the very best across the industry."—Joel Thompson, V.P. + G.M., terrestrial business unit, Iridium.
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Twenty Years Later, MILSTAR Time Capsule Is Opened @ Offutt AFB In Nebraska To this day, the MILSTAR mission is still as vital as ever.
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TSoIP Is Now Supported By NovelSat For Their Entire Line Of Satellite Transmission Offerings “Together with standard ASI video transmission and IP support, NovelSat has now expanded its compatibility with support for all IRDs and encoders that use TSoIP.”—Dan Peleg, CTO, NovelSat.
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Thales Alenia Space Expands Into Poland @ 6th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences Poland has announced an ambitious space policy, especially for defense and Earth observation applications, areas where Thales Alenia Space offers extensive expertise.
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Star One C4 + MSG-4 Are Into Integration For Arianespace' VA224 Mission The upcoming mission is designated Flight VA224, signifying the 224th Ariane-series launch to date.
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An Evolution For The Largest Distance Learning Program In Brazil Powered By iDirect “Government data shows that only about one-third of all children in Brazil make it to the sixth grade."—Rob Kilroy, Regional V.P., Sales, iDirect.
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Military Tests New Comsat With 300 Times The Bandwidth... O3b Networks Demonstrates The Technology The military has tested a new commercial communications satellite system that potentially offers 300 times the bandwidth of current satellites.
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June 29, 2015 Advantech Wireless' New 400W C-Band SSPA/SSPB Brings GaN Into The Mix The Second Generation of GaN SSPAs empowers broadcasters to deliver their messages while maximizing efficiency and reducing operational cost."—Cristi Damian, V.p., Business Development, Advantech Wireless.
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Those Oh So Critical First Days In Space Have Now Been Surmounted By Sentinel-2A "We conducted our first orbital maneuver using the Sentinel-2A thrusters yesterday, and this went exactly as planned."—Franco Marchese, Spacecraft Operations Manager, ESA,
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Avascent Webinar To Tackle The Crucial Necessities + Convoluted Challenges Of The Satellite Launch Process From finding the documentation you need, to understanding the regulatory issues pertaining to commercial satellite launch today, this conversation will provide a snapshot of both present procedures and the future of the commercial communications satellite market.
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SSTL... How 'The Little Engine That Could'... Builds The First Microsatellite Now Celebrates 30 Years Of Space Innovation "Firsts": the first microsatellite with in-orbit re-programmable computer and the first to fly a CCD area array Earth imager.
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Lockheed Martin's Fourth MUOS Secure Communications Satellite Shipped For August Launch
MUOS-4 Extends U.S. Navy’s Smart Phone-Like Mobile Network to Near Global Coverage“MUOS-4 will complete our near global coverage, reaching further north and south toward the poles than ever before.”
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Arianespace Lines 'em Up For Another Launch... EUTELSAT 8 West B + Intelsat 34 The fourth Ariane 5 for liftoff in 2015 has begun...
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NovelSat Adds TSoIP Support to its Full Line of Satellite Transmission Products + No Jitters NovelSat now combines the world’s most spectrum-efficient satellite transmission with TSoIP support for the broadcast industry Full Story
Airbus Defence and Space Delivers Heart Of LISA Pathfinder Space Probe... Ready To Ride Einstein's Waves LISA Pathfinder is paving the way for a future large space observatory that ultimately will directly observe and precisely measure gravitational waves.
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June 28, 2015 Rokot Out, Angara In? "We are now in discussions with Khrunichev Centre to obtain further cooperation on..."—Vladimir Terekhov, CIS Branch Mgr., Airbus Defence and Space.
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Harris' MNVR Testing Completed During U.S. Army's NIE Event “The MNVR LUT is a great example of the benefits of defense marketplace competition because it demonstrates...”—George Helm, President, DoD Business, Harris RF Communications.
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Eutelsat's HQ Runs IRG Carrier ID Transmission Tests With WORK Microwave Equipment “CID is one of the most effective ways of combating satellite interference.”—Martin Coleman, Executive Director, the Satellite Interference Reduction Group.
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Satellite To Spin Shooting Stars Of The Colorful Kind Lena Okajima, who holds a doctorate in astronomy, says her company—ALE—is intending to launch a micro satellite that can eject shooting stars at exactly the right time and place to put on a celestial show.
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Inmarsat Signs On World-Link Communications As A FleetBroadband Partner "World-Link has made a significant investment to enhance its Inmarsat network infrastructure that will bring increased benefit to their customers and the maritime market.”—Ronald Spithout, President, Inmarsat Maritime.
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Provisioning Of RADARSAT-2 Data For Three Customers Extended By MDA The RADARSAT-2 satellite has global high-resolution surveillance capabilities that include a large collection capacity and high accuracy.
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Cobham Antenna Systems Goes Polar... Dual-Polar MIMO Base Station This makes the range an ideal choice for system roll-outs, even if frequencies are likely to change during planning processes.
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ULA's Tightrope Act...Maintaining Industry's Lead Of 96 Missions 100 Percent Success + Achieving National Rocket Independence
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Arab Advisors Group Reveal... 70 Percent Of Arab Satellite TV Channels Have Online Sites Spurred by the increasing uptake of the Internet service in the Arab World, many channels in the Arab TV industry have established an online presence.
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June 26, 2015 IHI Bringing Their 500N Engine To Boeing For Intelsat's Upcoming 35e Satellite IA has verified the high performance and reliability of its products through consecutive successes and no record of failure on orbit.
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June 25, 2015 Funding To The Tune Of $500 Million Obtained By OneWeb For Their Microsatellite Constellation “The dream of fully bridging the digital divide is on track to be a reality in 2019.”—Greg Wyler, Founder, OneWeb.
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Klas Telecom's Voyager ECK Checks Out On The DISA DoD + The DoD's Approved Products List Government executives can connect to it whatever laptop computer or phone they are accustomed to using and aren’t constrained to interfaces of unfamiliar GOTS personal electronics devices.
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Keynote Address For The Upcoming SATCON Event To Be Delivered By Lt. Gen. John "Jay" Raymond SATCON is the ideal venue for industry integrators, experts and end-users alike.
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Upcoming 33rd AIAA Int'l Communications Satellite Systems Conference Set For Australia's Gold Coast The 2015 ICSSC is a highly technical conference on satellite systems and the event’s theme is High Throughput Satellites, Other Performance Advances and Applications – Keeping Satellites Essential in a Broadband World.Full Story
The Copernicus Masters EO Competition Invites Participants The best service implementation will be awarded as the winner of the Copernicus Masters CloudEO—Going Live Challenge with a prize package worth up to 10,000 euros.
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The U.S. Army's "Digital Guardian Angel," Win-T, Has General Dynamics Improving The Technology "WIN-T Increment 2 puts the power of the Soldier's Network into soldiers hands down to the company level, which is vitally important as the Army evolves into a more expeditionary force."—Chris Marzilli, President, Missions Systems, General Dynamics.
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OneWeb Signs On With Arianespace For 21 Soyuz Launches + Options For Eight Additional Pushes The first launch will take place in late 2017 and the full deployment will be completed by the end of 2019.
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ASC Signal Sponsors Second In Video Series “Satellites And The Beautiful Game” = 3 Billion Viewers + $4 Billion Return How the soccer ball got its design...Needing a design that would show up on black-and-white T they modeled it after the Telstar satellite.
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Globalstar Fires Up Botswana's Gateway w/ Simplex Satellite Coverage...African Businesses Benefit + More
Much of the African continent has limited terrestrial and/or mobile infrastructure.
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Advantech Wireless' Second Gen GaN Technology SapphireBlu™ Series For Broadcasting Apps "This is a safe investment for the future.”
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Soyuz-2.1b Booster Orbits The Russian Defense Ministry's Satellite The Soyuz 2 Rocket is a three stage carrier rocket designed to put payloads into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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World-Link Goes PoP w/A New Inmarsat Agreement "... we are investing heavily to strengthen our infrastructure and investment with Inmarsat, as well as in our value added services."...
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June 24, 2015 Mobile Classified Capability From The DoD Now Operational “The operational mobile classified capability brings us one step closer to the Joint Information Environment vision, where our warfighters and national level leaders can access a secure infrastructure and applications from any device, anytime, anywhere."—Kim Rice, Mobility Portfolio Manager, DISA
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Gray Eagles + SATCOM Terminals In The Contract Mix For General Atomics Aeronautical Systems The estimated completion date is September 30, 2018.
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Nigeria Plans To Launch Indigenous Satellite By 2030 Dr. Onu advised the new Nigerian administration to look into the Assembly Integration and Testing Center (AIT) as their priority for space sector development.
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NSR Asks... Are The Tides Turning + How Quickly Can We Expect To See The Seas Change? Does the application sell the connectivity, or does the connectivity enable an application (and does it matter whose application)?
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This Hootenanny Is All About Crowdsourced Mapping "Hootenanny will help us more effectively fuse the data we extract from our imagery with other sources of publically available information.”—Tony Frazier, Sr. V.P., U.S. Government Solutions, DigitalGlobe.
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The Historic Shuttle Landing Facility @ Kennedy Space Center Gets A NASA + Space Florida Commitment "The most storied runway in the world will now become the cornerstone of Florida's next generation commercial spaceport."—Frank DiBello, President + CEO, Space Florida.
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Northrop Grumman's New UAS Architecture Implementation Is Successful With NASA's Global Hawk NASA Global Hawks are preproduction variants of RQ-4 Global Hawks currently in service around the world.
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2wcom Preparing SatBroadcasting™ Products For Perusal @ SMPTE 2015 Conference & Exhibition FlexDSR02+ and FlexDSR04+ offer an unprecedented combination of capabilities in a compact 1U IRD for professional audio contribution via satellite and IP.
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exactEarth Plans Their IPO exactEarth is jointly owned by COM DEV and Hisdesat Servicios Estrategicos S.A. (the "Selling Shareholders").
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Imagery Content Partnership Formed Between BlackSky Global + AllSource Analysis The partnership will support a variety of analyses across multiple industries.
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Global MPLS Implementation Ramps Up KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband Network “We are now moving traffic to and from our hubs over state-of-the-art private network connections, as opposed to the public Internet."—Rick Driscoll, V.P., Satellite Products + Services, KVH.
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Globecomm Earns US$14M... Selected By Malaysia + Indonesia's TV + Data Service Providers The contract awards are as varied as the company’s expertise, ranging from television program acquisition and direct-to-home (DTH) TV distribution to VSAT hubs for data networking.
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West African O&G Obtain O3b Capacity Via Hermes Datacomms “With O3b’s network, we are able to deliver high performance capacity and low latency for a superior end-user experience."—Keith Johnson, Sr. V.P., Energy, SpeedCast.
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Using Portable SATCOM Connections, Among Others, Dejero Pumps Up TV TEM In Brazil "The Dejero technology has increased the mobility of our news teams and enabled them to go live immediately, rather than waiting for the vehicle to arrive."—Ewerton Maciel, Director of Technology, TV TEM.
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Airbus Defence & Space Brings A Trio Of New Service Levels To Warfighters + Remote Workers “Welfare communication is vital for military operations and humanitarian missions, but it’s impossible to have a one size fits all system."—Steve Kelly, WelComE Service Manager, Airbus Defence & Space.
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Deployment Across Canada For C-COM's iNetVu Antennas We look forward to seeing our advanced Canadian technology d— said Leslie Klein, President + CEO, C-COM Satellite Systems Inc.
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Debris Detention Demo'd By GMV “This flight exercise represents one more step towards efficient space-debris removal techniques."—Mariella Graziano, Executive Director, Space-Aerospace Segment, GMV.
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Svalbard Is Now SSTL's New Ground Station For Polar Orbiting Satellites “This new facility will significantly enhance our operational capabilities for both our customer’s and our own missions."—James Northam, Head of Ground Systems + Missions Services, SSTL.
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The 83rd meeting of the EUMETSAT Council Goes Polar The meeting achieved progress in the approval process for the optional Jason-CS program...
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NovaWurks + Spaceflight Services Offer Companies Rideshare... Reach Space At A Fraction Of Regular Cost ...will carry customer demonstration payloads, experiments or subsystems to enable organizations to test capabilities in space at a fraction of the cost of dedicated missions.
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June 23, 2015 Moving On Up... Boeing Names Muilenberg CEO "The opportunity to lead the people of Boeing in service to our commercial and government customers is a tremendous honor and responsibility.—Dennis A. Mulenburg, CEO, Boeing.
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RigNet TSI's New Position Of VP Global Operations... Promotion Brings Him Full Circle To Aberdeen He's leading our technical resources as well as two related business areas, Technical Services and MetOcean.
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GL Communications Testing Air Traffic Control For Next Gen One of the six programs addresses a new voice network called the National Airspace System (NAS) Voice System (NVS), based on standard VoIP technology with specific enhancements for air traffic control.
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Espial Goes OTT In A Bluestreak... Acquires Bluestreak Technologies "Bluestreak brings software expertise and experience integrating leading over-the-top services..."
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June 22, 2015 Japan Selects SSL's 1300 Platform's High-Power + Flexibility To Be Incorporated In Their New B-SAT-4a “The BSAT-4a satellite represents our fourth satellite contract award for the Japanese market in the last two years.”—John Celli, President, SSL.
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Precision Aviation Group Keeps Airways Safer w/Global Distribution Of Guardian Mobility Products According to the FAA... “123 accidents between 2001 and 2010 could have been identified beforehand if airlines had safety management systems in place...”
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RUAG Celebrates 250th Fairing Launch RUAG Space has cause to celebrate...
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A New EO Constellation Is To Be Born Via UrtheCast, Surrey Satellite Technology + ElecnorDeimos Space "We’re confident that the Constellation will bring an entirely unique dataset to this industry."—Wade Larson, President + COO, UrtheCast.
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Roscosmos Plans A Center For Earth Remote Sensing ... Operating All Russian Surface Surveying Spacecraft ... plans to set up a single center for services of Earth’s remote sensing (ERS) that will operate all Russian surface surveying spacecraft...
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Modular Devices' 2 New DC-DC Converters ... For Tiny Scaleable Cubes + Micro-Miniature Sats + More For Space This new series of DC-DC Converter is designed for us terrestrials...
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Getting A GaN'd Good BUC'ing Is Advantech Wireless' New 300W Offering “The improved GaN reliability and low size allow perfect integration into the ship stabilized antennas."—Cristi Damian, V.P., Business Development, Advantech Wireless.
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U.S. Firm Signs Deal To Sell Their Satellite Platform To A Chinese Company, With Boeing To Build The Silkwave-1 The satellite network will operate in the L-band frequency range (1452-1492 MHz) that is globally allocated for BSS.
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Air Caraïbes Selects Thales AVANT System For Their Series A350-900 + A350-1000 Aircraft Business class passengers will enjoy 17 inch screens with the Touch Passenger Media Unit, in-seat power, dual audio jack and USB port. In premium economy ...
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Residency Secured @ 1 Degree West For Telenor's THOR 7 Satellite “THOR 7 provides the expansion capacity required to satisfy today’s and tomorrow’s growing demands from both our customers and future customers interested in connecting to the 1 degree West neighborhood.”—Morten Tengs, CEO, Telenor Satellite Broadcasting.
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Septentrio Navigation Systems Dredges Up Precise Results @ Western Dredging Association Summit & Expo They also provide interference mitigation for uninterrupted performance in areas where Iridium transmitters are being used, and overcome ionospheric interference, a common problem in equatorial regions.
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The First Successful Year For Deimos-2 The satellite, which is owned by Elecnor and operated by its technological division Elecnor Deimos, has traveled around the Earth approximately 5,300 times during this year.
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Septentrio Americas Positions Itself Perfectly w/New Dealer... Altus Positioning Systems Canada West ..." I see tremendous potential for growth in this region as more companies realize the benefits with a receiver that works with more than one data software.”
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It's A Go! Arianespace's Vega Flight VV05 Takes Sentinel-2A—To Join Copernicus Group Vega Flight VV05, the Arianespace Vega mission with Europe’s Sentinel-2A Earth observation satellite is now underway...
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The Ultimate In Whiplash? China's Super "Eye" Enables Two Spacecraft Flying Eight Times Faster Than Bullets Safe Docking the new "eye" can see clearer under direct sunlight, which will greatly improve safety.
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Ultimate DIY... World’s Longest 'Selfie' ... Satellite Imagery Tasking Via SpyMeSat Mobile App
And with “the World’s Longest Selfie Stick” new tasking feature, any mobile user can now to task a satellite to take a new picture if archive imagery does not meet their need.
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Launch Of Airbus Defence and Space's Sentinel-2A Brings A Whole New Dimension... Color Vision Of Earth Airbus Defence and Space adds color to the Copernicus program through multispectral instrument that provides unique image quality.
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June 21, 2015 Go For Launch! Arianespace’s Vega Readies For Sentinel-2A... Copernicus' Earth Observation The next Vega mission from French Guiana has been authorized for liftoff.
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June 19, 2015 Timor-Leste's Mobile Comms Needs To Be Supplied By O3b Networks For Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel will use the improved connectivity to support growth of 2G/3G customers across Timor-Leste.
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Vega Is Rarin' To Go For Its Fifth Launch On June 22nd After its launch by Vega, Sentinel-2A will join the Sentinel-1A spacecraft orbited by an Arianespace Soyuz mission in April 2014.
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Final Chapter Of U.S.A.F.'s SBIRS... Northrop Grumman + Lockheed Martin's HEO-4 Ready To Integrate For Launch This testing fully demonstrated that the sensor’s performance met or exceeded that of its predecessor, HEO-3.
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The Switches Are Now In The Works For A Commercial Comms Satellite By COM DEV International "We are increasingly seeing HTS payloads included on commercial communications satellites, to enable the operators to exploit a growing market opportunity."—Mike Williams, President, Products Division, COM DEV International.
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DoD Contracts w/ Boeing For U.S.A.F. Project This DoD contract is for a project for the U.S.A.F.
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ViaSat's Advanced SATCOM Enables TEKEVER Expansion Of Civilian Drones Use + Master Agent Agreement With GCG “This has a significant worldwide market potential that aligns with the strategic roadmap of both companies.”—Stefano Vaccaro, Managing Director, ViaSat Antenna Systems Division, Switzerland.
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The European Space Agency's Incubation Program Helps To Grow More Than 300 Companies “Technologies from Europe’s space programs have turned out to be great problem-solvers here on Earth.”—Franco Ongaro, Director of Technical and Quality Management, ESA.
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Know More Regarding Nanos + Micros With NSR's New Report + Forecasts Nano and microsatellites are a developing market yet to find an operational niche or identify best practices.
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A Safe Arrival @ Vandenberg AFB For The Jason-3 Satellite Jason-3 is an international partnership led by NOAA with participation from NASA, France's Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (the French space agency) and EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.
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June 18, 2015 NSR's Webinar... Aeronautical Satcom Market: Has In-Flight Connectivity Left the Gate? With more airlines offering Wi-Fi on-board their planes each year, the past mishaps of in-flight connectivity (IFC) via satellite seem like a bad dream.
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SIGINT System Flies In From Horizon Technologies “Our customers have been asking for a lighter weight tactical system which can be integrated on a range of UAVs."—John Beckner, CEO, Horizon.
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Globalstar's SPOT Integration With Lockheed Martin Flight Service "Our units have helped initiate over 3,500 rescues worldwide, which has included aviation rescue operations."—Jake Rembert, V.P., Sales, Globalstar.
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Satellite Operator ABE In Bolivia Completes Trial Campaign With Newtec Technology The Ka-band tests demonstrated three main use-case scenarios.
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The Speakers Have Been Announced For The Space Foundation's Space Technology + Investment Forum Enjoy the in-depth discussions and content rich briefings about current trends and opportunities, networking activities, private meetings and the chance to hear about ground-breaking innovations.
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EOMAP Adds To The Interest In The South China Sea With Shallow Water Bathymetry “Such techniques from satellite allow us to map these islands from space and provide options for continuous mapping at regular intervals."—A.S. Mittal, CEO, EOMAP Asia Pacific.
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Operations Cease For NASA's Aquarius Instrument Aboard the SAC-D Satellite Aquarius was a pathfinder mission to demonstrate that accurate, scientifically-significant measurements of salinity could be made from space.
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An Important EO Vehicle Is Now En Route To Vandenberg AFB For An August Launch Jason-3 will secure the long-term continuity of high-precision ocean altimetry measurements in support of climate monitoring, operational oceanography and seasonal forecasting.
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ACARS Data Transmissions Complete Initial Flight Tests Using Cobham SATCOM's SwiftBroadband System "These first flights with enabled SBB ACARS data are a significant milestone on our journey to the e-enabled flight deck."—Kim Gram, V.P., Aeronautical Business Unit, Cobham SATCOM.
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Globalstar To The Rescue... Disaster Tech Lab Is SPOT On w/Rescues In Nepal The device includes a ‘check-in’ button to send to Disaster Tech Lab’s headquarters with a prepared message, indicating that all is OK...
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ITC Global Goes Off The Shelf w/Services... Successful Fleet Transition For Shelf Drilling's 35 Rigs This global VSAT solution supports a fleet of 35 jack-up drilling rigs
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In Real-Time, Complete Imaging Of Earth Is The Plan For BlackSky Global “The launch of BlackSky Global marks a major leap forward in opening up access to images from space and enabling constant global awareness."—Peter Wegner, CTO, BlackSky Global.
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U.S.A.F. Space + Missile Systems Center Awards Raytheon US$39M Faster Fielding Of GPS Receivers To The Warfighter Fiscal 2014 and 2014 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $16,319,409 are being obligated at the time of award.
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LizardTech Conducts Defense-Oriented Demos Of MrSID + More @ The GEOINT 2015 Symposium “Guess How Many Lizards"...There will be a large jar filled with lizards and the person with the closest guess will win a $100 gift card to amazon.com.
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June 17, 2015 The DISA Strategic Plan For 2015 to 2020 Is Released... This agency will remain in step with, or ahead of, our mission partners and proactively evolve capability requirements to meet operational needs."—Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, Director, DISA.
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Papeete Will Be Home To New Indra-Built Galileo TT&C Station This contract was awarded by the company Airbus Defence and Space in the UK, under a program of, and funded by, the European Union.
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Moving On Up—Northrop Grumman Names Linksy As A V.P. Linsky will lead a sector-wide effort to deliver more reliable, sustainable and affordable products for Northrop Grumman customers.
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Moving On Up—AsiaSat Names Balaam + Cubbon To Vice Presidencies "With this new structure, we will better use our resources and more clearly focus our efforts in the market."—William Wade, President + CEO, AsiaSat.
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HISPASAT Names The Winners Of Their Best Telecommunications Satellite Innovation Project This ceremony is the successful culmination of the series of activities scheduled by HISPASAT to mark the company's 25th anniversary.
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Bringing Globecast + MEASAT Together To Meld Their SATCOM + Distribution Expertise Is Bright Lights Media “This deal reinforces Globecast’s position as a complete media services company."—Yew Weng Soo, Managing Director, Globecast Asia.
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Turnkey Playout System For Singtel TV Is Ideal The multi-channel HD solution incorporates a number of SoftCast modules including multiple channels of SC-AutoPlay for HD channel-in-a-box automation and playout.
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The "Re-Foundation" Of Arianespace "The planned increase in Airbus Safran Launchers' stake in Arianespace reinforces our confidence in the future."—Stéphane Israël, Chairman + CEO, Arianespace.
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New Vessel Tracking System Debuts from Iridium Partner Rock Seven “Our aim was to create a reliable, low-cost system for global vessel tracking that can fit the budget of all vessel owners and operators."—Nick Farrell, Director, Rock Seven.
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July 22nd Launch Of The 7th WGS Satellite For The U.S.A.F. After Safe Delivery To Kennedy Space Center “The WGS constellation provides highly capable military communications that leverages cost-effective production methods and the latest technological advances.”—Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, U.S.A.F. program executive officer for Space + Commander, SMC.
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World Teleport Association Tells The Top Operator Rankings for 2014... Includes The "Fast Twenty" Average spending across the operators equaled 41percent of revenues...
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Commitments Made By Five European Nations To "Do More" When It Comes To Monitoring + Tracking Space Objects... The five European Union member states will cooperate with the European Union Satellite Centre (SATCEN), established by the Council Joint Action, to implement the provision of the SST services.
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C-COM Satellite Systems Endorses SSPI's Better Satellite World Campaign The project seeks to change the way the market understands the importance and relevance of the global satellite market.
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RUAG Space To Supply Meteorological Instruments + Structures for Europe’s 'Pillar' Weather Satellites This means that the second-generation Metop satellites will be providing Europe with weather data past the year 2040.
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June 16, 2015 New GAO Report...SATCOM Development For Strategic Bomber Aircraft Deficiency + More GAO found that, while the programs and efforts have made progress toward developing and fielding systems as well as meeting cost, schedule, or performance goals, known capability gaps or deficiencies remain
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Aireon Helps The Kiwis...Plans Improvements To Airways New Zealand + South Pacific Aviation Ops "Space-based ADS-B will not only improve operations, but will allow for 100 percent visibility into all aspects of their airspace.”—Cyriel Kronenburg, V.P., Sales & Marketing, Aireon.
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Es'hail 1 To Deliver Al Araby TV Network To MENA Audiences "Es’hail 1 has been selected by Al Araby for its expansion."—Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari, CEO, Es'hailSat.
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Gogo On GOL—Airborne Connectivity Is A First For This Brazilian Airline "This represents the largest aircraft commitment to our 2Ku technology outside of North America."—Michael Small, President + CEO, Gogo.
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Keysight Technologies Offering A Free DVD Regarding Modern Measurement Fundamentals The 2015 Back to Basics DVD includes more than 50 new application notes as well as webcasts and videos that cover a wide variety of modern measurement topics from design simulation to digital and modular instrumentation.
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What Would You Do In Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, High Bay 2 ?? “Making unique capabilities like the VAB available to commercial companies is yet another step in our evolution to a diverse spaceport that supports government and commercial partners.”—Scott Colloredo, Director of Center Planning and Development, Kennedy Space Center.
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Rockwell Collins Has New EMEA ARINC Initiatives In Play “Airlines will have access to the most robust, secure communications network available to transmit critical flight and crew information to and from the aircraft."—Jeff Standerski, Sr. V.P., Information Management Services, Rockwell Collins.
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Cobham Receives New STCs For SwiftBroadband Airframe Installations “We continue to develop STCs for installation on a growing number of airframes, enabling more users to take advantage of modern in-flight communications."—Kim Gram, V.P., Aeronautical, Cobham SATCOM.
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The Indigo Project Is Instigated By ESA, Intelsat + Newtec Indigo will maximize the throughput delivered to customers and have the flexibility to adapt to advances in satellite technology and services
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Mobile Connectivity Has Now Been Improved For Energy + Maritime Comms By Harris CapRock Communications “Our expanded offshore GSM service increases connectivity and boosts morale for our energy and maritime customers’ crew member.”—Tracey Haslam, President, Harris CapRock Communications.
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UHDTV Trials In North America Via The SES-3 Satellite “This new SES Ultra HD demo channel is playing an important role in accelerating the successful delivery of Ultra HD to cable homes across North America.”—Steve Corda, V.P., Business Development, North America, SES.
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Honeywell, Inmarsat + iDirect Reach An Airborne Milestone “Airlines, passengers and pilots continue to demand better, more consistent and faster in-flight Wi-Fi to make their jobs easier and travel experience better."—Jack Jacobs, V.P., Safety + Connectivity, Honeywell Aerospace.
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All Together Now — Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, SMC + The SBIRS HEO-4 Payload "HEO-4 will complete the replenishment of our polar missile warning capability."—Lt. Gen. Samuel A. Greaves, U.S.A.F. executive program officer for Space + commander of Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).
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Airbus Selects Zodiac Aerospace’s Zodiac Inflight Innovations To Manage Global Xpress Service ..."but also our inflight entertainment solutions are approved as linefit on A330 Long Range, and under study on other aircraft types."
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Arianespace Fuels Up For Vega Launch... Sentinel-2A Receives Onboard Propellant @ The Spaceport Sentinel-2A receives its propellant load inside the S5A fueling and integration hall of the Spaceport’s S5 payload preparation facility.
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ESA's Sentinel-2A Satellite Readies For Arianespace Launch ... 'Color Vision' For Europe's Copernicus Program Data is to be transmitted via new laser-based SpaceDataHighway (EDRS.
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Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome To Play A Major Role In $1 to $2 Billion Satellite Launch Deal The contract is the largest in commercial space history.
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June 15, 2015 Space Debris Threats Mitigated By An Ohio Firm... A small business located in Fairborn, Ohio has developed the JSpOC Mission System (JMS) User Definable Operational Picture.
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These NASA CubeSats Are Deigned For Interplanetary Action By verifying CubeSats are a viable technology for interplanetary missions, and feasible on a short development timeline, this technology demonstration could lead to many other applications to explore and study our solar system.
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Boeing Binds In With ABS For Their Third 702P Satellite Build “With the innovative all-electric propulsion design, Boeing is able to maximize payload while decreasing overall satellite mass and cost.”—Mark Spiwak, President, Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc.
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U.S.A.F. Baltops Mission Comms Commitment "We handle completely different communication aspects here at Baltops, but those differences are what make us a well-rounded team."—Senior Airman Brendan Kennedy, a 1st CBCS satellite communications technician.
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UAS Portfolio Is Expanded By Trimble With Multirotor “The collaboration will enable our customers to use a technology rapidly growing in popularity due to its flexibility and productivity.”—Todd Steiner, Product Marketing Director, Geospatial Division, Trimble.
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Harris To Provide Support for Air Force Satellite Control Network Antenna Sites Work is expected to be complete by Sept. 29, 2015.
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Improvements To GPS OCX Are Demo'd By Raytheon "Once delivered, this pathfinding, cyber-hardened ground system will significantly enhance the capabilities GPS brings to military, civil and commercial users worldwide."—Dave Wajsgras, President, Intelligence, Information + Services, Raytheon.
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Rohde & Schwarz Headend Enables Satellite Broadcaster HDT To Expand Their Offerings The headend can be expanded at any time, making it easy for HDT to add needed channels.
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Returning To Colorado Offers Another Opportunity To Command...The Guidon Is Passed @21st Space Wing A mentor once told him the more you talk, the less time you have in command, and Schiess said the clock is ticking.
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SES S.A.'s White Paper Commentary Foresees Significant Growth Demands In Air + Ship Traffic Connectivity "Air travel is now an ubiquitous commodity."
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What's Next? FlyingFish™ At Paris Airshow, Le Bourget 2015... Horizon Technologies' Second Gen The newest version of FlyingFish™ is able to be installed on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in addition to the more traditional fixed-wing ISR aircraft
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New Constellation Technologies + Solutions Will Continue To Be Studied By LeoSat + Thales Alenia Space The feasibility study is expected to be completed by July. LeoSat expects to be ready to contract for its satellite constellation development within about a year, with the launch taking place in 2019 or 2020.
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Reciprocity Is The Word Of The Day For KVH Industries + Inmarsat “Inmarsat’s customers will now gain access to our NEWSlink news and Videotel training content, which are already used by more than 20,000 maritime vessels."—Martin Kits van Heyningen, CEO, KVH.
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SMI Presents Global MilSatCom Returns To London ... Answers Challenges To Military, Business + Financial Issues
The three-day conference will identify new and emerging technologies to further enhance end-user capabilities.
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France's President + CEOs Celebrate As OneWeb Selects Airbus Defense + Space To Connect The World w/ Microsatellites “This partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story. Teaming with OneWeb with a requirement to produce several small satellites each day ..."
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NASA's TRMM Makes For Earth Since the start of the space age in the 1950s, there has been no confirmed report of an injury resulting from re-entering space objects.
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RigNet's Gain w/Global Supply Chain Initiative + Follows Up w/Hiring A Director Of Supply Chain
... consists of strategic sourcing, asset management, capital expenditures, inventory management and procurement.
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O3b Networks Pack Up Trunks For Timor-Leste + Provides IP Trunking Services To Bharti Airtel Because of the rapid growth of the mobile economy in Timor-Leste, a cost effective solution was needed to cope with the growth of 2G services and ...
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June 12, 2015 C-COM Satellite Systems Enjoys Largest Multi-Unit Order... Primetech Purchases 30 Units Of iNetVu® Ka-75V Antennas "The system enables users to send and receive, in a secure way, massively increased amounts of voice, video and data using Ka-band, supporting a wide range of business-critical activities."
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Inmarsat, Cobham SATCOM, Rockwell Collins + L2 Bring SwiftBroadband Safety Service To Hawaiian Airlines The service now begins the phase of in-use monitoring allowing Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) to assess performance against the ICAO 'GOLD' FANS datalink standard.
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MaxLinear Selected By Unitron... Turnkey Satellite Channel Stacking On A Chip Goes Outdoors The MxL801 replaces dozens of discrete components including the image reject filter by integrating all critical functions into a single chip.
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The Chine Panels Are Now In Order for XCOR's Lynx® "The chines allow the Lynx fuselage to have a continuous aero surface from the tip to the back of the strakes."—Jeff Greason, CTO, XCOR.
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Major Mirror Delivery To UMass Lowell By Northrop Grumman's AOA Xinetics "Our silicon carbide mirrors are a new generation of high performance, lightweight mirrors for astrophysics ideally suited for the PICTURE B mission."—Michael Sheedy, Business Area Manager, AOA Xinetics.
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NASA's Third RS-25 Engine Test Roars With Success For SLS... Engines Will Send Rocket Soaring @ 17,500 mph "We need way more power for these engines to be able to go farther than ever before when it comes to human exploration."—Steve Wofford, Manager, SLS Liquid Engines Office @ NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
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A New System To Manage Low Altitude Drones Is Being Tackled By NASA “NASA wants to create a system that would keep track of and deliver important information to operators of UAS."—Parimal Kopardekar, Manage, NASA’s Safe Autonomous Systems Operations project.
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June 11, 2015 Sentinel-2A Taking On Its Load For Flight VV05 Sentinel-2A is the latest Earth observation satellite for Europe's ambitious Copernicus initiative, which is headed by the European Commission in partnership with the European Space Agency.
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Fit-Check Processes Completed For MSG-4 + Star One C4 By Arianespace For July Launch Both satellites are now ready for their fueling and subsequent integration on the launch vehicle.
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The SSC Group's Esrange Center Has A Busy Summer Schedule Ahead Balloon campaigns, test of a supersonic airplane, rocket launches and the opening of a newly renovated visitor center are all on the schedule.
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Keysight Technologies' RF + Microwave Switches Catalog Fresh Off The Press New product highlights and easy-to-read product selection and comparison tables help users find just the right Keysight accessory.
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Ensuring HDMI 2.0 Interface Standards Using Rohde & Schwarz Testing Family The HDMI 2.0 test solutions from Rohde & Schwarz make testing quick and easy. They support manufacturers as they develop products in line with the new interface standard and allow them to get their products to market faster.
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New SYNTELIX uSAIL® Maritime Service Is Empowered With Hispasat 1E Conduit “Extending satellite broadband services to the maritime segment of the mobility market is a fundamental goal for the HISPASAT Group."—Ester Fernández, Marketing Manager, HISPASAT.
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RTÉ Is Spot-On w/Europasat's NewsSpotter ... Transforms Ease + Economics Of Newsgathering The NewsSpotter service, provided via Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite, has transformed the ease and economics of satellite newsgathering.
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NASA's Dawn Of A New Day... Who Turned On The Lights On Ceres? Second Orbit Reveals More Spots "Reflection from ice is the leading candidate in my mind, but the team continues to consider alternate possibilities, such as salt."
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IoT Security... A Necessary Factor w/All Those Connected Devices + Appliances... To Achieve Security + Privacy The Internet of Things offers many opportunities and with the quantity of data transmitted between devices, or stored, this creates a number of high risk security issues.
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GeoNorth's Image Just Improved... With An Operational Ready Imagery Coordination Center “The Imagery Coordination Center signals that GeoNorth has achieved a level of operating capability that only a handful of players in this industry can match.”
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SatNews A Media Partner @ SSPI's New Silicon Valley Chapter + Announced The Interim President... SSPI officially launched a new chapter of the nonprofit association serving the “new space and satellite” industry in northern California.
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June 10, 2015 Cobham's Sailor 900 Ka Antenna System On Display @ Nor-Shipping 2015—Initially Designed For Telenor's THOR 7 Satellite “SAILOR 900 VSAT is a strong platform for ship owners to leverage new high bandwidth services on THOR 7.”—Jørn Hammersland, Owner + Partner, Pyxisat.
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Northrop Grumman Rolls Out The First Of Five NATO Global Hawk UAVs "This marks a significant step forward in achieving NATO's goal of acquiring NATO-owned and operated AGS Core Capability."—Erling Wang,Chairman, NATO AGS Management Organization (NAGSMO).
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TASS Reports Successful Launch Of Russian Satellite... Russia's space sector has seen a series of misfires lately...
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Sentinel-2A Is Fairing Well The Sentinel-2 mission is dedicated to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring program.
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No Cost Involved To U.S.A.F. For SBIRS Update From Lockheed Martin "The migration to the modernized A2100 will help keep SBIRS ahead of America's adversaries while dramatically reducing costs and cycle times."—David Sheridan, V.P. + SBIRS Program Manager, Lockheed Martin.
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Scottish Enterprise Awards Spire ... Funds For Glascow's New Satellite Engineering + Development Office “The confidence placed in us from Scotland enables us to expand our global footprint to attract the skills and talent we need to deliver on the next generation of weather satellites.”—Peter Platzer, CEO, Spire.
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An Unveiling By Honeywell Of Their New TAM-442 Satellite Terminal the TAM-442 uses the field-proven Inmarsat® IsatM2M satellite protocol.
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Inmarsat Gives 'Em L ... New L-Band Orbital Position For Middle East + Asia “Now, with Alphasat in full service, we can move I-4 F2 to provide additional capacity in our highest growth, Indian Ocean region..."
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Broadcom's System-On-A-Chip... Eight Demodulators On A Single Chip + No Dip "The benefits of Full Band Capture paired with the newest broadcast standard for satellite television continue Broadcom's efforts to provide operators with the most advanced products to benefit consumers."
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General Dynamics Information Technology Presents @ Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit Cyber security now protects and defends the critical intellectual property and business processes that drive profits and earnings.
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451 Research's Webinar Cuts Through The Internet of Things Hype... Tackles Security + Connectivity Nearly every type of business that exists today can employ IoT systems to create cost savings and efficiencies or support new business models.
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XCOR Aerospace® Selects Matrix Composites ...Custom Chine Panels Integral Part Of Airframe... Access To Vital Life Support ...are an integral part of the structural airframe and will allow access to vital life support and flight control system components that are mounted within the spacecraft.
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Entone + Zappware Deliver To A Multitude Of Hybrid TV Devices... Broadcast TV + Cloud Services
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Intelligent Aerospace's Executive Safety Briefing As Waves + Signals Grow, Float + Interfere Interference, including EMI/RFI from other electronic devices and components, can result in a variety of negative consequences, such as causing safety- and mission-critical systems to malfunction.
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June 9, 2015 Star Times Extends Their SES Partnership On SES-5 + Biewer In As CEO Of LuxGovSat "Both SES and StarTimes have continued to invest in the African market over the past few years."—Ferdinand Kayser, COO, SES.
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Naval Surface Warfare Center Has Iridium Support From NAL Research Work will be performed in Manassas, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by May 2020.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know: RR Media Continues Their Acquisition Moves, This Time For SatLink Communications "This acquisition is expected to contribute to our bottom line in 2015 and beyond."—Avi Cohen, CEO, RR Media.
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Complimentary Keysight Technologies Webinar Digs Into Maximizing Oscilloscope Measurements It is important to understand both the measurement capabilities of your oscilloscope and the different factors that influence the effectiveness of specific measurements.
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France Télévisions Contribution Network Obtains Empowerment From ATEME's Kyrion “This enabled seamless transition from MPEG2 SD legacy encoders to a H.264 HD service within weeks.”—Emmanuel Boureau, V.P., Sales, ATEME.
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A New COTM Link For Military Vehicles + UAS From CPI The GMA-100QB includes a compact multiband high gain directional antenna array, enabling long range LOS datalinks, and a broadband omnidirectional antenna for close-in/overhead communications.
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IoT Deployment Now Simplified... WebNMS + Option Integrate Solutions With Smart M2M Gateway "This cooperation expands our ecosystem with a hardware platform supported by global network operators, including operators in the U.S. and Europe.”—Prabhu Ramachandran, Director, WebNMS.
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Portable Test Amplifier For RF + Microwave Engineers Debuts From AtlanTecRF "This neatly designed and very adaptable unit brings a robust solution to a potentially costly component replacement problem.”—Geoff Burling, CEO, AtlanTecRF.
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Harris Brings Their Tactical Radio Expertise To Support The Australian Defence Force This is a performance-based contracting model that supports the ADF's the Joint Project 2072 Battlespace Communications program.
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Launch Systems Testing @ Russia's New Vostochny Space Center Is Now Ahead Of Schedule "As much as 96 percent of all the equipment for the technological complex has been delivered to the site."
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An Upcoming Satellite Build Will Include COM DEV International Equipment Work will be carried out at COM DEV's facilities in Cambridge over the next year.
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Globecomm Named By Inmarsat As A VAR For GX For The Maritime Market Globecomm was previously as a GX VAR for the Enterprise and Global Government markets.
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Largest Order For Their NewGen Ka-Band Systems Received By C-COM Satellite Systems "This significant order from Primetech for the UK confirms the increasing popularity of the iNetVu® antennas over the Eutelsat KA-SAT coverage area."—Leslie Klein, President + CEO, C-COM Satellite Systems.
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Cobham SATCOM + Hawaiian Airlines... Aloha! As They Allow For FANS + Certify Aviator 300D On Boeing Aircraft It supports flight deck voice services and provides dedicated IP connectivity to the cockpit, enabling access to new applications such as Electronic Flight Bags and flight data transmission.
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Spacecraft Will Come Raining Down Soon... Re-entry Not Expected To Be Dangerous The chance that one of these pieces would strike someone is approximately 1 in 4,200, which is a relatively low chance.
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InfiNet Wireless Breaks The Ice w/Communications ... Provides Wireless Network For 16 Ice Breakers In Finland
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Avanti Communications Acquires Contracts From South Africa's SENTECH This will enable us to provide robust connectivity services which extend our broadband infrastructure to some of the most remote sections of the country.
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Intelsat S.A. Accelerates Inflight Broadband Connectivity... Takes It One Further w/IntelsatOne® Flex
...enables Intelsat’s distribution partners and their aeronautical customers to access bandwidth when and where it is needed the most without the complexity of managing multiple beams and satellites.
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June 8, 2015 AvL Technologies' Successes Necessitate Expansion To An Additional Building + 150 New Jobs... Goal Is To Create Tech Hub The continued expansion will enable the creation of 150 new technology jobs for the area...
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ORS Rowing With Skyline Communication's DataMiner For Their Broadcasting Services In Austria "DataMiner guarantees a high quality of service to our customers."—Norbert Grill, CEO, ORS.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know: The IoT World—TierConnect Is Acquired By Mojix "the TierConnect team gives Mojix deep expertise in Big Data scalability, highly-configurable application frameworks, and elegant user interfaces."—Dr. Sadr, President + CEO, Mojix.
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Advantech Wireless Bucks The Trend w/ Improvements... New Series Of BUCs Next Generation GaN Technology
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In The Knowing Is The Understanding: Cost-Free UHD Guidebook Offered By Harmonic This unique eBook offers a detailed examination of the technological innovations and standards that are defining UHD video and audio.
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The Fourth Mission In ESA's Cosmic Vision Program Has Selected The "M4" Topics "“The three proposals each offer the chance to tackle some of the major outstanding scientific questions about our place in the Universe.”—Alvaro Giménez, Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, ESA.
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Northrop Grumman + Partners Reveal NATO's First AGS Aircraft w/ISR Capability... To Protect + Serve With the ability to fly for up to 30 hours at a time, the high-altitude long-endurance system will provide NATO leaders with persistent global situational awareness.
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Russian Soyuz-2 1A Pushes The Kobalt-M Into Orbit The satellite was launched Friday from the Plesetsk launch pad in northern Russia.
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Pakistan Ready To Pack Up ... Cold Shoulder To India's SAARC Satellite Project "Maybe we can offer them one transponder. But this is still very much in its preliminary stage and after the consultation process things will be more clearer,"
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Head Of Roscosmos... Russia Will Keep On Keepin' On... Launching Manned Vehicles From Baikonur Until 2024 “We plan to perform manned launches from Baikonur until 2024.
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Real-Time Maritime Tracking + Info Solutions Across The Globe Brought Into Play Via An exactEarth + Harris Alliance "This announcement further strengthens our commitment to provide best-in-class maritime intelligence solutions to our customers worldwide." —Peter Mabson, President, exactEarth.
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SES Plaform Services' FLUIDMedia For Video Content Conversions To Appear @ ANGA COM 2015 "Our new service simplifies the entire technical-operational process of video-on-demand distribution and the use of internet video for customers."—Sophie Lersch, Chief Product Officer for Services, SES Platform Services
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XipLink, Rockwell Collins + ICG 'Spoil' Business Jet Users...Provide Highest Possible Internet Throughput "It was great then and even better now, with more features and higher efficiency...."
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Airbus' Ultimate In Recycling... Tests Partially Reusable Space Launcher System... Not Like SpaceX's "In order to reuse the main stage, we bring back the most expensive parts and try to make them in a way that they become much cheaper to reuse them than to make new ones."
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Now That's A Milestone...NOAA’s DSCOVR Satellite Reaches One Million Miles From Earth “DSCOVR will trigger early warnings whenever it detects a surge of energy that could cause a geomagnetic storm that could bring possible damaging impacts for Earth,”
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Virgin Galactic's Undaunted Passengers Pay $250,000 ... Waiting Two Years For Replacement Of Crashed SpaceShipTwo Pilot Michael Alsbury was killed in the disaster, caused by deployment of the vehicle's rotating tail boom "feather" atmospheric re-entry system...
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NASA’s Terra Satellite Goes Cloud Hopping By A Canary... Encounters Lacey Shapes Of Spiral Eddies Clouds have led to important advances in meteorology and atmospheric science, and it has produced something more difficult to quantify—simple beauty.
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Thales Alenia Space Italia Has A New Chief Executive Officer Donato Amoroso, 56, will also be Deputy to the President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space, Jean-Loïc Galle.
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U.S. Army Approves General Dynamics For A Win-Win Situation... WIN-T Increment 2 Full Rate Production provides commanders and soldiers with an unprecedented ability to communicate, share information and intelligence while on patrol, with connectivity rivaling that found in a stationary command post.
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Facebook Terminates Their Interest In A Satellite Constellation... As well all know, revelations can change on a dime in this industry, and little should ever be considered the final word...
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Airbus Defence and Space Signs w/Norwegian Defence... Delivers Capacity To Skynet Military Satellite Constellation "We will work closely together to ensure they gain the maximum benefit from the Skynet constellation which now provides secure X-band milsatcoms to multiple nations around the world.”
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June 5, 2015 A 60-Vessel Fleet Has Committed To KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband Service For Maritime Connectivity “Access to broadband connectivity and real-time data is a differentiator for maritime operators."—Brent Bruun, Exec. V.P., Mobile Broadband, KVH.
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OHB Selects Thales Alenia Space Belgium To Execute Electronics Support For ExoMars 2018 Mission "This latest device will be developed in conjunction with QinetiQ Space, and with financial support from the Belgian space agency."—Patrick Bury, V.P. Sales, Marketing + Programs, Thales Alenia Space Belgium.
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A Sensory Acquisition For Logos Technologies Via The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division The research conducted will leverage previous quick reaction capability efforts in the domains of wide area airborne surveillance, hyperspectral imaging, high resolution imaging, and light detection and ranging.
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A Big SMILE For CAS, UCL + ESA For Spatial Study Of Magnetic Environment + Weather "SMILE will investigate the Sun's interaction with the Earth's magnetic environment in a unique manner, never attempted before."—Professor Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
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Russia's Angara-A5 Rocket To Launch Satellite Into Orbit In 2016 The probability is that this will be a commercial satellite.
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Korea Airports Corp. + T'Way Air Sign On For Rockwell Collins' ARINC GLOBALink In Korea “These two significant contracts mark another key milestone in our successful strategy to invest and grow our business in the country and throughout the entire region.”—John Kurian, managing director, IMS Asia Pacific for Rockwell Collins.
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June 4, 2015 Christmas Island Receives Trunking Service From SpeedCast Via O3b Networks GEO SATCOM SpeedCast will provide CIIA with high throughput, low latency connectivity, enabling the first broadband Internet access experienced on the island.
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Approved Status By Inmarsat For Paradigm Connect Terminals For Use Over GX Network “Our Connect100 and Connect100T both hit the size and efficiency sweet spot for GX."—Jon Godfrey,G.M., Paradigm.
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IPSAT Garners New Hughes Hub + Remote Terminals For Broadband Satellite System “The new system will enable IPSAT to grow its business in Malaysia and other ASEAN countries, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia.”—Bahram Pourmand, Exec. V.P., International Division, Hughes.
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Lockheed Martin Is GOES'ing Into Environmental Testing “NOAA’s GOES satellites are our nation’s weather sentinels and are vital to our severe storm prediction and warnings.”—Tim Gasparrini, V.P. + GOES-R Series program manage, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.
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New Cybersecurity + Research Facility Opened By Raytheon "This new center is important part of the company's strategy to support our customers and expand our global cyber security business."—David Wajsgras, President, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services.
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South Korea To Now Receive Iridium Products + Services Via The Arion Communication Company Arion will be reselling Iridium Pilot, powered by Iridium's OpenPort® broadband service.
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Quality Healthcare In Benin, Africa, Via SES' / SES Techcom's SATMED "Thanks to satellite technology, we are now in a position to assist in improving both the speed and quality of healthcare services in rural and remote regions."—Gerhard Bethscheider, Managing Director, SES Techcom Services.
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Throughput Acceleration With Telestream's New Lightspeed K80 Server Lightspeed Server can be used alone, clustered to increase capacity, or added to an existing Vantage ecosystem.
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Hughes 9450-C11 Terminal Enables Inmarsat's BGAN M2M Service To Go Mobile = Internet Of 'Everywhere' ..."enables cost-effective fleet management and fills the substantial gaps in wireless coverage pertaining to overall driver safety.”
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SES + CANAL... Kick Off Test + Hope To Score w/Final Champions League Match In Live Ultra HD On ASTRA “Since last year, we have conducted and successfully completed a series of test transmissions that encourage us to continue..."
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Thales Alenia Space Belgium Feels The Electricity As They Ready For Mars In ExoMars 2018 Program Its aim is to study the surface and sub-surface of the planet Mars using a rover that will land on the surface.
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NASA Scrubs June 4 Low Density Supersonic Decelerator ...aka Flying Saucer... Launch
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COM DEV's Newly Expanded European Facilities To Work On New Ferrite Switch Contract + Latest Acquisition Is Completed "These ferrite switch network assemblies are complex and demanding and it is one area where the UK has a strong lead, not only in Europe but also across the world."—Rob Spurrett, President, Systems Division, COM DEV.
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Terran Orbital Home Of Small Satellites Takes A Big Step + Opens First Tyvak International Office In Turin, Italy
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Northern Sky Research Headquarters Moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts The Main Corporate Office transitioned from Wilmington, Delaware to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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June 3, 2015 ESA's Herschel Captures Gas + Dust Across The Milky Way... Longer Than 100 Light-Years + 10 Light Years Wide Longer than 100 light-years, they are at most 10 light-years wide...
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A New KRYTAR Broadband Direction Coupler Debuts This new coupler is uniquely designed for systems applications where external leveling, precise monitoring, signal mixing or swept transmission and reflection measurements are required.
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Arianespace Highlights Their APAC Market Intentions During CommunicAsia2015 "Our top-flight partnership with operators in the Asia-Pacific region keeps going from strength to strength, as we have signed five more contracts since the last edition of CommunicAsia."—Stéphane Israël, Chairman + CEO, Arianespace.
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RapidEye Imagery Solutions To Be Delivered To EarthSTAR By BlackBridge "This association will bring great value to the end-users.”—Philippe Campenon, V.P., Sales, BlackBridge.
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DVB Satellite Services From GSat Will Now Use TiVo's CubiTV Middleware CubiTV features a highly intuitive interface that makes it easy for subscribers to navigate advanced TV functionality.
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U.S. Forest Service Wildfire Fighting Now Has Latitude Technologies On Their Team + New User Tools Debut The contract also includes the supply of Latitude's IONode lightweight flight data recorders to manage the aggregation and offload of all USFS-defined flight data feeds.
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Lockheed Martin's MUOS-3 Satellite Gains Favor + Acceptance From U.S. Navy “MUOS is a game-changer in communications for every branch of our military.”—Iris Bombelyn, V.P., Narrowband Communications, Lockheed Martin.
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Moving Eumetsat's MSG-4 Satellite Launch Out A Few Days... MSG-4 is the last of the MSG satellites resulting from the successful cooperation model with the European Space Agency (ESA).
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EUMETSAT + Signal Engineering ...Certifies OmniSat-3 Transmitter For High Data Rate DCP Through Meteosat Satellites Transmitters apply Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding technology to reduce interference and, thereby, give a substantial system improvement.
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Comtech Xicom Telecommunications Is Bringing Their SSPA Technologies To IFE + Airborne Comms Via A New Order This order is a major production award in the ever-growing commercial airborne market.
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The Space Data Association's Two Newest Members...ORBCOMM + TÜRKSAT Agree w/Responsible Sharing Of Space ... "absolutely crucial to ensuring a safe and reliable space environment, especially as the space is becoming more and more crowded.”
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Northrop Grumman's New VP + Program Manager Of Global Hawk... Not To Be Confused w/Rocker Mick Jagger "Mick's promotion reflects the importance of the Global Hawk program to the corporation and its customer."
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Northrop Grumman Names VP, Engineering + Global Product Development Of Aerospace Systems [he] will lead a sector-wide effort to deliver more reliable, sustainable and affordable products for Northrop Grumman customers
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ST Teleport + Telespazio Seal Partnership In Singapore ...Global Ku-Band Connectivity For Maritime Oil + Gas Customers ST Teleport's MOG customers can now enjoy previously unavailable global Ku-band coverage, fast and uninterrupted data transmission, and global technical support regardless of where they or their assets are located in the world.
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June 2, 2015 AAM Receives "Geospatial Solutions Company Of The Year" @ Geospatial World Forum The awards at the Geospatial World Forum are conferred by an independent jury of world geospatial leaders selected by Geospatial Media and Communications.
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Second Flight Test Set For NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Traveling at about three times the speed of sound, the vehicle’s inner-tube-shaped decelerator, called a supersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator, will inflate and slow the vehicle.
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Ultra Electronics Holdings Buys Kratos' U.S. + U.K. Operations Of Electronic Products Division = $265 Million for $260 million in cash to be paid at closing....
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Voltage Analyzer Series Unveiled By Keysight Technologies The Precision Current-Voltage Analyzer Series makes accurate and efficient current-voltage measurements that provide clear insight into the characteristics of a wide range of materials and devices.
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New Partnership 'Tween Zenterio + Stream Group To Provide For New Content Delivery Solutions "We are able to provide content providers and operators with the means to deliver popular and compelling services."—Jörgen Nilsson, CEO, Zenterio.
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A Hubless VSAT Deal For PolarSat With An Asian Government Network "This is also further evidence of the suitability of PolarSat’s full mesh hubless architecture to provide high reliability governmental networks."—Ron Mankarious, V.P., Sales and Marketing, PolarSat.
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Getting Qualified For QML Class Q Are Microsemi's RT ProASIC3 FPGAs Microsemi’s RT ProASIC3 FPGAs are the first devices of their type to provide space-flight hardware designers a radiation-tolerant, reprogrammable, non-volatile logic integration solution.
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A Thruster Contamination Will Delay The Launch Of NOAA's Jason-3 Satellite Jason-3’s highly accurate altimetry measurements will be used for a variety of applications.
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Ultra HD In The Immediate Plans For AsiaSat 4 Transmissions "The adoption of UHD will continue to be driven by consumers’ increasing demand for improved picture quality for sports and movies."—William Wade, President + CEO, AsiaSat.
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Newtec Communicates With ABS Satellite... Enables Smooth Dialog® ...[it] is unique in that it enables operators to build their network and diversify their services as their business grows and the market changes,”
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Empowerment Via Gilat Satellite Networks + Inmarsat's Global Xpress “This is a unique opportunity for fixed VSAT operators to deliver reliable, high-speed data to their customers.”—Rash Jhanjee, Head of GX Business Development + Strategy, Enterprise, Inmarsat.
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Newtec + Vodafone...Trial Campaign Successful... Dialog® Communicates Clearly ...No Jitter The tests leveraged multiple mobile traffic patterns which were delivered with exceeding quality of service...
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U.S.A.F. Space and Missile Systems Center ...Call For Proposals To Transition Off Russian Propulsion System This solicitation is part of a comprehensive Air Force plan to transition off the Russian supplied RD-180 propulsion system
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Super-Powered, Million Dollar Plus Contract For Comtech Xicom Technology's Super-Power TWTAs... "We believe this order is the first of many we expect to receive," said Dr. Stanton Sloane, President + CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
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NASA's Terra Captures Stratovolcano In Japan... Ashes To Ashes They All Fall Down The eruption forced more than 100 people to evacuate the island.
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Polsteam Selects KVH's TracPhone® V7-IP... Answers All The Calls To Connectivity KVH is the dominant player in the global maritime VSAT market, according to a recent industry report by Comsys.
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SNC's Dream Chaser® Manager, Steven Lindsey, Enjoys Another Dream ... U.S. Astromaut Hall Of Fame Lindsey flew over 50 different types of aircraft, logging over 7,000 flight hours.
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Marlink's New Approach... Sealink VSAT Is A SMARTconnect Hybrid Solution With a service delivery independent of specific carriers, cost can be reduced and greater flexibility and control provided for the customer.
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Marlink Gets Thumbs Up For Five More Years From DOF Group On-going service development and customer support help secure new five year deal for entire fleet. Full Story
June 1, 2015 Harris Corporation + Exelis... Complete Acquisition... Approximately US$8 Billion In Combined Pro Forma Revenue “The Exelis acquisition is transformative for our company and marks a major milestone in Harris’ 120-year history,”
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An Examination Of Dark Matter To Be Conducted By China With Their DAMPE Satellite Many scientists, such as Nobel prize winner in physics Yang Zhenning, believe that development of dark matter theory may help people understand phenomena that can't be explained with current knowledge.
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Space-Based "Silk Road" For Satellite Services Under Consideration By China The space-based Silk Road initiative was proposed in 2014 by the International Alliance of Satellite Application Service (ASAS), a China-based organization of aerospace companies, institutions and scholars that promotes Chinese satellite services around the world.
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Multi-Million Dollar Government Funding For R&D Space Products Awarded To COM DEV International "Ongoing investment in research and development is absolutely essential for us to remain leaders in the rapidly evolving global space industry."—Michael Pley, CEO, COM DEV.
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NASA's Space Launch System Family Addition Aerojet-Rocketdyne's RS-25 Four previously-flown RS-25s will be attached to the first SLS core stage and test fired together as a stage before being approved for the first SLS launch planned for 2018.
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NewSat's Life Support Continues For Turnaround Lockheed Martin has indicated it would be willing to discuss new terms for the completion of the Jabiru-1, Mr. Coleman said at a hearing Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
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SSTL's New SOC Opens @ Guildford HQ "This SOC is going to be the focus of intense activity later this summer when we launch a further four satellites into orbit.”—Patrick Wood, Managing Director, SSTL.
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GAO Reports On Space Acquisition Programs—Some Problems Overcome; However, Challenges + Uncertainly Lay Ahead Implementing any new approaches will be difficult if DoD does not overcome long-standing leadership problems for its space programs, including cultural resistance to acquisition process changes and fragmented responsibilities.
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IBM's Aspera Selected By APAC Media Companies For Content Exchange + Delivery Aspera delivers, faspex also provides simplicity and ease of use to Interface's clients, which include major film, television, music and entertainment companies as well as airlines.
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BGAN Support Now In Dejero's LIVE+ NewsBook App With the new release, LIVE+ NewsBook now supports the use of portable Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) terminals that enable Internet connectivity from anywhere in the world covered by Inmarsat's satellite network.
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Global Invacom Debuts Their New Fibre IRS For Up to 10 Kilometers Uninterrupted Signal Connection @ CommunicAsia2015 The new product will yield vast savings for installers, system integrators and operators.
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GVF's Certification + Training Team Invite Attendees To Meet With Them @ CommunicAsia2015 You are also invited to attend the first annual CommunicAsia Satellite User Summit.
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TeamCast Bringing A Whole Slew Of Debuts To CommunicAsia2015 "We truly believe that using IP networks to distribute signals to transmitters will strongly help the network providers to save CAPEX and OPEX costs compared to traditional distribution networks."—Eric Pinson, Head of the Technology Business Unit, TeamCast.
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Rapid Deployment Of Enterprise-Class Industrial IoT Solutions Is The Goal of Numerex nxFAST "The nxFAST iIoT platform components make it quick and simple for Numerex to deploy an end-to-end iIoT solution."—Jeff Smith, Chief Innovation & Technology Officer, Numerex.
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Harmonic Has Perfect Pitch w/New Products @ BroadcastAsia2015
Harmonic comes equipped with new products at CommunicAsia.
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Catel deploys Amino IPTV devices in second wave of Argentinian IPTV rollout
The IPTV service is part of a triple play offering...
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Enterprise Customers Can Now Realize IoT Benefits From Dell Services + ThingWorx Agreement Dell Services offers a combination of technology and business expertise to help customers reduce the time, cost and risk required to build innovative Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
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A First — Aireon ADS-B Payloads Installed On Iridium NEXT This is a key technical milestone toward the first launch of Iridium NEXT and the first demonstration of the Aireon air traffic surveillance capability.
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Making Space @ App Camp Programmers develop creative and innovative apps that make Earth EO data, in particular those received from Copernicus, accessible to a wide range of citizens.
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New Customers + Service Renewals For MTN Communications “We are technology-agnostic when designing vessel communications systems."—Brent Horwitz, Sr. V.P. + G.M., cruise _ ferry services, MTN.
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Thaicom's 2nd Screen Platform Deployment Is Underway "The 2nd Screen Platform will help us progress towards our goal of being an end-to-end service provider to our customers in the media industry and broadcasting.”—Patompob Suwansiri, CMO, Thaicom.
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National Deployment Of Satellite Broadband By Avanti Communications In Tanzania “Avanti’s proven Ka-band satellite technology will deliver high-speed broadband to our national customer base."—Dr. Kamugisha Kazaura, Chief Executive, TTCL.
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Maritime SATCOM Systems Heading Out From ORBIT Communication Systems To Satellite Service Provider _The satellite service provider's commercial service launched recently is an important milestone for us."—Ofer Greenberger, CEO, ORBIT,.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know—Skyware Global In The Acquisition Crosshairs Of Global Invacom Group Limited “The acquisition not only strengthens our presence in the U.S., but also complements our existing international footprint."—Tony Taylor, Executive Chairman, Global Invacom.
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Joint Design Incompatibility Caused The Progress M-27M Cargo Spacecraft Launch Failure "This design feature was not fully taken into account at the trail stage of the creation of this space rocket complex (of Progress cargo spacecraft and carrier rocket's third stage)," Roscosmos explained.
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U.S. Astronaut + Now An Orbital ATK V.P. Kent Rominger Inducted Into U.S. Astronaut Hall Of Fame “The original Mercury astronauts who started the Astronaut Hall of Fame were all my childhood heroes,” Kent Rominger said. “I’m incredibly honored to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and become part of that distinguished crowd.”
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NASA's Landsat 7 Captures A True-Color Image Of A Wolf Erupting + New Discovery... Pink Lizards Such surfacing followed by sinking might explain a new discovery at Volcan Wolf: pink lizards.
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