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March 29, 2008 Big Biz Boeing Offers Helping Hand To Smaller Biz More than 75 companies attended a small-business supplier forum in Houston, Texas, hosted by The Boeing Company [NYSE:BA].
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The Prize Winning Ways Of Telenor + Mobiletech The Norwegian software company Mobiletech has won the Telenor Digital Winner Prize.
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Moving On Up... At Jampro... Jampro Antennas has named Wayne Young to fill the newly created position of Regional Sales Manager for Canada and the Eastern United States.
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Merlin Roared For SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. conducted the first three-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor, on March 8, 2008.
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Financially Speaking... ICO Global Communications... ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited [NASDAQ:ICOG] is a satellite communications company currently developing a nexgen hybrid system, combining satellite and terrestrial communications capabilities.
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SAR-Lupe Soars Into Orbit To Join Constellation Thales Alenia Space welcomed the successful launch of the fourth SAR-Lupe satellite, which occurred at 18:15 hours from Plesetsk on March 27th.
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March 27, 2008 Spacenet Brings SatNet To Rest At IHG Spacenet Inc. has signed a contract to provide IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] an upgraded satellite data network and managed network services.
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Home Again From 16-Day Space Endeavour Returning from its 16-day STS-123 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA's Shuttle Endeavour safely returned to earth, with a crew of seven onboard.
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MUOS Stress Success For Lockheed Martin A key milestone has been achieved by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] in the company's development of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)—they successfully completed static loads testing of the first satellite in the program constellation.
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SAIC Senses Success Science Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI] has delivered its infrared sensor for the Risk Reduction—Alternative Infrared Satellite System (RR-AIRSS) program ahead of schedule.
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Training + Ops Support Garners Raytheon NASA Support Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC) has received a 56.9M/USD sole source contract extension to support facilities and operations for astronaut training at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Sonny Carter Training Facility in Houston.
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Procedure Tests For Ares I Propellant Tanks NASA and United Space Alliance engineers and technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center tested procedures they will rely on to handle and load the propellant tanks that will be used on the roll control system of the Ares I.
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Checking Climate Conditions Collaboration EUMETSAT and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) have signed a Collaboration Agreement that will allow both institutions to combine their efforts in addressing the environmental challenge currently posed by climate change, with a clear focus on developing countries.
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Financially Speaking... Vizada... Vizada provides global satellite communications solutions and the company has just announced the sale of its affiliate, GMPCS Personal Communications, Inc., to a private investor.
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Futron Freebie + Fellowship At NSS At the upcoming 24th National Space Symposium, Futron is going to have a presence at Booth #210 and you'll be able to retrieve your copy of their 2008 Space Competitiveness Index.
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RRsat Says Bezeq is Ours RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. [NASDAQ: RRST] has begun arrangements to acquire Bezeq for approximately $15 million in cash. ("Bezeq") is Israel's leading telecommunications service provider.
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Home, Home on the Open Range Great news for 500 rural communities—Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ:GSAT] has announced that Open Range Communications, Inc. has secured approval for a 257M/USD broadband loan from the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Program.
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Major Milestone 'Tween ORBCOMM + FCC Accomplished ORBCOMM Inc. [Nasdaq: ORBC] has received a modified space station authorization from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approving its nexgen Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation plan.
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To The Sea Onto Ships Is Eutelsat + SpeedCast Eutelsat Communications [Euronext Paris: ETL] and SpeedCast are jointly launching a new maritime broadband communications service to address the commercial shipping sector.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — Bad, Bad Antiqua — Aircell — Digital Rapids + NBC — Fast Forward Video — Globalstar Inc. + Open Range Communications — MPEG Industry Forum — Sky Angel + CBS College Sports Network — — Bad, Bad Antiqua — Aircell — Digital Rapids + NBC — Fast Forward Video — Globalstar Inc. + Open Range Communications — MPEG Industry Forum — Sky Angel + CBS College Sports Network —
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March 26, 2008 Moving On Up... At Juniper Networks... The new Executive Vice President of Emerging Technologies at Juniper Networks is David Yen, Ph.D.
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RRsat Implements 10 From Chyron RRsat Global Communications Network has installed ten Chyron Channel Box HD/SD-switchable channel branding and automated promo systems.
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National Space Symposium Also Offers Congressional Facetime The 24th National Space Symposium will see participation by several members of Congress, including Senator Wayne Allard, Congressman Mark Udall, and Congresswoman Heather Wilson.
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Good, Good, Good, Good Vibrations—For NPOESS Team An advanced atmospheric sounding instrument being built for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) has successfully completed vibration testing.
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Moving On Up... At AsiaSat... At the close of last year, Barry Turner retired as the General Manager Engineering at AsiaSat. Now appointed to that position is Roger Tong, who will now lead the engineering team's expanded efforts in spacecraft and ground network development.
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Telenor Taps Into Nordic Mobile Market Telenor has created a new company, More Mobile Relations, that will consolidate their position with the Scandinavian mobile marketing sector.
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Xicom Amplifies Their U.S.A.F. Biz Xicom Technology is a business unit of Radyne Corporation and they have just obtained an order to ensure Ka-band and tri-band amplifiers are delivered to the U.S. Air Force.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — ABI Research — Analogix Semiconductor — ARC International — Cambridge Consultants — D3Publisher of America — Samsung + DivX — Electronic Arts — The Ethernet Alliance — HaiVision Systems + Wowza Media Systems — Immersive Media — Pansonic — Research + Markets — Sony Creative Software — Strategy Analytics — Tecmo — Trust Digital — — ABI Research — Analogix Semiconductor — ARC International — Cambridge Consultants — D3Publisher of America — Samsung + DivX — Electronic Arts — The Ethernet Alliance — HaiVision Systems + Wowza Media Systems — Immersive Media — Pansonic — Research + Markets — Sony Creative Software — Strategy Analytics — Tecmo — Trust Digital —
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March 25, 2008 GIOVE-B Gets Unwrapped In Kazakhstan The GIOVE-B navsat payload is now going through its checkout at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Arianespace' Starsem affiliate's satellite will be launched on a Soyuz rocket, which itself is currently going through the integration process.
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A Rugged Computer Experience Now available from Industrial Computing is The Guardian 100, a military grade (MIL-STD-810F) fully-rugged compact notebook that can be used as a standard laptop or, by rotating the display up to 180 degrees, you can transform the display into a tablet PC slate.
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Moving On Up... At Lavell Systems Inc. Industry vet Robert Hsu has just been named the new Vice President of Business Development at Lavell Systems, Inc.
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Moving On Up... At CapRock Communications Providing satellite communication solutions, CapRock Communications has just announced their new Vice President of Corporate Development — Keith Johnson.
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Moving On To Other Pastures... Leaving her position as the Chief Financial Officer at Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [NASDAQ:GILT] is nine year company veteran Tal Payne.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — ABI Research — Aruba Networks — Final Draft, Inc. — Image Entertainment — IMS Research — Industrial Computing — Juniper Networks — Media One Direct — Research + Markets — Telecast Fiber Systems — WASP3D — — ABI Research — Aruba Networks — Final Draft, Inc. — Image Entertainment — IMS Research — Industrial Computing — Juniper Networks — Media One Direct — Research + Markets — Telecast Fiber Systems — WASP3D —
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STBs For Sats In New Report Research and Markets added World Report on Digital Satellite Set-Top Boxes to their offering.
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Musey's Everest Uplink To Downlink Funds To American Red Cross There are few greater rewards in life than working hard, attaining a measure of success, and then using the benefits so obtained by offering a helping hand to others. One such an individual happens to be J. Armand Musey....
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March 24, 2008 COM DEV Configures ComSat Contract The Eutelsat KA-SAT communications satellite now has COM DEV International Ltd. on board.
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Getting Top Canadian Biz Billing Is PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics develops software and solutions for geospatial imaging applications. The company has now been ranked as one of the top 300 technology companies, according to the 2008 edition of the Branham300.
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Juniper + Siemens Coordinate Provider Bennies Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] and the IP Service Management team of Siemens IT Solutions and Services Program and Systems Engineering (PSE) have announced the latest phase in their ongoing alliance, with Siemens joining Juniper's Open IP Service Creation Program (OSCP)
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Salt? On Mars? That's correct...well, at least the potential that salt at one time existed on the planet. NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has found evidence of salt deposits, which point to places where water was once abundant...
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ATV's Docking Dexterity Demands Diligence The challenge is enormous for the Jules Verne ATV... a successful first attempt at the automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) will depend on very tight teamwork, excellent coordination and a superb understanding of the spacecraft and its complex automated control systems.
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Two Additional NASA Space Spectaculars NASA has even more solid info to pass along... the agency's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon, Titan. Plus, a powerful stellar explosion detected March 19 by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye.
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DataPath Maintains WIN-T SatCom Contract DataPath, Inc. has been awarded 6.6M/USD to continue resets, repairs and upgrades to DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and Unit Hub SATCOM Trucks (UHSTs) used in the U.S. Army's Joint Network Node (JNN)/ Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program.
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No More Latin American Interference WIth Glowlink Solution Glowlink Communications Technology Inc. has announced that Star One, the largest satellite solution company in Latin America, has successfully deployed the Glowlink Model 8000 Geolocation System to help monitor and eliminate satellite interferences.
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And The Robert J. Collier Award Goes To... SBIRS / SMC The U.S. Air Force nominated the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) Development, Test and On-orbit Operations Team for the 2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy.
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DoJ Blesses SatRadio Unification The Justice Department has OK'd the XM and Sirius satellite radio companies merger. This blending of the firms was initiated more than a year ago in February of 2007, with company shareholders giving their approval to the merger last November.
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SpaceDev Covers Up For NASA SpaceDev, Inc. [OTCBB: SPDV] has been awarded a contract for the development of next-generation seal technologies for instrument covers.
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March 23, 2008 Acquisition Mode... HISS... A firm that provides location-based services via wireless GPS is about to be enveloped by Homeland Integrated Security Systems Inc, which has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Global Tracking Technologies LLC of Tampa, Florida.
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No Space For Eggs In This Incubator, Only Ideas... The 8th Continent Project (8C), a comprehensive effort to integrate space technology and resources into the global economy, won a 150k/USD grant from the Colorado Economic Development Commission.
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MDA' Space Unit Sale Decision Delayed By Canadian Minister According to press reports, the space unit of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd., which is to be sold to ATK, has now had the final approval decision by the Canadian government for the turnover extended for 30 days.
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Financially Speaking... WorldSpace Satellite Radio... WORLDSPACE Satellite Radio [NASDAQ:WRSP] has announced the results for their Q4 and year ended December 31, 2007. The Company ended the quarter with 174,166 subscribers worldwide, a loss of 3,478 from the close of the prior quarter.
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FCC Earns Billions... From These Auction Winners... Garnering the whopping amount of 19.592B/USD for their 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction, the FCC closed the auction last March 18th.
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SatInsurance To Pump Up Space insurers are targeting premium increases of up to 30 percent following losses in 2007, which included the failures of the Sea Launch rocket carrying the NSS-8 satellite, the Proton carrying JCSat 11, and the initial failure of the Proton rocket carrying the AMC-14 satellite.
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Financially Speaking... BringCom Inc... BringCom Incorporated has registered additional revenues of more than 1M/USD for their satellite services during the first two months of 2008 thanks to newly-signed contracts.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — ABI Reserach — Apple + iTunes — Electronic Arts + Starz Media — Envivio — FCC + Auction — Gefen — Harmonic + Sun Direct TV — MAYAH Communications — NSR — Thales Communications — Wowza Media Systems — — ABI Reserach — Apple + iTunes — Electronic Arts + Starz Media — Envivio — FCC + Auction — Gefen — Harmonic + Sun Direct TV — MAYAH Communications — NSR — Thales Communications — Wowza Media Systems —
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March 21, 2008 Harris’ Encore Award Harris Corporation [NYSE:HRS] has won the Digital Studio Industry Leadership “Vendor of the Year” Award for the contributions the company has made to the growth of the broadcast and production industry in the Middle East region.
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March 20, 2008 ABI Research Sees More Smarts Ahead
According to ABI Research, the market for smartphones will grow from around 10 percent of the total handset market in 2007 to 31 percent of the market in 2013.
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Moving On Up... At Integral Systems... Major General Armor... Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS] has appointed Major General James B. Armor, Jr., USAF (Ret.) to serve as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.
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Hubahuba, Hubble's Organic Molecule Discovery The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our Solar System.
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Jules Verne In Parking Mode The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has reached a parking position 2000 km ahead of the International Space Station (ISS).
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SatSignals Are Direct Success For Boeing The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has received the first on-orbit signals from its DIRECTV 11 satellite.
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Financially Speaking... Intelsat... Intelsat, Ltd.'s financial results for the three month period and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. The company revealed revenues of 575.5M/USD and a net loss of 2.6M/USD for the three months ended December 31, 2007.
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Mobility Key Focus Of New Advantech AMT Goodies Advantech AMT has announced its new fleet of mobile antenna systems for DSNG and VSAT applications.
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RT Logic is the Right Company If You’re a Downed Airman RT Logic must be doing something right. The company was awarded a contract by Boeing Company’s Command, Control and Communications (C3) Networks Division in support of the Combat Survivor/Evader Locator (CSEL) Modulator/Receiver Processor (CMRP) project.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — ABI Reserach + Smartphones — NVISION — One Voice Technologies — TANDBERG Television — Wi-Fi TV Inc. — — ABI Reserach + Smartphones — NVISION — One Voice Technologies — TANDBERG Television — Wi-Fi TV Inc. —
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Thuraya’s Marine Antenna Withstands Even The Perfect Storm Thuraya unveiled their new antenna for the marine environment, an antenna that always points toward the satellite, regardless of a ship’s movement or position.
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HeliosNet Squeezes in More Capacity Just when you thought there wasn’t much more capacity HeliosNet has installed two iDirect Universal 5IF satellite hubs and multiple remote routers.
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Increasing Bandwidth Enhancing DVB-S2 and MPEG4 Technologies Many recent announcements highlight the increasing use of bandwidth-enhancing DVB-S2 and MPEG4 technologies.
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TSF to the Rescue, Again They’ve been in the news many times for their humanitarian efforts, through the use of technology.
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March 19, 2008 700 MHz Auction Closes, FCC Garners Billions... The Federal Communication Commission's Auction 73 is now closed. The auction assigned more than 1,000 licenses for most of the 700MHz band.
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DIRECTV 11 Into Orbit Via Sea Launch Zenit-3SL Sea Launch Company successfully delivered the DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite to orbit from its ocean-based platform on the Equator, marking its 4th successful launch of a DIRECTV satellite.
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Space Symposium To Present Alan Shepard Technology In Education Award Kevin L. Simmons, of Jacksonville, Florida, was named the 2008 recipient of the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award.
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SkyBitz Garners Five More... SkyBitz has added five customers who are deploying the company's tracking solutions. More than 500 fleets now rely on the cost-effective SkyBitz GLS technology to track in excess of 150,000 trailers.
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Globalstar To Expand Simplex Coverage Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ:GSAT) has signed an agreement with Radyne Corporation business unit AeroAstro to purchase additional AeroAstro SENS (Sensor Enabled Notification System) Appliques, which are used to expand Globalstar's Simplex data geographic coverage.
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Baikonur Receives AMOS-3 Spacecom operates the AMOS satellite fleet and the company has announced that its newest satellite, AMOS-3, has completed testing and has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan.
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Best Port Is An Iridium OpenPort For Zodiac Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd. is equipping its fleet of 125 ships with Iridium OpenPort optimized-bandwidth satellite terminals under a service agreement with AND Group.
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Best Port Is An Iridium OpenPort For Zodiac Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd. is equipping its fleet of 125 ships with Iridium OpenPort optimized-bandwidth satellite terminals under a service agreement with AND Group.
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NEXT In Line For Iridium... Lockheed Martin, Space Systems Loral + Thales Alenia Space Iridium Satellite has reached agreement with three companies to enter into the concept development phase in its design and development procurement process for “NEXT,” the company’s nexgen satellite constellation.
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SingTel Is At Sea Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) is the first satellite service provider in Asia to offer a maritime broadband service with global coverage.
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Arqiva Sporting Uplinks Solutions division has announced they are providing a dedicated 36MHz transponder, plus associated multiplexing and uplinking, to support growth by sports TV broadcaster Setanta.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — Apple — Arqiva + Setanta — Cablevision Systems + Voom — Electronic Arts — Federal Communications Commission — Front Porch Digital + FedResults — Genesis Networks + U.N. — HaiVision Systems + EC — OmniBus Systems — Telecommunications Industry Association — Utterz — Volantis Systems — XOrbit — — Apple — Arqiva + Setanta — Cablevision Systems + Voom — Electronic Arts — Federal Communications Commission — Front Porch Digital + FedResults — Genesis Networks + U.N. — HaiVision Systems + EC — OmniBus Systems — Telecommunications Industry Association — Utterz — Volantis Systems — XOrbit —
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March 18, 2008 Arthur C. Clarke, SatCom Prognosticator + Superb Writer, Passes Away... It is with a great deal of personal sadness I inform our readers that Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
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Air Force Space Command's Agile Acquisition Transformation Leadership Award for 2007 Kudos to the Space and Missile System Center's Alternative Infrared Space Systems (AIRSS)/Third Generation Infrared Surveillance (3GIRS) team who won the Air Force Space Command's Agile Acquisition Transformation Leadership Award for 2007.
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AAE Systems, Inc. Reaches From Silicon Valley to India AAE Systems, Inc. a provider of advanced satellite-based communication networks and services, has expanded with the opening of an office in India.
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It All Filters Down to Barr Playing Ball Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. recently selected Barr Associates, Inc. to develop, manufacture and test multi-spectral filters for the Operational Land Imager (OLI) they are building for NASA/USGS.
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Do We Need Traffic Signals in Space Yet? It was bound to happen—Euroconsult, the international research and analyst firm specializing in the satellite sector, announced that the satellite-based Earth observation sector is entering a new expansion phase.
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Another Launch Window For DirecTV 11 Sea Launch is proceeding toward the launch of the DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite on Wednesday, March 19th.
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Moving On Up... At SWE-DISH... SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB has named James Gerow as President of SWE-DISH Satellite Systems Inc., the company's business unit that focuses on the U.S. market.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — ABI Research + Surveillance — Adobe Systems Inc. — Consumer Electronics Association — DISH Network — Clearleap — Equinix Inc. — Hulu — In-Stat — Marvel Studios — SIS Ltd. — Robert A. Iger — Webtide — WEGENER — — ABI Research + Surveillance — Adobe Systems Inc. — Consumer Electronics Association — DISH Network — Clearleap — Equinix Inc. — Hulu — In-Stat — Marvel Studios — SIS Ltd. — Robert A. Iger — Webtide — WEGENER —
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March 17, 2008 A Switch In Time... from Agilent Agilent Technologies Inc. [NYSE: A] has unveiled a RF switch platform designed to simplify the task of defining and building a custom switch matrix.
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Moving On Up... At ESA The chair for the ESA council for the next couple of years will be the Director General of CDTI (the Spanish Innovation Agency, a part of the Ministry of Industry Tourism and Trade), Mr. Maurici Lucena.
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L-3 Spends 175M/USD For NG's EOS Biz L-3 Communications has entered into an agreement to acquire Northrop Grumman's Electro-Optical Systems (EOS) business for $175 million in cash
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Martian Upheaval Noted By Mars Express A new analysis of impact cratering data from Mars reveals the planet has undergone a series of global volcanic upheavals.
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NASA Bestows A Win-Win For Five Five space-related companies have received contract awards for a 210-day study to independently evaluate NASA's in-house design concept for a lunar lander that will be capable of delivering four astronauts to the moon's surface by the year 2020.
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DirecTV 11 Launch Remains On Hold Yesterday was the date DirecTV 11 was supposed to have launched. Such did not occur, as the sea-based mobile launching system company Sea Launch placed the countdown on hold.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — Blackmagic Design Inc. — Clearleap — Equinix, Inc. + Hulu — Grid Networks + Cisco — In-Stat — Marvel Studios + FX — Microsoft + Adobe — Satellite Information Services + BBC — McGraw Hill Media Summit + Robert Iger — OpenTV — TechNewsWorld — Viva Vision + Univision Móvil — Webtide + Google — — Blackmagic Design Inc. — Clearleap — Equinix, Inc. + Hulu — Grid Networks + Cisco — In-Stat — Marvel Studios + FX — Microsoft + Adobe — Satellite Information Services + BBC — McGraw Hill Media Summit + Robert Iger — OpenTV — TechNewsWorld — Viva Vision + Univision Móvil — Webtide + Google —
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ORBITS: News Briefs - Telesat Joins In... - Getting Into Alaska and Hawaii with SatCom Plan
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March 16, 2008 Playout Means Business @ RRsat RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. [NASDAQ: RRST] provides global, comprehensive, content management and distribution services to the rapidly expanding TV and radio broadcasting industries.
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Leica Geosystems Chokes On New Antenna A recent product debut from Leica Geosystems offers the world's first, quadruple constellation GNSS Choke Ring Antenna.
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DIRECTV 11 Set To Launch By Sea Launch The Sea Launch team has arrived at the launch site on the equator and has initiated a 72-hour countdown in preparation for the launch of the DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite on Monday, March 17th.
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Da, Double The Budget, Spasiba... Itar-Tass, the Russian News Agency, is reporting the country's Federal Space Agency has requested their budget be doubled to finance GLONASS.
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Sensing An Opportunity Is Space Micro A Phase I SBIR Contract from the U.S. Air Force, AFRL, has been awarded to Space Micro, Inc., for the development of a miniaturized space weather instrument.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — Bebo + AOL — Leichtman Research Group — BigBand Networks — Apple — Informitv — IDC — Nine Inch Nails — Lawo — Spot Runner — Balslev Media — Digital Juice — Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe — Microtune Inc. — RRsat Global Communications — Surrge — Toon Boom — — Bebo + AOL — Leichtman Research Group — BigBand Networks — Apple — Informitv — IDC — Nine Inch Nails — Lawo — Spot Runner — Balslev Media — Digital Juice — Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe — Microtune Inc. — RRsat Global Communications — Surrge — Toon Boom —
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March 15, 2008 ATV Demos Tricky CAM Maneuver The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has managed yet another critical test success... this time, the craft's Collision Avoidance Maneuver (CAM) worked as planned.
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AMC-14 Fails To Reach Orbit During the second burn of the Breeze M launch vehicle's upper stage, something untoward occurred and the AMC-14 satellite failed to reach orbit.
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Atlas Didn't Shrug, It Launched... 1st Time From Vandenberg... Adding to the Atlas rocket's legacy of launches from the west coast that started in 1959, United Launch Alliance's Atlas V made its debut flight from Space Launch Complex-3 East at Vandenberg A.F.B. at 3:02 a.m. PDT, March 13th.
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High Power Russian Spacecraft To Be Built The Russian national satellite operator RSCC signed a contract with Khrunichev Center to build the first Russian high power spacecraft Express-AM4.
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March 13, 2008 AIA Wants Political Candidates To "Listen Up" The Aerospace Industries Association has asked the 2008 political candidates to endorse 10 substantial issues the organization feels are crucial to the strength of U.S. global leadership in aerospace and defense.
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Jason-2 To Make Leap Into Space For Eumetsat The launch date of the Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellite is currently scheduled for the morning of June 15th from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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A Triple Play From MITEQ MITEQ has three new products to chat about.
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NASA's Space Road Challenges Topic @ Space Symposium The 24th National Space Symposium will feature a panel entitled "Mind the Gap: Shuttle Retirement and Other Challenges on the Road to the Moon and Mars.
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GPS IIR-M Carried Aloft A U.S. Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is ready for launch aboard a Delta II rocket.
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digiGO! The Digital World... Featuring — FCC — Apple's iPhone — Transformers II Flick — HBO — Nintendo — Blackberry In India — NEC — Broadcast Pix — DIRECTV — FOR-A Corp. — Hitachi — 1 Beyond — Harris — OmniBus Systems — Osmosys — Stantron — TV One — Vizrt — TiVo + YouTube — — FCC — Apple's iPhone — Transformers II Flick — HBO — Nintendo — Blackberry In India — NEC — Broadcast Pix — DIRECTV — FOR-A Corp. — Hitachi — 1 Beyond — Harris — OmniBus Systems — Osmosys — Stantron — TV One — Vizrt — TiVo + YouTube —
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ORBITS: News Briefs MSV Gets A Highdeal - Moving On Out... Asia Broadcasting Satellite...
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March 12, 2008 All Truck Transportation Knows All With SkyBitz With 800 dry van trailers in its fleet, All Truck Transportation Company has invested in the Global Locating System (GLS) asset tracking technology from Sky Bitz.
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Glowing Glowlink Report On WGS-1 Glowlink has announced the successful completion of the first phase of system deployment and support for the Department of Defense (DoD) in preparation for activating live traffic on the first Wideband Global SATCOM satellite (WGS-1).
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ViaSat's Russian VSAT Victory ViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ: VSAT] has expanded its contribution to universal communications access in Russia, having installed over 1,000 LinkStar S2 satellite networking terminals over the past year.
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Lunar SMARTs For ESA The European Space Agency's SMART-1 Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) has now collected a number of images of the lunar south-polar region.
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ESA's Jules Verne Doing Extremely Well The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) successfully performed two boosts on Wednesday.
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Columbus Captures Earth Images One of the experiments housed on the European Columbus laboratory's external platform onboard the International Space Station (ISS) is an automated eye in the sky known as the Earth Viewing Camera (EVC).
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Integration For Endeavor Part Of Boeing's Mission A Boeing [NYSE: BA] International Space Station (ISS) team performed the complex task of integrating Canada's Dextre robotic device and a segment of Japan's Kibo laboratory ahead of their launch aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Financially Speaking... AsiaSat... - SES ASTRA Gains German SatTV Viewers - Getting It Done - Financially Speaking... GeoEye...
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March 11, 2008 NASA's STS-123 Gets Going With Two Arms And A Kibo Early this morning, the space shuttle Endeavour rose from Cape Canaveral and roared into the night sky with Japan's space-based lab Kibo, seven astronauts, and a dual robotic arm, heading for the International Space Station (ISS).
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Antenna Technology Communications Offers Flyaway Sports and More Antenna Technology Communications Inc., a provider of commercial satellite communications systems, has completed its contract to design, integrate and install a complete 1.8-m flyaway uplink system for Grupo Televicentro.
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Lockheed Martin Proposes Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] submitted its proposal to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and build the spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – Series R (GOES-R).
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DoD + SpaceX Jumpstart Their Relationship Space Exploration Technologies Corp., otherwise known as SpaceX, announced it has signed a contract with the Department of Defense’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office to carry their first Jumpstart mission payload onboard the upcoming Falcon 1 launch.
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DoD GPS Directive Reply Regarding SatNews Query... A recent directive from the Department of Defense seemed to indicate much of the U.S. Air Force's control regarding GPS and Position, Navigation and Timing had been removed.
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Norsat + N.A.T.O. Into Portability Norsat International Inc. [TSX – NII.TO; OTC BB – NSATF.OB] has signed a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with NATO’s Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) for their OmniLink and GLOBETrekker portable satellite terminals, as well as its suite of microwave products.
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Events for ICO @ FCC & Cape Canaveral ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) [NASDAQ:ICOG] has reported progress on two key regulatory proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The company also reported that their ICO G1 spacecraft had arrived at Cape Canaveral in preparation for its April 14 launch.
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ORBITS: News Briefs MEASAT Enters Into A Celestial Agreement - Agilent Helps Remove The Jitters
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March 10, 2008 Juniper Alleviates NetThreat Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] has now made available their Juniper Networks Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) solution.
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Thrane & Thrane Say, “Ya, Sure, Ya Bet’cha,” to Volvo Helping teams and organizers communicate via mobile satellite communication during the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009 is a huge endeavor.
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New Quad STB For SatTV Viewers TV Corp. has launched the AUSTAR PVR, called MyStar.
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ILS Has AMC-14 Ready To Rocket International Launch Services is stating that liftoff for the AMC-14 satellite is March 15th at 23:18 GMT from Baikonur's Launch Pad 39 aboard a Proton M/Breeze M launch vehicle.
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March 9, 2008 Galileo Getting GIOVE-B Gains The European Space Agency's GIOVE-B satellite has successfully completed its test campaign and will depart from ESA-ESTEC, the agency's European Research and Technology Centre, on March 11th.
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ATV Attaboy... Launch Successful... On Sunday, March 9th at 04.03 GMT (05.03 CET) an Ariane 5 ES launch vehicle placed the 19.4 ton ATV Jules Verne into orbit.
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Interesting Developments For Space Dev—Reflectors + Rockets Rule SpaceDev, Inc. [OTCBB: SPDV] has been awarded a design and development subcontract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, for development of cost effective deployable reflectors for satellites.
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Delivering The Entertainment Goods To The Troops MySpace, in cooperation with the Department of Defense's Armed Forces Entertainment and America Supports You program, presents Operation MySpace.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Sat Expo In Europe - A Ring For A Moon - Boeing's Biz Bid Buddies - NASA Interest Developing For Failure Analysis' Technology
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March 8, 2008 Thales Alenia Space Recasts Jules Verne
Thales Alenia Space has contributed to the development and manufacturing of the European Space Agency’s ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle), for the prime contractor Astrium Space Transportation.
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March 6, 2008 SWE-DISH Suitcase Packs Up for SPAWAR SWE-DISH Satellite Systems, a DataPath company, was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract by the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Center in which they will provide portable SATCOM terminals.
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Falcon 1 Will Soar Like and Eagle Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has completed the qualification testing program of its Merlin 1C next gen liquid fueled rocket booster engine for use in the Falcon 1 rocket.
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Exploring The World Of BGAN With Thrane & Thrane Thrane & Thrane has a new BGAN solution named the EXPLORER 727.
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Carbon Observations Made Easier by GMV GMV has received final acceptance of their Flight Dynamics System (FDS) for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission.
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Agilent Enables Accurate Current Readings With New Modules Agilent Technologies Inc. [NYSE: A] debuted two modules for its Agilent N6700 Modular Power System family.
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Cool Developments By INPROX For NASA Advanced silicon carbide (SiC)-based position sensors are being developed by INPROX Technology Corporation (ITC) for future space flight as well as for turbine engine controls and automotive engine applications.
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Free-Flying Spacecraft Aim Of New DARPA Award To Lockheed Martin A team headed by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Space Systems Company (LMSSC) has received a $5.7 million contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete in the Phase 1 development of their System F6 space technology and demonstration program.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Considerable Capacity Conquest For Shin - A Moving Cellular Experience For Mitec - Sea Launch Preps For DIRECTV 11 - SES NEW SKIES Entering Beijing Broadcast Olympics - Helping To Cure What Ails Them — Intelsat & iDirect - Honolulu Bound For PTC'09 2009 Means Change
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ORBITS: News Briefs Yahsat Transponders Greet New Contract - Get Unchilled With Walton - Financially Speaking... Juniper Networks - Financially Speaking... COM DEV International Ltd. - Financially Speaking... Inmarsat... - IDC Getting Set For London's IPTV World Forum
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March 5, 2008 U.S.A.F. On A Winning Track & To Be Recognized By The Space Foundation The Space Foundation has named the United States Air Force as the recipient of the 2008 Space Achievement Award.
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Failure Analysis Takes Mapping Underground Failure Analysis has submitted a proposal to the CIA/Air Force/National Reconnaissance Office to provide a civil and military satellite-based, underground 3-D mapping system called DUMSTR.
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Volantis Wants To Give YOU The Prize Volantis Systems has kicked off a mobile web development contest at Mobile World Congress. Entrants will compete to create the most outstanding, original mobile web site using Volantis Mobility Server.
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Getting The Daystar Message Via SatLink Daystar Television Network is the fastest growing and second largest Christian television network in the world and they have called on SatLink Communications to launch the TV channel to SatLink's AsiaSat 2 MCPC (Multiple Channels Per Carrier) digital platform, allowing millions of viewers across Asia to watch this leading faith-based channel.
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COM DEV Believes Space Highly Suited For AIS Signals COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV] has successfully completed the airborne validation trials of its advanced Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver solution.
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SPAWAR In Globecomm's Corner Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM] has announced today they and six other companies have been awarded an Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center.
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March 4, 2008 Astrium All Set For ATV Launch The first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has a launch window and is set to head toward the International Space Station on Sunday, March 9th, from Kourou, French Guiana.
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Weather Is A Hot Topic At Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] was awarded the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency Systems Engineering, Management and Sustainment (SEMS) II contract to increase effectiveness, reliability, and performance, while reducing total cost of ownership, for a variety of classified and unclassified Air Force weather systems.
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IPTV Getting Into The Billions Of Bucks Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service revenues will approach $14 billion in 2012, growing from $694 million in 2007, according to “US IPTV Forecast and Outlook,” a report just released by Strategy Analytics.
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Vizada Brings PrePay Options To The Forefront Vizada has launched an enhanced version (7.0) of its SkyFile Mail messaging solution.
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CapRock Caps Capital Year Following a year of further expansion and introduction of new services, on February 26, 2008, CapRock Communications was named Independent Teleport Operator of the Year by the World Teleport Association (WTA).
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Triple Play Trend Continues As Convergence Draws Nigh Research and Markets has added USA Annual Publication, '2008 USA – Telecoms, Wireless and Broadband' to their offerings.
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WildBlue Wild About Award WildBlue Communications, Inc. was recognized with the 2008 Industry Innovator award for Service Development and Applications by the Society of Satellite Professionals (SSPI).
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Partnerships Cemented Into Place For GMES European Space Agency (ESA) Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain and Heinz Zourek, Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry Policy, have signed an agreement in Brussels to reinforce the performance of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) earth observation system.
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Fill It Up With Thuraya E-Voucher As part of an ongoing strategy to enhance service offerings for customers, Thuraya is developing an Electronic Voucher (E-Voucher) system.
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ORBITS: News Briefs SatNews + Jill Durfee Win Big, Thnx To MSV - A Cold Shot, Captured - Stratos Gets MSS Super Surprise From Frost & Sullivan - Broadband Biz To Increase For Satlynx - RRsat Enjoys Swedish Acceptance
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March 3, 2008 SkyBitz Brings Reefers Into Play With StarTrak SkyBitz has partnered with StarTrak Systems to launch the SkyBitz Reefer Control Solution.
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IFE Splits Up For Efficiency Bringing a new 32-way power splitter/combiner to the market is I.F. Engineering, for use in Satcom VSAT systems.
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Financially Speaking... Integral Systems Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS] has entered into a definitive stock repurchase agreement with Fursa Alternative Strategies, LLC to repurchase 1,064,972 shares of the Company’s common stock that Fursa beneficially owns on behalf of its affiliated investment funds and separately managed accounts over which it exercises discretionary authority at $22.00 per share.
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SUIRG Reports Unacceptable WiMAX Interference The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) has released their formal findings of a field test on the compatibility of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) and WiMAX services sharing the C-band spectrum.
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Early Northrop Grumman Bird Gets into Lockheed Martin's AEHF Work The MILSATCOM Systems Wing has informed all that the payload module of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite (AEHF) military communications satellite was successfully delivered three weeks ahead of schedule from Northrop Grumman's facilities in Redondo Beach, California, to the AEHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin facilities, located in Sunnyvale, California.
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EarthCARE SatWork Includes SEA Radiometer Cohort plc is delighted one of its subsidiary companies, SEA, has been authorized by the German satellite prime contractor EADS Astrium GmbH, to proceed with work on a new contract to develop and supply the BroadBand Radiometer (BBR) instrument of the EarthCARE satellite.
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Turksat 3A Takes Tropical Voyage To French Guiana Thales Alenia Space has transferred the Turksat 3A communications satellite to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Star One C2 Also Takes A Tropical Voyage To French Guiana Thales Alenia Space has also transferred the Star One C2 communication satellite to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Dragon Getting Ready To Eat A Lot Of Space Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has a newly revised mission manifest that lists twelve flights for its Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Offshore Communications Expo Coming Up... - Axiom An Asset To MSV - Genesis POPs Into ST Teleport In Singapore
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March 2, 2008 Family-Oriented Gaming Via Arabsat Arabsat was founded in 1976 by the 21 member states of the Arab League and is now ranked as the world’s 9th largest satellite operator, and by far the leading satellite services provider in the Arab world. The company has just announced International Media Concepts Ltd. (IMC) has launched its interactive TV channel, MG TV, on Arabsat BADER-4.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Atom-Sized Computers - Moving On Up... At VISTA Satellite - Arqiva Brings BET Int'l Into The Fold - No Longer A Matter Of Weather Or Not For Slovenia—They Join EUMETSAT - Capacity Captured By ViewAfrica With Intelsat - RaySat Gathers Milestone Decision From FCC - Simply Everything To Everyone, Sprint's New Plan - Sea Launch Contracts for Rocket Hardware
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March 1, 2008 MEASAT Obtains Allocation And Goes For a SatNameChange The upcoming MEASAT-1R has now been renamed MEASAT-3a and the satellite has been allocated a launch window during Q3 of this year.
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More Eutelsat Goodies Aboard Thales Alenia Space Bird The new satellite for Eutelsat Communications [Euronext Paris: ETL] is the W3B. Eutelsat announced Thales Alenia Space has now been commissioned to build the satellite.
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Iridium Satellite Network Is Going To The Dogs The Iditarod venue, that is...Iridium Satellite and its partners are providing the most critical voice and data links for the 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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Iridium Offers Aggressive Water Play There's a new Iridium OpenPort enhanced bandwidth marine communications system just unveiled by Iridium Satellite.
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Moving On Up... At VISTA Satellite David Sprechman is the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at VISTA Satellite Communications, Inc.
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Christmas Comes Early to Christmas Island Australian Satellite Communications (ASC) is certainly spreading their satellite telecommunications service over larger territories now including the South Pacific region.
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New DoD Directive Gives And Takes Away... The civilian sector, rather than the U.S. Air Force, will now be the driver of of government policy when it comes to the joint military and civilian control of GPS, as seems to be indicated within a new Department of Defense (DoD) directive.
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Iridium Roars Iridium Roars in LEO Satellite Comparison Iridium Satellite received an outstanding report from Frost & Sullivan, an independent research and consulting firm, in an updated report, 2008 LEO Satellite Quality of Service Comparison – Gulf Coast Analysis.
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Vizada to the Rescue, Again Once more, Vizada, a provider of global satellite communications solutions, will support Télécoms Sans Frontières (Telecom Without Borders) in its humanitarian missions throughout 2008.
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iDirect ‘s Teleport Award Sends Company Flying High iDirect, Inc. received the 2008 Teleport Technology of the Year Award from The World Teleport Association. This award acknowledges iDirect’s Intelligent Platform contributions to the teleport industry.
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Wegener Is Highly Compatible With ViaSat Wegener Corporation [NASDAQ:WGNR) announced the operation of live video broadcasts on a VSAT network from ViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ:VSAT), revealing the compatibility of Wegener’s video overlay solution for VSAT networks.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Arqiva Brings BET Int'l Into The Fold - No Longer A Matter Of Weather Or Not For Slovenia—They Join EUMETSAT - Capacity Captured By ViewAfrica With Intelsat - RaySat Gathers Milestone Decision From FCC - Simply Everything To Everyone, Sprint's New Plan - Sea Launch Contracts for Rocket Hardware
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