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December 20, 2007 ViaSat Delivers A Higher Level Of Communication ViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ:VSAT] has signed new distribution agreements with Rockwell Collins and ARINC. The company will supply business jets with ViaSat airborne broadband terminals and satellite services.
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Bros In SatBroadcasting: DIRECTV & PBS Public Television stations across the country will soon be available in high-definition (HD) to DIRECTV customers, thanks to a landmark agreement reached by DIRECTV, Inc., the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
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Lockheed Martin's Mooning MIT Maneuver NASA has scheduled a new mission wherein the internal structure and gravitational forces of the Moon will be analyzed. This will, of course, require a spacecraft, and Lockheed Martin is only too happy to provide such for the project.
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SatNews Wishes All A Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Fabulous New Year To all of our subscribers, readers and supporters, the entire crew here at SatNews Publishers wishes all a superb holiday. We are delighted we are able to provide the news and information for our ever-growing industry and pledge to continue to do so in 2008.
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Capacity Shortage Ahead? Euroconsult Has Info For You! Euroconsult, in cooperation with London Satellite Exchange (LSE), announced that out of 1,700 operational transponders targeting Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, approximately 90 percent were fully or partially used during the first official measurement campaign conducted in the region—actual usage was around 27,500 MHz.
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ITT Brings Home The Demo To Lockheed Martin Ahead Of Schedule Lockheed Martin is filled with happy folk over the ITT Corporation delivery of a new demo payload for a modernized Global Positioning system block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite to their Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, facilities.
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ULA Tips The 5th Into Space United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta II expendable launch vehicle on Thursday, December 20th, from Space Launch Complex 17-A at 3:04 p.m., EST. Carried aloft was the Air Force’s GPS IIR-18(M) satellite.
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WEGENER Ties One On With Programmer Wegener Corporation [NASDAQ: WGNR) has announced a large U.S. cable programmer is using WEGENER satellite receiver equipment to distribute its hi-def video programming service to its cable and satellite affiliates.
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NASA Back On Familiar Turf With Boeing NASA has returned to Boeing [NYSE: BA] for its nexgen series of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), continuing the communications satellite line that started with the launch of TDRS H in 2000 and, coupled with Boeing's other work for NASA, spans more than four decades.
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New ICO Show At CES Show Re: DVB-SH ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited [NASDAQ:ICOG] and Alcatel-Lucent [Euronext Paris and NYSE:ALU] will demo North America’s first video broadcast based on the DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting—Satellite services to Handhelds) mobile broadcasting standard at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Biz, Content, Creation + Delivery — Aruba Networks + FierceVoIP — DIRECTV + APTS + PBS — ICO Global Communications + Alcatel-Lucent — Countdown Entertainment + Times Square Alliance + GlobeCast — TV One — WEGENER —
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ORBITS: News Briefs New U.S. Spy Plan To Be Presented - SatSolution For Polish Customers From SES ASTRA - Google Into Spectrum Auction - RASCOM Launched Delayed Until Today - ISRO Update
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December 19, 2007 ESA Celebrates GIOVE-A Anniversary — Galileo Future Brighter! It will be two years on December 28th since the first Galileo satellite, GIOVE-A, was launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket.
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Pumpin' Product Into MENA Via SSL S2M provides media-rich, mobile entertainment to customers in the Middle East and North Africa (<b>MENA</b>). Last week, the company signed a contract with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for the S2M-1 hybrid satellite and terrestrial digital broadcast platform.
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No Terrestrial Tinkering Required For SES ASTRA's New Contracts SES ASTRA, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG] has signed its third large framework contract to market its high speed internet access product ASTRA2Connect to end consumers in Germany.
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Lockheed Martin Has Lightning Moves Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA to design and develop a new instrument on the nexgen of weather sats... this instrument is to detect patterns in lightning flashes so forecasters can have an early indicator of severe thunderstorms and tornados.
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GlobeCast To Deliver 5..4..3..2..1.. Happy New Year! Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment have chosen GlobeCast for the infamous New York City Times Square 2008 New Year's Eve Ball Drop.
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CalAmp's Asset Acumen CalAmp Corp. [NASDAQ:CAMP] has launched the Aircept LMU-1400 Location Messaging Unit for mobile asset tracking.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Biz, Content, Creation + Delivery — Apple — Aspyr Media — eMedia Music Corp. — Times Square Alliance, Countdown Entertainment + GlobeCast — Sony Entertainment Television Satellite Singapore — Peter Jackson + New Line Cinema — Pace Micro Technology + Royal Philips Electronics — Sony Playstation 3 — Sega — ViewCast Corp. —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Taxes Tax Sony SatTV In India - A Joining Of Forces... EDO + ITT - Fox Anger At EchoStar Results In Legal Play
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December 18, 2007 Russian Angara Engines Brought Into Spotlight Being developed at the Khrunichev Space Center is the Angara launch vehicle family. These will be environmentally clean vehicles.
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Gilat Pumping Product Into Brazil Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [NASDAQ:GILT] has successfully completed the first phase of a turnkey satnetwork solution for Vivo, a customer of Telecomunicações de Sao Paulo (Telesp).
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New Certification Gives Satamatics' TAM More Responsibilities (CORRECTED RELEASE) Satamatics is a global provider of satellite telematics, asset tracking and monitoring services. The company has just announced that they are supplying to Tank Service their new Class 1, Division 2 certified TAM-120 tracking and monitoring product.
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RASCOM-QAF1 Set For Launch This Week Thales Alenia Space and RASCOMSTAR-QAF (RSQ) are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of RASCOM-QAF1, the first communications satellite dedicated to Africa.
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Patented Win For Wegener Wegener Corporation [NASDAQ:WGNR] has been granted two U.S. patents for techniques designed to improve the quality and efficiency of satellite media distribution networks.
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Space Florida Huge PlanetSpace Supporter...& For Good Reason! Space Florida drives aerospace economic development in Florida and serves as a catalyst for space-related business development, education, spaceport operations, research and development, workforce development, and financing.
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iDirect Gets Patent-ized... iDirect, Inc. has received a series of intellectual property patents protecting critical aspects of its Intelligent Platform for satellite IP communications.
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Financially Speaking... SkyTerra Communications... An infusion of $150m in debt financing has been afforded to satservices provider SkyTerra Communications Inc. by hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners.
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Dragon Demo For SpaceX Gets Closer A Systems Requirements Review (SRR) for Space Exploration Technologies, otherwise known as SpaceX, has been completed. This is the process for what will be the company's third Falcon 9 / Dragon demo under NASA's Commercial Orbit Transportation Services (COTS) program.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Biz, Content, Creation + Delivery — Aruba Networks + ABI Research — ETI Software Solutions — IntelliGolf — Maspro + Agilent Technologies — RadioFrame Networks + Nokia Siemens Network — Research and Markets + Frost & Sullivan — San Francisco Opera + The Bigger Picture — Umundo Corporation —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Handover In Space... Boeing => Hughes - Spacecom Continues Counting Contracts
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December 17, 2007 Financially Speaking... Mobile Satellite Ventures Mobile Satellite Ventures ("MSV") and SkyTerra Communications, Inc. ("SkyTerra") announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement wherein they plan to sell to Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd, and Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund, LP (together, “Harbinger”), $150 million of MSV's Senior Unsecured Notes due 2013 (“Notes”) and Warrants.
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ViaSat Is Number One With Chinese Comm Industry ViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ:VSAT] has been named as the only “Excellence VSAT Equipment Providing Enterprise" in the 2007 Excellence Brand Enterprises in Chinese Application Industry awards program.
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WildBlue Will Google Customers WildBlueCommunications, Inc. has signed an agreement with Google, Inc. [NASDAQ: GOOG] to provide a suite of enhanced services to WildBlue customers.
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Improvements To Be Realized With Upcoming Launch Of GPS IIR-M Cape Canaveral... Florida... The fifth in a series of eight modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellites... Lockheed Martin built this vehicle for the U.S. Air Force.
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Chinese Sat Is An Image Builder According to Tong Qingxi, the head of Peking University's Institute of Digital China, the CBERS-2B Sino-Brazilian satellite should soon be operational and sending pictures back to ground control.
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DoD Can Buy Into Norsat Terminal Goodies Norsat International Inc. [TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF] has been awarded a $750,000 Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
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Boeing Brings Demo On Home For TSAT The third demo of their nexgen processor/router (NGPR) for the Transformational Satellite Communications Satellite Communications System (TSAT SS) has been successfully accomplished by Boeing [NYSE: BA].
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Biz, Content, Creation + Delivery — Apple — EchoStar Technologies Corp. + CalAmp Corp. — DRUM! Digital — Ernest & Young—Assocham — Google — InterNAP Network Services + Buy DRM — MTV Networks + AOL Video + Digital Fusion — blip.tv + Revision3 — Universal Music Group + XM Satellite Radio — Wohler Technologies' PANORAMAdtv —
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ORBITS: News Briefs NASA Knows Where To Apply A High SPF - CASBAA Convention Content Downloadable - Moving On Up... At RSCC - Indian SatMap Project Moves Forward For Allahabad
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December 16, 2007 digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — Alcatel-Lucent — Archion — Conexant Systems — The Tiffen Company — TiVo & NCTA — TV One — ViewSonic — News Corp & Dow Jones — FOXTEL — Nintendo & Sony & Microsoft — TVB & Nielsen Media Research — replayTV & DirecTV —
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ORBITS: News Briefs SatTV Continues To Gain Market Share - Amateur Radio Finds Window Of Opportunity With ISRO - NASDAQ Drops... - Threesome Hook-Up For Mobile TV Services In China - End II End's Patent Speeds Up the SatBBand Process - METI Wants MiniSats - Hartley 2 Homed In On For Sat Flyby
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December 15, 2007 An Insured Future For IKONOS Insurance in the amount of $20 million has been obtained by GeoEye, Inc., for their IKONOS satellite for 2008, with terms quite comparable to those the company received for insurance that satellite in 2007.
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Canada Oot and Aboot With New Sat The nexgen commercial satellite from Canada has been successfully launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Parcelling Out The ProtoStar I Goodies A 14 percent stake of ProtoStar satellite is going to cost Indian company Subhash Chandra-promo'd Agrani Satellite some $64 million, with the acquiring company obtaining all 14 Ku-band transponders of the satellite.
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Symposium In Morocco Announced By Arabsat Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) will hold an information symposium for its clients in the Moroccan Kingdom at Hilton Hotel in Rabat on Monday, December 15th.
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December 14, 2007 Satellite's Non-Space Flight From Lockheed Martin To Vandenburg AFB The shipment of the DMSP Flight-18 spacecraft has successfully been completed by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Programs Systems Group.
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December 13, 2007 NASA Ames Researchers Validate Failure Analysis Technology Validation of one's processes is positive reinforcement for one's work... completing state-of-the art research, researchers at the NASA Ames Research's Intelligent Systems Division are independently developing the information that proves the technical approach used by Dr. Len Losik, Founder of Failure Analysis.
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Moving On Up... At Satellite Industry Association... Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has announced that Jennifer A. Manner will serve as Chairman of the Board for the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) for 2008.
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Financially Speaking... COM DEV Int'l COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV] has released their unaudited financial results for the three- and twelve-month periods ended October 31, 2007.
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To The Moon With LOX & Methane, Says ATK The ascent engine is a critical propulsion system on the Lunar Lander. Its operation is required to return the astronauts from the lunar surface to rendezvous with the orbiting Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).
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Fifth Satellite Launch For Arianespace Is For HISPASAT HISPASAT has awarded to Arianespace the launching of their new comsat, the Amazonas 2. The satellite will be in the orbital position of 61° W. The launch is planned for 2009.
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Upper Hand For Upper Stage Avionics For Boeing The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded an initial NASA contract valued at approximately $265 million. The company will produce the Ares I crew launch vehicle's instrument unit avionics (IUA).
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Acquisition Is Finally An Acquired Taste for CIP Canada Stratos Global Corporation [TSX:SGB] announced CIP Canada Investment, Inc. has acquired beneficial ownership of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Stratos through a Plan of Arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, for a cash purchase price of C$7.00 per share.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — Boris FX Graffiti — Gertrudis Graphics — Music 2 Hues — Omenoen, Inc. & Castify Networks — Oregan Networks — Panasonic — Volicon — AT&T — BBC — Blockbuster's Movielink — NAB Distinguished Service Award — Discovery Communications & Advance/Newhouse Programming Partnership — Facebook — FCC Commissioner Appointment — ITV — MTV — Ovum — Telus & Jamcracker — The Nielsen Company & HBO — Verizon —
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ORBITS: News Briefs SPOT On With SPOT Comm - More Support For XM & SIRIUS Permanent Relationship - Managing Disasters With Equipment From Iridium
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December 12, 2007 Analog To Sat Functions For MSV Net Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has rolled-out their new MSAT-PSTN Telephone Interface.
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Chelton Antenna Biz Gets FAA Cert Chelton Inc., a subsidiary of Cobham plc, has received a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Technical Standard Order (TSO) C132 for its HGA-7001 High Gain Satcom antenna. And there's more from Chelton in the antenna biz... the company has also received FAA DO-178B Level D Software certification for their HGA-7001 High Gain Satcom antenna.
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Hauling Cargo & Crew Is Andrew's Goal Andrews Space has released details of the company's Andrews Cargo Module. This is a cargo logistics system capable of addressing NASA's International Space Station (ISS) cargo logistics requirements, as well as the needs of emerging customers such as Bigelow Aerospace and the Department of Defense.
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Lockheed Looks To New Lab For Orion Support Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] has opened a new space Exploration Development Laboratory (EDL) that will support NASA's Project Orion and Constellation Program.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — MotionDSP + FixMyMovie.com — SIRIUS —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Boeing Commits To Helping Flood Victims - Saab Space Sale Serious - Vislink Is Dubai Bound
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December 11, 2007 NASA & Others Wish To Dig Mars Dirt Plans and recommendations to launch the first Mars mission and to bring soil samples back to Earth are being developed by NASA and an international team. The returned soil samples will increase understanding of either the useful, or harmful, Martian soil properties and should also congeal information regarding the possibilities of life on Mars.
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France & Italy Bretheren With Athena-Fidus SatProject A Letter of Intent has been signed by both the French and Italian ministers of defense approving the Athena-Fidus geo-stationary comsat project.
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Optus Onboard For Largest Gilat SatHub Two additional SkyEdge sathub stations and thousands of VSATs are all part of a new network expansion by Optus with Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [NASDAQ:GILT].
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TDMA Market Share Maneuverings By iDirect iDirect, Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc., has increased its global market share of total TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) sathub sales to 47 percent in 2006.
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The Pratt & Whitney Punch Behind The Push Of COSMO/SkyMed-2 A RS-27a rocket engine powered the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that carried aloft the Italian Space Agency's COSMO/SkyMed-2 satellite from Vandenburg A.F.B. last Saturday night.
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OCX & SBSS Both Part of Boeing's Successful Contract Portfolio The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been selected to participate in the development of the nexgen Global Positioning System (GPS) ground system for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing has also successfully completed a series of Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) systems tests.
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GPS Goodies & Wireless Wonderments — Hemisphere GPS & Beeline Technologies — Jet Blue & Yahoo & RIM & Live TV — Nokia — TeleCommunication Systems — TeleNav —
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — Gefen — The ISIS Group, Inc. — SpikeTV's Video Game Awards — Petroglyph + Sega — RealNetworks — Vudu —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Voyager 2 Is Shocked With Latest Space Journey - Getting The Aerospace and Defence Nod - India To Test Remote Computer Connectivity With GSAT-4
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December 10, 2007 VSATs & Medicine = Renewed Opportunity For ND SatCom ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, has implemented a third batch SkyWAN® satellite terminals for a telemedicine project initiated by the Kazakh Ministry of Health.
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Moving On Up... At Thales Communications The new, specialized C4ISR organization at Thales Communications, Inc., now has a new director of business development. He is Bruce Sellers and his mission will be to broaden the company's offerings to the U.S. Department of Defense with the diverse C4ISR domain technologies of the parent organization.
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Financially Speaking—Integral Systems Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS] has reported their financial results for the fourth quarter of and fiscal year 2007.
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SatSoC Success For Broadcom A new single-channel, multi-format, hi-def (HD) satellite receiver chip that allows manufacturers to develop low cost satellite set-top boxes (STBs) has debuted from Broadcom Corporation [NASDAQ:BRCM].
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Moving On Up... At SES NEW SKIES Three senior appointments have been made at SES NEW SKIES (an SES company) to establish a new management team.
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Moving On Up... At COM DEV USA The new President of COM DEV USA is Dan White and he'll be responsible for establishing a US domestic source for the company's core competency in supplying passive microwave hardware and services in support of government space programs.
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Integral Systems Detects USAF Contract Deployment... To Them! The U.S.A.F. has exercised contract options totaling $29.8m for the Rapid Attack Identification Detection Report Systems (RAIDRS) Block 10 (RB-10) program to the recipient, Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ:ISYS].
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GPS Goodies & Wireless Wonderments — Apple — AT&T — China — FairPoint Communication — Google — JD Powers & Associates — MegaPath — Nokia — Ofcom — Qwest —
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — Arqiva — BTX Technologies — Carlos Slim & CompUSA — FameCast — ITC (Instant Tool-less Connector) — Optibase — Pinnacle Systems —
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Ball Aerospace Senses New Opportunities Opticks has debuted from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
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HushSat Launched Quiet...Sssshhhhhh... on December 10th at Cape Canaveral, a secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spacecraft was pushed into space aboard an Atlas V rocket.
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ORBITS: News Briefs ORBITS: News Briefs... Boeing... EchoStar... XM Satellite Radio Holdings... Intelsat & Sky Mexico & Sky Brasil... Israel Aerospace Industries... Telenor...
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December 9, 2007 NASA's NoGo On Atlantis Technical problems continue to plague the space shuttle Atlantis, which was supposed to have launched on Sunday, December 9th.
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SBIRS' Software Setbacks The Space Based infrared System, known as SBIRS, is the first of a newgen of missile warning satellites for the U.S. Air Force. During some testing of SBIRS earlier this year, some "problems" popped-up.
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Seasoned Astronaut Departs NASA For Private Sector NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam, Jr., served as deputy director of NASA's f
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New Russian MilSat Makes Orbit The Associated Press is reporting a new military satellite courtesy of the Russian Space Forces is now in orbit, after a successful launch on December 9th abovard a Proton-M rocket.
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ThurayaDSL Obtains Exclusive Distribution To promote and streamline the distribution of ThurayaDSL, an exclusive agreement has been signed with IEC / SAFA Group, appointing them as the exclusive distributor of ThurayaDSL.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery —Digital Rapids & MTV Italia — Macrovision — Cinema Electric & mywaves — Network Electronics & Video Products Group — Digimarc & Nielsen — Navori — ONDAS & Space Systems/Loral — RNCOS — Wacom Technology Corp. — Walt Disney Internet —
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SatRadio Revolution Continues Via ONDAS & Space Systems/Loral ONDAS Media, the satradio company for Europe, has issued an Authorization To Proceed to Space Systems/Loral for that firm to start work on developing a state-of-the-art satellite infrastructure, and the teams can continue to refine the actual contract parameters.
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December 8, 2007 Getting High: Cosmo.SkyMed II From Vandenburg Air Force Base, The Cosmo/SkyMed II satellite has been launched successfully, the second of six in orbit satellite of the constellation packed with newgen radar gear.
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Globalstar Wins In Africa Globalstar, Inc. and Globaltouch West Africa Limited (GWAL) have a new agreement wherein the former's satellite voice and satellite data services will be offered to the customers of the latter.
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Use A Spade To Dig Up Index Info For providing readers with information, stats, trends and commentary related to the defense, homeland security and space markets, the December 2007 issue of The SPADE Investor newsletter is now available.
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SatRadio Revolution Continues Via ONDAS & Space Systems/Loral ONDAS Media, the satradio company for Europe, has issued an Authorization To Proceed to Space Systems/Loral to that firm to start work on developing a state-of-the-art satellite infrastructure, and the teams can continue to refine the actual contract parameters.
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Eumetsat & ESA Dive Into A Joint "Understanding" During the morning of the 63 EUMETSAT Council, Dr. Lars Prahm, Director General of EUMETSAT, and Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programs at the European Space Agency (ESA), exchanged letters to document the understanding achieved between EUMETSAT and ESA.
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Moving On Up... At Telenor In 1996, Marianne Moe joined Telenor and now she has just been named as the head of Telenor Investor Relations.
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December 6, 2007 Express SatPlat Unifies Thales Alenia Space & NPO-PM Thales Alenia Space and Reshetnev Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoe Obiedinenie Prikladnoi Mekhaniki (NPO-PM) have strengthened their position as they finalize an industrial cooperation program for the development of a multi-mission satellite platform.
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ATK Continues To Motor Along With Orbital Sciences A healthy $35 million contract has been received by Alliant Techsystems [NYSE:ATK] from Orbital Sciences Corporation to continue providing Orion Motors.
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Keep That Tax Credit! The research and development tax credit is about to expire at the close of this year. Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey said, "...the tax credit is vital to ensuring the strength of our nation's defense industrial base and must be extended, preferably permanently."
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Newbie With Newtec Tellitec has now become a fully integrated subsidiary of the Newtec Group. Offering an extensive range of IP software solutions, Tellitec's and Newtec's announcement cements the already existing relationship between the two companies.
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SARS Gets SureLinx Certainty For Truckin' Trackin' SARS Corp. [OTCBB: SARO.OB] provides remote asset management and telematics solutions and the company has debuted their SARS® RoadTrac®, a fleet tracking service for the road transport industry.
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Moving On Up... At Iridium Satellite Joining Iridium Satellite is Lee Demitry, who will be the Executive Vice President for Iridium NEXT, the company's nexgen satellite constellation program.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — Artificial Life & Paramount — Echolab Corporation — "My Home 2.0" Show — Supreme Master TV & SatLink Communications & RRsat Global Network — comScore Video Metrix — Wohler Technologies — VDS —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Threat Management Gateway A Winner For Juniper - BeiDou's To Negate Olympic-Sized Traffic Headaches - Supreme Master Programming Expands Influence - Wireless Wonderments & GPS Goodies
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December 5, 2007 A Great Day In Eutelsat's Video Neighborhoods Starting on December 10th, a new payTV platform named BIS will be launched by AB Groupe. The platform will be broadcast for two key video neighborhoods for satTV in France and will be available to customers from Eutelsat's HOT BIRD neighborhood at 13° E and from Atlantic Bird 3 at 5° W.
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Harris Tests Their Falcon A successful demo by Harris Corporation [NYSE:HRS] of their new Falcon III multiband manpack radio has been completed. The demo was held during a 10-day U.S. Army exercise that focused on integrating new networking technologies into the Patriot missile communications system.
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Q3 Results For International Datacasting International Datacasting has reported their revenues for the third quarter grew from $4.3 million to $5.8 million representing an increase of $1.5 million or 37 percent growth compared to the same period last year.
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SatNews Publishers Delighted To Announce The NEW Digital SatMagazine A gigantic, info-packed issue, that's SatMagazine for December 2007. Our YEAR IN REVIEW offers satcom and ancillary business expertise from those who know best—the companies who have maintained and sustained the industry through 2007.
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MDA Grabs Advanced Tech Solutions Company A strategic expansion of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. [TSX:MDA] Information Systems business in the United States will occur as the company has entered into an agreement to acquire Alliance Space Systems, LLC, located in Pasadena, California.
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ESA Fires Away With P80 For Vega Tested at the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, was the P80 rocket motor. This motor will power the first stage of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Vega small launcher.
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NDS Continues With The DIRECTV Approach NDS has signed an agreement with DIRECTV to extend the term of their relationship.
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Moving On Up... At Microspace... ndustry vet Michael (Micky) Murphy has joined Microspace Communications Corporation to assist the firm with their expansion of digital cinema services into Mexico.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — Copyright Royalty Board — Eutelsat & AB Groupe — HaiVision Systems & DC-Sat.Net — International Datacasting — Microwave Radio Communications & WFTV — NAB Show — NDS & DIRECTV — NewTek Inc. — Visan's RocketLife.com — Ross Video & TV Bandeirantes — Triveni Digital & Sinclair Broadcast Group —
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ORBITS: News Briefs TomTom Now Googles Well - BAE's Hardened Chip - MSV Awarded Contract Extension - STS-122 Mission To Be Captured Using Advent NewSwift - SatRadio Stuck With New Fees
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December 4, 2007 Water, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop... Or Is There? Northrop's Moon Mission In 2009, a vehicle designed to impact the moon to determine if Moon water exists is planned, and Northrop Grumman's [NYSE:NOC] Space Technology sector is building the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
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Water, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop... Or Is There? Northrop's Moon Mission In 2009, a mission to impact a space vehicle on the Moon's surface to determine if lunar water exists is planned—and Northrop Grumman's [NYSE:NOC] Space Technology sector is building the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
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TSF Continues Their Good ComWorks In Bangladesh Télécoms Sans Frontières' mission in Bangladesh after the strike on the country by Cyclone Sidr on November 15th finds the team continuing their needs assessment as far as emergecy telecom for rescue teams is concerned.
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Radomes & DARPA Addressed By Galileo Composites MFG Galileo Composites now has the funding for a second Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) assignment to advance technology for ground-based radomes.
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No WiMAX Threat Seen By ABI Due To Sprint & Clearwire Break Off Research does not see a threat to WiMAX for M2M because of the recent end to the proposed WiMAX partnership between Sprint and Clearwire.
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NASA Sets Date For Atlantis Access To Space The Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-122) will launch on December 6th and ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, from Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, from France, are set to carry ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station.
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Rascom & Horizons Prepp'd For Historic Sixth Launch For Arianespace The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's record sixth flight of 2007 has been transferred to the Final Assembly Building at the Spaceport in French Guiana in preparation for its December launch. Ariane 5 GS was rolled out yesterday from the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — BBC — MySpace & Transmissions — BlackBerry 9000 (BB9K) — LinkedIn — ViewCast & Real Broadcast Networks — Verizon Wireless & Google — Volicon & Defense Media Center —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Norsat Solidly In The Game - Telenor's Anniversary... - World Communications Center A Winner In Idaho - Nielsen Mobile Finds NIM At Top - COMSYS VSAT Report—A Better Link
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December 3, 2007 VSAT Verisimilitude From COMSYS The tenth edition of The COMSYS VSAT Report is now published and available. More than nine months of research were required to pull the information together.
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SPACEHAB Does More Than Wish For NASA COTS Award NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Phase 1 Demonstrations Request for Proposal (RFP), based on the Advanced Research and Conventional Technology Utilizations Spacecraft (ARCTUS) design, has been responded to by SPACEHAB, Inc. And with affiliates the likes of Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance, Cimarron and Odyssey Space Research, a commercial cargo trasnportaion capability is being developed.
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Faster Mapping Via Lockheed Martin The plan is to speed up critical maps, imagery and other geospatial data delivery to global users through a streamlining process currently being worked on by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT].
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Also Working Toward NASA COTS Award is t/Space Another firm entering the second-round competition for NASA funding for an Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo transportation service is Transformational Space Corporation (t/Space). $
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Simultaneous SatStuff Reason ATC Antenna Selected Antenna Technology Communications Inc. has announced KDDI has selected the Simulsat C/Ku for its newest teleport facility. KDDI, the only Japanese information and communication company providing communications service from fixed to mobile, integrated the Simulsat C/Ku into its Yamaguchi, Japan teleport.
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A Century Of Weather Stations Planned For India The Director of ISRO-Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems, Dr. T. K. Alex, has stated India will establish around 1,000 automatic weather stations during the next financial year.
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Italy's 2ndSat To Be Off & Away @ Vanderburg Italy's second Earth-imaging satellite will be the second launch for that country this year. Occurring at Vandenburg Air Force Base this week, the 4,200-pound COSMO-2 satellite will be taken for its space ride atop a 12-story Delta rocket.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — TiVo & EchoStar Communications — On2 Technologies & Unilever — Sony & Nintendo — Second Life —
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ORBITS: News Briefs ND SatCom & Telmaco S.A... - Stratos Global Corp. & CIP Canada Investment... - Avanti Communications & STB Group...
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December 2, 2007 Reaching Rome For Sat Expo Europe The new, futuristic <b>Rome Fair</b> is going to be welcoming the <b>14th Edition of Sat Expo Europe</b> from <u>March 27th through 29th, 2008</u>.
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Back To Basics... For Spying... Two years ago, the <b>Future Imagery Architecture</b> system was cancelled, and ever since then, the United States has been researching and mulling over various project plans to develop the nexgen of spysats.
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Happy Birthday, ULA... United Launch Alliance (ULA) marked its first anniversary of operation on December 1, 2007, with company-wide employee celebrations and preparations for the final three launches of the year.
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ABI Research Remains Connected Within the broad category of Connected Navigation are devices ABI Research has termed RTTW (Real-Time Two-Way ) Connected Navigation.
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Verizon Supports Marines With Communication Verizon Business is again helping to put on an international holiday event at Camp Pendleton for U.S. Marines deployed to Iraq, and for their families here, as part of the company's ongoing efforts to assist military families and loved ones stay connected across the globe.
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COM DEV Gets Constellation Contract COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX: CDV] has announced the company has received a contract to provide advanced payload electronics for a major commercial satellite constellation.
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digiGO!™—The World of Digital Content, Creation & Delivery — The Digital Video Broadcasting Project — Bytemobile Inc. — Corning Cable Systems LLC — Safe Software — The Satellite Awards & The International Press Academy —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Putin Wins Election In Russia—Chavez Suffers Defeat
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