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April 30, 2009 Japan to Launch Military-Purpose Satellites The Japanese government could launch an early warning satellite that can detect missile launches abroad by 2013.
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Middle East Report: Indo-Israeli Defense Ties and Corruption Probes By Dominic Moran and Animesh Roul in Tel Aviv and New Delhi for ISN Security Watch — In a major boost for bilateral strategic ties, the Indian and Israeli defense industries signed two major deals ahead of this month's Israeli-built spy satellite launch.
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Drone-ing On — Next Gen Revelations in Iraq and Afghanistan Three 'unofficial' successful tests may have revealed the successor to the U.S. Air Force's MQ-9 Reaper — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, the same company that developed the Reaper and MQ-1 Predator, is responsible for developing the Predator C Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Eutelsat's Tooway Tunes In Rural U.K. Eutelsat Communications, (Euronext Paris: ETL) has launched its new Tooway™ consumer Internet access service in the U.K.
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DigitalGlobe Sets Terms for IPO The process for DigitalGlobe's IPO has been in the works for well over a year, and now the final touches are being made known for its planned $250 million initial public offering.
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digiGO! — End-To-End For NDS + KDG NDS has announced that KDG, Germany’s largest cable network operator and biggest triple play provider, has selected NDS as end-to-end solution provider to enhance its digital TV platform.
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digiGO! — Channel Playout Solution To Debut At BroadcastAsia 20009 From Omneon At BroadcastAsia2009, Omneon will make its Asian debut of the new MediaDeck GX, a complete channel-playout solution that combines proven video server playout, world-class graphics, and advanced audio processing, all of which operate under the control of the user's preferred automation system.
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Arianespace Building For The Future With Soyuz Ops Base At Europe's Spaceport The preparation of Soyuz’ new operating base is continuing in French Guiana, where the ground-based infrastructure continues to take shape on its launch pad and inside the support facilities at Europe’s Spaceport.
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NASA Warms Up to Breaking the Ice With a Pod Testing out new equipment is always an interesting endeavor and soon NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
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NASA Has a Gala for GALEX NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission marks its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector in space.
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Atlantis Hankerin' For Hubble NASA managers completed a review Thursday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight and selected an official launch date for the STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A Roaring Success Is Zerofiro 9A For ESA On April 28th, the final qualification test firing of the third stage solid propellant motor for Europe’s new small launch vehicle took place at the Salto di Quirra Interforce Test Range in Sardinia, Italy.
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Financially Speaking... BSkyB — And Record Growth For Sky+HD The British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC has reported their financial results for the nine months ended March 31, 2009.
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Two Wins For MDA With EADS Astrium + DigitalGlobe MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has won a $4 million (CAD) contract to provide an advanced technology solution to EADS Astrium.
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Japan Looking To Initiate An Early Warning Satellite Program + Unmanned Lunar Expedition A Japanese government task force has suggested the introduction of an early warning satellite that can detect missile launches, in its draft of the nation's first basic plan on the development and use of space, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
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Jean-Yves Le Gall On The Launch Services Sector In an editorial published by space industry newspaper Space News in that publication's April 27th edition, Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall addressed satellite operators’ increasing pressure to encourage new providers for an already overcrowded launch services sector.
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MESSENGER Unmasks Mercury's Magnesium + More A NASA spacecraft gliding over the surface of Mercury has revealed that the planet's atmosphere, the interaction of its surrounding magnetic field with the solar wind, and its geological past display greater levels of activity than scientists first suspected — the probe also discovered a previously unknown large impact basin about 430 miles in diameter — equal to the distance between Washington and Boston.
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SOHO Shows Slower Sunspots Over the span of 11 years, the Sun’s activity waxes and wanes as magnetic field lines that are wound and tangled inside the Sun periodically break through to the surface.
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Iranian "Hope" Satellite Falls Back To Earth Iran has stated their first domestically-made telecommunications satellite Omid has, allegedly, successfully concluded its mission and re-entered the atmosphere.
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Unmanned Aircraft Development Finds Two New Projects From DoD The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded two contracts to Northrop Grumman and Boeing for two, as of yet, unpublished UAV development programs.
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April 29, 2009 All-Important Integration Finds Herschel + Planck SYLDA'd Into Place The payload "stack" build-up for Ariane 5's second mission of 2009 marked another milestone with the encapsulation of its lower passenger — the Planck space observatory — in the SYLDA dispenser system.
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Security, Recovery, Victory — All @ ISCe 2009 The ISCe 2009 Conference, which runs from June 2-4 in San Diego, offers an outstanding professional development experience for civil emergency managers and military personnel who need to stay current with commercial SATCOM. Now in its eighth year, ISCe has added a long list of outstanding speakers to its line-up, including:
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Lockheed Martin Gets Big Air(ship) Contract The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Lockheed Martin to guide an industry team to design, build, test and fly a 1:3 scaled model of an airship for the third phase of the ISIS (Integrated Sensor Is Structure) program, enhancing the new low-power density radar built by Raytheon Company — the contract is worth about $400 million.
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Validation — U.S. Generosity Is Urged to Make Space Situational Awareness Priority One of space's areas of concern is space debris, a current and growing threat to U.S. exploration activities.
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Pentagon May Reach Satellite Analysis Goal Early The U.S. military may reach its goal of doing collision analysis on 800 maneuverable satellites before October, and is examining the possibility of tracking 500 more satellites that cannot be maneuvered, a top Air Force general said on Tuesday.
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Spatial X-Ray Glow Solved By Chandra + Spitzer An extremely deep Chandra X-ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
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Watching Your PDQs and Your PDRs Brings Boeing Milestone Benefits Boeing [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed the system-level Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) K-L program.
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A FOGgy + Successful Day For KVH Industries KVH Industries, Inc. has received a new $1 million order for its CNS-5000, a self-contained navigation system that combines fiber optic gyro (FOG)-based inertial measurement technology from KVH with global positioning system (GPS) technology from NovAtel.
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GSM Gulf Growth For Broadpoint Broadpoint, who provides sophisticated cellular, satellite and 2-way radio communications, custom-engineered and emergency solutions, antenna and tower services as well as broadcast support solutions ranging from simple uplinks to integrated satellite and fiber solutions, has increased its number of cellular sites in the Gulf of Mexico by more than 30 percent, and will continue an aggressive schedule to add additional sites through the end of this year.
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Harris Tactical Radios To Upgrade Polish Forces' Comms Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS)n has been awarded a contract totaling $20 million from the Polish Ministry of National Defense (MoND) to deliver a combination of multiband and HF tactical radios for Poland's Land and Special Operations Command Forces.
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NSSL + Telemar Scandinavia Services Dip Deeper Into Atlantic + Coastal Regions Satellite communications providers, NSSL Ltd. and Telemar Scandinavia, are announcing an expansion of the Cruise-IP and Seacall coverage area to include the Atlantic and Southern African coastal regions.
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Moving On In... DigitalGlobe... DigitalGlobe opened their new Arlington, Virginia office — the new facility centralizes staff from DigitalGlobe’s downtown Washington D.C. Government Relations office established in 2003, and the Tyson’s Corner, Virginia National Security Programs office established in 2004.
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NigComSat Now — Nigerian Parliament Pledges Financial Support The Nigerian parliament has pledged to financially assist Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) in its NigComSat 2 and 3 initiatives, which will help boost the country’s information and telecommunications sector, as well as boost the company’s financials.
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digiGO! — Content Protection On Paramount's Mind — Macrovision Answers The Call Macrovision Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ:MVSN) has announced that Paramount Home Entertainment has agreed to license Macrovision’s content protection products, ACP and RipGuard.
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U.S. Army's First SatDevelopment Project Since 1960 Gets NanoSats From Miltec Ducommun Incorporated (NYSE: DCO) has announced that their Miltec Corporation (Miltec) subsidiary delivered flight-ready nanosatellites to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) in Huntsville, Alabama on April 28, 2009.
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April 28, 2009 Planck + Herschel Launch Date Is Now Set! Preparations for Ariane 5's upcoming mission to explore the universe’s origins have entered their final phase with the startup of payload integration on the heavy-lift launcher. As a matter of fact, Arianespace has just announced the launch date as the additional checks on the Ariane 5 ECA launcher have been completed — Thursday, May 14, 2009, is when the satellites will be pushed into space.
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digiGO! — SIMply A Two Number Deal From GeoSIM GeoSIM, the international SIM card supplier, is finalizing their launch of their “dual number” Global SIM card, with free incoming calls in the USA
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digiGO! — SD Encoder With A Legacy From TANDBERG TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson group (NASDAQ:ERIC), has launched its latest innovation, the EN8100 MPEG-2 SD encoder.
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Lockheed Martin Celebrates Celestial Constellations' Golden Anniversary Significant anniversaries are worth noting, especially when providing service above and beyond the anticipated lifespan.
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International Space University’s Students' Suggestions for Space Traffic Shared at Strasbourg, France, this week during the International Space University’s recently completed symposium on "Space for a Safe and Secure World,” the 2007 student study on Space Traffic Management recommended ways to prevent space collisions was released.
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Tackling The Unmanned Systems Market Is New SMi Conference In London Following the success of their UAV conference, SMi is delighted to announce their latest Unmanned Systems event which occurs next month in London — Unmanned Systems, Tomorrow's World, Today.
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Strong Vitals Over Iridium's Satellite Network for Mobile Vital Monitoring TeleMedic Systems' test of its new lightweight VitalLink3 medical vital signs monitoring system have proven successful over Iridium’s worldwide communication network, and is now available to support mobile medical data transmissions on a global scale.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know... CETel GmbH + ND Satcom CETel GmbH, the German teleport and satellite service provider, has acquired the Managed Services Division of ND SatCom.
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Digital Cinemas In Europe To Receive Arqiva + Dolby Know-How Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) has launched Dolby Direct Distribution Services, a pan-European satellite content delivery network for digital cinemas.
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Up To Bat — Northrop Grumman's Newly Acquired UAS Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has announced their Bat line of small unmanned air systems (UAS), with wingspans ranging from 6.5 to 33.2 feet.
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Load, Lock + Launch for Canadian Navy The Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (CCUVS) has announced that it will be deploying the Robonic MC2555LLR Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) Launcher on its first operational mission since acquiring the launcher earlier this year.
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This Thales U.K. Product Is Not A Timepiece — WATCHKEEPER Warrior The U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) has extended Thales U.K.'s H-450 unmanned air system (UAS) contract.
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Swift Seizes Sudden Star Surrender — Supreme Space Surge NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age.
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NASA's Nanosatellite Flies For Fungus The greatest thing since sliced bread may now be NASA's small satellite that is about the size of a loaf of bread, weighs about 10 pounds, and could help scientists better understand how effectively drugs work in space.
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Milstar Manages 50 Years Of MILSATCOM Ops A U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team has announced that the five-satellite Milstar constellation has accumulated 50 years of combined on-orbit operations and continues to provide secure, reliable and robust communications to U.S. and Allied Forces around the globe.
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Profit From Military Myopia "Armies always prepare to fight the last war."— Anonymous
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NASA to Share Latest About Mercury Courtesy of a MESSENGER NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, April 30, at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss new data and findings revealed by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER.
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COM DEV Successfully Delves Into AIS With Nanosat COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has announced that its first experimental satellite, NTS, has successfully completed one year in orbit, validating COM DEV's high-performance detection capability for its advanced space-based AIS (Automatic Identification System) technology.
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Moving On Up @... DISH Network Corporation DISH Network Corporation has initiated a number of personnel announcements that are designed to strengthen its senior management team and organization.
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Africa Union Commission Inaugurates Earth Station In Addis Ababa The Africa Union Commission (AUC) on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, will inaugurate the AU-AMESD project satellite receiving station at the AUC Headquarters, in Addis Ababa.
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More Content Delivery To Africa Via TA AG + Telstar N11 Telecomp Austria Group (TA AG) has announced that its Fixed Net segment is set to launch a global service package for International Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) via its partner Telesat’s operated Telstar N11 satellite with a mission critical focus on the African continent.
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April 27, 2009 THEMIS Satellites Track Space Tornadoes at More Than 1 Million MPH New critical information from THEMIS was reported by Andreas Keiling, a space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, on Friday, April 24, on the last day of the General Assembly 2009 meeting of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) in Vienna, Austria.
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Intelsat Intros Important Inclusion Intelsat Ltd. has revealed their plan to add a new satellite to its global fleet, that being the Intelsat 22 satellite, which is expected to be launched in Q1 2012 and will serve at the 72 degrees East longitude orbital location over the Indian Ocean region.
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TIA Turns Out Turkish Tiha Winged Weaponry Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has made known additional details regarding its Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance Unmanned Air Vehicle project, Tiha-A and Tiha-B, with these two variants to be delivered in short order to the Turkish armed forces.
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Report from the UK: Space Missions to Visit the Sun Two space probes are to be sent to explore the Sun, in an attempt to get closer to the centre of the star than any previous mission.
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SatMedicine To Expand In Africa, Thanks To India An ambitious project to link up African Union countries with Indian hospitals and universities via satellite will accelerate this year after a pilot project in Ethiopia proved successful.
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digiGO! — Latin American IPTV Analysis Released By Research and Markets Research and Markets has announced the addition of the IPTV in Latin America: Not So Fast report to their report offerings.
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digiGO! — Truckee Donner PUD Leak — ESRI's GIS Tech Hard At Work Truckee Donner Public Utility District more than doubled its number of field crew equipped with mobile geographic information system (GIS) technology, thanks to unlimited licenses provided in ESRI’s Small Utility Enterprise License Agreement (SU-ELA) program.
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New Acquisition Is In The Bag For The IMS Company The IMS Company provides in-flight entertainment, aerospace and travel industry markets products and has announced the acquisition of Flight Deck Resources (FDR), a provider of Electronic Flight Bag solutions to commercial airlines, corporate aviation, air cargo, general aviation and aircraft fleet operators worldwide.
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Russians Offer Satellite Launches To North Korea — Disarmament Is The Reasoning Russia is interested in hosting North Korean satellite launches, which is rather enlightening, given the worldwide condemnation of such a launch last month — another useless offer on the table in hopes of altering the North Korean mind set regarding nuclear weaponry.
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WildBlue To Pump Up Sat2Home Broadband Speed Many observers believe satellite-to-home broadband will not measure up to what is possible using terrestrial WiMAX or fiber-enhanced cable or telco connections — however, WildBlue Communications Inc. will offer a live demo of 18 Mbps service, which is about 12x faster than services currently offered. This revealed in an article by Gary Kim of TMCnet.
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UAV Underpinnings For Turkey Reside With Germany... Perhaps! Turkey and Germany will sign an agreement over cooperation in defense equipment research, development, production, procurement, support in training, and industrial cooperation.
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digiGO! — 3D + Clouds Emerge As NAB Highlights... Strategy Analytics and DIS Consulting identified two key media technology trends emerging from the NAB Show as it wound down last week in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Intelsat Gets In Down Under With ADF + Intelsat 22 Intelsat, Ltd. has announced the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has agreed to purchase a specialized UHF communications payload aboard an Intelsat satellite scheduled for launch in 2012.
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Report From the Field: The 'Eye in the Sky' Keeps Soldiers Out of Harm's Way FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARRIOR, Kirkuk, Iraq — 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs RSS.
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Global Food Production Analysis Finds SatImagery Playing Major Role The U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA FAS), Office of Global Analysis, hosted a Summit on Global Food Security Challenges: Monitoring Earth Resources in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2009.
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Superlative Spatial Souvenirs Celebrate Hubble's 19th Anniversary Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind.
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Interferometric Radiometer? You Betcha... SMOS Has It Covered With September Launch Following confirmation from Eurockot Launch Services that they will launch ESA's SMOS mission on September 9th, the satellite has now been removed from storage and will soon be prepared for shipment to the Russian launch site in.
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GEO-2 Going Good — Promised Payload Packed + Promptly Posted Northrop Grumman Corp. has delivered the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO) payload to prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. in Sunnyvale, California, for integration into the spacecraft and final system-level testing.
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Moving On Up @... COM DEV Int'l... Terry Reidel has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors to replace Keith Ainsworth.
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Juniper Jumps In With WIN-T MILCOM Expertise + Support Juniper Networks will support General Dynamics C4 Systems, the prime contractor developing the U.S. Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program.
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Hardened C-RAM Crafted For Space Service BAE Systems has developed a new chalcogenide random-access memory product for spacecraft.
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This Is The 500th "Hard" Computer + Kepler Is Most Thankful BAE System's 500th radiation-hardened space computer has taken flight on a NASA mission to find habitable planets in the Milky Way.
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April 24, 2009 Financially Speaking... SES S.A. SES S.A. has reported the Company's financial performance for the three months to March 31 , 2009.
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GlobeCast Enterprise Services No More — Enter Keystone Enterprise Services New name, new structure and exclusive focus on large-scale secure video and media delivery services for enterprises — that's what Keystone Enterprise Services message is.
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Opinion: The lack of a NASA administrator now causing real harm I'm at Johnson Space Center this morning for what should be a day of celebration for the space agency.
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Cassini Films Saturnian Soft Collision The moon Prometheus slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn's F ring in this movie sequence of Cassini images. The oblong moon pulls a streamer of material from the ring and leaves behind a dark channel.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Air Collision Fears Slow Expansion of US Drone Use WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaps in unmanned aircraft technology have military authorities clamoring to use more drones for everything from coastal patrols and border surveillance to tracking natural disasters. But fears of midair collisions are slowing any broad expansion of their domestic use.
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digiGO! — TV Transmitter Ties Into Low- To Medium-Power Market Rohde & Schwarz is setting a new standard for performance with its R&S SCx8000, a compact and efficient TV transmitter for the low- to medium-power market segment.
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digiGO! — Polopoly Power Chyron (NASDAQ: CHYR) and Atex have integrated the Atex Polopoly Content Manager and Polopoly Relationship Manager with Chyron's AXIS web-based content creation services.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Irrigation Imperative The All-American Canal, the largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border, is the focus of this image, taken by the crew of Expedition 18 aboard the International Space Station.
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digiGO! — Fujitsu + Cisco's Low Latency IP Encoding Platform Delivers Sat HD + SD Video Fujitsu and Cisco have collaborated on the creation of a highly efficient video contribution system for use over satellite or IP infrastructures.
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Surfing in Scotland? M2sat SATstreamer Reveals It's True! With the live streaming of two major sports event in April and May of 2009, the M2sat Sport Streaming Season gets a flying start.
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Ring Round Up By Cassini This natural color view from the Cassini spacecraft highlights the myriad gradations in the transparency of Saturn's inner rings.
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April 23, 2009 PCI Geomatics Joins ESRI to Create a Better Image PCI Geomatics, a developer of geo-imaging software and systems, has joined the ESRI Business Partner Program to provide users with optimized desktop and server based workflows for correcting commercial satellite imagery.
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Advantech Has the Advantage in a New Image and Products At NAB SatNews announced the new image for Advantech Advanced Microwave Technologies Inc.
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Financially Speaking... The Boeing Company The Boeing Company’s [NYSE: BA] first-quarter 2009 earnings per share decreased 47 percent to $0.86 driven by the previously announced $0.38 per share impact from pending twin-aisle production rate changes and lower delivery price escalation forecasts in commercial airplanes.
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MILSATCOM Transceivers Enlist Comtech's Expertise Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received an $8.0 million order under its IDIQ contract with the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) — total orders received to date against this $216.0 million contract increased to $211.3 million.
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ScanEagle's Pirate Patrol Proves Potency Of UAV From The Enterprise (White Salmon, Washington), written by Jesse Burkhardt, comes the story of how local company Insitu's "ScanEagle" drone aircraft contributed to the successful military operation on April 12th that freed American ship captain Richard Phillips who was being held hostage by Somali pirates and then enduring the ensuring four-day standoff.
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U.S. Army Selects Lockheed Martin As One Of Six For Battle Command Products Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is one of six companies selected by the U.S. Army to compete for future task orders across the Battle Command Family of Products, an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.
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Well MET, Harris Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a 10-year, $600 million contract for the U.S. Army's Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET) program. The nexgen military satellite communications terminals developed for the MET program will provide the worldwide backbone for high-priority military communications and missile defense systems.
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SATCOM Global Sets Sail as Stronger and More Secure Partner on the Seas As of April 15th SatCom Global has been awarded full Distribution Partner status by Inmarsat for its FleetBroadband services, and joins a group of 12 FleetBroadband Distribution Partners worldwide who have built a solid long-term relationship with Inmarsat.
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India Will Receive Phalcon AWACS on May 18 India will get its first 'eye in the sky', the Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), aircraft on May 18, which will provide the IAF means to track incoming missiles and look deep into the neighbouring countries without violating any air space.
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MTV HD Rocks Out On SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES' HD-PRIME SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, division of SES S.A., has announced the launch of six MTV Networks HD channels in MPEG-4 on the HD-PRIME distribution platform as well as the delivery of 136 HD channels via SES platforms, worldwide.
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SatSmart Asset Accountability Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has announced that Simplex data integrator Axonn LLC has launched SMARTONE, the Satellite Managed Asset Ready Tracker.
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Moving On Up @... GeoEye GeoEye, Inc. has appointed Carl A. Alleyne to the position of vice president of engineering.
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3D Is Brought Dribbling Into NAB By IDC, SENSIO + OpenSky International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) and SENSIO Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SIO) have started their first operational roll-out of live 3D in HD for digital cinema in Europe.
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The Universe Brought To Your Desktop Keeping up-to-date with cutting-edge astronomy and space science breakthroughs has just become easier — Portal to the Universe, the latest Cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), presents a high-tech website that is a one-stop-shop for astronomy news.
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Price Point For Uplink Packages Smashed By ATCi — Plus, Bandwidth Savings Product... Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi), a provider of ground-based commercial satellite communications systems and services, is now offering their new, low-cost, uplink packages starting at $50K.
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Avanti Has Irish Broadband Impetus Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN) has been awarded a contract by Hutchison 3G Ireland Ltd (Hutchison 3G) to supply them under the Irish Government’s National Broadband Scheme.
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Sea Tel Cobham Has A DIRECT Connection Sea Tel Cobham has released their DTV04 HD Antenna System, the first and only 3-Axis Marine Stabilized Antenna System that is compatible with DIRECTV’s? Ka-Band satellites.
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SpaceX's Draco Gets All Fired Up Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully completed a rigorous qualification of its new Draco spacecraft thruster and Draco propulsion tank at the SpaceX Test Facility in McGregor, Texas.
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Spaceport America's First Annual Educational Launch Spaceport America and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium will conduct their first joint annual educational launch from Spaceport America on May 2nd.
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Control + Monitoring Is In Colem's Hands For LINK Colem is now working with Link Research, part of VISLINK, to continue the development of control and monitoring systems for the LINK city center receive sites.
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Thales' Liberty Liberates Comes Through Clearly for Certification Thales Communications, Inc., develops, manufactures, and supports multiband, software-defined radio (SDR) equipment, announces that its LibertyTM multiband land mobile radio (LMR) has received U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification.
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Stepping Directly Into The HD Stream Is XStreamHD XStreamHD showcased their technology with demos of the XStreamHD whole-home solution at the EchoStar booth during the recent NAB.
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African Resource Mapping Being Taught To Nigerian Engineers Nigeria will soon be able to map and monitor African resources with local expertise.
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Space Business Intelligence Offered At Forum Gen. Victor E. Renuart, USAF, commander, United States Northern Command, and Thomas B. Pickens, III, president and chief executive officer, Astrotech Corporation, will headline the Space Foundation's second annual Space Business Forum: New York on June 4, 2009, at the Hilton New York Hotel in New York City.
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Politicians Say One Thing, The U.S.A.F. Another, Regarding UAV Maintenance The Air Force states it has not yet decided who will maintain two unmanned aerial vehicles called the Predator and Reaper, this according to the Air Force Times.
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Nordic FSS Capacity Deal For TSBc Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) has signed a contract with SES SIRIUS for the provision of satellite capacity in the Nordic region.
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It's Greek To Thuraya Thuraya has announced an agreement with Advanced Communications Solutions Ltd. to distribute Thuraya voice and data services to the Greek maritime sector.
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Container Checking Part of New SARS Agreement With Northland Secure Asset Reporting Services (Pink Sheets:SARO) has signed an agreement with Northland Services Inc. to provide satellite based tracking units to track container chassis for Northland Services.
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Working Up A Hunger For... More Work! New SatClients For MtronPTI MtronPTI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LGL Group (NYSE Amex:LGL) and a producer of frequency control, filter and integrated subsystems, announced the Company has secured active projects with 12 industry leaders in the $10 billion satellite manufacturing market.
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digiGO! — Thales Angenieus + Binocle Demo 3D @ NAB At this year’s NAB trade show and conference, Thales Angenieux and Binocle are together previewing a ground-breaking imaging technique that will allow full 3D stereoscopic shooting without objectionable side effects.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Great Views Of The Great Lakes NOAA is helping Americans peer beneath the surfaces of the five Great Lakes by providing Google Earth with data that now includes detailed three-dimensional mapping of Lakes Huron, Ontario, Erie, Superior, and Michigan.
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More Remote Sensing With China's Most Recent Launch China launched a remote-sensing satellite on Wednesday, Yaogan VI, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north Shanxi Province.
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April 22, 2009 Sub-Saharan Satellite Showings GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has announced the Company's African DTH platform has successfully started transmissions on SES ASTRA’s Astra 4A (Sirius 4) satellite.
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Moving On Up @... The California Space Education and Workforce Institute The California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI) and its sister organization, the California Space Authority (CSA), have announced that Lynn Baroff will serve as the new Executive Director for the Institute.
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White House Verbal Battle Continues With Former NASA Administrator The announcement came of the former NASA administrator Michael Griffin as the new eminent scholar and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville to a $350,000-a-year eminent scholar position.
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SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES Contracts With TBS + DRS For Content Delivery SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES makes another major announcement at NAB, the second in just the last two days.
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Moving On Up @... GlobeCast GlobeCast has strengthened its position in the Americas with the appointment of two key executives, those being former GlobeCast Asia CEO David Justin, who has been named CEO America, while industry veteran Catherine Palaia has joined the company as Senior Director, Business and Product
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Talented Trio Will Pack A Launch Wallop On May 5th An Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the Air Force Research Laboratory’s TacSat-3 satellite and two secondary payloads, NASA’s PharmaSat microsatellite and NASA’s CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments, is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, on the evening of May 5th during a launch window beginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
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Free HD From FRANSAT Finds ATLANTIC BIRD 3 Highly Beamable Upcoming is the launch of France's free Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels on Eutelsat Communication's ATLANTIC BIRD 3 satellite.
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IPTV Service Imbued + Fortified With Verimatrix + Falcon Falcon IP/Complete and Verimatrix have announced GulfPines Communications, LLC, has selected their IPTV solution to deliver a powerful, advanced video solution.
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digiGO! — Heads-Up Head-End Handiwork For IPTV + Broadcast Appear TV has launched their new 8VSB input module during NAB 2009, in collaboration with Sencore, the Company's business partner in North America.
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Frosty Fling For Future Of Herschel The Herschel space telescope for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 mission literally “chilled out” this week with the loading of liquid helium that will help it gather data on the formation of stars and galaxies.
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The Melding Magic Beings — NGC's Payload + USAF's GEO-2 The Space and Missile Systems Center's Space Based Infrared Systems Wing has duly noted that the second Geosynchronous Earth Orbit payload from Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Azusa, California, has now arrived at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, Californa, for integration into the GEO-2 space vehicle.
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DISH Delivers The Earth, The Moon, Plus Assorted Spatial Odds + Ends DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) has launched DISH Earth, a channel exclusively available to DISH Network customers that offers dramatic live views of Earth 24 hours per day, including passing views of the moon, Venus, and even unidentified flying objects — you can view the camera’s live feed at no charge on Ch. 212, starting immediately.
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Arrowhead Global Name Permutation Results In Caprock Government Solutions CapRock Communications, a global provider of satellite communications to remote and harsh environments, has announced the Company has changed the name of its federal government division, Arrowhead Global Solutions, to CapRock Government Solutions.
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Industry Pioneer Robert Berry To Retire Space Systems/Loral, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL), has announced the retirement of former chairman and president, Robert Berry.
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Happy, Happy, Hubble — Still Hunkerin' Down + Getting The Job Done To commemorate 19 years of success, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194.
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ViaSat Stays Inline For Encryptor Interoperability Spec ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has received certification from the National Security Agency (NSA) for its High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor Interoperability Specification (HAIPE IS) V3.0.2 for the programmable ViaSat AltaSec? KG-250 Inline Network Encryptor (INE).
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New Globalstar Skyhawk Masters Asset Vigilance Globalstar, Inc. has announced that Globalstar Panama Corp. and leading Simplex data integrator Blue Oceans Satellite Systems Inc. have launched the Skyhawk M9601, a satellite-based global asset tracking and vessel monitoring system (VMS) solution.
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CNN Captures The Moment With SES Capacity Deal... + So Does DRS Technologies SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, a division of SES S.A.SES , has signed a five year distribution and contribution agreement with Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) for CNN delivery to and from Europe and the Middle East.
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April 21, 2009 New YahLive Joins YahSat + SES Astra Into DTH Partnership Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) has announced the Company has entered into a partnership with European satellite operator SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), to create a new company operating under the brand name YahLive that will offer Direct-to-Home (DTH) television capacity and services to more than two dozen countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asian region.
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ABS-CBNi Extends Capacity on Intelsat Offering More to Filipinos Intelsat, Ltd. provider of fixed satellite services, and ABS-CBN International (ABS-CBNi), the largest Filipino-owned entertainment and broadcasting company in North America, announced today that ABS-CBNi signed a multi-year contract expansion with Intelsat.
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Rural and Remote Regions of Northern Ireland Welcome Avanti Communications Avanti has been awarded the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation (DETI) contract to provide broadband services to homes and businesses in rural and remote areas of Northern Ireland.
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National Phenomenon — Brazilian Hijacking of U.S. Military Satellites Reports are in from the Brazilian Federal Police who are attempting to halt the hijacking of U.S. military satellites — an illegal act that has become a "national phenomenon."
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Comtech Xicom Premieres a First Outdoor TWTA at a Greater Power Comtech Xicom Technology introduces a new lightweight, outdoor, traveling wave tube amplifier (TWTA), making it the SATCOM industry’s first outdoor packaged 1250 watt TWTA designed to operate in the Ku-band uplink frequency, providing new capabilities to broadcast and teleport operators.
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Northrop Grumman's Second GEO Payload Takes Final Test Northrop Grumman Corp. the payload integrator for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), the nation's next-generation missile warning system, has delivered the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO) payload to prime contractor for integration into the spacecraft and final system-level testing.
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Cooperative Venture — Wireless Matrix and SkyTerra An announcement from Wireless Matrix indicates it has executed a contract extension with its satellite service provider, Reston, Virginia-based SkyTerra [OTCBB: SKYT] for services through 2012. This agreement provides . . .
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Avanti Communications Does Good x 4 Telecoms Avanti Communications Group plc [AIM: AVN], the broadband satellite operator, has signed contracts to supply broadband products to four separate telecoms service providers in the UK.
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Raytheon Takes Risks for the U.S. Air Force With Next-Gen GPS The U.S. Air Force liked what the Raytheon Company was doing for them, and so to validate this confidence Raytheon received a contract extension to perform additional risk-reduction activities for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System Operational Ground Control Segment, or GPS OCX. Raytheon will identify and mitigate program risk to create a roadmap to keep the program on budget and on schedule.
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It's Official The Gateway is Open to a Star — IPSTAR Much pomp and ceremony, including many Japanese officials, took place as Thaicom announced that its subsidiary, IPSTAR Company Limited (Japan Branch), has officially inaugurated the 14th IPSTAR Gateway located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan last Friday, April 17th.
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Britain Reviews Role of Reconnaissance Satellites After Israel's Assault on Gaza According to the U.K.'s foreign minister Britain will review of all its weapons' exports to Israel after the country's assault on the Gaza Strip.
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Déjà Vu — Earth-Like Planets Sure Look Familiar HATFIELD, England — In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place . . .
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April 20, 2009 digiGO! — NAB: Satellite + IP Are Imbued With New Fujitsu + Cisco Video Contribution System Fujitsu and Cisco have collaborated on the creation of a highly-efficient video contribution system for use over IP or satellite infrastructures.
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India Launches Israeli-Built Spy Satellite India has launched an Israeli-built spy satellite to boost its surveillance capabilities after last year's Mumbai attacks exposed glaring holes in its defense apparatus.
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Ciao! As Italian Defense Satellite SICRAL 1B Launches The launch of the SICRAL (Italian Reserved Communications and Alarm System) 1B satellite took place this morning at 10:16 am CET (8:16 am GMT) from a Sea Launch platform in the Pacific with a Zenit-3SL launcher.
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Advantech Has Many Reasons to Celebrate at NAB Today David Gelerman, Chairman and CEO of Advantech, visible on the right of this photo smiles as he presents his company's new logo at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas, Nevada, as SatNews Publisher Silvano Payne, on the left congratulates David.
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MotoSAT Sends a Messenger to NAB MotoSAT debuts its Messenger™ series antenna, described as the most advanced mobile VSAT system to date that was designed specifically to meet the technical and environmental demands of the digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) industry at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB 2009) in Las Vegas at booth OE430.
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April 19, 2009 digiGO! — NAB SuperStops: ATCi, ATEME, Annova Systems, ATEME, Axia, Bright Systems, Broadcast Int'l, Camera Corps, Cinergy, Dimetis, EyeHeight, FOR-A, Fujitsu, Gefen, Globecast, Globecomm Systems, HaiVision, Harmonic, Harris, Latens, Lawo, Nagravision, Omnia, OMVC, Pixel Power, Rohde & Schwarz, SGT, SIDSA, SintecMedia, TANDBERG Television, Telairity, Telos, Triveni Digital, UDcast, WEGENER, WTA If you are planning to attend the National Association of Broadcasters annual event in Las Vegas from April 20th through April 23rd, there are a number of SATCOM and MILSATCOM companies who will be presenting their latest wares for your immediate edification. Additionally, SatNews Publishers is an official Media Sponsor for the NAB's Military + Government Summit, so we would be delighted to meet you during the show to discuss your company and your products. Here are some of the leading presentations you can expect to experience at NAB...
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Sky-High Over Sky-Y With five missions, the Sky-Y, Alenia Aeronautica’s unmanned technological demonstrator, has completed its first series of tests in Italy.
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SatProtection, Courtesy of STEREO Scientists working on NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft have made a significant breakthrough that could play a major role in protecting satellites from the damage caused by solar explosions, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).
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ASTRA2Connect Agreement With Towercom SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has signed a further reseller agreement for its two-way satellite broadband service ASTRA2Connect with the TV and telecommunications operator Towercom in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Signal Bounces To Reach PARIS A rain of navigation signals falls constantly upon the Earth from GPS and the initial satellites in Europe's Galileo system, enabling an ever-increasing number of positioning and guidance services.
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Racing Around The Global Oceans With LRIT + CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), an Iridium Value-Added Reseller, provided Iridium-based Long-Range Tracking and Identification (LRIT) systems for the recent Vendee Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race.
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The Planet Hunt Is On NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
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Become Your Own SatIPTV'er With TodoCast TodoCast, the affordable portable live satellite web-broadcasting system, now has an exclusive agreement with HorseTV.
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Compression Conduit For SatDelivery Of Content From ATCi Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi), a provider of commercial SATCOM services, has successfully designed and implemented a revolutionary digital broadcast system designed for local a channel and/or DMA extension system that could save cable and broadcast companies millions of dollars per year.
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Cassini Offers A Nesting View Saturn's northern hemisphere is seen here against its nested rings.
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Moving On Up... At Alliant Techsystems... General James B. Armor (Ret.)... Alliant Techsystems has announced James B. Armor Jr., Ret. Major General U.S. Air Force, the former Director of National Security Space Office, has been named Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Spacecraft Systems and Engineering Services for ATK Space Systems.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Envisat Meets The Mekong This radar image features Vietnam's Mekong Delta where the Mekong, the world's 12th longest river, fans out into tributaries and empties into the South China Sea in Southeast Asia.
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The Avenger — A UAV Designed To Dominate UAV manufacturer General Atomics began flight testing of a larger, stealthier UAV named Avenger.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... An Icy Rupture The Wilkins Ice Shelf, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, experienced multiple disintegration events in 2008. A rapid retreat started in February, near the end of the Antarctic summer.
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April 17, 2009 NAB: Defrosting The World The W B Walton Way More than 30 years ago, the De-Icing system for antennas was invented by Bill Walton — these systems are still installed and maintained by W B Walton as the Company continues to De-Ice the world.
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Million$ Saved Thanks to ATCi Revolutionary efforts sometimes reap great rewards, and so it goes with Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi), which designed and implemented a revolutionary digital broadcast system designed for local a channel and/or DMA extension system that ultimately saves cable and broadcast companies millions of dollars per year.
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ISRO's PSLV To Push RISAT + Anusat To New Heights India's will launch a sophisticated spy satellite on Monday, April 20th, one that can see through fog and clouds, a facility that has been hitherto unavailable to the country.
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JCSAT-13 Build Joins Satellite Clutch @ Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SKY Perfect JSAT) of Japan to build its next geostationary communications satellite, which has been designated JCSAT-13 and will be launched in 2013.
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Fox Rules in Pan American Sports Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services and the first global satellite operator to provide international digital transmissions of High-Definition (HD) content, announced today that Fox Pan American Sports, one of the world's largest Spanish-language sports programming ventures, will launch its new HD channel on the Intelsat network. Fox Pan American Sports signed a multi-year contract for capacity on Intelsat's IS-805 satellite, located at 55.5? W, to distribute its HD programming throughout Latin America.
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Inmarsat Aids With Search + Rescue Off African Coast Search and rescue assistance for vessels off the coast of Africa has been enhanced by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) with help from Inmarsat and three of its partners.
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Satcom Direct Distributes for Inmarsat SwiftBroadband Satcom Direct has become a Distribution Partner (DP) for the Inmarsat SwiftBroadband service for the corporate, government, and military aviation industries.
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CALIPSO's Backup Lasers On The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite has resumed operations after switching from its primary to its backup laser nearly three years after the launch of a satellite that is helping scientists solve the puzzle of how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's climate.
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digiGO! — NAB: Getting Those DVB-SH A + B Profiles Correct Is SIDSA SIDSA, a fabless company who specializes in digital TV receiver chipsets, will present a professional receiver, which is the first complete implementation of the DVB-SH standard that includes both A and B profiles with long and short interleavers, at NAB.
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digiGO! — NAB: DTH Sat Ops Acknowledged With New TANDBERG SD Encoder TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson group (NASDAQ:ERIC), has started a new chapter in video compression — the Company will launch its latest innovation, the EN8100 MPEG-2 SD encoder, at NAB at Booth SU5108.
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Vizada and Inmarsat Renew Relationship Not many people or companies can boast of a 30-year partnership, but such is so with Vizada and Inmarsat who announced that they have concluded final negotiations for Vizada’s distribution of Inmarsat services over the next five years.
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digiGO! — NAB: More DVB-SH UDcast Development Also Brings Triveni Into The Mix Triveni Digital, a provider of systems for the management and distribution of data and metadata in DTV, mobile DTV, cable, and IPTV streams, and UDcast, a global provider of wireless IP broadcast solutions, have successful interconnected their respective ATSC Mobile products, significantly enriching the choice of ATSC Mobile broadcasting equipment.
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digiGO! — NAB: Automatic Codec'ing On Display By Broadcast Int'l Broadcast International’s booth at NAB will be the home for their new CodecSys product demos, including a new video delivery system created in partnership with Iverify.
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digiGO! — NAB: Triple Play As Telos, Omnia + Axia Share Same Booth — Listen To Them The Telos / Omnia / Axia booth is located in the North Hall, Booth N7620 and there you'll some of the new gear the Company has dreamed up this year; new products that will be making their first public appearances at this show.
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digiGO! — NAB: MAKITO Comes To Fruition For HaiVision HaiVision Network Video is immediately making available their MAKITO™, a cutting edge, high definition video encoder.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Sedimentally Yours Sediment-laden water pours into the northern Gulf of Mexico from the Atchafalaya River in this photo-like image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on April 7, 2009.
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digiGO! — NAB: Digest Ingest Info From Annova + Harris Annova Systems has announced the integration of Annova OpenMedia with Harris Corporation’s (NYSE:HRS) NewsForce™ HD/SD production platform (Harris is in Booth N2502 @ NAB), a complete family of MOS-enabled newsroom tools that harness the speed, power and flexibility of the Harris? NEXIO AMP™ advanced media platform.
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digiGO! — NAB: Gefen's Value Added Hardware For DigiCin Operations Digital cinema theaters can now experience a simple way to add pre-show advertising and alternative content, including consumer audio/video sources such as DVDs, PS3s, Blu-ray players and computers, to their system.
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April 16, 2009 Planck Comes Clean After the Flood The past four weeks have been dedicated to the final Planck spacecraft preparations in the S1B clean room, and is now ready to move to the S5A building for fueling at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know: Inmarsat + Stratos Global Inmarsat, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, has stated the Company has completed the acquisition of Stratos Global Corporation.
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Maintaining Profitable Satellite Services — A Worthy "How-To"... Newtec is organizing a two day seminar that will bring together satellite industry professionals together from all across the Americas in order to share their knowledge, insights, and experiences on one of the trickiest aspects of this industry — how to reduce costs and scale profits with
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digiGO! — NAB: Utterances Of Wisdom From Globecomm Systems Globecomm Systems Inc. has revealed that Tom Parish, Vice President of Broadcast Technologies, and Paul Scardino, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, will be speakers at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference April 20-23 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Falcon 9 Flight For Twin SAOCOMs Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed an agreement with CONAE, Argentina’s National Commission on Space Activity, for two launches aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 medium-to-heavy lift vehicle.
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digiGO! — NAB: MPEG Makes Magic The MPEG Industry Forum, the world’s largest advocacy group for the promotion of MPEG technologies, has announced that the following 16 member companies will be exhibiting at NAB 2009.
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Conflict: Satellite Carriers Vs. Teleport Operators — WTA's Forum Discusses The Issues... On March 23, the World Teleport Association (WTA) held its first Members Forum, which featured senior executives of member companies discussing the issue of channel conflict between teleport operators and satellite carriers.?
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The LRIT Leanings Of EMS Satamatics EMS Satamatics, a division of EMS Technologies (NASDAQ: ELMG), has announced the Company's Satamatics Long Range Identification & Tracking (LRIT) solutions are now integrated within the Absolute LRIT Data Centre.
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SARS Offers Alarming News SARS Corp. (Pink Sheets:SARO) has updated its shareholders regarding its business activities and future plans. SARS designs, manufactures and maintains telemetry equipment, provides services for web-based remote monitoring and control of equipment and real-time asset location and tracking services.
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BlueTracker LRIT Terminal Becomes Iridium Certified Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) ship terminal to provide LRIT services over the Iridium satellite network — EMA is an Iridium Value-Added Reseller and Value-Added Manufacturer.
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Sea Launch Counts Down to SICRAL 1B Launch The Sea Launch team is initiating a 72-hour countdown at its equatorial launch site, in preparation for the launch of Telespazio’s SICRAL 1B communications satellite on April 20.
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Early Returns of Kepler's Hi-Tech Hunt In Search of Planets Like Earth Photos are in from NASA's Kepler mission revealing the beautiful Milky Way galaxy and some eight-billion-year-old cluster of stars.
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Crawford Transmits Trials and Tribulations of Moonbuggy Competition There to record the newsworthy event was Crawford, which transmitted “off-world racing” coverage for NASA’s 16th annual Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alamba on April 3-4, 2009.
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What's Next For UAV Control? How About An X-Box 360? David Hambling writes in Popular Mechanics regarding a new Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System — controlled using an adapted Xbox 360 controller!
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Boeing Prepares to Launch a Star to Serve Asia-Pacific Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has shipped the IndoStar II/ProtoStar II satellite from the company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan.
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April 15, 2009 Intelsat Liberates Liberty Sports Group Get ready to sit in your comfy chair and cheer on your favorite team.
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CPI Amplifies Their SuperLinear Line With New X-band HPA CPI Satcom Division announced the latest addition to its SuperLinear product line: an extremely compact, 500-watt peak power X-band high power amplifier (HPA).
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TSF Hopes For a Full Cup In the Fight Against Malaria Football and malaria — doesn't quite compute?
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Near-Earth Objects Knowledge In Nebraska The College of Law at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, is hosting a conference that will examine the legal and institutional challenges of international protocols if large asteroids or other interplanetary objects come too close to Earth for comfort.
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Spatial Financing Futures Featured In NYC Registration is now open for the Space Foundation’s Space Business Forum: New York on Thursday, June 4, 2009, at the Hilton New York Hotel in New York City.
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Scope Out Space Strategy Success Skills Strategic Space Development is offering a one-day course in Strategic Planning for Aerospace professionals on May 1st in Tucson, Arizona.
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Intelsat Knows How to Operate, and Has the Award to Prove It — A Star Everyone appreciates being recognized for their good work, and so Intelsat, Ltd., a provider of fixed satellite services, was named “Operator of the Year” at the 2009 SatCom Africa conference last week in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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TANDBERG Reaches For REACH TANDBERG Television is extending its HD satellite capabilities with a comprehensive Contribution & Distribution (C&D) solution from TANDBERG Television that includes encoding, multiplexing, modulation, and professional receivers.
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digiGO! — NAB: Harmonic's Astute NAB Debuts Harmonic Inc. Booth SU7209 — The Company will debut its latest solutions for multi-screen content preparation, streaming, and delivery. Harmonic's unified solutions allow operators to simply and cost-effectively enhance their existing networks while also adding new revenue-generating services streamed to a variety of devices such as PCs and video-enabled smartphones.
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COMPASS Heads Into Orbit For Chinese Global Positioning Services China launched a navigational satellite Wednesday which was the second in a series of as many as 30 orbiters to comprise a global positioning network, this according to that nation's space administration.
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Red Planet's Severe Storms Offer Cleansing Properties Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
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Auto's Back-Seat Entertainment System Finds Capacity On Galaxy 25 Satellite Intelsat, Ltd. and RaySat Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) have announced that RBC has contracted satellite capacity on Intelsat’s fleet to enable the delivery of AT&T CruiseCast mobile TV service, a new source of entertainment in family vehicles.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Overflow In Nambia Water levels on the Zambezi River in southern Africa remained high on April 14, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the swollen river, which had destroyed crops and forced thousands of evacuations in Namibia’s Caprivi region as of April 12, reported the AFP news service.
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New Imagery Center For Harris' Ongoing NGA + Feds Support Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has opened a facility in St. Louis for production and quality assurance of high-resolution imagery-derived geospatial data for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and other federal agencies in the area.
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Eutelsat Services Migration Brings EUROBIRD 9A Into Play The KabelKiosk platform of digital channels operated by the German subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has now initiated broadcasts from the EUROBIRD™ 9A satellite, which went into service on February 24th at 9 degrees East.
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Battlefield Betterment Of SATCOM With Comtech SatModem Award Comtech EF Data Corp. has won a $2.1 million order from the U.S. military for satellite communications equipment that will be used to upgrade existing battlefield systems to operate on the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Italian Earthquake's Surface Deformations Mapped By ESA Studying satellite radar data from ESA’s Envisat and the Italian Space Agency’s COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analyzing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that shook the medieval town of L’Aquila in central Italy on April 6, 2009.
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April 14, 2009 digiGO! — NAB: International Datacasting Bringing Everything But The Kitchen Sink International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) who provides advanced solutions for the distribution of broadband multimedia content via satellite, announced it will be showcasing its expanded product line at NAB.
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China's Aerospace Science and Technology Gobbles China Satellite Communications Despite a reform drive it was announced that China Satellite Communications Corp. (China SATCOM) is now a fully owned subsidiary company of the China's Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
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Choppers Working With Blue Sky Blue Sky Network has announced Belgian Noordzee Helikopters Vlaanderen (NHV) selected Blue Sky Network’s satellite tracking and communication solution for use aboard its work and transport helicopters, which include Dauphin, Explorer and Calibri models.
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Batter-Up! Intelsat Hits a Home Run Intelsat, Ltd. announced that World Baseball Classic Inc. (WBCI) used Intelsat’s satellite, fiber and teleport infrastructure to transmit the world feed coverage of the 2009 World Baseball Classic to its broadcast rightsholders throughout Asia, Latin America, North America and the Caribbean.
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Crawford's New Asian Connections Crawford Satellite Services has launched All Sports Network (ASN) in HD to fans in Asia who crave 24-hour American and international sports coverage.
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Hours + Hours Of ISR Success With ScanEagle UAS The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS), a joint effort of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and its subsidiary Insitu Inc., last week flew its 150,000th hour in service with the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Forces, U.S. Navy, U.S. Special Operations Command, Australian Army and Canadian Forces.
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Stellar STEREO Study Of Moon's Origins To Start Soon Two identical NASA spacecraft are preparing to enter a point in the universe that may eventually answer the question of how our moon was born — they were launched in 2006 into Earth's orbit around the sun to obtain stereo pictures of the sun's surface and to measure magnetic fields and ion fluxes associated with solar explosions.
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Trio Of Launch Vehicles Now Residing At Spaceport In French Guiana Another Ariane 5 launch vehicle has been delivered to French Guiana, underscoring Arianespace's ability to support a sustained mission pace with its workhorse heavy-lift launcher.
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SatLink Signals Snag Sub Saharan Customers SatLink Communications Ltd. has acquired its own capacity covering sub-Saharan Africa on ASTRA’s Astra 4A (Sirius 4) satellite located at 5 degrees East.
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digiGO! NAB — Harris Speaks Out Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has several technical experts from the company who have been selected as speakers for the new, three-day summit to examine advanced video technologies for defense and emergency response providers. The Military and Government Summit is being held April 21-23 during the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas.
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A New Dawn For Arianespace New Dawn Satellite Company Ltd. ("New Dawn"), a joint venture between Intelsat and a South African investor group led by Convergence Partners, has awarded Arianespace the launch contract to deliver the Intelsat New Dawn satellite into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) — the new contract is the 6th signed in 2009 by Arianespace with major satellite operators.
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Colem Gets Smart With Wireless Intelligent Button Control Colem will be showcasing its recently launched Wireless Intelligent Button Control at NAB.
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Moving On Up . . .at AGI AGI announces that Joe Sheehan has been selected as president.
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This Cassini Image Is Definitely An Award Winner Back in 2006, Cassini managed to capture a really unusual view of Earth from Saturn, with this image among those presented for viewer votes for IMAGE OF THE DAY awards.
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A Most Energetic Spatial Croissant Researchers studying data from NASA's twin STEREO probes have found that ferocious solar storms called CMEs (coronal mass ejections) are shaped like a French pastry. The elegance and simplicity of the new "croissant model" is expected to dramatically improve forecasts of severe space weather.
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AEHF Thermally Vacuumed By Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite, a major program milestone that proves spacecraft performance and functionality in a complete test-like-you-fly environment.
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James Webb Telescope Gets A Cold Reception At Marshall Space Flight Center The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. To give engineers absolute certainty the mirrors can withstand the rigors of space, they will be polished more and tested again.
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Time Triggering + TTEthernet Attract NASA's Interest NASA and TTTech have signed a Space Act Agreement, with the objective of this partnership being to support NASA's technology needs for design of highly dependable integrated embedded systems.
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CommunicAsia2009 Covers Cutting Edge Tech In Singapore Style CommunicAsia2009 and BroadcastAsia2009 are expected to feature approximately 2,000 exhibiting companies from 65 countries and regions from across the globe, demonstrating the strong demand by companies to expand their footprint in Asia’s emerging markets and the importance of the annual exhibitions as networking and sourcing platforms for the global infocomm and media industries.
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April 13, 2009 digiGO! — NAB Surround Yourself With Sound Made Easier By Linear Acoustic and Cobalt Digital Ah! The economic pinch is felt in all areas of life forcing even broadcasters to work with shrinking budgets while engineers and executives are demanding audio processing systems that feature more robust functionality in preparing legacy media assets for 5.1 delivery.
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Qual-Pro Protégé Picked For DoD's Nunn-Perry Award The California Space Authority (CSA) congratulates Qual-Pro on being awarded the 2009 Department of Defense (DOD) Nunn-Perry Award for their exceptional growth and technological expansion under the Department of Defense Mentor-Prot?g? Program (MPP).
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Galaxy Broadband Says Encore to Bandits In Space Canada's Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc. has selected Encore's BANDIT line of industrially hardened routers for their satellite networks, systems and solutions throughout Canada enabling Galaxy customers to create end-to-end VPN's across both satellite and terrestrial networks.
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San Diego Is Host Location For ISCe 2009 Hannover Fairs USA, Inc. announced the conference program and keynote speakers for the 8th annual ISCe Conference.
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Cassini's Crater Contemplation A large crater on Saturn's tiny moon Janus is distinctly visible in this Cassini spacecraft image.
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MakaLani's Mahalo Nui Loa MakaLani, LLC of Hawaii has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with RapidEye AG of Brandenburg, Germany, to be the distributor in the United States of RapidEye satellite based optical data and services to the United States Government, focusing on the Defense and the Intelligence Community.
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SWE-DISH SATCOMs Satisfy SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath? company, has been granted U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses for the SWE-DISH Drive-Away CCT120 and Suitcase? CCT120 SATCOM terminals.
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VSAT Victory For Globecomm Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has received a three-year VSAT access service contract from a U.S. Government Agency valued at $3.4 million.
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Moving On Up @ Orbital Sciences... General Hamel (USAF, Ret) Joins Company Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) has announced that Lt. Gen. Michael A. Hamel (U.S. Air Force, retired) has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development.
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digiGO! — NAB: Wegener Into Localization Wegener Corporation — Booth SU7913 — The Company (Nasdaq: WGNR) will introduce CompelConnect.com, a web-based network control system for media networks, at NAB.
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digiGO! NAB: Rohde & Schwarz Doing Demos Rohde & Schwarz — Booth C1933 — will conduct live ATSC Mobile DTV and Single Frequency Network (SFN) demonstrations during NAB.
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Nagravision's PayTV Solutions For SatOps + More... Nagravision — Booth SU5017 —the Company offers visitors the opportunity to see and discuss their wide range of solutions, for Pay TV operators, that are ready-to-deploy over satellite, terrestrial, hybrid and mobile networks.
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CameraCorps' Cool Camera With Remote Capabilities Camera Corps — Booth C7642 — the Company's new Q-Ball HD/SD remote camera, launching at NAB 2009, elevates multicam into multicolor and is available in practically any finish.
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Disasters Receive Help In Many Formats — Enter TSF Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) has once again offered their assistance, and is providing standby support to aid groups after the devastating earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy.
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digiGO! — NAB: Cinergy Comes Forward With Tools Freebie Cinergy — Booth SU3121 — for the first time ever, Cinegy has made its entire suite of workflow tools available to test, free of charge.
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digiGO! — NAB: ATEME's Content Beliefs ATEME — Booth SU6326 — the Company will be demo'ing its latest solutions for the delivery of on-demand and live delivery of content, including HD content encoding, ATSC & DVB? head-ends, broadcast VOD, multimedia mobile and Web 2.0.
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digiGO! — NAB: Annova Systems Links Media Creation Annova Systems — Booth SU10224A — will introduce version 3.6 of OpenMedia at NAB.
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digiGO! — Moving Content With Alacrity Is An Artel Goal Artel Video Systems has released three new modules for the DL4000 Digital Video Transport System.
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Low Bit Rates In New SD Encoders From Telairity Telairity has debuted Series 9000, a new line of standard-definition (SD) H.264/AVC encoders offering unequaled video quality at bit rates as low as 500Kbps.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Lava + Ash Sally Forth From La Cumbre Volcano In early April 2009, La Cumbre Volcano on Isla Fernandina in the Galapagos Islands erupted.
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Northrop Grumman Brings UAVs and More To Latin American Show Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will highlight a wide range of naval and airborne capabilities at the 2009 Latin America Aerospace and Defence (LAAD) show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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UAVs To Become Wind Warriors With Vortex 2 Tornado Study The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2 (VORTEX2) is the largest and most ambitious field experiment in history to explore tornadoes.
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April 12, 2009 digiGO! — White Space Opportunities After an epic battle between the U.S. broadcasting industry and high-tech companies, the FCC ruled in November 2008 that it would open up white space spectrum (54 MHz to 698 MHz) once TV stations move from analog to digital transmissions and no longer need the bandwidth “guard rails” required by analog. Congress has set the date for that transition for June 2009.
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Frigid Factor Testing Proves Reliability Of De-Ice From Walton Over the past several days, Walton De-Ice has conducted a series on .98m Ku- and Ka-band r/t antennas with Snow Shields and the Company's just introduced Ice Quake.
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Dig Into DISA Discussions Join Army LTG Carroll Pollett, DISA Director and Commander of the Joint Task Force — Global Network Operations, as well as the entire DISA leadership for this year’s conference at the Anaheim Convention Center in California from April 20–24, 2009 — this year’s theme is One Force. One Focus. Connected.
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Comtech AeroAstro's Birthday Bonanza With STPSat-1 Comtech AeroAstro, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) has announced today their satellite STPSat-1, built for DoD’s Space Test Program (STP), has completed its second year of successful on-orbit operation.
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Newtec Goes With the Flow Launching New Multistream Products Lots of new products being introduced at the upcoming NAB 2009 show from April 20-23 in Las Vegas, Nevada, including Newtec's two new products the AZ810 Stream Aggregator and the HZ914 Multistream Satellite Receiver, supporting DVB-S2 Multistream technology for the primary distribution of digital terrestrial and mobile TV content over satellite. Multistream reduces OPEX and CAPEX and increases broadcast efficiency over satellite.
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Marshall Delves Into Warfighter Issues @ DISA + NAB Conferences Marshall Communications Corporation (MARSHALL), a provider of Digital Video Broadcast, Return Channel via Satellite (DVB-RCS/S2) services for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), will be, once again highlighting Full Motion Video to the Warfighter at the upcoming DISA Customer Partnership Conference slated to take place April 20-22 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
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digiGO! — Harris' NEXIO Enriched Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) now offers new enhancements to their NEXIO family of video servers.?
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digiGO! — Front Porch Digital's Assets Discipline Front Porch Digital has released DIVAdirector 4.0, a focused "mini-MAM" (media asset management) package that enables content owners easily to repurpose, access, and browse proxies of digital media files using a familiar web-based interface.
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digiGO! — Pick + Mix With New Wohler Audio Monitor Wohler Technologies Inc. has released the AMP2-16-3G audio monitor, a 3Gbps-capable 16-channel monitor introduced to address broadcasters' migration to HD and their increasing reliance on higher-capacity 3Gbps video transport infrastructures.
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digiGO!: Mac Ingestion Aided By ToolsOnAir ToolsOnAir Broadcast Engineering has developed a new video capture solution for Mac OS X.
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digiGO! — Gain 3D Using Existing Hardware Doremi?has introduced the Company's latest contribution in 3D? technology?with?the?new?GXH?3D product.
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China's SATCOM Activities Target Oil Producing Nations From Kanwa Defense Review Monthly, reported by Jeff Chen and edited by Andrei Chang, comes a report focusing on China's recent sales of communication satellites to Nigeria, Pakistan, and Venezuela.
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SumbandilaSat: From Sub To Space Wiseman Khuzwayo of Business Report & Independent Online (Pty) Ltd. is reporting that South Africa expects to launch its second microsatellite into low Earth orbit by June, after several cancellations.
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April 10, 2009 The Care and Feeding of the Herschel Spacecraft Preparations are underway for getting ready to fuel up the Herschel spacecraft, everything is in place for fuelling to be completed this week.
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April 9, 2009 SICRAL 1B Sea Launch Set The SICRAL 1B satellite is scheduled for launch on April 19, on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Defence.
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A Bridge For Transponder Signals Bridge Technologies has announced the VB270, a new VideoBRIDGE module that provides monitoring and analysis of signals in DVB-S and DVB-S2 satellite transponders.
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XMM-Newton's Messier 182 Complex The European Space Agency's (ESA) spaceborne X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has carried out an exclusive observation of the galaxy Messier 82, for the '100 Hours of Astronomy' cornerstone project for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
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Aurora Flight Sciences Draws DARPA Development Distinction DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to develop small engines designed for high efficiency, high power density and quiet operations.
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digiGO! — NAB: Applying VOIP To DoD Enterprise Offering From HaiVision HaiVision Network Video has announced that Andy Vaughan, the company's director of U.S. federal sales, will be a presenter at the Military & Government Summit during the 2009 NAB Show.
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Arianespace Flies in Finance and Space Despite the downturn in much of the world's economy, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders for Arianespace on April 8 in Evry, France, announced 2008 sales of 955.7 million euros, with net income of 2.5 million euros.
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Sevis' Better Backhauling With Datum Certification Sevis Systems, a global provider of advanced mobile solutions, has announced they have successfully certified their 6000 Series mobile backhaul products with Datum Systems’ PSM-500 Series SCPC modems.
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Capacity Gained By Juch-Tech On Intelsat's IS-1R Intelsat, Ltd. has announced Juch-Tech Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with the Company for capacity at 315 degrees E.
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Dish Support Debuts From TV4RV TV4RV has introduced a new Heavy-Duty Tripod specifically designed for easy support and aiming of HD satellite dishes.
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LMC's SMC SBIRS PDR OK The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) team has submitted its proposal for the program's follow-on production phase and has completed a major Preliminary Design Review (PDR) milestone with the U.S. Air Force.
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Cassini Reveals Mini Moon Appearing in the Grand Scheme of Space Now a new discovery courtesy of the Cassini Equinox Mission, this time a new found tiny moonlet appearing in the faint G ring surrounding Saturn.
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digiGO! — NAB: TANDBERG Delivers Over Satellite TANDBERG Television will unveil a selection of new products for video contribution and distribution at the NAB Show.
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Space — In-Depth — From Research and Markets Research and Markets has added John Wiley and Sons Ltd.'s new report Handbook of Space Technology to their offerings.
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Go-To-Market Strategy Brings ORBCOMM Into The Picture For GE ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC), with its subsidiary, Stellar Satellite Communications Ltd., has announced the entering into several agreements with General Electric Asset Intelligence, LLC (GEAI).
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April 8, 2009 Multiple Wins For KVH Industries' Products KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has received a total of $3.8 million in new orders for its precision fiber optic gyro (FOG) systems, three international prime contractors have now placed a total of $1.3 million in new orders for tactical navigation systems, and the Company's Persian Gulf contract is now operational.
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African Sites To Gain SkyWAN Capabilities ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, has received a 2-year frame contract from Q-KON, a service provider based in South Africa, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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ESA Brings SciSys' Expertise For On-Board Sat OS Partitioning The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a team led by space software experts SciSys to undertake a proof-of-concept investigation into an innovative technique for securely partitioning on-board satellite software.
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Thales Alenia Space Plant + Employees In L'Aquila, Italy, Suffer Due To Earthquake Thales Alenia Space, jointly owned by Thales and Finmeccanica , has a plant in L’Aquila (Italy) and is the leading private employer in the city, with 290 employees dedicated to the production of electronic equipment for space applications.
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Tri-Axis — Self-Aligning — Motorized — MotoSAT's Combo Antenna Debuts MotoSAT has released their MESA™ series, this being the first tri-axis, motorized, self-aligning VSAT antenna for fixed applications.
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Chill, Webb, Chill The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Duo Of SATCOM Supports Debut From Comtech EF Data New from Comtech EF Data is the immediate availability of VersaFEC and their 1:1 and 1:N redundancy for their CDM-710G High-Speed Satellite Modem.
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MDA Goes Solo — RapidEye Agrees A vote of confidence from RapidEye was validated in a new contractual agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), in which MDA will be the sole supplier of direct downlink solutions for RapidEye's international ground station customers.
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digiGO! — NAB: Fujitsu Brings Forth Compact MPEG-4 AVC Encoder Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. has unveiled their IP-900, a compact MPEG-4 AVC encoder for real-time IP transmission of HD SD content for news gathering and remote applications.
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Herschel's Final Checks All That Remain Before Duo Sat Launch The second Ariane 5 launch of 2009 is now scheduled for a May 6 liftoff, following additional flight worthiness checks performed on one of its two payloads: the Herschel space telescope.
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Swirling Dust Makes for a Glittering Halo In An Oddball Galaxy The amazing NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has sent a captivating image of NGC 7049, a mysterious looking galaxy on the border between spiral and elliptical galaxies.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Redoubt's Volcanic Lahars Threatened Oil Facility In addition to volcanic ash, the eruption of Alaska’s Mount Redoubt posed another hazard in early April 2009 — the volcano’s activity sent lahars (muddy volcanic avalanches) through Drift River Valley, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. An oil storage facility, the Drift River Oil Terminal, is located in the river valley, and a catastrophic lahar could have caused an oil spill.
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Cassini Gets Rhea Rays With streaks of icy material thrown in many directions, a huge ray crater stretches across nearly half of the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Rhea.
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Eutelsat Demande, Comprendre Libre HD? Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has announced the upcoming launch of France’s free Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels via its ATLANTIC BIRD™ 3 satellite.
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Kepler Flips Its Lid Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.
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April 7, 2009 iDirect Is Hub-knobbing With CET Teleport iDirect, a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has announced that CET Teleport GmbH, a teleport operator based in Germany, has purchased an iDirect Series 15000 Universal Satellite Hub to launch a pan-African DVB-S2/ACM satellite network using newly available Ku-band capacity on Telstar’s T11N satellite.
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C-COM Gives Their Customers A Real Charge C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) has announced the availability of a Portable Solar Power System for the Company's Flyaway antennas.
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Russia Apparently Bringing IAI UAVs To Armed Forces Russia's Defense Ministry has decided to buy three types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) from Israel for $50 million, a respected Russian business paper reported on Tuesday.
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digiGO! — NAB: World Teleport Association Offers Content Distribution Intelligence The World Teleport Association (WTA) will be offering a Content Distribution Forum during NAB 2009.
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Boeing's Simultaneous ScanEagle Success Back on March 16th, Boeing [NYSE: BA] successfully demo'd simultaneous command and control of three ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Wedgetail 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft flying over Washington state.
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Battlefield Ops Gain MILSATCOM MobiLink From DataPath DataPath, Inc. is providing MobiLink™ Technologies communications on-the-move (COTM) systems to a deployed U.S. Army unit in support of battlefield operations.
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NSR Study Offers Some Positive SATCOM Considerations NSR LLC has released findings from its latest report, Broadband Satellite Markets, 8th Edition, that indicate the broadband satellite sector may remain relatively unaffected by the global economic crisis if a turnaround begins in the next 6 to 12 months.
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Financially Speaking... International Datacasting... International Datacasting Corporation (TSX: IDC), a provider of advanced global solutions for the distribution of broadband content via satellite, has announced the Company's financial results for the three- and 12-month periods ended January 31, 2009, with all figures stated in Canadian dollars.
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South American MobileOp Signs On For Backhaul SATCOM From Comtech EF Data Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) has announced their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has obtained a $2.2 million order for satellite communications equipment from a mobile operator in South America who will use the equipment to support a cellular backhaul network expansion.
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April 6, 2009 Telstar 11N Satellite Access By C2C Immediately Successful Independent Dutch telecom provider Carrier to Carrier Telecom B.V. (C2C) has successfully uplinked on the new Telstar 11N satellite, managing the uplink almost immediately upon the satellite's release for operations.
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CoreTrust Content Protection Relief For ART ART CEO Abdul Aziz Yamani and CoreTrust CEO Jehak Woo have signed an agreement for the Satellite Hybrid IP-VOD service platform in Seoul, Korea.
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Thuraya's Mobility Cemented Into Place In Korea As part of its strategy to expand its market presence in the Asia Pacific region, Thuraya has announced the launch of the Company's mobile satellite service in Korea.
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digiGO! — NAB: Dimetis GmbH Is BOSS Dimetis GmbH has launched their new Dimetis BOSS LINK Manager application, which will also be on display in the Dimetis Booth SU9920A, at NAB 2009 in the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 20th through April 23rd.
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RUAG To Assist With Satellites' Radiation Adventure RUAG Aerospace in Linkoping, Sweden, and in Vienna, Austria, have both received contracts from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to provide equipment for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission, of NASA’s “Living With a Star” program.
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SquireTech's Mobile Comm Solution Sees The Light Of Day Squire Tech Solutions LLC has announced at the National Hurricane Conference the Company's newest line of Mobile Response communications systems, the pCom(tm)300.
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SWE-DISH SATCOM Terminal Satisfies XTAR SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB has received XTAR approval for the SWE-DISH Suitcase? CCT120 ultra-portable SATCOM terminal to operate on its X-band satellite system.
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MCL/MITEQ Intros MITEQ/MCL have introduced three new products of interest for the SATCOM environs. They are the MT2500 Outdoor TWT Amplifier, a medium power X-band Rack-Mount Solid State Power Amplifier and Transmitter, and a medium power X-band Antenna Mount Solid State Power Amplifier and Transmitter.
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digiGO! — Digital Rapids | ROSS VIDEO + CBS digiGO! — Digital Rapids | ROSS VIDEO + CBS
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Integral Gobbles Great Gamma Gust The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that Integral has captured one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever seen.
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ARINC's New HFDL Capabilities ARINC Incorporated has deployed a new High Frequency Data Link (HFDL) station in Panama to enhance its GLOBALink HFDL coverage.
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iDirect Gets To the Hub Of The Matter iDirect, a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has announced NewWave Broadband Ltd. has ordered US$2 million in SATCOM products to expand its popular maritime VSAT service and grow its land-based market.
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Boeing Reports Healthy Communications and Strong Pulse from WGS-2 First the launch on April 3, and now the first on-orbit signals from the second of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites have been acknowledged by Boeing [NYSE: BA].
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Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch of SICRAL 1B The Sea Launch vessels have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the Equator, in preparation for the launch of Telespazio’s SICRAL 1B communication satellite, on April 19.
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Financially Speaking... International Datacasting Corp... International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC), who provides advanced global solutions for the distribution of broadband content via satellite, has announced the Company's financial results for the three- and 12-month periods ended January 31, 2009. All figures are stated in Canadian dollars.
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digiGO! — NAB: Telos Z/IPs It Up Telos Systems will be showing the new, smaller 2RU rackmount Zephyr/IP and the rugged, road-ready portable version, the Z/IP Mixer, at NAB in booth N7620.
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Trailer Talk From AAE Systems AAE Systems, Inc. (AAE) has reached a major milestone as the Company celebrates 25 years of innovation in delivering comprehensive satellite-based communications solutions to its international, multi-industry customer base — to commemorate its silver anniversary, AAE Systems will release their lightweight mobile communications trailer (LMCT) system.
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digiGO! — NAB: Omnia Suggests You Listen To This... Omnia Audio will be showing the Omnia ONE Studio Pro, the 1RU wonder that blends the power and elegance of Omnia processing with a lower-delay, full bandwidth processor, at NAB in booth N7620.
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UAVs To Receive An Increased Ingestion Of DoD Budget Support The chopping block — that's where the F-22 Raptors, the Prez chopper, and some armored vehicles have ended up within Defense Secretary Gates' new budget plan for the Department of Defense (DoD).
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SIMCLAIRS Start Soon — UAV Improvements The Goal The European Defence Agency (EDA) signed the contract on the Studies for Integrated Multifunction Compact Lightweight Airborne Radars and Systems (SIMCLAIRS) on March 31, 2009, an ad-hoc category B project, with a consortium consisting of national industrial companies from three EDA participating Member States: France, Sweden and United Kingdom.
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Canada Makes Support Services Selection For SUAVs The Minister of Public Works and Government Services, the Honourable Christian Paradis, and the Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, the Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, as well as the Minister of Industry, the Honourable Tony Clement, announced that the Government of Canada has awarded a contract to Insitu Inc. of Bingen, Washington, USA, to provide small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) services to support the Canadian Forces.
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U.S. Northern Border To Be Watched By Predator UAV Building upon the success of conducting US-Mexico border surveillance with Predator UAVs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced plans to use one of the unmanned aircraft to patrol the border between Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
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This Won't Happen Any Earlier Than June 2nd — LRO/LCROSS Launch NASA has rescheduled the launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LRO / LCROSS) to a date no earlier than June 2nd.
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Harris Is a Hero to Wounded Warriors The best and the brightest are unfortunately the ones, who when defending their country, are the first to suffer horrible injuries.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Italian Quake Occurs In Rugged Terrain A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit central Italy on April 6, 2009, killing at least 91 people, and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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Acquisition Accomplishment: Rochester Electronics + National Semiconductor Inventory Rochester Electronics, an aftermarket supplier of integrated circuits, has purchased National Semiconductor Corp.'s space-level logic radiation-hardened inventory.
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GOCE's Turned On With Electric Ion Propulsion GOCE's sophisticated electric ion propulsion system has been switched on and confirmed to be operating normally, marking another crucial milestone in the satellite's post-launch commissioning phase, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
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April 5, 2009 Galaxial Wonderments Of The Universe — Telescope Travels To celebrate the 100 Hours of Astronomy, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is sharing two, stunning images of unusual galaxies, both belonging to the Sculptor group of galaxies. The images, obtained at two of ESO’s observatories at La Silla and Paranal in Chile, illustrate the beauty of astronomy.
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ULA and USAF Launches WGS-2 — Enhanced Communications For Warfighters Pure beauty, and it's GO! at last — United Launch Alliance and the U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center (USAF/SMC) achieved a launch of the WGS-2 mission, which marks the fifteenth Atlas V launch and the third launch of an Atlas V 421 configuration.
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WSG-2 Put Through The Mill With the successful launch of the WGS-2 satellite on Friday evening, United Launch Services provided real-time streaming of the lift off and also included in their coverage an excerpt from a Boeing video that was focused on WGS.
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North Korean Satellite Splashed Down But Missile Made The Grade On the morning of April 5th, the North Korean government launched a missile over Japan, a missile whose payload was alleged to be a small satellite.
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Satlynx Gains Arabsat Access For MEA SATCOM Satlynx, a GE company and a provider of satellite telecommunications, has announced an agreement for the purchase of a significant volume of capacity on the Arabsat-5A satellite, which will be available for commercial service early in 2010.
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Ball Bringing "Thinking" To Ares I Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by The Boeing Company as the contractor for the Ares I Instrument Unit Assembly (IUA) Flight Computer (FC) and Command Telemetry Computer (CTC).
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NGC's Legal Laborings Result In One Win + One Loss Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) has reached an agreement with the U.S. government to settle two legal matters. The settlement amounts for the two matters are equal and thereby offset each other.
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Nishant Is Nigh — UAV Flight Successful A news report in the online Sindh newspaper, SindhToday.net reports on the successful flight of Nishant, the indigenous unmanned air vehicle (UAV), starting a new chapter in the annals of Indian Aviation.
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NASA's Winners — Great Moonbuggy Contest For Off and Out of This World Racing NASA's calling them "off-world racing," and indeed, how about out of this world racing?
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April 3, 2009 W2A Wending Its Way To 10 Degrees East Eutelsat’s W2A satellite was successfully launched by International Launch Services (ILS) from the Ba?konour Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 10:24 p.m. local time on April 4th. Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor of the spacecraft, which will deliver services at the 10 degrees East longitude orbital position.
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Enterprising LinkStar Upgrades in Argentina ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) customer Velconet S.A. has initiated an upgrade to the LinkStar S2A system to increase bandwidth capacity, reduce networking costs, and provide faster network performance to 800 enterprise sites across Argentina.
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Boeing Determines They're On the Ball for the Ares 1 Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has been selected by Boeing as the contractor for the Ares 1 launch vehicle's Instrument Unit Assembly flight computer and command telemetry computer, Ball announced April 2.
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Fired Up and Fit at 40 — SES' Fleet Flies Onward and Upward SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, a division of SES S.A. [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], announces that the NSS-9 satellite today entered commercial service at the orbital location of 183 degrees East.
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Symmetricom Security Server Is Good For Time Served Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM) has announced their SyncServer(R) S300/S350 SAASM NTP Network Time Server meets the Global Positioning System (GPS) security requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
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Happy Birthday, SDL — 50 Years Of Solutions Celebrating their 50th anniversary is Space Dynamics Laboratory, providers of space-based and terrestrial solutions for commercial, civil, and defense customers.
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Big Tracking, Small Size, From Comtech AeroAstro Comtech AeroAstro Inc. has debuted their TrackPack, a highly reliable, self contained, environmentally hardened GPS tracking solution.
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Tunguska Tree Smasher Hypothesis A hydrogen-saturated portion of a comet is responsible for all of the flattened trees that resulted from the blast in Tunguska, Russia, back in 1908. This from a Russian scientist, reported by RIA Novosti.
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JAXA Is Fired Up The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reports a Captive Firing Test (CFT) was performed on April 2nd for the first stage flight model tank of the H-IIB Launch Vehicle.
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40th SES Sat Starts Service SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has announced the NSS-9 satellite has entered commercial service at the orbital location of 183 degrees East.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... A Hole Of Many Colors Surrounded by darker, deeper ocean waters, coral atolls often glow in vibrant hues of turquoise, teal, peacock blue, or aquamarine. Belize’s Lighthouse Reef Atoll fits this description, with its shallow waters covering light-colored coral: the combination of water and pale corals creates varying shades of blue-green.
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April 2, 2009 AeroGrid Obtain SatImagery From DigitalGlobe AeroGRID has signed an agreement with DigitalGlobe to resell the latter's high-resolution satellite imagery.
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Agilent Is Getting To Know You... Testing Base Station GPS Location Data Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has debuted GS-9000 Assisted GPS (A-GPS) Design Verification Test systems designed around the 8960 wireless communications test set's new A-GPS assistance data messaging test capabilities.
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RapidEye's Imagery To Enter New Markets With Russian Distributor RapidEye, who owns and operates their own constellation of Earth observation (EO) satellites, now has a partnership with the Moscow based company Sovzond, who will be the only distributor of RapidEye satellite imagery for markets in Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uszbekistan, Kyrgystan, and Turkmenistan.
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GOCE Gets Grounded With GMV GMV is providing active ground systems support for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) GOCE mission, which successfully launched from Plesetsk, Russia, on Tuesday, March 17th.
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Weather Fishing or Shipping, Vizada Let's You Be Prepared Help is on the way whether you are in the shipping or fishing industry.
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SSPI Heads In a New Direction There are some new members on the Board of Directors of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).
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NASA Inspector General Moving On Out ... Moving Onward... NASA's Inspector General
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German Pay-TV Betters Their Premier Offer SES ASTRA, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], announced that the German pay-TV channel Premiere has contracted one-and-a-half additional transponders on ASTRA`s prime orbital position 19.2 degrees East.
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Herschel + Planck Launch Date Arrested Verifications of the European space science payload on Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission are being continued, resulting in the postponement of a final launch date determination by a few days.
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Financially Speaking... GeoEye... GeoEye, Inc. has reported the Company's revenues of $40.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2008 and $146.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2008.
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A Strategic Command Decision For the U.S.A.F. The Air Force has announced Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, is the preferred alternative for the permanent location of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) headquarters, a new major command focused on the nuclear and global strike mission.
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Iridium Gets The Final Once Over From RTCA For Transoceanic Flight Communications The Radio-Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) Special Committee 215 (SC-215) has finalized key documents to facilitate evaluation and approval of Iridium-based critical safety communications for air carriers on transoceanic flights.
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Raven UAS Is Persistent @ Roberts Demo The U.S. Army Product Manager for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) and AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (NASDAQ: AVAV) recently conducted a continuous 30-hour demonstration of persistent surveillance of a point target using AV’s RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft system.
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Virtual Raven Training SDS International (SDS) has debuted RavenView, an innovative and affordable PC-based product that allows warfighters to conduct Small Unmanned Air Vehicle (SUAV) tactical training in highly-realistic, virtual worldwide environments using the SUAV's actual common Ground Control Station (GCS).
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It's All In The ATK Attitude Control Alliant Techsystems , NASA, and industry partners Lockheed Martin Corporation and Orbital Sciences Corporation have successfully performed a ground test firing of a sub-scale attitude control motor thruster system for the launch abort system (LAS) of NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV).
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Waveform Accomplishment By ITT ITT Corporation's (NYSE:ITT) Communications Systems has announced the qualification and release of the Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) 1.0C waveform.
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Agreeable Accords: DISH + Univision DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) has signed a multi-year agreement with Univision Communications Inc., the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States.
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Nansen Frigates To Receive Overwatch SATCOM Antennas Overwatch Tactical Operations, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), has announced their Communication Systems business area has received an award from Thales - France to provide five sets of Ka/Ku multiband satellite communications (SATCOM) antennas for use on the Royal Norwegian Navy’s Nansen-class frigates.
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A Positive Partnership: Numerex + Geoforce Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) and Geoforce are expanding their partnership to deliver innovative, flexible inventory asset tracking services throughout the world.
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Supply Chain Comm — Impeva Supports AAFES Impeva Labs, Inc. is providing support to the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) for selected high-value shipments bound for Iraq.
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New AMC-3 Capacity For Gulfcom SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG)(LuxX:SESG), has announced Gulfcom has signed a five-year distribution agreement to meet the niche programming needs of cable operators serving the tropical region.
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Present + Future Imagery From DigitalGlobe OK'd For UoSignapore DigitalGlobe has signed a direct access agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to receive high-resolution imagery from its WorldView-1 satellite and WorldView-2 upon its launch in the third quarter of 2009.
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digiGO! — NAB: WEGENER Brings Subject Matter Experts To Show Wegener Corporation (Nasdaq: WGNR) announced that WEGENER? representatives will participate in two sessions during the 2009 NAB Show in April.
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digiGO! — NAB: Mobility Rules @ Rohde & Schwarz Booth Rohde & Schwarz will begin shipping a comprehensive ATSC Mobile DTV product family employing ATSC-M/H technology beginning in April 2009 and the Company will be showing the proudct in booth C1933 at NAB.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Namibian Water Excess At least 350,000 people were affected by flooding in Namibia during the annual rainy season in southern Africa in March 2009.
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UAV Of The Balloon Variety Gains GSA Goodie Top Eye View Inc. has been awarded a U.S. General Services Administration schedule contract for its unmanned aerial vehicle technologies.
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April 1, 2009 Space Foundation Reveals Hopes and Satellites are HIGH! The SatNews team has been in Colorado and the returns from the Space Foundation's annual symposium revealed that the space industry boosted revenues by $6 billion to $257 billion in 2008, up from $187 billion three years ago.
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Making M2M More Marvelous Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) has launched their new M2M Developer Exchange™ to foster better ongoing information exchange among the M2M development community.
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Mobile DTV Descends On Vegas The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), an alliance of U.S. commercial and public broadcasters committed to the development of mobile digital television, will have a booth in Central Hall at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas and will host a breakfast session on Monday, April 20.
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Cell Satisfaction From SkyTerra, TerreStar + Infineon Infineon Technologies, SkyTerra, and TerreStar Networks have jointly announced the world’s first multi-standard mobile platform based on Infineon’s software-defined-radio (SDR) technology.
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U.S.A.F. Wideband Global SATCOM-2 Is On Again . . .Hopefully Weather and other issues have been frustrating factors in the launch of the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-2 satellite aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, that is now officially scheduled on the Eastern Range for April 3.
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T(h)anks for the Sun Shields! United Launch Alliance Extreme heat and liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants are not a good combination, and so a successful preliminary design and development of an in-space inflatable sun shield for the Atlas V launch vehicle’s upper stage has been presented by United Launch Alliance (ULA) engineers.
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Alcatel-Lucent, SkyTerra and TerreStar Support 3G, "Can You Hear Me Now?" A partnership between SkyTerra and TerreStar Networks results in the development of innovative mobile network technology that integrates Qualcomm’s EV-DO-based satellite communications technology into an Alcatel-Lucent base station for hard-to-reach and underserved areas.
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Rockwell Collins Sets a Straight Path to Purchase DataPath Announcement comes today from Rockwell Collins, Inc. [NYSE: COL] of its intent to acquire DataPath, Inc., a creator of satellite-based network communication solutions.
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No Cause For Divide Thanks to BBSat's Service to Japan's Digital Divide BB SAT Co., Ltd. (Japan) today announced the commencement of its satellite broadband service in Japan.
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SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES Brings Caribbean Cable Services to Sandy Spaces Described as having its footprint in the sand on virtually every Caribbean island, SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, a division of SES S.A. [Paris:SESG][LuxX:SESG], today announced Gulfcom has signed a five-year distribution agreement to meet the niche programming needs of cable operators serving the tropical region.
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