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April 30, 2019 Kepler Has a New Strategy Advisor to Business Units ... He Comes from Inmarsat He led a number of initiatives including the acquisition of various companies, securing EU-wide spectrum licenses advancing Inmarsat’s market strength
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Firefly Aerospace's Successful Test Achieves a Major Milestone Toward Flight Qualification of Second Stage The length of the test successfully demonstrates the capability of the integrated system (flight avionics, structures, and propulsion systems)
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HISPASAT's Amazonas-5 HUB Gateway Manages Mexican Smartellites™ hiSky Terminals With the new HUB installed in Mexico, hiSky's unique NMS (Network Management System) is capable to control thousands of terminals in the...
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Lockheed Martin Names Former NASA Exec. to VP, Strategy & Business Development, and Five Additional VPs In his new role, Lightfoot will lead strategic planning, advanced technology concepts, and new business strategy for the corporation's Space business...
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C5ISR Award to Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Kratos supports C5ISR Systems that include Patriot, THAAD, other missile and radar systems, unmanned aerial systems, CBRNE and surface...
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ORBCOMM and Kordia Receive AIS Contract Extension from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority ORBCOMM and Kordia will provide satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data used for ship tracking and other maritime navigational ...
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India Preparing to Launch Radar Imaging Satellite, RISAT 2BR1, in Late May The rocket to carry RISAT 2BR1 is designated as PSLV-C46 as per ISRO's numbering system and will blast off from India's Sriharikota launch location...
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SSTL Gains New EO Data Contract with Airbus SSTL will retain ownership and in orbit satellite operation and will lease imaging payload capacity to Airbus for the lifetime of the satellite, designed...
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Capella Space Smallsat Constellation to be Equipped with Blue Canyon Technologies Attitude Control Systems After the success of its first satellite, Denali, which served as a test bed for calibrating on-orbit operations, Capella is enhancing the design of its...
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April 29, 2019 The Asia Video Industry Association to Present 2019 Edition of the Satellite Industry Forum Over the past year, a profound change in the satellite industry has been witnessed by all — evolving consumption habits have led to fast-paced
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FCC Approves SpaceX’s Plans to Fly Internet-Beaming Satellites in a Lower Orbit Instead of flying them at 1,150 kilometers, the company now wants to fly them much lower at 550 kilometers. And now the FCC is on board.
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ISRO Postpones Chandrayaan-2 To July After Israel's Failed Moon Mission The launch of India's Moon mission was scheduled in April but it was postponed after Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashed during moon landing
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NSR Publishes The Second Edition of Their Emerging Space Markets Analysis Of the $17.8 billion identified in NSR’s Emerging Space Markets Analysis, 2nd Edition report as funding made in emerging space markets...
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Finalists Named for World Teleport Association' s Teleport Awards for Excellence WTA selects its finalists from nominations submitted to the association by both members and non-members. Recipients are selected by a vote of the...
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Datum Systems and Continuous Satellite Data's Latest Opportunity with an Opportunistic Modem™ Through bonding of up to 8 disjoint spaces of satellite spectrum the OM™ uses satellite capacity that would otherwise be “stranded” due to
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NSR Reports the Leader in Cellular Backhaul Shipments is Gilat Gilat’s cellular backhaul leadership is most noteworthy with tier-1 MNOs deploying LTE networks throughout the globe. Such deployments include...
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Satcom Global's New President of Asia Pacific ... He Was Inmarsat's VP Focused in a Maritime Capacity The maritime sector is going through a period of great change and requires increasing communication connectivity at greater speeds, capacity and ...
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World Teleport Association's 2019 Teleport Executive of the Year ... He is CETel's CEO Even under harsh economic conditions that teleports have been faced with around 2012, he maneuvered CETel safely, successfully and profitably and created
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Space & Satellite Professionals International's New President of the Board ... He's Newtec's CEO Building the commercial space economy that will employ a million people in space. Everyday, they are making a better world from outside the atmosphere
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SpeQtral Announces $1.9 Million Seed Funding to Power Space-Based Quantum Comms Systems Formerly known as S15 Space Systems, SpeQtral is building space-based quantum communication systems rooted in advanced technologies ...
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Datum's Big Steps to a Bigger Company Include a Major Mesa Move and Promotion responsible for leading Datum through the new Satcom era of multi-orbit, multi-band high-throughput networks, GEO/MEO/LEO satellite constellations
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High-Speed, On-The-Move Connectivity Solution Debuts from UHP Networks These solutions comprise several key features, such as seamless switchover of mobile VSAT terminals between satellite beams, load...
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SES Networks and Teleglobal Bring Broadband Access and Mobile Connectivity Services to Rural Indonesia
mobile services will not only empower these underserved communities, but also unlock the as-yet-untapped economic potential of the digital economy.
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April 28, 2019 Renesas Brings Rad-Tol PWM Controller and GaN FET Driver to the Smallsat Market The ISL71043M single-ended current mode PWM controller and ISL71040M low-side GaN FET driver provide the ideal isolated flyback and...
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Contract for Composite Manufacturing Signed Between Omega Systèmes and Airbus The contract includes material management, cutting services, storage and the delivery of composite parts for major fly and non-fly materials...
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Win a Free Launch of a 1U Cubesat in a Contest Sponsored by the IAF and GK Launch Services The launcher will be Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat. The new generation of Soyuz launchers features high reliability and multi-functionality and will be...
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Airbus and Orbital Insight Take Another Step with Earth Monitor ... Provides Geopolitical and Economic Insights fuses Airbus’ reactive tasking capabilities and premium archive imagery from the Living Library to offer access to advanced statistical analyses, trends and detection maps.
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Cobham Introduces New Triple-Band Helix Antenna The new Helix, model number TAMH-1.6-2.4-5.8/2453, is designed to SWaP principles — improved performance while reducing Size, Weight and Power...
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April 26, 2019 Secure World Foundation Panel to Focus on India's ASAT Test A panel of experts will discuss potential consequences and fall-out from India's ASAT test during this Secure World Foundation event...
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Forrester Reports: Questioning Musk's Starlink Plans, and, a New SES Networks Division Deal Just a few days ago, Musk requested that SpaceX investors to raise an additional $500 million to help fund production of Starlink satellites. Musk...
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April 25, 2019 Comtech EF Data's Heights™ Networking Platform's Newest Family Addition ... H-Pico Heights™ Remote Gateway H-Pico supports multiple remote to hub throughput tiers up to 10 Mbps, which is managed via a centralized licensing capability. This scheme allows...
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Horizon Technologies FlyingFish™ SIGINT System Adapted for Satellite Applications Catapult Smallsat Funded by Innovate UK, it is expected that the satellite will be on-orbit and operational before the end of 2020. At present, all ships are fitted with...
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Pentagon Wants to Test a Space-Based Weapon in 2023 Such weapons are needed to counter new missiles from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, but just figuring out what might work is a difficult technical
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China Exploits 9 U.S. Satellites in Space to Advance Their Military, Missile Guidance it is illegal under U.S. law for private companies to send satellites to China for their use, but there aren’t any laws to prohibit how a satellite’s bandwidth is used
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ORBCOMM Signs ÅAC Microtec's Clyde Space to Build Two Smallsats Under the contract, Clyde Space will install three dedicated AIS receivers including a receiver based on a software-defined radio (SDR) on each of...
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Redesign of Military Space Architecture Includes GPS We have to get out of golf and start playing rugby, Dickey said. “We have to be able to take a punch and keep doing what we do.”
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Satcube to Demo Satcube Ku Satellite Terminal Satcube provides seamless broadband connectivity over satellite through easy to use, lightweight terminals. The innovative Satcube Ku portable...
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DoD Continues Push for Proposed Space Force “The scope and scale of the threats to our space systems is at an all time high and expanding,”
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Breaks Ground on New EMD Facility in Arkansas The 17,000 square-foot Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) facility, set to open in spring 2020, will expand the company's...
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April 24, 2019 Paradigm to Showcase their COTM and COTP Terminal The MANTA is the complete solution for ‘anywhere’ IP data connectivity via WiFi and Ethernet by just adding power — SATCOM made simple. The...
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RF-Design Getting Prepared to Spotlight Their RF Product Families Show attendees can will be able to explore the company's latest RF-o-Fiber, Line Amplifiers and Switch Matrix Systems at the booth and share ...
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Spectra Group's (UK) Queen’s Award for Enterprise Provides Life Saving Capabilities
Life and death in the battlefield can be the result of visibility, whether from Line of Sight to Beyond Line of Sight, and when this is accomplished it
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Relativity Space to Launch mu Space's Satellite Using 3D Printed Terran 1 Rocket Relativity’s patented 3D printing technology platform, together with Terran 1’s flexible architecture, provides mu Space a faster and more reliable ...
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Speedcast Appoints New Senior VP of the Firm's Media and Broadcast Team In his new role at Speedcast, he will help Broadcasters and Media companies navigate the complexities of global content distribution and the...
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Forrester Reports: OneWeb's Commercial Services to Start in 2021 and 650 Satellites in Orbit OneWeb, in partnership with Airbus, is now building those satellites at a rate of at least one a day. The launch rate will continue until there are 650...
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Partnership Agreement for IGC Services Signed Between Viasat and China Satellite Communications Company Viasat and China Satcom will work in partnership to enable Viasat’s global airline customers to have roaming connectivity when flying over China...
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Xplornet Signs an Agreement with Hughes for Most of the Canadian Capacity on the JUPITER 3 Satellite For rural Canadians, the JUPITER 3 satellite will make internet download speeds of 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) available. Planned for launch...
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April 23, 2019 Double Debuts from IEC Telecom Feature Thuraya Comms Technologies IEC Telecom’s Thuraya VSAT+ service provides traffic optimization for a better user experience and flexible tariff plans with no yearly lock-in...
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Pre-Solicitation by the National Geospatial Agency for Satellite Altimetry Modeling This effort is to create satellite based altimetry models of the world. The models will be fully produced and their error calculated prior to being given ...
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Terrasat Communications' Newest ... IBUC 3 to be Revealed at Satellite 2019 This latest in Terrasat's technology is now an ultra-lightweight, super compact, available up to 40W and comes with a three-year warranty.
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A SpaceX Crew Dragon Safety Test Went Very Wrong. Here's Why That Matters But Florida Today reported that a smoke plume was visible for "miles" around Cape Canaveral after the incident.
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37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference Requesting Submission of Papers Satellite communication industries in Asia-Pacific region and the activities will be expected to be introduced during the 37th ICSSC. With the...
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The UAE's Mars Mission Hope Probe Reaches an 85 Percent Build Completion The 1.5 ton Hope Probe build is now 85 percent complete, according to the organizations, with the majority of the parts in place with the unit going ...
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Viasat's Key Milestone ... Ships 1,000 BATS-D Link 16 Radios Viasat has steadily increased BATS-D production capabilities in response to growing demand. The BATS-D handheld Link 16 radio is part of Viasat’s...
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C-Band Alliance Proposal for 5G Spectrum Roll-Out Gains Independent Support Additionally, the CBA issued a ‘Public Interest’ list of responses to the various grumbles presented to the FCC. Notably, the Alliance stresses that ...
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Airbus' New Head of Space Systems ... He is "One of Their Most Experienced Executives in the Division" he is one of their most experienced executives in the division and with his extensive industrial expertise, accumulated over many years in our company,
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April 22, 2019 The Latest Lost Satellite is Now Space Junk that Could Put Other Spacecraft at Risk “It’s a big problem, because now basically you have a floating bomb in GEO,”
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BAE Systems Makes Space Missions More Flexible with New Software-Defined Radio Assembly provides multiple receive and transmit channels that can be configured for different applications, like weather sensing, flexible communications payload,
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The Pentagon is Investing in Space Robots to Repair Satellites robots offer the best bet for inspecting and repairing high-altitude satellites, especially with the number of satellites set to skyrocket due to a budding
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Amid Worry Over Space Wars, America Already has Tools to Shoot Down Satellites Russia and China, too, have anti-satellite technologies. They are including space in the future war plans.
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How This NASA Telescope is Defending the Earth From Asteroids about 20,000 near-Earth objects have flitted in and out of our neighborhood in recent decades—almost 900 of which were more than 3,200 feet across.
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China's 20th Global Navigation Satellite is Launched After it was launched close to midnight on Saturday, April 20, from the Xichang center in southwest China, the latest addition to the Beidou...
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Video Appears to Show SpaceX's New Spaceship for NASA Exploding During a Safety Test On Sunday, an unverified video on Twitter claimed to show the space capsule exploding during the test.
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DISA Awards Iridium with EMSS Ground Site Contract Dedicated for use by the U.S. DoD, their Iridium gateway serves as the uplink and downlink point for the DoD’s EMSS communications capabilities through
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Blue Canyon Technologies' New Mexico Expansion is One of the Largest to Create Some of the Smallest Satellites The new space will be an advantage to support execution of the DARPA Blackjack Phase 1 program, as well as the AFRL ASCENT program.
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Hubble's 29th Anniversary Celebrates with a Colorful Crab ... Southern Crab Nebula Hubble's landmark accomplishments include making the deepest views ever taken of the evolving universe, finding planet-forming disks around ...
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Final Phase of Construction by Boeing for the Kacific1 Satellite Kacific Broadband Satellites Group’s (Kacific) first satellite is a High Throughput Satellite (HTS) currently in production at Boeing’s El Segundo...
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The Lockheed Martin Built AEHF-5 Satellite for the USAF Arrives in Florida for Launch The satellite was transported from the Lockheed Martin satellite integration facility in Sunnyvale, California, via a C-5 Super Galaxy aircraft. The C-5...
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Forsway Engaged in 5G Development Project with European Space Agency Forsway's 5G project aims to enable and simplify a communication service provider's (CSP) ability to significantly accelerate slow or congested...
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Key Ground Station Manufacturers Partner with Infostellar As a result of these partnerships, StellarStation has been deemed compatible with several widely used ground station hardware options...
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April 21, 2019 The Intelsat-29e Satellite Announced as a Total Loss A failure review board has been convened by Intelsat with the satellite’s manufacturer, Boeing, to complete a comprehensive analysis of the cause...
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The Space Economy's Future to be Explored by ArianeGroup, HEC Paris and ESA This collaborative venture will direct and oversee research projects focusing on value-creation in the space sector, high-potential...
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Successful Berthing of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus Spacecraft with the ISS While his crewmates had flown to space on previous missions, Chaffee had not yet traveled to space. The naming of Cygnus in honor of his memory ...
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Renesas Electronics' First Fantastic Plastic ... Controller and Driver for Smallsats and Launch Vehicles As private ‘new space’ companies have begun launching smallsats to form large constellations that operate in multiple low Earth orbit (LEO) planes ...
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April 19, 2019 Blue Origin Signs Agreement with NASA for Historic Test Stand Use at Marshall Space Flight Center Under a Commercial Space Launch Act agreement, Blue Origin will upgrade and refurbish Test Stand 4670, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center...
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April 18, 2019 Northrop Grumman Now Engaged with U.S. Cyber Command's Cyber Mission Force to Provide ISR Support Under the CES contract, Northrop Grumman will identify, develop and implement cyber capabilities on Unified Platform to further enable the...
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Provisional Certification from the WTA for Two U.S. Electrodynamics Teleports Since 1985, USEI headquartered in Brewster, Washington, has been providing government, commercial and private satellite and terrestrial...
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Japaneses Startup, Synspective, Enlists Arianespace to Launch StriX-a EO Satellite in 2020 This will be the inaugural mission for a Synspective customer spacecraft on an Arianespace vehicle. The launch will take place from the...
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RBC Signals Ensures an Increase of Space Communication Services for SpaceQuest's THEA and BRIO Even though SpaceQuest operates its own ground station they engaged RBC Signals to increase the number of daily communication opportunities with their spacecraft.
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Poland and USSTRATCOM Agree to Share Space Services and Data “Agreements like this one, between responsible nations, are critical to setting norms that encourage peaceful space operations.”
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Success as Northrop Grumman's Antares™ Rocket Launches Its Largest Cargo Load to ISS for NASA confirmed reliable communications have been established and the solar arrays are deployed, providing the necessary electrical power to operate
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DoD Defense Innovation Unit and Space and Missile Systems Center Awards Project to ATLAS Space Operations The competitively awarded rapid prototyping program will run for 12 months and will deliver a complete satellite communications platform tailored to the...
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China's Chang'e-6 Mission to Solicit Payloads The nation is offering to carry a total of 20 kg. solicited payloads, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) this week...
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Forrester Reports: $500 Million in Funding Being Sought by SpaceX According to a regulatory filing, Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies is the vehicle, and the target for the cash is the company’s...
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Arianespace's Long History with Japan is Reignited with the Dawn of a New Era, Reiwa Arianespace has signed 33 launch contracts in 33 years with Japanese satellite customers. Three more launches for Japan are scheduled
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April 17, 2019 Now Coming to the Maritime Comms Market is NSSLGlobal's FusionIP-LITE FusionIP-LITE is specifically engineered for the Asian seas. For a single monthly service fee, FusionIP-LITE allows users to benefit from seamless...
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ESA Opening Up to New Ideas for Addressing Space-Related Challenges The Agency’s newOpen Space Innovation Platform website is a streamlined entry point for novel ideas, both in response to specific...
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SpaceX Raising $500 Million from Investors The company run by Elon Musk has agreed on financing terms with existing shareholders and new investor Baillie Gifford & Co., who will pay...
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Forrester Reports: SpaceX Rocket Tips Into the Atlantic Ocean The rocket had formed the central portion of a three rocket assembly which launched Arabsat 6A last week and had landed on the barge in a textbook...
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Kepler Communications and Magellan Aerospace Sign to Keep Kepler Satellite's Temp Stable with Smart Radiator With the SRD, Kepler will be able to keep the spacecraft in the “Goldilocks Zone”: not too hot, not too cold.
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Breakthrough Directional Coupler Debuts from KRYTAR KRYTAR’s new directional coupler, Model 1100110010, offers some of widest frequency coverage using on the market. This new directional...
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Newtec Dialog® Hub Goes to New Heights Connecting Thousands of Bolivians will now enjoy access to broadband as part of the government’s National Broadband Plan, which will serve the currently unserved Bolivian population
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An Errant Command is Responsible for Beresheet's Crash into the Moon SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) teams continue to investigate further into the error that resulted in the spacecraft crashing into...
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India’s DRDO Head Suggests Test Was Not a 'One-Off' and Outlines Counterspace Capability Ambitions Reddy’s comments suggest that its March 2019 ASAT test was not a one-off, at least under the leadership of current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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University of Texas Students Develop Software to Help Satellites Seek Objects part of a NASA project to design small spacecrafts that can fly around larger ones carrying humans to conduct damage inspections or provide servicing
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Orbital Micro Systems' IOD-1 GEMS Satellite is Launched The IOD-1 GEMS satellite was aboard the International Space Station resupply mission NG-11. The mission is part of the In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) Program...
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April 16, 2019 Virgin Orbit Selects Guam as a LauncherOne Launch Site With the site's remote location and close proximity to the equator, Guam serves as an excellent base of operations from which the company's...
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An Evolution: The Euroconsult Group is Launched Since the firm's incorporation more than years ago, Euroconsult has grown into an internationally renowned group dedicated to providing private...
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Satellite Research Center Launched to Advance the Australian Space Industry The national SmartSat CRC will be headquartered at the University of South Australia and will bring together an A$190 million cash and in-kind...
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Helical Communications Technology Launches Their First Antenna for Hiber Satellite HCT designed the custom-built “quadrifilar” helical antennas at their Rockledge-based operations and shipped them to the Netherlands, where...
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Colombian Caracol TV Supports Critical Broadcast Operations with Teledyne Paradise's SSPAs enabling broadcasters to respond to fluctuating news coverage requirements by easily removing and locating redundant units to other geographic locations
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Inmarsat's GX Aviation Broadband Service to be Pre-Installed on Virgin Atlantic's New Airbus Aircraft Virgin Atlantic is scheduled to receive 12 Airbus A350-1000s over the next three years, with GX Aviation pre-installed upon delivery. The service will...
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The Innovative ThinSat Program to be Powered by Alta Devices Solar Cells ThinSats are part of a program to set a new standard for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) education in the U.S...
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Aussie's Defense Innovation Hub Grant to Fund Tests for Anti-Jitter Satellite Technology “The stabilizing technology enables very fine pointing with as little jitter as possible, focusing on stars for long periods of time.”
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Northrop Grumman's Antares Rocket to Send the Company's Cygnus Spacecraft on the Firm's 11th Cargo Mission to ISS Pending completion of cargo late load, final vehicle testing and acceptable local weather conditions, the launch will take place April 17 with lift-off ...
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April 15, 2019 FINAL UPDATE #14 — SpaceIL's and IAI's Historic Moon Landing Remains an Attempt — XPRIZE Awards $1 Million to SpaceIL Minutes later Netanyahu took to the microphone again to promise, "Israel will land on the moon!"
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Statement of Strategic Intent Signed Between Boeing and the Australian Space Agency By 2030, Australia would like to grow the space market segment from AU$3.9 billion to AU$12 billion and double space industry employment from...
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Boeing to Outfit U.S.Navy Poseidon Aircraft with WGS Comms Kits Fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $19,118,429 are being obligated on this award, none of which will...
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The Global Space Robotics Market to Reach $3.5 Billion by 2025 According to Global Market Insights Several companies are developing AI-based robots that provide enhanced mobility and manipulation benefits. These machines can perform highly-complex...
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Kacific Signs Agreement with Tonga Satellite Limited to Supply Broadband via Satellite The bandwidth supplied by Kacific’s high throughput satellite, Kacific1, will be used to connect communities in 89 remote outer islands with high-quality...
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One Hundred Cumulative Years of On-Orbit Smallsat Ops Achieved by Space Flight Laboratory Over the past two decades, SFL has developed 25 smallsats that have been launched for space science, Earth Observation (EO), communication...
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SES Capacity Contract is Renewed by Crown Media Family Networks for U.S. Coverage As part of the nine year deal, Crown Media will migrate their popular Hallmark Channel portfolio from the AMC-11 satellite to SES-1, one of three...
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Globalstar's SPOT Gen3™ Selected by The Outward Bound Trust All instructors guiding each 12-person group will carry a SPOT Gen3 device. SPOT Gen3 is a rugged, pocket-sized, low-priced personal GPS...
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April 14, 2019 Launch Date of April 17 Set for Orbital Micro Systems' IOD-1 GEMS Smallsat Launch The IOD-1 GEMS satellite employs the first commercial microwave radiometer placed in orbit and the radiometer uses the first 3D-printed ...
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UPDATE: "The Falcons Have Landed" Tweets SpaceX After Launch of Arabsat-6A and the Return of Falcon's Three Boosters Last year's test of a Tesla sports car on SpaceX's heavy lift Falcon was bested today after a successful launch of Arabsat's communication satellite.
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Thales is Selected by Switzerland for an Image Intelligence System Thales develops systems that governments need to maintain surveillance and identify and assess the ever-expanding array of threats they face. In...
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Kubos Receives SBIR Award from U.S. Air Force Kubos has developed a spacecraft software framework and development infrastructure using a tailored version of Kubos commercial products. This...
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IEC Telecom's Orion Edge+ with Thuraya Tech is Launched for the Asian Maritime Sector Orion Edge+ provides high quality, reliable broadband with the cost effective operational benefits. It also provides flexible data plans with no...
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The Competitive DARPA Launch Challenge is... Launched The commercial small-launch (10 to 1000 kg.) industry has embraced advances in manufacturing, micro-technologies, and autonomous...
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PLD Space Reports Successful Drop Test for the First Stage of their MIURA 5 Rocket This operation, an essential part of the campaign to develop future launchers (FLPP) of the European Space Agency (ESA), serves the...
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Harris Milestone as the Firm Produces their 100th Unfurlable Mesh Reflector The 12 meter reflector will be the first space-borne, P-band antenna designed to observe annual changes in biomass – the amount of living...
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International Launch Services Offers New Launch Pricing and Opens a New Era for the Company ILS provides launch services for satellite operators and offers a complete array of services and support, from contract arrangements, mission...
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NASA's CLASP-2 Payload Mission a Success CLASP-2, the acronym for Chromospheric Layer Spectropolarimeter-2, is a sounding rocket mission. Smaller, more affordable and faster to design and...
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SpaceIL Now Planning the Creation and Launch of a Second Beresheet Spacecraft SpaceIL Chairman Morris Kahn has now announced the establishment of Beresheet 2, after the first Israeli moon mission ended unsuccessfully...
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Space Foundation Reports on Space Industry in Conjunction with the 35th Space Symposium The report is designed to improve understanding of the reach, impact and health of the space community and demonstrates how the economic and...
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April 13, 2019 Possible Medium Sized Debris from Intelsat-29e Tracked by ExoAnalytic Solutions Intelsat 29e had been in a geostationary orbit at 50 degrees West longitude until April 8, when the satellite began tumbling and drifting to the east. Both the...
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April 11, 2019 A New Office and an Influx of More Investment Dollars for Astroscale Holdings Astroscale has also secured an additional $30 million in an extension of the firm's Series D investment round. The funding extension round brings the ...
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Navigation Receiver for NASA's PACE Mission to be Delivered by RUAG Space For the climate satellite, scheduled to launch in 2022, RUAG Space will deliver a navigation receiver. The receiver for LEO can determine a ...
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Comtech EF Data Assists SES Networks to New Heights™ Supporting SES Networks’ growing mobility business, the order specified multiple Heights™ Networking Platform hubs, H-Pro Remote Gateways...
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Hughes Awarded Contract by Boeing for the USAF's Protected Tactical Enterprise Service Program The PTES program will provide tactical warfighters with a joint ground platform designed to deliver protected communications services through...
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EXOLAUNCH Payloads to be Lifted High by Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne LauncherOne’s frequent launch cadence will provide EXOLAUNCH customers with regular flight opportunities and schedule flexibility...
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April 10, 2019 Harris is Contracted by Lockheed Martin for Stronger and More Flexible GPS III Digital Navigation Signals Harris’ GPS IIIF fully-digital Mission Data Unit (MDU), the heart of the satellite’s navigation payload which generates the GPS signals, will provide...
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Payload Fairings Supplied by RUAG Space Contracted by MHI for the H3 Launch Vehicle The contact includes manufacturing of payload fairings and payload supporting structures for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' (MHI) H3 launch...
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Unveiled: Kratos Defense and Security Becomes the Founding Member of Space ISAC at 35th Space Symposium To facilitate the Space ISAC’s origination and organization as the founding member, Kratos has coordinated the organizational planning and federal ...
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Canadian-Swedish co-operation to strengthen Earth Observation capabilities at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility the growth of SSC capacity at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility will enable many more customers to receive Earth observation data in support of their
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BlackSky On-Orbit Milestones Achieved for Global-1 and Global-2 EO Smallsats — Imagery Displayed at 35th Space Symposium Demonstrating the full operational performance of the spacecraft, the company showcased several images of economic points of interest taken ...
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GomSpace, TESAT and KSAT Partner and Introduce Optical Comms for Smallsats Optical communication technology offers a number of important benefits that will add to the value of future space-based infrastructures; this includes...
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MOU Signed Between General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems and TESAT-Spacecom for Laser Comms Tech Development The companies will focus on developing solutions that enable secure, reliable on-orbit laser communications to meet specific government mission...
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Mission Microwave's Stinger Solves Satellite Connectivity Solutions for Trains will provide connectivity to new generation Trains operating beyond the reach of high capacity terrestrial services along the railroad lines.
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Helical Communications Technology's Quadrifilar Helical Antenna Launched with Hiber's Smallsat Constellation HCT began researching and designing a unique, omni-directional antenna for cubesats that capture a much larger footprint of geography and...
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Concurrent Multiple Reception Capabilities Infused into Viasat's Link 16 Products to Address U.S.Military Needs The CMR features have now been implemented in the latest version of the KOR-24A Small Tactical Terminal (STT), of which over 1,400 units have...
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The Future of Combined Space Ops Discussed at U.S. Air Force Space Command HQ with Multi-National Senior Officials “As defense leaders in our respective nations we unequivocally recognize the strategic importance the space domain has on our economy, technology...
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Propellant Leak and a Second Anomaly Disrupting Intelsat 29e Service Late on April 7, the Intelsat 29e propulsion system experienced damage that caused a leak of the propellant on board the satellite resulting in a service...
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Forrester Reports: Equity Analysts' Report Makes for Worrying Reading for Eutelsat The bank says that its conclusion is based on the likelihood that Eutelsat would have to adjust its guidance downward for this fiscal year (to June...
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April 9, 2019 Forrester Reports: Twenty-Four Percent Air Feeds Improvement for Eutelsat Michael Chabrol, Eutelsat’s SVP/New TV Formats, using data and analysis from Lyngsat, various UHD Forums and its own research, said that there...
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KVH Completes VSAT Connectivity for All of Seaspan's 107 Global Container Ship Fleet KVH, working with Seaspan's IT department completed 60 installations in less than 12 months, which is an important factor for their global fleet.
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Encore ... as U.S. Air Force Selects Harris Corporation, Again, to Support Ground-based Electronic Warfare Systems This includes most recently executing the Space Control Depot Support 2008 contract that exceeded $500 million in award value over 10 years.
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ULA's Tory Bruno Offers a Vulcan Centaur Update During 35th Space Symposium He said that as the nation faces growing threats in the space environment, ULA is unleashing the energy of American ingenuity by developing the...
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FAA Commercial Astronaut Wings for Virgin Galatic's Second Space Flight Crew + 35th Space Symposium Award The Space Achievement Award will be presented to Richard Branson at the closing dinner of the 35th Space Symposium and has been awarded in...
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Speedcast Sets Up Camp in Mozambique ... Delivers VSAT Services for Top Energy Operator Workers at a camp in Mozambique won't exactly be roughing it. Rather the employees in the worker camp of a top ten global oil and gas major operator
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April 8, 2019 Plans for Second Sendoff of Seven Small Sats by Scottish Company an optical camera built by U.S. firm Mini-cubes and Hungay's Advanced Technology of Laser will test a new thermal isolation material in space.
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VT iDirect Upgrades Castor Marine's Satellite Services With this upgrade, Castor Marine will be able to support DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X on a global scale, enabling greater network efficiencies and...
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On the Show Floor: KenCast's Fazzt to Perform at NAB2019 The company will be presenting their enhanced Fazzt content delivery platform. KenCast’s Fazzt® software is ideal for the most up and coming...
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Orolia Installs Cospas-Sarsat 2Gen Tech for NOAA's Search and Rescue Ground Stations These ground stations have been upgraded with Second Generation Beacon (SGB) signal processing capabilities to more accurately and quickly...
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Reliable Satellite Imagery for Farmers Engages Teamwork by Airbus Defence and Space and The Climate Corporation As a result, farmers who use Climate FieldView can access high-resolution data of their fields - from the Airbus SPOT 6, SPOT 7 and Pléiades satellites...
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35th Space Symposium: Demo of the Inclusion of NASA's cFS Tech within Aitech and EFSI's SPO-S SBC Using the proven low power and high performance offered by the NXP MPC8548E PowerQuicc processor, along with the advanced Linux...
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GomSpace to Provide Additional Smallsats to Sky and Space Global Under the Terms of New Agreement The parties have consented on the principle terms for the provision and manufacturing by GomSpace of an additional constellation of smallsats...
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Made In Space's Extended Structure Manufacturing is Developing Interferometry Technology for Smallsats This technology, known as Optimast-SCI (Structurally Connected Interferometer), equips an ESPA-class smallsat with the company’s...
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The 3D Engine Mount from RUAG Space to be the First 3D Printed Part to Land on the Moon The company's 3D part will support landing and lift off of the spacecraft on the moon. The spacecraft will use a 3D printed aluminum structure...
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SpaceX Starlink Satellite Veterans Join Amazon’s Competing Project Kuiper Team Eventually, SpaceX plans to have nearly 12,000 satellites in orbit, and the company has applied to license up to a million satellite user terminals.
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Etisalat's UAE Teleport Achieves WTA's Tier 4 Full Certification Etisalat becomes the first in MENA region to achieve WTA Tier 4 Full Certification and brings the number of Tier 4 fully certified teleports around...
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Harris Selected for Navigation Technology Satellite-3 Build The Space Enterprise Consortium selected Harris as the prime system integrator to design, develop, integrate and test NTS-3, including ground...
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APAC Network Service Offerings Expanded by Lepton Global Solutions During the last year, the company significantly increased its Pacific network service presence, adding multiple government, military and commercial ...
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The Photon™ Smallsat Platform Launched by Rocket Lab @ Space Symposium The company now delivers an integrated spacecraft build and launch service. The end-to-end mission solution enables smallsat customers to...
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Initial Testing of the Additive Manufacturing Components within Aerojet Rocketdyne's RL10C-X Rocket Engine are Successful The successful series of tests confirmed that the 3-D printed components performed as expected when integrated into a complete, full-scale engine...
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Maxar's Restore-L Completes Critical Design Review With the CDR complete, the spacecraft bus is on track to ship to NASA in 2020 for integration with the robotic payload and a forecasted launch in...
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Peraton Launching COSMOS 360 at 35th Space Symposium From mission planning to battle management command and control and beyond, the immersive 360-degree exhibit will showcase an integrated...
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April 7, 2019 The European SpaceDataHighway's First Satellite has Forged 20k Laser Links EDRS-A, the first satellite in what will eventually be a global constellation, has made its 20,000th successful optical link to its customer satellites since ...
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Amazon Forges Forward with Project Kuiper Smallsat Constellation This giant retailer is calling this constellation "Project Kuiper." Kuiper is that area of space beyond the eight planets of our solar system, a distant region...
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Forrester Reports: Eutelsat Interested in IoT Satellite Constellation Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer, addressing a Paris conference, said his company will extend the single ‘test’ satellite already being built with the...
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DRM Ops Single Key Solution Revealed by NovelSat Now, only a single key insertion at the modulator is needed for all transmitted media streams. This DRM solution enables fast and easy...
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Roccor's New COO is Promoted from Within ... She Will Help With Company's Transition to High Growth she will lead in the introduction of an Enterprise Resource Planning platform and create a visual manufacturing environment for the company.
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Industry Veteran Dawn Harms Joins ManSat Group Board of Directors She spent 22 years with Ford Aerospace and Space System Loral (SSL), holding a number of leadership positions, including Vice President of...
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Pentagon To Explore Potential of 5G — and Its Made-in-China Hazards Last week, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford called 5G a “critical national security issue.”
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Alba Orbital's Seven Affordable PocketQubes Will Rip Through the Sky on Rocket Lab’s Electron these small but mighty payloads will get to orbit faster, experiencing a first-class ride and precise orbital insertion to maximize their potential on orbit.
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April 5, 2019 Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) Supporting SpaceIL and IAI's Beresheet Lunar Landing Mission SSC designed the ground communications network solution used by the spacecraft on its journey to the Moon...
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April 4, 2019 Industry Vet Joins Crystal as Chief Revenue Officer Most recently, McGuirk served as Chief Commercial Officer for Globecomm with commercial responsibility for that company's media, satellite and...
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Scheduling Software Delivered by Orbit Logic to NOAA for Search and Rescue MEO Satellites The solution helps improve the timeliness and location accuracy of distress alerts received by the satellites, leading to faster and more effective...
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GHGSat's Second Satellite Named and to Launch in August Iris is scheduled to be launched in August of this year and will carry an instrument that incorporates almost three years of lessons learned from...
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NorthStar Earth & Space and ExoAnalytic Solutions Combine Tech Forces to Combat Space Debris The two companies will collaborate on the development of new commercial services to protect satellites and other high-value space assets from ...
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Eclipse and EAD Aerospace Deploy Inmarsat GX on Another Head of State Aircraft The system enables key communications and entertainment capabilities including Voice over IP telephony, and streaming on-demand IPTV. In...
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NovelSat and igolgi to Enable SatBroadcasters to Handle UHD Adoption and Spectrum Challenges NovelSat developed the FUSION solution which integrates high-efficiency multi-stream video encoding and satellite modulation in a single transmit ...
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USAF's Space Defense Operations Center to be Modernized by Raytheon and AFLCMC The SPADOC system reached the end of its planned service life. The U.S. Air Force is planning to replace it with modern systems that will simplify...
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Collaboration Initiated Between SENER and IK4-TEKNIKER for Satellite Smart Coatings Satellite components operating outside the terrestrial atmosphere lack the layer of oxides present in environments with presence of air. The consequence...
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Hughes Network Systems to Recommend Modernization of U.S. Army's Blue Force Tracking Program Under the agreement, Hughes and other industry participants will conduct research studies to deliver a series of recommendations for modernizing the ...
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Viasat Goes Wide ... Second-Gen Hybrid Ku-/Ka-Band In-Flight Connectivity Antenna for Commercial Wide-body Aircraft Airlines can migrate more of their routes to improved Ka-band service enabled by increased partner satellites as well as the global ViaSat-3 constellation
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Psyche Spacecraft Set to Sail in All Metal World, Passes Through NASA Design Review humanity is one-step closer to exploring an all-metal world called 16 Psyche.
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AMC Networks' Future SatBroadcasting™ Architecture to be Empowered by ARRIS The ARRIS ME-7000 leverages the latest HEVC compression technologies to increase video capacity over satellite transmission channels, ultimately...
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Telesat's Telstar-19 VANTAGE Satellite Ku- and C-Band Capacity Acquired by iFORTE The contracts result from iForte’s recent selection by Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to support the Ministry’s...
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Multi-Year Subscription to Maxar's EarthWatch Signed by Vulcan By using EarthWatch, Vulcan Domain Awareness Systems will have access to the highest resolution and most accurate optical satellite imagery...
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Partnership Between Viasat and Expedition Communications for Satellite Internet in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands Through this relationship, Expedition Communications will sell, install, maintain and provide customer support for Viasat’s high-quality satellite...
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HawkEye 360's RFGeo is First of Its Kind ... An RF Signal Mapping Product RFGeo uses the unique data generated by the HawkEye Constellation of space-based RF sensing satellites to identify and geolocate RF signals...
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Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies Stockholders Approve Merger Today’s vote clearly supports their view that this merger will unlock additional growth opportunities and generate value for their customers, employees and shareholders.
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New Wavestream BUC Enters the Market This next generation of GaN BUC follows the shipment of thousands of Wavestream’s Ku BUCs with GaAS technology setting the benchmark for...
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The Final Four SES O3b Satellites Successfully Placed Into Orbit by an Arianespace Soyuz Launch Vehicle Lifting off mid-day from the Spaceport in French Guiana, the workhorse launch vehicle delivered the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th O3b satellites into a...
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A GEM of a Rocket Motor Test by Northrop Grumman The maximum thrust of the GEM 63 is 373,000 pounds or roughly the equivalent of five B-2 Spirit bombers. Up to five GEM 63 motors can...
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April 3, 2019 Successfully Tracking Kepler LEO Satellites is C-COM's iNetVu® FLY-981 Ku-Band Antenna This uniquely successful test completes a significant development project between the two companies. C-COM’s engineering team developed the...
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FMC GlobalSat has a New Board Member Who Is an Angel ... He Has Investment and Technology Expertise Recognized as an innovative strategist with a proven track record in bringing disruptive innovations and companies to market
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Curtiss-Wright Procures Tactical Communications Group Curtiss-Wright’s Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) customers are expected to benefit from the addition of TCG’s TDL communications software into...
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Innovative SAR Payload Development Award from the UK Space Agency to Surrey Satellite Technology and Oxford Space Systems This new technology delivers a truly disruptive solution and is a key enabler for the next-generation of SAR services from orbit where there are currently...
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Aireon's Global Air Traffic Surveillance System is Now Fully Operational Aireon’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) system provides real-time air traffic surveillance and tracking to 100 percent...
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April 2, 2019 Calian Group Acquires SatService Based in Steisslingen, Germany, SatService offers innovative engineering solutions and products for the satellite communications market. Its business...
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China Building ASAT Capabilities via Laser Tracking Technologies — Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The laser facility is located near a lake and is about 145 miles south of the Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. The facility was discovered by retired Indian...
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‘Be Prepared to Fight Wars... In Outer Space' So will the successful test of A-Sat spell an end to criticism of DRDO’s performance and stop the organisation from being hauled over hot coals?
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ThinKom Solutions In-Flight Connectivity Trials Achieve Success The Proteus satellite data communication package was developed as a joint effort involving ThinKom, Inmarsat Government and Scaled Composites...
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Gilat to Enable Satellite Backhaul Services to TIM Brasil In partnership with TIM, Gilat will supply a 4G backhaul over a multi-spot beam Ku-band satellite to enable reach to the most remote areas of Brazil...
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Too Much Water Isn't a Good Thing as Satellites Image Mozambique Flooding After Cyclone these flood proxy maps can be used as guidance by first responders, aid providers and others to identify the most impacted areas.
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Second Test Satellite from Astrocast Launched and Deployed On this second mission, the company's focus is on a set of propulsion technologies that are designed for separation, collision avoidance and de-orbiting...
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Vislink Technologies Successfully Accomplishes Their Global Repositioning Efforts Vislink Technologies is now pleased to inform clients, suppliers and other stakeholders that the firm has united its individual product brand sunder one...
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Blink Astro's Payload Successfully Launched The primary objective of the mission will be to demonstrate the reliability and quality of Blink's end-to-end device connectivity solution. There will be...
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Four SES O3b Satellites Integrated into Arianespace Soyuz Launch Vehicle for Liftoff Designated Flight VS22 in Arianespace’s numbering system, the Soyuz mission will begin with a liftoff at exactly 1:30:37 p.m. local time in French Guiana on April 4...
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General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Preparing for their 35th Space Symposium Presence GA-EMS is working with NASA to host the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) payload on an optimized OTB satellite and is under contract to the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) program for the Argos Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS)...
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Forrester Reports: SES Reporting a Global Audience of One Billion Plus SES is transmitting more than 8,100 channels (and 50 now in UHD). Some 2,700 of those channels are in HD. The distribution includes 150 million by...
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April 1, 2019 IEC Telecom and Thuraya Open Supply of VSAT+ to Turkish Offshore and Maritime Market The Turkish market is an important one for IEC Telecom with in excess of 3,000 vessels owned or operated by Turkish companies worldwide
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FURUNO to Launch Single-band GNSS Receivers That Achieve 4.5ns Stability new products that provide stability better than that of an atomic clock, including a rubidium.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Acquires Additive Manufacturing Company 3D Material Technologies The acquisition complements Aerojet Rocketdyne’s capabilities to develop and produce metal alloy additive manufacturing parts for aerospace...
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Space-Qualified Versions of ARM-Based MCUs Debut from Microchip Technology Based on the automotive-qualified SAMV71, the SAMV71Q21RT radiation-tolerant and SAMRH71 radiation-hardened MCUs implement the widely...
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India's Successful Firsts ... Launches 29 International Satellites and Includes a Three Orbit Mission enjoys several firsts such as placing the satellites in three different orbits, and construction of a viewing stadium for people 'of every strata of society' to view
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Forrester Reports: Russia to Lower Their Protom-M Launch Costs Roscosmos said it will cut costs by lowering expenses on ground-based preparations, Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin said.
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Contract Signed Between Swedish Space Corporation and Airbus for Pléiades Neo Constellation Support SSC will provide comprehensive ground segment support for the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP), as well as routine on-orbit support for ...
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NanoRacks Sends Spire Cubesats from the ISS — A First for the Company This mission included the launch of Spire’s 100th Lemur satellite. NanoRacks announced SSO polar orbit launch opportunities after receiving...
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RADARSAT-1 Satellite Imagery Now Available to the Public, Courtesy of the Canadian Government The RADARSAT-1 dataset is valuable for testing and developing techniques to reveal patterns, trends and associations that researchers may have...
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Arianespace Preparing for Launch of Four SES O3b Satellites During activity in the Spaceport’s S3 payload integration building, the quartet of O3b satellites and their tube-shaped dispenser system were ...
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