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December 30, 2009 COM DEV International... Moving On Up... COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has appointed Dave Lizius as the President of COM DEV Canada, the Ottawa-based division responsible for the Company's Canadian government business
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SES — Purchase Of Protostar 2 SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has announced the Company's SES Satellite Leasing business unit in the Isle of Man was selected as the successful bidder in yesterday’s public auction for the Protostar 2 satellite with a US $185 million, all cash offer.
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Ariane 5 — Oui! Eye Spy In The Sky As French Helios 2B Launches No slowing down as the seventh and final Ariane 5 launch for 2009 has launched at the second attempt on Friday following a 24 hour scrub due to an unspecified issue with the launch platform.
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Lockheed Martin's GOES-R Gets The Go Thumbs up for the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team, originally awarded a contract by NASA in 2007 to design and build the agency's Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Series.
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Sianara Soyuz! A Successful Launch For Christmas At The ISS NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, all flight engineers, launched in their Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:52 p.m. EST Sunday to begin a two-day journey to the International Space Station.
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A Joyous Season To All — SatNews Publishers With the Christmas and Hanukkah observances forthcoming this week, all of us with SatNews Publishers extends to those in celebration our wishes for your total happiness and enjoyment with your family and friends.
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Here's Looking @Earth — Laurence Concerns Diminish But Do Not Disappear Although the center of Tropical Cyclone Laurence has been over land for two days, it's still holding together and bringing heavy rains and gusty winds to the northern coastal areas of West Australia.
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NASA | NOAA — GOES-P Enters Post Storage Testing Phase The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES, developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-P, arrived on Thursday, December 17, on a C-17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility from its manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California.
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Lockheed Martin — GPS2+ Conveyed To Inmarsat Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has completed site acceptance testing over the Inmarsat-4 satellite network and delivered the Global Satellite Phone Service (GSPS) gateway in Subic Bay to Inmarsat.
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ESA — Gaia To Glean Galaxy Goodies ESA will launch the Gaia satellite into space using the Soyuz-STB/Fregat launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center (French Guiana) in 2012.
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ESA — Mars Missions ESA's Council has given the go-ahead to proceed with the implementation of the ExoMars Program.
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Roscosmos — The Plan Is Cooperation With Japan Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will draft an agreement on space cooperation, the Roscosmos chief said last Sunday.
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NASA | Cassini — A View Of The Lake... On Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft has photographed a flash of sunlight reflecting from a lake on Saturn's moon, Titan, confirming the presence of liquid hydrocarbons on a part of the moon dotted with many lake-shaped basins.
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Russia — Going Nuclear With Spacecraft Engines In a web posting at the RIANovosti site, Russia is apparently going to launch research into nuclear engines for spaceships from 2010, according to the head of the country's Federal Space Agency.
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Applied Satellite Engineering — A Whale Of An Operation Chrisar Software Technologies (Chrisar), an IT company specializing in software systems engineering and signal processing in the marine environment, selected Applied Satellite Engineering (ASE) to develop a satellite data solution for a whale reporting program that uses the global satellite network operated by Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM).
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COM DEV Int'l — ComSat Switch Success COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has won a contract valued at approximately CDN$7 million to provide waveguide and coaxial switches for a commercial broadband communication satellite.
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Overwatch — Moving On Up... Overwatch has announced that Karl Stupnik has joined Overwatch, a Textron Systems company, as Business Development Manager.
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TIA — Hoping To Provide Insight To The FCC Re: OTATV Spectrum The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has filed their comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide insight into factors the Commission should consider when evaluating benefits of spectrum being used for over-the-air television broadcasting or for wireless broadband.
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ARINC + Vizada — Getting Flighty With Inmarsat ARINC Incorporated and Vizada Americas has announced the availability of Inmarsat Classic Aeronautical voice and data services using the Inmarsat I-4 satellite constellation.
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DIRECTV — ILS Preps For December 29th Launch Of DIRECTV-12 The DIRECTV 12 communications satellite is now scheduled for launch from Baikonur on December 29th at 06:22 local time, 00:22 GMT, and 19:22 EST (December 28th). The launch will be undertaken by a Proton M/Breeze M rocket from Launch Pad 39.
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Orbital Sciences — Avanti Orders Up HYLAS-2 Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has signed a contract with London-based Avanti Communications Group plc for a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications
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Globalstar + AXONN — Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Spot LLC, have acquired substantially all of the assets of Axonn, L.L.C. (Axonn).
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Gateway Communications — Spectrum License Sewn Up In Nigeria Gateway Communications has announced the acquisition of a 10.5Ghz spectrum license for 10 states in Nigeria.
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SatMax — Important ITT Delivery Completed SatMAX Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SATM) has delivered an order for additional satellite communications antennae to ITT Corporation.
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U.S. Congress — SHVERA Gets 60 Day Extension John Eggerton of Multichannel News reports that the U.S. Congress has agreed to extend the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act for a period of 60 days.
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Quixel Research — SatTV Providers, Listen Up — 3D Is The Way To Go! In a recent online survey, more than three-fourths of responding consumers stated they would rather receive 3D content via their satellite or cable or provider compared with those respondents who prefer Blu-ray/DVD, which was the second choice overall.
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Avanti Communications Fund$ Hylas 2 $atellite Start-up satellite broadband service provider Avanti Communications of London announced that it has secured more than $300 million in loans and guarantees from the U.S. and French export-credit agencies for a Hylas 2 Ka-band satellite to be built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, and launched in the first half of 2012 by France’s Arianespace launch consortium.
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December 18, 2009 Kudelski Makes Medialive Their Own The Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) has acquired Medialive, a company based in Montrouge (Paris), France.
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GeoEye — Awry Antenna An antenna problem has done in the operations of the GeoEye-1 satellite, at least temporarily.
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Boeing — GOES-14 Enters Full Service Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced GOES-14 (formerly GOES-O), the second satellite in a series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites built by Boeing for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has completed on-orbit testing and been accepted into service.
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Intelsat — Etisalat Signs On With IS-15 Intelsat, S.A. has announced Etisalat UAE has signed a multi-year capacity contract on Intelsat’s recently launched Intelsat 15 satellite (IS-15), located at 85 degrees East.
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DigitalGlobe — WorldView-2 Will Become Engaging On January 4th. DigitalGlobe's (NYSE: DGI) latest high-resolution satellite, WorldView-2, is expected to achieve full operational capability on January 4, 2010.
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NASA — A Moving Experience To AMC 3 Effective January 16, 2010, NASA Television's Public, Education and Media channels will be available for downlink on Americom's AMC 3 satellite.
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SSPI — Significant Survey The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) has released the results of its first member survey.
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SS/L — And A Mighty Fine Fellow He Is... Space Systems/Loral (SS/L)' Senior Vice President of Engineering, Christopher Hoeber, as received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) distinction of Fellow.
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TriaGnoSys — Certainly Is Up In The Air TriaGnoSys has completed its air traffic management (ATM) communications suite, a mobile aeronautical communication network based on Internet technologies for cockpit and cabin services, which seamlessly integrates satellite and terrestrial data links.
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Orbital Sciences — DARPA's Choice For A Bevy Of Birds Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has been awarded a Phase 2 contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Arlington, Virginia, to develop the final design for "System F6" (Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft).
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BAE Systems — WISE Processing Is Radiation Hardened A BAE Systems space computer has taken flight on a NASA satellite that is creating an infrared map of the universe.
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NASA Moving On Up . . .Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Announded today from NASA, Dr. Laurie Leshin has been named the new deputy associate administrator of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, effective in January.
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December 17, 2009 Times Square Alliance Offers New Year's Eve Freebie Feeds There will, once again, be free satellite feeds of the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, New York.
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Snell Into Converters With New Releases Snell has launched the CVR800 and TBS800, two new HD standards and format converters in the Kudos Plus line of cost-effective rack-mountable signal processing systems.
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Eutelsat Tring's One Up For W2 Tring Communications, a subsidiary of Albanian Satellite Communications (ASC), one of the leading television and telecommunications service providers in Albania, is strengthening its established relationship with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) through the signature of a distribution contract for the Tooway™ consumer broadband service.
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Iridium Invites RT Logic's SDMs Into Ground Stations Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has awarded a contract to Integral Systems, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ISYS) subsidiary, RT Logic, for the development of a software-defined modem (SDM) for the new feeder link terminals (FLT) to be deployed at Iridium ground stations.
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U.S.A.F. FMV Mod Now Implemented The U.S. Air Force’s Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing Operations Support and Logistics office has implemented the first phase of a system modification to increase Global Broadcast Service full-motion video feeds to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
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exactEarth — Doing For DaMSA With S-AIS exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), has entered into an agreement to provide its space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) service, exactAIS™, to the Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA) on a paid trial basis.
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Northrop Grumman — Scalable SIRU To Serenade GPM Mission Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been selected to supply a Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU(TM)) for NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission.
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MDA — Ukraine To Receive The Benefit Of Canadian-Birthed Satellites MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) announced a $270-million deal Tuesday with the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) to build and launch a communications satellite and ground-control centres for two other satellites.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Maybe Mayon Magma Looming... Tens of thousands of people living within the danger zone (up to 8 kilometers away) of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines were forced to evacuate to emergency shelters in mid-December 2009 as small earthquakes, incandescent lava at the summit, and minor ash falls suggested a major eruption was on the way.
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CyPhy Works — Civil UAVs DroidWorks, the stealth-mode robotics company launched early in 2009 by iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner, has changed its name to CyPhy Works.
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United Launch Alliance — NASA's WISE Wins Its Freedom United Launch Alliance capped 2009 with the launch of a Delta II carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft at 6:09 a.m. PST, on Thursday, December the 17th.
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Orbital Sciences — STAR-2 Bus To Give A Platform To IS-23 Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has been selected by Intelsat, S.A. to design, build, and deliver the Intelsat 23 (IS-23) commercial communications satellite.
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December 16, 2009 ORBCOMM Inc... Financially Speaking... ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) announced that ORBCOMM Inc. and its satellite insurers settled any and all claims relating to the Coast Guard Demonstration satellite and five quick launch satellites.
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December 15, 2009 Wavestream Corporation . . . Moving On Up Wavestream Corporation announced today that Terry Magee has joined the company as executive vice president, with responsibilities for business development, sales, marketing and product management.
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Telenor — THOR 6 Looking @ Late December For Service Start Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS (TSBc) announced THOR 6 completed all necessary in orbit and ground related testing and will commence commercial service in late December.
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iDirect — GSM Gets Going For SpaceCom iDirect, Inc. has announced SpaceCom International has introduced a GSM cellular backhaul service based on iDirect’s satellite communications platform.
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Harris — SDR Unity Award Harris Corporation's (NYSE: HRS) Unity XG-100 Full-Spectrum Multiband Radio has received the SDR Forum Technology of the Year Award.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Fast Forward Video Debuts DVR Fast Forward Video (FFV) has released its new Micron HD digital video recorder (DVR), a powerful solution for recording and playout of broadcast-quality digital SD and HD video.
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U.S.A.F. Completes Verification Testing Of GEO Ground System The Space Based Infrared Systems Wing at the Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center announced the successful completion of the GEO Interim Operations Ground System verification testing.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Miranda Master Control For TBS Miranda Technologies announced Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) has upgraded its operator training facility by installing eight NV5100MC master control switcher systems.
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International Datacasting... Moving On Up... Moving On Out... International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has appointed Francesco Ruffolo, Adam Adamou, and Fred Godard to the Board of Directors, as well as received the resignations of Dr. Peter Scovell and W. Neil Bauer.
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SatBroadcasting: ABI Research — Telco TV In The Mix According to new pay-TV market data from ABI Research, global pay-TV subscribers will number more than 730 million by the end of 2011.
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SatBroadcasting™ — IEC Telecom Group Partners With Quicklink Quicklink, a supplier of IP video transmission solutions, has announced IEC Telecom Group, an established Service Provider of satellite-based Internet services, has made a strategic investment in Quicklink Video Distribution Services Ltd.
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Insitu Probes SpaceAge Control For UAVs SpaceAge Control, Inc. has been selected by Insitu Inc. to provide the miniature pitot-static probe for the Integrator unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
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SatBroadcasting™ — BSkyB Melds MGM Into HD Offerings Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and BSkyB (Sky) have launched a new channel — MGM HD — devoted exclusively to the delivery of movies in HD.
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Iridium's OpenPort Nets Great Data Communications Haul For Fishing Vessels Good news from commercial fishing fleets around the world using Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) OpenPort(R) marine satellite system.
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Iridium's OpenPort Nets Great Data Communications Haul For Fishing Vessels Good news from commercial fishing fleets around the world using Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) OpenPort(R) marine satellite system.
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OnAir Gives The (Short)Message To Halys OnAir, the world’s leading provider of inflight communications offers airlines the opportunity to communicate directly with their passengers once on-board through personalized text messages.
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NASA's Topics At American Geophysical Union Meeting — From Fish To Saturn's Rings NASA researchers are presenting a wide range of science results at the 2009 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union from December 14 - 18 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
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December 14, 2009 NASA Budget Bill Passed By U.S. Senate — En-route To Obama... Stephen Clark @ Spaceflight Now reports that the U.S. Senate passed a US$18.7 billion budget for NASA on Sunday, sending to the White House a bill asserting new congressional oversight of the embattled Constellation moon program and funding a replacement climate satellite.
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China Set To Send Second EO Sat Skywards This Month It appears as though China will be launching a remote-sensing satellite named Yaogan VIII in the coming days from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province.
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USCG Gets Guardian UAV The U.S. Coast Guard has received its first Guardian UAV.
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ULA Launches NASA's WISE Eye That Lights Up The Sky NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, successfully launched over the Pacific Ocean this morning at 9:09 a.m. EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.
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Indian Indigenous UAV In Development India's Defence Minister, A K Antony, has informed the Lok Sabha that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is taking up the development Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) against confirmed Qualitative Requirements (QRs) to meet tri-services requirements.
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Apache Attack Choppers Have Lots Of LUT For UAVs Developmental prototypes of the U.S. Army's next-generation Block III Apache Attack helicopter tested emerging technologies which allow pilots to control UAVs and their sensor payloads from the cockpit of the aircraft during a so-called Limited User Test (LUT) in November at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, service officials said.
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Vizada Networks Takes High-Speed Communications Over The Last Mile To Tanzania Vizada Networks has signed an agreement through its subsidiary in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to connect to the Seacom submarine fiber optic cable that provides high-capacity bandwidth along the east coast of Africa.
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Elbit Systems' Has Hermes® 900 UAV Happening Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESLT), announced that its Hermes(r) 900 UAV completed a successful maiden flight and will commence serial production
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SatBroadcasting™ — Utah Scientific Switcher Enters Rigorous Mobile TV Environment Utah Scientific announced New Century Productions, a North American provider of mobile television production facilities, will place a UTAH-400/XL routing switcher at the heart of its upgraded HD broadcast truck, NCP IV, which is now being refurbished in Pittsburgh.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Thomson's New SatSTB For Home IP Video Viewing Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TMS) launched their HD MPEG-4 DSI705, the satellite industry’s first STB capable of supporting advanced, IP-based video services over existing coaxial L-band delivery infrastructures.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Gefen's New Switcher Boasts Of Flexibility Gefen has announced its nexgen 4x1 KVM DVI DL Switcher.
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GMV Continues COROT Control GMV will continue to provide mission control of Convection Rotation and planetary Transits (COROT), a space mission that's now extended through 2012.
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digiGO! — The DIgital (R)Evolution™ — GOGII Brings 50 Folk Simultaneous Texting Treats GOGII, Inc. is revolutionizing the way people text by making it possible to reach out to and communicate with as many as 50 people at a time using a single free text message.
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DTECH LABS, Inc... Moving On Up... DTECH LABS, Inc. has announced the appointment of Mitch Jukanovich to the position of Vice President, Advanced Solutions.
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APSCC — 12th Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications, Broadcasting and Space Conference and Exhibition It was decided at the Q4 APSCC Board of Directors meeting in which the APSCC Board agreed on holding the 12th Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications, Broadcasting and Space Conference and Exhibition (APSCC 2010) in Tokyo, Japan from September 28th to September 30th, 2010.
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PCI Geomatics Supports ISPRS Foundation PCI Geomatics is pleased to announce its support for The ISPRS Foundation Inc. (TIF) which offers assistance to the photogrammetric, remote sensing and spatial information sciences and technologies.
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December 13, 2009 digiGO! — The Digital Revolution™ — Classroom On Demand Continues AFRTS Digital Training The American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) is part of the Defense Media Agency, which operates 33 full-service radio and television stations in 16 countries.
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TSF Steps Up To Ensure Capacities Of The National Emergency System On September 28th 2009, at the request of NDCC, TSF deployed to Manila, responding to the two devastating typhoons Ketsana and Parma in order to provide support in emergency telecommunications.
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TCS Takes On DITCO CENTCOM Contract TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received a three-year, US$5.9 Million contract incrementally funded at US$2 million from the Defense Information Technology Contracting Office (DITCO) to provide the U.S. Army Central Command (CENTCOM) with space segment for its Afghanistan operations.
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U.K.'s Space + Satellite Industry Now Has A New Exec Agency A new executive agency will be created to take the U.K.’s recession-busting space and satellite sector into a new space age, Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson said today.
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SatBroadcasting™: DISH Downright Dizzy With Sub Successes DISH Network L.L.C. has just passed the 14 million customer milestone.
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Heron 1 Heading Into Hostile Territory For RAAF Ten new Israeli-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will debut in Afghanistan in the coming weeks, after the Israel Aerospace Industries made the first delivery of the Heron UAV to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on Thursday.
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Sky Warrior UAV Has Hellfire On Its Mind As reported by Guy Norris in Aviation Week, weapons clearance tests of the U.S. Army's MQ-1C unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will accelerate this week with live firing of several Hellfire missiles from an aircraft destined for an Afghanistan-bound Quick Reaction Capability unit.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Omnia Audio Offers More Than Eggnog... Omnia Audio has decided to extend the giving season into next year.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Going Over The Top In San Jose OTTcon, running from February 2nd through 3rd in San Jose, California, provides in-depth insights into the complex business and technology factors that are driving the emergence of Over the Top TV and video services.
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Parallel Delivers UnParalleled Improvement (500%) With Launch Of SatManage V Parallel launches SatManage V with all-new TURBO CORE resulting in a 500 percent improvement in performance.
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SSTL Says 'Cheers!' With Lord Drayson's Proclamation Of U.K.'s Space Agency The U.K. is not to be left behind in the space industry as SSTL applauds the latest news of Lord Drayson's announcement of a U.K. executive Space Agency.
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December 10, 2009 Northrop Grumman's AF-18 Global Hawk UAV's First Flight Fully Faultless The first Block 40 configuration of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) successfully completed its first flight on November 16.
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SatBroadcasting: Miranda Ingest + Playout For STN Miranda Technologies today announced that Satellite Telecommunications Network (STN) will be installing an advanced IT-based playout system, based on Miranda’s Xchannel playout server.
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UPDATE: ULA Makes A WISE Move With A Pending Monday Launch The launch of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission scheduled for Friday, December 11 has been delayed.
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SPOT Spotted In South America Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has signed agreements with Globalstar independent gateway operator, TESACOM, to launch distribution of the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger™ in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Rovi Roams Into Australia With Their IPG Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI) and Australia's Hills Industries Limited group (ASX:HIL), through its DGTEC business, have entered into a multi-year patent license agreement for interactive program guide (IPG) patents owned by Rovi.
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SatBroadcasting™: Crawford Supplies The Missing Link... TV, That Is... Crawford Satellite Services launches Link TV, a network dedicated to bringing global perspectives on news, events, and culture to audiences worldwide.
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Orbital Sciences' Taurus II CASTOR 30 A-OK Via ATK Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) and the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) successfully ground tested the second stage
rocket motor of the company's Taurus II launch vehicle at AEDC in Tennessee.
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Congress Warned By AIAA President Regarding Human Spaceflight Budget Cuts AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) President Dave Thompson testified before the House Committee on Science and Technology on “Decisions on the Future Direction and Funding for NASA: What Will They Mean for the U.S. Aerospace Workforce and Industrial Base?”
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Insitu Installs UAV Flexibility With SkyHook Insitu Inc., a Boeing [NYSE: BA] subsidiary, has successfully demo'd its interoperable unmanned aircraft (UA) launch and recovery system.
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A Simplex Matter For Globalstar Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has completed installation of network upgrades designed to enhance the overall customer messaging capacity and the data receiver sensitivity of the Globalstar Simplex data network.
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SatBroadcasting™: Vizada's Victory Over Remote Broadcasting Challenges In Singapore Vizada has developed a mobile satellite service to enable reporters with MediaCorp, Singapore’s leading media company, to perform high-quality live broadcasting from remote areas.
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December 9, 2009 SpaceShipTwo Debuts And A Virgin Gets A Payne... Despite the rain, more than 400 notables gathered at Scaled Composites in the Mojave Desert to view the unveiling of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the world's first manned commercial spaceship, and its mothership, VMS Eve (named after Sir Branson's mother) (WhiteKnightTwo) advancing a new era in commercial space flight.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Cobalt Digital Is Listening... And Fixing... The pressure is rising for broadcasters to resolve inconsistent audio loudness and meet ATSC A/85 standards.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — WideOrbit's Technology Swath Expands Axia Audio partner WideOrbit Inc., a provider of business management software for media companies, has announced their WO Automation for Radio software now provides comprehensive integration with Axia AoIP routing systems.
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HELIOS 2B — Will Not Be For Today... During the final count-down operations for Flight 193 slated for today, an anomaly occurred in a launcher subsystem.
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Nat'l Space Symposium Attendees To Learn All About NASA's Future With General Bolden The Space Foundation's 26th National Space Symposium, which runs April 12 to 15 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, will feature NASA Administrator Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr., USMC (Retired).
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Gilat Dishing Up Service To Ghana Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) has been selected by STL Ghana to provide a SkyEdge II broadband satellite network that will serve its customers throughout West Africa.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Crawford Communications In The Driver's Seat NASCAR Media Group is partnering with Crawford Communications, Inc. to deliver broadcast solutions through NASCAR Media Group’s new state-of-the-art, all digital, high definition facility in Charlotte, NC.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Mastering Digital TV @ CES The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF), the world’s largest advocacy group for standard’s based digital television technologies, is presenting the first ever MPEGIF Master Class to be held at CES 2010.
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Eutelsat Affiliate Now Has Broadband Responsibilities In South Tyrol The Tooway™ broadband service operated by the Skylogic affiliate of Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has been selected by Brennercom, the principal telecom operator in the South Tyrol, to deliver broadband across the Italian-German-speaking province.
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General Dynamics Lands Landsat Successfully Through NASA's CDR General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft, which is scheduled for launch in December 2012.
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Inmarsat's FB150 Now Involved In Peruvian Anchovy Fishing The first FleetBroadband 150 terminal in Peru has been deployed onboard an anchovy fishing vessel.
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XMM-Newton... Ten Years + Counting... The European Space Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
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Vizada Walks The Walk With Gifts Of BGAN Terminals To HumaniNet They don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk — tis the season, and Vizada announced that it has donated BGAN terminals to HumaniNet, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating humanitarian organizations about the tremendous benefits of using satellite communications to support relief and development efforts.
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Fermi Finds Fantastic Flare A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe.
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NASA's Constellation Program Protection Is In Spending Bill SpaceNews is reporting House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a 2010 omnibus spending bill that includes US$18.7 billion for NASA — a US$942 million increase over the agency’s 2009 budget — and includes a provision that would prevent the agency from scaling back or canceling its current human spaceflight activities in the absence of formal legislative approval from congressional appropriators.
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December 8, 2009 SatBroadcasting™: SatLink + SES WORLD SKIES Pump Up Collaboration SatLink Communications Ltd. and SES WORLD SKIES have launched a new DS3 fiber link connecting their teleport facilities.
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SkyFORUM Webinar From DSI Systems To Tackle Ad Campaigns For SatOps The SBCA SkyFORUM Educational Webinar Series Presents — Establish Yourself as the Local Satellite Expert in Your Market — Cost-Effective Advertising Strategies That Work.
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Afghanistan Satellite New Services Provide 'Perfect' Coverage Via Hawaii Afghanistan Satellite is a new Afghanistan to USA communications service offered by Hawaii Pacific Teleport.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Cleo Climbs Up To Cyclonic Status The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite has amazing resolution from space, and captured the former tropical storm Cleo's cloudless eye early this morning as it morphs into a cyclone. MODIS captured an image of Cleo on December 8 at 8:15 UTC (03:15 a.m. ET) as it passed overhead from its orbit in space.
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IDF Seeking Surprise Capable UAVs The Israel Air Force and Ground Forces Command have issued a request to defense industries to submit proposals for the development of a stealthy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that would be capable of flying undetected in combat zones.
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SkyTrac SATCOM Into de Havilland Aircraft SkyTrac Systems has obtained a supplemental type certificate (STC) for the installation of its automated flight following and satellite communications equipment on the de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter airframe type.
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California Space Authority Awards Northrop Grumman With SpotBeam The California Space Authority presented the Defense Support Program (DSP) with the SpotBeam Award for National Security Space, honoring DSP's nearly 40 years of service to the nation.
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Boeing Blessed — WGS-3 Sends Satisfactory Signals Boeing [NYSE: BA] has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the third of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites.
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Integral Systems... Financially Speaking... Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) ("Company") has reported preliminary, unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 25, 2009.
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NASA's STEREO Probes Are Blasted By Sun — In Stereo! Did you notice anything different pertaining to the sun on December 4th — how about an enormous magnetic filament wrapped around the sun's south pole that erupted?
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The NASA Nod For FASTSAT NASA has partnered with Dynetics and the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation, or VCSI, both in Huntsville, Alabama, to successfully complete environmental testing of the Fast, Affordable Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT- HSV01.
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Hughes To Provision SATCOM For New York Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has been selected by the State of New York to provide a suite of managed services and connectivity under the Comprehensive Telecommunications Services contract, Group 77017, Award 20268.
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RapidEye's kiosk spricht jetzt Deutsch RapidEye has released the German version of their online shop for satellite imagery — “The RapidEye Geodata Kiosk”.
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GeoEye Infuses Imagery Into KACST GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) announced its Regional Affiliate, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), began directly downlinking high-resolution satellite imagery from the GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite.
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ICO Global Communications... Moving On Up + Moving On Out... ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (NASDAQ: ICOG) announced that Benjamin G. Wolff has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, effective immediately, and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 31, 2009.
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PCI Geomatics' Image Imparted To Rolta India PCI Geomatics has signed an agreement with Rolta India Limited.
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Hubble's Deep Space View The new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the deepest image yet of the Universe in near-infrared light.
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Sanswire Sending STS-111 Skyward In Orlando Sanswire Corp. (OTC.BB:SNSR), through its Joint Venture Sanswire-TAO Corp., announced an agreement with Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) to publicly unveil and demonstrate the STS-111 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), their new commercial, mid altitude, multi-day duration, lighter-than-air platform designed to rapidly provide persistent surveillance capabilities and to work in tandem with other currently deployed UAVs in various domestic and overseas operations.
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MilSpace 2010 In Paris The 4th installment of MilSpace 2010 will take place from the 19th and 20th of April at the Courtyard by Marriott Paris Neuilly, Paris, France. Two associated events include "The Potential Of Small Satellites" and "Assuring Dependency From Space-Based Infrastructure."
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SatBroadcasting™ — RSCC Initiates First Multiplex Programming Via Satellite RSCC, the national satellite communications operator of Russia, has initiated distribution of the first multiplex programs over broadcasting zones A and B (Siberia and the Far East).
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December 7, 2009 Sapura Group Shows Off UAVs Sapura Group will pitch its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in Asia, Europe,and the United States.
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Thuraya Talks Today! To support the development of the UAE and Middle East as a hub for space related industries, Thuraya Telecommunications Company is actively supporting an international specialised forum on space technology to be held in Abu Dhabi on December 7th.
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Stealthy Sentinel In Afghan Skies The U.S. Air Force has confirmed to Aviation Week the existence of the so-called "Beast of Kandahar" UAV, a stealth-like remotely piloted jet seen flying out of Afghanistan in late 2007.
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NASA Asks Students To Launch More Than Just Ideas... NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities — 37 teams nationwide — to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects.
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Stratos Enlisted For USCG Services Stratos Government Services Inc. (SGSI) has been selected by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to deploy Inmarsat's FleetBroadband mobile broadband satellite service on as many as 50 USCG vessels.
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Space Policy Workshop In Mexico City ID's Latin American + Caribbean Desires New space institutions in Latin American and Caribbean countries have agreed to identify common elements in their space policies to facilitate international cooperation.
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Vizada Makes Weather Info Priority One For Mariners Vizada and Meteo-France have renewed their agreement to provide professional digital weather information and software to the maritime community.
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Avanti Happy With HYLAS Happening... Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN), the broadband satellite operator, has signed a 663,000 euros five year contract with Satconexion of Spain for broadband services on HYLAS 1, Avanti’s satellite launching in 2010.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Uninor's Mobile Motivations In India Telenor Group's Indian mobile operation, Uninor, has launched its mobile services in seven Indian telecom circles, making it the largest single day launch in the telecom history.
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SatNets Multimedia Performance Gets ETSI Specs Satellite systems delivering broadband multimedia services need to be effectively managed to ensure satisfactory performance is maintained.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — ABI Research Forges 4G Intelligence Over the last several years, mobile WiMAX has moved through standardization, productization, and interoperability testing and certification.
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Harris Takes To The Rails Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTX) announced their NetBoss XT network management solution will enable Lithuania Railways (LitRail), a passenger and freight transportation in Lithuania, to manage its complete GSM-R network.
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ULA Readies For 37th Launch In 36 Months — NASA's Delta II WISE Excellent record for ULA with their 36th launch in 36 months just completed, now ULA is turning its attention to supporting NASA for the Delta II Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) launch.
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National Space Symposium's 26th Under Barrage...Of Music Plan on hearing a Barrage of sounds as the energetic and eclectic music of the internationally acclaimed group Barrage officially launches the Space Foundation's 26th National Space Symposium on April 12 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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SatBroadcasting™ News... — Espial's Evo TV Service Platform — Streambox Success With GSA Contract —
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SatBroadcasting™: IDC + Logic Innovations... Acquiring Minds Want To Know... International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has completed the acquisition of select product lines and related technology from San Diego-based Logic Innovations, LLC.
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SatBroadcasting™— Globecast Brings A World Of TV To Verizon Verizon has launched three new channels from World TV that feature Korean, Mandarin, and Greek programming.
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International Datacasting... Financially Speaking... International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has announced its financial results for the three- and nine-month periods ended October 31, 2009.
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atrexx Assembles SCPC Service atrexx Ltd. & Co. KG has introduced an innovative service that enables point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connectivity via satellite through Single Channel per Carrier (SCPC) technology.
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XipLink... Moving On Up... XipLink has announced that Bruce Bednarski has joined the company as senior vice president of business development.
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Arianespace Has Helios 2B Heading Out On The 9th... Arianespace’s seventh and final Ariane 5 launch of 2009 has been given the green light, clearing this mission for a mid-day liftoff on December 9 with the French Helios 2B military observation satellite.
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SatBroadcasting™ — Harmonic Takes The ProView To Korea Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) announced KT (KSE: 030200) in Korea has deployed Harmonic's Ellipse™ 1000 contribution encoder, ProView™?2900 integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) and network management solution for distribution of primary and backup broadcast channels to over 160 cable operators nationwide.
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iDirect Deploys An Orange Evolution Into The DVB-S2 Difference iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), announced Orange Business Services has expanded its satellite network to include a DVB-S2 broadband service based on iDirect’s Evolution platform.
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Iridium Ensures OpenPort For MV Fraternity Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has activated the 1,000th Iridium OpenPort? marine satellite terminal aboard the Euronav tanker MV Fraternity.
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MEASAT Satellite Systems... Moving On Up... MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. has appointed Janice Boo as Director, Occasional Use and Broadcast Services.
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Tele Atlas + GPS Tuner Gift GPS With Major Mapping Tele Atlas and GPS Tuner now have an agreement under which Tele Atlas supplies digital maps on GPS Tuner Atlas, GPS Tuner’s off-road navigation software.
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SSTL Will Assist MicroSat' OG2s With Their Bearings Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has delivered 18 SGR-10 GPS receivers to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of the USA to provide on-board orbit determination for the ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites.
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December 4, 2009 Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-3 Prepares For (Hopefully) Saturday Countdown For the second time in three days, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket with the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-3 (WGS-3) satellite sits poised on its Space Launch Complex-37 launch pad ready for flight.
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Just In — Delta IV WGS-3 Mission Officially Scheduled for December 5 Friday P.M. Update — JUST IN: The launch of the Air Force’s Delta IV Wideband Global SATCOM-3 (WGS-3) mission is now scheduled for December 5 with a launch window of 7:23-8:47 p.m., EST. The faulty electronics card in a piece of ground support equipment used to monitor telemetry data was replaced and the Delta IV and WGS-3 spacecraft are ready for flight.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — IMS Research Reveals Internet Vide Ops For TV Preliminary data from the IMS Research study, Market Opportunities for Internet Video to the TV, shows that by the end of 2010, nearly 55 percent of all TV households in the Americas will have access to Internet video, with 25 percent of these capable of displaying Internet video onto the TV set.
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Thales Alenia Space Conducts Galileo Platform Tests The platform-level integration tests on the engineering model of the Galileo in-orbit validation satellites have been completed at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome.
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TeleCommunications Systems + Networks In Motion... Acquiring Minds Want To Know... TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Networks In Motion, Inc., a privately held provider of wireless navigation solutions for GPS-enabled mobile phones headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, for an aggregate of US$170 million.
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SatBroadcasting™... Oregan Networks — SES ASTRA— Vector3 — — Oregan Onyx Streaming Suitability — SES ASTRA Accommodates ORF — Vector3 Has Danes Playout Automation Solved —
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Go Delta IV! Go WGS-3! And They Did Making It 36 In 36 Persistence certainly paid off today, December 5, at Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida, with the launch of its 36th successful mission in 36 months for United Launch Alliance as the Delta IV rocket whisked the Air Force’s third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-3) satellite into orbit.
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December 3, 2009 Global Gateway Morphs Out Of Zcom... (SatBroadcasting) In order to place Zcom in a strong strategic position for further M&A activities and to achieve further growth and earnings, management has announced that it has effected a reverse split and a name change.
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Interesting News For SatBroadcasters... Broadcast magazines sold — Comcast Nears Deal For NBC Universal — FCC's TV Spectrum Allocation — Structural Revamping For Internet
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Northrop Grumman and U.S. Air Force Plug-And-Play In A Bus Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] has been awarded an initial $500,000 task order to help the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) design a spacecraft "bus" with plug-and-play capability to reduce cost and schedule in developing future space systems.
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Malaysian Firms Manufacture Flighty MALE By next year, Malaysia will become the first country in this region to produce its own Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) code-named "Yabhon Aludra".
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Summit Calls For 100 Percent Mission Success As Goal Of U.S. Agencies During the second annual U.S. Space Enterprise Mission Assurance Summit, leaders from two key government space agencies agreed to a strategic intent addressing mission assurance and are working on a memorandum of understanding that they believe will open doors for enhanced collaboration.
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Globecomm's X-Band Reliability For U.S. + Coalition Forces Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has introduced an operational commercial X-band service offering to U.S. Military and Coalition Forces operating in Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
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SpaceX Gives Astronauts A Taste Of Dragon Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) recently conducted its first Dragon spacecraft operations training for a group of NASA astronauts and personnel at its corporate headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
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Comtech Xicom SSPAs Are Going To Fly-Away Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s (Nasdaq:CMTL) subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., has received orders totaling US$1.6M for ruggedized, solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs).
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Sea Launch Company.... Financially Speaking... Sea Launch Company, LLC, today received final approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on its motion to secure up to $12.5 million in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing from Space Launch Services, LLC.
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SkyWave Succeeds With GLONASS + GPS SkyWave Mobile Communications has now made available GLONASS navigation capability in its DMR-800L satellite data communication terminal.
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Sky Deutschland AG ... Moving On Up Sky Deutschland AG announces that Mark Williams is to step down as Chief Executive Officer on 31 March 2010 for personal reasons.
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December 2, 2009 UPDATE: Rocket Lab's Atea-1 New Zealand's First Rocket Takes A Dive Unfortunately we have an update regarding Rocket Lab Ltd., the launch company that developed New Zealand's first space rocket.
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IS-15 Is Into Space Intelsat, Ltd. has announced that a Zenit-3SLB vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 15 satellite (IS-15) from the Land Launch facilities at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
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Volicon Victory With CCA For 20 TV Stations (SatBroadcasting) Volicon announced that the Communications Corporation of America (CCA), a station group that operates 20 television stations in Texas and Louisiana, has adopted the Volicon Observer? digital video monitoring and recording system.
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Summation Research Concentration On Track Summation Research, Inc. (SRI) announced a multi-year agreement to supply innovative VHF and UHF data radios to GE Transportation for use with GE's LOCOTROL? locomotive distributed power control systems and other rail applications.
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Global Technology Solutions — Just Six Months Out — Financial Success Great way to end a year — Global Technology Solutions (GTS), the Hollywood, Florida-based technology solution provider, will close out 2009, and the company’s first six months in business, tracking a $32 million fiscal year and over $125 million of business in the pipeline, eight offices in North and South America, and a new acquisition on the horizon early in 2010.
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The WTA Wants Green Teleports The World Teleport Association has launched a new “Green Teleport” campaign to help its members improve their energy efficiency, slash energy costs, and make their energy-dependent businesses more sustainable.
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ITT Is It For NSWC's TacSatCom Device Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) and ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) announced ITT has received a contract from the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division to supply 1,450 Iridium-based handheld tactical satellite communication devices for use by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Ariane 5 Receiving Final Prep Work For European SpySat Launch Arianespace’s wrap-up Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has entered final preparations for its liftoff next week with France’s Helios 2B military observation satellite.
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GlobeCast's World TV Works With Verizon (SatBroadcasting™) Verizon is delivering more international content to its FiOS TV subscribers with the launch of three new channels from World TV that feature Korean, Mandarin and Greek programming.
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First ProTECTS Alliance Gathering Set For January In Phoenix The ProTECTS (Promotion of Two-way Emergency Communication and Tracking Systems) Alliance will hold its first organizational meeting January 22, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona, coinciding with the annual Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) Partners Conference.
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The Boeing — Baikonur Connection For DIRECTV 12 Boeing [NYSE: BA] has shipped DIRECTV 12 from the Company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan.
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Bridge Technologies Probes Into Austria (SatBroadcasting) Bridge Technologies has announced TV-Connect Broadcast Systems has been appointed to distribute and support Bridge Technologies' VideoBRIDGE IPTV monitoring system in Austria.
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EUMETSAT Gets A Lot Done In Darmstadt EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 68th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on December 1st through 2nd.
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GOES-10 Is Going, Going... Gone... NOAA officially deactivated its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-10 today after 12 years of service.
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ISRO Earns Respect + Revenue... ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) earned more than Rs 100 crore in the last three years by launching satellites of other countries, Minister of State in PMO Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha last Wednesday.
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Hughes Has Cranked Out More'n 2.1 Million VSATs Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has shipped an aggregate of more than 2.1 million satellite terminals as of Q3 2009, continuing the company’s involvement with the global very small aperture terminal (VSAT) market, which started in the mid-80s when Hughes shipped the first VSAT network to Wal-Mart.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Pointy Heads Promos iPhone Live Video Broadcasting Pointy Heads Software on Tuesday launched Knocking Live Video, the first officially sanctioned Apple iPhone app to offer live video broadcasting over a 3G network.
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GVF's Successful South East Asia Oil & Gas Communications Series To Be Continued The South East Asia regional oil & gas industry, including the Malaysian exploration and production (E&P) segment, continues to be one of the most dynamic in the exploration for new offshore hydrocarbon reserves, especially in deepwater zones which carry with them the highest E&P operating costs.
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December 1, 2009 Stratos Global Is ShipShape With SATCOM Stratos Global Corporation is upgrading Zakher Marine International Inc. (ZMI) vessels to Inmarsat's FleetBroadband 150 (FB150) mobile broadband satellite service.
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Eyeheight Quickly Inserts You Into The Broadcast Process (SatBroadcasting™) Eyeheight's new LI-2DM multi-rate dual logo-inserter incorporates two completely independent channels, including separate inputs and outputs, enabling mixed-rate operation. Each of the two logo inserters has two independent layers, allowing two logos to be superimposed.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Clearwire Corporation... Financially Speaking... Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) announced Clearwire Escrow Corporation, an unrestricted subsidiary of Clearwire Communications LLC, has priced a supplemental offering of an additional US$920,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 12 percent senior secured notes due 2015 at an issue price of 97.9 percent (the “Notes”).
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Telenor Moves mBricks To Mobility Award mBricks is this year's winner of the Telenor Partner Prize and NOK 100,000.
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Russian Air Force Doesn't Want Russian Made UAVs The Russian Air Force considers the unmanned aerial vehicles offered by domestic manufacturers to be inferior in quality, the force commander said on Thursday, as is reported in an online news article from RIA Novosti.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Olswang's U.K. iPhone Folk Observations Users of the Apple iPhone are among the heaviest users of digital content and are also more willing than any other consumer to pay for a wide range of types of content, according to findings in this year's Olswang Convergence Survey.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Rogers Communications... Financially Speaking... Rogers Communications Inc. has entered into agreements to purchase 3,200,000 subordinate voting shares of Cogeco Cable Inc. and 1,623,500 subordinate voting shares of Cogeco Inc., pursuant to private agreements with third parties.
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Planetsky Ltd. Says It's All Greek To Them Cyprus-based Planetsky Ltd, in collaboration with their Greek business partner Epikinonia, has been selected by the Greek government to provide Afghanistan-based troops with broadband data and voice services.
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NASA's Fermi Finds Fantastic Matter Movement NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3.
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UPDATE: Land Launch Team To Try Again With Intelsat-15 The Land Launch team today halted the launch of the Intelsat 15 communications satellite at L-3:14:00 in the countdown at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
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SES WORLD SKIES Orders Four To Go From Astrium Astrium, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS (Euronext Paris: EAD) has announced SES has ordered four multi-mission satellites from them, to provide replacement as well as incremental capacity for its SES ASTRA and SES WORLD SKIES divisions.
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Naval Research Lab's Fuel-Cell Powered UAV An Ion Tiger The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 26 hours and 1 minute carrying a 5-pound payload, setting another unofficial flight endurance record for a fuel-cell powered flight.
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Raytheon Radiating Sensor Success For NPOESS A critical sensor for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environment Satellite System (NPOESS) has successfully completed all testing at Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) subcontractor, Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN), and is ready for delivery.
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Northrop Grumman Grinds Out JCR For Army + Marine Testing Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has delivered the next version of Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) software to the U.S. Army to begin formal government testing.
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SPOT Messenger Makes Its African Debut Spot LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT), has expanded coverage in Africa for the SPOT Satellite Messenger products.
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Space Foundation Brings In Nimoy To Nosh @ Symposium To the delight of generations of Star Trek fans, the Space Foundation has selected Leonard Nimoy to inspire the audience at the 2010 Space Technology Hall of Fame Dinner on April 15.
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United Launch Alliance... Moving On Up... United Launch Alliance President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Gass announced leadership changes today for ULA’s East and West Coast Launch Operations teams.
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Thales Communications Takes Liberty With DHS Thales Communications, Inc.'s Liberty™ multiband land mobile radio (LMR) successfully completed trunking interoperability testing, meeting the requirements of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Project 25 (P25) Compliance Assessment Program (CAP).</font
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Triveni Digital Generates Agreement With Evolution Digital Triveni Digital, a subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., has inked a reseller agreement with Evolution Digital, an innovator, manufacturer, and supplier of all-digital systems and drop solutions.
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COM DEV International... Financially Speaking... COM DEV International Ltd. will benefit from an investment of $5.2 million (CAD) to create world-class micro-satellite system technology, products and services.
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COM DEV International . . . Preliminary Fourth Quarter Results. . . And Moving On Up COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) today announced preliminary financial results for the three-month period ended October 31, 2009.
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NASA's Upcoming WISE Day @ VAFB The launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, aboard a Delta II rocket is scheduled to occur between 9:09 a.m. and 9:23 a.m. EST on Wednesday, December 9, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Sanswire Gets GTC Golden Goodies For STS-111 UAV Sanswire Corp (OTCBB: SNSR), a company that develops and produces lighter-than-air Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) designed to provide persistent surveillance for extended durations at mid and high altitudes, has received a funding commitment arranged by satellite tracking provider, Global Telesat Corp.
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Weather Wrecks WGS-3 Launch For The 2nd... The launch of the U.S. Air Force's Delta IV Wideband Global SATCOM-3 mission scheduled for December 2nd has been delayed 24 hours, due to approaching inclement weather.
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Stratos Global Back Into The Gulf With Spectrum Sizzle Stratos Global Corp. has been selected as the winning bidder for two of the three geographic zones for 2.5 GHz broadband radio service (BRS) in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM).
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SAT CORP's SigMon Signed On For RF Monitoring Integral Systems, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:ISYS) subsidiary, SAT Corporation, was awarded a US$4.3 million, 18-month contract to upgrade the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) Frequency Control and Analysis (FCA) system.
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SPOT Satellite Messenger Gets Water Work Spot LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT), has now made available their SPOT Assist Maritime, a new on-water towing service dedicated exclusively to the boating community.
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Orange Business Services Offers Oceans Of Maritime SatNet Management Orange Business Services has enhanced its satellite solution portfolio by launching a new, innovative Maritime Satellite Service, upgrading technology and providing customers access to a next-generation satellite network management system.
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Ross Video Catches Up CrossOver (SatBroadcasting) Ross Video has launched the v2.0 feature set for the CrossOver Series of Compact Multi-Definition Production Switchers.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Boris Brings Boss SFX To Bear Boris FX, a leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced a new Boris Continuum Unit, Image Restoration, is now available.
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SAT EXPO Europe Prepping For Rome Event SAT Expo Europe 2010, the 3rd edition of the international event dedicated to the aerospace industry, its services and applications as well as integrated telecommunications, will occur in Rome at the new Exhibition Centre from February 4th to 6th.The event is the first appointment of the year for the sector.
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EMS Sky Connect Has Such A Deal For You... Fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter operators considering an in-flight phone or tracking system will realize significant cost savings by taking advantage of special year-end offers from EMS Sky Connect, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc.
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Telesat Satisfies KVH's Need For African Coverage Telesat has announced that KVH Industries, Inc. (KVH) has entered into a multi-year agreement to use the African coverage of Telesat's Telstar 11N satellite.
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Sir Martin Sweeting Awarded IET's Faraday Medal Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded the Faraday Medal, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) most prestigious award, for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of satellite technology.
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ETSI Establishes New BSM Specs Satellite systems delivering broadband multimedia services need to be effectively managed to ensure satisfactory performance is maintained.
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Stratos Global Debuts Dashboard Of The Latest Kind Stratos Global Corporation has released the latest version of its Stratos Dashboard application.
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Inmarsat, Intelsat, SES + ManSat Bring the SDA To Fruition ManSat, based in the Isle of Man, is going to be working with Inmarsat, Intelsat, and SES as the administrator of a new organization — the Space Data Association (SDA).
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