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September 29, 2016 An Event Of Special Insights — The Fifth Annual Space and Satellite Regulatory Colloquium The event will include 11 panels of legal and regulatory experts who will discuss the most pressing of issues.
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STEM Program For Students To Result In A Launched Smallsat The Irvine CubeSat STEM Program endeavors to provide STEM educational resources to high school students.
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Indonesia Planning To Acquire Their Own MILSATCOM Satellite The decision to acquire the satellite was made following a series of discussions held by Commission I with relevant stakeholders
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Kymeta Reveals Flat Is The Future At The Monaco Yacht Show The Kymeta satellite antenna design provides a secure, scalable and future-proof system that will meet the needs of owners and crew while delivering on the promise of global, mobile connectivity and entertainment.
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NASA's Hubble Reveals Jupiter's Europa Performing A 'Water Show' Of Sorts The plumes are estimated to rise about 125 miles (200 kilometers) before, presumably, raining material back down onto Europa's surface.
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AT&T Moving New Customers To DIRECTV Instead Of U-verse... But For How Long? The referenced Bloomberg report has indicated that the company has been planning to discontinue even its satellite TV services.
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GVF... Urgency Of Communications For Displaced Population In Africa To Be Addressed It is a crisis sometimes overlooked despite the fact that the UNHCR identifies more than three million refugees and 12.5 million internally displaced people in Africa, with another 700,000 who are stateless.” Full Story
Double Awards For ORBCOMM & Their Asset Tracking Solutions One of the products, CargoWatch Secure, supports management via dashboards, KPIs, and the ability to detect and correct supply chain anomalies in real-time.
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The Launch Market For Smallsats... New Analysis From NSR Smallsat Launch Vehicle Markets includes analysis of nearly 50 smallest launchers and key metrics across all markets.
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Lockheed Martin Is Enlisted With USAF... $395 Million For GPS III Satellites The contract includes funding for long-lead items and full production for the next two space vehicles (SVs) in the Air Force’s nexgen GPS III constellation.
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A Core Solution For Wireless Network Transmission Of Classified Info From PacStar® PacStar IQ-Core Software with CSfC Plug-in removes the complexity, providing rapid, intuitive communications management for the US Army.
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Christopher Columbus' Brother's Space Journey With Airbus Defence and Space & Neumann Space Its all-in-one payload mission service will attract customers from areas including Earth observation, technology demonstrators, astro- and heliophysics, material science and new space flight applications.
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NASA's Radical Tests Of Globalstar And ADS-B Technologies' Tracking Solution The first of two 40 minute flights included extreme maneuvering with two 60 degree bank angle turns specifically designed to test the ALAS connection
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September 28, 2016 US Geological Survey... How Satellites Up There Could Predict Human Caused Earthquakes Down Here Suddenly, Oklahoma looked as tremor-prone as California, mainly due to the spread of wastewater disposal wells in the state.
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Sea Launch Acquired By S7 Group The CEO of Russia's S7 Group, Vladislav Filen, flew to the IAC in Guadalajara, Mexico, to sign papers that would find his company acquiring Sea Launch.
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Singtel Brings Inmarsat's Fleet Xpress To Asia & "K" Line Ship Management Singapore The installation was recently completed on “K” Line Ship Management Singapore’s (“K” Line) container ship Houston Bridge.
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Swedish Space Corporation's Search... Seeks Special Satellite Services VP The Swedish Space Corporation operates as one of the largest civilian networks of ground stations, providing access to satellites in any orbit.
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ULA's Vulcan Verification Pathway Now Has SMC Cooperation This cooperative, jointly-written agreement facilitates data exchanges and protects proprietary and export-controlled data.
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Harris To Capture The Earth Every Five Minutes... For rapidly changing events such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, or fires, ABI can take images as often as every 30 seconds.
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Future Leaders & Mentor Of The Year Named By SSPI The Promise Awards honor three satellite executives age 35 and under for outstanding achievement in the early stages of their career as well as the Mentor of the Year.
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Arianespace Mission Mustered On A Fairing Day This upcoming mission will deliver the two telecommunications payloads into geostationary transfer orbit.
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DataPath® ...Wanted 200 Employees...Recruits For Jobs In 20 Countries
DataPath has delivered field services and satellite equipment to the US military for more than 20 years, however this new award expands both ...
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September 27, 2016 On The IBC2016 Show Floor... An Award Winning Satellite Scanning & Carrier ID Presence For Artel Video Systems resented by TV Technology Europe magazine, the Best of Show Award is one of the industry's most prestigious technology honors.
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Berg Insight Offers Their Acumen Regarding Cellular M2M Terminals Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.1 percent, this number is expected to reach 5.7 million in 2020.
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Thuraya Telecommunications Highlights SATCOM Investment Saves & Improves Lives Recent studies indicate that by 2022, the use of satellite communication will rapidly increase globally with a maximum growth expected from countries in the MENA region.
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A Rocket Hardware Challenge Has Been Issued By United Launch Alliance The company invites participants to design a launch support attachment bracket for the new Atlas V rocket.
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The EUMETSAT Satellite Conference Celebrates The Future As Well As Their Anniversary Preparations for data from future satellite systems, such as the highly innovative Meteosat Third Generation, will be prominently featured in the program.
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NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Presents... Their History Armstrong, the agency's lead center for atmospheric flight research operations, began its storied history in the high desert in September 1946.
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Spaceflight's Pathfinder-1 Is Accomplishing Just That... The Spaceflight Industries launch team confirmed reliable, successful signal acquisition and is continuing to monitor communications from its operations center in Seattle.
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SIA... Satellites And The Senate This event showcases our members’ leading edge space-based solutions to regulators and policy makers and underscores the value of the satellite industry to U.S Government, Enterprise and Consumer customers and US society.—Tom Stroup, SIA President.
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WORK Microwave's 30th Anniversary It Takes Work To Make A Relationship Work Established in 1986, WORK Microwave's original strength was in creating clean clock sources.
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September 26, 2016 Smallsats Are Not Disruptive To Space Situational Awareness Smallsats and cubesats should not be viewed as a major contributor to congestion or in creating space debris in LEO, at least based on recent history, a panel of experts presenting at the AMOS conference in Maui, Hawaii, said on September 23rd. [SpaceNews]
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DigitalGlobe Reveals The Fire That Detained WorldView-4's Launch ULA's launch of WorldView-4 satellite was scrubbed last week due to a mechanical issue and then a wildland fire that came uncomfortably close to Vandenberg Air Force Base...
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Hungry For Comms? Feeding The Broadband Revolution Examined By NSR The cumulative revenue for the SATCOM Ground Infrastructure equipment (Baseband and SATCOM Earth Stations) surpasses $12 billion in the next 10 years.
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Thuraya And IEC Telecom... As Partners Two Are Better Than One At OPV Middle East 2016 With the expansion of Thuraya’s maritime portfolio—vital equipment that keeps crew of navy vessels connected with colleagues, family and friends while away at sea.
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On The IAC 2016 Show Floor... Important Matters For Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre The company will be highlighting their space sector development in the UAE and Dubai, UAE space strategy, projects launched, space infrastructure, and developing human capital during IAC.
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Medyacity And Global VSAT Form Partnership For Second Global Satshow In Istanbul GVF Collaborates with ESOA, the Event’s Host, to Provide Satellite Industry Support for the Two-Day Conference & Exhibition
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Cryogenic Helium Systems Breach Tied To SpaceX Dragon Explosion The explosion occurred two days before the satellite was scheduled to be launched into orbit.
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SCATSAT-1 & Seven Smallsats Travel With Alacrity To Their Slots SCATSAT-1, a weather satellite with a five year mission life, is a follow-on mission for the country's Oceansat-2.
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A Major Maneuver By China For Their Tiangong-2 Craft Tiangong-2 launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center via a Long March-2F T2 rocket on September 15th.
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North Korea's New Engine To Launch A Weapon Or A Satellite? "This is the kind of thing you try and build to get more rocket capabilities, whether you're trying to build a ballistic missile or space-launch vehicle,"
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Eclipse Avoidance For India's Mars Orbiter The intention is to maneuver the spacecraft so that the impact of eclipse duration will be reduced.
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Signing By JAXA & Turkey Facilitates a Kibo Module Smallsat Launch This agreements purpose is to offer opportunities to deploy a smallsat—in this case, a cubesat—from the Kibo module.
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Rosetta's Impactful Retirement To The Surface Of Comet 67P/C-G Rosetta is reaching the end of its natural life and so September 30th was considered the optimum date to conclude the mission.
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The Flukey Incidents That Delayed The Launch Of ULA's WorldView-4 Satellite At its peak the fire had 1,052 fire fighters from more than 50 agencies and multiple aircraft in a battle to save life, property, and national defense facilities.
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MTN's Flat Out Solution For Superyachts... Flat Panel Satellites At Monaco Yacht Show Superyacht builders and owners no longer have to wait for flat-panel technology to arrive.
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September 23, 2016 Israel's Sixth ISR Satellite, Ofek-11, Now Believed To Be Functioning Properly The IAI-manufactured satellite was launched on September 13th and encountered some unspecified difficulties after entering orbit.
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Launch Reminder: ISRO To Launch Pratham & Seven Additional Satellites On Monday The Pratham satellite weighs 10 kg, is designed to fit within a cube of 30 centimeters and has a life span of approximately four months.
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Open Source Smallsat Makes Headway For December Launch UPSat is the first complete delivery to ISISpace as part of the QB50 project
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A Big Welcome To Meteosat-8 At 41.5 Degrees East Meteosat-8 is EUMETSAT’s contribution to the Indian Ocean Data Coverage (IODC) service.
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September 22, 2016 Keysight's Smart Like A Fox Savings For FieldFox Portable Spectrum Analyzer ...the 8565, has been the only analyzer of it kind for more than 20 years.
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Score With The SmallSat Symposium 2017 Event— Procure An Early Registration... & Save... With four new workshops and a broad range of thought-provoking panels, give your company the means to maximize growth while minimizing new overhead.
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SBIRS Recognizes With Appreciation The Combined Task Force In Decommissioning Ceremony
"We are honored to operate the most capable IR surveillance and warning system ever designed in defense of the US and her allies."
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First Sweden-Southeast Asia Business Summit...Swedish Minister Joins Telenor Connexion's CEO Telenor Connexion, Telenor Group’s company dedicated to the Internet of Things, views Asia as an important market and ...
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A Smashing Show For China's Tiangong-1 Many of the lab's parts are quite dense and they simply will not burn up on reentry to Earth.
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4K Content From X-Treme Video Delivered By AsiaSat 4 This UHD content on 4K-SAT will include some of the most stunning extreme and outdoor content.
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The Waiting Game... Space Systems Loral Awaits Preparations To Ship EchoStar XXI SSL has completed final shipment preparations at their facility where the spacecraft will remain in storage until EchoStar receives notification of launch vehicle availability.
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Airing Out Data Analytics For UAS This partnership gives the company the opportunity to work with UAS customers through PrecisionHawk.
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On The 2016 IABM Show Floor... Bridge Technologies Acquires Award The VB440-V takes the proven architecture of the Bridge Technologies VB330-V and adds support for dual 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, together with SDIoIP.
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Netflix Courses Across Satellite IP Network Via IsoTropic & iDirect Technologies IsoTropic has simplified the complexities of HD Netflix content across a satellite delivered IP network.
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Microsemi's Radiation Tolerant FPGAs For NASA's Juno Mission Prove To Be More than Capable Microsemi’s radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from the RTSX-SU and RTAX-S product families are in use within the space vehicle’s command and control systems.
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Designed To Counter Global Security Threats — New TPS From SES Tactical Persistent Surveillance (TPS), SES’s first Government+ product offering, is a highly portable solution capable of quick global deployment and operations.
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Now There's More Room For Airbus Defence & Space' Satellite Manufacturing Facility The building, with dimensions of around 70 x 60 meters and a height of more than 20 meters, will be an expansion of the existing Hall 6—the current satellite integration facility.
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Inmarsat Searches For Next Gen Space Pioneers...Maybe You? The winning candidates, selected from UK and European uniundertake a two-year placement with Inmarsat and the offer of a permanent position on the successful completion of the program. Full Story
HISPASAT Goes Short, Plays In 4K... And Awards Winners A total of 101 short films from 14 different countries were submitted to the second edition of this pioneering contest,
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ECO Wi-Fi Arrives For Africa, From Avanti Communications, ESA and Newtec Solar-powered ECO Wi-Fi hotspots will be hosted at schools that will benefit from subsidized Internet access.
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September 21, 2016 WORK Microwave Brings Satellite Operators A Mod and Demod End-To-End Solution This solution enables symbol rates of up to 500 Msps for high speed, IP-based, broadcast and broadband access applications in Ka-, Ku-, Q- and V-band satellite systems.
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Precision GNSS Will Be A Reality For Automotive By 2021, According To ABI Research The automotive industry will be the main driver behind precision GNSS receiver adoption.
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A Push For Satcom Global From Iridium Satcom Global qualified as one of a select group of communications providers selected by Iridium to deliver the PTT service to market.
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Airbus Defence & Space Huddling Up With DLR For METimage Mastery Manufacturing METimage is a multispectral imaging radiometer for meteorological applications.
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Plenty Of Fueling Around For Arianespace As Preparations For Ariane 5 Flight VA231 Continue With Ariane 5 now under Arianespace's responsibility, the launcher is in position to receive two passengers: the Sky Muster II and GSAT-18 telecommunications satellites.
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Maritime & Satellite Industries Coordinate Cyber-Security Strategies Policies, guidelines and best practices were central to the discussion, as well as how industry can identify, quantify and mitigate cyber risk.
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METimage Instrument Agreement Signed Between EUMETSAT & DLR The agreement ensures the inclusion of the visible infrared imaging radiometer, METimage, as part of the payload of the Metop-SG A1, A2 and A3 satellites.
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On The MILCOM 2016 Show Floor... Intelligent Automation To Show First Full Mesh Channel Emulator RFnest™ allows radios to be tested and evaluated in MIMO, SISO, SIMO, MISO or mesh configurations, across a broad Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum.
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An Application Of North Thin Ply Technology For TALC NTPT will supply a low cure temperature, high Tg, Thin Ply Prepreg for the TALC project using pitch fibers and a cyanate ester resin system.
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RigNet's New Multi-Vessel Contract Is A Good Fit "Our valued customer performs critical services to a wide variety of energy customers."
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Mobile Auto Deploying Antennas Make For A Million Dollar Business Event For C-COM Almost all of these orders are for C-COM’s new generation iNetVu® Ka-band series antennas.
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Kanfit Says "Can Do" And Did It...Produced Radome Prototype In Autoclave “It was a complicated project with many variables—from design to models and tools to prototype."
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MEASAT Knows How To Operate... Was Recognized At World Satellite Business Week The annual World Satellite Business Week conference recently adjourned in Paris this last week, but not before awards were handed out.
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Space And Missile Systems Center Enlists Lockheed Martin For Delivery Of Two More GPS III Sats “The GPS III SV 9 and 10 satellites are expected to be ready for launch in 2022, thus sustaining the GPS constellation and the global utility the world has come to expect.”
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September 20, 2016 Kiwis Say OK To Rocket Lab's Launches "This contract is an important milestone in the work the Government is doing to support the development of a New Zealand-based space industry,"
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Schaefer To Lead MDA Information Systems LLC Schaefer brings more than 35 years of experience working in US Department of Defense, Intelligence, and Civilian agency technical programs.
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London Calling For SMI's 18th Annual Global MilSatCom Event At the main conference, products and services will be unveiled. There will also be new updates on military SatCom programs and crucial topics will be discussed.
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United Launch Alliance's Reveals CubeSat STEM Education Program Winners “You are the next generation of rocket scientists and space entrepreneurs and we could not be more pleased to offer this unique opportunity.”
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Harris CapRock Rocks With Award From TMT News The winners were selected by 136,000 subscribers and industry professionals.
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Avanti's ECO Wi-Fi And ESA's 10.7 Million euros Bring Great Promise To Sub-Saharan Africa through its ARTES Partner program that provides affordable satellite broadband connectivity to 1,400 community sites across Sub-Saharan Africa
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September 19, 2016 Mowry Moves To Blue Origin—Kernisan Named As President Of Arianespace US Subsidiary Mr. Kernisan will guide Arianespace’s customer, industry and governmental relations for this important international operation and he will also remain directly engaged in sales activities across the U.S. and Canada.
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Joint 22nd Ka-Band & Broadband Communications Plus 34th AIAA International Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) Next Month Fifty years have passed since the first ICSSC was held and this event will bring together a number of satellite experts to present their views.
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Frost & Sullivan Reconnoiters The Reconnoiters US Military Unmanned Aircraft Market is an analysis from Frost & Sullivan that is part of the Defense Growth Partnership Service program.
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Nanosatellite Engineering Professional Certification From KSF Space To Make A Difference One example of an aerospace company in the US that recognizes the NEP Certificate is Interorbital Systems in California.
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Algerian Space Agency's Nano Spacetrotting Days Are Getting Closer The UK Space Agency and ASAL have enhanced collaboration in space programs.
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DARPA's Multi-Purpose Imaging Sensors Thanks To Smarter Pixels One key feature of the ReImagine program is that teams will be asked to develop software-configurable applications based on a common digital circuit and software platform.
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Playing PoSSUM In The Upper Atmosphere The program, designed by upper atmospheric scientists and former NASA astronaut instructors, is an immersive education program for high-school and undergraduate students.
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Russia Plans Tourist Trips To The Moon... But It's Expensive...$150 Million "We are considering eight potential candidates which are ready to pay for such an expedition."
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Expressions Of Interest Being Received By Norsat International The company has not established a definitive timeline to complete this review and no decision has been reached as of this writing.
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NASA's IRIS...Sun Shines Brighter For Lockheed Martin With $19 Million Contract Extension Delivering the most detailed images of the sun’s lower atmosphere ever recorded from space...
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Nigerian Installers To Be Elevated By SES & CCNL SES—with their Elevate installer training program—will now help ensure that CCNL’s customers receive the best service for the installation of their satellite reception equipment.
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Historic Live Broadcast For The 67th International Astronautical Congress An unprecedented number of people will be able to have access to the state-of-the-art knowledge shared on this premier event.
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Protocol Emulators Make Their Appearance From GL Communications The product involved are the firm's MAPS™ CAP and MAPS™ INAP Protocol Emulators.
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Newtec's Award For Ground Segment Technology Is Best Of Both Worlds Mx-DMA combines the best of both SCPC and MF-TDMA return link technologies, solving the difficult choice of selecting one or the other.
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Airbus Defence and Space's Skynet 5A Satellite Makes Moves That Brings New Military Partners will deliver highly resilient Skynet military satellite communication services notably to the Asia Pacific region, following the move of its Skynet 5A satellite to provide global X-band and UHF coverage in this region.
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Ahoy! SpeedCast Launches SpeedMail+ O'er The Waves ...features more than 90 satellite beams consisting of global C-band, L-band, and Ku-band coverage from more than 70 satellites located in every region around the world.
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September 18, 2016 Second Sunday Update: ULA Changes Launch Of WorldView-4 Due To A Fire Further Out... September 26 it's designed to see objects 1-foot-wide in panchromatic mode, has a 4-foot resolution in color, and images 263,000 square miles of the Earth’s surface per day
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NOAA To Purchase Weather Data From GeoOptics GeoOptics is launching a constellation of smallsats designed to create the most detailed picture of the Earth’s atmosphere, surface and subsurface ever assembled.
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Euroconsult Sees Continuing Expansion For EO Manufacturing & Data Markets The commercial data market totaled $1.7 billion in 2015 and is anticipated to total $3 billion in 2025.
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Critical Analysis Acceleration For The Intelligence Community General Dynamics will design and develop a cloud-based threat detection and analysis platform.
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A CubeSat's Aqua Approach To The Moon Under Development By Cornell University Students The team is led by Mason Peck, a former senior official at NASA and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
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Air & Missile Defence Systems Integration The Focus Of Upcoming SMi Event The conference will feature expert briefings from high-level keynote speakers from military forces at the forefront of air missile defence capability.
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Purchase Your Future Leaders Dinner 2016 Tickets ASAP The 11th annual SSPI Future Leaders Dinner will take place on the first night of the 2016 NAB New York Show, Wednesday, November 9th at The Penn Club in New York City.
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NSR Tackles HTS Growth HTS will grow from approximately 15 percent of total global SATCOM revenues to nearly 50 percent by 2025.
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A GPS Time & Frequency System For Tactical Ops From TRAK The 8836 can be synchronized from the internal GPS receiver or from an external GPS 1PPS.
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X2nSat Has Their Finger On The Pulse Of Healthcare With SatBlue "When it comes to healthcare, a backup communications solution not only keeps the business running, it can help save lives."
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September 16, 2016 FRAC-N PLL For Commercial Space Applications Enters Market The PE97640 is naturally radiation tolerant and immune to single-event latch-up (SEL), which can occur in space and cause severe damage.
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On The European Microwave Week Show Floor... Rohde & Schwarz Loading Up Their Products The company's focus will be on test solutions for satellite communications...
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Inmarsat's Tribute To A Real Hero With The First H.E.R.O. Award Their aim is to recognize and show gratitude for courage and exceptional performance, both by individuals and organizations, and progress IMRF’s mission to improve global maritime SAR and prevent loss of life.
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September 15, 2016 Hughes Enlists Airbus Defence & Space ...Pump Product To Quench MILSATCOM Needs Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has just signed an agreement with Airbus Defence and Space to expand their business partnership to serve this growing market segment.
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Arqiva's Got Game ... SES Satellite Delivers English Premium Sports To Latin America And Caribbean "...this new agreement, Arqiva will be taking advantage of the excellent coverage and technical capabilities of our NSS-806 satellite.”
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Launch Reminder: DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 By United Launch Alliance Atlas V On Friday, September 16th Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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Smallsat Build Underway By Raytown Schools' Students For An Interorbital Systems Launch Over the next nine months, high school students will partner with Interorbital Systems and Raytown community groups to build and launch an LEO satellite.
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Gilat Brings SATCOM Cell Solution To Optus For Australia Gilat offers an integrated solution, which combines small cell and VSAT functionality and allows for the cost effective and fast deployment of cellular coverage.
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Two Heavyweights In SATCOM Training Create Curriculum Compatabilities GVF and the Informa Telecoms Academy will jointly offer each others’ curricula around the world.
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Thales Alenia Space & LeoSat Tie Won On With Constellation Contract The constellation is the creation of LeoSat Enterprises and that firm has just signed Thales Alenia Space for the phase B contract for the development of their LEO constellation.
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Airbus Defence And Space’s Gaia Maps 1.6 Billion Stars And Can Pick Out A Human Hair At 435 Miles The precision optical instrument could pick out a human hair at 700 km or 434.96 miles...
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Inmarsat Receives Global Satellite Operator Of The Year Award Michele Franci, Inmarsat Chief Technology Officer, collected the award on behalf of Inmarsat at World Business Satellite Week.
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On The AAD Show Floor... SCS Aerospace Group Showcases Their SCS150 Smallsat The products include the new, lightweight, high-performance satellite, the SCS150, which has been designed for global environmental and infrastructure monitoring... and more...
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Shaking Things Up... Once Again... Brüel & Kjær has just rolled out their 80 kN shaker, the V8900.
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China Set To Lift Tiangong-2 Spacelab Today Tiangong-2 is a prototype spacelab that will test life support, repair systems and refueling technology for the future 60-ton Chinese Space Station.
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Airbus Defence And Space Plans Pléiades Super Satellite Imagery Highly responsive dual VHR constellation will offer state-of-the art service to the Airbus Defence and Space imagery user’s community for the next decade.
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PerúSAT-1 and SkySat-4 to -7 Satellites Pushed By An Arianespace Vega To Their Slots Designated Flight VV07, this was Arianespace’s seventh launch of the year and also the seventh consecutive successful launch by Vega.
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September 14, 2016 The Global Satellite Manufacturing & Launch Market Addressed By Technavio From ASDReports This report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global satellite manufacturing and launch market.
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A Valuable TWTA Follow-On Order For CPI's Satcom Division CPI’s products will be part of a primary uplink system in a well-established, DTH network in Africa.
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GATR FLEX Proves To Be Highly Capable GATR and IGC performed a series of tests using the open architecture, high-performance Intelsat EpicNG satellite IS-29e, GATR-FLEX antenna and GATR’s e850 ruggedized iDirect satellite modem
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Some 9,000 Satellites To Be Launched By 2025... Euroconsult's Analysis Just in the commercial space sector, Euroconsult anticipates a total of 560 satellites to be launched over the decade by 40 companies.
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Flat Is Good For Aviation Comms, So Believes Kymeta & TECOM TECOM will incorporate Kymeta® mTenna® technology into an aviation grade terminal to demonstrate connectivity to a Ku-band satellite.
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From SolarCoins To Bitcoins From Cloud Constellation's SpaceBelt™'s Cold Storage Vault—A Novel Spatial Solution Cloud Constellation's SpaceBelt will become SCF's primary connectivity provider for SolarCoin space transactions with prospective customers.
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Media Broadcast Satellite Launches New Services Aboard Hispasat 30 Degrees West This marks a further step to guarantee a wide and satellite operator-neutral portfolio of satellite services to customers.
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Norsat's Sinclair Aims At Law Enforcement With New Duplexers This highly ruggedized product line is ideal to ensure the integrity of law enforcement communications in rough, off-road and extreme environmental conditions.
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Israel Injects Ofeq-11 Into Orbit The Ofeq-11 satellite entered the planned, retrograde LEO for pre-planned testing but the satellite was not acting in the "expected manner."
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Russian Proton Launch Vehicle Missions To Be Uplifting For Baiterek Baiterek is a joint venture company whose shareholders are Kazakh’s State Property and Privatization Committee and Russia’s Khrunichev Center.
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SES' Maritime+ Is A Plus...Custom Connectivity And Speedy Seamlessness At Sea Maritime customers will enjoy seamless global roaming through new fully-customizable and scalable managed service.
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September 13, 2016 Get Answers To Design Challenges With Keysight Technologies Oscilloscope App Note Even the toughest measurement challenges can be handled by the 3000T X-Series.
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Moving On In... Whitehorn & Riddell-Dillet Join Clyde Space Clark stated these were key appointments to the rapidly-growing company’s long term business strategy to maintain their market lead.
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Virgin Galactic To Launch Sky And Space Global's Constellation Virgin Galactic also announced the capability to fly LauncherOne from low latitudes.
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A Tanzanian Target For Avanti & Bentley Walker The contract is for capacity from Avanti’s HYLAS 2 Ka-band satellite.
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International Launch Services To Bring New Proton Launch Vehicle Variants On Line These two additional vehicles will be optimized 2-stage versions of the time tested and flight proven Proton Breeze M launch system for exclusive commercial use by ILS.
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China's Smallsats Launcher To Debut Next Year & Comms Constellation Coming Called Kuaizhou-11, the launch vehicle was developed by the Fourth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC).
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United Launch Alliance's RapidLaunch™ Is Super Speedy Service... How About Three Months?
"...we have been working on this offering for more than a year, which allows our customers to launch in as few as three months from placing their order.”
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Harris CapRock's OnePath Is On The Right Path... Long Range Wireless Radio With Extras ...offers a unique mode of connectivity that is complementary to Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) technology, providing higher throughput and increased redundancy.
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Arianespace Flight VA233—The Galileo Four—Coming To Fruition These spacecraft are undergoing fit checks with the new dispenser system that is to be installed on Ariane 5.
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A Fusing Of Spatial Significance — GMV GmbH & INSYEN AG The merged GMV-INSYEN will become part of the GMV family of companies.
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September 12, 2016 SES Does A Deal With The Man... New Operations On the Isle Of Man ..."a high-tech teleport on the Isle of Man will further strengthen our infrastructure offering, benefiting all of our customers.”
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Communications & Power Industries' 750 W TouchPower™ TWA Debuts CPI’s latest HPA features TouchPower™ technology and represents a powerful combination of outstanding power efficiency and advanced technology in a single package.
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Communications & Power Industries' Satcom Division Brings Their Solutions To The Middle East ..."our continued success does not depend on the sale of a particular type of technology; we can offer our customers the best technological solution, not just the one that we happen to have in our product portfolio.”
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Mitigation Melioration By Siemens Convergence Creators The solution is receiving the update just as Eutelsat Communications which is in the process of deploying the technology across its global fleet.
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Satnews At IBC...TeamCast Is Quite A Team With Five Solutions Team Satnews at the TeamCast booth at IBC... blisters and bandaids are proof of the magnitude of this show...
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Satnews Sees Double... 2wcom... Déja Vu All Over Again As They Flex Their FlexDSR Another stop along the way at IBC finds Team Satnews publisher, Silvano Payne, and Director of Marketing, Jill Durfee, at the 2wcom booth experiencing déja vu when they met with Managing Director, Werner Drews.
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Globecast's New Remote Production Service Saves... When You're There But Not There ...customers can eliminate the need to send dedicated production teams to different locations, avoiding technology, travel and personnel costs that are now part and parcel of covering a major live sporting event.
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Bangabandhu-I Comes Closer To Fruition For Bangladesh Bangladesh in November last year signed a 19.51 billion taka ($248 million) deal with French firm Thales Alenia Space for the satellite itself.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Newtec Receives Product Recognition Award The award recognizes the MCX7000 Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateway's capabilities and the improvements made to the modem following the product's launch.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Eutelsat Cements In Transponder Access For MultiChoice Africa This nine year contract is for the expansion of the MultiChoice DStv platform at Eutelsat’s 36 degrees East video neighborhood.
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Zimbabwe's Gokwe North Obtains SATCOM Coverage... But There Are Contractor Concerns... The decision to combine these services became mandatory after the realization that the two satellite transmitters in Gokwe North were not adequate for the entire district.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Es'hailSat Has Satellites & A New Teleport On Their Mind A growing number of local and regional Arabic channels are selecting Es’hailSat to launch their services in MENA
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Indian Institute Of Technology—Bombay Set To Push Pratham, Thanks To ISRO Six students are currently working on the pre-launch of Pratham, which is the institute's first student satellite and which will be launched as a piggyback with the ISRO’s ScatSat PSLV rocket.
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Two Years Possibly Required For Israel To Replace The Destroyed AMOS-6 Satellite Akunis also requested immediate new funding for the Israel Space Agency.
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SAT>IP Alliance Furthers Future Of Satellite Content Distribution In Multiscreen Ecosystems This technology makes it possible to provide high-quality broadcast content more efficiently to all the screens in a home, using pre-existing networks in the building.
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Iran Given OK To Share Satellite Data With APSCO The member states discussed and exchanged opinions on joint space projects.
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Moving On Up... Mortensen To Vice President At SSC Mortensen previously served as Director of Marketing and Business Development for SSC’s Satellite Management Services Americas Region.
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Orbital ATK's Milestone PDR For Their First Weather Satellites Completed The spacecraft for JPSS are the first weather operations spacecraft the company will design and produce.
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Intelsat Pushes Out The Intelsat 33e In Service Date The satellite is expected to arrive on station for In Orbit Testing in December of this year.
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GiSAT To Be Built By Boeing For Sub-Saharan Africa Coverage The customer is Cayman Islands-based Global IP and they will use the satellite to offer coverage to 35 countries and 750 million people.
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Inmarsat Approaching USG Aero Apps With SATCOM As A Service Solutions The service was successfully demonstrated in multiple user scenarios with US government end users and in close cooperation with Inmarsat’s Value Added Reseller (VAR) and Value Added Manufacturer (VAM) partners.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... ATCi Shows Off Simulsat The Simulsat product line eliminates the need for multiple parabolic antennas, otherwise known as antenna farms.
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Arianespace Attending To ISRO's GSAT-11 & World Satellite Business Week The satellite will be launched by an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in 2017.
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Satellite Pay-TV Operators Now Have MaxLinear Chipset For PVRs The chipset supports one or two wideband RF inputs and is able to tune to any transponder in the 250MHz-2350MHz frequency range.
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SES Meets New Demands... Goes High And Delivers Wide... Increases Connectivity “Passengers are so enamoured with inflight entertainment (IFE) that seven out of 10 would like to order their meals through the IFE system.”
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Communications & Power Industries Provide High Power Wave Tube Amplifiers To iSAT CPI's amplifiers will be used by iSAT to support a $1 million award to iSAT by a major satellite operator and service provider in the Middle East for ... Full Story
SES Orders A Thales Satellite And Also Signs For First Secured Anchor For Inflight Connectivity with close to 200 spot beams of different sizes, will be designed to provide optimal coverage for the densest data corridors in the Americas (North America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Latin America) and over the Atlantic Ocean.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... TangoWave Presents A Topical TWTA Tango Wave's new Model PA17-Ku400P is a Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) power amplifier that will deliver 180 watts of linear power over the 12.75 to 14.5 GHz band.
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UK Space Agency Wants To Maintain Claim To Fame In EO... Using Financial Incentives Worth £11.8 billion to the economy, the Government is committed to growing the UK’s commercial space sector to capture 10 percent of the global market—supporting 100,000 new jobs and generating £40 billion for the economy by 2030.
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Jeff Bezos Just Unveiled His New Rocket. And It’s A Monster. Powered by seven BE-4 engines, they would have 3.85 million pounds of thrust at sea level. The rocket would be nearly as tall as the mighty, Apollo-era Saturn V that ferried the Apollo astronauts to the moon.
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September 9, 2016 UPDATE: On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Kratos' Product Parade & Their New Monics Enterprise The Kratos presentations will feature new SATCOM capabilities that were developed to help assure the quality of broadcast operations.
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GAO Recommends NOAA Ensure Timelines Are Accurate, Clear & Fully Documented... Oops! These charts are used to support budget requests, provide status reports, facilitate appropriations discussions with congressional committees, and inform the public.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Advantech Wireless Has SSPA/BUC Moments For Attendees The firm has now launched their new series of Ka-Band GaN-based SSPAs/BUCs.
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Pursuing V-Nova's PERSEUS Is Eutelsat Eutelsat and V-Nova also plan to enter into a commercial partnership focused on satellite video transmission markets
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Yle Goes With ND SatCom For SNG ND SatCom SKYRAY antenna will be used for Yle’s SNG live content gathering across Scandinavia and Europe.
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Paradigm's PIM Power The PIM uses the Paradigm Location Sensor (PLS) to allow terminals to be easily and quickly pointed without a spectrum analyzer.
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Partnership Expansion For AsiaSat With FRANCE 24 FRANCE 24 has selected the AsiaSat 5 satellite for the recent launch of their first HD service in the world.
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SES Signs Globecast For More Than One Transponder On SES-5 The multi-year agreement will provide Globecast with the use of more than one transponder on the SES satellite.
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UPDATE: On The IBC2016 Show Floor... DataPath Offers A MaxView Manifestation & PIM Pickup For Man Portable MaxView Enterprise will display information through all web screens in each individual user’s choice of more than 100 languages.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... MX1 To Transform, Accelerate & Globalize MX1’s new senior management team includes members of SPS management as well as RR Media.
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Big Doings Ahead For Thuraya The company will extend their geographical reach, move into new market sectors and launch new services and devices.
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Fourteen Billion For FSS By 2025, According To Euroconsult Euroconsult forecasts that traffic carried over satellite will reach close to 3.5 Tbps by 2025.
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Hughes Adds Bounties To Their JUPITER System The 2gen JUPITER System adds new capabilities that boost satellite service providers ROI by raising the performance of consumer, business and mobility apps to new levels.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Dialog Between Newtec & Arabsat Highly Fruitful Three return technologies are featured—MF-TDMA, SCPC and Newtec’s unique Mx-DMA®.
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General Raymond To Head Air Force Space Command He will succeed General John Hyten in this position.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... VSAT Transceiver/Router From Advantech Wireless On Display The ultra-compact all-outdoor Ka-8200 VSAT transceiver-router features technological advancements.
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Tangerine & UHP Networks Combine Forces For VSAT Network Roll-Out The network operates over the Intelsat EpicNG® platform and uses the latest high throughput satellite (HTS)-ready VSAT technology from UHP Networks.
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Airbus Defence & Space PerúSAT-1 Coming To A Vega Launcher With September 16th In Mind PerúSAT-1 is based on the highly flexible, compact AstroBus-S platform.
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Newtec Has A Lot Of K-LOVE Newtec Dialog hubs at two locations will multiplex EMF’s outbound radio signal, which can be received by standard, commercial off-the-shelf Integrated Receiver Decoders (IRDs) as well as VSAT modems.
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Iridium's Edge Entrance The Iridium Edge can work side by side with land-based cellular devices to provide asset management and vehicle tracking.
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A Trio Of Demos From SES Reveal Mastery Of UHD One demo will broadcast the UHD HDR test channel with content produced by LG Electronics that was launched in May during SES’s annual Industry Days.
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September 8, 2016 Good, Rex! ULA Launches OSIRIS-REx For NASA To Return With Asteroid Sample “ULA and our heritage vehicles have successfully launched NASA missions to every planet in our solar system.”
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DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 Inclusions Developed By Orbit Logic Orbit Logic has delivered to DigitalGlobe an updated version of their Direct Access Facility Collection Planning System (DAF CPS) software.
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SIS LIVE Linking In To APAC For Content Distribution The partnership with Telstra will ensure SIS LIVE customers have additional high quality access to the vast Asia Pacific region.
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Beating Back RFI With A New Mitigation Innovation Package Is NovelSat The NovelSat RFI Mitigation Innovation Package is a set of software upgradable tools that combat Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) in satellite transmission.
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Toolkit Suite Debuts From ORBCOMM For IoT & M2M This new toolkit provides every layer of the IoT stack required to develop market-specific solutions.
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US Navy At Guantanamo Bay To Get Pumped Up Internet From ViaSat The new service from ViaSat will use a managed Wi-Fi network and expects to offer service plans that will be significantly faster than current speeds available at NSGB.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Skyline Communications Presents Their New DataMiner This release brings into play important innovations and new network management paradigms.
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When There Is A Need To Repeat Oneself, Foxcom Has A Remedy This Iridium repeater is used for short distances between outdoor and indoor antennas, such as when used in an aircraft hangar.
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India Prods INSAT-3DR To GTO GSLV-F05 flight is significant as this is the first operational flight of GSLV carrying a Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), which was developed in India.
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Kudos For Gilat's BlackRay 71 Flat Panel Antenna.. 'Unprecedented Performance' This link was effectively two times the rate and almost three times more efficient than traditional widebeam satellites.
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An Antenna Acquisition Motivator From General Dynamics' SATCOM Technologies For a limited time, General Dynamics' SATCOM Technologies will offer a '3-3' Initiative that includes a three year warranty along with a 3 percent rebate.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... NorthTelecom Commquers The Sea NorthTelecom's MVSAT services now meet the needs of all users who require constant, unlimited service.
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On The IBC2016 Show Floor... Immersive VR From Harmonic & NASA Reveal NASA Astronaut ISS Training The video for the VR demo was captured at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston, Texas.
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Arianespace Getting Galileo Grounded For November Departure Flight VA233 is to use an Ariane 5 ES version of the heavy-lift workhorse equipped with a storable propellant upper stage.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Provides Propellent That Pushes OSIRIS-REx Towards Asteroid The 67-foot long motor case contains more than 90,000 pounds of propellant, providing an average of 250,000 lbf of thrust.
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Canadian Space Agency's Laser Altimeter For OSIRIS-REx ...containing approximately 4,000 mechanical parts and 3,000 electrical parts, and using less power than a light bulb (75 W).
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Chinese Long March 4C Fizzle Results In Gaofen-10 Loss This is the first time a Chinese rocket has failed since 2013.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation's SADAs Make It Three For Three With NASA's Programs “SNC has now supported all three NASA New Frontiers program missions—providing thermal control systems for New Horizons and Juno, and now mechanical systems on OSIRIS-REx.”
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September 7, 2016 University Of Nairobi To Use Their Own Satellite For EO Work The institution is the first in Kenya to benefit from the project dubbed UNOOSA-JAXA, Japanese Experiment Module (KiboCUBE) program, launched in September last year.
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Sky'ing With EM Solutions Diamond BUCs The company that has recently received multiple orders for their Ka-band BUC products for use in aeronautical SATCOM applications.
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Future Rocket Engines Receive An Aerojet Rocketdyne Demo Boost Aerojet Rocketdyne tested the preburner at full power and full duration to provide key insights for future engines that use this engine cycle.
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Assembly Complete For Arianespace Flight VV07 The light-lift Vega launch vehicle has now been packed with the multi-satellite EO observation payload and is fully assembled.
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Watch This — Casio's Timely Debut Possesses Satellite Sensitivities his hybrid technology allows the watch to receive signals from satellites as well as from six different transmitters around the globe.
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Airbus Defence & Space Move Makes Logistical Sense An important element of the project was the two-month move, which has now been completed.
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DISA Providing Holistic Approach To Cybersecurity The shift from HBSS to ESS represents an enhancement of existing capabilities through both product lifecycle evolution and the addition of specific endpoint capabilities.
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Salt Spray To Soak Cobham SATCOM Products In The Volvo Ocean Race Cobham SATCOM will ensure that the latest SAILOR FleetBroadband products will continue to be a fixture of this professional sporting event when the boats line up in Alicante in October 2017.
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On The Show Floor... Bridge Technologies To Launch NOMAD NOMAD is a highly portable, self-contained and versatile network probe.
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On The Show Floor... All Important Protection From NAGRA On Display NAGRA anyCAST CONNECT will allow the KT Skylife to secure the expansion of their 4K Ultra HD service.
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Complete Telemedicine Solution For Those At Sea Marlink has launched XChange Telemed, a new telemedicine service designed to improve the health and safety of crew and passengers at sea.
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Diversity Rings True With Assured QoS Backup From Kratos This product enables satellite and network operators to locate backup antennas in optimal and cost effective locations and to seamlessly switch between antennas without impacting a network’s QoS.
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The 33rd Space Symposium's Technical Track's Call For Papers Presentations are welcome on technology developments with applications for civil, commercial, entrepreneurial and national security fields.
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The Driving Nudge For ADM-Aeolus To Be Provided By An Arianespace Vega This mission will make a direct contribution to improving the quality of weather forecasts and climatology research.
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Improving The Maritime Comms For MOL's LNGs Underway By NSSLGlobal The new NSSLGlobal system meets MOL LNG’s performance and support requirements.
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Making Video Metadata Crystal Clear At IBC2016 Mr. Franklin contributes to this Metadata session through a supporting paper titled “Using Metadata to Deliver Relevant and Valuable Content.”
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GVF ... Asia-Pacific Militaries Prepare For The Worst Through Certification While Working With The Best We want to provide information that can help save lives. Militaries need quick deployments as satellite communications are an important base for connectivity.
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Advantech Wireless' Newest Designed For M2M, SCADA And IoT, All-Outdoor VSAT Transceiver-Router ...specifically designed for M2M, SCADA and IoT over satellite, and can be combined with all other Advantech Wireless VSAT terminals within the same A-SAT-II system according to application requirements.
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September 6, 2016 Drones Sailing The High Seas Saildrone Inc. provides ocean data that's collected by a fleet of unmanned, autonomous sailing drones.
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Quality Improvements At NorthTelecom Teleport To Be Provided By CPI's ASC Signal Division The antenna will be installed at one of the company’s teleports and they will incorporate ASC’s Next Generation Controller (NGC).
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Insightful Integration By Globecomm Both companies will now operate under the Globecomm Maritime brand.
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XChange Media Service From Marlink To Enhance REEDEREI NSB Crew Comms The contract positions Marlink as NSB’s primary provider of voice and connectivity services.
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Newtec & Telekom Austria Bringing EUTELSAT 10A Additional Proficiency The benefits gained by EUMETSAT come as a result of the modem’s unique onboard technologies—Equalink® 3 and Clean Channel Technology® (CCT).
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A Financial Boon For LeoSat's Constellation—Their First Customer The company's first customer is almost four years ahead of the commercial launch of the system.
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Newtec Brings Answers To Vital Questions With Industry Sessions... Seek And Learn Join Newtec at IBC with the industry experts.
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Overview: The AMOS-6 and SpaceX Event Misfortune can strike at any moment to affect our personal lives and damage business goals.
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Walton De-Ice Is Hot With Cost Saving Solutions At Fucino, Telespazio upgraded seven gateway antennas, ranging in size up to 18 meters in diameter.
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Globecomm Maritime Is A First... Delivers The First Fleet Xpress Terminals To Helikon Shipping Leader in maritime connectivity technology commissions next-generation communications terminals on pair of Supramax newbuildings
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National Space Society Urges Renewed Commitment After Falcon 9/Amos 6 Incident If there had been a crewed Dragon 9 on the pad instead of the Amos 6 satellite, there is good reason to believe that the crew and capsule would have survived."
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September 5, 2016 UPDATE: On The Show Floor... SatService GmbH Prepared To Show All At IBC2016 The companies will also be available to answer any questions concerning their equipment.
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Connect First's Sudden Departure Of CEO ...primary mission of providing exceptional customer experiences in the contact center industry.
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Arianespace's Team Musters Their Energy... Preps For Sky Muster™ Launch ...designed to deliver nbn's advanced services for some of the most difficult to reach citizens in Australia, from mainland Australia and Tasmania to the offshore islands.
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Israel's Satellite Program Under Investigation (HAARETZ) Based on preliminary findings, the state comptroller believes there are serious long-term planning gaps in the development of satellites in Israel, even before the SpaceX explosion.
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The Global SatShow Comes To Turkey The Association today represents the interests of all EMEA satellite operators who deliver information communication services across the globe.
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General Dynamics Gets Up And Goes With Fourth Generation SATCOM On-The-Move Antennas Feedback from military users helped design and develop the new Gen IV model.
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Spacecom Mitigation Planning Following The Loss Of The AMOS-6 Satellite Some of Spacecom's current Ku-band clients on AMOS-2 that were to be relocated to AMOS-6 will be relocated to AMOS-3.
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Goodbye GPS SVN-23... Satellite Heads To Higher Orbit GPS are pushed to a higher orbit, roughly 1,000 kilometers above the operational GPS orbit.
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Copernicus Accelerator Program Seeking Mentors This one-of-a-kind program is focused on providing a tailored business coaching service for as many as 40 finalists in the Copernicus Masters competition.
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EARTH-i Brings DMC3 Constellation Imagery Comparisons To EO Conference EARTH-i Ltd. will be exhibiting the latest examples of 1 meter GSD satellite imagery from the DMC3 constellation.
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Satellite & Virtual Reality To Become Substantive At IBC2016 This groundbreaking R&D project is going to be presented by SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) with Fraunhofer Heinricht Hertz Institute HHI Berlin.
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ISRO Initiates Plan To Outsource Satellite Manufacturing ISRO has received more than 40 responses to a tender floated inviting private firms to jointly build a satellite and eventually transfer satellite-making technology for local and global needs.
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On The Show Floor... TeamCast Presents... The company is debuting their Tyger satellite modulator at IBC2016 as well as demonstrating a number of their products.
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Icarusnet And UHP's Big Change For The Better... VSAT Expansion To European Utility Networks
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NovelSat And ATEME Show Their Support... Up To 4K The modulator is the only system that also offers the NovelSat NS4 waveform, which delivers up to 45 percent higher spectral efficiency compared with DVB-S2.
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September 2, 2016 On The Show Floor... Showcasing Their Satellite Services Will Be Arabsat Arabsat has recently signed many agreements with important and specialized satellite TV channels and networks.
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On The Show Floor... Cobham & Friends Present Maritime SATCOM Expertise Cobham welcomes SMM attendees to join its Leadership in Person key note presentations, which will take place daily from Tuesday, September 6th until Thursday, September 8th.
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A Better Burst From Marlink The company has doubled the burst speed on their Sealink VSAT services.
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From Grain To Smallsats, NASA's Phase II Future Missions Technology Proposals Are Selected The Phase II selectees of NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program are permitted to enter into negotiations for possible contract awards worth a combined total of approximately $15.8 million.
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Arianespace Flight VV07 Is All Buttoned Up For Ariane 5 Push Encapsulation, performed in the Spaceport's S3B preparation facility, marked completion of the payload integration phase for Arianespace Flight VV07.
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The Top Operators Of 2016 Survey Now Opened By WTA The Top Operator rankings, published annually by WTA since 2004, are the world's only rankings of top teleport operating companies serving media, data and voice markets.
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On The Show Floor... Demos From Quintech & DEV At IBC2016 Quintech and DEV and they are showcasing the newest members of their product portfolio.
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Mega-Constellation Deployment Issues To Be The Focus Of An IAC2016 Plenary Event This presentation is going to focus on the current and future orbital debris environment and more...
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GNSS Receiver Now Available For US Purchasers The open-architecture Altus NR2 is fully compatible with Esri’s new version of Collector for ArcGIS.
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NASA It's A New Dawn ... Ice Is Revealed On Ceres In New Research Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system
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September 1, 2016 Distribution Support For Advantech Wireless in Pakistan By Channel TEK Support for Advantech Wireless in Pakistan.
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A First For Alpha Satcom & Waldo Systems — A Backpack Antenna System This is the first, light weight, carbon fiber backpack system upon which the two firms have cooperated.
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Quick, Accurate & Effective Temperature Measurements From Keysight Technologies Learn how to make quick, accurate, and effective temperature measurements.
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MX1 Kicks Off A New Broadcasting Deal With IMG This new contract covers MX1’s distribution of Premier League match broadcasts to TV service providers and audiences worldwide as part of a multi-year deal.
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AvL Technologies Continues To Build AvL will move some of its manufacturing processes from the current building to the new building to take advantage of the larger space required for new product development.
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Iranian Satellite Launch A Cover For A Ballistic Missile Attack? (Washington Free Beacon) "Iranian officials announced on Tuesday that the country is preparing to launch three new satellites into space..."
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NASA's Anniversary Of Skylab.... A Giant Step Into Space Involving scientists from 28 nations, Skylab demanded the highest degree of cooperative effort from the world's scientific community.
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad While Prepping For Upcoming Launch ...there was an anomaly on the pad resulting in the loss of the vehicle and its payload..."
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Chinese Gaofen-10 Satellite Departed, Delayed Or Destroyed? The expectations were for Gaofen-10 to be launched on Wednesday (02:46 to 03:11, Beijing time; 1846 to 1911 UTC) via a Long March 4C rocket.
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The GPS OCX Money Situation Becomes More Complicated (Inside GNSS) The program to develop a new GPS ground system could see its funding tied up for more than a month.
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Not Enough Capacity For India India badly needs a larger industry role in making more satellites and launch vehicles at a faster pace.
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An Impactful Moment For Sentinel-1A The only observable reaction to the strike was a sudden, but small, power reduction in the satellite's solar array.
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Radio Telescope Build In China Will Displace Thousands FAST is comprised of 4,450 panels.
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On The Show Floor... WORK To Do Modem Work During IBC2016 The platform is completely customizable and scalable.
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