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January 29, 2010 Arianespace - Vega Victory In Rome, Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Markus Bertschi, Launcher Programmes Department Head at the European Space Agency (ESA), signed a contract defining Arianespace's support services for the qualification campaign and combined testing of the Vega light launcher.
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SIRIUS XM Radio — Super Bowl Days Ahead SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI), the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, announced it will broadcast Super Bowl XLIV in 10 languages, offering listeners 14 different live broadcasts plus live talk programming from South Florida throughout Super Bowl Week.
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NASA — Space Station Streaming NASA soon will provide Internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space by streaming video live from the International Space Station's laboratories.
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ISPCS — New Mexico To Host Space Week ISPCS Space Week in New Mexico in October 2010 will be anchored by the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS 2010) in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Newtec's Flexibility Doubles Capacity In Africa With FlexACM Newtec announced today that its FlexACM technology – that reports indicate, on average, doubles satellite link capacity – is the system behind Gateway Communications’ flagship continent-wide Internet backbone service, Africa IPJetDirect.
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January 28, 2010 Harris — Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) reported GAAP income from continuing operations for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 of US$140 million, or US$1.06 per diluted share, compared with US$141 million, or US$1.06 per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter.
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IDC — Moving On Up... International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) has realigned its Board committees as follows:
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NASA — Spirit Isn't Dead, Just Stuck In A Sand Trap — Fore! NASA announces after six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot.
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Satellite Industry Association Seats Four Associate Members The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has seated four new associate members: Cobham SATCOM Land Systems, Glowlink, LLC, SatGE and Trace Systems.
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CU-Boulder — Cubesat Launches By NASA Set For November A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.
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Boeing — Financial Reports $trong 2009 Revenue And Performance Boeing has shared their financial report for 2009 and it is favorable.
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Spacecom — Into The Commercial Fray Goes AMOS-5i Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), the AMOS satellite fleet operator, has announced the AMOS-5i satellite has reached its 17 degrees East orbital position and has started commercial service.
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Norsat Int'l — Financially Speaking... Norsat International Inc. (“Norsat”) (TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF) announced their contract with Bluemoon has expired and will not be renewed.
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Hughes Network Systems — 100 Percent For SPACEWAY 3, Says CWID Report Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has announced that its satellite-based broadband capabilities were successfully demonstrated during the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID), according to the newly-released CWID Final Report.
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Globecomm Systems — The 3G Switch Is On Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has announced Indigo Wireless, a rural wireless operator in Pennsylvania and Nebraska, is the latest carrier to use Globecomm’s 3G switch platform, which offers affordable, 3G hosted mobile services to under-serviced areas worldwide.
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RT Logic (Integral Systems) — What's NEXT For Their SatModems... Integral Systems, Inc.'s, (NASDAQ: ISYS) subsidiary, RT Logic (www.rtlogic.com), has a contract from Iridium Communications Inc., (NASDAQ: IRDM) to supply two Telemetrix 400XR Modulator/Receiver (T400XR) modems.
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SES WORLD SKIES — What To Wear With NSS-7 SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has a new DVB service deal with Microspace aimed at delivering a global retailer’s successful digital signage campaign to clothing stores throughout Europe.
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SpaceX — A Falcon For Spacecom Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom) of Ramat-Gan Israel, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, have signed an agreement for launch of a communication satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as December 2012.
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Eutelsat Communications — W2 Anomaly Affects Ops Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has released a statement regarding a 'technical anomaly' that has affected operations of its W2 satellite, located at 16 degrees East.
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NASA And ULA Solar Dynamics Observatory — We'll Follow The Sun SatNews has received United Launch Aliance's (ULA) mission booklet of the upcoming Atlas V launch of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Time For A Terrible Turrialba? (NASA) Turrialba Volcano, located in central Costa Rica, emits a translucent plume of volcanic gases in this natural-color satellite image from January 21, 2010.
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January 27, 2010 TIA — Supports Trans-Pacific Partnership The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has officially filed comments with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) supporting a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, which includes countries Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.
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National Space Symposium — Nimoy And Notables In Abundance The pace is picking up with the 26th National Space Symposium from April 12-15 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.
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NASA's — 'Hope And Change' To Return To Moon May Crash SatNews is sharing this article from January 27, OrlandoSentinal.com: NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is . . .
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Oh-Oh... Olga (NASA) Residents of the northern coastal areas of Australia's Northern Territory and NASA's Aqua satellite have seen new life "blown into" a low pressure system that is once again Tropical Storm Olga.
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Agilex Technologies — Orbital Debris Removal Strategies In The Spotlight Agilex Technologies recently provided program support for the International Conference on Orbital Debris Removal.
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SES ASTRA — Yes Italia Says Yes To Capacity Deal SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has signed a capacity agreement with Rai.
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Expand Networks — Lowering Latency For US Army SatLinks Expand Networks, a supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies, announced its WAN Optimization technology is supporting the PEOC3T and the United States Army to improve the performance of critical applications and communications over low bandwidth — high latency satellite links.
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PolarSat — Meshing Around With Hub-Less VSATs PolarSat Inc., a leader in full mesh VSAT communication equipment, announced it has shipped VSATPlus 3 networking equipment to a major oil and gas company.
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January 26, 2010 Hughes Network Systems — Milestone Of 500K HughesNet Users Met + Surpassed Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has surpassed 500,000 North American subscribers to its HughesNet? service.
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IAR Systems — Developing A Real Interest In Quake Modems IAR Systems? has been selected by Quake Global, a manufacturer of M2M communicators for multiple satellite and terrestrial networks, as the preferred software development environment for the latest QUAKE™ Satellite Data Modems, Q-Pro, and Q4000.
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TSF — Critical Connections In Haiti Keep Hope Abounding Sat News has been the receipiant of information regarding companies and organizations assisting with the daunting rescue efforts in Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake.
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CASBAA — 2010 Convention Planning The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia has announced details of the CASBAA Convention 2010 to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong on October 25th – 28th.
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MITEQ — Goes Green — New Catalog On A Disc MITEQ recently released a comprehensive Winter 2010 Satellite Communication and Earth Station Equipment CD Catalog (CD-01K) which is the height of efficiency.
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Thales Alenia Space — Competes And Wins Galileo Contract! To Serve And Support Services Thales Alenia Space shared the news with SatNews that they were awarded the contract to provide ESA Galileo system Support Services, lasting from 2010 through 2016.
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Proactive Communications — Strong ARM'd Proactive Communications is deploying a new automated remote management (ARM) system that uses satellite data links provided by Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) for out-of-band backup access to remote communication network sites.
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SkyBitz — A Firm Handle On M2M Asset Management SkyBitz has launched its newest asset management solution based on its patented Global Locating System (GLS) technology.
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iDirect — COMSYS VSAT Report Highly Positive iDirect, Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc. (VT Systems), continues to dominate the market for satellite IP hubs, accounting for nearly half of all hubs shipped in 2008, according to a new report by COMSYS, one of the satellite industry’s leading analyst firm.
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Arianespace — Takes Home Galileo Launch Contract Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Ren? Oosterlinck, Director of the Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities at the
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Inmarsat — IsatPhone Pro, Call Home... Inmarsat (LSE: ISAT) has announced the first call has been made using its global handheld service, IsatPhone Pro, which is on track for launch in June 2010.
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RT Logic — Modems For NASA's TDRSS USSR Program Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ISYS), announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic, has been awarded a contract by Honeywell Technologies Solutions Inc. (HTSI) to supply narrowband and wideband modems for NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) User Services Subsystem Replacement (USSR) program.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — RapidEye's Opium Suppression SatSensing RapidEye, who owns and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced it has completed a baseline image campaign covering the Helmand river basin in Afghanistan.</font
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Newtec — IDMI Believes In FlexACM Newtec has been selected by Beirut-headquartered IDMI for its award winning FlexACM technology to boost capacity and availability on key satellite IP trunking links between Greece and ten customer sites in the Middle East.
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ESA — An Eclipsing View For Proba-2 One of smallest satellites ever flown by the European Space Agency (ESA) has returned its first images of the Sun.
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SMi SatCom — Oil & Gas In the Heart Of London? SatNews is well aware that the Oil & Gas sector works in some of the harshest environments on earth not to mention remote from infrastructure, in extreme temperatures and weather conditions.
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January 25, 2010 SES WORLD SKIES — It's All A Matter Of Degrees When It Comes To New Sat Names Consistent with its role within SES as the provider of global and American satellite capacity, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has unveiled the Company's updated strategic satellite fleet development plan, as well as a new naming convention for future additions to the fleet that will leverage SES’ global reach and powerful brand.
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Arab Information Ministers — U.S. Congress' Anti-TV Legislation Is Considered Interference — Gee, Wonder Why... Arab information ministers on Sunday slammed a bill passed by the U.S. Congress last December that imposes sanctions on satellite channels deemed hostile to the United States.
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Here's Looking @ Earth —Nasty Nyamulagira (ESA) On January 2nd, Mount Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, spewing lava from its southern flank and raising concerns that the 100,000 people in the town of Sake could be under threat.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Tropical Cyclone Gets The TRMM Treatment (NASA) TRMM passed over tropical cyclone Magda on January 21 at 1927 UTC (2:27 p.m. ET) when it was off Western Australia's northern coast and soon to make landfall TRMM captured a look at its rainfall and cloud heights.
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PT Telekomunikasi Indoneisa — Developing New Sat Project PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, the country's largest telecommunication company, embraced the National Flight and Space Agency to develop satellite products.
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Rockwell Collins — Sat Ready For Ramstein Rockwell Collins received a 3-year, YS$9.1 million contract to provide maintenance and field service support for the SATCOM teleport at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
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Lockheed Martin — MUOS Mating Managed Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully mated the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite's high-performance communications system module with the propulsion core at its facilities in Sunnyvale, California.
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Cassini Captures — A Mimas Blemish On Saturn (NASA ESA) A pastel crescent of Saturn is interrupted by the moon Mimas and the rings in this color image.
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NASA — WISE "Makes" Its First Asteroid NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light.
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Iran — Three More Sats To Be Built Iran will unveil three new satellites in February, a report said Wednesday.
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BSkyB — Brit Court Rejects SatBroadcaster's Appeal British pay-TV giant BSkyB last Thursday lost an appeal over a government order that it reduce its 17.9-percent stake in commercial television network ITV.
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Space Foundation — Astronaut John Young Reaches Even Higher To Receive Hill Top Award Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle Astronaut Captain John Young, USN (Retired) will receive The Space Foundation's highest honor — the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award, which will be presented at a special luncheon event on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 sponsored by Raytheon.
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Royal Society Discuss — Arsenic And Old Space, Aliens On Earth? Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona University will tell a meeting at the Royal Society that the best way of proving that extra-terrestrial life exists elsewhere in the universe is to use evidence from earth.
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Entropic — Moving Silicon Into DIRECTV (SatBroadcasting) Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTR), a provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment, announced its silicon has been selected by DIRECTV for integration into set-top boxes (STB) that deliver a new-generation of coax-based networking capabilities such as multi-room viewing. </font
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SIS LIVE — The Torch + Technology (SatBroadcasting) David Meynell, Managing Director of SIS LIVE has announced that, through a contract awarded to Intelsat by IMAGE MEDIA Farm Inc. (IMF), the Company is providing mobile satellite connectivity services for The 2010 Torch Relay.
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Telesat — Harris Selects Telstar 11N As Platform For Maritime Broadband Telesat, the world’s fourth largest fixed satellite services operator, has announced that Harris Corporation, a provider of VSAT systems and managed satellite services for domestic and international customers, has signed a multi-year agreement for Atlantic Ocean Region capacity on Telesat’s new Telstar 11N satellite.
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SatLink — Taking On Turnaround Provides New Vision With Eurovision SatLink Communications Ltd. has signed a long-term agreement with Eurovision to provide turnaround services for contribution feeds to and from Asia.
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Eutelsat — HD Delivery Via Eurobird 9A (SatBroadcasting™) KabelKiosk, the digital channel platform for cable operators provided by the German subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), have announced the immediate launch of a new HDTV offer with the addition into the platform of the RTL HD and VOX HD channels of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland.
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Venezuela — SatBroadcasters + Cable Broadcasters Anger Chåvez — Shut Down Venezuelan regulators have ordered cable and satellite operators to stop carrying one of the country’s best known broadcasters, RCTV International, along with five other stations, alleging that the broadcasters violated a requirement to air President Hugo Ch?vez’s speeches.
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January 22, 2010 ViaSat — An Important Terminal Win ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has been awarded a Limited Production (LP) order valued at US$14.4 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) terminals for the U.S. government.
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BFI + Crawford Communications — Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Broadcast Facilities, Inc. (“BFI”), a media services company owned by private equity and investment firm Wasserstein & Co., LP and management, has acquired the Satellite Services Division of Crawford Communications, Inc. (“Crawford”) to create a market leading provider of outsourced broadcasting solutions for major broadcasters and media companies.
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Blue Sky Network — Two Continent Flight Transceiver Use Blue Sky Network announced its newly launched ultra-portable D410A flight-following and messaging transceiver will operate on its first flight spanning two continents.
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FCC — SatBroadcasters To See Programming Freed Up While the FCC's Cable Act of 1992 prevents cable operators from denying competitors access to video content that comes over a satellite feed, cable operators could keep some programming out of the hands of competitive video providers if it's being delivered over a terrestrial fiber connection.
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January 21, 2010 Gefen — HDMI Hankerin' Satisfied GefenTV Wireless for HDMI 60Ghz extender is shipping — this sender/receiver system is the fourth product from Gefen offering wireless video connectivity.
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Comtech EF Data — Combo Of Techs Into Trunking Modem Comtech EF Data has introduced and made generally available their CDM-750 High-Speed Trunking Modem.
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COMSYS — VSAT Report Refreshed With 11th Edition COMSYS has announced the eleventh edition of The COMSYS VSAT Report is now available.?
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Glowlink — Monitor Two Spectrums Simultaneously Glowlink has introduced a dual-channel satellite spectrum monitoring system.
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MDA — RADARSAT-2's Contribution To Haitian Imagery MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.'s (TSX: MDA) space-based imagery is being used to assess damage and direct relief efforts to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince from the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
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PCI Geomatics — Financially Speaking... PCI Geomatics has been awarded CDA$496,000 in repayable funding through the Business and Regional Growth program by the Honourable Denis Lebel, the Canadian Minister of State for Economic Development.
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Gilat — Colombia Moves Ahead With Services Extension Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) announced the Ministry of Communications in Colombia has extended and amended the agreements for the provision of services under the Rural Communitarian Telephony (Compartel II) and Telecentros projects for an additional one-year term, through December 2010.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — California Steaming With Inclemently Events (NASA) A tornado-like storm that, according to eyewitness reports, flipped a sport utility vehicle in Sunset Beach and lifted boats out of the water along the Pacific Coast Highway was just part of the excitement in California on January 19, 2010.
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Northrop Grumman — No Nonsense With NPOESS The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) kicked off the new year with the delivery of a critical sensor, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
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January 20, 2010 Telestream — Productivity Pipeline (SatBroadcasting™) Telestream has a new release for its award-winning Pipeline video capture systems.
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NBN Company — SatBroadcasting For The Bush The National Broadband Network Company (Australia) has called on satellite network operators and equipment vendors to submit proposals for the delivery and operation of satellite internet services in the bush.
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NASA — ASAP's Report To Congress Offers Doubts... The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, a congressionally mandated group of independent experts established after the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, has released its 2009 annual report.
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EVS — Bandwidth Boost With New Video Server (SatBroadcasting™) EVS has released the XT[2] , a new video production server from the XT series that offers more bandwidth and greater capabilities to broadcasters across the globe.
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Goodrich — Brits Demo ISR + Great Gimbal In Bahrain Technology from Goodrich Corporation's (NYSE: GR) ISR Systems business will be demonstrated by the British Army at the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS), January 21-23, 2010, at the Sakhir Airbase in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
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Iridium — 2-Way Tracking Tech In Smaller Package + Lower Cost Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has unveiled its nexgen Iridium 9602 satellite data transceiver at its annual Partners Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
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WTA — You Still Have The Opportunity To Nominate... WTA has extended the nomination deadline for the 2010 Teleport Awards for Excellence until February 12.
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PTC '10 — Something About Orbiting The 18th Black Hole... One of the magic numbers in SatNews Publisher's CEO Silvano Payne's bag of clubs is "Fore"... have no idea why, save for the fact that each year at PTC '10 in Hawaii he seems to have a tendency to visit the links with fellow executives in the SATCOM industry.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Tanzanian Torrents (NASA) By mid-January 2010, several weeks of heavy rain had destroyed homes, crops, pastures, roads, and bridges in Tanzania.
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Vizada Networks and SES World Skies — Strike Up The Band(width) To Assist Haiti SatNews is pleased to report the generosity of many companies that have stepped up to assist with Haiti's recovery, this time the two — Vizada Networks, and SES World Skies — have donated satellite and service capacity to allow the World Health Organization's VSAT site in Port au Prince to cover for the increased needs of communication in the aftermath of the earthquake.
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January 19, 2010 Boeing — Bidding Begins The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] intends to bid on NASA's ISS Cargo Mission Contract.
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Inmarsat + SkyTerra — Helping Hands For Haiti With SATCOM Assistance Inmarsat and SkyTerra are collaborating to ensure that relief and recovery efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti have access to essential satellite communications.
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Globalstar — Window Watching Successful For Six Sat Sendoff Globalstar, Inc.(Nasdaq:GSAT) has announced
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DISH + Nagravision — Threat Mitigation Nagravision SA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) company, has announced?the execution of a Conditional Access System agreement with DISH Network L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH).
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ATCi — Underserved To Be Served Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) and Solana HK have announced from the PTC Conference in Honolulu a new agreement to jointly offer affordable, industry broadband satellite and fiber services to underserved markets throughout Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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Skyware Global — Moving On Up... Skyware Global has appointed Mike Murray as New Product Introduction Manager for Antenna Systems, Peter Matuschik as New Product Introduction Manager for Electronics, Evangelos Avramis as Principal RF Engineer for Electronics, and Ronald Fowler as ODU Systems Engineer.
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CapRock Government Solutions — Moving On Up... CapRock Government Solutions has selected Augustine Ponturiero to join its Fairfax, Virginia-based team as Director of Operations.
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Thales Communications — From The Cradle To The Marines Thales Communications, Inc. has been awarded two contracts by the Joint Program Executive Office Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) to provide Cradle Vehicle Adapters (CVAs) for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Fujitsu Frontech — From MPEG-2 To AVC With New Encoder (SatBroadcasting) Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc. has announced the IP-9400, a new MPEG-4 encoder that reduces operational costs significantly as broadcasters convert from MPEG-2 to AVC encoding in their HD and SD microwave, satellite, and IP digital news gathering systems.
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OmniGlobe Networks — Sat Support For Iridium In Canada OmniGlobe Networks Inc. announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, RAMTelecom, has been awarded a three-year contract by the Government of Canada for the provision, maintenance, and operation of comprehensive Iridium satellite services and terminal equipment.
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IDC — For NPR, It's All About Infrastructure (SatBroadcasting™) International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has been awarded a US$5.3 million contract by National Public Radio (NPR) to update and refurbish the Public Radio Satellite System(R) (PRSS(R)).
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Sirius XM — Financially Speaking Satellite radio provider Sirius XM (SIRI.O) said last Tuesday it had added more than 257,000 net subscribers during the fourth quarter, the most since the third quarter of 2008, as it benefited from improvements in car sales.
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Garmin — DigitalGlobe Sat Imagery Included In Service Garmin International Inc. will begin offering BirdsEye Satellite and Aerial Imagery, an annual subscription service that gives users the option of loading highly-detailed photo-based maps to select Garmin handheld navigators.
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Cisco — Spatial Routing Cisco announced its Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) technology has achieved a major milestone with the successful in-orbit test of the Cisco IOS? Software's networking capabilities and the company's on-board router.
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EchoStar Satellite — (Ka)-Bands Together To Assist In Haiti EchoStar Satellite Services reports to SatNews that they are another company stepping up to assist in the aftermath of Haiti by donating satellite communications services to Haiti relief agencies.
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Space Foundation Cyber 1.0 Conference — Explores Strat And Tact More is more at the Space Foundation's Cyber 1.0 Conference, a new event that addresses the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)'s newly acquired cyberspace mission, that will be held April 12 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, immediately before the official kickoff the 26th National Space Symposium.
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January 18, 2010 Telespazio — Two' Fer — Servicing The U.S. + Here's Looking @ Earth: Port-au-Prince The team consisting of the US firm Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and the Italian company e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) has been awarded a contract worth up to USD 85 million by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide data, products and services from the COSMO-SkyMed satellites.
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C2SAT — Orange Picking C2SAT (NGM-Stock Exchange, C2ST), a supplier of maritime VSAT antenna systems has received the first initial purchase orders from Orange, totaling eight (8) C2SAT 1.2m Ku-band antennas as part of two different projects.
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COM DEV International — Financially Speaking... COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX - "CDV") now has acceptance by the Toronto Stock Exchange of the Corporation's Notice of Intention to make a Normal Course Issuer Bid through the facilities of the TSX.
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TCS — Twin Awards For SwitLink SATCOM Solutions TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has announced that two of its SwiftLink? products — the flyaway Satellite Access Baseband Remote (SABR) 2.4M Quad-Band VSAT Terminal and the man-packable Stingray 45-X Ultra Small Aperture Terminal (USAT) have received the 2009 Satellite Product of the Year Award from TMCnet.com.
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Stratos Global — Buying Into BGAN Stratos Global Corporation has become a global
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China — Brother Sat For Beidou China has successfully launched its third navigation satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in south-western Sichuan province, part of a project to establish its own global satellite navigation system.
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First Caucasian — Starts SatBroadcasting After an initial launch on the Internet earlier this month, the Georgian Public Broadcaster’s Russian-language TV channel, First Caucasian, is now available on satellite.
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KVH Industries — The iPhone SatInterface Unveiled in late 2009, the TracVision? HD7 from KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) set a new standard in maritime satellite TV design, offering boaters a DIRECTV? HD TV experience exactly like they enjoy at home thanks to simultaneous reception of two DIRECTV Ka-band satellites and one Ku-band satellite.
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U.S.A.F. — A Moving Satuation GPS satellite SVN24 began moving into a new orbital slot today as scheduled.
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World Food Programme In Haiti — Serves Hope At This Café Many encouraging actions from various agencies worldwide have begun in Haiti after the cataclysmic earthquake to ensure the victims food for body, soul and mind.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Haitian Telltale Tectonics (NASA) At 4:53 p.m. local time on January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Hispaniola Island, just 15 kilometers (10 miles) southwest of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
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HaiVision — New Makito Encoding (SatBroadcasting) HaiVision Network Video today announced that the new MAKITO™ with DVI input is now shipping.
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DEV Systemtechnik — Fret Not, Speedy Support Services DEV Systemtechnik has special news for customers of the Company's RF distributing matrices.
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GVF + SUIRG — Interfering With Interference... Free Forum Leading satellite industry organizations will host a day-long Forum “The Global Interference Mitigation Initiative: Progress, Plans and Prospects” on the final day of SATELLITE 2010 at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland.
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Sir Martin Sweeting — Lifetime Achievement Award SSTL founder and Surrey Space Centre director Sir Martin Sweeting has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Elektra Electronics Industry Awards 2009.
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KARI — Pitching In With SatSights of Haiti South Korea has sent high-resolution satellite photos to a United Nations affiliated body that may help with recovery efforts in Haiti following its devastating quake, a state-run aerospace institute said Monday.
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XM Canada — iPowering Your SatRadio XM Canada (TSX: XSR) has introduced the XM SkyDock, designed for easy use through a vehicle's existing audio system.
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SES WORLD SKIES — NSS-12 Becomes A Commercial Spatial Entity SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced the NSS-12 satellite has entered commercial service at the orbital location of 57 degrees East.
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ESA — A Happy Herschel The HIFI instrument onboard ESA's Herschel observatory has been successfully switched on, after being inactive for more than 160 days due to an unexpected anomaly in the electronic system.
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PTC 10 — Ho'omaika'i 'ana PTC'10! Some notables in the kingdom of satellites really have a difficult task — attend PTC 10, Embracing the Cloud: Connectivity and Innovation, from January 17-20 at the Honolulu Hilton, Hawaii. The translation from the Hawaiian title is "Congratulations PTC'10", as reports to SatNews indicate that everything is going swimmingly well!
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Aqua's ASTER's Haitian Landslide Exam The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this simulated natural color image of the Port-au-Prince, Haiti, area, January 14, 2010, two days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the region and caused massive damage and loss of life.
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NOAA — The Saving Grace NOAA’s fleet of satellites played a vital role in the rescues of 195 people during life-threatening situations throughout the United States and its surrounding waters in 2009.
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Latitude Technologies — Sat Data Into Buckets Latitude Technologies Corporation has signed an exclusive supply agreement with SEI Industries Ltd.
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TSF — Tag Team Arrives In Haiti Ready To Rapidly Respond To Rescue SatNews has received an update from Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) as the organization responds to the devastating earthquake in Haiti which left widespread damage and thousands of deaths and missing people still trapped in rubble.
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January 15, 2010 SMi — MilSpace 2010 Wants To Help You Build Partnerships You can learn about the latest international perspectives and strategies for future space development and use of space for the military through attendance at MilSpace 2010 — "Build Future Space Partnerships."
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ITU — 3DTV Roadmap Report Television viewers could soon be enjoying their favourite programs or feature films in ‘stereoscopic 3D’, thanks to work being undertaken at ITU.
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January 14, 2010 MEASAT — AFRICASAT-2 Acclimated MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) has announced the Company had, on January 13, 2010, brought into service the AFRICASAT-2 satellite at the 5.7 degrees East orbital location.
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Spirent Communications — To Test Is To Prove Mobile Device Positioning Capabilities Continuing on its path of innovation in LBS performance testing, Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a leader in wireless networks, devices and services testing solutions, has introduced the industry’s first solution to test Assisted GLONASS (A-GLONASS) capability on UMTS mobile devices and chipsets.
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SkyTrac — Aboard Aquiline Aircraft SkyTrac has been selected by United Arab Emirates based Aquiline International Corporation to supply SATCOM/flight following solutions for Aquiline’s fleet of ANTONOV-24, ANTONOV-26, and ILUSHIN-76 aircraft.
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JouBeh Technologies — Ocean iTracking JouBeh Technologies Inc. has met the requirements for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS), following successful sea trials of DFO’s Hardware Approval Process.
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GlobeWireless — In Tight With Inmarsat Globe Wireless goes live as Inmarsat’s newest FleetBroadband distribution partner.
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U.S.A.F. — SBIRS System Satisfaction U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin team developing the Space Based Infrared System program has achieved two key milestones: a testing milestone demonstrating the ground system is on track to support launch of the first SBIRS geosynchronous GEO-1 satellite in the constellation; and a maturity milestone moving the ground system into the next level of integration.
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GMV — GAGAN Me With A Raytheon Contract GMV has been awarded a contract with Raytheon Company to develop a prototype algorithm for the detection of ionospheric depletions in the magnetic equatorial region that may be used in the user receiver data processing for the space-based augmentation system for the GAGAN program operated by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
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NewCom + Hispamar — Hubless SATCOM With Amazonas-2 NewCom International has teamed with Brazilian Satellite Operator Hispamar to employ its new satellite, Amazonas 2, for the Latin America market, which recently completed orbit testing (IOT).
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Euroconsult — SatTV Continues To Gain Euroconsult, a leading international research and analyst firm specialized in the satellite and broadcasting sectors, has announced that growth in the satellite pay-TV market remained strong in 2009, despite the global economic downturn.?
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SIA — Moving On Up... The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) is pleased to announce the election of its new Board of Directors for 2010.
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Gilat — SkyEdge II Satisfies SatLabs Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT) announced its SkyEdge II DVB-RCS VSAT has received the SatLabs Group Certificate of Compliance.
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Globalstar — They'll See You As They Prep For TCU This Summer — A Game-Changing Year Globalstar, Inc. [Nasdaq:GSAT], a provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments and consumers, today announced that while preparing for the upcoming launches of its new second-generation satellites they began installation of satellite telemetry control unit (TCU) upgrades.
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Whitestar — Finding O&G With Streaming WhiteStar Corp., a supplier of cartographic data products and services to the energy industry, has introduced the WhiteStar Streaming Imagery product.
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atrexx — African Sat Service Interruption Negated atrexx, a satellite service provider based in Germany, is offering African end-users access to satellite communications after their iDirect iNFINITI service was discontinued.
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Intelsat — Provides Instant Communications Infrastructure to Haiti After Devastating Earthquake Talk about fast —Intelsat S.A., a provider of fixed satellite services, today announced that within hours of the first customer request for assistance following the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti, Intelsat established two communication networks — one in C-band and one in Ku-band — to provide critical communication links.
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Gateway — Obtaining Longphone Partnership In Africa Gateway Communications and Longphone have agreed to partner in the call termination market to the African continent.
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TerreStar — Terrestrial S-band Gets FCC OK On January 13, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted TerreStar Networks Inc. (TerreStar), a majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation (NASDAQ: TSTR), authority to integrate terrestrial use of TerreStar's 20 MHz S-band spectrum into its next generation mobile wireless network.
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COM DEV — Moving On Up COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV], a leading manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that Claude Seguin has been appointed to its Board of Directors.
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TS2 — Bringing SATCOM To The Troops In Afghanistan TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new broadband services on Eutelsat EB4 & W6 satellites to the Afghan market.</font
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Harmonic — A Broadcasting Ellipse In India Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced Broadcast Equipment India Pvt. Ltd. (BEI), has deployed Harmonic's Ellipse™ 1000 MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) contribution encoder in the first commercial HD and SD teleport facility in India.
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January 13, 2010 MapMart — Illustrative Pictometry Now Offered MapMart has completed an enhancement to its online offering: the availability of Pictometry(r) orthogonal 6-inch resolution imagery for 38 cities in the United States and Canada.
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AIAA — Speaker Enrichments @ FAA Conference The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has announced that The Honorable Raymond “Ray” LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation; The Honorable Randolph J. “Randy” Babbitt, administrator, Federal Aviation Administration; The Honorable Charles F. Bolden, Jr., administrator, NASA; Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander, U.S. Air Force Space Command; and Ken Bowersox, vice president, astronaut safety and mission assurance, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), will speak at the 13th Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference, to be held February 10–11 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Kamchatka Kapture (ESA) This image captures the rugged and remote Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia's East Coast.
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Intelsat — Financially Speaking Intelsat S.A. has announced its subsidiary Intelsat (Luxembourg) S.A. (formerly known as Intelsat (Bermuda), Ltd.) has extended its pending exchange offer (the “Exchange Offer”).
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Harris — MET + To Be Delivered For U.S. Army MILSATCOM Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), has successfully completed the Preliminary Implementation Review for the U.S. Army's Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET) program, next-generation military satellite communications terminals that will provide the worldwide backbone for high-priority military communications and missile defense systems.
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Globecomm Systems — Becomes A Better Host For Mobile 3G Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has invested in a 3G core switch to expand its managed wireless business to offer affordable, 3G hosted mobile services to under-serviced areas worldwide.
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SS/L — GOES-10 Goes Away Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) has announced that a satellite that the Company built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was retired after serving the organization for 12 years, more than twice its required mission life.
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DTS — iDirect'd For Maritime SATCOM Data Technology Solutions, a global satellite service provider, has launched a low-cost, integrated satellite broadband offering for the maritime market.
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Analytical Graphics — Space Foundation Discovery Institute — Great Grant! A generous donation from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) has launched a new space education lab in Colorado Springs — the AGI Space Missions Simulator at the Space Foundation Discovery Institute.
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Military Satellite Summit — If You Don't Go, You Won't Know... Military satellite networks aid the military with C4ISR objectives.
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Haiti — Disasterous Quake Shakes Out The Best In Aid — TSF, Global Satellite, And U.N. Foundation The news came and was painful to watch — on Tuesday January 12th, at 5 p.m. local time, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on the Richter Scale, and less than 10 km deep, was recorded off the coast of Haiti, and only 17 km from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Expand's Virtual Accelerator — Excels At Acceleration Virtually Taking TMCnet Satellite Product of the Year Award! Expand Network's Virtual Accelerator won the TMCnet Satellite Product of the Year Award, which isn't easy.
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Intelsat — Exclaims Extension Of Exchange Intelsat S.A., a provider of fixed satellite services, today announced that its subsidiary Intelsat (Luxembourg) S.A. (formerly known as Intelsat (Bermuda), Ltd.) has extended its pending exchange offer (the “Exchange Offer”) to exchange up to $2,805,000,000 aggregate principal . . .
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NASA — Hubble More Like A Microscope Than A Telescope! Imagine this — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune.
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In Memory — Lew Allen, Jr. Long remembered, and with deep respect it was announced that Lew Allen Jr., AIAA Honorary Fellow and former Air Force chief of staff who headed NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1982 to 1990, died Monday, January 4 in Potomac Falls, Virginia.
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January 12, 2010 IMS Research — Blame Blu-ray For IPTV Uptick The newly released IMS Research report Market Opportunities for Internet Video to the TV -2010 Edition, reveals that Internet video device shipments will experience global growth of 78 percent year-over-year from 2009 to 2010.
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CES — 3D TV It Is? On the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas, all the big names unveiled 3D TVs.
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SES ASTRA — Payload Plethora For EGNOS SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has been awarded a second contract by the European Commission (EC) to provide hosted payload services for EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service.
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Space Foundation — Douglas S. Morrow Award To Be Presented To Leonard Nimoy Leonard Nimoy, who has inspired people around the world to explore the wonders of science, space, and technology through his television and motion picture portrayals of Star Trek's Mr. Spock, will be honored on April 15th by the Space Foundation as the winner of the 2010 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award.
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SIRIUS Canada — More'n A Million Served... SIRIUS Canada has reported the services has now gained more than one million subscribers.
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Harris — Now Their TT&C Software Heads Into Naval Postgraduate Use Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has announced the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) now has installed the OS/COMET? Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) software in its FLTSATCOM lab.
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SIS LIVE + 021 Television — Acquiring Minds Want To Know... SIS LIVE has agreed to buy the bulk of the assets of Outside Broadcast company 021 Television from Gravity Media Group.
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Garmin — Getting Wired Into New Tech Office + Hiring! Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), a global leader in satellite navigation, announced it is opening an office in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina that will expand its R&D capability in the area of wireless and mobile products.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Tree To The Sea (NASA) Nature works in patterns, and one of those patterns is imprinted on the frozen Alaskan landscape in this true-color image from January 11, 2010.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — The U.S. Is Snowed (NASA) Snow cover stretched from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture on January 10, 2010.
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C-COM Satellite Systems — iNetVu Mobile Antennas Difference Between Life And Death To New Zealand's Government C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. [TSXV: CMI] helps New Zealand ready for emergencies.
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NASA — Mystery Object Whisks Close By Earth NASA reports a mystery object from space will pass close by Earth on Wednesday.
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January 11, 2010 Integral Systems — Moving On Up... Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) announced that its Board of Directors has elected Bonnie K. Wachtel to the Board and nominated her for election at the 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on February 17, 2010.
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CapRock Communications — Making Its GulfMark CapRock Communications has signed a three-year contract with Gulf Offshore, a wholly owned subsidiary of GulfMark Offshore Inc., to deploy its broadband maritime service, SeaAccess Communications™, onboard its fleet operating in the North Sea and along the coast of Africa.
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SatLink Communications — Humongous Hummus A partnership between SatLink Communications Ltd. and Israeli restaurateur and businessman Jowdat Ibrahim, created the world’s largest plate of Hummus, the Middle Eastern delicacy, weighing in at 4090 kilograms.
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ESA — Huygens Has Heart—And A Fifth Anniversary On January 14, 2005, the European Space Agency's
Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft and landed on Saturn's moon, Titan.
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ISRO — Third Launch Pad Production The third launch pad planned at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, is going to be something special — the launch pad is also being designed to accommodate the proposed Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), India's dream space shuttle which is on the designing board, ISRO officials said.
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digiGO's "It's A 3D World" — DIRECTV — Samsung, DreamWorks + Technicolor — — DIRECTV — Samsung, DreamWorks Technicolor —
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USGS — Landsat-5 Responding To Tests As you may recall, on January 7th we offered a news story regarding the failure of Landsat-5. Encouraging news now follows...
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TerreStar — Apologies From SatNews Due to SatNews editorial department's inadvertent acceptance of news from a formerly reliable independent source, we mistakenly ran a news item this morning (Monday, January 11, 2010) regarding changes to the TerreStar executive management team and board of directors.
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Spacenet — The Beauty Of The Technology Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT), is providing its Prysm Pro network appliance, which enables a fully PCI compliant managed network services solution, to more than 7,000 Regis Corporation North American locations.
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FOR-A + TV2GO — Mobile Broadcasting Perfection V2GO Inc., an international satellite transmission and video production company, debuted its 31-foot uplink mobile truck in October that features the FOR-A HVS-300HS compact HD/SD switcher and the MV-410HS HD/SD high-resolution quad multi-viewer.
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DISH Network — Victory In Federal Court DISH Network L.L.C., EchoStar Technologies L.L.C. and NagraStar scored another important anti-piracy victory.
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Hughes Network Systems — Presenting Their Latest iPhone/iPod touch App Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), a global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, has announced the development of a key Apple iPhone? application for its award-winning Hughes Learning Management Portal service.
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SlingPath + BeaconSeek — SNG Online Training For SES BeaconSeek Ltd, a UK-based satellite consultancy and training company, has announced that SES, a leading provider of fixed satellite services, has purchased a substantial number of training places on BeaconSeek's SlingPath SNG (satellite news gathering) online training program as part of the satellite industry's Satellite Interference Initiative to reduce satellite Radio Frequency Interference (RFI).
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Gambia — Taiwan's Monetary SatGamble The Republic of China (Taiwan) has donated more than US$3 million to the Gambia government as part of their seemingly endless contributions towards the country’s national television satellite project.
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NASA's International Space Station — Snowflakes In Space? This photo reveals what might be mistaken for a snowflake, however, according to NASA it is something quite different, and created as an experiment in the Destiny laboratory aboard the International Space Station.
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Cassini Captures — Enceladus Enigma Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn’s moon Enceladus explain the quirky heat behavior and intriguing surface of the moon’s south polar region, according to a new paper using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
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COM DEV — Fourth Quarter, Fiscal 2009 Results and BOD Changes Today COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV] today announced fourth quarter and year end financial results for the three- and 12-month periods ended October 31, 2009.
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COM DEV — Announces Normal Course Issuer Bid COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV], a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced its intention to launch a normal course issuer bid through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX").
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Globe Wireless — Welcome Aboard, Zynetix! Globe Wireless has acquired Zynetix, a UK-based company specializing in GSM solutions, having already used the Zynetix technology in its GlobeMobile solution.
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January 8, 2010 CopperGate — A Big 'yes' For VoD Solutions CopperGate, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sigma Designs (Nasdaq: SIGM), a provider of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions used to deliver entertainment and control throughout the home, announced that 'yes', the leading satellite provider in Israel, has completed a successful commercial pilot of VoD services based upon CopperGate's HomePNA technology.
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NASA — No Tangled Webb Here NASA is developing a primary mirror, 21.3 feet in diameter, for use on the James Webb Space Telescope, in a very different way — to tell us about our beginning in the universe and how the first galaxies formed.
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January 7, 2010 NAB — Win Full Access To NAB As A Broader-Caster NAB Show organizers have created a user-generated video competition featuring video clips showcasing the vital role NAB Show participants play within the content community.
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Casisini Captures — Investigating Iapetus The Cassini spacecraft examines the rough dark-light dichotomy of the terrain on Saturn's moon Iapetus.
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Avanti Communications Group — Sharing Shares To Soar With HYLAS Word comes from Avanti: Further to the announcements on 21 and 29 December 2009 detailing the conditional placing of a total of 22,250,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company (“Ordinary Shares”) at a placing price of 400 pence . . .
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USGS — Landsat 5 Is Limping On December 18, 2009, the transmitter on Landsat 5 that sends image data to the ground encountered technical difficulties.
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Spot and DeLorme — Spot On! GPS Sends A Message The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada is a hub of activity, with companies revealing their latest and greatest — such as the new SPOT Satellite Communicator and Earthmate PN-60w that combines GPS navigation with custom messaging and emergency notification.
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Loral And Barrett Xplore — Go High And Broad(band) In Rural Canada Oh Canada! The country's largest rural broadband provider, Barrett Xplore Inc., and Loral Space & Communications
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U.S. Air Force — Positions Themselves For Improved Global Positioning The U.S. Air Force Global Positioning Systems Wing and the 50th Space Wing are ushering in improved Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities through a new ground system software release.
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Boeing — Realigns And Consolidates Before Expanding The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced organization and leadership changes within its Integrated Defense Systems unit that continue to reposition the company for growth in the current business environment.
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DIRECTV + Panasonic — It's A 3D HD World DIRECTV, Inc. and Panasonic now have a strategic relationship that, for the first time, will bring 3D TV to the largest audience nationwide.
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Newtec — Bringing Even Better Sat3Play To Customers Newtec has further enhanced its technology for satellite broadband and will soon start supplying its customers with new, Ka-band ready, Sat3Play? terminals and hub equipment.
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DISH Network — Gains the IPTV Roar Of NeuLion DISH Network L.L.C. and NeuLion, Inc. (TSX:NLN) have joined in a partnership to distribute certain DISH Network international channels using NeuLion's IPTV service.
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Earth Space Agency — Space-centric Careers Open Up Earth Space Agency is seeking its first employees to establish a space sciences institute.
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CASBAA — New Delhi Forum Announced The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia has announced details of the CASBAA India Satellite Industry Forum 2010, to be staged at the Shangri-La Hotel in New Delhi on March 22nd.
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OHB And SSTL — Roll Up Their Sleeves In Preparation — Construct 14 Galileo Satellites! Huge work is ahead of the consortium led by OHB-System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for building and testing 14 satellites for the Galileo satellite navigation system, a program of and funded by the European Union, and selected by the European Commission.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Great Snows On Great Britain Snow blanketed Great Britain on January 7, 2010, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image.
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January 6, 2010 Booz | Allen | Hamilton — Getting It Done For SMC Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a US$38.4 million Launch & Test Range System (LTRS) Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) contract, which provides support to the Los Angeles-based Spacelift Range Group (LRRG), Launch and Range Systems Wing (LRSW), Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).
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OmniGlobe Networks — High Over Canada OmniGlobe Networks intends to procure, launch and operate a Ka-band Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) geostationary communications satellite over Canada.
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SAT Expo Europe 2010 — Don't Roam For Aerospace Information — Just Head To Rome! SAT Expo Europe 2010, the third edition of the international event dedicated to the aerospace industry, its services and applications, and integrated telecommunications, will convene in Rome (New Exhibition Centre) from February 4 - 6.
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MTN Satellite Communications — Broadening Horizons With new offices for sales and engineering support opening in Hamburg, Germany, MTN Satellite Communications is expanding its maritime VSAT communications business.
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CNES — PARASOL Moves Out To New Orbit A French Space Agency (CNES) satellite named PARASOL has been moved into a new orbit after nearly five years in the Afternoon Constellation, NASA officials said.
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ITT — Defense Moves ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has engaged in a strategic realignment of its defense segment, a move designed to better align the company with the emerging needs of its expanding global customer base, which is increasingly integrated and network-centric.
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Australia — 16 Sat Channels To Entertain Blackspot Folk All Australian homes will have access to 16 free digital TV channels within the next four years under a plan to bring satellite coverage to the regions.
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Garmin — XM Sat Radio For Riders Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), has announced the zmo 665 — a new fully touchscreen motorcycle navigator that includes an antenna for XM Satellite Radio, real-time XM NavWeather and real-time XM NavTraffic.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Solomon Shaker A strong earthquake near the Solomon Islands, northeast of Australia, caused landslides and a small tsunami on January 4, 2010.
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Inmarsat — Getting ID'd In Angola Inmarsat BGAN terminals will play a crucial role in the launch of Angola' s new national identity (ID) card project which is using the latest cutting-edge technology.
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NASA — Moving On Up @ Dryden Flight Research Center A new appointment for the new year comes from NASA's Administrator Charles F. Bolden who has named David D. McBride director of the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, California.
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OnAir — Now OnBoard — Hapag-Lloyd Cruises OnAir is coming down to ground level, or sea level, actually.
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Globecomm Systems — Keeps NATO On Track, Extends $9.1 Million Contract Globecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: GCOM], a global provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services, announced today that the Company has received a contract extension from NATO valued at $9.1 million to extend communication services and onsite support for the Company’s previously deployed GPS-Based Force Tracking System (FTS).
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NASA — WISE Takes Its First Peek NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.
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Blue Sky Network — Just 22 Ounces Of Determination Tracks and Jets Over Two Continents The old cliché that big things come in small packages rings true with Blue Sky Network, a global provider of GPS tracking and communication solutions for land, sea, and aviation assets.
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EADS Astrium — MILSATCOM Makeover Astrium Services has been awarded a contract by the European Defence Agency (EDA) for a new preparatory study aimed at coordinating the future military communication needs of the European Union (EU).
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SS/L — LADEE Spacecraft Contract Signed Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to provide a propulsion system to NASA Ames Research Center for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft.
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MDA — Tech Solutions Key To New Thales Alenia Space Contract MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has received a contract valued in excess of 15 million euros ($22.5 million CAD) from Thales Alenia Space to provide a number of advanced technology solutions. The solutions will be used for eight Medium Earth Orbit communication satellites that are being designed and manufactured for O3b Limited.
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DISH Network — Serving Up Wireless Capabilities DISH Network L.L.C. has introduced TV Everywhere(tm) — a unique suite of integrated products designed to maximize the convenience and ease of watching TV anytime and anywhere.
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Comtech — A South American SATCOM Focus Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s (Nasdaq:CMTL) Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has received a US$1.3 million order for satellite communications equipment.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Pyroclastic Pressures In Montserrat In the waning days of 2009 and the first days of 2010, the lava dome on the summit of Soufriere Hills Volcano continued to grow rapidly.
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IET Appleton Lecture 2010 — Sir Sweeting's Small Satellites — Big Future Professor Sir Martin Sweeting will deliver his address at the IET Appleton Lecture 2010 — Small Satellites — Big Future, to be held at Savoy Place, London, on January 19.
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January 5, 2010 NASA/ESA — Hubble Goes Farther And Reveals The Most Distant Primeval Galaxies The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before.
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SpaceX — Falcon 9 Trial By Fire The SpaceX team kicked off 2010 with the successful full duration orbit insertion firing of the Falcon 9 second stage at the Texas test site.
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January 4, 2010 VNPT — Verily, VenaSat-2 Space-Bound In 2012 From the auspices of China View, we learn from Anne Tang that Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication expects to launch the second satellite in 2012, the local newspaper Vietnam Investment Review reported Monday.
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ISRO — Chandrayaan-2 Check The launch of India’s next moon mission, Chandrayaan-II, will be in the first quarter of 2013 as per schedule, its project head said here on Sunday.
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Spatial Sensings — Hubble Has The Sparkle Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our neighbouring dwarf galaxies, this young globular-like star cluster is surrounded by a pattern of filamentary nebulosity that is thought to have been created during supernova blasts.
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RT TV — News "En Español" Beaming Across The Globe RT news TV channel has launched its feed in Spanish for viewers across the globe via satellite.
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EMS Technologies — A Management Security Requisite Need — Now Solved EMS Technologies has announced the Board of Directors has appointed John B. Mowell, Chairman of the Board, to the additional position of Executive Director.
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DigitalGlobe — WorldView-2 Welcomed As Fully Operational DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has announced their WorldView-2 satellite has achieved full operational capability.
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iDirect — Obtaining SatManage Is A Parallel Transaction iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), has acquired UK-based Parallel Limited, the developer of the award-winning SatManage network management software suite.
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University of North Dakota — Piloting Students Into UAV Careers A dozen aspiring pilots at the University of North Dakota can't wait to never get off the ground.
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OTT Con — Go Over The Top With Your Broadcasting Efforts OTT (Over The Top TV) is redefining the future of TV and entertainment services.?
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IDC — PBS Power Pumping Up With NGIS International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) has finalized a contract with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for its Next Generation Interconnection System (NGIS).
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XipLink — Deepening Demand Drives Decisive Distribution Deployment XipLink has brought TESSCO Technologies Incorporated (Nasdaq:TESS) in as the Company’s North American Value Added Distributor.
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BBC + VOA — Sat Signal Sabotage By Iran David Allen of TechWatch is informing all that British and US broadcasters claim their satellite signals are being blocked by the Iranian government to keep the general public from experiencing content from the likes of the BBC, which often carries stories from Iran.
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India — In An Anti-Satellite Mood India has initiated development of lasers and an exoatmospheric kill vehicle that could be combined to produce a weapon that would be able to destroy enemy satellites in orbit, the director-general of India’s defense research organization said on January 3rd.
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GGMC — Adding To Its SatBroadcasting Skill Sets With IPTV Goodies Global Gateway Media & Communications, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GGMC), formerly Zcom Networks, Inc., has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Speedia Media, Inc. has executed an agreement to deliver its content over IPTV in addition to satellite coverage.
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United Launch Alliance — Goes Wide And Blocks For U.S. Air Force's WGS-4 Decisions made by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center resulted in awarding United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Wideband Global SATCOM-4 (WGS-4) satellite aboard a Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.
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NASA's Kepler — Goes High For Five New Hot Jupiters NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
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January 3, 2010 NASA — Smithsonian Culls Chandra Contract NASA has extended a contract with the Smithsonian
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Russians To Study Asteroid Threat Amelioration Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said last Wednesday.
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SS/L — An EchoStar Of Past Successes With New Contract Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to provide a new, direct broadcast satellite (DBS), EchoStar XVI, to a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq:SATS).
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Spatial Sightings — Stunning Saturn Solo Saturn, stately and resplendent in this natural color view, dwarfs its icy moon Rhea.
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AsiaSat — DTH Gets The AsiaSat 5 Treatment In Vietnam Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) have signed a lease agreement for the use of multiple Ku-band transponders on AsiaSat 5 for a new, premium, Direct-to-Home (DTH) service in Vietnam.
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NASA — New Frontiers For Celestial Consideration NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system.
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U.S.A.F. — Super SBIRS Successes With LMSS + NGES The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Space Based Infrared Systems Wing has announced the successful completion of critical design reviews for the SBIRS Follow-On Production program for the Highly Elliptical Orbit and Geosynchronous payloads.
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SSTL — Good Going GIOVE-A Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has just celebrated the 4th anniversary of the launch of its historic GIOVE-A satellite, the first step in Europe's visionary Galileo satellite navigation program, with the launch having occurred on December 28th, 2005.
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COM DEV International — A Passive Contract COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has been awarded follow-on contracts totaling more than CDN$7 million to provide passive microwave equipment for a military communications satellite.
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January 1, 2010 Boeing And ILS — Proton Takes Off On A Breeze And Brings TV DIRECTly To U.S. It may be the holidays for many around the world, but International Launch Services (ILS) and Boeing have been working to successfully carry the DIRECTV 12 satellite into orbit today launched from Pad 39 at the cosmodrome at 6:22 a.m. today local time (7:22 p.m. EDT, 00:22 GMT) for DIRECTV of El Segundo, California, on an ILS Proton.
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