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May 30, 2016 LTE Cellular Backhaul Test With SpeedCast Results In More Than 400 Mbps By iDirect iDirect’s DVB-S2X technology provides a proof-of-concept that essentially doubles previous levels of speed achieved in the market.
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On The Show Floor... Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Providing Product & Executive Presentations Additionally, Kratos executives will be featured in the World Teleport Association’s Executive Dialogue Series at CommunicAsia.
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VSAT Global Conference Heading Into 18th Year In London This conference is presented in partnership with in partnership with Comsys and GVF.
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European Space Agency's Fly Your Satellite! CubeSat Competition Winners Announced All of the satellites were launched from Guiana on April 25 as part of ESA’s “Fly Your Satellite!” program
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Russia's Rogozin States His Nation Won't Catch Up To The US In The Space Race... Then Eats His Words Rogozin took to Facebook later in the day to say that his quotes had been taken out of context.
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Functionality Completed For ExoMars—All Is In Good Order Thales Alenia Space has analyzed the results of the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) and commissioning operations to draw up a report submitted to ESA.
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Glonass-M Satellite Acquires Designated Orbit After Soyuz-2.1b Launch The satellite’s injection into orbit was carried out by the Fregat acceleration unit.
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Funding Fruition For Planetary Resources The imaging technology is integrated onto the Arkyd spacecraft and deployed as a constellation of 10 satellites in LEO.
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US Army's SMDC Provides Ukrainian Soldiers With Specialized Space Training In Dealing With Disrupted Space Operations "... told us they were experiencing a lot of denied, degraded and disrupted space operations in their conflict with Russian separatists in the Ukraine."
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Raytheon + Israel's UVision Will Develop Loitering Airborne Solutions The adapted system will meet the US Army's requirement for Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems, also known as LMAMS. Full Story
Myanmar To Receive High Speed Data Services From AsiaSat + KBZ Gateway KBZ will use C- and Ku-band capacity on AsiaSat 4 and AsiaSat 7 satellites to establish high speed data networks across Myanmar.
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SES Enterprise + Hybrid Broadband For Asia To Be Implemented Via Gilat's SkyEdge II-c Libra Customers will be able to integrate SES’s satellite network for download traffic with their existing terrestrial network for upload traffic.
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AST's INTEGRA... An Intelligent IP Service Network INTEGRA contains anti-malware, anti-virus engines and intrusion prevention capabilities which offer ‘zero day’ protection against known and emerging threats.
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May 27, 2016 SpaceX's Perfect Launch + Perfect Landing... Again! As It Sends Off THAICOM-8 But the rockets landed Friday and three weeks ago have sustained more damage...That's not surprising, since their landings were considered the most difficult yet to pull off.
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Capital Raising Completed By SES For Full Acquisition Of O3b Networks SES will use the proceeds raised to fund the total consideration of USD 730 million to increase its ownership of O3b to 100 percent.
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Russia Successfully Tests An Anti-Satellite Missile... For The Second Time American defense officials said Russia conducted a successful flight test of a developmental anti-satellite missile on Wednesday that is capable of destroying satellites in orbit.
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On The Show Floor... Cobham's Comms Concentrations @ CommunicAsia2016 The stand will be open daily from 10:30 to 18:00 (except Friday 3rd June closing at 16:00) in concert with the overall exposition schedule.
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Orbital ATK's Thaicom 8 Satellite Enjoys A Successful Launch Orbital ATK engineers completed the satellite’s initial post-launch health check and configuration in preparation for approximately 30 days of on orbit tests and orbit-raising procedures.
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LeoSat... A New Satellite Paradigm Presents At CommunicAsia LeoSat Enterprises, a new satellite constellation venture.
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SES Launches 24/7 Satellite Ultra HD Test Channel With High Dynamic Range Content At the ninth SES Industry Days, SES and industry partners will demonstrate a number of technologies to broadcast Ultra HD with High Dynamic Range content.
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Two Hundred Billion Yuan Generated By The Satellite Industry In China Satellite technology has been widely used in various domains in China.
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Chinese Quantum Satellite Expected To Launch In July Quantum communications research has become a focus and frontier of global research in physics.
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Communications For Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles To Be Provided By Marlink Marlink’s responsibility as the turnkey communications provider for Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles is far-reaching.
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UrtheCast Receives $5 Million Canada Technology Development Program Award Towards OptiSAR™ Constellation The 16-satellite OptiSAR™ Constellation is expected to consist of eight X- and L-band SAR satellites and eight high-resolution optical satellites, flying in a paired, tandem configuration. Full Story
On The Show Floor... C-COM @ CommunicAsia2016 + Info RegardingThe Company's Phase Shifter Technology Among other products, on display this year at C-COM's booth will be the new iNetVu® inMotion-ka unit
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UHP Networks Reveal High-Availability VSAT Hubs At CommunicAsia
UHP (Universal Hardware Platform) technology represents a breakthrough in the VSAT business by making it possible to pack very high processing capability into a small package.
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Debuting @ CommunicAsia2016: The Agilis HALE UAV Comms Solution HALEs are solar-powered vehicles built to fly 20 km above an area requiring connectivity with land coverage over 20 square kilometers and latency of less than 1 msec.
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May 26, 2016 ORBCOMM's IDP-782 Drives Out For Vehicular Tracking & Driver Monitoring The cellular IDP-782 is ideal for vehicle tracking and driver monitoring applications in areas where cellular coverage is widely available
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PCI Geomatics Brings Their GXL Technology To SkyMap Global SkyMap Global is focused on delivering value added satellite imagery products and solutions to the South Asian market.
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On The iRG Satellite Interference Tour, As Well As Exhibiting, At CommunicAsia2016 Is VeriSat VeriSat will be demonstrating their range of solutions aimed at mitigating interference from VSAT terminals.
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For Latitude Aero "I" Users, A SATCOM Replacement Is Now Available The Latitude SkyNode S200 provides an upgrade path with enhanced features while offering substantial savings.
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Moving On Up... SAS Names Palmetier As COO & General Counsel Palmetier will oversee the SAS finance, contracts, compliance and legal functions.
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Backhaul Synergies To Be Explored With New GVF-EMP London Conference The one-day, roundtable-style event on June 21 will explore the current interaction between the satellite and wireless industries, the current and future growth of data traffic from mobile devices and how that will impact cellular and satellite networks.
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Microsemi's Latest Release Accurately Synchronizes Mission Critical Instrumentation Systems This new offering flexibly delivers "any signal, any connector" time and frequency signals to mission-critical instrumentation systems.
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On The Show Floor... RF Design @ CommunicAsia2016 With Their Product Portfolio One of their offerings is the first matrix on the market that is fully expandable.
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Talking On The Water... OC Sport Selects SpeedCast For Transat AG2R La Mondiale SpeedCast enables two-way communication and store and forward video broadcast ...
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Arianespace Deposits Fuel In BRIsat... Banks On Successful Upcoming Banking Communications Mission BRIsat will be operated by PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. (BRI), which is one of the world’s first banks to purchase its own satellite.
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May 25, 2016 GeoSync Microwave™ Has Hot Offer... A Variety Of 'Hot Swappable' Options In Their New RD Series The two independent converter assemblies are “hot swappable” through the rear of the chassis.
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Sky Cable Signs With SES + 251 Philippine Cities and Municipalities Will Enjoy New Direct-to-Home TV “The geography of the Philippines presents a unique set of challenges for fiber or terrestrial connectivity. Our satellites are able to overcome these limitations..."
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The Federal Aviation Administration's Office Of Commercial Space Transportation Is Now Fully Funded This amendment brings appropriations for this office in line with the President’s Budget Request and fully funds FAA/AST.
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New Modules For HFC Head-Ends Debut From DEV At ANGACOM 2016 MODULO is the name of the new product line consisting of universal, space saving active and passive components for RF transmission over coax and fiber for upstream and downstream applications.
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Production Test For RF Power Amplifiers Sped Up With New Keysight Technologies Source & Measurement Unit The high-speed M9111A changes voltage, stabilizes and accurately measures micro-Amps, all in less than 1 ms.
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Key Milestones For Apogee Thruster Celebrated By Aerojet Rocketdyne & Space Systems Loral The 100th SSL 1300 also used Aerojet Rocketdyne’s 100th High-Performance Apogee Thruster (HiPAT™).
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Antenna System From CPI ASC Signal Division Installed At Satellite Telecommunications Network (STN) The 5.6 meter dish is equipped with CPI ASC Signal Division’s patented sub-reflector tracking technology.
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HawkEye360's Pathfinder Smallsats To Be Manufactured By Deep Space Industries & UTIAS SFL HawkEye 360 will be operating the world’s first privately-funded constellation of small satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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Heading Into US Army Evaluation Are General Dynamics Mission Systems Manpack Radios The digital radios are based on the rigorously tested, evaluated and fielded AN/PRC-155 two-channel networking radios.
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Harris Garners Follow-On Support Contracts With US Air Force This award represents the tenth option year.
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Data Services Collaboration MOU Signed By Earth-i & Telespazio This MoU will permit each company to provide each other’s specialist products and services to their respective customers.
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US + US Military As Well As Norway Will Seek Access To Secure Signal Of Galileo Constellation At a Galileo meeting this month, those in attendance shared that Galileo's owners were uncomfortable that the largest user of the PRS signal would be the European national military forces.
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Advantech Wireless Participating At APSAT APSAT 2016 is the ASSI’s (Asosiasi Satelit Indonesia or the Indonesian Satellite Association) 15th consecutive annual international conference focused on satellite communications.
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May 24, 2016 Arianespace's Successful Soyuz Launch As Danielé + Alizée Join The Galileo Family From most locations, six to eight Galileo satellites will be visible, and in combination with GPS signals, this will allow positioning to within a few centimeters, depending on the service used.
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Harris To Continue With Their SCNS Support For NASA Harris gains extension from NASA for SCNS support program.
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On The Show Floor... NovelSat Displaying Their New Redundancy Switches At CommunicAsia2016 The NovelSat N+1 Redundancy Switch solution enables hot standby redundancy for up to 8 NovelSat modulators, demodulators or modems.
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The Airbus Foundation + Iranian Red Crescent Society Launch Humanitarian Youth Program “Resilience is a critical life skill and a major factor that contributes to shaping the endurance and achievement of individuals, industry and nations."
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On The Show Floor... Hitachi Kokusai Electric's Nrw DSNG OB Vehicle Based on a Mercedes Vario vehicle, the truck can support up to six fiber, wireless system and PTZ cameras.
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Schriever Wargames Are Set In The Year 2026 For Air Force Space Command The Schriever Wargame, set in the year 2026, will explore critical space issues and investigate the integration activities of multiple agencies associated with space systems and services
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OHB Systems AG's Galileo's Enjoy A Successful Launch Over the next few days, the two satellites will be undergoing preliminary function testing.
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Now DVB-S2X Ready Is Gilat's SkyEdge II-c Platform Gilat’s DVB-S2X-compatible X-Architecture hub and VSATs are optimized for HTS wideband networks and designed to support all applications.
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On The Show Floor... NSSLGlobal Presenting Product & Execs At CommunicAsia2016 NSSLGlobal products and GM as well as the sales director will be on the show floor at CommunicAsia2016.
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On The Show Floor... Skyline Communications With Their DataMiner 9.0 DataMiner is the number one choice of all leading operators around the globe.
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SES Platform Services Pumps Up Their K-NET Partnership The new partnership will contract SES capacity, SES PS’s and K-NET’s services.
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Villagers In The Solomon Islands To Receive Mobile 3G Network, Thanks To SpeedCast & bmovile-vodafone SpeedCast’s solution will support the upgrade of the existing 2G services to a new mobile 3G network for the three main urban areas of the Western Province on the Solomon Islands.
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The UK's Satellite Internet Company Is Onboard For Broadband Voucher Program Eligible residents and businesses will receive a voucher code which they can use with their choice of seven approved suppliers, including Satellite Internet.
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India Satcom-2016 Set For June 7 in New Delhi The event is supported by The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India.
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NovaWurks'™ HISats™ Exciting Program On DARPA's eXCITe Spacecraft “HISats are designed to radically change the way spacecraft are designed and deployed."
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General Dynamics Mission Systems Celebrates Its 5,000th...Delivery Of Radios ...replacing outdated, ground-to-air, air traffic control radios, some of which are almost 50 years old.
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May 23, 2016 RigNet's TSI Restructuring Plan... Refocuses For Better Opportunities
The new integrated structure will result in the reduction of annual costs of approximately $1.0 million.
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China Has Plenty Of Plans With Launching Of 30 BeiDou Navigation Satellite Systems Now + In The Future According to China daily. Fifteen years after the satellite system was launched, it is now generating $31.5 billion for major companies such as...
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Proton Push For Intelsat-31 Satellite Now Possesses A "TBD" Launch Date "Technical reasons" are offered as the reason for this new delay.
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NSR Weighs Jumping On The UltraHD Bandwagon + Is It Worth It For The ROI? However, there there has been significantly less discussion on the upcoming revenue impact on UltraHD broadcast—despite this discussion being critical to determining UltraHD’s ROI
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NASA/ESA Hubble's Star Cluster Image Is As If Bees Are Buzzing Around A Hive The hive in question is an edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 5308, located just under 100 million light-years away ...
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OSIRIS-REx Arrives At Kennedy Space Center For September Launch As currently planned, the spacecraft will reach its near-Earth asteroid target, called Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36), in 2018.
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There's A New High Flying Venue For AMAC Aerospace From Rockwell Collins This upgrade path also leads to less aircraft downtime.
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SES Joins In To Assist UNICEF & Relief International With Education Center In Jordanian Relief Camp The "Connected Solar School" will use solar energy provided by SOLARKIOSK’s E-HUBB technology to deliver broadband connectivity enabled by SES’s Astra Connect broadband platform.
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Another Evolution For iDirect Government's Evolution Platform With New 9-Series The software supports the 950mp, 900 and 9350 remotes as well as the DLC-T and DLC-R defense line cards—all from a single platform.
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Swedish Space Corporation & Swedish Government Delegation Have Southern California Visits On Their Minds The company and delegation will be meeting with several industry leading companies.
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Dispensing Dispensers For The OneWeb Constellation Is Now An Arianespace Project The dispenser systems will first secure the satellites during their flight to LEO and then release them into space.
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A Breakthrough By Iridium® & Satelles — An Alternative To GPS Service For the first time, end users now have access to accurate and resilient position, navigation and timing (PNT) technology that works anywhere on the planet, even indoors.
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Simultaneous Flights Of A Civil Drone & Manned Aircraft Occurs In A Spanish Airport This is one of the first flying experiences undertaken in Europe for a drone to be able to operate in the area of the traffic of a conventional airdrome.
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The iRG Tour To Continue At CommunicAsia2016 This tour will give participants practical advice and guidance on the tools available and more...
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Thales Alenia Space's ExoMars Spacecraft Passes Muster Enroute To Mars... “We are delighted to confirm that the spacecraft is in excellent shape, everything being proceeding on schedule and to ensure that..."
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Thuraya + IEC Telecom Keep 'em Smiling At Sea ...Solutions + Latest Innovations In Maritime Hardware At Posidonia 2016
...ships can now be transformed into remote offices with very little effort.
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May 22, 2016 Arianespace's Soyuz Is Standing Tall + In Final Stages For Launch Soyuz marked another key step toward Arianespace’s May 24 mission—which is to orbit the latest two FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites for Europe’s Galileo space-based navigation system.
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May 20, 2016 General Dynamics Goes Deep For US Navy... DMR Radios Ordered For New US Navy Surface Vessels + Submarines Once the MUOS network is operational, it will deliver secure, smartphone-like capabilities including crystal-clear voice communications and access to video and mission command information with the quality of service that smartphone users enjoy every day.
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Security & Reliability For All SKYWAN 7000 Networks Enhanced By ND SatCom ND SatCom enhanced the FIPS-certified software release V7.250.10 to give full support for multiple MF-TDMA demodulators.
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Inmarsat Welcomes Newest Board Member...She Will Be Non-Executive Director + Audit Committee In her eight year leadership of TAS, the business has been transformed and moved from third position in the global market to number one.
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The Second Stage Of The Electron Launch Vehicle Is Qualified By Rocket Lab The company had also qualified its 3D-printed engines, called Rutherford, which drive the rocket.
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SpeedCast Gets Deeper Into O&G With New Middle East Contract The contract will result in support for a fully managed network service for ten sites in the UAE and Oman.
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May 19, 2016 SpaceX Lands On Its Feet + Receives National Space Society's 2016 Space Pioneer Award For Just That Creating reusable rockets is a fundamental requirement for spaceflight to be inexpensive enough for general and large-scale use.
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Cislunar Outpost Has Orbital ATK's Support As The Next Step In Human Space Exploration Orbital ATK was recently selected by NASA to study an initial version of a cislunar habitat that could evolve over time to a much larger research platform with many of the capabilities required for a human mission to Mars.
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NSR... No Need For A Funeral... FSS Aero SatCom Not Dead Yet
A large outlay of supply in the market will bring fierce competition to the established FSS Ku-band aero connectivity market and affects pricing and thus operator revenues.
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Keysight Technologies Software Development Center To Open At Georgia Tech Keysight has chartered the center to develop nexgen software for use in the design and test of electronic products being created by Keysight’s customers around the world.
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Lockheed Martin Factors For The Future... Building GPS With Evolution In Mind For US Air Force ...the Air Force’s next acquisition will be able to offer on-orbit re-programmability so they can be upgraded in space to add new signals or missions, a first for the GPS constellation.
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Airbus Defence And Space Begins Assembly For Mission Beyond The Moon And To Mars...Orion's ESM ...which will supply propulsion, power, thermal control, air and water for astronauts on missions beyond the Moon and to Mars.
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SES And Telkom Indonesia Are Partners ... Supply Satellite Capacity For Indonesia Through SES-9 Telkom will provide connectivity to the Indonesian market via capacity on the recently-launched SES-9 satellite, SES’s latest and largest spacecraft for the Asia-Pacific region.
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COMSAT And Inmarsat Support US Marine Corps Forces Mission In Pacific, Balikatan 2016 Exercise
Balikatan is an annual military exercise between US joint forces and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with multinational participants such as Australia.
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May 18, 2016 Insitu & Precision Hawk Alliance For Commercial Drone Services This collaboration brings together best-in-class UAS solutions to help commercial enterprises achieve safe unmanned flight for extended and beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations.
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A New Research Report From The World Teleport Association: The Internet of Things The growth forecasts for the Internet of Things (IoT) are off the charts.
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The Secure World Foundations Asks How To ... Deal With "Contested, Congested, And Competitive" Space Environment Outsiders have criticized the current approach as both too weak and too aggressive.
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Ball Aerospace To Build TIRS-2 For Landsat 9 Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation will design, fabricate, assemble, test and deliver a cryocooler with two stages of cooling.
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NASA's MinXSS, CubeSat Launches... Hopeful Answers About Solar Interruptions To Communications Systems MinXSS uses a commercially purchased X-ray spectrometer for a detector and an extendable tape measure as a radio antenna.
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Dubai's SkyStream Contracts CPI ASC Signal For Ka-Band System This award is the latest international contract for Ka-band antennas recently received by CPI's ASC Signal Division.
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Clyde Space Catapulting Their Way Into Additional Success The company announced has been commissioned by the Satellite Applications Catapult and Innovate UK to build four CubeSats for the £1.5million project.
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SpeedCast To Manage Ground Station For Protected X-Band SATCOM Services In APAC The ground station was officially opened at the combined SpeedCast and Airbus Defence and Space facility on Monday, May 16.
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ETL Systems Lists CommunicAsia As The Highlight Of Their Year With New RF Products ETL has designed new functionality and increased benefits into a series of products, including reliability in its StingRay RF over Fiber range...
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Arianespace's Fregat's Fueling Facility Preps For Soyuz Launch To Galileo Constellation Named the FCube (Fregat Fueling Facility), the purpose-built installation is utilized to "top off" Fregat upper stages during Soyuz launch campaigns at the Spaceport.
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Mercury Systems' $4.2 Million Order ...Unmanned Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Mercury’s solutions power a wide variety of critical defense and intelligence programs.
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Harris Geospatial Solutions Has The Solution In OneButton™ With ENVI® For Advanced UAS Image Processing Outputs include digital elevation models (DEMs), true color 3D point clouds, multispectral mosaics and controlled oblique imagery – all ready for ingest directly into the ENVI software environment.
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May 17, 2016 Nominations Are Now Open For The Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame® The deadline to submit a nomination is Monday, August 15, 2016.
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FEMA Contingency SATCOM Services Project Awarded To UltiSat UltiSat will provide FEMA with satellite services to support Operational Communications requirements for Response and Recovery missions.
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Tier 3 Certification From WTA Awarded To Talia Limited's Raisting Teleport The Program also aims to provide a means for customers to select teleport vendors delivering the price-performance level that is appropriate for their applications.
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On The Show Floor... Artel Bringing Their Demodulator & Satellite Scanner To InfoComm 2016 The DLC510 adds new satellite scanning functionality to the company's DigiLink media transport platform.
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Leaping Lizards... LizardTech® To Release Express Server® At 2016 GEOINT Symposium “The added ability to download, stream and view LiDAR products from anywhere at any time will be hugely impactful for our customers.” Full Story
AsiaSat Brings 4KUNIVERSE™ In UHD To Asian Viewers 4KUNIVERSE™ is one of the first premium general entertainment 4K TV channels available to the global marketplace.
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Select The Honorees For SSPI's Promise & Mentor Awards Who will the honorees be?
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Advantech Takes A 'Three-Peat' Win First For Innovation + Another First For International Market Development A 'three-peat' win is a term used frequently in sports when a team wins three major events, but it is an entirely different animal when it comes to the business world.
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Haigh-Farr Goes Far And Wide... Their Wide Variety Of Antennas Will Be Showcased At Space Tech Expo 2016 A major gathering place where those involved in both defense and space technology and engineering is a terrific way to share, show and save.
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Don't Mess With Texas As Bandera Electric Cooperative Takes On The Digital Divide... And Succeeds ...less than half of Texans living outside an urban area have access to affordable, reliable broadband service. Texas ranks at the bottom of the list at number 44 of 48 states surveyed for access to rural broadband.
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May 16, 2016 On The Show Floor... GATR Technologies At GEOINT 2016 GATR Technologies will be demonstrating several innovative technologies, including the 2.4 meter Tracker.
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Advantech Wireless' New GaN S-Band Pulse Amplifier The new 10kW S-band Solid State Pulse Amplifiers from Advantech Wireless are fully modular and operate over the band of 2.9 to 3.1 GHz.
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On The Show Floor... WORK Microwave's Product Portfolio At CommunicAsia2016 New products on display will include the all-IP DVB-S2X A-Series and Q-band ready synthesized block converter.
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Putin The Ruble Behind Phoenix The capacity for the new booster will be between 9 and 15 tons.
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NovelSat Signs On Sanshin Electronics Sanshin Electronics is an electronics trading company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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Russia's Glonass-M Satellite Launch Is Pushed Out Testoyedov said that this launch delay was the decision of the state commission.
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SSTL Celebrates As They Roll The Last Of The 22nd Galileo Payload Off Production Line... There must have been a few champagne toasts to celebrate this momentous event.
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Nordics To Receive First Ultra HD Channel Via SES & Viasat The channel, called Viasat Ultra HD, will be launched after summer in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland via SES-5 at 5 degrees East.
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OHB SE Delves Into M2M & IoT The new company specializes in satellite communications and, within this area, specifically fields offering particular potential for the future.
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Smallsat Optical Comms To Be Developed By LGS Innovations For DARPA LGS will be responsible for developing a pair of laser communication terminals.
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A Dragon Splashes Down... What Did It Bring Home From The ISS? In fact one might be surprised to learn that there is a space suit worn on a space walk that was cut short when the astronaut reported a water bubble inside his helmet.
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Ground Station In Adelaide To Support Skynet Opened By Airbus Defence & Space This worldwide teleport network provides global coverage for connectivity services.
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Yaogan-30 Satellite Is Launched By China The satellite will be used for experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief.
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Blacker Than Space Vantablack Incorporated Into The Kent Ridge 1 Satellite The Vantablack coating minimizes interference resulting from stray-light inside the star trackers.
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Kacific's First...Affordable And Available Satellite Ka-Band Service To The Pacific Kacific will expand its broadband services...to consumers, enterprises and other public institutions ...where Internet connectivity is currently unavailable, extremely slow or very expensive.
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A Game Changer In Global Intelligence Community...Fusion Of Satellite Imagery IHS Jane And Airbus Defense And Space IHS Jane’s has been using imagery from Airbus Defence and Space for over two years, breaking significant news stories on a second Russian base in Syria, new developments in North Korea’s nuclear program as well as island building in the South China Sea.
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Arianespace Processing For BRIsat Is Underway Preparations have included the fit-check, which is a regular milestone for Arianespace spacecraft passengers.
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GVF's High Throughput Satellite Asks The $17 Billion Question, How Will HTS Grow The Pie? “As HTS pricing has fallen by 20 percent or more in some regions over the past 5 years, total HTS demand has risen by nearly eightfold..."
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May 13, 2016 The Integration Of Danielé By Arianespace Prime contractor OHB System in Bremen, Germany produced the satellites, and their onboard payloads are supplied by UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), which is 99-percent owned by Airbus Defence and Space.
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Technology Partnership Initiated Between PSSI Global Services And Golf Channel PSSI will be the primary provider of satellite transmission services for Golf Channel news, live tournaments and entertainment programming throughout North America.
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THOR 7 Ka-Band Mobility Service Is Ready... Ahoy, For The Maritime Market “Today is a day that we have been very much looking forward to.”
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On The Show Floor... SES At CommunicAsia2016... Those who visit their booth will be able to engage with company subject matter experts during SES Insight Briefings.
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On The Show Floor... Eutelsat At CommunicAsia2016 Find out how the company can help grow business across Asia Pacific (APAC) and beyond.
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Hot Times For The VINCI Engine At DLR This is a key milestone for the development of Ariane 6.
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May 12, 2016 ISRO Where Are They Now? 34 Indian Satellites Are Up And Running In Space Current data released by the Union government confirm that 34 of them are operational.
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On The Show Floor... AvL Technologies At CommunicAsia2016 On display will be the company's 85 cm O3b MEO tracking Ka-band antenna which operates in a tandem pair with make-before-break communications and can be set-up and on-the-air within two hours.
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Cygnus Service Module Makes It To Wallops From Orbital ATK's Virginia Facility The service module is an integral part of the Cygnus spacecraft and contains the avionics, electrical, propulsion and communications systems.
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Silent Falcon™ UAS Technologies Speaks Up As It Proves To Be Asset, Monitors Oil + Gas Production Silent Falcon™ believes this is the first time a fixed wing, long range and long endurance unmanned aircraft system has been used for this purpose in the continental United States.
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New Series Of Antennas Debut From KNS For the COTM market, KNS have launched M4MK1-Ku and M9MK1-KU.
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Global SATCOM Connectivity To Be Provided To Danish Defence Forces By SES SES Techcom Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, will provision and maintain two Wideband Global Satcom system (WGS) anchor stations.
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SolAero Technologies Secures Vanguard Space Technologies For Synergistic Opportunities Vanguard was acquired as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SolAero, but will be operated under the Alliance Spacesystems brand name
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Space Systems Loral To Build Intelsat 39 Satellite The satellite, Intelsat 39, will provide broadband networking and video distribution services in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Telenor Satellite's Best Scenario... Exceeds Expectations Ka-Band Land-Based Services In Middle East Exceed 200 Terminals
The THOR 7 Ka-band payload delivers regional coverage with a favorable look angle over the Middle East.
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May 11, 2016 Eurovision + ABS Jump On Board ABS-3A Results... Increase Capacity To 56 European Countries And Beyond “The new capacity on ABS-3A will support Eurovision’s substantial growth of media content delivery services in Europe."
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C-Com's New Certifications With Hughes + Galaxy, Type Approval from Avanti Achieving certification is not a simple process – it’s time consuming and costly.
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GVF's Expert Forum Access Is Expanded Now, GVF extends an invitation to all of the organization's past students to participate
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Showcasing Innovative Systems At Sea-Air-Space Expo Is Mercury Systems The exposition will be held at the Gaylord National Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, from May 16 to 18.
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MOU Signed Between Yahsat And Tele10 For African Connectivity The launch of Yahsat’s upcoming satellite will see the roll out of YahClick to 19 new markets in Africa during the first half of 2017.
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Airbus Defense and Space's Satellites Provide The Latest Hot Spots In Canada's Fires Using the latest technology to assist in such a tragedy as the Canadian fires is as amazing as it is awful.
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More Than 25 Million Nigerian Households Move To Digital, Courtesy Of SES And Cable Channels Nigeria Ltd. SES will be providing the space segment and specific platform services for the DTH service which will be used to feed the DTT transmitters around the country.
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Gogo Goes With SKY Perfect For Perfect Arrangement...More Satellite Capacity For Japan + JAL "Gogo has built its networks to be open, which means we can leverage numerous satellites in the Ku-band around the world."
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STN Spearheads Move ...Into Asia-Pacific With Solutions To Move Into International Markets "today people are more mobile than ever before, and we see consumers more readily moving from country to country to pursue career and business opportunities."
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Advantech Wireless Takes VSAT Services And Solutions To LATSAT LATSAT will bring together over 200 executive-level participants from the entire Latin American satellite communications value chain...
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Gilat Satcom Upgrades Its Security... SatDDoS Attacks On African Networks On The Rise In particular, ISPs, Cellular companies, Banks and IT companies in Africa are all under near-constant attack.
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Orbital ATK Ships CRS Hardware... Preparations Continue For ISS Crews' Supplies It’s a key step forward for the upcoming OA-5 mission as the service module for the Cygnus spacecraft has arrived at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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May 10, 2016 BRIsat And EchoStar 18 Being Primed By Arianespace For Mission BRIsat was delivered by a chartered Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner, which touched down at Félix Eboué Airport near the French Guiana capital city of Cayenne.
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Drone-Based Business Services To Reach More Than $127 Billion, According To PwC The industry with the best prospects for drone applications is infrastructure, with total addressable market value of approx. $45.2 billion.
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GEE, What A Day For EMC — Global Eagle Entertainment To Acquire Emerging Markets Communications GEE will pay $550 million for EMC.
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Multiple Keysight Demos At International Microwave Symposium In San Francisco Keysight’s hardware, software and technical expertise help engineers and designers gain insight into the toughest component and system engineering challenges.
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NSR's Report Lets See What's Up At Sea...Maritime Satcom Markets Providing a complete picture of the maritime market, readers can navigate through the trends, drivers, and restraints shaping the maritime industry—from end-user trends to the latest SATCOM developments.
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RigNet's Express Service, Expressly For Global Remote Locations... Brings Global Xpress to the Energy Market
Whether onshore or offshore, the network architecture allows the use of small footprint antennas that save deck space at a remote location.
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Big Data Issues Are On The Venue At GLIS2016 A special plenary on Big Data will be discussed in depth during the GLIS 2016.
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May 9, 2016 SSL's Satellite Launched For SKY Perfect JSAT Performs Perfectly SKY Perfect JSAT is Asia’s largest satellite operator with a fleet of 15 satellites, and Japan’s only provider of both multi-channel pay TV broadcasting and satellite communications services.
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INNOspace Masters Competition Names The Winners This event had invited innovators to submit their proposals and concepts for the New Space Economy.
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China's New Long March-7 Rocket En Route To Launch Location It has taken researchers eight years to develop the medium-sized rocket.
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Top Russian Official Is Fired After Failed Russian Launch Leonid Shalimov became the first official figure to be dismissed in connection with the incident.
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NSR Asks Who's Left Hungry In Energy Satcom? Prices Need To Lower To Keep The Current Pie However, all of that changed in the ‘great crude collapse’.
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Inmarsat's STEM Support In South Africa The company is sponsoring four PfP partnerships at schools in Cape Town.
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DigitalGlobe Peers Through The Smoke Of Fort McMurray's Fire + Measures The Wildfire's Intensity A mandatory evacuation was put in place for the entire city. This is unprecedented.
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GVF's O&G Connectivity 2016 Event To Open In Aberdeen, Scotland The Aberdeen program debate, for which registration is entirely free-of-charge, will be answering many questions.
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NASA's MESSENGER Provides A Plethora Of Information...First Global Topographic Model of Mercury
Because of the spacecraft’s highly eccentric orbit, the MLA was able to make primary measurements only in Mercury’s northern hemisphere and near-equatorial region, leaving the topography of most of the southern hemisphere largely unknown, until now.
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AST Australia Attends Opening Of The National Safety Agency AST Australia displayed several new satellite terminals.
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The World's Largest Solid Rocket Motor Being Prep'd For Test By Orbital ATK QM-2 is the second of two Orbital ATK-developed motors to support qualification of the boosters for NASA’s SLS.
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Airbus' CEO Pilots Perlan 2 Glider As Mission II's Team Preps For Journey To The Edge Of Space An experienced helicopter pilot and an aviation enthusiast, Enders also took the controls of the glider to experience the unique handling qualities of an aircraft optimized to fly in air almost as thin as the atmosphere on Mars.
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SSL's New VP Of Washington DC's Operations... He Will Expand Business In US Government Sector SSL is currently working on projects with several US government agencies, including on-orbit robotic satellite assembly with DARPA and NASA.
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SpyMeSatGov... Mobile Satellite Imagery App Developed Specifically For US Government The mobile app includes the ability to browse and select available commercial satellite images for any location.
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Earth-i To Participate In Geospatial World Forum... Asks "Where's The Money" Earth-i is able to satisfy demand by supplying affordable and high quality images from the three identical 1 meter resolution optical satellites
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Hughes JUPITER™ System Is The Answer For Eutelsat + Facebook In Africa The JUPITER System configuration purchased by Eutelsat includes three gateway stations, two centralized data centers, a comprehensive network management system, and an initial number of user terminals.
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May 6, 2016 A Pair Of Galileo Push Offs For Arianespace This month’s dual Galileo payload mission is designated Flight VS15 in Arianespace’s launcher family numbering system.
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Boeing, Lockheed & Northrop Grumman Awarded GPS III Contracts By Space & Missile Systems Center The periods of performance are 26 months for the basic contract, and six months each for the two options, for a total possible period of performance of 38 months.
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Flexible Attenuator Matrix For Wireless Test Labs Rolls Out From Quintech This is the first of its kind: a Test Matrix designed to simultaneously support 2G, 3G, 4G LTE, LTE-A, 802.11, WiFi, and LTE-U frequency bands with 2x2 to 8x8 MIMO connections.
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New JV To Build Satellite Equipment In Saudi Arabia The created JV (Joint Venture) aims to be a global manufacturer of satellite equipment, with the initial focus on manufacturing an innovative HTS Ka-band terminal to provide high throughput for satellite fleets around the world.
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SpaceX's Successful Repeat Performance...Launch Of JCSAT-14 And The Return Of Falcon 9 ...and then the the Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned with a high-speed landing on a platform of a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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SSPI's 11th Annual Promise & Mentor Awards Now Open For Nominations Every year, SSPI presents three young satellite professionals with its Promise Award in recognition of their potential to play a leadership role in the industry.
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Ecometrica Garners Funding For Satellite Data Analysis Projects The deal for Ecometrica is the first to be secured in Scotland from Clydesdale Bank’s recently launched Emerging Technology Unit.
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MilSatCom USA Bringing MILSATCOM Expertise To Attendees In June Offered at this event will be the opportunity to meet key government and military personnel, and the industry leaders, from across the U.S. Armed Forces as well as the UK, Canada, Spain, France and NATO.
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May 5, 2016 Fourth Time Should Be The Charm For SpaceX JCSAT-14 Launch On Friday The launch is now scheduled for Friday at 1:21 a.m.
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On The Show Floor... Gilat Heading Into CommunicAsia2016 At CommunicAsia2016, which runs from May 31 to June 3, attendees will learn of the work by Gilat that's behind these successful project implementations.
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Hexagon Geospatial's SmartM.App Platform Gains Airbus EO Data This content is now available through the Smart M.App platform, including new and archive very-high and high resolution optical imagery products from Pléiades (50 cm) and SPOT (1.5 m) satellites.
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MEASAT & RR Media Drive CBS Reality Channel Into African Continent CBS Reality features documentaries and real life dramas.
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Milbank Reps O3b Networks In Acquisition Deal By SES SES also has a call option to acquire all of the remaining 49.5 percent of the shares in O3b for a baseline sum of $710 million.
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AFCEA International's Critical Issues In C4I Symposium Is Upcoming... This event will take place at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, from May 18th through the 19th.
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New Tactical Series INS Family Debuts From VectorNav The Tactical Series leverages VectorNav's navigation algorithm expertise and extensive experience in integrating their Industrial Series products into a broad range of airborne, marine, and ground based platforms.
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US Space LLC Files Suit Against Orbital ATK & ATK Space Systems For Breach Of Contract ATK Space Systems was supposed to honor a 2010 agreement creating the ViviSat joint venture, US Space said.
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Modernizing Military Enterprise SATCOM Terminals Is Harris Goal Harris fixed-site terminals and hardened transportable terminals provide dual X- and Ka-band access to the new Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) network...
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Globalsat Group Appoints Chief Financial Officer To US Team... He Will Streamline Operations “there is an increasing amount of business being done in Latin America which requires meeting a special set of challenges, involving organizational, financial, regulatory and human factors.
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Deep Space Industries Partners With The Luxembourg Government...Goes International With Asteroid Mining “We have been impressed by Luxembourg’s tangible actions to lead the creation of an asteroid resource economy.”
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May 4, 2016 Airbus Defence & Space Is Cleaning Up The TeSeR project develops technologies that will ensure a sustainable space environment for future generations.
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Graduate Certificate Opportunities Available For International Space University Alumni SU Faculty members based in Europe and North America will guide the individual research projects over the next four months.
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Harmonic Selected For Linear DTH Service In Africa Harmonic will enable the service provider to maximize bandwidth efficiency, improve video quality, and address future market demands for OTT multiscreen applications.
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In-Space Fuel Depot Technology To Extend The Life Of Cryogenic Upper Stage Rockets The proposed solution will provide NASA with an isolation solution between manned and unmanned spacecraft while allowing for the necessary structural characteristics for station keeping attitude control and telemetry on orbit.
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C-COM Satellite Systems Shifts Into High Gear With Its New Phase Shifting Technology This development will make it possible to deploy low cost, low weight, low profile Ku-, Ka- or hybrid Ku-/Ka-band antenna system combinations for fixed and mobile satellite broadband communication applications.
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SeaVsat Selects SES Enterprise+ Broadband Service ...Enables Connectivity Of All SeaVsat Vessels Worldwide Under the new agreements, SeaVsat will be providing broadband connectivity and VoIP services to its maritime customers.
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May 3, 2016 The Energy SATCOM Markets Owns The Spotlight In A New NSR Webinar Regardless of oil pricing trends, there are clear needs for communications.
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The Potential Of EHF Is Tested By Eutelsat & Space Systems Loral The two companies are analyzing the potential of the Q/V band (40-50 GHz) as an enabler of future Terabit satellite broadband programs.
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Hiltron Communications Selected For Global Satellite Tracking System The system includes six Hiltron HMAM motorized satellite antenna mounts integrated with a Hiltron HACU antenna control unit and associated motor-control electronics.
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Join iDirect At The HTS 2016 Roundtable—Growth Opportunities For SATCOM-Based Broadband Solutions To be explored, in-depth, will be a range of issues that pertain to the massive growth opportunities for the market for satellite-based broadband solutions
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Sierra Nevada Corporation Getting Set For Their 13th Trip To Mars SNC will design and manufacture the descent brake, as well as actuators for robotic arm and sample caching system.
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Nexgen Space Platforms & Solutions To Be Developed By NovaWurks & Arkisys The agreement serves to leverage NovaWurks’ Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat™) technology in applying Arkisys’ vision for the next wave of in situ assembled space elements and platforms.
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Moving On Up... AsiaSat Appoints Yan As Vice President, China. Zhang Yan has more than 22 years of experience in the satellite industry with various management positions, covering areas in engineering, sales and marketing.
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Bringing The ESA Biomass Satellite To Fruition Is Airbus Defence & Space By using a P-band synthetic-aperture radar, the mission will use all-weather imaging from space to estimate forest biomass.
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A New GPS Product Range Releases From ETL Systems The new range includes outdoor and indoor GPS over Fiber Outdoor and GPS Splitter units, which provide a reliable method for distributing GPS timing signals from a single antenna.
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Gilat Extends Cell & Broadband Coverage In Peru Gilat’s X-Architecture has the flexibility to support any number of frequency bands.
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Maritime Maintenance Contract Agreed Upon By Thuraya Telecommunications Company The new contract will ensure faster response times to requests made by service partners needing maintenance work, fault rectifications and the installation of Thuraya maritime equipment.
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Arianespace Alive With Activity... Fit Check For Next Month's Launch Of EchoStar 18 Arianespace’s Flight VA230 is one of up to 12 missions planned during 2016 with the company’s launcher family of the heavy-lift Ariane 5, the medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega.
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Comtech Xicom Technology's New Compac GaN Solid-State X-Band SATCOM Block Upconverter
"With limited budgets and increasing bandwidth demands for both commercial and military SATCOM systems, users are looking to benefit..."
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May 2, 2016 Space Tech Conference... Bringing Together Experts + Their Expertise In A Convenient One-Stop Event The Space Tech Conference agenda examines how military and government organizations can deliver space missions by working closely with the commercial sector to...
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A Smart Reach By Yahlive Yahlive viewers across the Arabian Maghreb have access to over 60 Arabic and international channels, out of which 24 are exclusive to Yahlive.
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Harris Falcon Radios To Bring Comms Interoperability To European Customer Harris will supply AN/PRC-152A Wideband Networking Handheld Radios, which provide simultaneous, secure voice and high-speed networked data and other units...
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On The Show Floor... SES Heading Into CommunicAsia2016 Visit the SES booth to find out how to accelerate growth with...
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Anomaly Determination Completed By ULA... MUOS-5's May Mission Moves On... The next launch is now scheduled for around May 12 for the US Navy's Mobile User Objective System, known as MUOS-5, into orbit.
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Crack That Code... Draper Sponsoring Chronos Geospatial Challenge Draper is sponsoring the Chronos Data Science Contest, which will monetarily reward competitors who come in first, second or third place.
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An Electrical Conduit Formed Between Aerojet Rocketdyne & NASA For Propulsion System Under the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) contract, the Aerojet Rocketdyne team will develop, qualify and deliver five 12.5 kilowatt Hall thruster subsystems.
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NSR's Satellite Manufacturing + Launch Services Analyzes The Design, Construction + Launch Of New Satellites Encompassing global demand across all satellite applications and from LEO to GEO and beyond...
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Vostochny Cosmodrome Construction Company Director Convicted Of Fraud—Off To Russian Labor Camp Nesterenko embezzled more than 100 million rubles ($1.6 million) via a scheme run by an associate.
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First Global Hawk Components Manufactured In Korea Delivered To Northrop Grumman This spring, Korean Jig and Fixture (KJF) delivered build-to-print aerospace grade precision machine parts for the first Republic of Korea Global Hawk.
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Second ExoMars Mission Pushed Out To 2020 The second ExoMars mission involves a Russian-led surface platform and a European-led rover, also to be launched on a Proton from Baikonur.
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Airbus And Safran Agree To Final Phase Of Partnership... Airbus Safran Launchers JV Both companies will contribute to the current joint program with industrial assets dealing with civil space launchers and military launchers.
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Mercury Systems Finalizes Microsemi Acquisition... On Schedule “We’re pleased that this transaction was completed on schedule,"
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NASA's Kepler Plays Marbles... In Search Of Planets That Resemble The Blue Marble "Coronagraphs are like visors in your car—you use them to block the light of the sun so you can see the road."
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May 1, 2016 Moving On Up... Dr. Watkins Named As Director Dr. Watkins played a major role in the Mars Curiosity Rover, Cassini, Mars Odyssey, GRACE, GRAIL, and the GRACE Follow-on missions.
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