December 2019 Satellite NewsVisit www.satnews.com for today's news
December 30, 2019 Satnews Wishes Everyone ... The offices will be closed from...
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CGI Folds SCISYS Into Their Operations Dublin-based SCISYS operates in several sectors, with deep expertise and industry leading solutions in the space and defence sectors, as well as in...
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UPDATE: China's Largest Carrier Rocket Lifts Experimental Satellite to Orbit + BDS-3 Completion The rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y3, blasted off from the coastal launch center at 8:45 p.m. (Beijing time) and carried the Shijian-20 technological...
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December 20, 2019 Starliner Snag The Starliner capsule successfully separated from the ULA Centaur second stage rocket that brought it to its sub-orbital target in space, but when the...
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Satellogic Acquires $50 Million in New Funding Satellogic recently closed a $38 million agreement with ABDAS, a data science company established under the technical support of the Institute of...
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First 2020 Mission for Arianespace Recent activity at the Spaceport in French Guiana included initial steps in creating the dual-payload configuration, with Eutelsat’s KONNECT satellite...
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December 19, 2019 New FSS Capacity Analysis Regarding Pricing Trends Published by Euroconsult This report shows that as the growth of satellite capacity on-orbit slows, pricing levels per megahertz (MHz) for regular capacity and per megabits...
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New Managing Director Named by Surrey Satellite Technology He joined the Intelligence division of Airbus Defence and Space in September 2003 as a senior manager and, in October of 2012, he was...
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WORK Microwave, Intellian and Telesat Together Transform Maritime SatCom During the test, they delivered 400 to 600 Mbps from a single carrier in partially harsh weather conditions, which is unprecedented in the satcom market.
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Space Force to Officially Call Colorado Home ... Earmarks $322 Million The bill also earmarks $322 million for construction at Colorado Springs bases, including a project that Lamborn says could keep U.S. Space Command here permanently.
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SDRs for Geo-Intelligence Industry to be Delivered by GomSpace GomSpace has, over the years, built a strong product portfolio and on-orbit track record with its SDR modules and antenna modules helping customers...
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The Air Force Will Need Terminals that Work with More than GPS That concession and the subsequent development of GPS jamming capabilities by Russia and China has changed the thinking on Galileo and ...
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Helix Technologies Names New CEO He said there is demand for Helix products in autonomous vehicle and drone applications, where pinpoint accuracy and massive data-flow over ...
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NASA Just Observed a Totally New Kind of Magnetic Eruption on the Sun For the first time ever, astronomers at NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have now observed a magnetic explosion on the Sun that was triggered by a ...
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Orbit Communication's Multi-Role Aviation Terminal Ordered by Inmarsat Government Orbit’s MPT 46WGX is a 46 cm. (18-inch) modular, multi-role aviation terminal designed to be fully interoperable with military Ka-band systems...
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Celestia Technologies Group Secures Satellite Ground Systems Division from Antwerp Space The addition of the Belgian business adds further capability to the group, enabling Celestia to offer customers a wider product portfolio of EGSE...
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Forrester Reports: C-Band Bill as Dead as Fried Chicken The failure means that the FCC will now likely determine how the proposed auction revenues are divided between the U.S. government and the...
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BAE Systems Announces New President and CEO ... He Already Has 22 Years with BAE This role is the most recent in his 22-year tenure with BAE Systems, having previously held other senior leadership positions at the company, including president of the Electronic ...
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December 18, 2019 NSR Answers Critical Questions About the Satellite Earth Observation (EO) Market From imagery and data, collected and delivered, via satellite through value-added data processing services and Big Data analytics, the latest NSR...
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Gilat's In-Air ESA Enjoys a Successful Demo on a Commercial Aircraft Gilat’s high throughput antenna demonstrated remarkable scores with complete gate-to-gate operation. Gilat’s ESA has no moving parts, full...
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Capricorn Space and Infostellar Unite for On Demand Ground Segment Services Established by Capricorn Space to provide global satellite operators southern hemisphere coverage from the Indian Ocean to across the...
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Brought to Fruition... Telespazio's New Control Room at the Fucino Space Center The order of complexity that is managed during a LEOP activity includes up to 50,000 telemetric parameters indicating the satellite status, with a...
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Centurum Information Technology's $89+ Million Naval Information Warfare Center SATCOM Contract ... the award is also for integrated and non-integrated shipboard and ashore installations of SATCOM systems...
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ABL Space Systems' Successful Rocket Engine Tests at Spaceport America RS1 will fill an important role in the global launch vehicle market, providing bulk deployment of cubesats, deployment of three to six larger, more...
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Arianespace Successfully Lifts Multiple Payloads to Orbit The Soyuz ST-A launcher version flew a four-hour-plus profile to release its multi-satellite payload into SSO – starting with primary passenger...
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Rocket Lab Starts Construction on their Third Launch Pad Ground works on the Launch Complex 1 Pad B began in December of 2019 with construction due for completion in late 2020. Concurrent launches from...
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United Launch Alliance Selected by NASA to Launch GOES-T GOES-T is the third of the next generation of weather satellites operated by NOAA, giving sequence to the GOES system...
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Four New Executives Named by Al Yah Satellite Communications Company This move supports Yahsat’s long-term strategy by unlocking human potential and strengthening its innovative satellite business globally...
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December 17, 2019 Orbion and the Space Physics Research Laboratory to Send Small Satellites Spaceward SPRL will build and test Orbion’s first Power Processing Units, converting solar energy into thrust for ultra-efficient plasma propulsion systems.
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UPDATE Scrubbed... Soyuz Launch of CHEOPS, OPS-SAT, EyeSat, ANGELS Satellites The robustness of the basic satellite itself will give ESA flight control teams the confidence they need to upload and try out new, innovative control...
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Marlink's New XChange FX Portal for Inmarsat Fleet Xpress Revealed The Marlink FX Portal is a unique development that can share network data vital to service quality, availability and efficiency on board and remotely...
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NSR Answers the Question — "What is the Right VSAT Strategy?" Satellite operators moving down the value chain, telco players diversifying their service portfolio, satellite operators partnering with service providers...
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The Kacific1 Satellite Successfully Launched for Kacific by SpaceX Owned by Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific), the Boeing-built communications satellite will stream high-speed broadband to 25 nations in...
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Northrop Grumman's Customer Plans for First Flight of OmegA™ OmegA rocket will launch up to two NationSats for Saturn Satellite Networks on certification flight for the US Air Force NSSL program in spring 2021
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United Launch Alliance Ready to Launch and Test Starliner Capsule
“We are bridging history as we prepare to launch astronauts again and the Orbital Flight Test is the first step in this process.”
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GomSpace, Lockheed Martin Space and Orbital Micro Systems to Combine Expertise for Smallsat Project The project stems from initial introductory meetings first held in 2017, during B2B17 a business networking event aimed at developing new...
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RUAG Space's Electronics and Tests of CHEOPS Space Telescope The telescope will observe how planets pass in front of their mother star in other solar systems and support the search for potentially life-friendly planets.
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December 16, 2019 New Cyber Tools from BAE Systems to be Developed for DARPA Development of these tools will be part of DARPA's Safe Documents (SafeDocs) program, which aims to more effectively identify and reject...
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Daily Satellite Imagery from Farmers Edge™ Launched for Specialty Crops With imagery captured daily from the largest private constellation of satellites in the world, state-of-the-art image processing, and advanced...
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Talia®'s Successful Beta Testing for African HTS Services In addition to the completion of beta testing in multiple West and Central African countries, Talia announced the signing of as many as three...
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SpooQy-1 Smallsat Now Operated by SpeQtral for the Centre for Quantum Technologies SpooQy-1 is a shoebox-sized, 3U cubesat hosting a quantum payload developed at CQT. The smallsat was launched April of 2019 and then...
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Two Young Indians Will Launch Tiny Satellites to Help Farmers Take Better Care of Their Crops Their company is called Pixxel (which they formed around 18 months back) and they’re working to set up the world’s smartest observation constellation of satellites.
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World Teleport Association's 2020 Teleport Awards for Excellence Open for Nominations WTA’s Teleport Awards have been presented annually since 1995 to companies and individuals who have dramatically demonstrated excellence ...
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China's First LEO 5G Satellite to Launch This Month The satellite is the first in China to be built with a capacity of 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) and it will be, according to the company, the world's first ...
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RSCC and Azercosmos Initiate Cooperation Agreement The agreement is aimed at joining the efforts and making arrangements for the collaboration of both Azerbaijani and Russian operators in the domain...
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NASA’s Hubble Captures Dazzling Galaxy 50 Million Light Years-Away NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (the Air Pump).
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Duo of BeiDou Sats Launched by China The launch marked 24 MEO satellites in the BDS-3 have all been successfully sent into space, plus the deployment of the core BDS-3...
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Team Rubicon and Maxar and BAE Systems Respond to Hurricane Dorian Maxar and BAE Systems have worked together since 2017 to provide Team Rubicon with the geospatial insights they need for planning and...
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December 15, 2019 U.S. Army's Envistacom $47 Million Multi-Year Task Order Worth Up to $480 Million Envistacom will upgrade existing terminals, as well as spares, new terminals, installation, relocations and necessary interface equipment and services.
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UPDATE: Arianespace Flight VS23 Packed with Sats — Payload Integration Completed All is now ready for final checkout and Saturday’s launch readiness review, which will clear the way for a December 17 liftoff at precisely...
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Leidos' DISA Contract ... a Ceiling of $6.5 Billion for Global Network Management Under the agreement, Leidos will operate, defend, and sustain the Department of Defense Information Network / Defense Information System...
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Thales Alenia Space Ready to Launch COSMO-SkyMed Second Gen's First Radar Satellite OSMO-SkyMed Second Generation or CSG (COnstellation of Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation), is a dual use (civil and defence)...
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Airbus Drives OPTIMA Photonics Satellite Payload Tech to the Next Level This proof of concept demonstrator brings the use of photonic payloads in telecommunications satellites one step closer. Photonic payloads have the...
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Forrester Reports: C-Band Auction to be Conducted Later in 2020 The Act is more positive than most analysts had feared...
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Israeli Students' Duchifat-3 Satellite Lifted to Orbit The smallsat was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C48), which lifted off...
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December 13, 2019 Millions Now Invested in Isar Aerospace sar Aerospace was founded in 2018 by Daniel Metzler,Josef Fleischmann, and Markus Brandl, all of them having studied at the Technical University of...
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December 12, 2019 Rensselaer Polytechnics and Debilitated Satellites A team of researchers at Rensselaer, led by Wen, are working with NASA on a solution: a robot that could capture a satellite in space and pull it in to...
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ViaLite's Links Assist New Australian Teleport to Target LEO/MEO Market The goal of Capricorn Space's new Australian teleport is to target the growing low/medium Earth orbit satellite market, and to that end they are assisted by...
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Commercial Satellite Ground Segment, 4th Edition, Published by NSR Despite turbulence in the video market, Satellite TV continues to generate the largest volumes, pushing STBs (Set-top Box) and antennas to capture...
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China Shows Off Its Newest Satellite's High-Resolution 3D Imagery The satellite is sensitive enough to height that it should be able to spot a single person from 500 kilometers up.
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‘We Are Going to Get It Done’ - SpaceX Says It is Trying to Stop Its Starlink Satellites Ruining the Night Sky The company’s Starlink mega constellation, which will add up to 42,000 satellites to orbit (only 2,000 active satellites in total orbit Earth today)
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Market and Tech Forecast to 2028 for Global Commercial and Military SATCOM This report examines, analyzes, and predicts the evolution of satellite systems, technologies, markets, and outlays (expenditures) over the next 8...
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ND SATCOM and WORK Microwave DVB-S2X Gateway Union SKYWAN 5G DVB comprises a DVB-S2 outbound link and up to 16 configurable TDMA full-meshed carriers. The SKYWAN 5G DVB solution...
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Optimization the Key to Smallsat Launch Providers in Latest Frost and Sullivan Report To keep up with market requirements, Frost & Sullivan anticipates high-volume demand for component manufacturers, dedicated launch service...
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Rocket Lab Opens Their Launch Complex 2 in the U.S. Located at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 represents a new national launch capability...
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Saturn Satellite Networks to Launch Their NationSats via Northrop Grumman's OmegA Launch Vehicle OmegA will launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B and insert the SSN satellites into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Northrop Grumman...
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December 11, 2019 Comtech Xicom Technology's $1.3 Million U.S. Army TWTA Order The Ka-band TWTAs ordered for this U.S. Army application are part of Comtech Xicom Technology's high efficiency TWTA product line and will be...
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Blue Origin's Twelfth Successful Launch ... Prepping for People Passengers in 2020 “Congratulations to our New Shepard team. Look at that capsule. Man I wish I'd been on board today!”
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NASA’S Parker Probe Reveals New Solar Oddities That world includes rogue plasma waves, flipping magnetic fields, and distant solar winds under the thrall of the sun’s rotation.
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Bonding: TriSept and Satellite Applications Catapult As part of the collaborative alliance, the two companies will leverage their complementary strengths to package TriSept’s deep launch integration...
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Creonic's SATCOM IP Core Portfolio Extended The IP core portfolio is available for ASIC and FPGA (Xilinx and Intel) technologies either as VHDL source code or as encrypted netlist. In...
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Maxar Completes Palo Alto Real Estate Sale for $291 Million The Company will use the proceeds from the real estate sale and the senior secured notes offering (upon release from escrow) to repay all of the...
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High Level Takeaways from the Second Annual Morgan Stanley Space Summit This event included participation from a range of private and public space companies, regulators and investors, with discussions centered on national...
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Space Fence Nearing Operational Acceptance by U.S. Air Force Space Fence will use its flexibility, coverage, and sensitivity to detect and accurately track significantly more objects than the current-day catalog...
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Eutelsat's HOTBIRD Capacity for Telefonica Telefonica has selected Eutelsat’s key orbital position at 13° East to broadcast RTVE free-to-air content consisting of two HD channels: TVE...
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Three Launches, Three Continents, for Spaceflight During a Successful 2019 The company ended last year with its historic dedicated rideshare mission, SSO-A, and continued to execute many more firsts during 2019. This...
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ISRO Launches Spy Satellite and Nine Foreign Ride-Along Satellites Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched their nation's latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 along with nine foreign satellites from ...
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Russia's Soyuz-2.1b Launches Glonass-M The spacecraft put into orbit will replenish the orbital constellation of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System
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December 10, 2019 Inmarsat Heads North Bringing Fleet LTE to the North Sea The unique ‘three-in-one’ offer delivers 4G and VSAT Ka-band and L-band without the complication of dual billing or the risk of connectivity drop-off.
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Guatemalan University Student Winners Prepare KiboCUBE for Launch Quetzal-1, will be used for multispectral remote sensing. This can lead to the acquisition of data for a variety of peaceful and natural resource management ...
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NASA Hopes OSIRIS-REx Data Will Explain an Asteroid's Mini-Eruptions Bennu is considered a danger to Earth that will pass within the Moon's orbit in the year 2135, and currently has a 1 in 2,700 chance of impacting the Earth ...
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A First for Rocket Lab with their Recent Running Out Of Fingers Mission AFTS is a GPS-aided, computer-controlled system designed to terminate an off-nominal flight, replacing traditional human-in-the-loop monitoring...
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LandSpace Technology Obtains More Millions for Rocket Development The company's focus at the current stage is the development of a rocket engine powered by LOX and methane. This actually represents a trend in...
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December 9, 2019 Global Xpress' World's First 1.5-Meter Terminal ... Sneak Preview ...the largest terminal that will be available for the Inmarsat Fleet Xpress service following type approval and successful sea trials in 2020, the ...
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Kratos Gleans a $39 Million Geolocation Global Support Services Contract Kratos will provide continuous RF monitoring services for government leased bandwidth on commercial satellites and bandwidth on military...
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Inmarsat Launches Fleet LTE and Delists from the London Stock Exchange The new service leverages low latency, high data speed communications available via a dedicated Access Point Name (APN) on the Tampnet North...
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Intellian's New Inmarsat 'Feature Rich' L-Band Terminals ... can be integrated as part of a complete safety solution, encompassing mandatory services such as Global Maritime Distress and Safety Service ...
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Results of Horizon Technologies Amber Users’ Workshop In Singapore Without the support from the High Commission and the UK Government, this event could not have taken place.
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China's Kuaizhou 1A Rocket Conducts Two Flights in One Day The two missions marked Kuaizhou 1A's sixth and seventh flight since January of 2017, when the rocket made its debut mission...
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Six Satellite Crises Report Available This special report is a part of Communication Satellite Databases which TelAstra, Inc. has published for 35 years, addressing in detail the concerns...
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ISRO to Launch Spy Satellite and Nine Foreign Customer Satellites Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch the nation's latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites ...
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Centre Proposes Rs 33 Crore to Protect Indian Satellites from Space Debris Every year, there are many incidents of objects colliding in space. As a result, small pieces of debris rotate at extremely fast speeds.
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Exos Aerospace Expands Their Charter Enterprise Program Exos Aerospace developed the Exos National Charter Enterprise program with PricewaterhouseCoopers and INVITALIA as a way to bring reusable...
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Arianespace's New Senior VP of Brand and Communications ... He Comes from OneWeb ...he was Director of Corporate Communications at OneWeb, where he implemented a 360 degree communications strategy for this startup ...
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L3Harris Technologies' $50 Million Order for HF Radios from U.S. Marine Corps ... the AN/PRC-160 is the smallest, lightest and fastest wideband HF manpack that provides 10X throughput over legacy systems, and is is the only ...
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December 8, 2019 Thales Alenia Space to Upgrade, for 78 Million Euros, ESA's EGNOS Satellite Via this contract, Thales Alenia Space will develop a new version of EGNOS (version V242B), incorporating new advanced functionalities...
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UPDATED: Rocket Lab's 10th Successful Electron Launch Rocket Lab continues to expand their operations with a new launch site to be commissioned in the U.S. If, and when, rocket reusability is viable, the...
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Isotropic Systems' New Chief Commercial Officer He joins Isotropic with more than 40 years of experience in sales, marketing, product management and product development in satellite ...
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Russian Soyuz-2.1a Rocket Now Taking Progress Resupply Craft to ISS The carrier rocket lifted off at 12:34 p.m., Moscow time. The space freighter will deliver fuel, water and other supplies to the International Space Station...
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Advantech Wireless Technologies' Specialized C-Band 5G Filter ... has released a specialized filter which will prevent 5G base stations from interfering with C-Band satellite signals.
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December 6, 2019 Forrester Reports: A SpaceX Standards Slam by OneWeb However, there is no love lost between the two arch-rivals. OneWeb’s VP/Regulatory Affairs, Ruth Pritchard-Kelly, speaking at EU Space Week in...
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December 5, 2019 Panasonic Avionics' Multi-Beam Ku-Band Capacity on EUTELSAT's 10B Satellite This contract with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) will enable Panasonic to provide multiple gigahertz of new extreme throughput...
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Gilat’s Wavestream More than $6 Million of Products to U.S. DoD This venture is the first award for Gilat of a five-year base-period of potentially over $10M of deliveries to the U.S. DoD.
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Thales Alenia Space to Build Nilesat's New Satellite As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space will be responsible for satellite design, production, testing and on-orbit acceptance tests. Thales Alenia...
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RHEATECH to Develop Advanced Design for ESA's Space Weather Service System This new design will consolidate the current system’s architecture and help ensure that predictions of space weather effects on critical infrastructure, on...
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SpaceX Launches the Dragon with NASA's Supplies and Science Laboratory ... en route to the ISS with a myriad of items ranging from goodies for the astronauts this holiday season to scientific experiments that include barley ...
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QuadSAT's Antenna Testing Solution Demo Obtains Positive Results QuadSAT’s system uses drone technology to test, calibrate and measure the performance of VSAT antennas, specifically Comms-On-The-Move...
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Two Launches in Two Days to the ISS ... Next Russia is Ready They checked out the tele-robotically operated rendezvous unit (TORU) today in the unlikely event they would need to remotely maneuver the ...
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South Korea's New Satellite to Capture Environmental Data Named the Chollian-2B, this 3.4 ton, indigenously-built satellite will engage in the real-time monitoring of the East Asian region of the world at 22,370....
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Credit Facilities of $160 Million Close for Kacific Broadband Satellies Group Taken altogether, these credit facilities secure long-term financing that enables Kacific to repay short-term facilities used to fund the construction of...
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December 4, 2019 Spaceflight's SEOPS-2 Mission with Three Smallsats to Travel to ISS The payloads will travel to the ISS through a NASA Commercial Resupply (CRS) mission aboard a SpaceX Dragon scheduled to launch atop a...
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Hughes Selected by SES for a Proper SES-17 Grounding The agreement calls for Hughes to supply its next-generation ground network system, including data centers and hub equipment, which will...
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Construction of Tokyo 2020 G-Satellite Completed ... Including Animated Characters announced the completion of its “G-Satellite Go to Space” satellite, which will orbit the Earth during the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.
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Blue Canyon Technologies is 2019 Best in Biz Winner to enable a broad range of missions and technological advances for the New Space economy, further reducing the barriers of space entry.
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Helical Communications Technology's Custom Antennas Tested by Hiber Smallsats The ground stations have begun receiving information controlling the satellites’ Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities. The first two satellites...
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Envistacom Awarded $47.8 Million SATCOM Contract from U.S. Army Envistacom will provide installation, training, relocation, integration, and upgrades for new, legacy and existing DKETs, DKET LT (“Lite” version) and ...
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December 3, 2019 Omnispace's Major Milestone ... Authorization for Mobile Operations in Mexico Complementary ground component is regulatory milestone and first step towards delivering reliable ‘One Global Network' communications worldwide
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After 19 Years at Newtec He's Now Gilat's Regional VP of North America They must have made the position of Regional VP of North America very appealing for Slava Frayter to come to work for the company after his 19 year tenure at...
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High Throughput Services to be Provided by Satellite Mediaport Services for Spacecom's AMOS-17 Spacecom’s AMOS-17 is an HTS satellite designed specifically to meet Africa’s fast-growing communication demands. Extensive C-Band HTS...
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Chinese Spy Blimp Spotted by Satellite Image in Disputed South China Sea Satellite surveillance imagery captured by an Israeli satellite firm has revealed China’s deployment of a spy blimp in an apparent effort to monitor disputed portions of the South China Sea.
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New COO @ Ball Aerospace as of January 1, 2020 He joined Ball Aerospace in 2000 as Senior Program and Capture Manager, National Security Space. Since 2013, he has served as VP and...
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Orbit Logic Awarded FLAPPER by NASA FLAPPER’s goal is to significantly reduce (and in time, eliminate) the human resources expended in the traditional process of detection and...
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Orbion and DOD Plan to Protect Space Systems and Economy Against Threats "The U.S. must aggressively pursue all measures that would increase its resiliency in space or risk falling far, far behind."
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Ball Aerospace’s AAAS Fellow ... She is Recognized for Substantial Contributions her distinguished record in the diverse fields of planetary science and infrared astronomy, science policy and advocacy, and aerospace industry leadership.
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United Launch Alliance Delays Launch of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test Starliner Additional time was needed for the ULA and Boeing teams to complete an analysis of the issue, replace the duct and complete processing ahead of
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Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization Payload Program Passes CDR The CDR was the culmination of more than two months of review by the government and contractor team assessing the maturity of the payload...
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China Launches New Earth Observation Satellite The microwave remote sensing satellite is capable of providing photographs with a resolution of better than a meter.
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December 2, 2019 New, Enhanced Capabilities for Thuraya's T2M-Dual IoT/M2M Solution Operating on both satellite M2M and cellular networks, Thuraya T2M-DUAL is a dual-mode tracking and monitoring solution with a wide choice of ...
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‘PR Disaster’: NASA Ditches Historic All-Female Spacewalk After Spacesuits Won’t Fit ‘PR disaster’: NASA ditches historic all-female spacewalk after spacesuits won’t fit. People on social networks are struggling to understand how NASA
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Scientists Developing Robotic Networks to Make Smart Satellites The team uses artificial intelligence termed genetic fuzzy logic, and they were able to get the three robots, later five, to move the token to the desired spot.
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China's First Electromagnetic Satellite Bears Fruitful Results The satellite has enabled China to obtain a global geomagnetic map and an ionospheric map with its own intellectual property rights.
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NSR Analysis: Betting on SATCOM Fleets in a 3.0 Era Today, we are truly entering a new era, with a shift from video to non-video, lease to service and subscription mode, packing more than a Gbps at less...
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Forrester Reports: Approval for Inmarsat Acquisition Still Up in the Air Some minority shareholders are arguing that the recommended offer fails to account for the potential value of a key Inmarsat partner in the U.S, Ligardo...
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Inmarsat and ABB Marine & Ports' Maritime Milestone Agreement A recent 2018 Inmarsat survey of 125 owners found 51 percent identifying an inability to get data off ships in real-time as their obstacle to IoT adoption.
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TriSept Earns Preferred Provider Status with NASA's $18 Million Contract already proven their capability with their successful launch integration for the NASA VCLS ELaNa XIX mission that launched 10 CubeSats into orbit aboard
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NASA, French Space Laser Measures Massive Migration of Ocean Animals This vast animal migration — the largest on the planet and a critical part of Earth’s climate system — has been observed globally for the first time thanks
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Hypersonic and Ballistic Space Senor Tracking Phase IIa Contract Assigned to Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman is developing a highly capable, affordable, survivable and extensible space-based sensing solution for hypersonic and ballistic...
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December 1, 2019 Forrester Reports: Four More Falcons in December Already in the manifest is the launch of a condominium satellite (Japan’s JSAT-18/Kacific) joint mission that is slated for liftoff around December 15th...
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Space Launch Market Report Finds Smallsats Driving the Sector Amsterdam based Market Forecast has announced the release of their latest report titled – “Global Space Launch Systems - Market and ...Full Story
Ariane Group Delighted with ESA Ministerial Council Decisions Ariane 6 is a European Space Agency program; the inaugural flight is scheduled for the second half of 2020. Following the success of the 250th...
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Twenty Year Agreement Between SES and Luxembourg Government As part of the agreement, and starting from 2022, SES will also contribute a maximum of 7 million euros per...
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Kacific's First Satellite Obtains Tata Connectivity Support Kacific1 is a High Throughput Satellite (HTS) that will use 56 high-power Ka-band beams to deliver affordable, high-speed broadband to...
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