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June 30, 2019 A New PoP for SatADSL in Singapore The additional PoP will replicate SatADSL’s European and African model, giving operators access to SatADSL’s Cloud-based Service Delivery Platform (C-SDP)...
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Cubic Names a New Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Colson’s extensive experience in transformation; Internet of Things (IoT); Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud; Mobile; Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
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Two PSSI Global Services Transmission Vehicles Deliver "Yellowstone Live" Programming to Viewers for National Geographic Throughout the production, PSSI Global Services had two transmission vehicles — C- and Ku-band — in the TV compound just outside the ...
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Garmin® is inReach EVERYWHERE ... Solutions for Enterprise and Government Organizations Globally just under 4-inches tall by 2-inches wide, and 3.5 ounces, the inReach Mini is appropriate for teams that require connectivity when out of cellular coverage.
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The 2019 Spaceport America Cup Rocket Propulsion Competition Names the Winning Team From June 18 to 22, thousands of students and spectators flocked to southern New Mexico from across the globe, creating an economic and...
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Inmarsat's Fleet One SATCOM Solution Sailing on 5,000+ Vessels Inmarsat’s Fleet One satellite connectivity solution for the leisure and fishing markets has surpassed the 5,000-installation landmark as the rate of ...
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Kongsberg Satellite Services Selected by NASA for Ground Station Services The agreement requires KSAT to expand its Pole to Pole network with high frequency Ka-band on Svalbard and in Punta Arenas. The contract greatly...
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Lucky Seven ... Rocket Lab's Seventh Electron Launch Successfully Lifts-Off and Delivers Seven Satellites At approximately 56 minutes after lift-off, the Make It Rain payloads were successfully delivered to their precise individual orbits by Electron’s Kick Stage...
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June 27, 2019 SES Delivers FTA Channels Across Brazil via the SES-10 Satellite To ensure that TV viewers can easily access these channels, broadcasters can send their content to SES’s teleport in the city of...
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Environmental Impact Studies in Scottish Highlands for a Spaceport That Will Bring Hundreds of Jobs 40 high quality jobs will be created locally, part of a total of more than 400 across the wider Highlands and Islands.
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SATCOM Support Contract for the U.S. Army Won by IAP Worldwide Services Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work will be performed in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with an estimated completion date of...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Delivers Eight Engines in Anticipation of Deep Space ... Orion's Auxiliary Engines for Artemis 2 Orion is designed to carry people farther into space for longer periods of time than ever before, withstanding higher levels of radiation and re-entry speeds...
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Airbus Enhances their Vision-1 Imagery Capabilities via the SSTL S1-4 Satellite Vision-1 provides 0.9 meter resolution imagery in the panchromatic band and 3.5 meter in the multi-spectral bands (NIR, RGB), with a 20.8 km...
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Forrester Reports: Roscosmos to Use New 'Far East' Rocket for OneWeb Constellation Launches These planned launches are additional to those being carried out by the Arianespace use of Russian Soyuz rockets which will take place from...
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions New $4.1 Million C5ISR Contract Work under this recent contract award will be performed in secure Kratos manufacturing facilities. Due to competitive, customer related and other...
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Plasma Propulsion for Smallsats Launched by Phase Four Maxwell eliminates bulky, high voltage components and electrodes, simultaneously reducing cost and removing supply chain barriers that have...
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Former NGA Director Joins HawkEye 360's Advisory Board During his tenure as the sixth Director of the NGA, Cardillo sought to leverage the growing commercial capabilities of the geospatial industry...
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June 26, 2019 NorthTelecom Gains Inmarsat Fleet Xpress Distributorship Role This partnership agreement will allow NorthTelecom to create additional value for the firm's existing and future clients from the Energy and Maritime...
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DRS Global Enterprise Solutions Obtains Task Order for U.S. Army's MILSATCOM Network The face value of this action is $23,756,299 funded by fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds. The total cumulative face value of the...
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Smallsat Partnership Agreement Between Thales Alenia Space and HEMERIA HEMERIA will offer its range of smallsats in the size segment from 8 to 27U and will benefit from the expertise of Thales Alenia Space to co-develop a...
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United Launch Alliance Announces the K-12 Student Rocket Launch Payloads The event, sponsored by ULA and Ball Aerospace, offers a unique, hands-on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) experience centered...
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NSR's Satellite Constellations Assessment Published NSR’s Satellite Constellations: A Critical Assessment, 2nd Edition report forecasts the cumulative revenue opportunity for Non-GEO HTS...
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Avanti Communications' Historic First Ever ... Strengthens African Business With Landing Permit in Nigeria the company is the only operator to have invested in satellite gateways in Nigeria to ensure the highest quality of service in the country.
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The Maxar-Built Intelsat 39 Satellite Arrives in French Guiana for July Launch Once the satellite reaches its final destination at 62 degrees East, broadband and video distribution services across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
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SSTL's Staff Celebrates at the SpaceX Launch in Florida as the FORMOSAT-7 Heads to Orbit hot on the heels of TeleSat LEO Phase 1 satellites’ first ever demo of 5G connectivity, SSTL is delighted that the firm's smallsats expertise has...
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Second Mobile Launch Platform to be Built at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ML2 is the ground structure that will be used to assemble, process, and launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B rocket and Orion..
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Speedcast Gains Partner Status with Amazon Web Services Speedcast is the first satellite services provider to achieve APN Advanced Consulting Partner status. As a part of the AWS Direct Connect program...
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The Big Boom ... Maxar's Satellite Reveals Huge Ammunition Depot Explosion in Kazakhstan Footage uploaded to the internet showed panic in the town as residents fled in desperation using all types of transportation. Military personnel stopped ...
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June 25, 2019 WarnerMedia Selects AsiaSat for HD Channels Distribution in APAC To allow a smooth migration to HD service for its rebroadcast affiliates, including payTV platforms and hotel networks across Asia Pacific, and for...
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Final Preparations for Ethiopian Satellite Completed About 95 percent of the satellite has been completed and system checking and launching will be conducted after September. The satellite will help...
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Colorado Springs-Controlled GPS Satellites Vital to U.S. Economy, Daily Life One sector would be an unlikely loser if GPS went down: farmers. The report found that farms could lose millions of dollars in an outage because ...
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China's 307th Long March-3B Rocket Sends BeiDou Satellite to Orbit Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the satellite was sent to the inclined geosynchronous earth orbit. It is the 46th satellite of the BDS...
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Airbus Introduces New Ground Control Points for Increased Precision GCPs are essential for accurate orthorectification of aerial, optical satellite and drone data, as well as precise localization of ground features, landmark...
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C5ISR Modernization and Maintenance U.S. Navy Contract Won by BAE Systems BAE Systems has been supporting Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Special Communications Mission Solutions Division with mobile...
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SpaceX's Success With One of the Most Challenging Launches of the Falcon Heavy for U.S. Air Force SpaceX posted a modest announcement regarding a successful launch for an extraordinary mission and a 'first-of' for the U.S. Air Force.
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The Sierra Nevada Corporation-Built DSX Satellite for the U.S.A.F.'s AFRL is now On-Orbit The DSX platform provides a free-flying Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) platform for AFRL to ...
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General Atomics' OTB Satellite Placed into Orbit by SpaceX Falcon Heavy The multiple hosted payloads launched on GA-EMS’ OTB spacecraft include: NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Deep Space...
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June 24, 2019 Iridium Receives Airtime Contract The face value of this action is $8,579,000, funded by fiscal 2019 defense working capital funds. The total cumulative face value of the contract is,,,
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A Comet Intercept is ESA's New Mission The mission will travel to an as-yet undiscovered comet, making a flyby of the chosen target when it is on the approach to Earth’s orbit. Its three...
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Now Ready for Launch is the Ball Aerospace Smallsat for NASA's GPIM Mission Ball built the smallsat, which contains NASA's first opportunity to demonstrate a new "green" propellant and propulsion system in orbit – an...
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Speedcast and XipLink Band Together for WAN Tech Efficiencies As the technology convergence between the network and application layers speeds up, Speedcast and XipLink see the importance in developing next-generation...
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UPDATE: The Yamal-601 Satellite's LEOP Successfully Completed and in GEO This on-orbit raising has been implemented with the backup LEOP strategy and the planned multiple maneuvers occurred properly, the satellite being...
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CETel Takes the Hill ... Acquires Cobbett Hill Earth Station UK Cobbett Hill presents the sixth merger and acquisition activity led by CETel over the last years.
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ORBCOMM Gets a Stevie .... Intermodal Container Telematics Solution Earns an American Business Gold Stevie® It wasn't that long ago that Machine-to-Machine and Internet of Things solutions were unknown terminologies. Now they're thriving business genres Full Story
Sky Deutschland and MX1 Collaborate Again ... Ensure Perfect Audio and Visual Under Any Conditions The first agreement between these two companies was a success, and so they are joining forces again to ensure this German broadcaster’s customersFull Story
Comtech Systems Awarded Brazilian Military Satellite Network Contract The company received a $4.0 million contract from the Brazilian military to expand their satellite-based network for its air traffic control system...
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June 23, 2019 Performance Upgrade Delivered by Microsemi to Their Precise Atomic Clock Hydrogen masers deliver stability by operating on the principle that hydrogen atoms, in the proper environment, emit microwaves at a precise...
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China, France and EUMETSAT Make Ocean Satellite Observations Available for European Weather Forecasting EUMETSAT will distribute data from the satellite’s payload to its 30 Member States and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ...
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Hughes JUPITER System Selected by Five Indonesian Service Providers Each service provider independently chose the JUPITER System as part of its winning solution to extend cellular services to Indonesians in areas...
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Space Warfare: The Aspiration-Constraint Challenge For India – Analysis Space warfare conjures up images of satellites and laser weapons... being used to obtain a significant military advantage against an adversary.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Ships the Orion Launch Abort System to Lockheed Martin The jettison motor is one of three motors on the LAS but is the only motor that activates on every mission. It performs the critical task of separating the...
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Maxar Technologies Reports All is Well with the EUTELSAT 7C Satellite The satellite launched on June 20 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the Arianespace launch base in Kourou, French Guiana. EUTELSAT 7C...
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The Merger of Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies to Close on June 29... Upon closing, Harris will be renamed L3Harris Technologies, Inc., and shares of L3Harris common stock will trade on the NYSE under ticker...
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Bad Batteries Cause Launch Delay of U.S.A.F.'s AEHF-5 Mission Atlas V is tailored to the needs of its passenger by adding as many as five side-mounted solid rocket boosters for increased lift performance and a ...
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June 21, 2019 Ariane 5 Successfully Delivers ... Launch of T-16 and EUTELSAT 7C "so each new success is a source of pride and encouragement for ever-higher space ambitions to benefit our customers around the world,”Full Story
UPDATE: The Russian Spektr-RG Space Observatory Launch Now Pushed Out to July The Spektr-RG is the joint Russian-German project intended to create a detailed map of the sky in the X-ray band. The space observatory will be...
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June 20, 2019 Canada's Department of National Defence Receives 16 Terminals from GigaSat The terminals are designed to be deployed globally to access worldwide global MILSATCOM (WGS) military communications as well as commercial...
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Taking JUICE to Jupiter as ESA Signs Arianespace for the Launch liftoff of approximately six tons, and placed in an Earth escape orbit toward Jupiter for a journey of 600 million kilometers after a 7.5-year cruise toward ...
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A Digital Center of Excellence to be Created by Thales Alenia Space in Luxembourg The company's intention is to accelerate its initiatives and cooperation with Luxembourg. This new center, Thales Alenia Space in Luxembourg, will...
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Orbit Communication's Airborne SATCOM Solutions Ordered by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Orbit’s integrated solution of onboard Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT 87) SATCOM terminals and AL-4018 high-speed ground pedestals will provide...
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New Capabilities and Services for Esrange Space Center Being Developed by SSC A testbed for reusable rockets is currently being established and SSC aims at launching smallsats in a couple of years. In addition, SSC is now...
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Successful Demos of 5G Over Satellite by the SaT5G Project The project vision is to develop a cost-effective plug-and-play SATCOM solution for 5G to enable mobile operators and network vendors to...
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Avionica to Develop Lightweight Terminal for Inmarsat's SB-S Aircraft Operations and Platform and an Inmarsat Government Award The new terminal will be available next year and has been designed for the retrofit market, providing an affordable option for airlines seeking to equip...
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ESA's Education Office Now Recruiting Students to Train for Testing, Designing, and 'Driving' Spacecraft without excessive mathematics or technical jargon from September 3 to 6, they will show students how ‘driving’ a spacecraft is different from designing it.
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Space and Missile Systems Center Reveals Many Firsts in the 'Summer of Launch' Program Space Test Program-2, scheduled on June 24, will be the first DOD mission to fly on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy and the first to use previously flown flight hardware.
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Boeing's Space and Launch Division HQ to Engage in a Moving Mission to Florida's Space Coast In announcing the relocation of the headquarters to a region that includes Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Patrick Air Force Base...
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Lockheed Martin to Design Janus Deep Space Spacecraft for Near-Earth Asteroids Janus will fly by two binary asteroids, or asteroids orbiting a common center of mass, to image the system using both visible and infrared cameras.
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2Gen Space System to be Developed by GomSpace for UnseenLabs The collaboration will result in further enhancement of the capabilities to provide disruptive spectrum monitoring services from space, featuring...
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June 19, 2019 GateHouse Telecom's New Business Developer, He Will Assist As They Enter the Smallsat Market to move in on the smallsat market, the company appointed the manufacturer of smallsat solutions GomSpace’s former Head of Systems Engineering, ...
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Newtec's MCC Factory of the Future Begins Projects with QinetiQ ... Enabling Softer Docking at Space Stations Signs in stores say "You break it you buy it" are posted so that consumers won't mishandle merchandise. Likewise ensuring that spacecraft docking at
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Sri Lanka's First Step ... Two Students' Cubesat Launched from ISS Raavana-1 was designed and developed by two Sri Lankan youth while studying space engineering at Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology. The...
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Lacuna Space and Semtech Successfully Test Global Coverage for LoRa® Technology Anywhere, No Matter How Remote Lacuna's expanding LoRaWAN-based network coverage to the most remote regions is an incredible technical achievement. More users will ... Full Story
AVIA's Satellite Industry Forum 2019: A Recap... SIF brought together many of the most influential leaders of the industry this year to discuss critical issues including regulatory discussions at WRC19...
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Inmarsat's Type Approval Received by Intellian for Their New Antenna The GX100NX is a new addition to Intellian’s expanding NX series, a new generation of faster, lighter and stronger antennas delivering high...
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SATCOM for the Indonesian Market to be Provided by Wavestream Group, TRG and Teleglobal This strategic partnership was formed to deliver on the mission of providing essential communication requirements to the people of Indonesia. This will...
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Sersat and SES' New Platform on SES-14 Satellite Makes 33 Million Latin American PayTV Viewers Happy Local and international content operators and owners who want to broadcast over Latin America will be able to enjoy the benefits of instantly...
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Forrester Reports: Facebook Wants More, and SiriusXM Doubles Borrowing to $1.5 Billion He said that some satellite operators are doing “great things” and that Facebook didn’t want to be a competitor or even a customer. He said that...
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GomSpace's Difficult Solutions to Achieve Cash Flow Objectives ... Reduces Staff Including Executive Team The adjustments will not have an impact on the direction of the company and the ability to meet customer demands.
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June 18, 2019 How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time If the Deep Space Atomic Clock's trial year in space goes well, it could pave the way for a future of one-way navigation in which astronauts are ...
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Launch Complex 48 at Kennedy Space Center to be Developed The NASA-developed complex will sit between KSC's pad 39A to the north and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 to the south,...
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SES Networks Goes Fishing .... Enables EMSA’s Environmental Protection Service in Iceland
"reliable connectivity is critical for timely decision-making during maritime missions, especially for search and rescue operations."
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Global Handheld Satellite PTT Radio Debuts from Iridium and Icom The Icom IC-SAT100 is the only Iridium PTT capable Land-Mobile Radio (LMR) offering real-time communications at the push of a button between...
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Contract for Honeywell Canada for SATCOM Kits This contract provides for the purchase of Honeywell Inmarsat satellite communication kits, interim contractor support, initial spares, data and...
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ETL Systems' Enigma Switch Matrix is Introduced at ConnecTechAsia 2019
The latest models offer better linearity, improved noise figure, frequency response and isolation.
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Thuraya Unveils Their Dual Mode Tracking and Monitoring Solution @ CommunicAsia 2019 The role of mobile satellite communications in shaping a connected future is certainly not minuscule. By combining the power of L-band with the...
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Peraton to Acquire Software Development and Systems Integration Firm Solers The Solers acquisition will accelerate both near- and long-range growth opportunities and enhance Peraton’s ability to deliver highly differentiated...
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GA-ASI and L3 Technologies Develop and Successfully Fly Full-Band Signals Intelligence Solution for MQ-9 RPAS L3’s SIGINT solutions were integrated into a wing-mounted GA-ASI pod and flight tested on the GA-ASI Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE)...
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Airbus Completes the Build of SEOSAT/Ingenio ... Now Comes the Testing
The spacecraft will now start a three-month environmental test campaign which includes the Thermal Balance and Vacuum test, followed by ...
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Forrester Reports: Oops! As French Courts Reject beIN Sports Claim of Victory Over Arabsat Setting aside the obvious merits of Qatar-based beIN claim against the Saudi beoutQ pirates, it is now clear that the French Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris court...
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Advantech Wireless Technologies' 'Bull-ish' SSPA ... Taurus-X GaN based SSPA/BUC for Harsh Military Applications is perfectly suited for harsh environments and is both designed and manufactured by Advantech to meet stringent military requirements.
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Update: Delay Conflicting Reports Regarding SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Launch “It’s an exciting partnership with NASA, NOAA and SpaceX to provide space access for important military and civil experiments while demonstrating the Falcon Heavy launch
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June 17, 2019 UK's New Space Age Includes Updates on Government's Funding, Other Companies Participation and Jobs Virgin Orbit's maiden U.S. launch is expected later this year, and their £2.5 million investment to operate its LauncherOne system and Cosmic Girl
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Complete Australian Vineyard Map ... Opens Doors to Global Regions a world first as international interest grows in a software system that uses artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to map every vineyard in Australia.
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They'll Be the First ... Visat-3's Commercial Launch on Next-Gen Ariane 64 The A64 launcher is expected to maintain launch quality and reliability, but with added mission effectiveness, efficiency and flexibility. The A64 launch...
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Harris Wins Second U.S. Army’s Order with a Ceiling of $12.7 Billion on HMS Manpack IDIQ Contract network modernization strategy and Integrated Tactical Network is designed to enable ‘fighting tonight,’ while seeking ...to stay ahead of potential adversaries.
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The Pacific Satellite Connectivity Project in Samoa is Launched with the Help of Kacific The students now have the best access to knowledge from around the world and can now access more tutors for online tutorials, materials and...
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MEASAT and Travelxp Join Forces for 4K Asian Distribution The international travel channel will join MEASAT’s UHD video neighborhood at 91.5 degrees E, where it will be distributed to television platforms...
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Japanese-Built Water-Propelled Smallsat to Launch from ISS Next Year If the experimental satellite with a microthruster using water as a propellant operates successfully, it would promote the practical use of one- to 10-...
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'Green Fuel' to be Used by NASA for the First Time NASA will test the fuel and compatible propulsion system in space for the first time with the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM), set to launch...
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MAXAR Considering Sales of MDA Unit? The sale could garner more than $1 billion...
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Tom Choi's Airspace Internet Exchange Launches Saturn Satellite Networks to Build GEO Satellite Platforms Built entirely in the USA with heritage-based payload and bus components, Nationsat features a full-digital payload and 2.5 kW bus design that enables...
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OneWeb Expands Operations Presence in London Offering New Jobs This commitment also strengthens the partnership between OneWeb and the UK Space Agency (UKSA), which invested £18 million in OneWeb’s...
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RBC Signals Honored ... Recipient of U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase I Award provides U.S.A.F. with processing space-based data at the point of reception globally, improving resiliency and speed to deliver info to the warfighter.
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June 16, 2019 ND SatCom Ranks in the Top 10 Among Space Tech Solutions Providers This annual list, curated by a panel of experts ranging from CEOs to industry analysts to the magazine’s editorial board, highlights the leading...
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Heading to China's Space Station, When Completed, will be Nine International Scientific Experiments The six fully and three conditionally accepted experiments involve 23 entities from 17 countries, emerging from 42 proposals tabled by 27...
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ISRO Chief Announces ... India to Have Its own Space Station in 5-7 Years We don't want to part of the existing International Space Station, therefore we want to set up our own. However, our station...won't be very huge.
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Vector Names an Industry Vet as the Company's New CFO As CFO, Koster will lead finance and business operations to enable Vector's dynamic growth. Koster joins Vector from Blue Origin where...
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LinQuest Corporation Receives USAF SMC Award for MILSATCOM Solutions Support The portfolio of SMC programs supported by MSEIT includes all satellites, terminals, and networks for worldwide tactical, strategic, and wideband...
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Airbus' Successful Network Test on MRTT ... First Balloons Now Aircraft ‘hybrid network’, the future of military communications with armed forces able to use a range of networks to be managed dynamically and transparently.
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GlobalSat Group Now Licensed to Operate in Argentina by National Authority ENACOM especially interesting to companies operating in more than one country with a streamlined solution that adds simplicity instead of complexity to their cost
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SES' Steve Collar Opens the AVIA Satellite Industry Forum 2019 in Singapore Steve Collar, the President and CEO of SES, addressed the first issue listed above and discussed the prevailing trends in satellite...
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June 13, 2019 Satcoms Innovation Group to Hold Special Workshop and Tours at ConnecTechAsia The Satcoms Innovation Group tour focuses on satellite innovation for the improvement of operational efficiency, with experts from each member...
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Microchip and STAR-Dunde's First SpaceVPX -Compliant Development Platform with Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs and SpaceFibre Technology Platform enables developers to implement new high-speed data transfer technology using Microchip’s radiation-tolerant RTG4™ FPGAs.
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Blue Canyon Technologies' Dozen Spacecraft Doing Their Various Jobs ... Success Results in a Larger Production Facility As a result Blue Canyon Technologies has doubled in size over the past 12 months and will open a new 80,000-square-foot headquarters and production
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Cubic Mission Solutions to Deliver SFF Radio Prototype to U.S. Air Force Cubic’s state-of-the-art solution is a lightweight, airborne and ground radio system delivering SFF capability in the most compact tactical radio...
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The First Rideshare Mission for Spaceflight to Lift Off Later This Month This mission, also called “Make It Rain” by Rocket Lab as a nod to the weather in Seattle and New Zealand, represents Spaceflight’s first of five...
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New CEO Named by Aitech Group Provides Enhanced Engineering and Tech Support Worldwide With Mund at the helm, Aitech will continue to be a leading global manufacturer of embedded systems for military, defense, space and...
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Harris Earns $51 Million as Their Falcons Fly to a Central European Nation... Falcon III® Radios Enroute delivering advanced narrowband and wideband networking ...greater interoperability with U.S. and NATO allies for coalition operations.
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On the Show Floor: Appear TV's Newest X-Series Platform at BroadcastAsia The X-Series offers the complete spectrum of encoding codecs and helps broadcasters adopt the many benefits of an IP-centric operation in their own...
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Forrester Reports: Virgin Orbit Sues One Web to Pay Up + Avanti Signs a Five Year Master Deal Despite this legal battle, it seems Branson‘s team are staying friends with OneWeb — at least until the contracted flights have taken place — and say
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Roscosmos Places $31 Million Order for Angara 1.2 Light Rocket A light Angara-1.2PP was launched in July 2014 with a spacecraft mockup. Now Russia's space agency ordered this rocket for launching real satellites.
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Arianespace Begins Preparations for Flight VA248's Launch of AT&t's T-16 and EUTELSAT 7-C The Launch Readiness Review (LRR) will take place on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 in Kourou to authorize the start of operations for the final countdown.
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June 12, 2019 Russia Goes Orange... Sovcomflot's Arctic Fleet Depends on Orange Business Services Maritime VSAT Solution will keep the ships connected even when operating on the high seas, improving safety and optimizing navigation in challenging conditions.
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U.S. Marines Now Fielding MUOS SATCOM System Fielded in the first quarter of 2019, the Mobile User Objective System provides satellite communication capabilities to mobile or stationary...
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CPI Tech Helps to Bring Intellian a Satellite Technology of the Year Award CPI provided Ka-band solid state amplifiers for the v240MT program. In addition to being selected for its products’ reliability, CPI was chosen for...
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SSPI Membership Elects the Organization's Board of Directors ... Six New Directors The Space & Satellite Professionals International was founded in the USA in 1983 with a purpose to serve as a professional network for a young...
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Forrester Reports: Losing Money is Apparently Not of Concern for Bezos' Project Kuiper Bezos pulled no punches, telling delegates that Amazon was prepared to lose billions of dollars in capital expenditure.
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Another Successful SpaceX Launch ... Canada's RADARSAT Constellation from Vandenberg AFB In addition, the Dragon's stage one plowed back through the fog, accompanied by a sonic boom, and landed securely on SpaceX's Landing...
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A New Fuel for Satellites Is So Safe It Won't Blow Up Humans Hydrazine is a volatile fuel that will ruin your day—and perhaps your life—if you’re exposed to it. AFM-315, on the other hand, is less toxic than caffeine,
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A Novel Tilting Satellite Dispenser Designed and Built by RUAG Space Proves Itself in the Radarsat Constellation Mission This Dispenser system connected the spacecraft to the launcher and ensured safe separation in orbit using a first-of-its-kind tilting mechanism...
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GigaSat and Inmarsat Provide Canadian Armed Forces with Satellite Terminals In Record Time While the usual time period for supplying such an order is in the region of six to nine months, the DND terminals were built and delivered in just six weeks.
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June 11, 2019 Ten Million Euros to Fund the First Demonstration of GLoT by NanoAvionics, KSAT and Antwerp Space The funding is for the first demonstration of the pre-cursor stage of the Global Internet of Things (GIoT) smallsat constellation with one or more IoT/M2M...
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Milestone Reached by UHP Networks' VSAT Solutions for Rikei Corporation The Rikei/UHP solution is tailored for critical applications with high Quality of Service (QoS) as required in the Japanese market. The solution benefits from...
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NSR Publishes Critical Assessment of Satellite Constellations Report The report provides a complete assessment of key satellite constellations set to disrupt the SATCOM market in the next decade. Through a bottom-up...
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ABS and INTERSAT Complete Their Nairobi Workshop With the growing trend to localize content, ABS has partnered with INTERSAT to set up teleport infrastructure in Nairobi to offer data and video services on ...
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Russia Planning on IoT Constellation ... Gonets-2 ...the proposal to create a system of remote sensing satellites to monitor natural resources and man-made processes. This task has been set to...
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Astrobotic to Use Their Peregine Lander to Deliver Payloads to the Moon Payloads comprise of resource development, scientific investigation, technology demonstration, exploration, marketing, arts, and...
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Cal Poly's Satellite Data Solutions Initiative Built on Amazon Web Services Takes on Challenges of Forecasting Disasters The initiative, which was announced at the AWS Public Sector Summit 2019 in Washington, D.C., is part of the Digital Transformation Hub (DxHUB)...
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The Seventh of 10 Advanced Navigation Payloads for the U.S.A.F.'s GPS III Delivered by Harris to Lockheed Martin The GPS III navigation payload features a Mission Data Unit (MDU) with a unique 70-percent digital design that links atomic clocks, radiation-hardened...
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Cloud Based System Designer for RF Over Fiber Links Intro'd by ViaLite Communications The tool — which was designed and built in-house — uses a drag and drop approach, allowing users to select items from a pallet of components and...
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SpaceX Prepares for One of Their Most Challenging Launches for Space & Missile Systems among the most challenging launches in SpaceX history with four separate upper-stage engine burns, three separate deployment orbits, a final ...
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Lockheed Martin's COps Software for USAF's GPS Ground Control System Satellites November 2018, the company completed the AEP 7.5 upgrade, the largest architectural change in the systems history, replacing significant code, ...
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African Space Industry's Report Reveals Over US$7 Billion Annual Revenue, to Exceed US$10 Billion by 2024 African engineers built 14 of the 35 satellites, including those they built in Africa and others using facilities outside of Africa.
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June 10, 2019 Forrester Reports: Extra Funding For Intelsat and Eutelsat ...there’s a huge difference in the interest rate costs. Eutelsat’s interest rate is just 2.25 per cent (and the debt is due for repayment in July 2027). Eutelsat is...
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Virgin Orbit Signs an Agreement with ANA Holdings to Bring LauncherOne Service to Japan The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) charts out a long-term partnership between ANA HD and Virgin Orbit, further strengthening ties...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's New Huntsville Facility Open for Operations The Huntsville expansion and AMF are part of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Competitive Improvement Program, which is aimed at reducing costs and...
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Aireon Receives the EASA First Space-based ADS-B Surveillance as a Service Certification This designation represents the culmination of a three-year long collaboration between Aireon and EASA, the agency that determines and promotes civil...
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Raytheon and United Technologies Corporation to Join Forces ... $74 Billion in Pro Forma 2019 Sales The combined company expects to return $18 to $20 billion of capital to shareowners in the first 36 months following completion of the merger.
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C-COM Gets to the Point @ CommunicAsia2019 with Auto-Pointing Antenna Highlighting the latest in C-COM design is the iNetVu® MP-80-MOT, a fully motorized, auto-acquire, 1 meter carbon fiber manpack antenna. This...
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SpaceX Stands Ready for RADARSAT Constellation Mission enable the satellites to capture the same view of the same location on the Earth's surface once every four days instead of once every 24 days
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June 9, 2019 Esri Software Powers Location Intelligence in Microsoft's Defense System Demonstration The platform is intended to demonstrate to defense and intelligence professionals how they can use connecting field sensor data and cloud...
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Purdue's Space Trash Collection Plan ... Sail to Smoother and Safer Reentry Though the chances are extremely low of the space objects crashing to Earth and causing injury or damage, there is still a slight risk of that happening.
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Mitsubishi Electric U.S. Sells Satellite On-Board Equipment from Newest Division in California The satellite and MMS equipment will be manufactured by the company’s ultimate parent corporation in Japan, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation...
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International Institute of Space Commerce's Newest Patron, World's Thought Leader, Follows in Footsteps of His Good Friend “Do you know how hard it is to make the whole world rich? Not that hard. We’ve known how since the early 1970s: harness the near endless energy..."
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Infostellar's New UK-Based Dedicated Regulatory Affairs Division is Headed by Former One Web Director he worked for the British Government, serving as Director of Satellite Telecommunications and Navigation at the British National Space Centre
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European Space Agency to Offer an Integrated Space Transportation System Offering an array of orbit altitudes and inclinations, Space Rider will enable a large variety of experiments in microgravity, open opportunities for...
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USAF SMC RS Embraces Rapid and Innovative Space Acquisitions With its Ground and Data Exploitation Team, RS is embracing SMC 2.0 by implementing Agile program management methodology in its...
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June 7, 2019 Ursa and HawkEye 360 Join Forces to Develop Geospatial Information Solutions The companies will work together to develop new geospatial information solutions that combine synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with radio...
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Advanced Orbital Maneuvering Demo to be Incorporated by ThrustMe into the GomSpace GOMX-5 ESA Mission ThrustMe has been selected by GomSpace for the GOMX-5 ESA mission to demonstrate advanced maneuvers for the satellite constellations of...
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UK Space Agency Unveils Their Ambitious Plans for the New Space Age There are significant opportunities for the growing UK space sector as commercial space activity increases globally and the United States leads ...
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Forrester Reports: DTA is Far from Dying Deepak Mathur, EVP/Global Sales atSES Video, in an exclusive interview with Advanced-Television, said that while SES recognizes that improved ...
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Intellian's New Dual-Band Maritime VSAT Antenna Includes an Installation Wizard Intellian’s upgraded antenna management and control platform, AptusNX software, includes a revolutionary installation wizard with a step-by-step
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KVH Industries Selects KONGSBERG as the Firm's First KVH Watch™ Partner Vessel Insight enables customers to cost efficiently capture and aggregate quality data from their assets, and securely transfer them to the cloud....
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June 6, 2019 Indra's Space Surveillance Radar Protects Spanish Military Satellites from Possible Attacks Its dual nature, civil and military, enables the protection of military satellites in low orbits, alerting to hostile satellite damage, interfere with or spy on space
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Viasat Has the Only Authorized CBM-400 Software-Defined Modem to Operate on the WGS Network By successfully completing the certification process, the Viasat CBM-400 modem is now the only software-defined modem authorized to operate on...
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NASA Selects Sierra Nevada Corporation's Prototypes ... Potential Human Lander for Lunar Artemis Mission develop prototypes to help NASA reduce schedule risk for the descent, transfer and refueling elements of a potential human landing system.
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Israel's Homeland Security ... Virtual Assistant Revolutionizing Maintenance Field A new virtual assistant for defense systems maintenance uses augmented reality (AR) glasses to display repair information through holograms.
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Encapsulation of the U.S.A.F.'s AEHF-5 Satellite Completed by Astrotech Space Operations The encapsulation of AEHF-5 in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle payload fairing is a significant milestone in AEHF-5’s launch process ...
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June 5, 2019 NGMN Alliance and ESOA Explore Synergies Between Satellite and Terrestrial Technologies This co-operation agreement brings together two recognized industry organizations in the field of 5G cellular and satellite networks,
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Paddlewheel Riverboats Gain Broadband Connectivity Via FMC Globalsat Comms Solution The system is currently operational aboard the flagship vessel American Queen and is being be deployed aboard the American Duchess, American...
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Major Stratollite Tech Accomplishment for World View This mission moves World View one step closer to scaled commercial operations and productization of the Stratollite and the unique data sets it ...
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Russia Launches Its Most Powerful Telecom Satellite Dogged by a string of failures and quality control concerns in 2006-2015, Protons will be phased out and replaced by Angara rockets over the next decade.
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Critical Hardware for JAXA's HTV-X Spacecraft to be Supplied by Sierra Nevada Corporation HTV-X is the advanced version of H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). The spacecraft will provide supplies to the KibÅ Japanese Experiment Module...
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The Launch Abort Motor for NASA's Orion Spacecraft Shipped to Kennedy Space Center by Northrop Grumman The abort motor is a key component of the LAS, which provides an enhancement in spaceflight safety for astronauts. The shipment of the abort...
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C-COM's NexGen Flyaway and Manpack Systems Garners $4 Million in Orders collaborating with a research team at the University of Waterloo, on the development of an electronically steerable, Ka-band flat panel antenna
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China Set to Launch New Amateur Satellite with “Sail Ball” Stabilization CAMSAT said many students are now members, “learning Amateur Radio satellite communication and experience[ing] endless fun.”
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The First Iridium® GMDSS Terminal is Recognized as Second Ever Sat Provider for This Critical Service first to be offered after the International Maritime Organization recognizes Iridium as just the second-ever satellite provider for this critical service.
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Satellite Image Analysis is Automated and Sped Up by Lockheed Martin Global Automated Target Recognition runs in the cloud. Fast GPU’s let GATR scan a large area very quickly, while deep learning methods...
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China's Success of First Offshore Rocket from a Mobile Launch Platform The launch site is flexible and falling rocket remains pose less danger. Using civilian ships to launch rockets at sea would lower launch costs and give it a
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Arianespace Readies Dual Passengers AT&T T-16 and EUTELSAT-7C for Upcoming Ariane 5 Launch Both are telecommunications relay platforms for operation by long-time Arianespace customers: AT&T, which provides mobile, broadband, video ...
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June 4, 2019 Kratos' Constellations Celebrates Their 50th ... Biweekly Podcast Constellations brings together key space industry leaders and opinion influencers to share their thoughts on new space, defense policy, space...
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Maxar's $95 Million for Their Innovative Earth Intelligence Solutions from U.S. Government Agencies As announced in January, Maxar is now fully domesticated in the U.S. and has a combined team of more than 1,550 cleared professionals...
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KVH Watches as KVH Watch™ Provides IoT Connectivity as a Service Program for the Maritime Industry Leveraging KVH’s end-to-end maritime connectivity service and HTS network, KVH Watch is designed to deliver IoT connectivity in two modes...
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BlackSky Revs Up Satellite Operations and Teams Up with HawkEye 360 and NRO “This is a very unique offering that provides key markets such as defense, maritime and emergency response, with a new layer of high-impact geospatial
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USGIF Honors the Latest Recipient of the Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award She served 38 years with the Department of Defense (DoD) in positions at the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, the Defense Mapping...
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Forrester Reports: Stratolaunch Launches No Longer... The Stratolaunch aircraft was designed to fly satellites to a high altitude and then — with the help of a smallish rocket — launch the satellites into orbit...
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Briskcom is Certified as SES Networks’ Signature Solutions Partner ... Virtual Network Operator Services in Brazil will access a managed pool of capacity and a tailored network management interface, to become a virtual network operator without upfront investment.
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Kongsberg Satellite Services Goes to Camp ... Newest Corporate Partner Joins Seraphim Space Camp the top 2 percent of start-ups in the SpaceTech ecosystem and discover the latest development in defense, aerospace and maritime enabled by space
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June 3, 2019 The Ivory Coast's Digital Migration to be Accelerated with SES Under this multi-year agreement, 60 analog turned digital channels will be broadcast with brighter, sharper picture and better sound, via the SES-4...
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SpaceX Starlink Could Soon Initiate Services Over North America If SpaceX can launch those extra rockets, and each successfully carries 60 satellites, then an optimistic forecast could see consumers and businesses ...
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How ISRO Can Help Satellite Launch Startups Tap a Billion-Dollar (and Growing) Market Commercial satellite launches have emerged as a new business frontier as companies place their own devices in space for imagery, cheap internet and
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Clyde Space Delivers NSLSat-1 to Vostochny Cosmodrome for Launch This advanced 6U cubesat will demonstrate highly disruptive technology providing Ka-band communications from LEO. It is equipped with an...
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NASA Mission to Study Earth’s Atmosphere by Forming Artificial Night-Time Clouds Over Marshall Islands The TMA will form white artificial clouds that glow in the night sky.
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Marlink Floats New ITLink Portfolio at Nor-Shipping 2019 ... Simplifies Fleet Wide Digitalization and Compliance Marlink unifies their IT services and solutions to provide fleet owners and ship operators with a new portfolio to fully manage the overall IT environment ...
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Three Commercial Moon Landing Service Providers Selected by NASA Each commercial lander will carry NASA-provided payloads that will conduct science investigations and demonstrate advanced technologies on...
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SOTM Terminal from Get SAT Gains Armed Force Tactical Coms Contract Nano Sat-H is an ultra-portable lightweight, low-profile terminal optimized for 'on-the-move' applications and man-carried portability and mobility...
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Japanese NEDO Drone Test Using Satellite Link is Successful The drone was equipped with a compact satellite communications device,
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June 2, 2019 Maxar's Powerful All-Electric Satellite for Eutelsat Ready at Arianespace The satellite is based on Maxar’s 1300-class platform, which offers flexibility to support a broad range of applications and technology...
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Forrester Reports: Kleos Space Gains Concession to Operate from Luxembourg Luxembourg’s tax-friendly benefits mean that the world’s two giant satellite operators SES (which was founded in Luxembourg) and Intelsat (which is...
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Solicitation by DARPA for Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) The objective of the RSGS program is to create a dexterous robotic operational capability in Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) that can provide...
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The James Webb Space Telescope Operates Well in a Vacuum and Completes Final Environmental Test Thermal vacuum testing exposes Webb’s SCE to the extreme hot and cold temperatures it will experience in space. To test these extreme temperature ...
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The ExoMars 2020 Rover Operations Control Center is Inaugurated Developed as part of the ExoMars 2020 contract, the ROCC will control and monitor the Rover’s operations. Commands will be transmitted via the...
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International Institute of Space Commerce's New Managing Director ... He Was President and a Founding Member “It was a privilege to be a founding director of the Institute during my Presidency at ISU, and to remain connected as a Senior Fellow afterwards,”
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SSPI has Opened Nominations for the "20 Under 35" List and the Promise & Mentor Awards The honorees will be celebrated at the Future Leaders Dinner on October 8, as part of the Satellite Innovation event at the Computer History Museum...
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Do You Know Where Your Reindeer Are? Globalstar and PrismaQuality Finland Know... Since trialing its ReindeerApp and collar less than a year ago, newly-signed Globalstar Value Added Reseller PrismaQuality Finland has seen rapid...
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Designed for Satellite Applications, Renesas Launches Rad-Hard Current Driver with Integrated Decoder Leveraging Renesas’ proprietary silicon on insulator process, the ISL72814SEH offers twice the channel count and 54 percent less...
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Speedcast and Contiamo Form a Strategic Partnership The partnership strengthens Speedcast’s Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities and helps enable the company to play a prime systems...
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Loops and Dishes ... Atlantic Microwave's Dual Channel Test Loop Translator at IMS 2019 The Dual Channel Test Loop Translator operates with the ability to introduce different transfer characteristics in each channel and can be used...
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SSTL's Successful 'Selfie' Reveals Deployment of De-Orbit Drag Sail on TechDemoSat-1 is designed to significantly increase the spacecraft’s rate of orbital decay, in compliance with current Space Debris Mitigation best practice and guidelines.
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USAF SMC Awards $20 Million with $100 Million Ceiling to Support EGS Satellite to Braxton Technologies EGS was formed out of a mission need to address constraints, challenges and vulnerabilities derived from traditional isolated ground systems...
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