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March 27, 2009
The 7 Receive Award at the 25th National Space Symposium for Being 1st
Next week at the 25th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, China's Shenzhou 7 Manned Space Flight Team, which packed a number of "firsts" for the Chinese space program into a single mission, will receive the 2009 Space Achievement Award.   Full Story

ISS' New Appearance
Sometimes it's just good to appreciate the beauty of the Earth. \   Full Story

Blue Oceans Satellite Tracks and Monitors Explosives Preventing the Big Bang
Blue Oceans Satellite Systems Inc. delivers its newest application for asset tracking and remote monitoring with the addition of its Explosives Regulatory Division (ERD)-Compliant Satellite-Based Explosive Magazine Monitoring Solution (EMMS).   Full Story

KVH’s Maritime TracPhone's $1,000 Free Airtime Promotion Really Floats Your Boat
Even folks on boats are feeling the economic pinch, and to help out KVH Industries, Inc., [Nasdaq: KVHI] announced at the Palm Beach Boat Show in West Palm Beach, Florida a way to enable boaters to save money while putting reliable, safety-enhancing satellite communications on their vessels.   Full Story

Raising the Curtain on Dr. Curtin at the International Satellite Hall of Fame
It was revealed that Dr. Denis J. Curtin, Chief Operating Officer of XTAR LLC and an engineer who has made significant contributions to the technology of providing power to orbiting spacecraft, has been inducted into the International Satellite Hall of Fame by the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).   Full Story

digiGO! — Into IPTV? Award Winners Announced...
The winners of this year's IPTV World Series Awards were announced at a gala dinner ceremony held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London, with AT&T and PCCW each scooping two awards.   Full Story

UAVs To Play Role In New Indian Naval Air Station
Indian Chief of Naval staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta has commisioned a naval air station, INS Parundu, and said it would play an important role in monitoring the sea in South India.   Full Story

A Moving Experience, Militarily Speaking, For Intelsat
Intelsat General Corp. has been contracted by Artel to reposition one of its satellites to orbit the Indian Ocean region to support U.S. military operations.   Full Story

digiGO! — Cell Site Selection Brings Arqiva Into U.K. Mix
Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL), the joint venture between T-Mobile UK and 3 UK formed to create and manage what will be the UK’s most extensive 3G network, has selected Arqiva as its strategic partner for the provision of cell sites.   Full Story

NGC's Cryocooler Is Cooling Ibuki
A high-reliability heritage flight cryocooler built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is now operational, following its launch aboard Japan's Ibuki, also known as the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, earlier in February. Ibuki will monitor global warming.   Full Story

digiGO! — Video Decoding Dalliance For Harmonic
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has introduced DiviCom? FLEX™ technology, a new universal video and audio decoding module that adds video decoding capabilities to Harmonic's DiviCom Electra? and Ion™ encoders.   Full Story

digiGO! — Telestream Flashes With Wirecast
Telestream has announced the release of Wirecast™ 3.5, a live video production tool that allows Mac and PC users to create real-time or on-demand video broadcasts for the web.   Full Story

Cassini Crater Captures
The terminator between light and dark throws Saturn's moon Rhea's cratered surface into stark relief while the southern hemisphere is scored by bright icy cliffs.   Full Story

WGS Constellation To Receive Next Member On March 31st
The U.S. Air Force will launch the second Wideband Global SATCOM satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on March 31 at 9:32 p.m. EDT from Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.   Full Story

The Behavior Of Mt. Etna Is Rather Volcanic
Using radar images acquired by ESA satellites from 1992 to 2006, scientists have, for the first time, been able to monitor the long-term behaviour of Mt. Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano.   Full Story

digiGO! — EEG Is Open to Updating Closed Captioning Systems
EEG, a provider of closed caption decoding, has announced the availability of a number of updates to its DE280 HD Caption Decoder.   Full Story

Vizada PoPs! in Hong Kong
Coming to a neighborhood near you, if you live in Hong Kong —Vizada, a provider of global satellite communications, will open a network point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to offer Asia-Pacific customers a closer access point for mobile satellite communications traffic.   Full Story

XipLink(s) Up With Datum On the Route(r) to Optimization
XipLink announces their XE-Series of advanced wireless optimization software will be embedded into Datum Systems PSM-500 Series of satellite modems.   Full Story

ESA and CNES Sign for Family of Launchers at Guiana Space Centre
It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it! And so the ESA and CNES, the French Space Agency, signed a 435 million Euro contract assuring the availability of the CSG launch range for ESA programs and activities and for the exploitation of Ariane, Vega and Soyuz launchers over the period 2009 to 2013 in beautiful Kourou, French Guiana.   Full Story

The Eagle Has Landed — Discovery Touches Down After 5.3-Million Miles
NASA officials congratulated the entire mission team for an extraordinary effort put forth for the successful launch of Discovery and achievements of the STS-119 mission.   Full Story


March 26, 2009
Bliley Technologies Controls and Customizes Crystals
Bliley Technologies, Inc., came prepared this week to introduce its customizable line of satellite and space qualified crystal oscillators spanning:   Full Story

Sea Launch Commemorates 10 Years Since Inaugural Flight
Ten years ago this week, Sea Launch succeeded in launching one of the most highly instrumented test missions ever flown.   Full Story

SWE-DISH Suitcase Creates a New Paradigm for Skynet
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB has been awarded approval for the SWE-DISH Suitcase CCT120 ultra-portable SATCOM terminal to operate on the Skynet satellite system.   Full Story

Innovation and Sophistication Keys to Further MSS Revenues
Dr. Sven Rohte, Chief Commercial Officer, Thuraya Telecommunications Company, at a conference and exhibition in Washington, U.S. said that mobile satellite communications require refined market segmentation and an ability to develop innovative solutions to be able to boost MSS revenues.   Full Story

Surreal Space Engineering at Surrey Space Center
In a bucolic, and unlikely setting Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and EADS-Astrium have announced the creation of a new "Space Engineering Innovation Hub" in conjunction with the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK.   Full Story

Is Your VSAT Quakin' In Its Shoes? W.B. Walton To The Icy Rescue...
W.B. Walton Enterprises — those fine folk at Walton De-Ice — have released a new product — Ice Quake.   Full Story

New Launch, New Crew Begins New Era At International Space Station
Lift off — success! The 19th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station launched into orbit Thursday morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.   Full Story

Who's Moving On Out of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Upward to Dynetics
Effective today, David King, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is retiring from the agency to accept a position as executive vice president of Dynetics in Huntsville.   Full Story

Figuring SATCOM For Frigates Is Overwatch TacOps
Overwatch Tactical Operations, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), has announced the Company's Communication Systems business area has received an award from Thales - France to provide five sets of Ka/Ku multiband satellite communications (SATCOM) antennas for use on the Royal Norwegian Navy’s Nansen-class frigates.   Full Story

South Korean Teleports Tie In With Intelsat Via KT Corp.
Intelsat, Ltd. has announced that KT Corporation will host two new GXS Network Broadband hubs for Intelsat in the Asia-Pacific region.   Full Story

digiGO! — Decoder Integration Taken On By TANDERG
TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson group (NASDAQ:ERIC), has introduced the RX8330 professional integrated receiver decoder, the newest product in the RX8300 series of products optimized for high-volume video distribution applications.   Full Story

digiGO! — Streambox, Matrox, + SDI Video Capture
Streambox, Inc. has announced a partnership with Matrox, a provider in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, audio/video input/output, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs.   Full Story

Peru Can Bank On Gilat's SkyNet II
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) has announced their business unit, Spacenet Rural Communications, is deploying a SkyEdge II network to cover hundreds of sites in Peru.   Full Story

digiGO! — German TV Net Gets Nimble With Nimbra
RAS (Rundfunk-Anstalt S?dtirol) is the public broadcasting company in S?dtirol and distributes all the German speaking TV and radio broadcasts in this North Italian region.   Full Story


March 25, 2009
A Meeting Of Minds: EC + EUMETSAT
Heinz Zourek, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry in the European Commission, met the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, on March 24th at the headquarters of the European Meteorological Satellite Organisation in Darmstadt, Germany, Mr. Zourek’s first visit to EUMETSAT.   Full Story

Progressive + Entertaining Moves By NDS
NDS has announced that Viasat, a digital satellite pay-TV operator serving Scandinavia and the Baltic region, has extended its long-standing relationship with NDS with the addition of NDS’ Progressive Download (PDL) technology to the ViasatPlusHD hybrid DVR.   Full Story

Message on World Meteorological Day
On the occasion of World Meteorological Day, 23 March, the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, made the following statement:   Full Story

Reposition Satellite for Military in Asia & Mideast? Intelsat Knows How-To
An urgent call from the Pentagon’s Joint staff to Intelsat General Corp., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd., resulted in a multiyear contract under which Intelsat will reposition one of the company’s satellites halfway around the globe to serve military units in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Full Story

XipLink Deploys and Optimizes Asia Broadcast Satellite
Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has acheived a goal of delivering a level of throughput that is unmatched by their competition.   Full Story

digiGO! — IPTV World Forum: EchoStar Europe Brings HD To New DVR
EchoStar Europe will launch its first dedicated product for IPTV operators at IPTV World Forum, London.   Full Story

Gilat Brings Their SkyEdge II To Southeast Asia
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) has been selected by Nera Telecommunications Ltd ("NeraTel") to provide a SkyEdge II network that will be used to serve a government organization in Southeast Asia.   Full Story

Going With Remote Access Is Harris For SatControl
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) announced that the OS/COMET COTS product for satellite control now includes NEO™, a Network Enabled Operations capability for platform-independent remote access.   Full Story

iDirect Routing Advanced Solutions With Mobility
iDirect, Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has extended its Evolution product line with the introduction of the light-weight, extremely compact iConnex e850mp Satellite Router Board.   Full Story

Newtec Receives Prestigious WTA Technology Award
Newtec has been awarded the accolade of “Teleport Technology of the Year” for its FlexACM? technology, by the World Teleport Association.   Full Story

WTA Reveals Teleport Wonderment Achievements
The World Teleport Association (WTA) announced the recipients of its 14th annual Teleport Awards for Excellence.?   Full Story

On The Road Again, But This Time With SatTV
RaySat Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) has formed strategic alliances with six of the world’s leading providers of hardware, software, satellite and other services to enable delivery of AT&T CruiseCast service, an exciting source of entertainment in family vehicles.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Globalstar...
Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has announced that Coface has agreed to provide a guaranty in support of a proposed $574 million credit facility to be extended by a syndicate of banks to Globalstar as borrower.   Full Story

ILS Proton Signed On To Launch Intelsat 16
International Launch Services (ILS) and Intelsat have announced a contract for the launch of the Intelsat 16 satellite on an ILS Proton later this year.   Full Story


March 24, 2009
EchoStar Takes Command and Control
EchoStar Satellite Services [Nasdaq: SATS], announced today the launch of its Spacecraft Command and Control Services for the commercial satellite industry around the globe.   Full Story

U.S.A.F. Successfully Launches 7th GPS IIR-M Satellite
The U.S. Air Force has successfully launched the seventh modernized Global Positioning System IIR-M satellite carried aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 4:34 a.m. EDT March 24th from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.   Full Story

Forward Error Correction Of The Comtech EF Data Kind...
Comtech EF Data Corporation has made immediately available VersaFEC?, the nexgen Forward Error Correction (FEC).   Full Story

Netcom Africa Brings Gilat SatTechnology To West Africa
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been selected by Netcom Africa Limited to provide a SkyEdge II network that will serve West Africa's corporate, energy and financial sectors. ?Based in Nigeria, Netcom is a leading communication infrastructure provider for satellite and wireless broadband solutions.   Full Story

Intelsat's Galaxy 19 Provides Platform For RRsat Distribution Needs
Intelsat, Ltd. has announced RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a global provider of content management and distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, has launched an additional TV programming platform on Intelsat’s Galaxy 19 satellite, which is expected to reach millions of viewers in North America.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... C-COM Satellite Systems Inc...
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) has announced financial results for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2008.   Full Story

UAV Streams Video To Chinook Chopper
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has demo'd, for the first time, the ability to deliver streaming video over a mobile, ad hoc tactical network from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a Chinook helicopter and ground troops.   Full Story

Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Ultralife + SAIC's TacComms Biz
Ultralife Corporation (NASDAQ: ULBI) has acquired substantially all of the assets and assumed substantially all of the liabilities of the tactical communications products business of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) for a total of approximately $5.7 million in cash, effective as of March 20, 2009.   Full Story

The New Tracking Star From Globalstar
Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has announced that Globalstar Independent Gateway Operator (IGO) Globalstar de Mexico has launched a multi-mode satellite asset tracking product.   Full Story

The Good Works Of Talia Limited
Talia Limited, a supplier of satellite Internet for Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, is pleased to announce expansion of African services along with an enhanced Good Works scheme designed to support NGOs and charities.   Full Story

No Mess... No Fuss... For Inflight GSM Services
TriaGnoSys and Skuku have announced the formation of a partnership to provide the nexgen of inflight GSM services.   Full Story

W1 Satellite OK'd To Use Russian Radio Frequencies
On March 19, 2009, the Russian State Radio Frequency Committee (SRFC) made a decision on allocating radio frequencies for the W1 European satellite that is planned to be located at the Russian 80 East orbital position.   Full Story

Moving On Up... At Arianespace...
Following the meeting of the Arianespace Board of Directors in Evry, company Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall announced the following appointments, which will take effect on April 15, 2009.   Full Story

SatLink Is the First to Feed a Dozen
Not every company can say they have exceeded their goals, but SatLink Communications Ltd. did just that with the announcement that they have expanded their High Definition transmission capabilities to up to 12 simultaneous HD streams including encoding, decoding and multiplexing the feeds.   Full Story

ViaSat-1 Services To Be Demo'd By ViaSat
ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) will demo its nexgen satellite broadband service with the highest speeds at the most affordable prices ever offered by the platform, at Satellite 2009, March 24th thru 27th in Washington, DC.   Full Story

Spacenet Loose Lips Don't Sink Ships With FIPS — Encryption Ensures Government
Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [Nasdaq: GILT] introduced its new Cisco integrated Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certified encryption solution over satellite that provides new satellite communications options to government customers, including services for CONUS based Department of Defense agencies and backhaul services between EMEA and the U.S. utilizing their existing Cisco infrastructure.   Full Story

Five Intelsat Sats Afford Capacity To MTN's Maritime Network
Intelsat, Ltd. has announced that Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SeaMobile, Inc., has contracted for Intelsat capacity to expand the range of satellite-based services MTN provides to its maritime customers, including the world's largest cruise lines.   Full Story

IDATE Indicates Increased FSS Opportunities Exist
A new report from IDATE examines recent broadband satellite developments in the United States, Asia, and Europe, analyzes the issues involved in rolling out these services, and assesses the opportunities tied to the deployment of fixed satellite access services in residential markets in Europe and North Africa.   Full Story

DataPath Converts U.S. Army So That Many Can Use WGS
DataPath, Inc., a provider of worldwide satellite and wireless communications networks, has been awarded $12 million by the U.S. Army for Ka band conversion kits, spares kits and technical services that enable DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and other systems on the battlefield to operate using the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.   Full Story

Titan Flyover By Cassini Offers 3D Topography
The new flyover maps of Saturn's moon, Titan, show, for the first time, the 3-D topography and height of the 1,200-meter (4,000-foot) mountain tops, the north polar lake country, the vast dunes more than 100 meters (300 feet) high that crisscross the moon, and the thick flows that may have oozed from possible ice volcanoes.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Clouds Of An Unusual Nature
Distinctive lines of clouds stretch out from the shore of the Aral Sea (located in Central Asia between Kazakhstan and Karakalpakstan) in this photo-like image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on March 12, 2009.   Full Story

Development Of 7 Degrees West By Nilesat + Eutelsat
Nilesat, the Egyptian satellite company, and Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) have announced the signing of a new strategic agreement that will find both Companies pursuing the development of the 7 degrees West orbital position, which is used by both companies for satellite broadcasting across the Middle East, the Gulf countries, and North Africa.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: Channel Branding + Master Switcher Merge
Pixel Power has launched the world’s first branding switcher — BrandMaster — a new product family that seamlessly integrates a complete master control switcher with broadcast graphics for channel branding.   Full Story

BUC Up, Says Wavestream
Wavestream Corporation is introducing a new line of X-band SSPAs for a variety of commercial and military applications at Satellite 2009 in Washington, D.C. this week.   Full Story


March 23, 2009
digiGO! — NAB: HD + SD Playout Has Real-Time Codec Support From Omneon
Omneon Inc. will introduce three new MediaPort modules for its Omneon Spectrum™ and MediaDeck™ server systems that extend real-time codec support to facilitate flexible, cost-effective production and playout of SD and HD content.   Full Story

digiGO! — Inside The STB, QoE + QoS Witbe Triple Play Agents Can Reside
Witbe’s unique QoE approach, based on active robots watching TV, using the Internet and making phone calls, is recognized by operators throughout the world and the Company is now augmenting its QoS solutions by offering passive software agents deployed in the end user terminals.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: Harmonic Brings Full Frame Rate Encoding + Codec Support To DiviCom Electra
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) will debut their DiviCom Electra? 8000, the world's first encoding and transcoding platform to support MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and MPEG-2 codecs in standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) formats, up to full frame-rate 1080p 50/60, at both The Cable Show in Washington, D.C. (Booth # ES-56) and at NAB 2009 (Booth # SU7209).   Full Story

digiGO! — Satellite, IPTV, Telco Multichannel Encoder From Broadcast International Set To Demo
Broadcast International, Inc. (OTCBB: BCST) (“BI”) will demo the latest version of its patented CodecSys™ CE-1000 multi-channel H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 / AVC encoder at the IPTV World Forum on March 25-27 in London.   Full Story

Bankruptcy Court Approves WorldSpace Purchase By... WorldSpace Founder...
WorldSpace, Inc. (WRSPQ.PK) has announced the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware has approved the sale of substantially all of the assets related to the satellite radio business of it and its U.S. subsidiaries, WorldSpace Systems Corporation and AfriSpace, Inc. to Yenura Pte. Ltd. (“Yenura”).   Full Story

Indian PSLV To Launch EO Sat Next Month
According to a spokesperson for the Indian Space Research Organization (SRO), India next month will launch a new "remote-sensing" satellite built with Israeli "inputs".   Full Story

Malaysian Built Satellite Heads To Marshall Islands For Launch + Equator Orbit
Malaysia shipped their new RazakSAT satellite from the Royal Malaysian Air Force Subang airfield last Saturday to Kwajalein Island in the Republic of Marshall Islands, where the satellite will be launched on April 21st.   Full Story

Piggybacking Anusat Will Launch In Early April
India's first student-made satellite will take off from Sriharikota on either April 5th or 6th, riding piggyback on ISRO's Risat satellite until it separates and flies into its own designated orbit.   Full Story

ORBCOMM's M2M Solutions Make Light Of Hyundai's Heavy Equipment
Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Construction Equipment Division has selected ORBCOMM’s [Nasdaq: ORBC] satellite network to provide global communications for Hi-Mate, its telematics application for heavy equipment.   Full Story

Honeywell's SmartPath Makes For Smooth Sydney SatLandings
Honeywell has announced that Qantas Airlines has received approval by the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to use the Honeywell SmartPath™ Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) at Sydney International Airport for satellite-based landings on their A380 aircraft.   Full Story

Spent Chinese Satellite Debris Requires Discovery Maneuvering + A Lifting Image
At 4:31 p.m. EDT on Sunday, space shuttle Discovery completed maneuvering the shuttle-space station stack 180 degrees to the "undock attitude," placing Discovery in front of the space station as they travel through space.   Full Story

Duo Of Canadian Sats in Debris Danger
Two Canadian satellites are in danger of being damaged or destroyed because they’re passing through massive clouds of space junk caused by a recent collision between a Russian and an American satellite.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Risky Business With Popocatepetl — A True Statovolcano
Volcan Popocatepetl, a large stratovolcano located approximately 70 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, is considered by many volcanologists to be “the planet’s riskiest volcano.”   Full Story

Venus Is Up In Arms Over International Space Station
The news of late has been about the newest set of solar panels successfully installed on the ISS.   Full Story

Pleasing To Pleiades Is e2v's Sensing CCDs
The e2v CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensors developed under CNES contract and selected by Thales Alenia Space to equip the high-resolution (HR) optical imaging instrument, for integration into the CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) Pleiades Earth observation satellite (which includes two e2v device types for panchromatic and multispectral imaging), have delivered a performance that exceeds the original specification.   Full Story

GPS IIR-20 Launch Back On Track
With a window from 4:34 to 4:49 a.m., March 24th appears to be an auspicious day for the launch of the Delta II and the GPS IIR-20 payload.   Full Story

Encore! Thales Alenia Receives Eutelsat's Vote of Confidence For W3C Telecom Sat
Validation of a job well done, Thales Alenia Space today was signed on again with Eutelsat Communications [Euronext Paris: ETL] to manufacture and deliver Eutelsat’s W3C communications satellite.   Full Story

UltiSat Purchases TDC To Expand Core Competencies In FSS and MSS Markets
UltiSat, Inc. announced its purchase of the mobile and fixed satellite assets of TDC [NASDAQ OMX: TDC], headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, which includes the teleport infrastructure at the Blaavand Earth station in Western Denmark along with customer contracts spanning C- and Ku-band fixed satellite services (FSS) and Inmarsat and Iridium mobile satellite services (MSS).   Full Story

High Seas Call For KVH SATCOM System
Commercial maritime professionals have a keen eye for versatile and affordable satellite communications solutions for their ships. Broadband connections onboard are playing a valuable role in enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing competitive position.   Full Story

Satellite Biz Buzz — Isle Of Man For Single Point Of Entry For Customs + Excise Imports
These days, the majority of International Trade coming in and out of the EU is increasingly relying upon electronic facilities for lodging their relevant import/export documents and declarations.   Full Story

MITEQ | MCL Bring Triple Product Play To Fruition
MITEQ brings an Outdoor TWT Amplifier and two SSPA/Transmitter products to the light of day.   Full Story

SNG — Flyaways — Colem's New Button Control For SATCOM Ops
Colem has announced the launch of its Wireless Intelligent Button Control for satellite operation.   Full Story

Allocation Of Billions In Euros For Broadband Beef-up Applauded By ESOA
The European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) welcomed the decision on March 19th by European Heads of State on the EU Economic Recovery Package (EERP), wherein 1.020B euros has been allocated to promote access to broadband, reflecting the Commission’s desire to give coverage to all 500 million European citizens.   Full Story

Advanced QoS For Multi-Use Nets XipLink'd With New Optimization Software
Xiplink has unveiled their XipLink Optimization Software (XipOS) Version 3.0, which is now available for controlled introduction, with general availability planned for May 15, 2009.   Full Story

digiGO! — Vaddio Whips Up Web Casting System
Vaddio has supplied Total Webcasting, a full-service webcasting company, with a combination of Vaddio products to create a live mobile webcasting system called TW Media Cart.   Full Story

digiGO! — Multiple HD Sources Possible With Gefen HDMI Matrix
Gefen’s new 8x4 CAT-5 HDMI Matrix performs matrix switching and signal extension, offering a convenient method of system integration.   Full Story

From Truss To Coupler To Lubrication — Final Spacewalk Accomplished
Astronauts Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold ended the mission's third spacewalk at 6:04 p.m. EDT on Monday.   Full Story

Major Moving On Ups... @ SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES
SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has announced the senior management team for its SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES division, resulting from the recent integration of SES AMERICOM and SES NEW SKIES into a single operational unit.   Full Story

MonicsNet Called Into Action By HISPASAT
Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: ISYS), has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, has received a contract from HISPASAT to upgrade the Carrier Monitoring System throughout HISPASAT's network, extending the existing MonicsNet network to support the AMAZONAS 1 and AMAZONAS 2 communications systems.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Redoubt Isn't Recalcitrant Anymore — Ash Alert Advisories
After two months of restlessness and a day of heightened earthquake activity, Alaska’s Mount Redoubt Volcano erupted explosively on Sunday, March 22, 2009, at 10:38 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.   Full Story

NOAA-19 Orbit Okayed
The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) launched on February 6, 2009, has completed a comprehensive 45-day on-orbit verification period.   Full Story

Are You FIPS To Be Tried? Spacenet + Cisco Hope So...
Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT), has introduced its new Cisco integrated Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certified encryption solution over satellite.   Full Story


March 22, 2009
The Raven To Fly In Lebanon
Having already received US$400 million from the United States since 2006, the Lebanese military has just received another boon from the U.S. — the Raven RQ-11 UAV.   Full Story


March 21, 2009
Without Tekdata Wiring, UAV Mantis' Power Would Remain Unharnessed
Tekdata Interconnections has delivered high-performance, lightweight actuator harnesses to help move forward the U.K.'s Mantis medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) project.   Full Story


March 20, 2009
VSAT Victory Over Content Part Of Wegener's Showcase
Wegener Corporation (Nasdaq: WGNR) will promote new products and methods to localize file-based workflows for private networks, service providers, content providers, radio broadcasters, international and government markets at SATELLITE 2009 (Booth #641).   Full Story

Googling GeoEye Goodies
GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has started delivering high-resolution, color satellite imagery from its newest satellite to Google.   Full Story

An Epochal Decision By Mitsubishi Electric Is An Integral Infusion
Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-ISYS), has announced that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Mitsubishi Electric) has selected Integral Systems’ EPOCH Integrated Product Suite (IPS) to support its DS2000 satellite platform.   Full Story

Spatial Traffic Control Theme Of Upcoming Event
The recent collision between spacecraft and close encounters with orbital debris by the crew of the International Space Station has heightened interest in taking new steps in space traffic control.   Full Story

For Emergencies In Kentucky, SkyTerra Talks It Up
KDPH found its solution for communication during emergency situations with SkyTerra Communication’s push-to-talk satellite phones.   Full Story

Globecomm's Terminal Takes On WGS
Globecomm Systems Inc. has debuted their Ka-band version of its 1.2m Auto-Explorer satellite terminal specifically designed for operation with the U.S. Department of Defense Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1135) has announced its 2008 annual results for the year to December 31, 2008.   Full Story

Signaling Iraqi Success Is Newtec
Newtec has announced that Mobision – part of independent Iraqi television network, AlsumariaTV – has selected the company’s Horizon HZ420 equipment for use in the Middle East’s first ever paid-for mobile television service for mobile phones and DVB-H compliant devices.   Full Story

Pilgrimage From Promontory Ares I-X — EnRoute to Kennedy
Impressive moves were made by vehicles as they jockeyed with the final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket as it left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.   Full Story

Via Technologies' In-Vehicle NextGen Car PC Takes You to New Places
More and smarter is what is now available for your vehicle from VIA Technologies, Inc., a provider of power efficient x86 processor platforms with the release of their VIA IVP-7500 board, the first in a series of dedicated x86 in-vehicle platforms for developers of car PCs and intelligent transportation devices.   Full Story

Globecomm Systems' Substantive Signings
Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has announced the Company has received multiple contract awards from various Government agencies, valued at $3.3 million.   Full Story

digiGO! — Top Digital Media Companies Bust Out With 20 Percent Increase In 2008 Earnings
According to Strategy Analytics Digital Media Strategies (DMS) research, the top 27 digital media companies in the world increased earnings by more than 20 percent, to $74 billion in 2008 up from $61.5 billion in 2007.   Full Story

New SSPAs Enter The Realm Of Paradise
Paradise Datacom has released their PowerMAX family of Solid State Power Amplifiers.   Full Story

Shear Spectacular Scene — South Pacific Submarine Volcanic Eruption
What amazing technology — a submarine volcanic eruption occurred in the Tonga Islands of the South Pacific in mid-March 2009 and photos are transmitted worldwide for all to marvel.   Full Story

IDC's Satellite Delivered Content A Hit In Rome
International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has successfully demo'd their SuperFlex Pro Cinema 3D Live Encoder and Decoder product lines, powered with Sensio 3D technology, at the Sat Expo Europe 2009 international conference and exhibition held in Rome from March 19-21, 2009.   Full Story

Solar Mission Scientific Instruments Selected By NASA
NASA has selected three teams to design and build science instruments for a proposed European-led solar mission — the instruments, with a total value of approximately $81 million, are part of NASA's Living with a Star Program.   Full Story

Satellite Payloads Testing CD Free From Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies has announced their free, orderable CD that covers the seven presentations from the Company's recently completed seminar, 2008 Innovations in Satellite Payload Test Seminar.   Full Story

Underwater Autonomy In Frigid Environs — AUV's Antarctic's Assignments
Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the U.K.’s National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic glacier.   Full Story

digiGO! — Music To Echolab — Multiple Formats Now Supported By Overture
Echolab Inc., a provider of professional video production switchers and broadcast tools, has announced its Overture™MD (multiformat) line of production switchers will support the 3Gbps 1080p/60 video format.   Full Story

Loud Audio Turnoff — Turned Off Via Linear Acoustic's AERO.one
Linear Acoustic has started shipping the compact AERO.one™ DTV audio/loudness manager and is announcing a special pricing offer through June 12, 2009.   Full Story

GOCE Going Great Guns
After liftoff 17 March, ESA's GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned.   Full Story

Russian Angara Rocket In Test Flight Cue
From RIA Novosti, Russia's new Angara carrier rocket will start test flights in 2011, the rocket's developer said on Wednesday.   Full Story

Patriot Antenna (Back)-Packs It Up
Patriot Antenna Products has been on the march preparing for Satellite 2009 with some new products — the new 1.2m Inclined Orbit Tracking Antenna System and 1.2m Back-Pack Flyaway System.   Full Story

Fungus Among Us — Space Swabbing
Astronauts working outside the International Space Station on March 19th used an innovative laboratory device to detect how biological material may be spread in space.   Full Story

Current GPS IIR-M Satellites Will Soon Welcome A New Associate
The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to launch the seventh modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) IIR-M satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on March 24th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.?   Full Story

Harris Sees To SATCOM Needs Of Seabees
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been selected to supply additional Rugged Deployable Satellite Communications Terminals (RDSATs) to the U.S. Navy First Construction Division — the Seabees — under a two-year, $30 million follow-on order.   Full Story

Thales Alenia Space Is Certifiably Certified
Thales Alenia Space has announced all 11 of the Company's industrial sites, in France, Italy, Belgium and Spain, have been certified to CMMI? (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Level 3, the international standard that recognizes the performance and maturity of industrial organizations — Thales Alenia Space is the first satellite manufacturer in Europe to earn this accreditation.   Full Story

Iran Claims Their First Satellite Has Completed Its Mission
An Iranian space research expert has announced on state television that Iran's first satellite has successfully completed its scientific mission after more than a month in orbit.   Full Story

digiGO! — i-CABLE Brings Cisco Tech In To Halt Hong Kong Piracy
i-CABLE is deploying Cisco's highly secure set-top boxes and end-to-end video solutions to resolve pirated viewing of its television services.   Full Story

Moonlet Found By Cassini In Saturn's G Ring
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn’s G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light, which scientists believe is a main source of the G ring and its single ring arc.   Full Story

Up, Down, Left, Right — This New VTOL UAS Solid Candidate For U.S.M.C.
American Dynamics Flight Systems recently unveiled its AD-150 - an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that's capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL).   Full Story


March 19, 2009
digiGo! — EchoStar Europe Convenes Cable Congress 09, Berlin
EchoStar Europe?an innovator and supplier of beyond the box, added-value applications and connected device solutions to the digital television industry, announced its entry into the European cable market with a complete portfolio of products for cable operators at Cable Congress 2009, Berlin.   Full Story


March 18, 2009
Oil & Gas Comm Summits Set Up
GVF / UK-EMP have unveiled the 2009 Oil & Gas Communications Summit series, which will will reveal cost-saving techniques and applications, state-of-the-art technologies, new network architectures, commercial trends, critical regulatory and spectrum-management considerations, and much more.   Full Story

While Herschel + Planck Wait, Another Ariane 5 Undergoing Prep for TerreStar-1
The assembly of another new Ariane 5 is now underway at the Spaceport in French Guiana as parallel preparations advance for two upcoming missions with Arianespace’s workhorse heavy-lift launcher.   Full Story

EM Solutions' Parakeet Does Way More Than Sing
EM Solutions has been awarded two contracts, valued at AU$4M by BAE System Australia for supply of X-band and Ka-band RF equipment for use by the Australian Defence Force (ADF).   Full Story

At The CASBAA — India's Future Still Shines In Satellite Sector
More than 150 officials, satellite services operators, pay-TV platform operators, content providers and telecom carriers gathered yesterday to share insights on the growth prospects of India’s satellite services market at the New Delhi India Satellite Forum 2009, part of the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA).   Full Story

Deutsche Welle Is First On Board With GlobeCast's Second
GlobeCast has launched its second MCPC platform on the AsiaSat 3S satellite with European broadcaster Deutsche Welle as the new transponder’s first client.   Full Story

Hubble Captures Show As Saturn's Four Rings Pass In Front of Parent
On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet.   Full Story

Air Force Delta II GPS IR-20 Launch Scheduled for March 24
Delta II launch of the Air Force’s GPS IIR-20 satellite scheduled for 24 March with a launch window of 4:34-4:49 a.m. EDT.   Full Story

Paradise Pioneering Parade Produces Sat-Abis
Engineers at Paradise Datacom have pioneered a host of features designed specifically for Cellular Operators that use satellite links to backhaul Abis traffic, with features such as the Quad-E1 Interface that allows operators to backhaul as many as four full or fractional E1 channels at a BTS site with a single modem.   Full Story

Ruggedized Terminals Now Part Of Stratos' Global Distribution
Stratos Global Corporation has signed an agreement to become a global distributor of two new ViaSat ruggedized BGAN terminals and Stratos will distribute the terminals via its direct sales force and via its global network of channel partners.   Full Story

Veni, Vidi, Vici, and VAD For DIEM + XipLink
XipLink announced DIEM Technologies as the latest addition to its global network of Value Added Distributors.   Full Story

U.S.-Downed Iranian UAV Being Examined
An Iranian unmanned aircraft shot down by the U.S. military over Iraq was operating illegally and unsafely, but its presence should not come as a shock, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.   Full Story

Super Charging The Puma UAV
Protonex Technology Corp. has landed a new contract with the U.S. Department of Defense that could be worth as much as $3.3 million.   Full Story

Triple Launch Play For ILS From SES
International Launch Services (ILS) and SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) have announced three new launch assignments under the Multi Launch Agreement that was signed in June 2007 between ILS and SES Satellite Leasing Limited, SES’ satellite procurement and leasing company in the Isle of Man.   Full Story

Deal After Deal After Deal Signed By GeoEye
GeoEye, Inc. has signed agreements with several international resellers to provide high-resolution, satellite imagery and value-added products from its new GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite to customers in China, Middle East, Turkey, and Russia.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Intelsat, Ltd...
Intelsat, Ltd. has reported results for the three-month period and combined year ended December 31, 2008.   Full Story

Here's Looking At Earth... Cathedral Fire Destruction
Wilson’s Promontory National Park, located at the southern tip of Victoria, Australia, was one of many areas scorched by large bushfires in February 2009.   Full Story


March 17, 2009
GOCE Goes
The GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) satellite was successfully launched today from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia.   Full Story

New Look For SSD
Strategic Space Development (SSD) is pleased to announce the unveiling of two new websites.   Full Story

BFT Transceiver Production Becomes A ViaSat Continuance
ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) received an order from the U.S. Army for initial production of the nexgen Blue Force Tracking (BFT-2) transceivers for the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) satellite network upgrade.   Full Story

SSTL's Significant Success, As Far As Work Is Concerned...
Small satellite mission provider, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has been recognised as one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For, and the only space industry company to make the listing.   Full Story

digiGO! — Mobility For DTV Specialty For Harris + Roundbox
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) and Roundbox, Inc. have signed an OEM agreement to deliver a complete mobile broadcast solution for U.S. terrestrial DTV broadcasters.   Full Story

Until They Come Home — VSAT's Internet for U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq
Connecting more than 15 thousand military with a local broadband satellite Internet network in Iraq and Afghanistan is an accomplishment that TS2 Satellite Technologies doesn't take lightly — this is their specialty — providing global satellite communication services in areas with poor telecommunications infrastructure.   Full Story

Super Speeds For UAVs + HSSWs
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has successfully completed testing for a new class of hypersonic propulsion systems that will enable High Speed Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to travel long distances at velocities more than 5x the speed of sound.   Full Story

Pure Paradise When You Extend Your Satellite's Sphere Of Influence
Paradise Datacom recently announced the release of PCMA-70 following the completion of a partnership with ViaSat to gain access to their patented Paired Carrier Multiple Access (PCMA) bandwidth-saving technology.   Full Story

The WatchDog Passes Iridium's LRIT Certification, Links To Extreme Polar Regions
This watch dog has passed its tests — WatchDog 750 long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) ship terminal successfully completed the compliance and test requirements for operation on the Iridium satellite network.   Full Story

Production Push By Rockwell Collins To Ensure Warfighters Have DAGRs
The U.S.A.F.'s Global Positioning Systems Wing has awarded a sole-source follow-on production contract for Defense Advanced GPS Receiver,? with a ceiling of $450M, to Rockwell Collins Inc.   Full Story

OmniGlobe Bringing SATCOM To First Nations In Canada
OmniGlobe Networks, Inc. been appointed by the First Nations’ Emergency Services Society of B.C. (FNESS) and its partner, the First Nations Technology Council (FNTC), to provide enhanced broadband access to over 2,700 residents living in remote First Nations communities in British Columbia.   Full Story

X-Band To Receive The Arrowhead Treatment
Arrowhead Global Solutions, the government services division of CapRock Communications, has been awarded two multimillion dollar contracts to provide more than 200 MHz of commercial X-band satellite services to two U.S. Government agencies.   Full Story

Watch Your Step! Space Reservations Now Accepted — Virgin Galactic
Sir Richard Branson strikes again — today in Gothenburg, Sweden, Virgin Galactic announced the names of the five travel companies who will train to become Accredited Space Agents (ASAs) the first agents in the region allowed to reserve seats aboard Virgin Galactic's suborbital space flights.   Full Story

Wednesday morning UPDATE re: WGS-2 Satellite Mission Scrubbed
The launch of the WGS-2 satellite via Atlas V has been scrubbed.   Full Story

Asteroid Flyby Of Earth — Tracked By Spaceguard
A small asteroid will fly past Earth on Wednesday, March 18th.   Full Story

There's EGNOS All Over SES ASTRA's Space
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced it has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to provide services to the European navigation service EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) — EGNOS is managed by the EC on behalf of the European Union (EU).   Full Story

New NSR Report Covers Ground Segment Equipment Trends and Markets
NSR has released its newest market intelligence and forecast report: Advanced Satellite Coding and Modulation, 2nd Edition.   Full Story


March 16, 2009
Sirius 5 To Take On More For European Union
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [Nasdaq:LORL] and provider of commercial satellites, announced it will add a government payload to Sirius 5, a satellite for SES [Euronext Paris:SESG] [Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG], which is currently under construction at the spacecraft manufacturing facility in California.   Full Story

Looking Good at 60 — SES AMERICOM Contributes To Largest U.S. TV Station Group
Celebrating their 60th — HD channel, that is, to join its HD-PRIME delivery platform, SES AMERICOM, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG], today announced ION Media Networks has signed a multiyear distribution agreement to launch its full suite of television networks in HD.   Full Story

digiGO! — Ross Video's XPression of Satisfaction, Acquire Media Refinery
Ross Video's portfolio increases today with the announcement of the completion of its acquisition of Media Refinery, the Netherlands based developer of XPression, a 2D/3D high definition character generator and motion graphics system.   Full Story

digiGO! — BTI Silver Sponsor of IPTV World Forum
Return on investment (ROI) is critical in business, with many companies creating inventive ways to address their market.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: Lawo Sounding Off
Lawo, the manufacturer of digital mixing consoles, will present their first Plug-in Collection at the upcoming NAB 2009 event in Las Vegas.   Full Story

digiGO! — RF Measurements Simplified By Rohde & Schwarz
Rohde & Schwarz offers a new option for its R&S ETL for the DAB (digital audio broadcasting) and T-DMB (terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting) standards.   Full Story

Pratt & Whitney's SSMEs Are Boosters For Discovery
Three Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) successfully boosted the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station onboard Space Shuttle Discovery yesterday (March 15th).   Full Story

ARINC Sets Up Crucial Comms Testing
ARINC Incorporated, in cooperation with technology partners that include EADS Security & Communications Systems NA, have announced the activation of the ARINC Interoperability Test and Demonstration Center (ITDC) located in Annapolis, Maryland.   Full Story

digiGO! — Protection Brings NDS Into Russia
NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that COMSTAR-United TeleSystems (COMSTAR-UTS OJSC, LSE: CMST), a major operator of integrated telecommunications services in Russia and the CIS under the STREAM brand, is the first customer to deploy NDS Master UI™, a highly intuitive user interface that transforms the way content and features are presented on screen and enhances the way users interact with them.   Full Story

Comm Link Security For UAS Platforms
Enerdyne Technologies Inc., a ViaSat company, has successfully demo'd its DVA (Digital Video over Analog links) technology interoperating with a ROVER video receiver.?   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: The Controlling Factor From Eyeheight
Two new additions to Eyeheight's range of modular broadcast production and post-production solutions will be introduced the 2009 NAB Convention in Las Vegas — Eyeheight designs and manufactures a wide range of SDI/HD-SDI equipment for use in program-origination, quality assurance, post-production, master-control and associated areas.   Full Story

Gargantuan Galaxy Smash-up
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun.   Full Story

Télécoms Sans Frontières' 10 Years Of Service + Inmarsat Support
Ten emergency missions by T?l?coms Sans Fronti?res (TSF) used Inmarsat services to help victims of natural disaster and human conflict during 2008.   Full Story

The Light + Dark Side Of Janus
Janus imitates its two-faced Greek god namesake by catching light on two sides — the brighter side of Janus is lit by the sun while light reflected off Saturn dimly illuminates the rest of the moon and reveals the non-spherical shape of this small satellite.   Full Story

Spectracom Sync
Spectracom, a company of the Orolia Group (NYSE Alternext Paris – FR0010501015 – ALORO), has been selected by Globecomm Systems to supply key network synchronization subsystems for its new satellite communications system for a major international organization.   Full Story

More On WGS — The Launch + The Future
As you probably already know, the U.S. Air Force will launch the second Wideband Global SATCOM satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on March 17th at 9:24 p.m. EDT, from Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.   Full Story

NASA OKs x 4 — United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket Launch Missions
Smiles for everyone as NASA awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) four science and communications missions that will launch in the first half of the next decade.   Full Story

Here's Looking At Earth... Water? In Death Valley?
In Death Valley California, history has been repeating itself.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... ORBCOMM Inc...
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC), a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2008.   Full Story

Hughes Delivers To Bantel For Venezuela
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has announced the U.S. subsidiary of Telecomunicaciones Bantel C.A., a provider of satellite communications in Venezuela for more than 18 years, has upgraded to the advanced Hughes HN System platform in providing Ku-band broadband services to Latin American markets.   Full Story

Fujitsu's HD Haven For SatTrans
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. has announced their Fujitsu IP-9500e MPEG-4 AVC codec now features Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite (DVB-S) and Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation (DVB-S2) modulation functionality to transmit HD signals over satellite links.   Full Story

GOCE Gets Green Light
The launch of ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been confirmed for Tuesday, March 17th, at 15:21 CET. The problem that halted the countdown has been identified and solved. Launch will be streamed at ESA's website and broadcast live on ESA TV.   Full Story

Moving On Up x 2 . . .@ EMS Technologies
EMS Technologies, Inc., today announced two key management appointments in its corporate office, and in its SATCOM division that positions the Company to maximize synergies and operational efficiencies.   Full Story

Acquisition Accomplishment: Triumph Group + Saygrove...
The Triumph Group (NYSE:TGI) Inc. has acquired unmanned aerial vehicle technologies developer Saygrove Defense and Aerospace Group Ltd.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Loral Space & Communications...
Loral Space & Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:LORL) has reported the Company's financial results for the year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008.   Full Story


March 14, 2009
EO Offered By NASA In 3D Via Your Web Browser
NASA's Global Climate Change Web site now offers new, interactive features that give the public the opportunity to "fly along" with NASA's fleet of Earth science missions and observe Earth from a global perspective in an immersive, 3-D environment.   Full Story

Herschel + Planck Halt
Arianespace and ESA have jointly agreed to postpone the launch of the Herschel and Planck satellites, which were initially planned for April 16, 2009, to facilitate additional ground segment checks.   Full Story

FCS Finds Boeing Able + Willing
Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Science Applications International Corp. [NYSE: SAI], together the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) modernization program, have announced the program has successfully completed preliminary design reviews (PDR) for all its unmanned vehicle systems (UVS).   Full Story

COM DEV Keeps the Contracts Coming In
A number of contracts are awarded to COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV], a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, and authorizations to proceed (ATPs) for work on a large European commercial satellite program.   Full Story

Russian Choppers — Pilotless Products Planned
According to the words of head of research services of Helicopters of Russia Vadim Mikheev, the company is actively involved in the development of pilotless helicopters.   Full Story


March 13, 2009
digiGO! — NAB: Latens' ECHO Driving IPTV
Latens ECO is bringing true multi-media networking into the home. Exhibiting at this year’s NAB with Echostar at Booth C6045, Latens will demonstrate how ECO is the driving force behind EchoStar’s powerful ViP-TV service, which delivers more than 300 channels of MPEG-4 (H.264) format broadcast quality TV and radio channels via EchoStar’s high powered Ku-band satellite.   Full Story

digiGO! - NAB: GlobeCast Brings Content Management Demos To Vegas
GlobeCast will be highlighting its developments in the content management space with a demonstration of its range of services along the broadcast value chain at Stand C5537.   Full Story

Friday the 13th Brings Good Luck as NASA Proceeds With Repairs
Friday the 13th was a good day as repairs began on the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate (GUCP) interface, where gaseous hydrogen leaked during Wednesday's launch attempt.   Full Story

Moving On Up @ Newtec...
Newtec has appointed Martin De Prycker, the former CEO of Barco, as an external member of its strategic committee.   Full Story

Ares I-X Leaves Promontory Now on Pilgrimage to Launch
The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket were put in place and subsequently left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday beginning a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.   Full Story

Spiraling Into Lighter Than Air UAVs
Sanswire-TAO, the airship development and manufacturing joint venture equally owned by Sanswire Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SNSR), and TAO Technologies GmbH, have started the 2009 spiral development schedule of their Lighter Than Air (LTA) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) program for 2009.   Full Story


March 12, 2009
Uplogix Ups Partnership With Transcendent Global Networks
Uplogix, named Transcendent Global Networks LLC as a channel partner with a focus on the satellite and energy markets.   Full Story

It's 'Duck and Cover' From Space Debris As ISS Evacuates to Shelter
It's not easy evacuating when you're in outer space, especially when a piece of space debris is traveling at a high rate of speed aimed at you. Such was the situation today . . .   Full Story

Collaboration of Space and Missile Defense Research 'Tween Boeing and U.S. Army
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC/ARSTRAT) are working together to coordinate and fuse multiple types of sensor data in a secure environment for Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) and space situational awareness concept exploration.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: Triveni Digital's DTV Enhancements To GuideBuilder
Triveni Digital is going to participate in the ATSC Mobile DTV Pavilion at the 2009 NAB Show, demo'ing a new GuideBuilder™ software extension that offers broadcasters terrestrial and mobile DTV functionality in a single platform that relies on a facility’s established workflow.   Full Story

Hubble Reveals Dwarf Survivor Galaxies
The Hubble telescope provides continuous wonders, the most recent to date is while peering into the tumultuous heart of the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, Hubble discovered a large population of small galaxies that have remained intact while larger galaxies around them are being ripped apart by the gravitational tug of other galaxies.   Full Story

A Carefully Implemented "Kick" Should Return Odyssey To Full Operation
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands on March 11th to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot — the procedure also restored Odyssey's onboard set of backup systems, called the spacecraft's "B side," allowing its use in the future when necessary.   Full Story

digiGO! — High Performance CMOS At Core Of New Phantom High Speed Camera
Vision Research extended its Phantom? family of digital high speed cameras with the introduction of the v310.   Full Story

Tethys Tapped By Cassini, Which Also Swaps Thrusters
Early on the morning of March 12th, the Cassini spacecraft relayed information that it had successfully swapped to a backup set of propulsion thrusters late Wednesday.   Full Story

Networkfleet's Satellite Maps Tracks 'Em With 3-D Earth Imagery
Now Networkfleet, Inc. really can track their vehicles with high-resolution satellite and hybrid maps in its flagship Networkfleet wireless fleet management system.   Full Story

digiGO! — Cellebrite Is All Cell Sync'd Up
Cellebrite USA Corp., involved in mobile phone content transfer, backup, and management systems, has announced support for Google’s groundbreaking Android mobile phone OS.   Full Story

Fermi Gamma-ray Grabs
A new map combining nearly three months of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is giving astronomers an unprecedented look at the high-energy cosmos.   Full Story

The Next Space Age-Themed NSS Will Feature Secretary of the Air Force
Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley will address the 25th National Space Symposium on its closing day, April 2, 2009. In keeping with the symposium's theme, The Next Space Age, he will discuss the current state and future outlook of U.S. Air Force space programs and?their implications for the global space community.   Full Story

Acquisition Accomplishment: Harmonic Inc. + Scopus Video Networks
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has completed the acquisition of Scopus Video Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: SCOP) for $5.62 per share in cash, which represents an enterprise value of approximately $50 million, net of Scopus' cash and short-term investments.   Full Story

Uplogix Channeling Additional Expertise
Uplogix has named Transcendent Global Networks LLC a channel partner, with a focus on the Satellite and Energy Markets.   Full Story

DTV In Germany Remains The Bailiwick Of SES ASTRA
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has increased the number of digital TV homes reached by the ASTRA satellite system in Germany by 1.35 million (13.9 percent) to 11.1 million, thereby remaining the leading infrastructure for digital reception in Germany.   Full Story

Orange Peels New Services For Bourbon
Bourbon, a French marine services group, has selected Orange Business Services for the modernization of the communications system for its fleet of 150 vessels.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Norsat International...
Norsat International Inc. (“Norsat”) (TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF) has announced the Company's financial results for the three- and 12-month periods ended December 31, 2008. All results are in United States dollars unless otherwise stated.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Inmarsat plc...
Inmarsat plc (LSE: ISAT) gas reported consolidated financial results for the year ended 31 December 2008.   Full Story

Score One For BAE Systems + Further Integration Of New UAS Technologies
BAE Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc., a Tucson, Arizona-based producer of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and advanced ceramic materials.   Full Story

Here's Looking At Earth: A Superior Ice Crust
A relatively rare blanket of ice rested on the surface of Lake Superior in early March 2009.   Full Story

digiGO! — VoD W/O STB
TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson group (NASDAQ:ERIC), Sony, Neotion, and Strategy & Technology (S&T), have combined their industry expertise to deliver a Video on Demand (VoD) solution that enables cable operators to deliver network-based time-shift services and targeted adverts direct to the TV, without the need for a set-top box (STB).   Full Story

digiGO! — It Takes An Osmosys Bridge For IP Video + TV Functionality
Osmosys S.A. has launched its MHP 1.2 software, providing enhanced TV functionality and help bridge the worlds of broadcast and IP video.   Full Story

W3C To Be Built By Thales Alenia Space For Eutelsat
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has commissioned Thales Alenia Space to build the W3C satellite — the launcher for the satellite will be decided at a later stage.   Full Story


March 11, 2009
Prepping For 2011 — ILS Proton Launch of ViaSat-1's Highest Capacity To Date
An agreement has been signed by International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of the ViaSat-1 satellite, under construction by Space Systems Loral, on an ILS Proton.   Full Story

Ready? Set? No! NASA STS-119 — At Least Not Tonight . . .NEW UPDATE HERE
NASA officials scrubbed Wednesday’s attempt at 2:37 EDT to launch space shuttle Discovery after a slight leak was detected in a gaseous hydrogen (GH2) vent line.   Full Story

Aussie Air Show Appropriate Appearance Area For MANTIS + HERTI UAS
Visitors to Avalon (the Australian International Airshow and Aerospace and Defence Exposition) will see BAE Systems' vision of the future capability of autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) on display via its MANTIS and HERTI systems.   Full Story

MCL's Upgrade Program, Customers Win-Win
MCL's customers can now be part of an exclusive upgrade program regarding their 10999, MX/MT3000, or MX/MT5000 TWTA units.   Full Story

The Importance Of Impeccable Imagery Brings New PCI System To The Forefront
PCI Geomatics has released a new, cost effective system for automated satellite image processing and job scheduling.?   Full Story

SatLink Receives Finalist Recognition From WTA
SatLink Communications Ltd. has been named a finalist for the World Teleport Association's Independent Teleport Operator of the Year.   Full Story

SSPI Satellite Hall Of Fame Inductees
The Society of Satellite Professionals International, the professional development society of the global satellite industry, will induct five new members into its Satellite Hall of Fame at an invitation only ceremony on March 25, 2009, sponsored by Booz & Co.:   Full Story

SWE-DISH Brings Their New Fly-Away Home
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB is expanding its innovative line of products with the availability of the FA120KS Fly-Away terminal.   Full Story

UAVs Could Bring Troops Fresh Combat Supplies
By this summer, combat troops in Afghanistan could be getting re-supplied by giant unmanned aerial vehicles, a Marine Corps general told Congress on Wednesday.   Full Story

Canadian Cops + The DraganFlyer X6 UAV
The DraganFlyer X6 Helicopter is the first North American, federally approved, commercially manufactured UAV legal for use by emergency services in North America — the Saskatoon Police and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Canada will start using the Draganflyer X6 in police investigations.   Full Story

Telkom 3 Comm Tackled By Thales Alenia Space for ISS
Thales Alenia Space now has a contract with JSC “ISS – Reshetnev Company” (formerly NPO-PM) to supply the Telkom-3 communications satellite payload.   Full Story

ESO's Access To Hubble + VLT Offer Remote Galaxy Views In 3D
Astronomers have obtained exceptional 3D views of distant galaxies, seen when the Universe was half its current age, by combining the twin strengths of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s acute eye, and the capacity of ESO’s Very Large Telescope to probe the motions of gas in tiny objects, according to the latest information from the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO).   Full Story

At-Sea-Services Obtain Zynetix' Maritime GSM Enhancements
Zynetix has announced the general availability of the nexgen maritime GSM platform and service – the updated Zynetix Ocean Linx GSM controller and the new Zynetix Managed Core Services (MCS).   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth: Terra Trackin' Ships
On March 4, 2009, the skies over the northeast Pacific Ocean were streaked with clouds that form around the particles in ship exhaust.   Full Story

FIncke + Lonchakov Install Experiment During ISS Spacewalk
Tuesday's spacewalk with Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov concluded at 5:11 p.m. EDT when the Pirs docking module airlock was closed. The spacewalk concluded ahead of schedule, lasting 4 hours and 49 minutes.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited (“AsiaSat”) announced the Company's intention to deregister from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and terminate its reporting obligations under Section 12(g) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”).   Full Story

Saturn's New Moonlet Ringed In By Cassini
This sequence of three images, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over the course of about 10 minutes, shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Saturn's faint G ring.   Full Story

Lamit Bringing Stability To SatInternet Environs
Lamit Company has launched a new solution for improving the satellite Internet connections (terrestrial, wireless or bidirectional via satellite), the 2.5 STABLE version of Lamit 2Pro Advanced and Lamit 2Pro Mini Power servers.   Full Story

U.S. Intelligence Experts Believe North Korea Will Launch Missile With SATCOM Payload
North Korea is planning a space launch, as it claims, director of U.S. intelligence Dennis Blair told lawmakers Tuesday amid speculation about what sort of rocket Pyongyang plans to fire.   Full Story

GOCE Going For GO
With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft – encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing – has been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch tower at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.   Full Story


March 10, 2009
For Globe Trotters — Globe Wireless Launches GlobeMobile at Digital Ship
Announced at the Digital Ship Conference in Oslo, Norway, Globe Wireless launched GlobeMobile, a new and complete GSM solution for vessels.   Full Story

Canadian Ship Tracking Nanosat Timely Success
Canada's first foray into ship tracking from space has been tremendously successful — nanosatellite Tracking of Ships (NTS), otherwise known as Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment 6 (CanX-6), a 6.5 kg, 20-cm cubical satellite, was conceived in October 2007, completed only six months later in March 2008, and launched on April 28, 2008 on board Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C9 from India.   Full Story

ESA + China Agree To Bio Sample Space Transportation
The Xinhua News Agency is reporting China has agreed to carry a bio sample for the European Space Agency on the country's Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, this according to Zhang Jianqi, deputy chief commander of the manned space project.   Full Story

STS-119 Crew Touches Down In Florida
The crew members for the STS-119 mission pose for a photo after arriving at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for launch.   Full Story

GLOBALink(s) ARINC — Puts Brazil In the Air
Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country, in cooperation with Brazil’s Departamento de Controle do Espao Areo (DECEA), ARINC Incorporated today announced the launch of its GLOBALinkSM/VHF ACARS air-ground data link communications.   Full Story

Two New NASA TV Services — Streams, Launches and Lands
Two separate announcements that reveal new and improved coverage of NASA Television.   Full Story

Itsy-Bitsy Unmanned 'Insect Spy' Aircraft
At Wright State University in Ohio, students have been busy building flying bugs . . . rather, dragonfly-like, radio-controlled mechanical contraptions.   Full Story

An Almost Awarding Revelation For RRsat Global Communications
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) has been selected as a finalist for the World Teleport Association's (WTA) 2009 Teleport Awards for Excellence.   Full Story

The Magic Of Merlin Is All Fired Up
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) successfully conducted a full mission duration firing of its new Merlin Vacuum engine on March 7, at SpaceX’s Test Facility in McGregor, Texas.   Full Story

Retiring With Distinction At NASA
Kevin L. Petersen, director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, has announced he plans to retire from NASA effective April 3rd.   Full Story

digiGO! — Optical Signal Testing Reaches New Capabilities With Agilent
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has introduced the industry's first time-domain based optical modulation analyzer offering in-depth analysis of amplitude and phase-modulated optical signals.   Full Story

NASA Ignited Over Ares I
NASA has completed a successful test firing of the igniter that will be used to start the Ares I rocket first stage motor.   Full Story

Herschel + Planck's Space Ride Arrives
Arianespace has taken delivery of its second Ariane 5 ECA for launch in 2009, receiving the heavy-lift vehicle for installation of two spacecraft that will study the universe's origins.   Full Story

Airborne Eyes On Agriculture
Air Robotics, LLC, has released their Im VII AVS™, a new class of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) built for use in a wide range of scientific applications.   Full Story

Getting Geo-Spatial Goodies Is 21st Century Systems
21st Century Systems, Inc. (21CSI) has entered into an agreement with Infoterra GmbH (Infoterra) as U.S. distributor of its satellite based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) TerraSAR-X Services.   Full Story

Mars Odyssey Remains Paused
The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter postponed a planned rebooting of the spacecraft this morning after seeing an unexpected rise in the temperature of a star camera that is part of the navigation system.   Full Story

Mini-Thrust, Maxi Motion, From ESA
This month, an ESA team is preparing to test the performance of the smallest yet most precisely controllable engine ever built for space, sensitive enough to counteract the force of incoming sunshine.   Full Story


March 9, 2009
Choctawahatchee's Own Wins Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award
Kudos go to Ricardo V. Soria, assistant principal of Choctawahatchee High School in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who has been named the 2009 recipient of the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award.   Full Story

Canadians' UAVs Up In Arms
Reports are in announcing the next generation of unmanned aircraft in the Canadian military will be armed, but will be used selectively and within the boundaries of international law, says the head of the country's air force.   Full Story

Here's Looking At Earth: Chilean Plumes A' Plenty
The Andes Mountains along the western coastline of South America include numerous active stratovolcanoes (steep-sided, cone-shaped volcanoes).   Full Story

SAIC In Full Support
Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) to provide technical assistance and selected support services.   Full Story

SATCOM For Santa Barbara County's EOC
In response to the need for a system-wide communications solution in the event of a power outage during an emergency situation in Santa Barbara County, a community partnership between private and public organizations is collaborating to enhance the County's communications capabilities with residents for the next regional emergency.   Full Story

Moving On Out + Moving On Up... Wavecom...
Wavecom (Paris:AVM) (NASDAQ:WVCM) has announced that, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding entered into between Sierra Wireless, Inc. and Wavecom on December 1, 2008, and following the change of control of Wavecom, Michel Alard, Aram H?kimian, Bernard Gilly, Stephen Imbler and Anthony Maher tendered their resignations as directors of Wavecom and Ronald Black tendered his resignation as director and CEO of Wavecom, effective as of March 6, 2009, which resignations were duly accepted.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... Orbital Sciences Corporation...
Orbital Sciences Corporation's (NYSE:ORB) Board of Directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock over a 12-month period, beginning immediately.   Full Story

Teaming Up: Globecomm Systems + KEYW Corporation
Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a provider of SATCOM infrastructure solutions and services around the world, announced the Company is launching a Teaming Agreement with KEYW Corporation, an engineering company serving the Intelligence, Surveillance and Special Military communities, to work together and leverage both companies capabilities.   Full Story

EDA To Unify Sats For Imaging Cooperation
The European Defence Agency's EDA Steering Board has agreed to approve a project for the next generation of European military earth observation satellites.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: FOR-A Going For The Lock... Chroma Key, That Is...
FOR-A is going to introduce its MBP-100CK — a compact, standalone HD/SD chroma keyer — at NAB.   Full Story

digiGO! - NAB: A Bright Drive To Debut
Bright Systems, a developer of disk recording and data infrastructure technology, will debut its BrightDrive G2 file-based recording system at NAB.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: Media Solution Centralizer From SintecMedia
SintecMedia is using NAB 2009 to introduce OnAir Pivot-NL, the comprehensive business solution for media companies in the emerging Non-Linear marketplace.   Full Story

Iridium's Destroyed Satellite Has Now Been Replaced
Iridium is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, the company completed the replacement of the operational Iridium satellite lost in the collision three weeks ago with a non-operational Russian satellite. The unique architecture of Iridium’s fully-meshed network of 66 satellites enabled the continuity of service to Iridium’s customers while one of Iridium’s in-orbit spares was prepared and maneuvered into the constellation.   Full Story

Uplogix Recovery For Net Devices
Uplogix has announced the availability of its Uplogix Remote Management Operating System (RMOS) v4.0 intelligent software platform.   Full Story

Battlespace SatTrack Security Improved By Comtech
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, launched its nexgen Blue Force Tracking High Capacity (BFT-HC) solution for satellite-enhanced asset tracking and secure mobile data communications.   Full Story

More — From EMS Satamatics, Germanischer Lloyd Maritime Compliance
Kudos to EMS Satamatics for receiving the successful Type Approval by Germanischer Lloyd of the SAT-201i-Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) solution.   Full Story

SWE-DISH Dishes-Out New High-Capacity SATCOM Terminal
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems has a new SATCOM on-the-move terminal, the result of integration of SWE-DISH’s leading satellite terminal technology and Saab’s leading stabilized platform technology.   Full Story

Diversity in World Teleport Association Finalists for 2009
World Teleport Association (WTA) announced the finalists for its 2009 Teleport Awards for Excellence, then from this group of finalists winners will be named in each of three categories on March 25, 2009 at the Association's 14th annual Teleport Awards for Excellence Ceremony and Luncheon at SATELLITE 2009 in Washington, DC.   Full Story

SatFlicks Find Their Way To Australia + New Zealand Via IDC
International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC), who provides advanced solutions for the distribution of broadband multimedia content via satellite, has announced the Company, in partnership with its Australian-based distributor OmniCast, received an order from Global Vision Networks for the provision of a new digital cinema broadband distribution network for Hoyts Cinemas in Australia and New Zealand.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... COM DEV International...
COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has announced its first quarter financial results for the three-month period ended January 31, 2009, with all amounts are stated in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise noted.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: Speaking About DTV...
At the 2009 NAB Show, experts from Triveni Digital will participate in three NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference sessions dedicated to the subjects of DTV and mobile content delivery.   Full Story

Winning Ways For WGS To Continue On March 14th
The U.S. Air Force will launch the second Wideband Global SATCOM satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, March 14th at 9:25 p.m. EDT from Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.   Full Story

Aurora To Provide Guidance To UAV Ops
Aurora Flight Sciences announced the Company has been awarded a NASA contract to develop a new guidance, navigation, and control capability aimed at increasing the reliability of unmanned air vehicle (UAV) operations during the landing flare phase of flight.   Full Story

Smart Australian Bioseeker Technology
Studying how insects see and navigate has resulted in a smart weapon seeker and guidance technology, the Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, the Hon. Warren Snowdon MP has announced.   Full Story

Here's Looking At Earth: Hamish Hassles Australia
With winds near 130 knots (150 miles per hour), Tropical Cyclone Hamish was a powerful Category 4 storm (on the Saffir-Simpson Scale) as it paralleled the northeast coast of Australia at the end of the first week of March 2009.   Full Story

Moving On Up... At SkyTerra...
SkyTerra (OTCBB: SKYT) has named Gary Epstein as Executive Vice President of Law and Regulation and he will be responsible for the legal, legislative, and regulatory strategy at SkyTerra.   Full Story

Future Air Traffic Control System From TriaGnoSys
TriaGnoSys, a member of the NEWSKY consortium, will be displaying the nexgen of air traffic control services at ATC Global 2009 in Amsterdam, 17-19 March.   Full Story

ISS Will Soon Shine On With Great Vigor
Once Canadarm2 helps to install the fourth and final set of solar array wings to the International Space Station later this month, the ISS will then surpass Venus as the brightest object in the night sky, second only to the Moon.   Full Story

Exemplary Work By Lockheed Martin Rewarded
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] received the Space Flight Awareness Supplier Award last week from United Space Alliance, NASA’s prime contractor for the Space Shuttle Program.   Full Story

GPS IIA GPR Achieved By Lockheed Martin
The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team developing the nexgen Global Positioning System (GPS) spacecraft, known as GPS III, is progressing on-schedule, achieving key milestones in the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) phase with the U.S. Air Force.   Full Story

PACS Pact Provided To Integral Systems
Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISYS), has been awarded a $1.1 million contract option to complete the modernization of the Polar Acquisition and Control Subsystem (PACS) command, control, and communications (C3) ground system for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   Full Story


March 6, 2009
Global Marketing's African Sensing Insights For USGS
Global Marketing Insights, Inc. has now completed their “2008 Africa Survey and Analysis of the Remote Sensing Market, Aerial and Spaceborne-10 Year Trends” and delivered the final report to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).   Full Story

Moving On Up... At Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has named David L. Ryan sector vice president for business development at its Information Systems sector, reporting directly to Linda A. Mills, corporate vice president and president of Information Systems.   Full Story

Demo Boeing Picosat Attains 10,000 Orbits
The Boeing [NYSE: BA] demo picosatellite CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) has surpassed 10,000 Earth orbits since its launch on April 17, 2007.   Full Story

Moving On Up... At BAE Systems...
BAE Systems has named Gene Glazar president of its newly formed Information Solutions business, based in Reston.   Full Story

Cloud Control @ Next Year's PTC Conference
The Pacific Telecommunications Council is pleased to announce the theme selected for the 32nd annual conference, PTC'10, January 17th through 20th, 2010, is Embracing the Cloud: Enabling Connectivity and Innovation.   Full Story

Last Year's Vizada Trade-Up Program Returns
Vizada is extending its popular Trade-Up to Iridium promotion based on feedback from Service Providers — due to the overwhelming success of last year’s promotion, Vizada is bringing back the the program, which now runs through September 30, 2009.   Full Story

Partnership Power: SARS + Securewest Int'l
SARS Corp. (OTCBB: SARO.OTC) (“SARS”), together with its marketing partner, Securewest International, Inc. (“Securewest International”) will integrate the SkyWave Mobile Communication Inc.(“SkyWave”) Long Range Identification Tracking (“LRIT”) solution with the SARS asset tracking and management systems.   Full Story

ViaSat Finds Yonder VAR
ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has appointed Satcom Direct as a value-added reseller and customer support liaison for its new Yonder Mobile Broadband Service, offering data and voice communication services for corporate, business, and military aircraft.   Full Story

Warrior Alpha UAV Deployed In Iraq And Makes History
A team of Soldiers from Alpha Troop, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, made history on February 23rd when the unmanned aerial vehicle they were operating became the first armed Warrior Alpha unmanned aerial system to fire missiles in combat.   Full Story

Run the Iditarod From the Comfort of Your Couch
The dogs (and their mushers) are fiercely competitive, itching to head out on the famous 1,000 mile Iditarod race beginning March 7.   Full Story

More Searcher UAV Capability
Israel Aerospace Industries' Searcher 3 unmanned air vehicle has been equipped with an Australian Jabiru engine, reports Arie Egozi of Flightglobal.   Full Story

Russia Intimates Anti-Satellite Weaponry Is Of Primary Importance
According to Yahoo! News and the Associated Press, bylined by Vladimir Isachenkov, Russia is working to develop anti-satellite weapons to match efforts by other nations, a deputy defense minister was quoted as saying last Thursday.   Full Story

Core 2 To Power UAVs
General Micro Systems Inc. (GMS) has introduced the Raider (S705), a new rugged, ultra-small, Core 2 Duo-based system.   Full Story

Ariane 5 ECA Travels To French Guiana For TerreStar-1
Arianespace is maintaining its Ariane 5 mission pace with this week's delivery of the third heavy-lift vehicle to be launched in 2009 from the Spaceport in French Guiana.   Full Story

ULA Kepler Launch Successful for NASA
A successful launch occurred Friday evening for the Kepler spacecraft at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket... screen captures directly from NASA TV as the liftoff occurred at 07:50:55 PM PST, reaching Mach 1 some 33 seconds after liftoff. The first stage engine cutoff at 07:54:37 with the second stage ignition at 07:55:22 p.m.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. + Liberty Media Corporation...
SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (Nasdaq: SIRI) and Liberty Media Corporation (Nasdaq: LINTA, LINTB, LCAPA, LCAPB, LMDIA, LMDIB) have closed the second, and final, phase of the previously announced investment by Liberty in SIRIUS XM.   Full Story

Capturing An F-Ring Intrusion
Half an hour after Prometheus tore into this region of Saturn's F ring, the Cassini spacecraft snapped this image just as the moon was creating a new streamer in the ring.   Full Story

South Africa Launches Space Policy
While South Africa's research into space technology and travel was uncoordinated in the past, the South African National Space Policy, launched Friday, will give direction to the country's space agenda.   Full Story

South American Backhaul Needs Finds Comtech EF Data At The Ready
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., won $1.7 million in equipment orders from a service provider who will use the equipment to support satellite-based cellular backhaul network expansions in South America.   Full Story

Accouterments Of The SSTL Variety For KANOPUS
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has delivered to the customer, FSUE NPP VNIIEM, the first two suites of equipment for the KANOPUS-type satellite platforms.   Full Story


March 5, 2009
Scopus Video Networks (Booth 254 @ Satellite 2009)
Today's satellite operators and broadcasters require cost-effective solutions for independent HD content contribution and global newsgathering, as well as for event coverage and transmission. The need for advanced yet cost-effective compression and modulation techniques has become critical to facilitate a smooth migration from MPEG2 to H.264 compression, simplifying the distribution of HD digital feeds via satellite and IP networks.   Full Story

Royal Australian Navy To Obtain Dual Antenna Systems
The Communication Systems business of Overwatch Tactical Operations, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron company (NYSE: TXT), has been awarded a follow-on contract by Astrium Limited to build 10 additional X/Ka shipboard antennas for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), with options for two more.   Full Story

Latitude's SkyNode Now Compliments navAero EFB
Latitude Technologies has completed testing and has conclusively proven the interoperability of the text messaging, ?telephone dialing, and device memory functions of its SkyNode? S200 SATCOM voice and data transceivers with the t?BagC2? Class 2 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) from navAero Inc.   Full Story

digiGO! — New ABI Research Finds WiMAX Remains Extremely Viable
Any reader who believes all of the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE.   Full Story

Map Wars
Despite the strong growth of portable navigation, Internet mapping sites remain very popular for trip planning, local search and written directions.   Full Story

XipLink Uncovers MENA Distribution Player
At CabSat, XipLink announced Prologix as the latest addition to its global network of Value Added Distributors.   Full Story

Build Your Own Window On The Universe
The Galileoscope — a high quality, easy-to-assemble and easy-to-use telescope at an unprecedentedly low price — is now available.   Full Story

500K Milestone Met By Predator UAV, Most In Combat Roles
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI) has announced that MQ-1 Predator aircraft delivered to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) have surpassed the 500,000 flight hour milestone, with 87 percent of those hours being flown in combat. </b   Full Story

500K Milestone Met By Predator UAV, Most In Combat Roles
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI) has announced that MQ-1 Predator aircraft delivered to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) have surpassed the 500,000 flight hour milestone, with 87 percent of those hours being flown in combat.   Full Story

Nagravision Hits China's Airways — Running
Nagravision, a Kudelski Group [SWX:KUD] an independent provider of value-added content protection solutions, and mobile TV operator China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corp. (CSM), has entered the second deployment phase for China's national mobile TV service called China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB).   Full Story

Spatial Plug 'N Play Under Development By Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is developing a robust, radiation-hardened, wireless spacecraft bus under a $4.1 million, 21-month, first phase contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.   Full Story

The View Is The Thing... Especially With 50 Sat Sent Channels...
RTL II installed a complete DVB over IP solution allowing 200 employees to simultaneously view about 50 TV and radio channels at the work place, with the core of the installation being the Exterity prodaptor chassis handling the 50 DVB-S TV and radio channels, which come from several satellites, all streamed to the in-house IP network.   Full Story

Just Announced —Top Experts Gather Round at the 25th National Space Symposium
Top space executives from across the industry will gather at the 25th National Space Symposium March 30 - April 2, 2009, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.   Full Story

Raytheon Revels In Successful Troposcatter Demo
In a recent exercise with the U.S. Army, Raytheon Company achieved an industry-first wireless transmission of its lightweight High Capacity Beyond Line-of-Sight troposcatter system.   Full Story

Here's Looking At Earth: UAE's Dusty Days
Heat and dust storms plagued the United Arab Emirates at the end of February 2009.   Full Story


March 4, 2009
SkyTerra + IAFC Reveal How SMART They Are...
The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) Technology Council, in cooperation with SkyTerra Communications, has published an extensive information paper on the Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroup Program (SMART™) and how it enables and improves interoperable communications for public safety operations.   Full Story

NASA + Cisco Getting Into The Planetary Skin
NASA and Cisco Inc. now have a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze, and report data on   Full Story

An Uplinking Deal For Crawford + Entertainment Studios
Entertainment Studios has selected electronic media services provider Crawford Communications, Inc. for its transmission of six H) television networks, initially launching on Verizon’s FiOS TV.   Full Story

Harris Takes Harris Solution to Iraqi Media Network
Harris Corporation [NYSE:HRS] will provide an integrated large-scale broadcast solution to the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) as part of a major facility upgrade that includes automation, servers, core processing, multiviewers, test and measurement, branding and routers.   Full Story

Tata Sky Welcomes Wohler Wonderments
Wohler Technologies Inc. has announced that Tata Sky, a joint venture between the TATA Group and STAR, is using a range of Wohler monitoring systems to support DTH satellite television service that delivers 170 channels to more than three million connections across India.   Full Story

digiGO! — Gefen Metering Out HDMI
Gefen's new HDMI v1.3 Fiber Extender supplies an innovative and efficient new technology so users can extend their HDMI v1.3 display up to 330 meters (about 1000-feet) in distance.   Full Story

digiGO! — U.K. User Reviews Site Finds Blu-ray Lacking
After a disappointing sales performance at Christmas for Blu-ray, the HD disc format may be in trouble, according to Reevoo.com, the customer reviews website.?   Full Story

China's Claim of Long March 5 Rocket's Fuel-ish Capacity
Information has been provided from a Chinese space expert that China's Long March 5 large-thrust carrier rocket, currently under development and scheduled to be put into service in 2014, uses less fuel for the same load than any other rocket in the world except Boeing's Delta 4 Heavy.   Full Story

GOES-O Gantry Greeting Date Set
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, arrived Tuesday morning via a C17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility from the manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California.   Full Story

Shenzhen Set to Become Growth Engine of Economy
According to Chinese news reports, the aerospace industry is expected to become the new growth engine of Shenzhen's economy with the establishment of a satellite manufacturing company. It was reported previously that the state-owned company will gradually move its core business of space manufacturing and aerospace technology applications to Shenzhen.   Full Story

Smartlink Is iDirect When It Comes To An Intelligent Platform
VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems),has announced that Jordan-based Smartlink Communications, a newly established satellite network operator, has chosen iDirect’s Intelligent Platform to launch a satellite broadband service covering the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe based on the DVB-S2 standard with Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM).   Full Story

Moving On Up... At SpaceX
Rob Peckham has joined Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) as Vice President of Business Development.   Full Story

More On GOES-O From Boeing
Boeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA has announced the second of three, next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has shipped from Boeing's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will undergo final preparations for launch this spring.   Full Story

Valve Victory Proclaimed — Discovery Could Launch On The 11th
NASA has moved up by one day to March 11 the launch of its space shuttle <i>Discovery</i> on its 16-day mission to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).   Full Story

Winning Moves By General Dynamics' WIN-T Team
A General Dynamics-led team recently completed a successful developmental test of the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 on-the-move broadband networking capability.   Full Story


March 3, 2009
Planck's Prep Proceeds Promptly
Payload preparations for Ariane 5’s next launch are progressing at the Spaceport in French Guiana for a scheduled April 16th liftoff with a dual-passenger space science payload — this second Arianespace flight of 2009 will carry two European Space Agency spacecraft: Planck and Herschel, both of which are to explore the universe’s mysteries.   Full Story

Dates Revealed — Come to the CASBAA Convention 2009
For those awaiting word when the next CASBAA Convetion will convene, the date is official — November 3rd – 6th at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Wanchai, Hong Kong.   Full Story

Germanischer Lloyds Passes EMS Satamatics' System
EMS Satamatics, a division of EMS Technologies [NASDAQ: ELMG] announced the successful Type Approval by Germanischer Lloyds of its dual-mode Ocean Alert Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) and Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) solution.   Full Story

Thuraya Showcases Screamingly-Speedy Satellite Streaming Service
Thuraya Telecommunications, is sharing their latest accomplishment at this week’s CABSAT MENA 2009, where it is showcasing the world’s first satellite solution offering streaming speeds of up to 384kbps.   Full Story

Photo Map Like a Pro With GeoSpatial Experts
Those folks who take digital photographs, whether for business or pleasure, can now map their photos like the professionals.   Full Story

GlobeCast Smart As a Fox, VoxAfrica First to Sign
GlobeCast announced that its African DTH platform has successfully started transmissions on SES ASTRA’s Astra 4A (Sirius 4) satellite resulting in African broadcaster VoxAfrica becoming one of the first channels to sign up for the new platform that provides sub-Saharan widest and most powerful coverage in Africa.   Full Story

Galactic Tug O' War Spotted By Hubble
A new Hubble image reveals three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them.   Full Story

Northrop Grumman Notches 'Nother AEHF Payload Delivery
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite on February 27, marking three consecutive early deliveries by the company for the sophisticated flight hardware and software.   Full Story

Spatial Robotic Research @ Aurora Flight Sciences Wins NASA Award
Aurora Flight Sciences has announced the Company, MIT's Manned Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), and the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL) recently won a NASA Small-Business Technology Transfer Research proposal to develop a software system that performs command and control of a diverse team of mobile robots, operating in a variety of control modes, to perform multi-agent planetary exploration.   Full Story

O3b Trunking Headed Into Ghana
O3b Networks, the developer of a new fibre quality, satellite-based, global Internet backbone, announced today that Satconsult, Ltd. of Ghana has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for high speed, low latency IP trunking from O3b Networks.   Full Story

IS-15 Contracted For DETASAD Capacity
Intelsat Ltd. has announced that Detecon Al Saudia Co. Ltd. (DETASAD) signed a multi-year contract for Ku-band capacity on Intelsat’s new satellite, IS-15, which will be located at 85 degrees East when launched later this year.   Full Story

Spacenet's Hybrid Net Catches Cumberland Farms Ops
Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT), has signed a contract to provide an upgraded data network to approximately 500 Cumberland Farms locations across the United States.   Full Story

An Imager For EarthCARE Brings SSTL + Astrium Satellites Together
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a 30M pounds contract with Astrium GmbH, Germany for the supply of a Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) EarthCARE mission.   Full Story


March 2, 2009
Palming Off Optimization Is XipLink
XipLink has debuted their XipStick™, a self-contained, palm-sized wireless optimizer that runs the latest XipLink Optimization Software (XipOS), version 2.7.   Full Story

Indian Coastal Defence To Rely On UAVCOMM Or SATCOMM
Just when coastal India examines measures to counter seaborne threats, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is in the process of developing an integrated costal defence system under its Project Nayan.   Full Story

UAV Weapons School Graduates To Train Others
Airmen flying remote-controlled planes now have a graduate school to attend.   Full Story

digiGO! — NAB: i-Movix (Booth SU7823A)
I-Movix is a Belgian company with market-leading technology in the domain of extreme slow motion. The company's debut product, SprintCam Live, was launched at IBC2007. SprintCam Live, which is now in its second version, is the first true full broadcast integration solution for extreme slow motion, offering the unprecedented combination of up to 10,000 frames per second and instant replay.   Full Story

Chang'e-1 Buries Itself In Moon
Chang'e-1, China's first lunar probe, impacted the moon at 4:13 p.m. Beijing Time (0813 GMT) on Sunday, said sources with the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.   Full Story

digiGO! — This Camera Can Definitely Communicate
Pixavi has launched its new video collaboration product, the Xcaster.   Full Story

MilSat Of Russian Persuasion Pushed Into Orbit
A Russian military satellite is now in orbit above the Earth after being launched with a Proton-K heavy carrier rocket Saturday.   Full Story

Space Docking Is In China's Plans For New Space Module
China has definite plans to launch a space module next year and carry out the nation's first space docking in 2011 as a step towards the country's goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday.   Full Story

Kepler Is Wearing A Two-Piece
With the Kepler spacecraft secured tightly to the top of a Delta II rocket, technicians placed the two-piece nose cone around the observatory as they continued working toward a launch no earlier than March 6th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida's Atlantic coast.</b   Full Story

USAF Moves Wide to Encapsulate
Positive reports indicate that the launch of the U.S. Air Force’s second Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft (WGS-2) moved another step closer to reality February 26, when engineers completed the encapsulation procedure at Astrotech Space Operations Building 9 in Titusville, Florida.   Full Story

Financially Speaking... EchoStar Corporation...
EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) has reported total revenue of $496 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2008, a 37 percent increase compared with $361 million for the corresponding period in 2007.   Full Story

'Chute Success
NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The test took place February 28th at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.   Full Story

digiGO! — Merger Magic... HaiVision + VIdeo Furnace...
HaiVision Systems Inc., a leading vendor of high-performance H.264 encoders and codec systems, and Video Furnace Inc., a leader in IP video delivery software solutions, have signed a definitive agreement to merge and become HaiVision Network Video.   Full Story

Wenchang To Welcome New Chinese Launch Center
China construct a new space launch center in the southernmost Hainan Province in the near future, according to military sources.   Full Story

ESA Earth Explorer Missions Are Of The PREMIERE, CoReH2O, + BIOMASS Variety
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced three candidate Earth Explorer mission concepts to progress to the next phase of consolidation, which will lead to the launch of the Agency's seventh Earth Explorer satellite in the 2016 time frame.   Full Story

UAVCOMM Brought To French SIDM By Intelsat
Intelsat General Corp. has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to provide bandwidth to The London Satellite Exchange Ltd., a subsidiary of Astrium Services, itself a unit of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).   Full Story

digiGO! — VIdeo Content Support From Front Porch Digital To AFN
Front Porch Digital has announced that the American Forces Network (AFN) Broadcast Center has implemented the Company's DIVArchive(TM), DIVAnet(TM), and DIVAprotect(TM) systems to support management, retrieval, and long-term preservation of video content.   Full Story

Singapore Sets Sights On ScanEagle
ScanEagle, a long-endurance, fully autonomous, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and subsidiary Insitu has successfully completed a ship-based trial with the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN).   Full Story

Swift Satellite Senses Super Gamma Bursts
U.K. astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma-ray burst, the most violent and luminous explosions that occur in the Universe — the work was published on February 27th in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.   Full Story

Spatially Suited For Oceaneering Int'l
Oceaneering International has signed a letter contract with the NASA for development and production of the Constellation Space Suit System (CSSS), a new space suit for solar system exploration.   Full Story

Korea To Receive HD Goodies Via GlobeCast, SPE + MEASAT-3
SPE Networks – Asia (SPENA), GlobeCast, and MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd (MEASAT) have signed an agreement to distribute the AXN HD channel in the Asia-Pacific Region, starting with the Korean market, starting on March 1st, 2009.</b   Full Story

ICO Vs. Boeing Judgement Rendered In L.A.
A Los Angeles Superior Court overseeing the litigation by ICO Global Communications against Boeing Co. and its satellite subsidiary has now denied nearly all of Boeing's post-trial motions, ICO announced on March 2nd.   Full Story

Moving On Up... At Integral Systems...
Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISYS) has appointed R. Miller Adams as General Counsel.   Full Story

ASBU-MENOS Network Gains OmniGlobe Networks' DSNG Talents
OmniGlobe Networks EMEA, a supplier of communications equipment and systems for satellite and terrestrial transmissions, announced that following the Company's recent strategic alliance with Sat-Comm Ltd, it has qualified as a certified digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) supplier for the ASBU-MENOS network, with the official announcement made after the successful testing performed by Newtec at its Belgian facilities in December of last year.   Full Story


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