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December 30, 2016 ATK—Prime Push For Operational Cost + Data Delay Reduction (SATCOM) ATK (NYSE: ATK) announced that it successfully completed the last major technical milestone in its contract from the...
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December 23, 2016 Certifiably PIGI The PIGI project enables people to rapidly experiment with new smallsat concepts.
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SES Heading For EXPO 2020 Plus Offering A New White Paper The world exhibition with the overall theme of “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future” and the new White Paper reveals why satellites are the answer...
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A Frost & Sullivan IoT Forecast From ReportLinker While only accounting for 25.5 million units globally in 2015, the satellite IoT market is expected to grow at a faster pace than any other satellite market.
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Inmarsat's Project Is A Precursor To Improving European Air Traffic Management the Iris Precursor program initially focuses on continental Europe, but will eventually also benefit air traffic management in other regions around the world.
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Globalstar Delighted With The FCC The FCC is expected to release this order today...
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Satnews Publishers Wishes All... We thank all for your support during 2016...
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Post Launch Maneuvers For JCSAT-15 All Proceeding As Planned The satellite deployed its solar arrays on schedule and will fire the main thruster later today in order to propel the satellite toward final, geosynchronous orbit.
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An Ongoing Discovery For SES' MX1 Platform The “MX1 360” platform is fully integrated with the broadcaster’s systems...
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A New DTH Platform Launched On ABS-2A This new platform will broadcast more than 170 TV channels of local and international content.
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Afghanistan's Roshan Receives Cellular Backhauling Support From SpeedCast SpeedCast’s cellular backhaul suite of solutions, under the CelCast™ name, are designed to optimize satellite traffic...
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Accurate Satellite Navigation From HUBER+SHUNER For Galileo The Switzerland-based company is supplying radio frequency components to the project and...
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Avanti On Again Off Again... Off Again... Off The Market And Ready To Launch The problem was recognized in July when Avanti Communications put itself up for sale as a result of a major financial crisis triggered by covenants on its borrowings.
Inmarsat's GX Aviation Into Eurowings Airbus 320 Fleet The first installations have already been completed by Lufthansa Technik and testing is scheduled to commence in the New Year.
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December 22, 2016 EchoStar XIX Will Power HughesNet Gen5 This is the highest capacity, multi-spot beam, Ka-band satellite in history and was built on a SSL 1300 platform...
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Satellite Optimized Adaptation By Bigleaf Networks This new optimization for satellite connectivity further advances Bigleaf's ability to provide optimal performance for sensitive applications...
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Turnkey Satellite Solution From Signalhorn To Benefit Fred Olsen Renewables Signalhorn will provide and maintain Fred Olsen Renewables with secure and reliable communication for remote locations...
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Virtues Of VSAT Video From Advantech Wireless The defined problem is discussed and then offers a solution for consideration...
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RigNet Nets A Profit With A Middle Eastern Maritime Contract ...will include RigNet’s managed communication solution using the latest VSAT technology which is equipped with stabilized antennas.
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Antenna Attention By SSC For RADI The service agreement between RADI and SSC supports data reception for scientific purposes...
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Arianespace's Record Year Of Sending Satellites Skyward lead contractor for Europe’s future Ariane 6 launcher, which is scheduled for a first flight in 2020 and which will replace Ariane 5 in about 2023.
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December 21, 2016 Snapping Up SnapTV The deal with SnapTV signifies the start of NSSLGlobal’s new investment program wherein the firm proactively seeks young, innovative companies to invest in...
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Spacecom To Acquire Amos 17 Satellite From Boeing Satellite Systems International Spacecom will be spending approximately $161 million for this satellite order...
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Avanti Communications Group PLC Goes For a Refi & Not A Sale "Securing the underwriting of core bond investors to launch this major refinancing gives us a high degree of confidence that it will complete in January."—Paul Walsh, Chairman
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As Van Herck Departs From Newtec The Company Enjoys Revenue Growth Named to replace Mr. Van Herck by the Newtec Board of Directors is Thomas Van den Driessche...
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Questions Arise After Anomaly Of NASA's Webb Telescope once it's in orbit there's no way that it can just pull over to the side of the road and lift up the hood and wait for a tow truck...
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Airbus Defence And Space Goes Tripping With A Brain...MetOp-C Weather Sat This is a big brain to be shipped to various companies that weighs around 2.1 tonnes,
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Electra™ X2 Empowers DTH Teleport Harmonic's Electra™ X2 advanced media processor provides high-quality, low-bandwidth MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC variable-bitrate encoding of...
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KSF Space Assistance For Student Training With Smallsats Thirty-five cubesats are envisaged to be provided by universities in 19 European countries...
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Relationship Expansion 'Tween Telesat & OmniAccess For Maritime Ministrations OmniAccess chose the HTS Caribbean beam of Telesat’s Telstar 12 VANTAGE to bring a new standard of ...
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A Tripartite SatBroadcasting™ Endeavor By AsiaSat, Globecast and Deutsche Welle DW in HD is an additional offering next to the existing TV channel in SD and radio services on AsiaSat 7...
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Arianespce's Work Horse Soared To Success Launching Star One D1 And JCSAT-15 Today's launch involves former satisfied customers whose experience with Arianespace goes back a long ways.
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December 20, 2016 On Orbit & On Schedule — EchoStar XIX The SSL manufactured satellite deployed the solar arrays on schedule...
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JAXA's Exploration Escape Plan Via Epsilon-2 Is Successful This launch is seen as part of the ongoing effort by this nation to play a more significant role in the global launch services industry...
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Land-Mobile Market Via Satellite Report Published By NSR This new report assesses the latest developments and evaluates trends in demand by region and globally...
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Moving On Up... Miglia New Director Of Operations For Advantech Wireless He joins the company with more than 20 years of experience after serving in similar positions...
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Boeing Has Designs On ViaSat... Two Sats Pass PDR Muster "The ViaSat-3 class of satellites are the highest power payloads a Boeing-built 702 satellite platform has ever supported, coupled with the efficiency of all-electric propulsion." Full Story
December 19, 2016 SoftBank Has A Yen For OneWeb The move is part of SoftBank’s strategy to expand its overseas presence to increase profits, sources said on Saturday.
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Galileo Gets Going The European Commission, owner of the system, formally announced the start of Galileo Initial Services, the first step towards full operational capability.
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Smallsat Technology From Draper Of Benefit To NASA For Draper, CYGNSS is a welcome milestone in a story about satellites that’s just beginning...
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China Preps Carbon Monitoring Satellite ... Not A Moment Too Soon As Nation Chokes On Smog China is now the largest annual emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and its cities are often afflicted by heavy smog.
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Airbus Defence and Space's Pléiades Satellite Celebrates Five Alive... And Proves It A satellite is launched, and time flies, plans are made, but are the expectations met? In this case a resounding yes...
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COMSAT Keeps 'Em In The Air And Coming Back For More... Millions In Biz multiple AISR customers and additional critical mission sets resulted in COMSAT’s recently fielded state-of-the-art Managed Services Operations Center
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JAXA Readies To Chase Vanishing Electrons And Space Storms elucidating how highly charged electrons are born while they generate and vanish repeatedly along with space storms caused by the disturbance of...
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Israel's Space Agency's Severe Crisis After Amos Threatens National Space Program “The space industry is in a severe crisis that threatens the national space program ...”
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Arianespace Is Twice As Good...Closes Out The Year With A Double Launch and is the second time during the year that Arianespace will orbit two passengers
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December 18, 2016 ULA On The Way! Launches EchoStar XIX World’s Highest Capacity Broadband Satellite Despite several days delay due to a component that exhibited off-nominal behavior, and a minor hiccup this morning, the launch proceeded without incident...
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Xplornet Expects Big Things With EchoStar XIX Among a smaller crowd of about 100 in a VIP viewing area were executives from Xplornet Communications...
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A Nanometric Satellite Is In The Works By MBRSC & Dubai Municipality The satellite, called DM SAT1, is designed to collect and analyze environmental data using space technology...
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Land Image Acquisition By Göktürk-2 Satellite Hits 23.8 Million Kilometers The satellite was transferred to the Air Force Reconnaissance Satellite Command following the commissioning activities and trajectory tests...
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Ariane 5's Heavy Lift Launcher... It Ain't Heavy It's Dual Satellites For the second time this year, Arianespace will orbit two SSL-built satellites on the same Ariane 5 launcher.
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Spaceflight's BlackSky Sneak Peek ... Not All Good News Folks got a sneak peek at images from Spaceflight, revealing Earth observation images of some areas of great social unrest.
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December 17, 2016 EUMETSAT Selects Thales Alenia Space... Likes That PDAP For Eumetsat Polar System is a new-generation data processing center, and will be capable of extracting both geophysical and environmental products in virtually real-time.
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Exceeding $18 Billion Is The Land-Mobile Via Satellite Market, In NSR's Estimation The market is highly dependent on new products and timely launch of higher bandwidth satellites...
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Digging Into The Accuracy Of Satellite Surveying Results In PhotoSat Report The company has delivered more than 700 satellite surveying projects since 2007 and accuracy evaluations have been carried out on the majority of them.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Launches With NASA's CYGNSS...Takes A New Look Inside Hurricanes the DDMI collects ocean surface roughness data using GNSS reflectometry, providing CYGNSS with a new method for looking inside hurricanes
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Thales Alenia Space's Largest Export Contract We have faced significant challenges on this program, tight delivery schedules and managing subcontractors from seven countries on three continents.
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Pegasus Pushes, CYGNSS Climbs... CYGNSS and the Pegasus rocket were carried into the atmosphere beneath Orbital ATK's "Stargazer" L-1011 carrier aircraft.
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Piers Sellers To Be Honored By Space Foundation With The General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award The 2017 honoree is Piers Sellers, Ph.D., OBE, British-born former NASA astronaut...
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Hosted Payload Alliance Delight With NASA's GeoCARB Mission The Hosted Payload Alliance congratulates NASA on this innovative new mission...
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Marlink Is Smooth Sailing With NSC-Group...VSAT-Based Maritime Broadband “We see a trend among ship owners where higher data speeds become a pre-requisite for operating smarter..."
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December 15, 2016 Taking A Transponder On ASTRA 4A The capacity contracted by 1+1 Media will enable the group to host all of their eight channels on SES’s satellite.
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The Winner Newtec Is A National Champ...Over 33,000 Businesses From 34 Countries more than 33,000 businesses from 34 countries were involved. Full Story
Sierra Nevada Corporation ...Sunny Side Up With CYGNSS' Solar Array Panels
Better hurricane forecasting just got even better as CYGNSS, aimed at improved hurricane forecasting, successfully reached orbit.
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December 14, 2016 A Smallsat Win For Nepalese Students Two teams from Nepal participated in the competition.
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GVF's Roundtable Revealed Now We See With A B C Of Sat Sector Expansion ...such that by 2025 there will be a 318 percentage point growth in the number of hybrid and HTS compared to the current number.
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The Powerful Over-The-Air Punch Of iDirect's iQ Series iDirect’s ground infrastructure platform and iQ Series modem technology, combined with Intelsat EpicNG satellites, yielded a throughput rate of 5.71 bps/Hz...
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G'day Mate, Here's Your SpeedMail ...SpeedCast Launches ‘SpeedMail Business Unlimited’ designed to provide maritime business continuity with predictable and fixed monthly costs, removing the fear of unexpected overage fees. Full Story
XipLink WANS It With Optimization Award XipLink Optimization Software (XipOS) delivers maximum capacity over stressed wireless links through the use of advanced TCP acceleration algorithms...
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A Lossless Winner With LizardTech Users of GeoExpress 9.5.3 can now convert massive Geiger-Mode point clouds directly from their native Binary Point File (BPF) format to industry-standard MrSID files without losing data.
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That's Some Vroon... Goes Big With KVH's Mini-VSAT Broadband™ providing crew members onboard tankers and livestock carriers daily updates of news and sports content, as well as new selections of popular movies and TV episodes.
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NASA's Hurricane Mission Has A Hassle — Launch Delayed This issue was discovered during routine testing Tuesday.
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The Upcoming 2017 SmallSat Symposium Presents the Keynote Roundtable Participants The SmallSat Symposium's Keynote Roundtable brings together three superb subject matter experts...
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Japan Gettin' Ready For Upcoming JCSAT-15 Launch For the second time this year, Arianespace will orbit two SSL-built satellites on the same Ariane 5 launcher.
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Thuraya Really Knows How To Operate, And Proves It With This Award Our approach is to innovate, disrupt and redefine, and we will always be sure to respond to changing market demands by offering ...
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Cobham's Lucky Ducky With Two Ultra-Wideband Gooseneck Antennas These antennas can be used to replace several narrow-band antennas reducing a system’s ‘antenna real estate’
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Outerlink Answers Chopper's Christmas List With IRIS Solution For EC145e Helicopter can record up to 1,000 hours of data from over 200 sources, depending on model, giving unprecedented operator insight into the operation of the aircraft.
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December 13, 2016 Berg Insight Reveals Good Things This Year... Internet Of Things Reaches 11 Billion Euros “Until recently, the principal financial metrics for IoT has been projected, not actual, revenues."
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Successful Development Of Strategic Partners For Teleport Operators Report Released By WTA The report explores issues of strategy and objectives, management focus...
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Rising Five Awards Nominations Opened By SSPI The Rising Five will be decided by an international editorial advisory board...
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Draper's Distinctiveness For Imagery The company sees a boom in satellite imagery and the value such images can bring...
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a.i. Solutions Is A True Fan Of ELVIS 3 Work on the contract will be based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will include activities at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and other sites...
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An ELiTe Acceptance For Thales Alenia Space ELiTeBUS™1000 has been built on the flight heritage of the PROTEUS platform that served various radar, altimetry, optical and astronomy missions...
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Space In Australia Is But One Discussion Focus At The 33rd Space Symposium The 33rd Space Symposium will also feature discussion of emergent space technology...
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GNSS Receivers From Septentrio Alert For Volcanoes The monitoring systems will be deployed through the Volcano Hazards Program (VHP) for volcano monitoring stations in Alaska...
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This Lady Is On Board Of The 5G Infrastructure Association... SES' VP Of Institutional Relations And Communications Christine Leurquin, Vice President, Institutional Relations and Communications at SES, has been elected to the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association.
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EUMETSAT Goes Blog... Touts Opinions And Goals About Weather In the 1970s, the models comprised about 40 percent satellite data, now the proportion is about 90 percent.
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December 12, 2016 Indian Consortium To Build 12 Satellites Within Two Years The consortium is expected to manufacture approximately a dozen spacecraft within the 300 to 500 kg category within the first two years.
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Chatting With The Astronauts Facilitated By KSF Space KSF Space will enable students to chat directly with crew members of the ISS and will encourage them to engage in various discussions of science, technology and engineering.
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ISI Selected For Smarts... Integrated Intelligence Services
The Company’s Intelligence Research Department is made up of intelligence experts with hundreds of years experience in Israel’s most recognized intelligence institutions.
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Updated Speaker List For Upcoming 33rd Space Symposium The Space Foundation's 33rd Space Symposium will be held from April 3rd to the 6th, 2017, at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
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BBC's Crews Are Spot On... Dealing With The Elephant In The Room ...the filmmakers also wanted to share how camera crews followed and filmed them, regardless of the hardships involved.
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Electron Energy Encompasses Rocket Lab The company has now announced the flight qualification and acceptance of the first stage booster of their Electron launch vehicle.
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Lockheed Martin Is Headed In A New Direction... Improved GPS Satellite Ground System For USAF
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An Inflatable SATCOM GATR Takes Innovative New Product (MIP) Award This company has taken an award that sets them apart from their competition, but then they really approach their product differently...their satellite communications antenna systems are inflatable.
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NASA's Pegasus This Horse's Wings Have Been Clipped... Temporary Setback Here's a unique concept... a rocket that is strapped underneath an airplane that is released while in flight...
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December 11, 2016 A Bevy Of Spatial Approvals By EUMETSAT Council Operating Metop-A in a drifting orbit will maximize the return on investments of EUMETSAT Member States...
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Dual-Mode Vessel Tracking System Offers Fixed Monthly Tariff Subscription The RockFLEET GSM module will roam between 140 worldwide networks, covering virtually every country on Earth, at no extra cost.
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China's Dong Neng-3 Anti-Satellite Test Should Be Worrisome For National Defense This could well be an indicator that Beijing is gaining an upper hand in space warfare.
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Supplies Heading To ISS With JAXA Launch Of Kounotori6 The spaceship is expected to dock with the space station on Tuesday...
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Timely Tunnel Transport Produced By ViaLite These high sensitivity links allow the signal, which is very low at -110 to -130dBm, to be accurately transported over considerable distances...
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Japan's Successful Launch Takes Trash Collection To A New Height It's inevitable, wherever people go there is trash left behind. And so it is in deepest space, with cast-off equipment from old satellites and pieces of rocket.
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ULA's Push Pause For EchoStar XIX Launch This untoward activity has resulted in a delay for the launch...
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Launch Alert: Pegasus' CYGNUS Push Tomorrow A.M. The data provided will help scientists and meteorologists better understand and predict the path of a hurricane.
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China's Fengyun-4-01 Makes Headway To 99.5 Degrees East The temporal resolution has increased by twice and can scan the eastern hemisphere every 15 minutes...
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December 9, 2016 USAF Minotaur I Launch Vehicle Makes The Day For Orbital ATK This was the first such award under the Orbital/Suborbital Program 3 (OSP-3) Lane 1 capability.
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December 8, 2016 Hispasat 36W-1 Dismounts In French Guiana Arriving aboard a chartered Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner was Hispasat 36W-1...
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Inmarsat Moves "Condosat" Launch To Arianespace The EAN payload is part of a ‘condosat’ constructed by Thales Alenia Space, which incorporates a second payload for Hellas-Sat.
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MX1 Eager For Eurosport MS1 will handle technical services and satellite transmission of the Eurosport 1HD channel on HD+, SES’s German HD platform.
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Spaceport America's Inaugural Rocketry Competition—Spaceport America Cup Teams will be launching and recovering rockets all three days.
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From GEMs To Pipes To Tanks — Orbital ATK 's Role For The WGS-8 Launch Both the launch vehicle and the satellite incorporated Orbital ATK technologies.
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China's Place In The Space Race End of year brings with it a reflection of what was, what is and hopefully what will occur.
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Cobham Takes Away The Jitters... Steady In Space With RadHard Microelectronics For NOAA's GOES-R Satellite The payload instruments aboard GOES-R require almost jitter-free operation.
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SpaceX And Iridium Regroup And Issue Statement Regarding NEXT Launch Date "Iridium supports SpaceX’s announcement today to extend the first Iridium NEXT launch date into early January, in order to help ensure a successful mission. "
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Space Foundation And Deep Space Exploration Comment On Passing of Mercury Seven Astronaut John Glenn In 1962, Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth human in space.
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December 7, 2016 Ta-Da! WGS-8 Launches For US Air Force And Enhanced Communications For Troops Success for United Launch Alliance and the US Air Force as the WGS-8 launch occurred without a hiccup.
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RigNet To Deliver Comms Systems To Helium 3 Recovery Facility RigNet will provide a detailed network design and engineering for the new facility.
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Aircraft Tracking Enabled Satellites From Spire — A Webinar To Explain Starting in 2017, Spire will begin launching aircraft tracking enabled satellites and start beta testing Spire AirSafe with the firm's first customers.
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NASA Satellite Restoration Project Awarded To SSL NASA's Restore-L Project is one of these important projects...
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Moving On Up... Morris Joins UltiSat To Oversee Government Services Mr. Morris will oversee efforts to expand the company's work with US defense agencies...
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Thales Alenia Space Welcomes ESA Ministerial Council Decision Thales Alenia Space welcomed announcements of the allocated budget, approved strategic priorities...Full Story
CENTRI Consortium Coalescence IoTAS also solves the security challenge for companies as it protects IoT data in the Cloud...
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TE Technology's Pin Technology Goes Modular For Rugged Environments TE’s press-fit stacking connectors are well suited for mezzanine and rigid flex board-to-board attachment and provide reliable signal integrity.
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Marine Electronic Lifesaving's New Entry From ACR Electronics The ACR EPIRB received a National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) Product of Excellence Award in 2016.
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UAS To Offer A $23.6 Billion Revenue Opportunity For SATCOM & Geospatial Industries The persistent demand for (ISR) by the Defense & Intelligence community in hostile areas drives the demand for unmanned airborne solutions.
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Cloud Streaming For Air New Zealand Via Inmarsat's Global Xpress GX for Aviation will be deployed by Air New Zealand to deliver a reliable, seamless broadband in-flight Wi-Fi experience across the world.
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A Resourceful Satellite Launch By India Resourcesat-2A is a remote sensing satellite intended for resource monitoring...
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Lockheed Martin's SBIRS Ground System Receives USAF Sign-Off The new SBIRS ground system serves as the nerve center for the constellation, collecting large amounts of data from the satellite's powerful sensors...
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Science Survey Stirrings With NASA's GeoCARB The primary goals of GeoCARB are to monitor plant health and vegetation stress throughout the Americas...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's Mighty Engine Sends WGS-8 Satellite Soaring, Supporting US Military A launch takes a team, a dedicated team. Aerojet Rocketdyne has a mighty engine, RS-68A is the world’s most powerful liquid-hydrogen/liquid oxygen...
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USAF Celebrates Launch Of WGS-8 And Improved Communications This mission demonstrates the Air Force's commitment to deliver satellite communications around the globe to US forces and her allies.
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Newtec's New Sales VP Will Further Asia-Pacific Team Asia’s continued digital transformation and expanding multiservice ecosystem will further add to Newtec’s growth in the region.
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December 6, 2016 Göktürk-1 Gains Space The launch was carried out by Arianespace from the European spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana at 14:51 CET aboard a VEGA launch vehicle.
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Pay As You Go SatTV For Sub Saharan Africa From Azuri Technologies Customers obtain a complete home power package that includes a 24 inch television with built in satellite TV service...
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ANA & H.I.S.Have A Yen For Space Tourism The companies have invested a total of 50 million yen ($438,000) to accelerate development of a spacecraft that can carry two pilots and six passengers.
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World's Longest Bidirectional 60 GHz Band Phased-Array Link At a link distance of 300 meters, the 32-element array achieved a data rate of greater than 2 Gbps over all scan angles up to ±45 degrees.
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Ultra HD TV Channel For Millennials & Gen-X'ers En Route Via SES-1 A mix of documentaries, sports, movies, and TV shows, 4KUNIVERSE will make its debut in January 2017 on the SES-1 satellite...
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ISRO... Ready And Steady To Launch Remote Sensing Satellite Tomorrow Between 1994 and 2016, PSLV has successfully launched 121 satellites of which 79 are from overseas, the rest were Indian satellites. Full Story
Hawaiian Airlines Gains AVIATORs From Cobham SATCOM The Cobham system supports Inmarsat’s IP-based SwiftBroadband-Safety (SB-S) service and will deliver satellite connectivity to the cockpit for all voice and data applications...
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Es’hailSat At Global Satshow Shows Off Es’hail-2 With Es’hail-2 and our new teleport on schedule to become operational in 2017, we are scaling up on our marketing and sales efforts
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Blue Origin's Factory Going Up Construction on the New Glenn rocket factory has started...
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Cobham SATCOM And SpeedCast Become Maritime Mates... Agree About Stabilized Maritime Antennas The decision was carefully thought out after following a multi-vendor selection process with thought given to technical, commercial and supply chain evaluation criteria.
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December 5, 2016 WorldView-4's First Image Released By DigitalGlobe The first image, captured on November 26th, reveals the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo...
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Turkey's Göktürk-1 Satellite Ready For December 5th Launch The Göktürk-1 satellite will transfer photographs and images to the Turkish Air Force Command's Satellite Ground Station.
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The Expansion Of The Smallsat Market—An NSR Assessment The market now approaches a point of diversification...
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The CEO Hunt Is On For The Space Foundation The CEO will be based at Space Foundation World Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado...
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An OBH First Arrives In Kourou OHB developed the SmallGEO platform within ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) program.
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SES' MX-1 Support Sky's FTA SatBroadcasting™ Efforts In Germany The 24-hour HD sport news channel “Sky Sport News HD” became free-to-air via satellite.
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ISRO's RESOURCESAT-2A Has A December 7th Launch Date The 44.4 meter tall PSLV C36 is expected to place the 1,235 kg RESOURCESAT-2A into an 827 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) about 18 minutes after lift off.
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Orbital ATK Expands Their Arizona Facilities & Workforce Opportunities Orbital ATK will be moving into the Allred Park Place along Chandler’s Price Corridor...
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Jola Jumps Into Africa With Satellite Service Jola provides affordable satellite Internet to the aforementioned geographical area as well as into areas with limited connectivity options.
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MultiSat Reaps A Licensed Affair In Mexico For Inmarsat Services The Ka-band authorization includes Inmarsat I5 satellites...
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Switzerland In Stitches...Copernicus Scans Stitched Together Kind of like putting a quilt together, except in this case it's huge photos of a country.
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Virgin Galactic's Successful Spaceship Glide Flight Prepares For Future Passengers Despite the hefty $250,000 price tag, more than 600 would-be astronauts have already signed up
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A Tactical Debut By iDirect Government The iDirect Series Tactical Hub is a ruggedized, compact, durable and deployable solution that is easy to set up due to its reduced size, weight and power (SWaP).
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Farmstar For French Farmers Gets Down And Dirty... Enhances Crop Production These new developments come at the right time: after an extremely difficult year, due to exceptionally poor meteorological conditions...
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Chinese Ground Station In Sweden Open For SatBusiness This could be prove just as politically significant to Beijing as the facility’s technological benefits.
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December 2, 2016 NEXT Up For Iridium — Boeing Relationship Restructured Under the agreement, Iridium is expected to hire the majority of the Boeing team that currently supports Iridium by performing operations and maintenance on Iridium’s satellites...
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Arianespace's Vega Is 'Pop Topped Off' For Turkey's GÖKTÜRK-1 Optical Satellite Turkey’s first governmental satellite for Earth observation, providing very high-resolution images for both civilian and military applications.
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XCOR And Immortal Data's ShipsLog™ Data Acquisition For A Real Space Cat...The Lynx Space Plane it is capable of affordably reading and storing data from hundreds of sensors on multiple data acquisition boxes at synchronous rates up to 3200 samples per second.
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Back To Flight For SpaceX With The First Set Of Iridium NEXT Constellation Satellites Iridium NEXT will enable the development of new and innovative products and solutions across Iridium’s vast partner ecosystem.
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A Refreshing Success For Lockheed Martin This upgrade by Lockheed Martin to the existing ground control system provides the Air Force with flexibility.
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A Moving Experience For Spacecom As The Firm Acquires AsiaSat-8's Ku- Capabilities AsiaSat-8 will be co-located with Spacecom's AMOS-3 for a four year period.
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China's Competitive Cost Of Commercial Launch Company Slashes Pricing Expace announced they would charge around $10,000 per kilogram of satellite payload which is said to be less than half the prevailing commercial price.
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Russia's Progress Resupply Spacecraft Falls Apart Minutes After Launch On Way To ISS the debris of the Progress cargo spacecraft supposedly fell in Russia's Republic of Tuva in south Siberia
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Picture This... Canon Electronics Gets Spacey The company's experience designing and manufacturing devices should help the JAXA team select the best rocket parts...
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December 1, 2016 Seventy-Four Percent Of Arianespace Now Held By Airbus Safran Launchers Arianespace remains a full-fledged company, with its headquarters in Évry, near Paris; a facility in Kourou, French Guiana; and offices in Washington D.C., Tokyo and Singapore.
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Brazil Getting Packed Heading To The Moon By 2020 With Nanosatellite Garatéa-L The scientists plan on taking advantage of one of the most promising kinds of equipment in terms of space exploration.
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