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November 30, 2016 With Estimations Of 500+ Smart Devices In Operation By 2022, This Keysight IoT Webinar Will Prep All The nexgen of engineers will face extraordinary challenges as they solve problems relating to...
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Adding ADS-B Through An Airy Agreement Airlines already using SITAONAIR’s AIRCOM® FlightTracker product will automatically begin seeing the new AireonSM data appear in their systems...
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A CIRAS-ly Mission For Orbital ATK To Drive Solar System Exploration With NASA Orbital ATK will serve as prime contractor of CIRAS, with support from Space Logistics, LLC, NASA’s Langley Research Center....
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Thaicom Can C Better As iSAT Africa Provides More Channels With Enhanced C-Band Services TV viewing just got better as the result of an agreement between...
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Transformational DVB-S2X Technology Incoming From iDirect iDirect’s DVB-S2X solution is the result of a significant investment to co-develop a state-of-the-art ASIC chipset...
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RUAG's 'To Do List' For OneWeb... Get Busy Building 900 Satellite Structures In total, RUAG Space will build 900 satellite structures, the largest mass production of satellites in history.
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United Launch Alliance Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Rockets Rather Than Candles You're no doubt familiar with building your own burger or pizza toppings or choosing colors of a car, but how about building your own rocket?
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SPOT On For Wind Power The SPOT Gen3 safety device will be deployed to track and protect GEWE workers as they install, operate and maintain onshore wind power installations in emerging markets...
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LeoSat Lands A Launch Partner With Globalsat Group LeoSat’s new system of LEO satellites can deliver lower latency and stronger end-to-end security when compared to traditional satellite...
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SES Sends Smiles...Mighty M7 Group Carries More HDTV Channels For Eastern Europe Increasing choices by offering a wider variety is generally a good thing, and in this instance it certainly is a good thing.
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NASA's RapidScat Is A Sad Sat... Decommissioned After Successful Mission Aboard ISS Job well done, and now the lights go out. Another satellite is decommissioned, but this one had a unique vantage point as it was attached to the International Space Station.
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Thuraya Has A Heart... Humanitarian Of The Year At Global SatShow "...for the generosity shown in Zambia, and its rescue and recovery efforts made after the earthquake in Nepal and during the floods in Sri Lanka this year.” Full Story
November 29, 2016 Dine With Satellite Industry Luminaries — The Better Satellite World Awards Upcoming At the dinner, SSPI will honor the four recipients of the 2016 Better Satellite World Awards...
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Kepler Communications... Communications Just Got Better As Clyde Space Begins 3U Construction data generated from the satellites will assist with intelligent shipping to smart agriculture, traffic management and wearable technologies such as ...
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Thuraya's Dual Mode Makes SIM SIMple ... Talia Now Offers Two Worlds In One Phone Two phones in one provides communication without boundaries
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November 28, 2016 Orbital ATK's Cygnus A Performance Artist In Space... No Trapeze Necessary For These Space Experiments “The OA-5 mission was filled with numerous accomplishments...”
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Experts To Assemble In London For The In-Flight Online Revolution The broader implications of strong aeronautical connectivity growth to be the focus...
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EO Synergies To Be Developed Thru EARSC & Japan Space Systems The memorandum serves to provide a framework for understanding and cooperation between the Parties to achieve their common goals...
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Home On The Range... RF, That Is... All models provide 1 dB gain compression output power of at least +20 dBm with higher output levels optional up to 10 watts.
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On The Show Floor — Arabsat On Display At Second Int'l Conference For Satellites There will be several seminars exploring the satellite market, TV satellite broadcasting technology, mobility telecommunications, 5G and broadband.
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According To NSR, An Optimistic Future For the M2M/IoT Industry While competition within the M2M market will increase, opportunities also exist, such as dual-mode solutions...
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Harnessing Geospatial Data Webinar Opens The Door For Breakthrough Apps Builds The webinar will be held on December 8th at 10:00 a.m. EST / 10:00 a.m. PST
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ViaLite Reveals A New DC Office The changes fall in line with a number of product and service developments in 2016...
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New Maritime Group Will Result From Apax Partners Acquisition Of Telemar Group Telemar and Marlink will become the world’s leading maritime communications, digital solutions and servicing specialist for all customer segments at sea...
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South African Students' Satellite Set Up The satellite's payload will send back detailed thermal imaging data twice a day to help disaster prevention and improve food security in the region.
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These Spire Small Sats Aspire To Become A First ... Cygnus Was Raised To A New Altitude While Cygnus vehicles have deployed cubesats after departing the station, this was the first time that the Cygnus raised its orbit above the ISS ...
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Kiwis Put Rocket Lab's Test Flight On Hold... Maybe A Santa Conflict? Rocket Lab's first test flight has been delayed... just a bit.
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Funding For ADS-B & AIS-Signals Smallsat Constellation Secured The objective of A&M is to own and operate a constellation of nanosatellites to be launched into a low-inclination Equatorial orbit.
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VSAT & Broadband To Pump In $133.7 Billion In 2015 to 2025 Service Revenues This new NSR report forecasts the global installed base for fixed VSATs to increase by 12.2 million by 2025...
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GEE Rugby On The Sea... And In The Air... Follow The Bouncing Ball You can whoop and holler (in a polite manner) as you watch your team while enroute to your destination, and, when you arrive you don't have to ask, "who won?" Full Story
Brazil's EchoStar 23 To Launch In The New Year... And Report About SpaceX Explosion SpaceX is expected to inform insurance underwriters about the cause of the September 1 failure,
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November 24, 2016 On The Cairo ICT Show Floor — Arabsat Satellites In The Spotlight Arabsats participation in Cairo ICT this year is to showcase the company's new satellites...
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SSL-Built EchoStar XXI Satellite Reaches Baikonur For Launch This S-band satellite for nexgen MSS will be located at 10.25 degrees East...
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Blue Canyon Technologies Is Cool As A Cube As They Launch RAVAN The First 3U CubeSat Into LEO It's big because it's a first, but it's small—what got launched—so it's a Big deal about a Small object.
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Airbus Defense and Space's SpaceDataHighway is Open for Traffic...Way Faster Than The Autobahn the SpaceDataHighway transfers high-volume data from Earth observation sats at a data rate of 1.8 gbps and can transmit up to 40 terabytes per day.
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Marlink Acquires Telemar.... Whatever Floats Your Boat A New Maritime Communications Services Group Keeping cost down but crew and clients happy with better moral. A number of companies tend to these needs. One such company got bigger with an acquisition.
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Satcom Global Has A Terrific Aura...And A VSAT Solution As Well Aura will set new standards for military, maritime, offshore, and enterprise businesses with flexible global communications both at sea and on land.
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November 23, 2016 SWOT's Up With NASA & SpaceX? Designed to make the first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water...
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PISAT-2 Smallsat Coming To Fruition Students will work with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) on the project, which will be supported financially by the university.
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The Arrival Of Aura Satcom Global Aura combines easy setup and an uncomplicated installation with a low cost of ownership...
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FSS Headwinds Examined By Euroconsult A more positive outlook for the FSS industry is foreseen after 2017...
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Revenues, Trends, Opportunities & Business Prospects In The Military Satellites Market This 270 page report from ASDReports provides 294 tables, charts, and graphs illustrating the most lucrative areas in the industry and the future market prospects.
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China's Long March-3C Exerts Its Influence On Tianlian 1-04 Satellite The satellite is going to join three predecessors to ensure global network operation for the constellation.
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November 22, 2016 Making Much Of M2M & IoT This NSR industry reference clarifies which applications will see the strongest revenue growth...
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GVF's Middle East Meetings' Momentum Continues With Presentation Of New Programs will feature sessions, executive roundtables and a CEO Summit with leaders of global satellite operators regarding Future Cooperation Between Global and Regional Satellite Operators.
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Floating SATCOM For The Volvo Ocean Race Is Inmarsat Global Xpress will make its first contribution to the Race supporting press and media at race villages throughout the globe.
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Euroconsult's Latest Report Great News For Maritime Satellite Communications The slowdown in the oil industry has negatively affected the maritime sector but there is still a demand for maritime sat communications due to...
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Taking The Bus To HaloSat Blue Canyon Technologies will deliver the spacecraft bus to the HaloSat project, which is funded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center...
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A Ranking Reward For ORBCOMM By Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2012 to 2015.
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DataPath Enlists A Military Vet As Senior Vice President Of US Government Sales Chief of the Satellite Acquisition Branch for the DoD Space Test Program, Senior Launch Crew for the 30th Space Wing, and Director of ...
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Advantech Wireless' Transcend™ 800 Microwave Systems Totally Transcend Other Similar Products The common denominator for all these applications is the requirement for proven high reliability operation in very demanding environments. Full Story
Alive, Alive Oh! A Satellite Seemingly Lost In 1967 Comes Online Into The Light, Again All was well and good until 1967 when communications were lost with this American-made satellite, seemingly 'dead'—until recently when—surprise surprise—it appeared again.
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Russia's Soyuz-2LK Ready To Rock 'n' Roll In 2020... If They Can Get A Bank Roll "We’re open for any cooperation with our French partners and we’ll offer the Soyuz-2LK carrier rocket on the world market."
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November 21, 2016 International Datacasting Pushing Protection For MILSATCOM Broadcasting Supplied will be the latest generation Cyphercast security platform to provide encrypted addressable delivery for point-to-multipoint broadcast of satellite IP transmissions.
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Advantech Wireless Is Transcending Highly Demanding Environments Transcend 800 was selected for the product's versatility to support different applications...
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Check Out The ISS — In 360 Degrees A series of videos from RT shot using cutting-edge, immersive video technology will take the viewer on a tour of the station...
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A Data Management Revolution From SpeedCast & Axxess Marine "This kind of flexibility enables customers to have complete control over their service—something that is unprecedented in the maritime industry."
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A Totally Civil Approach to Mining & Engineering Needs From Airbus Defence and Space Stack Insight eliminates much of the cost and all the risk associated with on-site surveying.
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US Army WIN-T Testing Involves Intelsat General & RiteNet The Army conducts a range of testing using the Warfighter Information Network (WIN-T) at these two facilities...
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ViaSat Launches US$500 Million And Equity Raise Ahead Of Next Gen Ramp-Up
ViaSat’s stock surged last week on news of a major airline inflight connectivity customer and strong quarterly results.
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Crucial Components Combined Into GOES-R From Orbital ATK Orbital ATK produced three components for the ULA Atlas V vehicle...
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November 20, 2016 Update: ULA's Statement...NOAA's GOES-R Goes Up... Weathers The Launch GOES-R will produce images of weather patterns and severe storms as frequently as every 30 seconds
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Arianespace...May Be End Of Year But No Slow Down In Heavy Lifting...Two Sats Set To Fly Star One D1 is the largest satellite ever built for Brazil’s Embratel Star One
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Offers The 'Oomph' Necessary That Gets GOES-R Going The RL10C-1 upper-stage 'engine that could'...four SRBs ignited to provide 1.5 million pounds of total increased thrust to launch the Atlas V rocket.
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November 19, 2016 A New VANTAGE For Telesat Named Telstar 19 VANTAGE, this satellite will co-locate with Telesat’s Telstar 14R at 63 degrees West...
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Better Satellite World Award Honorees Brought To Light By SSPI These awards honor established companies and disruptive innovators for making our world a more prosperous, healthier, better-educated, more sustainable and inclusive home for all humankind.
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Core Concerns Regarding Cybersecurity For The Satellite Industry Voiced By SIA & GVF The statement emphasizes the criticality of cybersecurity to the satellite industry’s core goal of providing mission critical, highly reliable, and secure connectivity.
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Pairing Up For Multi-Screen Goodness Are Broadpeak & Eutelsat Communications A satellite-based solution for multiscreen video delivery to those devices...
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AST Involved In Weather Warning Implementation System In Malaysia The government agencies were unable to forecast and predict the water level at the dams and rivers...
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Rock Seven Is Buoyed Up For Seafaring SATCOM Solutions Several successful deployments have proven the robustness of the company’s RockBLOCK and RockFLEET systems...
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November 17, 2016 Newtec's Webinar Facing Reality... Don't Be The Weakest Link In Service Provisioning What is the New Reality? Dynamically changing customer behavior and new and innovative satellite designs are causing a new reality ...
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Thrusting Galileo This was the 75th time an Ariane 5 has completed a mission from the European space port in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Four Thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty-Five SpaceX Satellites Musk's SpaceX has filed petition papers with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to operate this endeavor...
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GÖKTÜRK-1A In Gantry Gets Arianespace Attention The GÖKTÜRK-1A passenger will be deployed for operation in Sun-synchronous orbit...
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The Rebirth Of A UK Satellite Broadcasting Group As part of its re-birth, Martin Coleman, Executive Director of the Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG), has been appointed to BSNUK's Board.
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Going To Geospace Is JAXA's ERG The satellite, named the Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG), will study the region of outer space near Earth...
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General Shelton, USAF Retired, Joins The Board At The Space Foundation The new Board terms commence on January 1, 2017.
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Noordwijk Witnesses Successful Testing Of Sentinel-2B The second Sentinel-2 Airbus built satellite will now be readied for shipment to the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana in January of 2017.
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Care To Chip In To Project Blue? The Campaign To Find The Next Earth ...from breakthrough missions like NASA's Kepler observatory there could be an 85 percent probability that at least one Earth-like planet exists ....
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GEE, Saudia Sees SKYfi Streaming Across Its Aircraft "KID-Systeme was among the first original equipment manufacturers to benefit from GEE’s agnostic approach to deliver the most advanced products..."
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NOAA's GOES-R Kind Of Like A Super Hero .. It's Faster, Clearer, Maps Lightning And Tracks Space Weather GOES-R satellite will carry the first operational lightning mapper that will measure total lightning (in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground) activity...
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Globalstar In Tunisa Takes Safety Seriously Safeguards Staff With SOS Button For Drivers
VMD customized solutions by adding a one-touch SOS button on the drivers’ dashboards...alerts tin-house security if anyone is in danger, emergency medical help or...
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November 16, 2016 Highly Tolerant Is Microsemi The LX7720 significantly reduces weight and board space relative to conventional discrete motor control circuits.
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Combining Forces For Smallsat Strategies The foundation offers access to near-space and LEO for research and scientific experiments in many fields.
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A Rigged Contract For RigNet RigNet was selected as a preferred service provider to accommodate the requirements of the rig owner and operator.
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Juba Joins The Connected World MADA has signed up for service on SES’s SES-5 satellite.
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Sat Phone Duality Debuts From Thuraya Thuraya's satphone offers a dedicated SIM slot for satellite communications and a second one for GSM communications.
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IRIS Insight From Applied Satellite Technology IRIS is built with full cyber safety precautions and encryption (to AES256 standard)
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The Underserved In Indonesia Are Addressed By Newtec Technologies The multi-service platform will be used by PSN to deliver satellite Internet access.
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Obtaining Capacity On The Up and Coming Al Yah 3 Is Talia Talia also gains access to Yahsat’s latest VNO services powered by that firm's satellite broadband service.
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Amplifier Advancements Addressed By ETL Systems ETL’s range of RF power amplifiers offer high efficiency, broad frequency coverage and a compact form-factor.
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Harris Manpack Certified To Bring More To MUOS Harris has delivered more than 30,000 MUOS-capable AN/PRC-117G tactical radios...
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SENTECH Has An Open Dialog® With Newtec About Multiservice To 800 South African Sites “...Newtec Dialog’s capacity for scalable growth, allowing us to target an increasing number of services within the same platform ...”
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Putin Pushes Roscosmos In Putin's words, it is necessary to develop Russia’s orbital grouping by increasing the number of spacecraft...
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Globalstar's STINGR Takes The Bite Out Of Asset Tracking STINGR, with integrated GPS, will enable new solutions for multimodal operations and safety
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November 15, 2016 Arabsat On Board At AFRICACOM Conference & Exhibition “We are currently working hard on several important strategic projects to operate many of our new orbital positions and keep up with our customers..."
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"Go" For Galileo Rec'd For Arianespace Flight VA233 This launch will deploy a quartet of Galileo spacecraft during a nearly four-hour flight.
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SkyNode S200 Primed For Pilatus Business Jet There are more than 2,000 Latitude Technologies SkyNode units in operation across the globe.
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Harris ABI Aboard GOES-R The Harris ABI, the main payload on GOES-R, is a high-resolution digital camera flying 22,300 miles above the Earth.
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SES GS Builds Managed Services SATCOM Services For Broadcasting Board Of Governors The contract for these SES GS managed services includes a one-year base period.
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China's Middle School Students See A Dream Come True...“Dream 1” (CAS-2T) Launches Determined youth can accomplish tasks that adults would find daunting, and that's what happened here with bright minds and lots of energy.
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The Newtec CETC54 Connection CETC54 will use Newtec technology in its newest VSAT systems in China.
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Austrian Airlines Winging It With Inmarsat More than 30 Airbus A320 family aircraft from Austrian Airlines’ fleet will be equipped with Inmarsat's GX for Aviation.
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Spaceflight's BlackSky Pathfinder-1 Satellite Has Its First 'Show And Tell' Photos Weighing in at 50 kg and costing under $10M to build and launch, Pathfinder-1 represents a revolution in spacecraft size, cost and performance.
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CU Students ENTER New Field With EXIS For NOAA... Create Sweet $105 Million Suite ...will measure energy output from the sun that can affect satellite operations, telecommunications, GPS navigation and also power grids on Earth.
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Get Ready To Do The Dishes...AMC-18's New Radio Satellite Requires Reorientation Of Dishes Some stations will simply re-aim their dish at an off-peak time. Others with junky old dishes will need a new 3.7-meter satellite antenna... Full Story
November 14, 2016 ULA's Successful Cool As A Cube WorldView-4 Launch ULA has established a very low-cost approach to both design and launch of CubeSats
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's Roaring Rocket Sends Skyward ULA's Atlas V And WorldView-4 Aerojet Rocketdyne has flown more than 3,000 MR-106 series 6-9 lbf thrusters with 100 percent mission success.
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Tyvak Enables Ride Share Of NRO CubeSat Mission Aboard Non-Governmental Launch Tyvak partnered with Cal Poly, ULA, Lockheed Martin and DigitalGlobe in this rideshare opportunity, which was the first of its kind for the NRO.
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A Matter Of... Dark Matter This Dark Matter Particle Explorer, or DAMPE, satellite's main concern is the detection of high energy gamma rays, electrons and cosmic rays.
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ESA's Whopper Of A Request... $12.2 Billion other major issues need to be addressed such as the Norwegian government’s proposed 75 percent reduction in its contribution to ESA’s...
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Transcending Work Done By Advantech Wireless In Mexico & Chile The Transcend™ 800 carries native video, IP and TDM traffic, where traffic is combined directly in the radio frame.
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SATCOM Growth Continues For Global Government & Military Customers, NSR Reports At more than $9 billion in retail revenues by 2025, all signs point towards a slow, cautious recovery.
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German Spy Agency BND To Get Its Own Satellite... Less Dependence On US Secret Services the German government has changed its stance towards security forces, with thousands of new appointments for its domestic spying agency and police.
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Optus Satellite Garners Teleport Tier Recognition The WTA announced that Optus Satellite achieved Full Certification for its four primary teleports...
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SKYWAN 7000 From ND SatCom Empowers SOTM For SABC's SNG Vehicles These vehicles will have the ability to transmit video (SD or HD), voice and data, all while on the move.
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Power Poop Out Prevention By Keysight Technologies Keysight Technologies, Inc. has now made available a battery-drain analysis solution.
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CIX Picks C-COM The CIX Public Investors Top 20 is a unique ranking and showcases Canada’s hottest and most innovative public technology companies.
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Heavy Duty Ahead For Iridium Communications With Komatsu Limited This agreement will enable Komatsu to integrate their vehicle monitoring system, KOMTRAX, with the Iridium ® network.
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November 12, 2016 RigNet's Getting Their Sales Organized... A New Chief Sales Officer 90909
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Optus Has Something Expansive Going On With SatSleeve The SatSleeve was launched in 2013 and pioneered ‘bring-your-own device’ in the satellite industry.
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A Fairing Kind Of Day For Arianespace Arianespace “topped off” the Ariane 5 launcher with installation of the payload fairing over the four Galileo spacecraft and their payload dispenser.
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A Spatial Unfurling For MUOS-5 The MUOS-5's two unfurlable mesh antenna reflectors manufactured by Harris Corporation successfully deployed on October 30th.
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AIMing For Didymos The AIM-mission must be launched in October 2020 to catch the asteroid called Didymos and its moon when they are at their closest to the Earth.
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November 10, 2016 New Information...Viewers Enjoy Watching A Wall? APT Satellite Partners With Great Wall TV Please note: Two reception parameters have been corrected in this article originally posted on November 8.
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Placing PSIP In Mexico PSIP Central is providing electronic program guide and critical channel information to all of Grupo Imagen’s television transmitter sites located in the 40 most populous cities in Mexico.
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Droning On & On With An Upcoming senseFly Free Webinar This is a one-hour webinar entitled “Drone Surveying 101 – Experienced Operators Discuss Cost, Achievable Accuracy, Workflows and More.Full Story
ViaLite's Diversity Affinity Delivered For Telesat The link acts as a rain fade solution, allowing the gateway signals operated over the new Telstar 12 VANTAGE HTS to be operated from either dish.
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GVF Honored With Sir Arthur C. Clarke Award The 2016 Sir Arthur Clarke Award was provided to the GVF in recognition of “effective and staunch support and promotion of the satellite industry.”
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Two Year SatBroadcasting Agreement Renewal For Gulfsat This renewed agreement represents a future outlook and convenient opportunity to examine the latest services offered by Gulfsat.
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Ultra Electronics GigaSat To Fulfill Their APAC Comms Designs Via SkyNet 5A GigaSat who will now be offering Skynet services as part of their mobile and fly-away communications portfolio to Indonesian Defence Forces.
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Gilat Is On The Tracks With Renfe The project consists of nearly one hundred trains, all of Renfe AGV high-speed train fleet.
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Launch Reminders... Including One Launch Delay Two upcoming launches.
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November 9, 2016 An ESA Commitment Engagement With Airbus Safran Launchers The amendment just signed commits the 1.7 billion euros required to continue development and then production and operation...
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India's Gift SAARC Satellite Is Delayed “We need to do more work means we need to have more hands..."
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ABS Pumping FreeViewSat All Across Indonesia For PT Sarana Media Vision For the first time in Indonesia, a free-to-view platform will be available throughout the entire country.
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Patent Pending Technology From C-COM Targets In-Motion, Phased Array Antennas The main advantage of this method is that it significantly reduces the calibration time and enhances its accuracy.
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NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance To Receive GovSat SATCOMs Service The contract is for an end-to-end service and includes the delivery of satellite capacity in commercial Ku-band.
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Surveyor Smallsats To Set Forth For NASA The payloads will weigh from just a few kilograms to a little more than 181 kg and will be secondary payloads on launch vehicles that have been launched for other missions.
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Considerations For Total Cost Of Ownership Occurs At ViaLite Communications ViaLite Communications is one of the few to address TCO at the time of the design and manufacture of their RF over fiber links.
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Avanti Heats Up For Sub-Saharan Africa's ECO Project With Newtec's Dialog® Hotspot Solution The project is admirable.
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Skynet Comms Stanchion For UK's Red Arrows Tour Airbus Defence and Space owns and operates the hardened Skynet X-band satellite constellation of eight satellites...
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Layer 2 Leapfrogging For LTE Velocity From Gilat Satellite Networks This technological breakthrough was selected by tier-1 MNOs in the US, UK and Japan to extend network coverage and for public safety applications...
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AsiaSat Receives US Patent... Look Out For High Speed Connectivity To Aircraft What works for piloted aircraft also holds true and can be configured to provide connectivity to an unmanned aviation vehicle...
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November 8, 2016 SSL Provides Positively Powerful EchoStar XIX World's Highest Capacity Broadband Satellite SSL has built nearly 50 satellites with HTS payloads, including two of the highest capacity broadband satellites in service today,
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Feeling Better Already Now That COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Contract Signed ... recently by the damage assessment activities and support to rescue operations following the earthquakes that hit central Italy.
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An Indoor Launch No Rockets Involved... TVB Announces Launch On APSTAR At CASBAA The company, TVB, made their announcement in the Great China Content Showroom during CASBAA 2016 informing the audience that...
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On The NAB New York 2016 Show Floor — Integrated Microwave's Newest On Display... This latest version of the microLite system is the perfect accessory to any remote news production with its reduced deployment time and ...
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Registration Is Now Open for the 2016 GVF-EMP Conference Partnership Portfolio “This program will not only look at the airliner seat as a fully functioned extension of the office desk and domestic living room..."
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Nomadic Antenna Wind Winnowing Winning Technology Presented Now shipping by the ASC Signal Division of Communications & Power Industries is a new, high wind version of their 2.5 meter Nomadic Antenna.
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DataPath Has A VAR Arrangement With Dejero This agreement will allow DataPath to provide newsgathering teams a satellite or bonded cellular connection at any given time and location.
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Bandwidth Buster Brought Forth By Newtec and Panasonic Various versions of this new modem will be available across Panasonic’s mobility markets...
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South African Smallsat Send Off Scheduled The satellite will be launched from the space station during the first quarter of next year with 40 satellites from other countries...
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Solo Sailing Race Comms Support By SpeedCast Providing two-way, secured SATCOM and broadcast for 90 percent of the race's competitors is SpeedCast International Limited.
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The VSAT Conundrum Video From Advantech Wireless Here's a new and informative video that examines VSAT network performance...
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The Russians Are Coming... May Launch Up to 4 Glonass Navigation Satellites Next Year A brief but important piece of information.
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November 7, 2016 GOES-R Gets Ready To Go... Again... New Launch Set The postponement of GOES-R was caused by the same minor Atlas V booster issue discovered on ULA's WorldView-4 mission
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Estonian Defense Evolution Energized By Bittium And TacComms Diversification The order contributes to a reform that aims to improve the Estonian Land Forces’ IP data transfer capability and availability.
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QuadraSat Set Up Continues By Arianespace The four satellites—named for winners of a European children’s drawing contest—were installed this week on Ariane 5 in the Spaceport’s Final Assembly Building,
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Adoption Of PAM-4 Signaling As An Emerging Standard—Free Keysight Webinar Upcoming PAM-4, introduces new challenges in the design and characterization of high-speed digital devices.
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On The NAB New York / SATCON 2016 Show Floor—Engaging Geosync Microwave The company will be displaying their latest SATCOM products and will be available to discuss product performance advantages and features.
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A New, Out-Of-This-World Record For NASA The four MMS spacecraft incorporate GPS measurements into their precise tracking systems.
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Chinese New Satphone Blankets The Country... and More This satellite phone is designed for use with the country's a first mobile communications satellite, Tiantong-1 (TT-1).
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General Hyten, Formerly Of Air Force Space Command, Takes The Reins At STRATCOM General Hyten was responsible for organizing, equipping, training and maintaining mission-ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for North American Aerospace Defense Command, STRATCOM and other combatant commands around the world.
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Mercury Systems Is On A Mission... Acquire CES Creative Electronic Systems For the twelve month period ended September 30, 2016 CES had revenue of approximately $23 million.
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Marlink's Sealink ...Whatever Floats Your Boat Small Antenna For Yachts They will be exhibiting at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show this week and they come with a new product for yachts.
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November 4, 2016 BlogBeams — AsiaSat 9 Build's Continued Progress AsiaSat 9 is scheduled for launch in 2017.
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IAG's Commitment... Install Inmarsat's European Aviation Network On Narrowbodies IAG will deploy the EAN service on the first of its aircraft, a British Airways A321, in the summer of 2017.
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An Emergency Manual For Humanitarian Ops To Be Created By SES SES was chosen from their experience in similar emergency manual digital platforms for crisis response and ...
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US Navy and Lockheed Martin Delighted With Successful MUOS 5 Deployment The satellite will begin on orbit testing before being turned over to the USN for further testing and eventual commissioning into service.
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GOES-R... No Go...Now Yes Go An issue has been discovered with the Atlas V booster.
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Spacecom To Receive Insurance Payment For Amos-6 Dilemma The sum will be paid directly into Spacecom's bank account during the month of November, 2016.
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SSL's Celli Is Feted By The World Space Risk Forum (WSRF) Over the course of his career, Mr. Celli has worked closely with most of the world's leading satellite operators.
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A Higher Enablement By Cobham SATCOM and Inmarsat This further supports the ultimate objective to use broadband technology and avionics for data transmission.
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Acquiring Euros For Asteroid Mining Missions Is Planetary Resources, Inc. The funding will accelerate technical advancements, aim to launch the first commercial asteroid prospecting mission by 2020.
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Deep Space Comms Further Enabled At Tidbinbilla The device is the second one of its kind at the complex and forms part of the US space agency's Deep Space Network.
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A Higher Enablement By Cobham SATCOM and Inmarsat This further supports the ultimate objective to use broadband technology and avionics for data transmission.
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Satellite Believed To Be Deceased Decides To Chat This was one of the satellites designed and built by Lincoln Laboratory at MIT between 1965 and 1976 for testing satellite communication techniques.
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Multiple Signals Over Multiple Frequencies Has Vector Space Systems Engaging With ATLAS Space Operations This technology inclusion will enable Vector to provide a space-to-ground comms network from the Galactic Sky division to their customers through ATLAS LINK.
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November 3, 2016 Australia's Optus Satellite Has A Really G'day! Achieves WTA's Full Certification of Four Teleports To achieve Full Certification under WTA’s program, a teleport operator completes a +170-item questionnaire
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Thales' Final Step...Closes Deal With RUAG Because of this acquisition, Thales Alenia Space will expand both its European footprint and enhance the solutions it offers for today’s science, Earth Observation (EO) and telecommunications markets.
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Dinner, Awards and Wine — SSPI's 11th Annual Future Leaders Dinner — Reserve Your Seats Now Come and celebrate with the winners of this SSPI important award.
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Whoa! Canada's MDA Corp. Optimistic Views No More... Not Translating Into Contracts Lots of RFPs, not many contracts.
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Yahlive's Arabian Bouquet Receives New Channels The announcement sees the company triple their offerings in the region since last year.
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e2v Knows About Dis-n-DAC ...First K-band Digital-to-Analog Converter is the world’s first DAC to perform signal generation directly in the K-band frequency (18GHz-27GHz), removing the need for signal up-conversion and the costly mixers that perform this task.
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Speed Is Good For Marlink The new High Speed Zones are aimed at yacht owners and charter companies that require the fastest available Internet access on board for temporary periods of time.
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Gilat Satellite Networks Got In On A TIP To Connect Unserved And Underserved They are part of a team, the Telecom Infra Project, (TIP), founded by Facebook, Deutsche Telekom, EE, Globe Telecom, Intel, Nokia, SK Telecom and others that aims to redefine the current approach to network technology.
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November 2, 2016 Catalyst CEL Fund Gets A Great Deal Of SatixFy The Fund aims to support the long term growth of innovative Israeli companies and to promote the development of China's high-tech industry.
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Kids' Spirits Sent Soaring With Satellite... Japan's Himawari-9 Weather Satellite Launches “We believe it’s the first time in the world to launch a rocket with manga art on it.”
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Gilat Gives A New CellEdge To MNOs CellEdge SDR is complemented by Gilat’s end-to-end turnkey services including installation, integration and managed services.
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Iridium's New Aviation Offering Is Certus-Centric Iridium Certus is Iridium’s nexgen, multi-service communications platform enabled by the firm's new Iridium NEXT satellite constellation.
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There's A New Paradigm... He's Hired To Develop International Business In Middle East And Asia he was CEO at Vislink, and prior to that Managing Director of Advent Communications, heading up Vislink Group’s Asia Pacific Singapore operation.
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China Planning To Launch An E-Commerce Satellite By 2017 The satellite would be used to gather data on the nations' agricultural areas.
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The Highly Regarded Teleport Awards For Excellence Now Open For 2017 Candidates Nominations for the 2017 Teleport Awards for Excellence must be submitted to WTA by January 31, 2017.
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USAF Preps...Discussions To Defend Against Anti-Satellite Attacks Chinese activities have engendered a particular concern among Pentagon leaders, analysts and threat assessment professionals.
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Scrub-A-Dub-Dub For WhiteKnightTwo's Release Of VSS Unity Hopes were high, but so were the winds that prevented the crew from releasing SpaceShipTwo in flight for a glide test.
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NASA's Webb Space Telescope ... What's Shakin' ? Intensely Violent Center Of Curvature Test ...the interferometer is a ‘high-speed’ one, taking 5,000 ‘frames’ every second, which is a faster rate than the background vibrations.
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Airbus Has Got A New Head ... He Wears Two Hats The Airbus space site in Bremen, with its workforce of around 1,000 people, is Europe’s industrial center for manned space flight and upper-stage technology.
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Telecom Operators In Africa To Receive The Comms Fruits Of BICS and EUTELSAT Partnership The new solution offered by BICS and Eutelsat will enable telecom operators to offer their end users access to consistent, cost-effective and high-quality services at all times, even in the event of a terrestrial network outage.
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November 1, 2016 Controlled Inferno In The Mojave Desert By Aerojet Rocketdyne The tests onfirmed the ability for the new valves to modulate propellant flow and control peak LAE thrust in the event of a launch abort.
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A ROV'ing They Do Go — SKY Perfect JSAT & Ambient Intelligent Technologies Lab The videos are sent via optical fiber to a research vessel at sea and they are then sent to a data center on land via SKY Perfect JSAT’s satellite IP communications lines.
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A Puzzler—EO Data Pricing Examined By NSR NSR expects archive and standard spot image pricing to be affected more by the impending supply of EO data and a toughening competitive landscape.
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X2nSat Warms Up To Their Idea Of Acquiring Alaska's Futaris What about the employees of Futaris? According to their report, X2nSat has positions available for...
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SpeedCast Caps Off Their Acquisition Plan... With Harris Caprock The transaction is expected to complete by the end of Q1 2017.
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United Goes Exotic? Takes To The Tent To Create 'The Grand Tour' In 4K For Amazon Prime The Amazon Prime show is shot in a studio tent that is put up in various exotic locations around the world.
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