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February 29, 2008 Getting The Numbers Is Euroconsult With SatTV Market... Euroconsult reports the satellite TV market has entered into a new growth cycle worldwide. Revenues reached $59 billion at the end of 2007 and the number of satellite TV platforms increased to 92, worldwide, a record.
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The Switch Is On For Arqiva and BEI There's a new "joining forces" agreement between Beers Enterprises Inc. (BEI) and Arqiva's Satellite Media Solutions division.
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ILS Rockets Away With A Double Play A new contract has been signed between International Launch Services (ILS) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio [NASDAQ:SIRI] that will result in the launch of two SIRIUS satellites via a Proton Breeze M vehicle. Plus, ILS has signed on to launch S2M satellite.
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Space Systems/Loral To Powerfully Drive Next SES Satellite Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been awarded a contract to manufacture a new spacecraft for SES NEW SKIES.
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February 25, 2008 FCC Okays Liberty Media's DIRECTV Ambitions MB Docket No. 07-18: The Federal Communications Commission (has approved the transfer of control of DIRECTV to Liberty Media, subject to conditions.
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iDirect Brings SatCom Capabilities To World Vision iDirect, Inc. announced that World Vision, a global relief and development agency, has launched its global network, SandukaNet.
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February 24, 2008 SatNews + digiGO! Away, But Not At Play! A hectic schedule equals a busy week, and the SatNews ÷ SatMagazine + MilsatMagazine + digiGO! editorial folk will be attending a super conference in Washington, D.C., for most of the week.
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Visit With GVF In Washington D.C. + Receive A Discount From the 26th through the 28th of this month, the GVF leadership will be at the Satellite 2008 conference and exhibition and will offer live demos and test-drives of their new, interactive, animated online training courses created with SatProf.
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Telenor Sustained + Honored With Award Each year, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) invite the 2,500 largest companies based on the Dow Jones Global Index to participate in SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment.
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Getting Smaller All The Time... C2SAT And Its Mini VSAT C2SAT [NGM Stock Exchange, C2ST] has new, low weight products added into their portfolio.
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Mod + Demod With Backbone From Newtec Newtec has two new additions to the firm's Azimuth product family.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Harris Corporation — Geevs — Bizarre Creations + SEGA — The Club — — Harris Corporation — Geevs — Bizarre Creations + SEGA — The Club —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Talia + CABSAT... - Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation... - Moving On Up... At MITEQ - Moving On Up... At Northrop Grumman
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February 21, 2008 The Smaller, The Better Nanotechnology allows for the creation of use of structures and devices at the atomic down to macromolecular level, and with smaller being considered better, this is a science drawing huge interest.
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Norwegian MilChat Provided By Harris Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] has received a contract from the Defence Forces of Norway to provide several thousand RF-7800S Secure Personal Radios.
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Juniper Helps To Prep The IPv6 Changeover The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has mandated that all federal government agencies transition their network backbones to IPv6 by June 30, 2008.
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Hurrah For SES AMERICOM, Via WTA World Teleport Association (WTA) has named SES AMERICOM as the recipient of its first Nova Award for the development and successful market launch of its IP-PRIME satellite-based IPTV service.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... Globalstar... Globalstar, Inc. [Nasdaq:GSAT] has received the necessary Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes (ANATEL) regulatory approval for its agreement to purchase the
Globalstar independent gateway operator in Brazil from Loral Space &
Communications Inc. and various affiliated entities.
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Strike Up The Bandwidth For Intelsat Via Comtech EF Data Intelsat is going to use Comtech EF Data’s award-winning DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier technology and compression in its service targeted to wireless operators, known as RevLinx.
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SpySat Deorbitized—The World Is Safe! According to Marine General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there is a high degree of confidence that the U.S. Navy missile launched yesterday scored a direct hit on the falling U.S. spysat, once the order to proceed had been received from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
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SatCom Processing Signaled From RT Logic RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS], had made available its new T400MSP Modular Signal Processor for satellite communications research, training, and analysis.
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A Swim In The Bandwidth Pool With Radyne Radyne has now completed their initial testing and analysis of it's SkyWire shared SCPC circuit.
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An Eye On The Weather — On Venus The European Space Agency reports the Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large scale weather.
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Moving On Up... At the NEW Solaris Steve Maine is the CEO of the new joint venture 'tween Eutelsat Communications and SES ASTRA.
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digiGO! — The Digital World... featuring — FOX —NAB + FCC + DIRECTV — Microsoft — NFL + DISH — ONEsite + Social Platform — M:Metrics — DMXzone — Gefen — Telecast — Harris — — FOX —NAB + FCC + DIRECTV — Microsoft — NFL + DISH — ONEsite + Social Platform — M:Metrics — DMXzone — Gefen — Telecast — Harris —
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February 20, 2008 Astrium Services Provides A Great Service To Those in Service Astrium Services has opened its first teleport in Toulouse, France. This is in addition to their already existing satellite infrastructure network presence in the United Kingdom and Germany.
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EMC Packages Protection With High Security Teleport Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is launching two new Datacenter products, EMC Collocation Services and EMC Housing Services for worldwide corporations. The new services are scheduled to be launched in March 1, 2008 and will be provided at EMC’s wholly-owned teleport facility located in Raisting, Germany.
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The ICESat Continueth For Ball Aerospace The Ice, Cloud and Land Satellite (ICESat) built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will continue operations until at least 2010, following a NASA mission extension contract.
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More From Ball—Another Milestone Makegood On February 13th, the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. free-flying atmospheric lidar aboard NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission fired its one billionth laser pulse over the Ivory Coast.
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XipLink Getting Accelerated Over New Products XipLink offers standards based protocol acceleration over wireless networks. The company has announced a new line of acceleration appliances that provide immediate performance gains for TCP/IP based networks supporting all popular broadband capacity ranges and satellite topologies.
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New Board Named For SSPI—Tons O' Talent The Society of Satellite Professionals International announced the election of new officers and members of its Board of Directors, following a vote of the membership in January.
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Spacenet Brings Cisco SatGoodies to Government Folk Spacenet Inc. has signed a teaming agreement with Arrowhead Global Solutions, a subsidiary of CapRock Communications
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Launch Excitement Generated With Delivery of AMERICOM-14 To Baikonur The AMERICOM-14 (AMC-14) satellite, of SES AMERICOM, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG], was delivered to Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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Animated Sims Train ATV "Jules Verne" Crew Days before the launch of the first ATV 'Jules Verne' into orbit, ParallelGraphics announced that its software had been selected for the spacecraft crew and astronauts training of the ATV.
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Globalstar To Bring Timely Data To SoDAR Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ:GSAT] revealed that Atmospheric Systems Corporation (ASC) has signed an agreement to provide its customers with timely data within the United States, Canada, and at other international locations, using the Globalstar satellite network.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Arqiva + GTV — Linear Acoustic — OmniBus Systems — Echolab — RTW + Tektronix — Snell & Wilcox + TV Nova + TSL — Blu-ray Crumbles (Toshiba, ABI Research, Strategy Analytics) — — Arqiva + GTV — Linear Acoustic — OmniBus Systems — Echolab — RTW + Tektronix — Snell & Wilcox + TV Nova + TSL — Blu-ray Crumbles (Toshiba, ABI Research, Strategy Analytics) —
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February 19, 2008 Weather Prognostication Cemented Into Place By EUMETSAT The Director General of the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Dr. Lars Prahm, and the Head of Large Enterprises at T-Systems Business Services, Paul Laumann, have signed a 12.8M/euro contract securing the availability of EUMETCast services for Europe until 2014.
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Stuffin' The SpySat — Congratulations to the United States & The U.S. Navy — One Shot, It's Gone! The U.S. Navy has shot down the wayward U.S. spysat over the Pacific... the missile struck the satellite 130 miles in the atmosphere and destroyed the satellite at 10:30 EST.
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Skynet Soars + Scores, Superseding Schedule The first operational traffic was carried successfully on Skynet 5B at 05:00 on January 28th, 2008, one month earlier than originally planned. Skynet 5B was launched on an Ariane 5 launcher on November 9th, 2007, from Kourou, French Guiana.
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Moving On Up... At Miteq... MITEQ, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Howard Hausman as President.
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RCom Plus MEASAT-3 = DTH Rollout Reliance Communications (RCom) now has booked capacity on MEASAT-3, the Malaysian satellite system, with the length of the deal to run for 15 to 20 years.
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Expansive Space Transportation System To Be Demo'd By Orbital Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to demo a new space transportation system for delivering cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Moving On Up... At Cerona Networks Corporation... The company's new Principal RF Engineer has been named — Dean Pizio, who is an RF engineer with 13 years of professional experience.
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First Prepaid Service Of Its Kind From Vizada Vizada has launched their Universal Card prepaid service for mobile satellite communications.
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A Sporting 10 Year Relationship for GlobeCast GlobeCast has an exclusive deal that extends their relationship with IEC in Sports to provide contribution and distribution services until December 2009, ensuring a 10 year relationship for the firms that started in 2000.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Apple — Toshiba — Nielsen Company — IEEE Communications Society — Wohler Technologies — Boris FX — Lawo — Comcast + Motorola — GlobeCast + IEC in Sports — Network Electronics — Panasonic — — Apple — Toshiba — Nielsen Company — IEEE Communications Society — Wohler Technologies — Boris FX — Lawo — Comcast + Motorola — GlobeCast + IEC in Sports — Network Electronics — Panasonic —
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February 18, 2008 No Rocket Motor, No Rocket! ATK Receives NASA Contract... Alliant Techsystems [NYSE: ATK] now has a contract modification from NASA valued at $812.5 million.
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NAB Continuing Their Anti-Merger Activities For SatRadio When it comes to the much ballyhooed XM + SIRIUS satellite radio merger, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) continues to oppose the move.
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Synterra Brings More SatCom To Russia A new ground station has been completed by the Synterra company in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.
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Financially Speaking... SES... It may well be that the hoped-for acquisition of Spacecom by SES may not come to fruition.
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Vinasat-1 Launch Date Moved Again Although registered by Vietnam with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for release in 1999, the Vinasat-1 satellite has now experienced three delays for its launch date.
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Delight At Orbit For Antenna Approvals Orbit has announced Standard Intelsat Type Approval (GVF/IA 200FLT K2&G) for its OrSat (AL-7103 MK II) Ku-band Maritime Stabilized Antenna System.
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Goodrich Moves To Re-Align Divisions For Defense Biz Goodrich's ISR Systems (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance) business unit has been created from the former Optical & Space Systems (OSS) division to better align the company's ISR capabilities with the firm's other defense businesses.
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Space Made For Boeing With Five Associates The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has signed an associate contractor's agreement (ACA) with five other aerospace companies.
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More SpySat Shootin' Stuff... OK, the plan to destroy the failed U.S. spysat continues to develop... this coming Thursday offers the window of opportunity for annihilation, the day after the Atlantis shuttle makes it home.
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Finalists For Teleport Awards Announced By WTA World Teleport Association (WTA) has announced the finalists for its 2008 Teleport Awards for Excellence.
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Comprehensive VSAT Info from Comsys The latest comsys VSAT Report is now available and contains more than 1,500 pages in 3 volumes, all based upon 500+ operator and user interviews.
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Moving On Up... At Intelsat General Mark Daniels, an executive with 24 years of broad experience managing engineering and operations groups in the satellite communication and aerospace industries, has been named Vice President, Engineering & Operations, of Intelsat General Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Activision — Emporia — NAB + Sirius + XM — DVEO — Miranda Technologies — NEC Electronics (Europe) + Viaccess + 27M Technologies — Sky Angel — — Activision — Emporia — NAB + Sirius + XM — DVEO — Miranda Technologies — NEC Electronics (Europe) + Viaccess + 27M Technologies — Sky Angel —
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February 17, 2008 Iranian Space Probe Sends Signals Successfully According to reports, Iran has indicated their Kavoshgar (Explorer) space probe that reached space on the back of rocket earlier this month is now sending data back to Earth.
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SpySat Succotash... Cooking Up All Those Press Releases... Oh, that bane of the civilized world... the United States... and its rotten, filthy, uncaring spy satellite that's about to crash down and ruin many a life and country by smacking someone upside the head and depositing some ruinous form of hazardous material into the life stream... well, you'd think Chicken Little was, indeed, alive and managed most of the world's media outlets.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — MGM HD — Nielsen Digital Plus — LiveUniverse — BTX Technologies — Crawford Satellite Services — eMedia Music — Nagravision + T-Mobile CZ — Wohler Technologies — Volantis Systems — — MGM HD — Nielsen Digital Plus — LiveUniverse — BTX Technologies — Crawford Satellite Services — eMedia Music — Nagravision + T-Mobile CZ — Wohler Technologies — Volantis Systems —
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February 16, 2008 Moving On Up... At Boeing The new President of Boeing's Phantom Works advanced research and development unit is Matthew Ganz.
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"Gassy" Is Cassini's Take On Saturn's Titan The European Space Agency (ESA) is reporting the Cassini radar team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the U.S. has released a study that indicates Saturn's orange moon, Titan, has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all of the known oil and natural reserves on Earth.
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The New Portability Of Flight Following, Courtesy Of SkyTrac SkyTrac has added a new product to its portfolio of Satellite Communication (SatCom) and flight following systems.
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February 15, 2008 MPEG-4 HD SatSatisfaction Via Crawford Satellite Services Crawford Satellite Services and one of the largest broadcast facilities in the United States have launched an MPEG-4 HD (high definition) platform on SES AMERICOM’s satellite AMC-18 for domestic distribution into cable and DBS (digital broadcast system) providers.
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February 14, 2008 Mugunghwa Moving Forward KT, formerly known as Korea Telecom, plans to launch their 5th comsat in June of 2010.
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SpySat To Be Shot On Site A Navy missile will be fired at the recalcitrant U.S. spy satellite that is heading to Earth in an attempt to reduce the re-entry remnant to negligible bits.
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NSR Sees Huge Market For SatServices In The Air NSR has released their newest market analysis and forecast report, "Aeronautical Satellite Services, Analyzing the Market Opportunity for Passenger Jets and Business Aviation."
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Duplicate Solar System? But Smaller? From the Nation Science Foundation's online website comes a most interesting space story which illustrates there may well be other solar systems like ours and they may be more common than we think! Here is the excerpted article and graphics... we may NOT be alone!
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Fiber Is Good For You, Especially From SatService SatService Gesellschaft für Kommunikationssysteme is pleased to introduce its improved sat-nms LFRXTX10 L-band Fiber Optical Links, including 10MHz transmission.
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Moving On Up... At SES AMERICOM The new Senior Vice President, Human Resources, at SES AMERICOM is Mary Kathryn (Katy) Uhl.
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April Date Set For Vinasat-1 Launch April 2nd is the date now set for the launch of Vietnam's first comsat, the Vinasat-1.
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April Date Set For Vinasat-1 Launch April 2nd is the date now set for the launch of Vietnam's first comsat, the Vinasat-1.
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Antenna Accolades For KVH KVH Industries, Inc., [NASDAQ: KVHI) recently achieved a tremendous milestone as they shipped their 150,000th antenna, which reflects both the growing
demand for mobile access to entertainment and high-speed Internet services,
as well as the popularity of KVH's award-winning TracVision mobile satellite TV and TracPhone satellite communications systems.
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Nothing Like Purchased Capacity For MEASAT MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. has announced SkyVision Global Networks LLC signed a multi-transponder agreement for C-band capacity on the AFRICASAT-1 satellite.
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Arqiva Suite Sweetens SD + HD Delivery Increased interest in the HD market has prompted infrastructure investment by Arqiva and their Satellite Media Solutions division.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Microsoft — FTC — Google + iPhone — Nielsen — Yahoo! + News Corp. — Arqiva — Broadcast Int'l — Panasonic — Pinnacle Systems — TV One-task — Westinghouse Digital Electronics — — Microsoft — FTC — Google + iPhone — Nielsen — Yahoo! + News Corp. — Arqiva — Broadcast Int'l — Panasonic — Pinnacle Systems — TV One-task — Westinghouse Digital Electronics —
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February 13, 2008 Acquisition Mode... COM DEV USA... The Passive Microwave Devices product line of L-3 Communications Electron Technologies Inc. (ETI-PMD) has been acquired by COM DEV USA LLC, a sub of COM DEV International Limited [TSX:CDV] for $12.2 million.
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Financially Speaking... The DIRECTV Group The DIRECTV Group, Inc. has reported their Q4 2007 revenues increased 17 percent to $4.88 billion.
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New Sat Contracts Fit Frequency Frequency Electronics, Inc. [NASDAQ:FEIM) has new contracts with a total value of more than $9 million for two, long-term, domestic satellite programs.
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Foxcom's NexGen Fiber Optics Goodie En Route Foxcom designs, manufactures, and markets RF comm solutions for the satellite and broadcast markets. A Division of OnePath Networks, Inc., Foxcom has announced today they are debuting an entirely new suite of products: the SatLight/Platinum.
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Super Show In San Diego—It's ISCe + More... What a fantastic area wherein to conduct a satcom trade show—San Diego, California—June 10th through 12th—and it's actually THREE SHOWS IN ONE!
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Financially Speaking... Telenor.. Thanks to some 30 million new subscriptions during 2007, Telenor is now ranked as the world's seventh largest mobile operator. They have a total of 143 million subs in its mobile operations. Which is one reason why, when compared to the previous year, Telenor's revenues increased by 15 percent in 2007 to NOK 105 billion.
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JAXA Delays WINDS (KIZUNA) The launch of the KIZUNA satellite has been postponed.
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Contract Mods For Boeing + Lockheed Martin Contract modifications to the tune of $287,997,350 and $210,429,500 have been awarded to Boeing Launch Services and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, respectively.
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More Chopper Com For SkyTrac SkyTrac's SatCom and flight following solution has been selected by Slave Lake Helicopters for its mixed fleet of Eurocopter (AS350 and EC120) and Bell (206) aircraft.
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Moving On Up... At Globecomm... The new Vice President of Sales at Globecomm Systems is Mr. Paul Scardino.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Clear Channel — CBS Sports — ValueClick — Yahoo! — The DIRECTV Group — Disneyland — WGA — eMedia Music — AppleTV — Calrec Audio + Ross Video — Harris Corp. — Vidiator + weComm — Netflix — — Clear Channel — CBS Sports — ValueClick — Yahoo! — The DIRECTV Group — Disneyland — WGA — eMedia Music — AppleTV — Calrec Audio + Ross Video — Harris Corp. — Vidiator + weComm — Netflix —
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February 12, 2008 Moving On Up... At DataPath... The board of directors of DataPath, Inc. has named David J. Helfgott as President and Chief Executive Officer.
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Gilat Gains In India Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [NASDAQ: GILT] has been chosen by Tatanet, one of India's leading satellite service providers, to deliver a broadband satellite network that will serve the Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) and industry vertical market segments in that country.
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Hughes Gains In Russia Hughes Network Systems, LLC has received a contract from IPNet, one of Russia's leading broadband service providers, to implement a new HX system teleport in Moscow.
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C-COM iNets Hughes C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. [TSXV: CMI] has delivered a quantity of iNetVu mobile antennas to Hughes Network Systems, LLC.
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Moving On Up... At Intelsat Intelsat, Ltd. has made a number of executive appointments, effective immediately.
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Microspace Bellies Up To i-am TV Microspace Communications Corporation provides point-to-multipoint satellite services. The company has been selected by Instant Access Media to deliver i-am TV, an out-of-home digital entertainment network, to the largest neighborhood and sports bars across the United States.
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JAXA To Be Honored For Space Pioneering Successes The Space Foundation will honor the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with the 2008 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration.
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Major Milestone Marked For Lockheed Martin's SatComs The Lockheed Martin A2100 communications satellite fleet recently achieved a major milestone—they accumulated 200 years of successful, in-orbit operations.
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Failure Analysis Proposes No Failures Technology To NASA Failure Analysis has submitted a proposal to the NASA Johnson Space Center, International Space Station Program Office, and Houston, Texas for using telemetry prognostic technology with the International Space Station (ISS).
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Get Amped + Freq'd With Miteq New from Miteq are a duo of new products. First, MCL’s MT2300 outdoor TWT amplifier is a low-power, cost-effective, reliable solution able to meet any satellite uplinking requirement.
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Moving On Up... At Telenor Asia, DiGi Telenor Asia and DiGi, one of Malaysia's fastest growing mobile operators, has announced their Board of Directors has appoined Mr. Johan Dennelind as their new Chief Executive Officer
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Moving On Up... At iDirect iDirect, Inc. has promoted Chris Burdick to Vice President of Product Management.
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SatNews orBITS ... a satslap ... satshooting ... Belgian astronaut ... ... satslap ... satshooting ... Belgian astronaut ...
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Ericsson — Microspace Communications Corporation — The SatSlap — Freebie HD Network — — Ericsson — Microspace Communications Corporation — The SatSlap — Freebie HD Network —
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February 11, 2008 Inmarsat Gobbles Up Turnkey Billing Solution Inmarsat plc has glommed onto a real-time Turnkey Converged Billing solution from Redknee Solutions Inc
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Thales Delivers Important CryoSat-2 Addition to EADS Astrium Just delivered to EADS Astrium GmbH in Immenstaad, Germany, is the SIRAL-2 SAR interferometer radar altimeter by Thales Alenia Space.
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Thrane & Thrane Springs Into Action For SingTel Thrane & Thrane has received a DKK 13 million systems contract from the Singaporean communications company, SingTel, a provider of Inmarsat airtime.
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SatCom For African Choppers Thru SkyTrac A complete satcom and flight following solution will be provided by SkyTrac to Everett Aviation's helicopter fleet based in Africa.
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THOR 5 No Longer Delayed—Lift-Off! Plus, THOR 6 Planned For Next Year The THOR 5 satellite was lifted into orbit successfully today at 5:34 p.m. local time (6:34 a.m. EST, 11:34 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Turkey Interested In Israeli SpySats As Well During a visit to Turkey this week, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is going to see what he can accomplish in selling the idea of an Israeli satellite and other military goodies to that country.
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Brazil's New Digs For Shiron Sat Shiron Satellite Communications has opened an office in Brazil
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Mahmoud Mentions More Motile Moves Two additional research rockets will be launched by Iran prior to the country's first domestically built "research" satellite is in orbit.
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SatCom Improvements In Raytheon's Ballpark Another home run by Raytheon, as the company has just received a $75 million from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network.
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ESA + WTL Get Together For SatVoIP The European Space Agency (ESA) and World Telecom Labs (WTL) are going to joint collaborate on the development of voice over Internet technology via satellite networks.
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Financially Speaking... Universal Space Network Universal Space Network, Inc. (USN) provides outsourced space operations and ground control and communications services and they've just announced they have closed a $13M equity financing round and a $5M debt facility.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — Axia Audio — Digital Rapids — Sony Ericsson + Microsoft — Viva Media — DIRECTV + Liberty Media — NABA Honoree — Utah Scientific — — Axia Audio — Digital Rapids — Sony Ericsson + Microsoft — Viva Media — DIRECTV + Liberty Media — NABA Honoree — Utah Scientific —
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February 10, 2008 Sat Project Brings Avanti + Inmarsat Together Brit-based Avanti Communications and Inmarsat have joined forces, as the former works to place their first satcom into orbit
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THOR 5 Sunday Launch Delayed The THOR 5 launch aboard a Proton launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been postponed for at least 24 hours
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Capacity Gained For Canal+ HD On ASTRA Spain's first HD channel, Canal+ HD, has launched on SES ASTRA's satellite at 19.2° E, ASTR
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Moving On Up... At ViaSat Inc. Tom Moore, a co-founder in 1998, Director, and former President and CEO of WildBlue Communications, is now the Senior Vice President of ViaSat Inc.
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Make The Sky YOUR Sky Sky exploration made easy! That's the latest product from Meade Instruments Corporation called mySKY.
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Eurobird 9 Garners Capacity Customer Eutelsat has signed a deal with Tele Columbus.
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Advantage=>Advent, With NAB Demos Satellite uplinks, the entire range, will be shown by Advent Communications at NAB. This will include the half-rack size 5000 series electronic units.
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Epoxi Glues Deep Impact To Exosolar Planets NASA's Deep Impact extended mission for their spacecraft is starting as an extended mission called Epoxi.
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Near Earth Delves Into The Wireless Spectrum Investment banking firm Near Earth LLC has published a 42-page whitepaper entitled "Wireless Spectrum: Invisible Real Estate" by Partner John Stone.
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WCC Ensures Iron Dog Short-Burst Tracking Competitors in the grueling Tesoro Iron Dog snowmobile race will not be out of sight at any time during their nearly 2,000-mile competition across the Alaskan wilderness—thanks to an Iridium-enabled tracking system developed by World Communication Center (WCC).
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Wireless Internet Access Of More Than Passing Interest To EchoStar Corp. $150 million is a tidy sum, and that's what EchoStar Corporation has invested in TerreStar Corporation.
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digiGO!—The Digital World... presents... Advent Communications, Blackmagic Design, ArtBeats, On2 Technologies, Panasonic, Hewlett Packard, eBay, Intel, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Apple — Advent Communications — Blackmagic Design — ArtBeats — On2 Technologies — Panasonic — Hewlett Packard — eBay — Intel + Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — Apple —
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February 8, 2008 Columbus Finally Gets To Make Journey Aboard Atlantis The European Space Agency’s Columbus laboratory, developed with Thales Alenia Space as the main contributor, has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS).
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February 7, 2008 Flighty Fone Calls From Aerophone Aerophone Ltd. has developed a communication system that's now ready for series production, a system that enables mobile telephone calls to be made from aircraft, totally independent of GSM/CDMA ground stations
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New USAF Contracts For Alliant's Launch Systems Group In Jeopardy Alliant Techsystems has been notified by the Department of the Air Force that the Launch Systems Group has temporarily been placed on the Excluded Parties List.
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Iridium Upgrades Sat Phones for Cosmonauts In many areas of the US, drivers can be cited for talking on their phones while driving—wonder if cosmonauts can be cited for talking on sat phones while returning to Earth.
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Prime Positioning For Comcast With SES AMERICOM The Comcast Media Center (CMC) has expanded its relationship with SES AMERICOM by signing a multi-year, multi-transponder contract.
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Moving On Up... At Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] has promoted Mr. Michael E. Larkin to the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager of the company's Space Systems Group (SSG).
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digiGO!—The Digital World... presents: — Arquiva — Dalet Digital Media Systems + Warner Bros. — Firstcom Music — Envivio Inc. + RealNetworks — SintecMedia — XOrbit — BBC World — Narrowstep Inc. — D block spectrum — REVVER — Time Warner — — Arquiva — Dalet Digital Media Systems + Warner Bros. — Firstcom Music — Envivio Inc. + RealNetworks — SintecMedia — XOrbit — BBC World — Narrowstep Inc. — D block spectrum — REVVER — Time Warner —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Iridium Continues To Gain Altitude With satLINK - India + Iran Don't See Eye To Eye Re: TECSAR
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February 6, 2008 Starling's Flight Work Commercial airlines are now considering the use of broadband communication as a strategic asset. Starling Advanced Communication Ltd., who provides Ku-band antenna systems for in-flight applications, has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with EMS Defense & Space Systems (D&SS), a division of EMS Technologies.
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WTA Tackles FCC $$$ Mandates The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released a new white paper on the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) telecom funding mandates and the significant effects they have on satellite service providers operating in the United States.
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Patent Pride For Mobile Satellite Ventures A joint venture between Mobile Satellite Ventures LP and Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) Inc., Mobile Satellite Ventures is owned and controlled by SkyTerra Communications, Inc., and all are delighted with the fact that Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has been awarded a new patent by the U.S. Patent Office.
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ILS Has THOR 5 Poised, Pumped & Prepped International Launch Services (ILS) is set to launch the THOR 5 satellite aboard a Proton M/Breeze M launch vehicle.
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Effnet and RMI—Better Architecture Through Collaboration Collaboration usually is a win-win situation. Such is especially true when Effnet AB and RMI Corporation decided to pool their talents.
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DVR From FFV Has Space Mission Experience When it comes to DVR systems, one of the leading sources for such is Fast Forward Video (FFV).
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A High Stare For BAE Systems A $15 million contract to develop advanced infrared focal-plane arrays (FPAs) for U.S.A.F. missile defense surveillance satellites has been awarded to BAE Systems.
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BAE Decries Obsolescence With New FPGA In additional BAE Systems news, the company now also has an agreement with Actel Corporation to produce a radiation-hardened field-programmable gate array (FPGA) semiconductor for use in space.
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Moving On Up... At Dish Network Corporation After Carl Vogel resigned for personal reasons from his position as President of Dish Network Corporation, the new President of the company will be Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charlie Ergen.
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ABI Looks At 700 MHz Bidding Even the FCC underestimated the demand for 700 MHz. Originally expected to raise between $10 billion and $15 billion, total current bids exceed $18.9 billion.
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Moving On Up... At Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. has appointed Michele Goins to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO).
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A Triple For Major ULA<=>USAF Play A $505 million contract has been awarded by the U.S. Air Force to United Launch Alliance (ULA).
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Venus Gasses Surrender Info to VIRTIS The European Space Agency's Venus Express has recently 'peeled back' the thick clouds around Venus and has been able to provide the most accurate and wide-ranging map of water vapour and other gases in the lower atmosphere to date.
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Financially Speaking... NASA NASA has announced a $17.6 billion budget for fiscal year 2009 to continue exploring the solar system, building the International Space Station, studying Earth from space and conducting aeronautics research.
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Into Combat Goes More TACNAV From KVH KVH Industries, Inc. [Nasdaq: KVHI] has received two orders from a U.S. defense contractor for the purchase of components and upgrades for KVH's TACNAV vehicle navigation systems for use on U.S. military combat vehicles.
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digiGO!—The Digital World presents... — ABI Research x 2 — Echolab Corp. — Effnet AB + RMI Corp. — Fast Forward Video — Front Porch Digital + Avid Technology — Harris Corp. + IRIS — I-Movix — NETIA — Wohler Technologies — — ABI Research x 2 — Echolab Corp. — Effnet AB + RMI Corp. — Fast Forward Video — Front Porch Digital + Avid Technology — Harris Corp. + IRIS — I-Movix — NETIA — Wohler Technologies —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Not Going For The Spectrum - Boeing Recruiting Ares I Suppliers - Gaining SatCom On Avianca Via Avianca + Iridium
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February 5, 2008 Scope Out Scopus' DSNG Goodies Cost-effective distribution of high-quality content is a critical challenge for broadcasters, content providers, and satellite operators today.
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Pollution Control By ESA + EEA The European Environment Agency has finalized an agreement with an European Space Agency (ESA)-led consortium to provide unparalleled information on air pollution.
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Moving On Up... At TI The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has announced the addition of Taly Walsh to its leadership structure as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.
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A True Celebration Of Life—Bob Luly, Senior Technical Advisor, atContact Bob Luly was, without doubt, a true pioneer of modern satellite technology. His experience in satellite systems engineering spanned more than 30 years.
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DoD Budget Request Heads To U.S. Congress A 3.4 percent military pay raise, a 2.9 percent civilian raise, money to continue to grow the Army and Marines, and a funding increase to maintain readiness, all are major aspects of the fiscal 2009 defense budget request President Bush sent to Congress today. The defense budget request is for $515.4 billion—a $35.9 billion increase over the 2008 level. The total federal budget request for fiscal 2009 is $3.1 trillion.
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digiGO!—The Digital World presents... — Eastman Kodak Company — Front Porch Digital — Harris Corporation + Snader & Associates — Intel + Silverthorne — Level 3 Communications + DNCC — Apple — Clickability, Inc. — Frame Media Inc. + Distributive Networks — Nstein Technologies + Reader's Digest — Verizon Communications — ZVUE Corporation — — Eastman Kodak Company — Front Porch Digital — Harris Corporation + Snader & Associates — Intel + Silverthorne — Level 3 Communications + DNCC — Apple — Clickability, Inc. — Frame Media Inc. + Distributive Networks — Nstein Technologies + Reader's Digest — Verizon Communications — ZVUE Corporation —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Financially Speaking... Intelsat, Ltd. - Financially Speaking... Telenor
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February 4, 2008 Newtec's SatTool Negates Installation Costs Newtec has launched ‘Point&Play’, a new capability added to the method by which satellite broadband access terminals are installed.
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Iran Claims Their Satellite Is For Research Gotta keep an eye on this alleged "leader" of Iran... the country has tested a missile that can lift a satellite into space, this according to the country's state television service.
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Feeding Ariane 5 For Launch The major task of fueling Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for Ariane 5’s upcoming milestone mission is entering its final phase at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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RASCOM-QAF1 Goes Geostationary Thales Alenia Space and RASCOMSTAR-QAF decided the RASCOM-QAF1 satellite be placed in its final geostationary orbit at 2.85° E.
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Financially Speaking... Integral Systems Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS] reported financial results for Q1 of fiscal 2008.
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Hughes Gets 10K Terminal Deal Hughes India has signed a contract with Comat Technologies to supply ten thousand (10,000) broadband satellite terminals, together with its nationwide HughesNet satellite services and apps, to be delivered at rural business centers across multiple states in India.
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Financially Speaking... Serafina Holdings To Become Intelsat Global, Ltd. Intelsat, Ltd. has announced the successful closing of the acquisition of all of the primary equity ownership of its parent, Intelsat Holdings, Ltd. by Serafina Holdings, Limited, an entity formed by funds advised by BC Partners, Silver Lake and certain other equity investors.
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U.S.A.F. Hits Up Congress For Billions Of Bucks Military space programs, satellites, missiles, systems... all cost big bucks!
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digiGO!—The Digital World... featuring — ABI Research + Robots — AMAZON.COM + Audible.com — Final Draft + CineStory — Red Giant Software — Streambox — Volicon — Zaxcom — Cablevision Systems + Popcorn Home Entertainment — National Geographic Channel — — ABI Research + Robots — AMAZON.COM + Audible.com — Final Draft + CineStory — Red Giant Software — Streambox — Volicon — Zaxcom — Cablevision Systems + Popcorn Home Entertainment — National Geographic Channel —
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February 3, 2008 Pakistan's VSAT Measures Responsible for issuing ID cards to Pakistani citizens is the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), with more then 11,000 employees and more than 400 offices in Pakistan and five international offices
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SatLink Gets Into Eutelsat's W2 Sat SatLink Communications Ltd. has launched its new MCPC (Multi Channel Per Carrier) platform on Eutelsat’s W2 satellite.
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Agilent Signals New Product Agilent Technologies Inc. [NYSE: A] has now made available a compact microwave analog signal generator that delivers a low cost of ownership and is an extension to the popular Agilent MXG signal generator platform.
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Demo Done By Northrop Grumman For EHF Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] has demo'd the interface compatibility of the nexgen Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite with user ground terminals using the new Extended Data Rate (XDR) waveform and protocols.
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SSTL Garners MDA Mission Prime Assistance Surrey Satellite Technology Limited in the United Kingdom has been awarded a
contract from Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.
(MDA) to deliver a satellite platform as part of the Sapphire space
object surveillance program.
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New Promax Offering Brings New Test Capabilities PROMAX announces the addition of new features to their US TV EXPLORER family of handheld analyzers for cable, broadcast and satellite.
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Moving On Up... At Boeing The new Vice President and General Manager of Boeing's Space and Intelligence Systems division, which is within the company's Integrated Defensive Systems unit, is Mr. Craig Cooning.
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digiGO!—The Digital World — Envivio _ Kangaroo TV — PROMAX — Strategy & Technology — NVISION + Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp. — — Envivio _ Kangaroo TV — PROMAX — Strategy & Technology — NVISION + Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp. —
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ORBITS: News Briefs Spy Sat Splat On Australia????? - Spy Satellite Splat Gets Own Musical Masterpiece
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February 1, 2008 Raytheon To Broadcast Super Bowl To Troops! We just received a call from <b>Raytheon</b> last Friday morning regarding the approval just granted them to broadcast the <b><i>Super Bowl LXII</i></b> to our highly deserving and valiant sailors and marines who are at sea in the Pacific region.
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