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September 30, 2009 digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Alianza Riding The Open Range — IMS Research Finds Tier 1 Telcos Gaining IPTV Subs — TIA Wants FCC To Increase Available Spectrum — Xanadoo Xounds Off —
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Expedition 21 Experts Excelling After Take Off Through Space It was a go as Flight Engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev of the 21st International Space Station crew were launched in their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:14 a.m. EDT Wednesday to begin a six-month stay in space.
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Righteous Rewards: Juniper + Frost & Sullivan Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) has announced that Frost & Sullivan has named the company as the recipient of the 2009 Asia Pacific SSL VPN (Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network) Market Leadership Award.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Depressing Depressions There are now four tropical cyclones stirring in the Western Pacific: Ketsana, 18W, 19W and now Tropical Depression 20W. The 20th tropical cyclone of the Western Pacific Ocean formed in the overnight hours of September 28 to 29.
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Making The WTA List... On October 16, WTA (World Teleport Association) will close the application process for its 2009 Top Operators rankings, the world's only yearly rankings of teleport operating companies by revenue and growth rate.
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Cell + SatPhone Is A TerreStar/AT&T Morph Mobile communications provider TerreStar Networks Inc. (TerreStar), a majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation (NASDAQ: TSTR), have an agreement between with AT&T to bring to market the first fully integrated satellite cellular smartphone.
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SS/L Trips On Out With IS-14 To The Cape Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL) has delivered a satellite built for Intelsat to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it is scheduled to launch later this year aboard an Atlas V rocket.
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Excelerating Into Rover Rapid Response Excelerate Technology, a U.K.’s supplier of satellite and wireless-based data, voice and video solutions to the emergency services, has unveiled the first of a new generation of Rapid Response vehicles.
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Here Comes H2O Satellite The new branding by Global Technology finds them morphing into H2O Satellite.
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UAVTOL To Become A Life Saver Mundus Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MNDP) announces formation of AirStar Search & Rescue UAV 4 Life to focus on saving lives and property from wildfires in California.
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Agreements Galore For C2SAT C2SAT and Fong's Advance Technology Pte Ltd. have signed a production agreement regarding the establishment of local production of C2SAT antennas in Singapore.
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SatBroadcasting: SIS Live Offers Compact SNG For Uplinking SIS LIVE will exhibit an enhanced uPod Micro uplink series at the SATCON Expo being held on October 14th and 15th at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York.
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SatBroadcasting: Amen For ATEM From Echolab Celebrating its 35th year in business, Echolab showcases Atem™, their 1-M/E 3-Gbps 1080p/60 production switcher setting new standards for flexibility, functionality, and utility.
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Twice In One Week This Time To Samoa — TSF Ever Vigilant, Ever Helpful On September 29th, a powerful underwater earthquake at 8.0 on the Richter scale in the Pacific off the Samoa islands region generated a tsunami and waves 3 meters high across Samoa Islands in the South Pacific.
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September 29, 2009 Moving On Up... @ PCI Geomatics... PCI Geomatics has appointed Terry Moloney to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
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ARINC To Support USSTRATCOM HSFS ARINC Engineering Services, LLC has been awarded an Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) contract to support the Human Space Flight activities of USSTRATCOM located at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.
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SS/L Ships Satellites Serving SES WORLD SKIES The ongoing process of building, moving and launching satellites is now underway with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), [Nasdaq:LORL], a provider of commercial satellites that today shipped a communications satellite built for SES WORLD SKIES, to Kourou, French Guiana, to launch later this year aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
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Moving On Up... @ SkyTrac... SkyTrac Systems has announced that Major Stephen Fuhr (retired) has joined SkyTrac’s executive team as Vice President and Director of Business Development.
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A Fuelish Change For Hermes 90 UAV Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) has revealed their Hermes unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully flew, for the first time, using a heavy fuel commonly used in jet engines.
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Russia Tuning In + Tuning Up With UAV Considerations According to an interview with the Russian Chief of Staff of the Army, General Vladimir Boldyrev with ITAR-TASS, Russia is considering equipping all reconnaissance battalions of the Army with remotely piloted tactical aircraft.
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Financially Speaking... Iridium Communications Inc... Iridium Holdings LLC (“Iridium Holdings”) and GHL Acquisition Corp. (“GHL Acquisition”) have announced the close of their transaction.
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SatBroadcasting: OmniBus iTX Infused With New Features OmniBus is going to demo the latest version of iTX, offering more than 100 new features designed to further enhance the flexibility and power of the platform.
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SatBroadcasting: Summit For All Things TV Related A mere seven days remain until the start of the Television 3.0 Summit, in Beverly Hills, California. More than 40 of the TV industry’s most forward thinking leaders will come together to participate in a comprehensive agenda that will explore all aspects of the evolution of television.
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SatBroadcasting: A Productivity Pipeline From Telestream Telestream unveiled a major software release for its award-winning Pipeline network video capture systems.
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Financially Speaking... GMV... GMV experienced strong growth in 2008 and experienced an 18 percent increase in overall revenue, up to $128 million in 2008 — space and defense is the largest business area in the company and produced revenue of $94 million U.S. dollars.
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SAIC Supports SMC With Risky Biz Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) has been awarded a delivery order by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to provide technical analysis and risk assessments in support of SMC's Independent Readiness Review Team (IRRT).
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Hiltron HMAMs It Up @ IBC2009 Hiltron Communications reports a substantial upturn in broadcast business at IBC2009.
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Spatial Surprises: Hubble Has Hankerin' For Galaxial Drama A newly released set of images, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope before the recent Servicing Mission, highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process known as "ram pressure stripping", which can result in peculiar-looking galaxies.
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Blue Force Tracking Order For Comtech Telecomm. Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received an order totaling $23.4 million under its IDIQ contract with the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM).
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Chaitén Chuffing... After a spectacular explosion in May of 2008, Chile’s Chaiten volcano has erupted continuously for the past 16 months.
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Good Ol' THOR 6 Is Safe In French Guiana Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) today announced that its spacecraft, THOR 6, has arrived safely at the Guiana Spaceport in Kourou.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Philippines Pummeled... On September 26, 2009, in a matter of hours, Tropical Storm Ketsana dropped a month’s worth of rain on the Philippine capital of Manila.
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Boeing Bags B-52 SATCOM Contract That's FAB-Tulous The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has received a $5.4 million contract for the initial effort required for integrating a new satellite communication system on the U.S. Air Force B-52 fleet.
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GLONASS Not Glowing With Success Russia's space chief said last Friday that the launch of three satellites aimed at bolstering the country's planned GPS-type navigation system was delayed due to a malfunction in an earlier launched satellite, this according to news agencies.
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September 28, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Harris Hauls Awards Away From IBC2009 Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international has been honored with two prestigious industry awards at the recent IBC2009 convention.?The company won TV Technology Europe magazine’s STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award for its new X50™ frame synchronizer/converter — a single-channel platform that delivers exceptional quality and functionality.
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Financially Speaking... GeoEye, Inc... GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has received tenders and consents from the holders of $249.5 million in aggregate principal amount, or approximately 99.8 percent, of its outstanding $250 million Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2012 (the "Notes") as of the expiration of the consent payment deadline, which was September 24, 2009, at 5:00 p.m., New York City time (the "Consent Deadline").
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Magnify Your iPhone Videos — RIM Recounts Revenues — Analog, Digital mobileTV Transmissions With R&S — Pre Possibly Pass? For Verizon —
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GAO Examines NASA's Constellation Program NASA’s Constellation program is developing the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle and the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle as the agency’s first major efforts in a plan to return to the moon and eventually send humans to Mars.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Doing Dubai At Night The city of Dubai is the largest metropolitan area in the emirate of Dubai, one of the member states of the United Arab Emirates.
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Spatial Surprises: Historic Photo Of Untethered Astronaut At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before.
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Congressional Considerations: Hurricane Satellite Modernization Act Introduced into the U.S. House Of Representatives on September 25th was H.R. 3654 by Congressmen Ron Klein (D-FL) and Congressman Charlie Melancon (D-LA), entitled the Hurricane Satellite Modernization Act.
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Five 4 Fifth Ariane 5 Five for five the fifth Ariane 5 for launch in 2009 is ready for liftoff on September 30 following the integration of its military and civilian telecommunications spacecraft payloads at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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Keeping Up An Even Greater Image With WorldView-2 — First Impressions Do Count! Collaboration of the best kind occurs when companies work together and meet their milestones such as Boeing Launch Services and United Launch Alliance launch WorldView-2, with the second of the DigitalGlobe next-generation class of imaging satellites.
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First Class Of Non-Flying U.S.A.F. UAV Pilots Graduate Gordon Lubild of The Christian Science Monitor reports on the U.S.A.F.'s class of 2009 — UAV pilots, that is. Last week, the service graduated the first class of pilots without flight training.
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Transponder Transaction For GTSS On Upcoming ABS-2 GT Satellite Systems S.A. (GTSS) and Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) have signed a long term, multiple transponder deal which would provide GTSS with expansion capacity on the new ABS-2 satellite scheduled to be launched in 2012.
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Moving On Up @ ViP-TV at EchoStar Satellite Services Vernon Smith, a 20-year veteran of satellite television, has joined EchoStar Satellite Services to oversee the ViP-TV Internet Protocol television service.
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OnAir Brings British Airways Biz Folk InFlight Connectivity British Airways and OnAir have launched inflight connectivity services aboard the airline’s premier business-class only service linking London with New York.
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A Positive Reflection On Harris By TerreStar-1 An 18-meter antenna reflector built by Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) for the geosynchronous TerreStar (Nasdaq: TSTR) global communications satellite was successfully deployed on orbit on July 12, 2009.
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STSS Demos Enter LEO, Courtesy Of ULA Delta II Rocket A critical space-based capability was added to America's ballistic missile defenses on September 25th when two U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstrator satellites built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) were launched aboard a Delta II rocket.
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Bravo For Boeing + New GPS Security Via OGS Boeing [NYSE: BA] has completed developmental system testing on the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite ground control system, known as the Operational Control Segment (OCS), for the addition of a critical new security capability.
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Moving On Up... At Thales Communications Inc... Thales Communications, Inc. (Thales) has appointed Mr. Patrick J. Allison to the position of Business Development Manager for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy.
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State of Calamity Declared in Eight Flooded Philippine Regions — TSF Brings Help The heaviest rain rains and worst flooding in more than 40 years in Manila, and nearby provinces occured on Saturday September 26th, as a result of tropical storm Ketsana.
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SatBroadcasting: NETIA Nets RFO Manreo Installation NETIA announced Reseau France Outre-mer (French Overseas Network or RFO), a subsidiary of Group France Television, is installing the company's Manreo™ media asset management (MAM) solution to simplify file and archive management of content at the broadcaster's Paris headquarters and nine regional production centers
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When Does 505 Spell SOS? With KVH's TracPhone Emergency Service Over 100 years ago, seafarers in peril took advantage of communications technology to call for help, using their radio telegraph equipment to tap out the familiar S O S& Save Our Ship call for help.
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September 25, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Better Analysis Via Volicon's Observer RPM Volicon's The Observer RPM is a true content analysis tool as it measures, logs, and streams post-STB audio, video, and metadata.
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RapidEye's Continued Global Distribution Expertise Expansion RapidEye has announced AAMHatch of Australia has signed on as one of the Company's distributors — the contract was signed last week between AAMHatch's General Manager, Brian Nicholls, and RapidEye CEO, Wolfgang G. Biedermann.
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Access To Asian Expertise @ CASBAA Convention 2009 CASBAA Convention 2009 presents the most powerful opportunity for industry executives worldwide to exchange ideas and strategies and discuss new trends in Asia that will drive businesses forward during and beyond these challenging times.
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Celebrating 40 Years In Business — NSSL In the same momentous year that man walked on the moon and Woodstock occurred, NSSL launched as a company in the U.K.
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COMSAT Switching + Multiplexing — New COM DEV Project COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has been awarded an Authorization to Proceed (ATP) on integrated multiplexer and switch assemblies for a commercial communications satellite.
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Lift Off! Success For ULA STSS-Demo via Delta II And they're off — what a great way to end the week! After several rain imposed delays a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launches the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s STSS Demo payload at 8:20 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex – 17B at Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida.
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September 24, 2009 Recession? What Recession? Satellite Operators Score Big in 2008 and On Track for Strong 2009 According to NSR's new report, Global Assessment of Satellite Supply & Demand (GASD), 6th Edition, found here commercial satellite operators saw a very good year in 2008 with revenues up substantially.
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NASA Offers A Lot Of Ballooney NASA has selected nine scientific teams to work on future high-altitude balloon and sounding rocket payloads. The selected proposals address a wide range of astrophysical mysteries from dark matter and cosmic-ray antiprotons to studies of galaxy clusters and supernova remnants.
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Thin Is Best For Vishay's Resistors Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) has released the new TNPU e3 series of high-precision thin film flat chip resistors in 0603, 0805, and 1206 case sizes.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know.... GHL Acquisition + Iridium Holdings LLC... GHL Acquisition Corp. (“GHL Acquisition”) (NYX: GHQ, GHQ.WS and GHQ.U) announced its stockholders have voted to approve its acquisition of Iridium Holdings LLC (“Iridium”).?
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Pesky Rain Delays ULA's Delta II Launch of U.S. Missile Defense Sats Rescheduled The United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch of a Delta II rocket carrying two STSS-Demo satellites for the U.S. Missile Defense is now scheduled for Friday, September 25, with a one hour launch window of 8 - 9 a.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida.
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Trickle Down Effect of Launch Delays — WorldView-2 Now Awaits The Go! As a result of the delay of the Delta II launch, the DigitalGlobe Satellite launch date has been impacted.
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SatBroadcasting: A Probe Of Importance For Bluebell Probe-6 was launched by Bluebell during IBC2009, a rugged portable fibre optic system specifically designed for OB, ENG and SNG applications.
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Spatial Surprises: Get A Snow Cone On Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars — the spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.
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AAI + L-3 Communications Are Tactically Aware AAI Corporation and L-3 Communication Systems-West have achieved a vital situational awareness architecture to support the U.S. Army's Datalink for Manned/Unmanned Systems (DMS) — bringing together reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition (RSTA) information across multiple airborne assets.
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Are You Foe, Or Friend? General Dynamics' Knows... General Dynamics C4 Systems has received a $37 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Mode 5 (KIV-78) cryptographic modules and spare parts.
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From Sim To The Real Thing @ Northrop Grumman For Webb 'Scope The huge assembly standing in Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) high bay looks a lot like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), but it's actually a full-scale simulator of the space telescope's key elements.
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The COMSAT Secret Is Out Of The Bag — PAN Power For U.S. A nexgen (and secret) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the U.S. government, is performing as required following its successful launch from Cape Canaveral on September 8th aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, with the Lockheed Martin team successfully completing a series of key activities toward delivering the spacecraft for customer use.
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Moving On Up... At Boeing... The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has named Anthony M. Parasida, 53, president of the Company's $8 billion Global Services & Support (GS&S) business, effective immediately.
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Signaling A Salute For SMC + LMC For GPS IIR-21(M) After years of remarkable teamwork and commitment to mission success, the Global Positioning Systems Wing successfully launched the final GPS IIR modernized satellite last month from Cape Canaveral AFS, Forida — GPS IIR-21(M) marked a significant milestone in a long series of historic accomplishments in one of the Air Force’s most successful space programs.
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SatBroadcasting: IDC's Investment In Tiernan A Good Thing International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) has received orders valued at more than $700,000 USD for its newly acquired Tiernan video and audio lines of products.
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SeaSpace Seizes Substantial Contracts SeaSpace Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for two 3.7m geostationary TeraScan? ground stations.
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SatBroadcasting: On-Chip Security A Big Deal For CE Folk With NOCS Nagravision, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) company now has strategic license agreement with Intel Corporation involving Nagravision On-Chip Security (NOCS) technology and Intel? CE media processors.
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SpaceX Preps For Falcon 9's Inaugural Launch @ The Cape SpaceX is now only a few months away from having the inaugural Falcon 9 launch vehicle on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral and ready to fly.
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iNetVu's International Appeal C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) has received $385,000 worth of orders for its iNetVu? mobile antenna systems from its resellers in China, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
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An Ocean Voyage For Thor 6 The Thor 6 satellite, owned by Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS, a subsidiary of Norway’s telecommunication provider Telenor, is ready to be shipped to Kourou in French Guyana for launch.
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Current + Future Opportunities For ISRO Although the PSLV-C14 mission on Wednesday was a success, there are challenges ahead for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), according to K. Radhaakrishnan, Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Financially Speaking... Comtech... Net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 were $122.0 million compared to $126.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008.
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Ikonos Celebrates A Decade Of Imagery Service The world’s first commercial, high-resolution, Earth imaging satellite, IKONOS, will achieve its 10th year of operation on September 24.
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September 23, 2009 High Five For HYLAS As Avanti Communications Exceeds Recruitment It is important and rewarding when goals are set and met, and even better —exceeded — such is the case for Avanti Communications Group plc [AIM: AVN].
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India's Seven Satellites Successfully Soar Into Space On August 29, India aborted an $82 million mission to map the surface of the moon after losing contact with its unmanned Chandrayaan I craft. Today they turned the negative into a positive and more than made up for this by launching seven satellites from a single rocket, demonstrating its growing skills in multi-satellite launches.
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SatBroadcasting: Snell's Significant Contribution To CBN Snell announced the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) has purchased a second Snell Sirius router to drive the network's digital broadcasting infrastructure.
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SatBroadcasting: SATCOM Modems + More From IEC TELECOM IEC TELECOM will exhibit at the SIEL SATIS Radio trade show, which will take place from October 20 to 22, 2009 at the Parc des Expositions - Porte de Versailles in Paris, at booth C-62.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know.... SkyTerra + Harbinger Capital Partners... SkyTerra (OTCBB: SKYT) has entered into a definitive merger agreement for SkyTerra to be acquired by a new corporation formed and indirectly wholly-owned by Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd. and Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund, L.P.
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MESSENGER's Message For Mercury In 4.9 Billion Mile Final Fly By "I've Got You Mapped" NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft (MESSENGER) will fly by Mercury for the third and final time on September 29, at a distance of only 142 miles above the planet's rocky surface for a final gravity assist that will enable it to enter Mercury's orbit in 2011.
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Raytheon's Modernized User Equipment Passes Milestone Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has surpassed another milestone on its Modernized User Equipment program by achieving live satellite M-code tracking with its MUE receiver.
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Line 'Em Up — Three Launch Vehicles Ready For Arianespace Launches It is a busy time as launch vehicles for three upcoming Arianespace missions are now at the Spaceport in French Guiana following this week's delivery of components for Ariane 5's record seventh flight of 2009.
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Financially Speaking... GeoEye, Inc... GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has priced its private placement offering ("Notes Offering") of $400 million in aggregate principal amount of 9 5/8 percent Senior Secured Notes due 2015 (the "Notes").
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Arianespace's Comic (Book) Approach — Truth In Fiction With Destination Arianespace Comic books often have treated the exploration of space with futuristic themes, creating plotlines about fantastic voyages that challenge the imagination.
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SatBroadcasting: The AKYI Key For IPTV Security AccessKey IP, Inc. (OTCBB:AKYI) has detailed some of the highlights and technical developments of their STB project.
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Water Use Mapping Boost Out Of Idaho For Landsat Data The U.S. Geological Survey says data from Landsat satellites played a central role in the creation of a new, award-winning type of water use mapping.
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L-3 Viking 400 UAV Gains SOCOM Contract L-3 Communications Geneva Aerospace has received a not-to-exceed $250 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for U.S. Special Operations Command’s Expeditionary Unmanned Aircraft System.
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Israeli UAVs Imported Into India For Coastline Surveillance Ten months ago, Ajmal Kasav and his gang of marauding gunmen exposed the terror threat from the seas. Now, thanks to the facts being brought to light, Porbander airport is being equipped to facilitate a constant vigil over the Indian coastline.
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KVH SATCOM System Boards Clipper Marine Services Clipper Marine Services A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark, is the latest commercial maritime operation to take advantage of the broadband access and affordable service offered by KVH Industries (Nasdaq: KVHI) and its compact TracPhone? V7 satellite communications system and the mini-VSAT Broadband(sm) service.
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SatBroadcasting: Digital Distribution Eased By MediaMesh Digital Rapids' MediaMesh content distribution system is the recipient of a 2009 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award, given by the editorial staff of TV Technology Europe magazine at the 2009 IBC convention.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: More Than A Dusting For Australia A wall of dust stretched from northern Queensland to the southern tip of eastern Australia on the morning of September 23, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image.
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Cementing Their Ottawa Ops Is SSi With New Investments A Yellowknife-based rural broadband provider is solidifying its Ottawa presence with its purchase of a three-acre Kanata property, with plans to invest up to $5 million over the next year.</fo
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A Temporary Satellite Solution By Spacecom During Amos 6 Reconfig. Spacecom Satellite Communications Ltd. (TASE:SCC) is reconfiguring the Amos 6 communications satellite to handle broadband Internet.</font
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Harris Corporation and General Dynamics GOES-R In Pursuit of NOAA Program Two antenna technology companies, Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] and General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies, have teamed to pursue a 10-year program for the ground antennas that will support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — R (GOES-R).
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India’s Lunar Mission Finds Evidence of Water On the Moon Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India’s first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface.
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September 22, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Tele2 Makes Their Selection — Amino STBs Tele2 Netherlands has selected Amino Communications as the supplier of MPEG-4 STBs for the provision of IPTV services.
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IPAD Invests In Imagery From RapidEye RapidEye has been named as the latest addition to the Prime Vendor Contract by the International Production and Assessment Division (IPAD), Office of Global Analysis (OGA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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CBM Gains Access To Intelsat SatTech For IP Platform Services Intelsat now has a multi-year agreement whereby the Company will supply global Ku- and C-band transmission facilities for CBM Communications LLC (CBM), an affiliate of Marine Technologies, LLC (MT/C-Comm).
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Special — Shrinking Swedish Satellites In Space! AAC Microtec in Sweden tests miniaturized satellite systems in space, and for the second time in 2009 they will fly their revolutionary microsystem-based components in space.
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Flying High With GPS Is Blue Sky Net's New Transceiver Blue Sky Network has introduced their D410A flight tracking and two-way messaging transceiver into its product line-up.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution — Cellular M2M Connections Study From ABI — Alteran's ADIVA Launches — GNSS Sims & GPS Modernization From Spirent — Cable Industry Support For DVB-C2 —
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SatBroadcasting: How Sporting Of Ross Video Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium is gearing up to provide extensive coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games with seven Ross Vision Multi-Definition Production Switchers.
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SatBroadcasting: Beijing Exhibition Brings Harris A Win Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been honored with an Outstanding Product Award in the Video and Broadcast Production category for its ACO6800 series of automatic switchover products at the Beijing International Radio, Film and Television Equipment Exhibition (BIRTV) in Beijing, China.?
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GPS II-F Ground Testing Completed By Boeing Boeing [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed key ground tests that help pave the way for next year's launch of the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite.
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SatBroadcasting: IDC Employs Their Digital Cinema Expertise In Germany International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) has received a new order from MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH, based in Germany, for satellite network equipment to be used in the expansion and initial operational rollout of their digital cinema service in Europe.
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SatBroadcasting: CrestaTech's Universal Broadband Chip Reference designs and samples for CrestaTech's new programmable broadband technology are now available, enabling PC manufacturers to pop in one universal chip and support all analog TV and digital TV standards worldwide.
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A Broadband BOW To Stratos Global Stratos Global Corporation has reached a cooperative distribution agreement with Blue Ocean Wireless (BOW) that will enable ship managers to conveniently deploy GSM service via FleetBroadband terminals.
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Thuraya XT Now Part Of Global Satellite's Product Portfolio Global Satellite USA has launched Thuraya XT, the world's first IP54/IK03 certified satellite phone.
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Financially Speaking... DIRECTV... The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTV) announced that its subsidiaries, DIRECTV Holdings LLC and DIRECTV Financing Co., Inc., have completed their previously announced $2.0 billion debt financing.
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Nigerian + W. African Coverage Via SES For Netcom Africa SES World Skies, a division of SES, announced Netcom Africa has signed a multi-year deal to expand its delivery of telecom and broadcast television services throughout Nigeria and West Africa.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Rain, Rain, Go Away... Several storms over the southeastern United States left behind acres of standing water and multiple deaths in September 2009.</font
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Gilat Enables Riders to Surf While On Kazakhstan Rails Traveling on the Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, the national railway company of Kazakhstan, just got a whole lot better thanks to the free Internet and telephony service on popular Astana-Almaty route.
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Observing the Center of the Complex Milky Way A dramatic new vista of the center of the Milky Way galaxy from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory exposes new levels of the complexity and intrigue in the Galactic center.
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Do Not Swat These Intelligent Israel Aerospace Mosquito Micro UAVs (IsraelNN.com) Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) revealed a unique hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at an aeronautics conference earlier this month. The ultra-light UAV, called the Mosquito, was developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Defense for use by combat units in gathering field intelligence.
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September 21, 2009 Here's Looking @ Earth... This Lava Is Cool... Ol Doinyo Langai in Tanzania is the only volcano in the world that erupts natrocarbonatite lava, which is rich in calcium, sodium, and potassium, but low in silica (silicon dioxide).
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Shuttle Shuttling Off, Piggyback, To Kennedy Space Center Yesterday (Sunday), Shuttle Discovery sat atop its 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft are at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana, where the ferry flight team will stay overnight. Discovery arrived at 6:39 p.m. EDT, about 20 minutes behind the ferry flight's "pathfinder" support aircraft, a NASA C-9 plane.
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More Stealth Planned For Avenger UAV According to Graham Warwick of Aviation Week, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Lockheed Martin are partnering to fly an Avenger UAV with a version of the F-35's stealth-imbued electro-optical targeting system (EOTS).
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iTRAC With SkyTrac SkyTrac Systems has launched the Company's ITRACS, their nexgen portable transceiver for flight following and text messaging.
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SatBroadcasting: A Winning Graphics Switcher From PixelPower Pixel Power, a provider of broadcast graphics systems, has announced that the Company's BrandMaster™ Branding Switcher™ is the recipient of a 2009 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award given by the editorial staff of TV Technology Europe magazine at IBC2009.
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Financially Speaking... ICO Global Communications... ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) (NASDAQ: ICOG) has received notification from Nasdaq that for the last 30 consecutive business days the bid price of the Company’s Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Market has closed below the minimum $1.00 per share required for continued inclusion under Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5450(a)(1).
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — From Hither To Thither With CoPilot Live —
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Coalition Calls For Worldwide Provisioning For SatLaunches Led by former Sen. John Warner, the Coalition for Competitive Launches wants the U.S. federal government to foster worldwide competition in the provision of commercial satellite launches.
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PAKSAT-1R On Pakistan's + China's Build Agenda Pakistan and China have signed an agreement to develop a new satellite, PAKSAT-1R, in about a three year time period, Pakistan's Economic Affairs Division (EAD) said in a press release.
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Stratos Dashboard Gives a New Meaning for Managing Minutes Stratos Global Corporation today announced that its Iridium phone service customers now can conveniently manage their prepaid services via the online Stratos Dashboard application. Stratos provides advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, and now with Stratos Dashboard for Iridium, customers can activate, deactivate and reactivate their Iridium postpaid, Short Burst Data services, and now also prepaid, online.
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Bittersweet — NASA Names Last Mission Crew For ISS With the last scheduled space shuttle mission slated for September 2010, a crew to staff this momentous ride has been named.
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Moving On Out... And Up... At Northrop Grumman Ronald D. Sugar, chairman and chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) since 2003, has announced his plan to retire from the company in June 2010, following 29 years of service to Northrop Grumman and its predecessor companies.
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Empowering EMCORE Is Northrop Grumman The Solar Photovoltaics Division of EMCORE Corp., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components, subsystems, and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has entered into an agreement with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Sector.
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AsiaSat 5 Beaming With Confidence The new AsiaSat 5 communications satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) began commercial service on September 17th, at the orbital location of 100.5 degrees East with enhanced power, coverage and connectivity, for advanced satellite broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband services across Asia Pacific.
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SatBroadcasting: EchoStar Slings Around Awards EchoStar Europe has been awarded the ‘Best Customer Premises Equipment’ (CPE) at Cable and Satellite International’s (CSI) prestigious Product of the Year Awards held at IBC2009.
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KC09 SATCOM Needs Negated By NSSL Royal Marine and Royal Navy personnel will be undertaking a truly inspiring expedition to Khumbu, the mountain range also known as the Everest region in the Himalaya.
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Paradise Datacom SatModem's Gain FastLink Paradise Datacom has released their “FastLink”, a low-latency Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) feature that is now available in their entire line of satellite modem products.
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Nimiq 5 Now Maneuvering Magnificently Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL), has announced that Nimiq 5, a DTH television satellite built for Telesat, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan.
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Japan's HTV-1 Supply Rendezvous With ISS Successful The unmanned Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle arrived at the International Space Station and was successfully attached to the Earth-facing (nadir) port on the Harmony module using the Station's robotic arm.
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New Innovative Couplers Come To Market Innovative Power Products has introduced their Model IPP-7004, 3 dB, 90 degree surface mount hybrid coupler and their IPP-8001, 20 dB, Surface Mount Directional Coupler.
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It's a First! Swiss Satellite In Space — This Cube Isn't Cheese It's official — The date of the first ever Swisscube satellite launch is planned for next Wednesday September 23 according to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO); liftoff is expected at 8:23 a.m., Swiss time.
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Moving On Up @ ITT Corporation Today ITT Corporation announces Daniel J. Hucko has joined ITT Space Systems Division as director of communications.
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Amazing Arianespace's Amazonas 2's Adventure Lots of activity at the satellite staging area of Ariane 5's Final Assembly Building at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where the final payload integration is underway for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 mission of 2009.
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Vizada Networks Gets to the Hub of the Matter Buying iDirect Satellite Hub Vizada Networks and VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc. (VT Systems), today announced that Vizada Networks has purchased an iDirect Series 15000 Universal Satellite Hub.
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SatBroadcasting: Eyeheight Offers An Eyeful @ IBC2009 Eyeheight, a manufacturer of broadcast-quality modular infrastructure for the television production and post-production market, reports a successful IBC2009. There were eight additions to Eyeheight's product family...
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Cassini Captures: Heightened Rings + Bumps NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were almost completely flat, but new images reveal the heights of some newly discovered bumps in the rings are as high as the Rocky Mountains.
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Valiant Angel Becomes Extremely Visible For Lockheed Martin The U.S. Joint Forces Command awarded a Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] team a $29 million contract for Valiant Angel, a new system that will apply highly advanced broadcasting technologies to help commanders collect, manage, process, exploit and disseminate full-motion video.
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Maritime Seamless SatTransitions Offered By MTN's ABS MTN Satellite Communications, a global provider of communications, connectivity and content services to remote locations around the world, has launched Automatic Beam Switching (ABS) that extends the company’s ability to provide global, always-on, effortless connectivity for maritime vessels operating on its global Ku-Band network.
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Latitude Sends Seaplanes SATCOM Solution Pacific Coastal Airlines has selected Latitude Technologies’ state-of-the-art ?Iridium based flight tracking systems for installation in it’s seaplane fleet based in Port Hardy, B.C.
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Integral Will Integrate Products For ST-2 Satellite Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISYS) will provide satellite ground systems for the ST-2 telecommunications satellite.
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ISRO Set To Launch Oceansat-2... + 7 Others! Seven satellites in 1,200 seconds — that's one heckuva launch — in fact, there was one similar in April 2008 when India's ISRO launched 10 satellites. The ISRO is all set to put six nano satellites and one major ocean satellite into orbit on Wednesday from Sriharikota. The final 51-hour countdown started on Monday at 9:00 a.m.
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Harris Corporation Chooses 12 to ONE, Great Odds for Success Harris Corporation [NYSE:HRS] has received an order from Meredith’s Local Media Group, owner of 12 television stations in the U.S., to supply a fully integrated Harris ONE™ solution for the broadcaster’s Atlanta central casting hub.
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September 18, 2009 Protonex, Power Player For Drones Protonex Technology Corp. has received a $599,000 contract with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to develop fuel cell power systems for aerial drones.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know... DRS Technologies + Soneticom Inc. DRS Technologies, Inc. has successfully completed its acquisition of Soneticom, Inc., a Melbourne, Florida, based company that provides precision geolocation systems, wireless communications protocols, and digital signal processing.
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Eutelsat's D-STAR To Star In Moroccan Schools Nortis Cimecom, a leading VSAT operator and a longstanding partner of Eutelsat, has been selected by the Ministry for Education and the national telecommunications regulatory authority to deliver a satellite-based broadband service to schools beyond range of terrestrial networks.
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Targeting a Date To Fly Mounted F-35's Electro-Optical Targeting System on Avenger Lockheed Martin is working with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems to fly a version of the F-35’s stealthy electro-optical targeting system (EOTS) on the Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the latter part of 2010.
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An Ever-So-WISE Investment For Spatial Examinations Scientists are building by far the most sensitive set of wide-angle infrared goggles ever — a space telescope called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Focus On The Fire's Fury... On September 18, 2009, firefighters continued to monitor a 212-kilometer (132-mile) containment line around the Station Fire.
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ESA's Planck Proves Potential The Planck mission has captured its first rough images of the sky, demonstrating the observatory is working and ready to measure light from the dawn of time.
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Spaceport America Getting New Runway The construction of a new runway for Spaceport America is well underway at the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport.
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KVH Offers In$entive for Upgrading System KVH Industries, Inc., [Nasdaq: KVHI] is making an offer to subscribers of faltering satellite communications services by offering $500 of airtime as a trade-in allowance when upgrading to Inmarsat FleetBroadband service and a new Inmarsat-compatible TracPhone system from KVH.
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Machine Rebellion Begins — Killer Robot Destroyed by U.S. Jet An American "Reaper" flying hunter-killer robot assassin rebelled against its human controllers above Afghanistan on Sunday, and a manned U.S. fighter jet was forced to shoot the rogue machine down before it unilaterally invaded a neighbouring country.
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September 17, 2009 SumbandilaSat Succumbs Again To A Soyuz-2 "Hold" The launch of South Africa's SumbandilaSat has, once again, been delayed, after Russian space agency Roscosmos imposed another 24-hold on the rocket that will carry the microsatellite into space.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — NEP Pace Show How To Present Moving 3D —
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Maritime Coverage Moves By KVH KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has announced a significant expansion of mini-VSAT Broadband(sm) coverage in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Financially Speaking... GeoEye, Inc... GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) is proposing to offer, in a private placement, $350 million in aggregate principal amount of Senior Secured Notes due 2015 (the "Notes Offering").
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Alliance Formed By Iridium For Emergency Comms + Tracking Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) is joining with mobile satellite industry companies and the emergency response community to form the ProTECTS (Promotion of Two-way Emergency Communication and Tracking Systems) Alliance.
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A HOT 50 Member Is OmniGlobe Networks OmniGlobe Networks has been ranked 7th in Profit Magazine’s PROFIT HOT 50 ratings — Canada’s Emerging Growth?Companies for 2009.
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SatBroadcasting: Capacity Contracts For Telesat Telesat has completed? agreements for new satellite capacity with two of its key customers, Bell TV and EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS).
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NASA's LRO Hard At Work With Moon Mapping NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon. The spacecraft already has made significant progress toward creating the most detailed atlas of the moon's south pole to date. Scientists released preliminary images and data from LRO's seven instruments.
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X-band COTM Manpack From Tampa Microwave for Special Forces Ops Tampa Microwave has launched the Company's new military standard manpack satellite terminal technologies, designed for Special Forces operations.
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Orbital Continues Its Industry Moves... This Time, Into An Additional Building Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to formally mark the opening of a new 83,000 square foot building adjacent to the company's current facilities on South Price Road in the Ocotillo area of Chandler, Arizona.
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Developing Nations Should Look To Space, Says The Space Foundation The Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation said in a white paper released this week that the ability of space-based technology to overcome infrastructure and access issues might help solve previously insurmountable economic, public health, and standard of living issues for developing nations.
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Advancing AEHF Through The Satellite's Final Testing Process Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed acoustic testing of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite.
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Lockheed Martin Employee Takes National Management Association's Executive Of The Year Awards are a way of one's peers taking the time to acknowledge and appreciate the efforts of their cohorts. The highest honor was awarded at the National Management Association (NMA) organization’s national conference this week in New Orleans. The honoree is . . .
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Enhanced RavenView TacSim From SDS Int'l Now En Route To AFSOC SDS International (SDS) recently received an order from the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) for 20 of its laptop-based RavenView(tm) tactical simulation systems for use in training AFSOC/Special Operations Command (SOCOM) forces.
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Russian Phobos-Grunt Gets Delayed — Not Good News For China, Either Russia will push back its flagship satellite mission to Mars' moon until 2011 in a move which will delay the joint launch of China's first Mars probe, space sources were cited as saying Wednesday.
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SatBroadcasting: The World Of SNG Made Easier By BeaconSeek + Intelsat BeaconSeek Ltd, a UK-based satellite consultancy and training company, announced that Intelsat has purchased a substantial number of training places on BeaconSeek’s SlingPath SNG (satellite news gathering) online training program as part of the Intelsat Interference Management Initiative (I3) to reduce satellite Radio Frequency Interference (RFI).
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You Are Invited to Go Back 400 Years With Galileo To Witness a Phenomenon You are invited to wind the clock back 400 years and follow in the footsteps of a giant — to experience now just what first amazed Galileo in 1609!
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DigitalGlobe Does Good With Euroconsult Award DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has been named Earth Observation Operator of the Year by Euroconsult.
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Satellite's Soil + Salinity Studies Soon Starts The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) Earth observation satellite has been shipped to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia where he will start its launch campaign for a Rockot launch scheduled on November 2nd.
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Nimiq-5 Into The Sky International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the Nimiq 5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton for Telesat, the fourth largest fixed satellite services operator worldwide.
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Latitude Technologies Give Latitude to Governmental Agencies With GSA Contract Good for the government and great for Latitude Technologies which has been awarded GSA contract number GS-35F-0615V for Federal Supply Schedule 70 making it much easier for various governmental agencies to acquire many Latitude products.
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September 16, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Video Compress Relief From VIA VIA Technologies has announced the VIA EPIA-P720 Pico-ITX board, which takes advantage of the latest VIA VX855 media system processor to deliver smooth playback of the latest HD video formats for nexgen digital interactive devices.
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Winegard MiniMax Offers RV'ers Mobility Max SatTV From Winegard comes the RoadTrip MiniMax, a combo of the Winegard 12” RoadTrip and Winegard Carryout Portable automatic satellite TV antennas.
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SatBroadcasting: 3DTV Delivered By Satellite Supported + Demo'd By ESA As part of its Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems program, the European Space Agency (ESA) is taking a practical step towards a new viewing experience — 3D television at home, delivered by satellite.
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Just Beyond Our Solar System Is A Planet That's Hotter'n... A rocky planet, 5x larger than the Earth, has been found beyond the solar system — such was reported by researchers on Wednesday at a meeting in Spain.
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atrexx @ The Forefront Of Additional Iraqi SATCOM For Troops + Personnel German provider of telecommunications and broadcast solutions, atrexx Ltd. & Co. KG, has confirmed that it will be offering satellite-based communications services via the Eutelsat EUROBIRD™ 4A satellite to the Iraq region.</font
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SatBroadcasting: Loud Commercials Blasting Viewers? Miranda's Solution... Miranda Technologies’ Automatic Loudness Control (ALC), which eliminates loudness jumps during commercials, is now available with Linear Acoustic AEROMAX™ processing.
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SBCVA's Virtual Trade Show Is Upcoming... The Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association (SBCA) has announced SkyFORUM, a virtual event delivering product demos, sessions, training and networking found at traditional trade shows but without the expenses and hassles of leaving town and customers.
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Beam Me Up For Iridium SatPhone Docking Beam Communications has announced that Iridium Satellite LLC ("Iridium") has certified its SatDOCK 9555 fully-integrated docking station for the Iridium 9555 satellite phone.
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Crucial SATCOM Linkages For Spanish Army's UME The VISLINK Law Enforcement & Public Safety (LE&PS) business unit has announced that Spanish Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME) has ordered three further ADVENT 1.5m X Band NewSwift antenna systems to add to the 17 1.5m NewSwift mobile satellite terminals ordered previously. These will be supplied by leading IT and defence system supplier INDRA.
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Real Image + Planetsky Bringing Broadband To Sub-Saharan Region Real Image Ltd. has signed a contract with provider of satellite communications Planetsky Ltd. for the provision of broadband services to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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'Can-Do' Attitude, and They Did! Department of Defense Space Test Program Celebrates 200 Missions Celebrations and high fives are in order as the Department of Defense Space Test Program achieved a major milestone on September 10 when it flew its 200th mission.
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Quite Simplex For Globalstar Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has commenced installation of network upgrades, supplied by Comtech Aero Astro, designed to enhance the overall customer messaging capacity and the data receiver sensitivity of the Globalstar Simplex data network.
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Maritime Coverage Moves By KVH KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has announced a significant expansion of mini-VSAT Broadband(sm) coverage in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Webb's Wrappings Removed @ Goddard — Testing Now Starts NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for testing in the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility.
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No Interference Say Intelsat and GVF With Certification Collaboration At the VSAT 2009 Conference today Intelsat, provider of fixed satellite services, and the Global VSAT Forum (GVF), announced they have agreed to facilitate training for technicians engaged in deployment of state-of-the-art satellite systems. The announcement is part of a new industry initiative to promote an interference-free space environment.
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September 15, 2009 SatNews In + About @ IBC2009 IBC2009 is certainly one of the most important European trade shows designed to showcase all manner of content creation, delivery, and management environments.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Borneo Is Burning — Mostly On Purpose! The highlands of Central Kalimantan province in Indonesian Borneo were hidden by clouds on September 13, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image, but the lowlands to the northwest and southeast were shrouded with thick, gray smoke.
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Financially Speaking... DirectTV Holdings Ltd... DIRECTV Holdings LLC (the "Company"), a wholly owned subsidiary of THE DIRECTV Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTV), has priced an issuance of $1 billion of 4 3/4 percent Senior Notes due 2014 and $1 billion of 5 7/8 percent Senior Notes due 2019 (together, the "Notes").
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SatBroadcasting: Winning Ways For Verimatrix Verimatrix, a content security technology firm that offers solutions for pay-TV networks, received the Best Content Protection Technology award for the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for DVB at this year’s Cable and Satellite International (CSI) Product of the Year Awards, announced at the IBC 2009 show currently taking place in Amsterdam.
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Making Monics Monitoring A Major Addition Is SingTel Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: ISYS) has announced that their wholly owned subsidiary SAT Corporation has been selected to provide its Monics system to Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) for satellite monitoring, interference detection, and satellite operator planning capability.
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SatBroadcasting: Amino's STBs Become Pioneers Amino Communications has won a significant order from Pioneer Telephone Cooperative for high HD STBs.
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SkyAbis Brings SATCOM To Remote Chinese Villages China Unicom is deploying Gilat Satellite Networks' SkyAbis cellular backhaul solution to enhance GSM mobile connectivity in China's Xinjiang region.
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Excelerate Technology Tops Off ICU For Fife Fire & Rescue Fife Fire and Rescue Service has unveiled its new major incident command unit (ICU) as part of an investment of more than ?5m in new state-of-the-art rescue equipment and facilities.?
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SatBroadcasting: Ericsson + TANDBERG Top The List For Three Awards @ IBC2009 Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group, have won three CSI Product of the Year Awards for its IPTV middleware, Contribution & Distribution (C&D) and? content management solutions.
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SatBroadcasting: Curb That Churn — Mariner's xVu To Assist... Mariner provides IP video solutions and technologies and their xVu IPTV service suite of monitoring tools has just been integrated with Cisco’s Visual Quality of Experience (VQE) platform.</fo
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Zee Entertainment Chairman + Founder Will Keynote CASBAA Convention The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced that Subhash Chandra, the Chairman and Founder of Zee Entertainment Enterprises in India, will be a keynote participant in the CASBAA Convention 2009 in Hong Kong on November 4th.
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Orange Is Becoming To GVF Orange Business Services, a global integrator of communications solutions, has joined with other satellite communication sector leaders as the newest Full Member of the Global VSAT Forum (GVF), the international trade association focused on promoting the goals of the international industry.
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Modest Movement For M2M, Says ABI ABI Research began tracking the cellular M2M (machine-to-machine) module market in 2003, and for five years shipments increased on average more than 25 percent per year.
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Arab States Broadcasting Union Takes Two — Wins Major Awards at IBC IBC is bustling with activity pretty much round the clock — including Sunday night when the awards were distributed to deserving companies and individuals.
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OmniGlobe Has Earth Stations On Their Mind For Arabsat OmniGlobe Networks EMEA and ARABSAT have agreed on a contract to provide 12 new backhauling platforms for the transmission of SCPC TV streams throughout the Arab world countries.
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It's An Open Door Policy When It Comes To Vacuum Testing For SBIRS The first geosynchronous Space Based Infrared Systems satellite completed its Open-Door Space Vehicle Thermal Vacuum Test, September 13th, at the development site in Sunnyvale, California.
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Greater Latitude When It Comes To Support Latitude Technologies has added Rotorcraft Support, Inc. (RSI) to its network of qualified aeronautical dealers and installers.
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SATCOM Antenna For Global Hawk To Be Demo'd By Overwatch Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced its Communications Systems business has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to demo a Ka/Ku-band satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna for the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Fab Flight Tests For Boeing's FAB-T Boeing's [NYSE: BA] Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) program has successfully conducted its first series of flight tests.
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Double Load For Ariane 5 ECA For Upcoming Launch — Prep Work Continues... Preparations continue by Arianespace for the upcoming Ariane 5 mission, which involves parallel processing of Germany's COMSATBw-1 military relay satellite and the Amazonas 2 commercial telecom platform for Spain's HISPASAT.
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Marlink Melds In More Maritime Moments Following acquisition of space segment on the Telstar 11N and AMC-21 satellites, SATCOM provider Marlink has significantly expanded its Ku-band VSAT services.
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September 14, 2009 SatBroadcasting (IPTV): Virgin Media Selects Cisco IPTV: Virgin Media, has selected Cisco to support its Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) distribution platform and help upgrade its legacy digital TV infrastructure.
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SatBroadcasting: Netgem Mines IPTV SDK + APIs For Operators IPTV STB manufacturer and software developer Netgem has launched NetgemTV, the company’s newest software platform that features a highly visual and intuitive user interface, combined with media center functionality.
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SatBroadcasting: iTX Iteration Is Impressive For Production + Playout OmniBus Systems is launching iTX 1.3 at IBC2009 with more than 130 feature enhancements that extend the Company's software-based production, automation and playout system.
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SatBroadcasting: Snell Sends Forth Their New Production Switcher Snell has introduced the Kahuna CF , a compact, cost-effective, compromise-free SD/HD multiformat production switcher.
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African Access Via ASTRA2Connect, Thanks To SES + Intersat Africa Deal SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has announced that it is expanding the reach of its satellite-based broadband service ASTRA2Connect to Africa through a signed agreement with Intersat Africa.
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SatBroadcasting: A 3D Transport Treat From T-VIPS @ IBC2009 T-VIPS is showing at IBC2009 their deployment ready 3D HD video transport solutions.
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SatBroadcasting: MultiDyne Rolls-out 4-Channel Fiber Optic Transport System @ IBC2009 MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems has debuted their openGear compatible HD-4400 four-channel fiber optic transport system at IBC2009 (Stand 2.A54).
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Of Crashing Interest... NASA' s Double Moon Impact For LCROSS NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is racing toward a double-impact on the moon at 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9th and NASA has announced exactly where this crash will occur.
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SatBroadcasting: Bridge Is Set To Monitor Virgin Media Bridge Technologies, developer of the first complete satellite-to-set-top-box monitoring solution for digital TV operators, has announced its VideoBRIDGE system has been selected to provide the monitoring solution for Virgin Media's digital broadcast TV platform.
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SatBroadcasting: New ADTEC Digital Encoder Is Fully Supportive Of QAM Modulation New from Adtec Digital is their HDMI2QAM, a dual-channel, HD SD MPEG 2 broadcast distribution encoder with QAM modulation and RF up-conversion built in.
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SatBroadcasting: GlobeCast Imbued With Inmarsat Certification GlobeCast has announced that Content Exchange, the Company's video sharing and transfer solution, has just received Inmarsat certification.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ —Blackmagic Design Gloms Onto DaVinci Systems — Edgeware Inlet Tech Serve Up Interoperability — Miniweb Aggregates Aggregators — RipCode's Real Estate Recourse —
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SatBroadcasting: It's Gonna Be A 3D TV World Claimed to be the world's first end-to-end, 3D TV solution is on display at IBC2009.
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SatBroadcasting: Middle East Expansion For The Auriga Network Via iDirect Platform iDirect, a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has announced that The Auriga Network has leveraged its satellite communications platform to expand its IP broadcasting service to newscasters in the Middle East.
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SatBroadcasting: Satlynx To Satisfy Media Streaming Needs Satlynx, a GE company and a provider of satellite telecommunications, has announced the enhancement of its media streaming solution with wider availability across Europe, a range of pricing options, and increased bandwidths in response to customer demand.
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SatBroadcasting: Chyron Brings Graphics Help To Sky News Chyron (NASDAQ: CHYR) has announced that Sky News is investing in 11 HyperX3 graphics systems, together with a CAMIO Cluster Server and OMS (Order Management System) to fundamentally enhance the way graphics are generated and utilised for Sky News HD, which will launch in 2010.
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SatBroadcasting: NDS Showing Off IBC2009 Award Winning Snowflake NDS Snowflake™ has been awarded the “Best interactive TV technology or application” at IBC 2009, just announced by Cable & Satellite International magazine and a panel of international expert judges.
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Third ESA Earth Explorer Satellite Launch Now Pushed Into February Next Year The European Space Agency has now set a new launch date of February 28th for its Cryosat mission, which was originally to have been launched in December.
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Hughes Brings Government Telework Support Into The Mix Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has announced that its HughesNet? Managed Network Services offering now supports government telework initiatives.
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A New Paradigm For Intelsat General Corp. For X-Band + UHF SATCOM Intelsat General Corp., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd., has been selected as the first preferred distributor in the United States of X-band and UHF communications services on satellites operated by Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astrium, part of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).
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Financially Speaking... SkyVision Holdings Limited... Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI), is going to invest USD25 million into SkyVision Holdings Limited. The investment will be made through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Citigroup Venture Capital International Africa Fund L.P (CVCIAF), a private equity fund advised by Citi Venture Capital International.
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Get More Than Clean In Bath — Attend EUMETSAT's Meteorological SatConference On September 21 to 25, 2009, meteorologists, scientists, and researchers will meet in Bath, U.K., for the 2009 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference.
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Hughes Has More'n 10K SatTerminals Pumping Product In Brazil Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has announced its Brazilian operating unit, Hughes do Brasil, now has 10,000 Hughes broadband satellite terminals in operation, delivering HughesNet services to a variety of market segments.
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Cassini Captures: Saturn's New Belt Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft’s Magnetospheric Imaging instrument have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn — the belt is located around the orbit of the planet's moon, Dione, at about 377,000 kilometers (234,000 miles) from the center of the planet.
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Soyuz 2.1b Launch Vehicle Will Attempt To Place Russian Weather Sat Russia will launch a new meteorological satellite on Tuesday, starting the process of restoring the country’s weather forecasting capabilities, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: China Awaiting Koppu Tropical Storm Koppu was nearing landfall over southern China when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra captured this image on September 14, 2009.
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From the Amazon to the Andeans Bolivia's President Wants a Position With the ITU Bolivia's President H.E. Mr. Evo Morales Ayma visited ITU to meet with ITU Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun Touré. The President discussed Bolivia’s filing for an orbital position for its geostationary communication's satellite.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: Happy Birthday GeoEye-1 GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY) has marked the one-year launch anniversary of GeoEye-1, the commercial Earth-imaging satellite. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on September 6, 2008.
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Nigerian Data Services From Galaxy Are Cemented In With SES WORLD SKIES SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES SA (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) has an agreement with Galaxy Backbone to supply capacity on the ASTRA 2B satellite which will allow the company to provide data services in Nigeria.
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Minotaur V Makes U.S.A.F. Schedule The U.S. Air Force has now ordered its first Minotaur V launch vehicle from Orbital Sciences Corp. — the launch vehicle will support satellite operations in higher-energy orbits.
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September 11, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Getting Even Further Into DTV Is EchoStar Europe At IBC2009, EchoStar Europe (hall 4, stand B.54) will invite digital TV operators to look at new technology to enable the optimization of network revenues.
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It's Clear That Expand Networks Takes Clear Channel Satellite to a New Xtreme(Sat Plus) Expand Networks has enhanced Clear Channel Satellite's managed service offerings as a result of Expand’s WAN optimization technology.
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MDA's RADARSAT-2 To Improve ESA's Imagery MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has signed a $4.6 million (CAD) contract to provide RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery to the European Space Agency (ESA) — the imagery will be delivered from July 2009 until September 2010.
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Being "Always On" Is A Good Thing For SES WORLD SKIES SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has announced at IBC 2009 their the completed integration of the Company's Global Always On satellite capacity access and booking system.
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SatBroadcasting: HD Platform From NHK To Beam Out Via Intelsat Properties Intelsat, Ltd. has announced NHK Global Media Services, Inc. (G-Media), a subsidiary of NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, has signed a multi-transponder, multi-year renewal and expansion contract with Intelsat.
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Japan's HTV Launched Successfully + En Route To ISS Early Friday morning, Japan's H-2B rocket successfully launched an H-2 Transfer Vehicle, or HTV cargo transporter, which is Japan's first unmanned cargo vehicle.
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SatBroadcasting: Traveling The MediaHighway With NXP + NDS NXP Semiconductors has integrated NDS MediaHighway? STB software onto CX2450x, a highly integrated SoC solution for HD STBs.
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SatBroadcasting: Media ClipWay + Inmarsat BGAN = SeaMobile Europe's New Live Broadcast Solution SeaMobile Europe is launching a new version of its Media ClipWay software, which allows journalists to broadcast live and pre-recorded full-screen videos faster and more easily than ever before.
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If Rack Space Counts, ND SatCom Has A New SkyWAN For You ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, has introduced the SkyWAN? IDU 1070 at IBC2009, which targets the broadcasting, telecoms/GSM and corporate sectors.
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Harris' BGAN SatTerminals Receive Inmarsat Type Approval Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) announced that its RF-7800B family of ruggedized Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminals has received "Type Approval" from Inmarsat, one of the world's leading providers of global SATCOM.
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VSAT Solution From Marlink Receives Radio License Approval From Japan Marlink has become the first VSAT provider to receive Japanese radio license approval for its Sealink(T) VSAT solution.
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SatBroadcasting: Intorel Tool Monitors IP-Based Net Traffic The newest addition to Intorel’s family of products is a universal measuring, testing, reporting and analysis tool, which can be used for carrier monitoring systems, using Visionic-controlled spectrum analyzers, for broadcast IP-based monitoring, and for DVB based monitoring systems.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Envivio's 2G Member Of Convergence Series Makes Its Debut — intoPIX Into Faster Than Real Time JPEG2K — Dual-Channel Backplane Equalizer Re-Driven By Mindspeed — TANDBERG's MPEG-2 Encoder Brought Into Play By Arqiva — Telemak Brings V4x Tools Into Mobile iTV —
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Artel Takes It To SES WORLD SKIES To Meet Demands in Europe, the Middle East and Asia SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. [Paris:SESG][LUxX:SESG], today announced it has signed a multi-transponder deal with Artel to help the leading integrator meet growing U.S. government demand for end-to-end communications networks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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SatBroadcasting: Colem's Newest Offering Finds Immediate Approval Colem has announced the development of its latest Media Network Scheduler product, MediaNetSched.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution — Widget Revolution For Lower Cost Phones From Myriad Group — — Widget Revolution For Lower Cost Phones From Myriad Group —
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Vietnam Expects To Launch Vinasat-2 In 2012 Vietnam Investment Review has reported that Vietnam plans to launch its second telecommunications satellite sometime in 2012.
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SatBroadcasting: Harmonic Ties Three On With Norway's Altibox Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) announced that Altibox (formerly Lyse Tele), a telecommunications service provider based in Norway, has deployed Harmonic's StreamLiner? video servers, Armada? intelligent asset management, and ProStream™ 8000 digital mosaic solution.
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Industry Canada Produces Funding For SADI Initiative + PCI Geomatics Involvement Bob Dechert, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Mississauga–Erindale, on behalf of the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, has confirmed $200 million in funding for the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative (SADI) and announced a $7.6-million repayable investment in support of a research and development (R&D) project being undertaken by PCI Geomatics to develop nexgen earth observation technologies.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution For Production Systems NewTek Inc. has announced the TriCaster Upgrade Guarantee Program, whereby customers can trade up any TriCaster™ portable live production system purchased between January 15 and December 23, 2009, for full purchase price credit toward a TriCaster, model XD300, that is being previewed at IBC2009.
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NASA's Discovery Descends Home To Edwards AFB Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles with an 5:53 p.m. PDT landing Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Space Systems/Loral Countdown On a Breeze to Nimiq 5 Preparations continue today as Nimiq 5, a commercial communications satellite built by Space Systems/ Loral is prepared for launch on September 18, from Launch Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan for launch customer Telesat, Canada on board the Proton M/Breeze M rocket.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ For Post Production — DigitalVision Goes RED — Digital Vision, a supplier of picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production, has announced its support for RED Rocket, strengthening Digital Vision’s ongoing relationship with RED, which was cemented last year with support for the RED One camera.
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RaySat's Kaplan To Offer His Insights @ COMSYS VSAT 2009 RaySat Antenna Systems’ President, Ilan Kaplan, has been invited to speak about the mobile VSAT market at the ComSys VSAT 2009 global industry conference.
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September 10, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Deutsche Telekom Gets Harmonic With Encoding Harmonic Inc. has revealed that Deutsche Telekom AG has selected the Company's recently introduced DiviCom Electra? 8000 universal broadcast encoder to expand the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) HD video service to its T-Home Entertain subscribers throughout Germany.
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Financially Speaking... International Datacasting Corp... International Datacasting Corporation's (TSX:IDC) financial results for the three- and six-month periods ended July 31, 2009. All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — "No Glasses 3D" Demo @ IBC By Alioscopy — Digital Rapids Debuts New Stream Version — Harmonic Offers Up Convergence Suite — Omneon Video File Server Intro'd — ViXS Bringing Security Goodies Into SoC Products —
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SatBroadcasting: Pace On Pace For 50 Million STBs At IBC 2009, Pace plc will underscore its success in enabling HD and hybrid service launches for the global payTV industry through a line-up of real-life customer deployments.
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SatBroadcasting: Demos @ IBC2009 For OTT + Pull VOD From OpenTV Corp. OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ:OPTV) will demo advanced support for Pull VOD as well as Over-the-Top (OTT) video as part of the company’s IBC2009 showcase in Hall 1 Stand C81.
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Risk Reduction By Northrop Grumman For NPOESS Development Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has inaugurated a critical tool that will reduce the risk associated with developing the spacecraft for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program.
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Agreement Accomplishment: GeoEye + NGA GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has signed a contract to extend its Service Level Agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) through March 31, 2010.
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Palapa-D Positioned Perfectly Thales Alenia Space and Indosat announced today that the Launch Early Operation Phase (LEOP) has been successfully completed and the Palapa-D communications satellite is now in the nominal geostationary orbit (GEO).
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September 9, 2009 SatBroadcasting: SoCs For Sat STBs Debut From Broadcom Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced new single-chip, multi-format HD satellite STB solutions featuring an integrated Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA(R)) 1.1 core.
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SatBroadcasting: Eurosport 2 HD Heading Into Polish Homes Via Genesis Eurosport has selected? the Genesis Networks turnkey transmission solution for delivery of Eurosport 2 HD — the new generation sports channel — to major satellite operator TVN in Poland.
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Hubble's Back! With The Ultimate in Job Security — Take a Portrait of the Universe The repairs on the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were made. Next the experts stepped in to calibrate and study the telescope — and so for three months that's what the scientists did. Were they successful?
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SatBroadcasting: Ericsson + Com Hem Delivering ITV To Swedish Viewers Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) is enabling Sweden’s largest cable television operator, Com Hem, to deliver new advanced entertainment services to its consumers via an interactive TV platform that supports a wide range of advanced services, such as video-on-demand, catch-up and start-over TV programs and music on-demand, and also includes a flexible interactive portal for Com Hem’s new Landlord-Tenant service.
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SatBroadcasting: New Decoder From Appear TV Appear TV, a global provider of nexgen head-ends for broadcast and IP television, has launched their MPEG-2/4 SD and HD decoder at IBC2009 (stand 1.A59).
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Smart Com Offers A New ITV Resource Manager For HFC Infrastructure — Softel's Data Inserter Goes Good With Harmonic's DiviCom Electra — Locating Mobile 9-1-1 Calls Is TruePosition's Talent — Studio Berlin Adlershof Ingests Telestream Products —
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Harris Imbues Falcon III Radio With Broadband SATCOM Functionality Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has added broadband satellite capability to its Falcon III(R) RF-7800M wideband networking radio that will enable global-area high-data-rate communications between senior military commanders and personnel at the tactical edge.
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An Icy Reception In The Meridian UAV's Future The University of Kansas has completed its first test flight of an unmanned craft designed to gather information on polar ice sheets. The university said Wednesday the Meridian
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MALE UAV Program By TIA Will Use Vistagy For Design Dependancies Vistagy, Inc. has announced Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI) has purchased FiberSIM? software to streamline the design-to-manufacturing process of complex composite parts for the Turkish indigenous Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – TIHA Program.
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SatBroadcasting: Hub Happening For Telenor Via STM Group Subsidiary STM Group has announced its subsidiary, STM Norway AS, has a contract for a new SatLink DVB-RCS hub with Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS (TSBc).
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Four Things (Count 'Em) That Make Combat UAVs Special CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada—The U.S. Air Force squadrons that form the 432d Air Expeditionary Wing here are the first that exist only to fly unmanned aerial vehicles. The base, which currently hosts training and operations for MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers, is trailblazing modern military aviation.
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U.S. and Canada Collaborate How To Be Civilized In Space NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Canadian Space Agency President Steve MacLean signed a framework agreement Wednesday for cooperative activities in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes.
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PCI Bringing Answers To Communications Chaos To Fall World 2009 Conference Proactive Communications, Inc. (PCI will be hosting a technical session at the Disaster Recovery Journal’s Fall World Conference 2009 (DRJ Fall World 2009).
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iDirect Intros New Router and Line Cards To Compliment Their New OS Release VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has expanded its Evolution DVB-S2/ACM product line with the intro of the high-performance Evolution X5 Satellite Router and Evolution XLC-11 and XLC-M Line Cards.
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NASA Contract Takes L-3 Communications Through the Stratosphere NASA has awarded a contract modification to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P., of Waco, Texas, for further developmental engineering in support of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy mission, known as SOFIA.
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SatBroadcasting: SES ASTRA's German HD Offering To Gain Nagravision CAS Nagravision, a Kudelski Group division/company (SIX:KUD), has announced HD PLUS GmbH, an SES ASTRA company, selected a Nagra Media turnkey end-to-end conditional access system (CAS) to support the operator's new HD offering in Germany.
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6th Annual Excellence In Satellite Management Awards Bestowed Euroconsult, a global research and analyst firm that specializes in the satellite sector, has announced the winners of the 6th Annual Awards for Excellence in Satellite Management.
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Making Sat Modems For Globalstar Is Quake Global Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) announced the Company has signed an agreement with Quake Global, Inc., a manufacturer of satellite data modems for tracking, monitoring, and controlling industrial assets.
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SATCOM Net From Gilat To Support Brazil's Sicredi Bank Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) has been selected by Telespazio Brasil, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, to provide a 1,200-site Gilat SkyEdge II broadband satellite communications network.
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SatBroadcasting: Better SatRadio Play - Sirius FM-5 Enters Service SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) has announced SIRIUS FM-5, the newest addition to the SIRIUS XM satellite fleet, was recently placed into service on the SIRIUS network.
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September 8, 2009 UAS Spending Analysis From Research And Markets Research and Markets has added "Battlefield UAS: Market Analysis and Outlook (2009-2019)" report to their offering.
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Go Atlas V! Go Centaur! Go PAN! And They Did! The collaborative efforts of United Launch Alliance and Lockheed Martin Space Systems resulted in a successful launch of a classified satellite dubbed PAN for the U.S. government. At 5:35 EDT all systems were go, and we watched as the launch took off without a hitch.
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Antenna Control Rack Space Is Slashed In Half By DEV Systemtechnik To increase uptime, large cable head end stations use motorized antennas as mobile redundancy. If a stationary antenna fails, a redundancy switch assures the satellite signals are routed via the mobile backup antenna.
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Dutch Defense Forces Sign On 2connect-IT For SATCOM Systems 2connect-IT has signed a large contract with the Dutch Defense Forces' Ministry of Defence to provide 23 man transportable Tri-Band SHF systems with additional 10 C-band modules, as well as a 5-year maintenance contract.
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SatBroadcasting: ATEME + DIRECTV Believe In Compression DIRECTV has selected ATEME, H.264 video compression solutions provider, to bring uncompromised quality content to its subscriber base via its on demand service.
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SatBroadcasting: Secure Distribution Is Latens' Aim Latens has launched their new Secure Distribution System (SDS).
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Falco UAV Demos SAR + GMTI Ops In Wales Selex Galileo has test flown its Picosar active electronically scanned radar on its Falco UAV, the company said on September 8th.
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Future EO Launch Brings SpaceX + Astrium Together Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astrium have announced a contract for a SpaceX Falcon 1e to launch an Earth observation satellite designed by Astrium or its recently acquired subsidiary Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL).
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SatBroadcasting: SNG Gets New IP Enablement From Vislink Vislink is adding IP interfaces to its SNG and wireless product sets as broadcasters look to IP networks for live and recorded news.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Edgeware's Orbit-2X Serves Ucom — Harmonic's ProStream 1000 Makes IBC Debut — Juniper Networks Nokia Siemens Networking Best Buddies — Strategy & Technology's Object Carousel Now Integrates VDS Components —
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SatBroadcasting: GlobeCast + Eutelsat Conclude Transponder Agreement GlobeCast and Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) have signed a three-year contract for two 36 MHz transponders on Eutelsat’s ATLANTIC BIRD™ 1 and W2A satellites.
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Working Hard to Eliminate Satellite Interference They Are SUIRG-ing — To Cannes, France! Statistics indicate that satellite interference will at one point or another affect every satellite operator and user.
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ARSAT-1 Payload To Be Built By Thales Alenia Space Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Argentina’s ARSAT to supply the payload for the ARSAT-1 satellite, as part of the SSGAT (Sistema Satelital Geoestacionario Argentino de Telecomunicaciones) program to manufacture the first Argentine geostationary telecom satellite.
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EMS Global Tracking Issues Forth From EMS Satcom + Satamatics EMS Global Tracking, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc., has unveiled its combined suite of tracking and personnel recovery systems at the Defense Systems and Equipment International Conference (DSEi) — the division, formerly the Tracking and Messaging, and Search and Rescue (SAR) business units of EMS SATCOM, and the recently acquired Satamatics>, have combined forces to offer a broad range of solutions to both military and civilian markets.
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SatBroadcasting: TelliCast IP Is The Selection By Media Broadcast For Distribution Needs TelliCast multicast software from Newtec is helping EUMETSAT to increase its customer base towards the 3,000 mark as customers look to improve their forecasting accuracy.
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Hiltron's New Digs Hiltron Communications, a system-integrator, manufacturer and distributor in the field of broadcast-quality satellite and microwave communication, will move to new purpose-built production and administration headquarters that is a short distance from its current headquarters at Backnang, Germany.
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September 7, 2009 ISU Students' First ISS-Based Spatial Experiment Conducted Students of the International Space University (ISU) have, for the first time, successfully conducted an experiment of their own making on the International Space Station (ISS).
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EO + U Seminar In The U.K. Upcoming The IET seminar on Earth Observation Satellites will be conducted on November 30, 2009, at the Savoy Place in the United Kingdom.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ —Upscale Anything To Anything With Atlona — Chyron Renders In Enhanced 3D — Harmonic's Harmonious Product Debuts — Telestream Wowza With Sites On TVCasting — ToolsOnAir Xserve's Broadcast Solutions —
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COMSATBw-1 Comes A' Callin' To Arianespace The German military communications satellite passenger for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 flight has arrived in French Guiana to begin its pre-launch processing in preparation for a liftoff later this month.
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Bringing Secure SATCOM To Cell Phones Is Cellcrypt Cellcrypt has announced that Cellcrypt Mobile is available over Inmarsat’s broadband satellite services, enabling encrypted voice calls to be made on popular smartphones from anywhere on the planet, for the first time.
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A Raytheon + Iridium Antenna Sim Working with Iridium Satellite LLC engineering and space system operations personnel, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has integrated a flight worthy Main Mission Antenna (MMA) with special test equipment to simulate on-orbit antenna performance.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Raytheon + BBN Technologies Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has entered into an agreement to acquire BBN Technologies, a privately-held research and development company and provider of critical solutions for national defense and security missions.
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Picking Up A Teleport Is EMC Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has successfully purchased from Telesat Canada the Telesat Asia Pacific Gateway located in Kapolei, Hawaii.
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Months Of Anticipation Now Rewarded! SES WORLD SKIES Debuts! SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG)(LUxX:SESG), today unveiled SES WORLD SKIES as the name for its newly integrated operation.
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TIE'ing One On With Globalstar TIE Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:TTCS) has signed a Value Added Reseller agreement with Globalstar, Inc., (Nasdaq:GSAT - News), a Company that provides mobile satellite voice and data services to business, governments and consumers.
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The W7 Now Has An ILS Launch Contract International Launch Services (ILS) and Eutelsat have signed a contract for the launch of the W7 satellite on an ILS Proton.
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Catch The Satellite Summit While Attending VSAT 2009 A GVF Satellite Summit will be held on September 18th from 2.15 – 4.30 p.m. in conjunction with VSAT 2009 at the Waldorf Hilton in London.
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Airborne Stings Courtesy Of The Mosquito, Heron + I-View MK50 Varieties Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will introduce various land-based products and technologies at the third annual Latrun Conference. The conference opens on September 2nd and is organized by The Institute for Land Warfare Studies, the Israeli Ground Forces, and the Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum Association at Latrun, Israel.
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SatBroadcasting: Mobile TV Content Net Decides On Newtec Upgrades Newtec has announced that FLO TV™ Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has selected Newtec’s Multistream technology and products for an IRD upgrade of its Mobile TV content distribution network.
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Heron UAS Is Quite Flighty For Australian Forces Minister for Defence, Senator John Faulkner, today announced that the Royal Australian Air Force has acquired Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), in close collaboration with Canadian Defence forces.
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Head 'Em Up, Roll 'Em Out — ULA Gets Ready To Launch a PAN Out of the Fire Preparation is 90 percent of any program, especially when executing a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the PAN satellite launch. Fingers are crossed, and the official weather report reads:
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Taking Off, Vertically Speaking, From AESIR @ DSEi A new Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAV) is making its first public appearance on the AESIR Ltd stand at DSEi.
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SatBroadcasting: TiVo Versus EchoStar + Dish — A Knockdown, But No Knockout... Yet! Damage and contempt sanctions ordered by a Texas federal judge last Friday, in favor of TiVo versus EchoStar Technologies, comes in to the tune of $200 million.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... A Mongolian Marvel... In southeastern Mongolia, roughly halfway between Ulaanbaatar and Beijing, lies an ancient crater.
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Fischer Has All the Right Connections — For UAVs The right connections, not just in the world of business, but certainly it is appreciated in the world of Fischer Connectors SA of Saint-Prex, Switzerland which is introducing a family of connectors and cable assembly products for unmanned vehicle applications — particularly for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) uses.
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Marlink's Sealink Sees the Link to Polarcus Global satellite communications provider Marlink has recently signed a new three-year contract with Dubai-based marine geophysical company, Polarcus DMCC.
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September 4, 2009 digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Moving On Up... @ Arqiva — AT&T Going For MSS With iPhone — Audemat Finds Functionality Worthy Of IBC2009 Display —
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Mounting Respect For Hiltron's HMAM Hiltron Communications' new HMAM motorised satellite antenna mount, scheduled for introduction at IBC 2009, is designed for two-way VSAT communication or receive-only downlink applications.
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SatBroadcasting: Cisco Can-Do @ IBC2009 At IBC 2009, Cisco is will showcase a range of medianet technologies that addresses the complex challenges currently faced by the media, satellite, and broadcast industries.
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SatBroadcasting: S&T To Demo New VoD Support @ IBC2009 Strategy & Technology is launching the MHEG Presenter 2 product suite at IBC2009, which builds on the existing support for digital teletext and other information services with new modules for Video on Demand (VoD) support.
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Geomatica Matters For Remote Sensing Pros PCI Geomatics has signed a license server renewal with Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) Earth Sciences Sector.
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Raytheon Airs Out The Aerostat The U.S. Army’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Sensor System (JLENS) demonstrated its first flight on August 25, 2009, during a ceremony in Elizabeth City, N.C.
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Kaman + Lockheed Martin Cooking Up Unmanned Chopper Demo For USMC Kaman Corporation (Nasdaq-GS: KAMN) announced that the Helicopters Division of its subsidiary, Kaman Aerospace Corporation, has received an $864,000 contract from the U.S. Marine Corps on behalf of Team K-MAX to demonstrate the ability of the Unmanned K-MAX(R) helicopter to deliver cargo to troops in extreme environments and at high altitudes.
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NASA's Kepler Can — If They're Out There... A powerful orbital telescope launched in March with a mission to look for habitable counterparts to Earth should also be able to detect small moons that could nurture life, scientists said Thursday.
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September 3, 2009 SatBroadcasting: The CAP To A New Contract For Viaccess Viaccess, a France Telecom company, has announced that On.Net, the leading Internet Service provider in Macedonia, will deploy Viaccess conditional access platform to launch a new DTT service in Macedonia.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Cisco Encoding For TV 2 Norway — Entone & Edgeware Join Up — JMR's PCIe Integration With AJA — Nagravision & Abertis Telecom Are Quite Secure — NDS Reveals No STB Needed For IPTV — T-VIPS With Their DVB-T2 Enticement — Tripleplay Has Triple Treats @ IBC2009 —
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Palapa-D Pushed Into GTO — A Thales Alenia Space Success! If you've been following along, the Palapa-D satellite, owned by Indosat, ran into difficulties after its lofting by a Chinese launch vehicle.
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SES ASTRA Gets The Broadband Connectivity Out... In Poland... SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has signed a further reseller agreement for the marketing of its interactive satellite-based broadband service ASTRA2Connect with the Polish telecommunications incumbent Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TP SA) — the roll-out of the service in Poland was started on September 1st.
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SatBroadcasting: Redundancy Switching For MPEG Streams From T-VIPS T-VIPS AS will offer at IBC 2009 (stand 1.B28) the European launch of the Company's CP541 Seamless Monitoring Switch.
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SatBroadcasting: On The Flyaway Kit Case Is SIS LIVE SIS LIVE, a leading provider of outside broadcast facilities and mobile satellite SNG and IP solutions, has announced plans to launch its new compact Flyaway kit — RouteCase — at IBC2009.
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Thrane & Thrane Find Italy Most Conducive For Business Thrane & Thrane's systems division, which is dedicated to the development of solutions for satellite access stations, has received a major contract from the largest Italian telecoms company, Telecom Italia, to provide a capacity expansion for its Gateway at the Fucino Land Earth Station, Italy.
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Not A Secret Anymore — Harris TacRadio Is Secret Approved Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received certification from the National Security Agency (NSA) for the Harris RF-310M-HH, the world's first tactical radio to use new encryption technology designed to simplify the enabling of communications interoperability within multinational coalitions — Harris and NSA collaborated on the new technology, which is based on a set of commercial algorithms and keying techniques defined as "Suite B."
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SatBroadcasting: A Transmission Solution Provided By Genesis Networks For ETV Genesis Networks has announced that ETV, one of the largest networks of satellite television channels in India, has contracted with Genesis for a fully managed video transmission solution from ETV’s studios in Hyderabad, India, to the DirecTV facility in Los Angeles, California.
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SatBroadcasting: RRsat Uses Hotbird For Romanian Ex-Pat Distribution RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) has announced that PRO TV International, the premier Romanian language TV channel targeting Romanians residing outside of Romania, has selected RRsat to expand its coverage to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East via the Hotbird satellite.
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Correcting A News Miss Earlier This Year — Challenger Center Teacher Of The Year Awards The mission of Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space, and the 51-L Challenger crew continues as Challenger Center for Space Science Education named six educators from across the country "Teacher of the Year" earlier this year.
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SatBroadcasting: IDC Bringing New Products + Teams To IBC2009 International Datacasting Corporation will be releasing new products for all of its key vertical markets at IBC2009. The Company, along with their European subsidiary PROFLine B.V, their new Tiernan Video product line team, and their strategic partner Sensio Technologies, will be showcasing their new products and applications in Hall 1, Booth C.29.
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Moving On Up... @ RigNet... RigNet, Inc. has appointed Richard Norton to the newly-created position of Manager – Strategic Business Development, which will be focused on extending the Company’s drilling rig communications and collaborative applications to new geographic markets.
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Financially Speaking... COM DEV International Ltd... COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) announced its third quarter financial results for the three-month period ended July 31, 2009.
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ORBCOMM Will Have Multiple SpaceX Moments Ahead... ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announce they have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to begin as early as the fourth quarter of 2010 through 2014.
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Space Foundation Steps Up To a Delicate Balancing Act — Tight Rope at the Strategic Space Symposium It is said that perhaps one of the biggest challenges to a truly global space program is determining how much information can, and should, be shared among the parties involved.
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Smart Play By Digimarc Supports Intelligence Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ:DMRC) has been awarded a contract for the SmartData program by CACI International Incorporated, in the amount of $600,000, to further advance the technology used in U.S. military video intelligence systems.
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White Dwarf Exposed By XMM-Newton ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular kind of supernova in a few million years — these supernovae are used as beacons to measure cosmic distances and ultimately understand the expansion of our Universe.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Java Quakin' @ 7.0 At 2:55 p.m. local time (7:55 UTC) on September 2, 2009, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern shore of western Java (Jawa).
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Here's Looking @ Earth . . .California Smokes and Smokey the Bear Cries With the California budget crisis, natural disasters are just that — a disaster. Shown here are two images taken of the Southern California wildfires.
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September 2, 2009 SatBroadcasting: What Is Broadband? The FCC Wants To Know... The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has submitted comments in response to the Federal Communication Commission's Public Notice seeking comments on the definition of "Broadband."
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SatBroadcasting: A Sound Proposition From Zaxcom At the IBC2009 show in Amsterdam, Zaxcom will launch Zax-Net, a 2.4-GHz RF network for the distribution of remote control signals, time code, IFB audio, and metadata for production sound.
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MILCOM Network Connectivity Improved By General Dynamics The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) team, led by General Dynamics C4 Systems, has successfully added the highly capable Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW 1.0c) to the Rifleman Radio (AN/PRC-154) and the HMS Manpack Radio intended for use in vehicles.
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SatBroadcasting: Hybrid HD STBs Will Relish NEC's New TV Processor NEC Electronics Europe has now made available a complete cost and power consumption optimized manufacturer’s kit based on NEC Electronics EMMA™3SL/P MPEG-4 digital TV processor, which drastically reduces the time to market of MPEG-4 HD hybrid STBs
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MDA Surveils New UAV Contract MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has reported that a confidential customer has awarded a contract to MDA for a long endurance unmanned aerial (UAV) surveillance solution to support its deployed forces.
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SatBroadcasting: A Bridge To Better Integration Bridge Technologies, developers of the first complete satellite to STB monitoring solution for IPTV operators, has announced the release of version 4.2 of its VideoBRIDGE software, which adds further key extensions and enhancements to the company's end-to-end monitoring solution.
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Newtec TelliNets With SatPath For China's ZTT Newtec has revealed that SatPath Systems has successfully integrated Newtec’s TCP acceleration software TelliNet into their SkySwitch? VSAT terminals to further optimize communication via satellite. In one of its current projects, SatPath is partnering with Beijing Zhongtaiton Technologies Co.
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SatBroadcasting: Power Push For Hybrid TV Via devolo AG devolo AG is presenting an innovative hybrid TV solution via powerline at IBC2009 — Hybrid TV enables comprehensive signal distribution of IPTV services to households via broadband and satellite and with this product, devolo offers Internet service providers a cost-efficient, turnkey complete solution for signal distribution to end customers.
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SatBroadcasting: TANDBERG To Show How To Migrate To HDTV TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group (NASDAQ:ERIC), is using IBC 2009 to demo how the migration towards an all-HD television universe is now a realistic opportunity.</font
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MRO Moments: More Martian Memories Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet.
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Combing Solar + Electrical Power Is QinetiQ For BeipColombo QinetiQ has signed a 23 million pounds contract with EADS Astrium for the supply of the solar-electric propulsion system for European Space Agency’s (ESA's) BepiColombo spacecraft mission to the planet Mercury.
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Marshall Communications Shows VIPs Projects On Schedule, On Budget and Better Than Expected Marshall Communications Corporation (MARSHALL) extended its expertise in support of the Military Utility Assessment (MUA) under its Tactical Service Provider (TSP) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) during a special VIP Day for high level Government executives.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: SoCal Station Fire Threatens Deep Space Network As the flames of the raging brush fire dubbed the Station Fire threatened the northern edge of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Saturday, Aug. 29, the managers of NASA's Deep Space Network prepared for the worst.
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September 1, 2009 The Rescue Of Palapa D... Yesterday, the story below was published when the Palapa D satellite failed to achieve its correct orbit, blamed on the failure of the 3rd stage of the Chinese Chang Zheng-3B launch vehicle. Just as in the movies, the cavalry has come to the rescue!
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Satellite Groups Oppose DeFazio Plan To Halt Cell Use On Planes A flight attendants' union says it supports a U.S. congressional bill to ban cell phone use by passengers while a plane is in flight.
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SAT Corp @ Patuxent With RF Demo SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., and partner, TCI Corp. provided radio-frequency (RF) clearance and deconfliction support for the 5th Biennial Unmanned Systems Demonstration at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Webster Field Annex.
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China Wants Their Own Space Station According to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, China will start the construction of its own orbital space station in 2020, the Sina news service said on Monday, citing a top official with the country's manned spaceflight program.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution — Moving On Up... @ ActiveVideo Networks — Gefen Gets Converting — U.S. Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Cable Comanies Re: Cap —
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SpaceX's Dragon (Without Using Fire) Communicates With COTS Arriving at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch on Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-129 today is the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) delivery of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Communication Unit.
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A Hunting We Do Go... With Upgraded Weapons System For The Hunter UAS... Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), in use with the U.S. Army since 1996, has successfully completed testing of the new GPS-guided Viper Strike (VS) weapons system at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. — GPS VS will soon deploy to theater on board Hunter in support of contingency operations.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution —Strategy Analytics Sizes Up U.S. IPTV Market — Former Homeland Security Secretary Joins Brightpoint As Director — WiMAX In Costa Rica Gets The DragonWave Treatment — FFV Helps To Make Mobile Broadcasting Work — Voicing It Up With Fonix — 3D Rigs Run Rampant At IBC2009 From P+S Technik — Pro Switching With Ross — A Lot Of TV Magic Brought To TV Azteca —
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Moving On Up... @ DigitalGlobe... DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) welcomes Mr. Alden Munson Jr. and Mr. James Whitehurst to the DigitalGlobe board of directors.
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Moving On Up... @ Overwatch... Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, has appointed Jon Percy as their vice president of business development and strategy.
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AST Brings iDirect Functionality To Services VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems) has announced that Applied Satellite Technology Ltd (AST) has launched a maritime VSAT broadband service built on the iDirect Intelligent Platform.
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GVF + UK-EMP Bring Around Another Oil & Gas Communications Conference The organizers of the Oil & Gas Communications Conference Series, Global VSAT Forum (GVF) and UK Event Management Partners (UK-EMP), have announced that the 2nd Annual Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia Conference: Redefining the Digital Oilfield Onshore, Offshore, Deep & Ultra-Deepwater Conference (O&GCSEA2009) taking place at the Kuala Lumpur Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel, Malaysia, November 18 to 18, 2009.
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SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES Links Their Huge World Using ScheduLINK Today ScheduALL announced that its ScheduLINK transmission management and optimization software is being used by satellite communication services company SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES to manage bookings across its special events and occasional use departments in The Hague, Netherlands, and Princeton, New Jersey.
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Power Player — Saft + Their Li-Ion Batteries Built by Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) and powered by Saft's lithium-ion (Li-ion) technology, the MEASAT-3a was successfully launched into space on Monday, 22 June, 2009, from a Land Launch rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan launch site.
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Biz Strats For Homeland Security @ GovSec Event GovSec, produced by 1105 Government Information Group, has announced the launch of the Homeland Security Finance Forum in collaboration with VB/Research.
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It's Not Easy Being — On the Orion Project NASA has taken a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle by completing the Orion Project's preliminary design review, or PDR. Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and other destinations.
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Hughes Network Systems Garners Frost & Sullivan Award Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has been presented with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership.
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E-Cab Event Includes TriaGnoSys Inflight 3G Demo TriaGnoSys recently presented a live demo of its inflight 3G solution with its onboard communications manager.
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SatBroadcasting: Time To Really Play With Newtec's New Mod + Coding Scheme Newtec will unveil next week at IBC in Amsterdam its 4CPM modulation and coding scheme, which dramatically increases the speed and bandwidth efficiency of the return link of Newtec’s Sat3Play system.
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Opening Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy To All Possibilities He would have been proud — the festive August 26 opening celebration for the Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy in Colorado Springs featured special guest Virginia Swigert, sister of astronaut John L. "Jack" Swigert, for whom the school is named.
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When You Call "911" It's Nice To Know SDN Global Has Your Backup SDN Global has unveiled its answer to emergency management’s backup requirements with PSAT™ (Public Safety Access Terminal) connecting 911 callers to their Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP).
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Thuraya Speaks Up With Speakerbus Luring Mil Customers at Show in London Thuraya will be exhibiting at a key London defense show next week.
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ESA's SMOS Sat Prep Continues In Russia With the launch just two months away, members of the SMOS team are currently in Russia inspecting the facilities where the launch campaign will soon get underway to prepare the ESA’s water mission for liftoff on 2 November.
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