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January 31, 2017 NorthTelecom's New CFO Knows the Value of a Great Company "I am delighted to be joining one of the leading companies in the sector particularly at this exciting time..."
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SES and Satcom Global's Partnership... New Ku-Band VSAT Service—Aura ...provides Satcom Global with seamless access to SES's satellite fleet and upcoming next generation hybrid satellites with high throughput payloads.
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National Space Society Awards NASA Kepler and K2 Team with 2017 Space Pioneer Award This will be the 36th ISDC® and will be held in St Louis, Missouri, at the Union Station Hotel.
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Persian-Language Manoto TV Switches in SD and HD to Eutelsat Satellites "The audience won’t settle for cheap pop-up channels anymore."
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GVF and Extensia Pull Together for African Summits GVF and Extensia set the stage for high-ranking officials from every African sub-region to meet with leaders of the satellite, wireless, fiber...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Creates 100 New Jobs Continues Expansion in Huntsville, Alabama The company will produce America’s newest advanced rocket engine, the AR1, in Huntsville, Alabama, resulting in the creation of 100 new jobs.
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Avanti Communications Blankets Spain and Portugal The service delivers packages with speeds of 30 Mbps using the new Jupiter 2 platform...
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Africa's Kwesé TV Newest Satellite Features 'Pay as You Watch' Three Day Passes Kwesé offers a ‘pay-as-you-watch’ service that enables viewers to purchase three or seven day passes to its full programming bouquet
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Telenor Group Driving IoT Car owners also have access to a complete ecosystem of car-related and tailored services within the app.
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Iridium's NEXT Aboard SpaceX Falcon Shares Next Spatial Deliveries The rideshare is anticipated to launch out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California by early 2018.
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AsiaSat 's Newest Team...Woolston and Cubbon Mr. Woolston will integrate and lead all sales, marketing and commercial activities of the company and Mrs. Cubbon will develop strategic initiatives...
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ISRO Watches the Clocks... Three Clocks, Three Failures, Now What? What happens if a clock doesn't work? No problem, throw it away and buy a new one... But what happens if a clock fails in space? An atomic clock?
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England's Aavid Thermacore... How to Cool a Satellite as it Circles, Photographs and Studies the Sun The satellite will take the highest resolution images ever, orbit within 43 million kilometers of the Sun with temperatures of 9,932 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Iran Celebrates a Space Technology Day by Revealing Four Satellites The information from Iran's space agency is sparse as they prepare to reveal four satellites at an event designated Space Technology Day.
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SpaceX Takes on More Space On Earth with New Facility and Jobs When Musk unveiled the plan in Seattle, two years ago, he said the satellite engineering operation could eventually employ “maybe 1,000 people.”
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January 30, 2017 Harris' Imager Provides NOAA's Amazing First Images From GOES-16 “Once the satellite is fully operational, the resolution of the imagery taken from the Harris ABI will be comparable to seeing a quarter from a mile away.”
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Into IoT... Numerex Exhibiting and Presenting at Upcoming IoT Evolution Expo Numerex will be represented in various sessions, ranging from tank monitoring and asset tracking to network services...
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The Connected Ambulance To Be Presented By Thuraya This new “ambulance to hospital” based telemedicine system works over Thuraya’s extensive and reliable network...
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ISRO's INSAT-3DR Delivers on Weather Forecasting for India Launched in September last year, INSAT-3DR works in tandem with INSAT-3D, operational since 2014...
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One Atlas From Airbus Defence and Space Offers Defense and Security Pros Imagery They Can Count On The new One Atlas service is claimed to be the world’s most refreshed 1.5 meter resolution satellite image library for defence, intelligence and security applications.
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A JV Deal May be in the Works for Thaicom The joint venture plan is part in the company’s multi-pronged proposal submitted to the Ministry of the Digital Economy and Society recently...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Brings Their Engines to the Super Bowl The RS-25 engine highlights the nation’s progress in developing transportation systems for human exploration of deep space.
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Ariane 6 Launch Vehicle Has Successfully Passed The First Project Review The contract had been awarded by the French space agency CNES on October 7, 2016, via the parent company MT Aerospace AG.
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Japan's Kounotori 6 Leaves ISS to Collect Garbage... Tests Electric Garbage Net Certainly not your neighborhood garbage truck, that's for sure.
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Marlink Remains Steadfast for Télécoms Sans Frontières The renewed partnership ensures TSF continued access to Marlink’s high-bandwidth Terralink connectivity services...
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Thales Alenia Spain Launches Hispasat 36W-1 with RedSAT Regenerative Payload RedSAT, the H36W-1 satellite embarks the most advanced technology in space communications, providing great flexibility and efficiency.
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SpaceX Shuffles Schedule...Working on New Launch Pad for a February Launch SpaceX has not released any details about the extent of the damage to the Air Force launch complex, but the company already...
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Do You Know How to Price and Market SmallSat Services? will offer insight into who has bought, who will buy, and provide an understanding on how products should be priced to maximize revenue.
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Russia Reacts to Possible Tampering of Faulty Rockets Some headlines addressing the matter were attention grabbers indicating that 'Russian rockets sold to NASA may blow up due to faulty metal.'
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Intelsat's EpicNG High Throughput Satellite Enters Into Service... Passes In-Orbit Tests equipped with the most advanced digital payload on a commercial spacecraft.
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33rd Space Symposium Promises to be Innovative... Meet Innovation Experts and Space Solutions ..." solutions already being developed in the commercial market by non-aerospace innovators that may provide solutions to our technical challenges,"
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January 28, 2017 The Seaglider™ AUV from Kongsberg Maritime Heading Into Subsea Expo 2017 Seaglider is an autonomous underwater vehicle/underwater glider developed for continuous, long term measurement of oceanographic parameters.
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Ridges May Look the Same on Mars, But They are Very Different Thin, blade-like walls, some as tall as a 16-story building, dominate a previously undocumented network of intersecting ridges on Mars...
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Soyuz Spacecraft Replaced Before Mission Even Begins Spaceship No. 734 may be replaced by spacecraft No. 735 over a leak in the descent module
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The Hispasat 36W-1 Satellite Gains A Great Deal of Altitude via Arianespace' Soyuz Soyuz flew a 32-minute profile to release the satellite passenger into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO.
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The Builder Is Beaming with Launch Success The German Aerospace Center (DLR) satellite control center received the first “sign of life” from the satellite just under one hour later...
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RUAG Relishes Role Played With Hispasat 36W-1 Satellite Essential mechanical and electronic components were supplied by RUAG and these elements will operate and control the satellite during its 15 year mission.
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January 26, 2017 SmallGEO Hispasat 36W-1 Is Integrated By Arianespace All is now ready for the final checkout and the Launch Readiness Review,...
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Philippine Rural Market To Receive NorthTelecom Connectivity Solutions The capacity requirement for the three year project is estimated to be around 1.5 to 2 transponders...
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Datum Systems Connects Kiwis in Chatham Islands with Their High Speed DVBS2/S2X Card Sets The M7 modem system is the best in class and most affordable modem platform for provisioning FDMA based networks over traditional FSS ...
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Global Express Link Emulator Debuts from GateHouse Telecom The Global Xpress Link Emulator is a test and demo tool for Ka-band solutions.
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Dynamic Testing For AsiaSat 9 The AsiaSat 9 spacecraft is rolled into the stacked speakers circle in preparation for acoustics testing.
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Kymeta Offers HTS Connectivity for Civilian Armored Vehicles Anyone will have access to high bandwidth connectivity wherever they go that is invisible, secure, and reliable — even in remote places.
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Satellite Industry Association Congratulates New FCC Chairman... Already a Champion for the People A new administration and new people for various committees and commissions including the FCC's new chairman...
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Eurona and Avanti Sign for a Decade and Launch New Services in Spain and Portugal Avanti’s satellite connectivity will cover 100 percent of Spain and Portugal, a total of 5.5 million people who currently do not have access to broadband
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A First ...Hispasat 36W-1 Satellite to Use Active Ku-Band Antennas This mechanism allows, for the first time, the delivery of a complete antenna system that includes deployable reflector, hold-down and release...
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January 25, 2017 Dual Passenger Launch Being Processed By Arianespace for Mid-February Launch February’s mission with Ariane 5 is designated Flight VA235, signifying the 235th launch of an Ariane-series vehicle from French Guiana.
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Japan's SDF Obtains X-Band Defense Satellite The Kirameki-2 satellite is the first communication satellite for the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
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Assembled and Into Final Testing is the EUTELSAT 172B Satellite EUTELSAT 172B breaks new ground as the first high-power satellite in the 3 ton class.
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Getting Smarter, Terminal-Wise, Bringing Phasor and Thales Alenia Space Together The companies will join forces to leverage Phasor’s knowledge in the field of electronically steerable antennas (ESAs)...
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Moving On Up... Kagan Appointed as COO @ SpeedCast International Kagan comes to SpeedCast from Globalstar, where he served as President and COO.
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Orbital ATK's First Client Buys Into Satellite Life Extension ...the vehicle has a 15-year design life with the ability to perform numerous dockings and undockings during its life span.
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Signalhorn Wins Services for Africa's Most Diversified Marine Vessel Fleets Whatever floats your boat, or in this case; diving, vessel leasing, sub-sea and construction support for oil and gas companies...
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Shopping for a Satellite? Surrey Satellite Technology Makes It Into NASA's Catalog, Again Suitable for a wide range of mission objectives, the platform has a baseline performance of 65 kg payload mass and 120-watt peak payload power.
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It's a "Go" for Hispasat 36W-1 The authorization for this mission, designated Flight VS16 in Arianespace’s numbering system...
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January 24, 2017 US Government and Military Satellite Market 2017, Forecast to 2022, from Research and Markets The US government is the single largest purchaser of commercial satellite services in the world...
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A GOES-16 Satellite Sending — The First Images of Earth The release of the first images is the latest step in a new age of weather satellites—HD from the heavens.
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Sky and Space Global's 3 Diamonds Smallsats Head Into Testing Phases The 3 Diamonds nanosatellites recently completed the Assembly testing stage and have now proceeded to the Integration and Verification phase.
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Av-Comm Antennas to Upgrade Australia's Bureau of Meteorology The contract includes refurbishment of the existing 3.7 meter parabolic antennas and feedhorns...
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Notables Come Out to Celebrate OHB's and Germany's SmallGEO Satellite “The SmallGEO platform has restored system capabilities for German telecommunications satellites after a hiatus of a good 20 years,”
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Big Data and the Future of Space to be Discussed at the 33rd Space Symposium The panel is one of several at this four-day international conference focusing on the future of the business of space.
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Airbus Safran Launchers 2016 a Year to Remember However, this is just the beginning of the adventure and, in 2017, we will be kicking off the production of Ariane 6, to ensure that we are ready in 2020.
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Contract for the Air Force Satellite Control Network Bids Adieu to Honeywell Welcome to CACI International The seven-year deal includes reliable launch, remote tracking station and satellite control network operations, including software engineering.
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Airbus Defense and Space Deliver to NASA Test Module for Orion Although the PQM will never see space, this is an important step in the development of the Orion program.
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January 23, 2017 First All-Electric Satellite EUTLESAT 172B Travels from France to French Guiana This highly innovative satellite will host three distinct payloads that will strengthen Eutelsat’s capability to serving Asia-Pacific markets...
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Brazilian Smallsat Nudged Out of ISS The satellite will help study how plasma forms in the atmosphere.
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The Imaginative Art Of Youngsters Unveiled for the Space Foundation's Student Art Contest From this gathering of creative works, 25 winners from seven countries were selected...
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China... GUESS Who Has First Quantum Communication Satellite and Hack Proof Communications People ask whether there is some sort of boundary between the classical world and the quantum world:
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Perhaps a Move to Planet by Alphabet with Their Satellite Imagery Works Word is that the sale is being pushed toward Planet...
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Moving Time for Aeolus' Final Testing The 1.7 ton spacecraft, primed by Airbus Defence and Space, features the LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) instrument called Aladin...
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European Space Agency's Plans for Space-Weather Satellite An extreme space-weather event has not hit Earth since 1859, when a CME caused telegraph equipment to catch fire.
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Thuraya and Indosat Ooredoo to Improve Indonesian Comms The agreement has created a framework for collaboration in three main areas.
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An Electrifying Release to Commercial Service — ABS-2A This is the second of the pair of all-electric satellite Boeing has delivered to ABS.
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January 22, 2017 United Launch Alliance Launches... Go SBIRS GEO Go! For US Air Force “I can’t think of a better way to kick off the new year.”
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USAF Dispatches SBIRS To Orbit For Enhanced Global Situation Awareness The 460th Space Wing at Buckley AFB, Aurora, Colorado, operates the SBIRS system.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's Power and Thrust Sends USAF's SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Skyward mission will provide key capabilities in the areas of missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awareness,
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Lockheed Martin's Success... 'Now We’re Talking' USAF's SBIRS Responds to Ground Control detects missile launches, supports ballistic missile defense, expands technical intelligence gathering, and bolsters situational awareness on the battlefield. Full Story
Satellite Tracking of Airliners Over Oceans [PHYS.ORG] A repeat of MH370 is "highly unlikely" since many airlines have already increased their efforts to keep tabs on planes over open ocean...
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January 20, 2017 All Powered Up and Rarin' To Go, EUTELSAT 117 West B Enters Full Service EUTELSAT 117 West B is the second all-electric satellite in Eutelsat’s fleet...
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GeoSync Microwave Ties in with Keysight Technologies Geosync provides the receive link from the LNA to base band and the transmit link from base band to the SATCOM HPA.
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Coming Up... MilSatCom Asia Pacific Event from SMi This event focuses on developing strategic space programs and space security.
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Airbus Defence and Space Ensures No Gap for French UGAP This 4-year contract covers the supply of equipment and services for fixed and mobile SATCOM in the Ku- and Ka- frequency bands.
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Thuraya Addresses Mission Critical Environments Comms Needs with CRYPTTIA For the first time, smartphone users can use unified Thuraya and cellular networks for mission critical, crisis management, defense and civil protection operations.
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An ABS First in Papua New Guinea ABS is the first international satellite operator to incorporate a company in PNG to provide ICT services.
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TacComms Configuration and Management Improves With PacStar's® IQ-Core® Software IQ-Core Software simplifies the setup and operation of tactical communications systems.
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Arianespace Celebrated in Hawaii at Pacific Telecommunications Council 2017 ​Warm climate and warmer compliments over Arianespace's jobs well done and high expectations in 2017.
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A Defining Platform for OHB System AG The first satellite to be based on the SmallGEO platform is for the Spanish provider Hispasat...
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January 19, 2017 Third Indonesian Satellite To Launch Next Month The satellite is named Telkom-3 and will support voice and data services.
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Departing the ISS — Six CubeSats These smallsats were pushed out of the ISS via the Kibo airlock using the new JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD)
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Prepping and Priming By Arianespace for Launch of Sentinel-2B This Vega mission is part of another busy year for Arianespace’s launch services...
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First Launch of the Year for Arianespace is to Carry Hispasat 36W-1 to Orbit This geostationary satellite will be driven to orbit for the Spanish operator Hispasat using a Soyuz launch vehicle.
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Gomspace Signs On With Chinese Private Launch Firm For Satellite Push Landspace will use their Landspace-1 rocket to put Gomspace's satellites into orbit in 2018.
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Thailand's Digital Economy and Society Ministry Studies Satellite Service Industry Reform The deputy permanent secretary of the ministry, said that the committee would then forward its final decision to the nation's Cabinet in March.
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SES' MX-1 Gains Contract Extension with Beta Film Ltd. and Sky Deutschland This new long-term contract extends and expands the existing agreement, which began in 2009...
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Gilat and Air Esurfing... Provide Broadband to China's Airlines Gilat’s solution will enable continuous service exceeding 100Mbps and servicing many dozens of passengers per aircraft.
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From France to Florida... Eurostar's SES-10 is on its Way for SpaceX Launch SES-10 is the 45th satellite based on the Eurostar E3000 platform and the tenth to use electric propulsion for station-keeping.
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Singapore Slings Its Seventh Satellite From the ISS "The long-term goal of the Kyutech-NTU joint space program is to do a lunar mission using the technologies demonstrated by these two satellites."
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January 18, 2017 ULA Launch of USAF's SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Scrubbed Violation of Safety Criteria SBIRS mission scrubbed violation of...
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China Plans to Launch an Earthquake Cognizant Satellite This satellite may be used in monitoring and forecasting earthquakes and is the nation's first, space-based platform for monitoring tremors.
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First Singaporean Satellite Takes Leave Of ISS The satellite will conduct tests to evaluate the durability of commercial off-the-shelf microprocessors in space...
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Japan's First Missile Defense Satellite Set For Launch The goal of this satellite is to detect and then track missiles that are launched from North Korea...
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January 17, 2017 KVH Upgrades and Plans to Include IoT and OneWeb initiating an upgrade to mix high-throughput capacity from geostationary and low Earth orbit satellites into its network that will triple the current speeds.
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Satellite Image a Mad Max Journey to Supply Earth's Most Remote Antarctica Research Station It shows a gruelling 10 day traverse to reach Concordia, a giant two towered research station in Antarctica.
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NASA's Earth Observatory Reveals Cambodia's Incredibly Shrinking Forests Cambodia has one of the fastest rates of forest loss in the world. In broad swaths of the country
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JAXA's Akatsuki Probe Spots Perhaps The Largest Gravity Wave In Solar System... Ever a Japanese space mission—that is centered around investigating Venus has made an amazing discovery.
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ViaSat's New Satellite ...A Step Closer to Becoming First Global Internet Service Provider ViaSat’s crown jewel stands 25-feet high, about 10 feet wide and, once its solar panels deploy in space, it will have a wingspan of 150 feet.
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eMarketer's Surprising Growth Estimates For Worldwide Video Audience Number of digital video viewers will climb to 2.15 billion this year
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Global Eagle Entertainment Plays Cricket ... Gains Worldwide Rights Matches can (and do!) last for days, the players wear woolly jumpers, and games often break for high tea on the village green.
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NASA's Astronaut Gene Cernan Last Man to Walk on the Moon Dies "Perhaps the Brightest Moment of My Life" "Those steps up that ladder, they were tough to make," Cernan recalled in a 2007 oral history. "I didn't want to go up. I wanted to stay a while."
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January 16, 2017 SMi's 12th Annual Military Space Situational Awareness... London in April an Early Bird Offer ...explore key situational awareness challenges in an increasingly contested, congested and competitive space.
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SMi’s 7th MilSatCom Asia Pacific in Singapore this May... Early Bird Offer Ends Soon Just as highways are becoming more congested, so it is with space. And space in space is becoming more congested, contested and competitive,
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ULA NROL-79's Launch Date Troublesome... Working to Resolve Atlas V Booster Issue ... actively working to resolve Atlas V second stage booster issues discovered during vehicle testing.
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SES Discloses New Owner of AMC-3... GEE Now We Know Since then the curtain has been pulled back, press releases issued and the satellite fleet operator has been identified as...
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January 15, 2017 SpaceX's Successes... Launches Iridium's NEXT Satellites and the Booster Returns ...the new satellites will be positioned near a current generation satellite, each moving at approximately 17,000 miles per hour as testing begins.
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Pathfinders For NASA Through this contract, Tyvak will handle the design, integration, testing and operations support of up to four different payloads, selected by NASA for four separate missions.
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JAXA's Failure to Launch a Tiny Satellite From a Small Rocket “It’s very regrettable. We’d like to determine the cause” of the failure,..."
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Iridium's NEXT Generation Celebrates Launch of First 10 Satellites the new satellites will be positioned near a current generation satellite, each moving at approximately 17,000 miles per hour
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Russia Admits Military Satellite Constellation...Surveillance of Enemy Vehicles and Vessels has one important capability that its US-A predecessor didn't: to listen in on communications sent by enemy ships and vehicles, including communications using closed channels.
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SES and GEE Ink a Connectivity Deal ...Eagle 1 to Drive Mobility "...to reach hundreds of millions of people on the move around the world with a reasonably priced, high-speed Wi-Fi experience that’s equivalent to what they get at their homes or offices."
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January 14, 2017 Airbus Doesn't Want To Be the Only One Having All the Fun... Enter the SpaceDataHighway Challenge "... is like the first optical fiber in space, but with the added advantage of mobility. Therefore, the scope of possible applications is vast”
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NSR Goes to a Higher Place... Above Controlled Airspace Who are the main players and what is their development roadmap?
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ISRO's Aim of 103 Satellites' Launch... Forget Setting a Record Just Maximize Capability "We are not looking at it as a record or anything."
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Multi-Band Comms For Stena Line From Marlink Marlink will also further increase available capacity to Stena Line vessels with an additional 10 to 15 percent...
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PanGeo Alliance Obtains PCI Geomatics Support PCI Geomatics is working closely with teams from Deimos Imaging to ensure support for...
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GreDeom-Insert From RUAG Space Is A Real Winner This is a novel kind of insert that is installed and bonded in satellite panels fully automatically.
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January 12, 2017 Xplore Technologies and CLS America...Take One Tablet and Feel Better About Global Communications “Thorium X now allows people to stay connected via satellite 100 percent of the time, and at a fraction of the cost of satellite phones.”
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LizardTech Goes For The CoN GeoExpress is LizardTech’s flagship software product...
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Google Earth Images of Antarctica... Stairs to Where? Some suggested it could be part of a pyramid structure, while others claimed the lines were tracks left behind by a UFO or...
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Signalhorn Drills Their Expertise Into the Harshest and Most Remote Locations The 12 remote rig sites are located in some of the harshest and most remote locations... and will deliver a reliable, competitive service ...
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Russia Makes Progress on Destruction of Progress MS-04 Cargo Vehicle ...the conclusion that the oxidizer tank of the third-stage engine was ripped open with an impact of fragments that emerged with the destruction of ...
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China Shares Satellite's Shots ...First Hi-Res Earth Observation Zhang said that compared with foreign commercial Earth observation satellites, SuperView satellites have better resolution, accuracy and coverage.
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Airbus Sells Shares...in Atlas Elektronik Group Selling their shares enables the company to focus on its core business.
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SES Does Some Heavy Lifting of O3b's Debt... $1.4 Billion Since acquiring the remaining shares in O3b, SES has refinanced the entire $1.4 Billion of gross debt at a materially lower average funding rate.
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SpaceX Prepares Falcon 9 for Launch and Landing... Just Read the Instructions ...valued at $492 million, it was the largest single launch deal ever engaged.
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January 11, 2017 National Security Discussion by Senior Military Leaders at 33rd Space Symposium The Space Symposium is considered to be the single most important global space conference for connecting government, military and industry leadership.
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Partners France and India Ink a Deal Sharing in Launch Technology ...will enable France to benefit from the Indian model of streamlining the costs of space programs.
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GMV is Putting Their Euros Where The ARION 1 and 2 Are Being Developed GMV will also develop key technology and will work together with PLD Space in the development of the ARION 1 and ARION 2 launchers...
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A New SeaStar Debuts from Thuraya Thuraya SeaStar meets the evolving needs of the modern fishing market and introduces the power of modern SATCOM capability to small scale operators.
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Eye Spy... Israeli Satellite Sees 'Stone' Russian Missiles Heavy rains forced the Russians to move the missile systems, thereby exposing them to satellite photography.
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Japan Scrubs Experimental Launch of CubeSat by Modified SS-520 Sounding Rocket If the launch is successful, SS-520-4 will become the smallest rocket ever to deliver a payload into orbit.
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RSC Energia Building A Replacement Satellite For The Lost EgyptSat-2 RSC Energia stated the company had started producing EgyptSat-A...
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Acquiring Minds Want to Know... NETIA Secured by Savelli and Benveniste The acquisition was made via Radio Act SAS, their consulting and services agency.
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UrtheCast Commits to Supplying Space Hardware and Engineering Services UrtheCast expects to deliver the related space hardware in the fourth quarter of 2017...
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SES Selects Solutions for Satellites ...Kratos' Monics® Enterprise Monics Enterprise will help us manage and harmonize our global monitoring network...
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Thuraya Pumps Up Preparedness... Emergency Response Equipment to International Telecommunication Union Always be prepared, anticipate your needs in the event of an emergency, and so with that thought Thuraya Telecommunications Company, has...
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The Boeing Exhibit Center and Pavilion is All Sold Out The Boeing Exhibit Center and Pavilion will open Monday evening, April 3, immediately following the Space Symposium's opening ceremony...
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January 10, 2017 Pentagon Finally Launches Study... Future Needs of Military SATCOM The objective is to inform future Pentagon decisions on military satellite communications.
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Top Teleports Tagged by WTA The annual rankings of companies by revenue and revenue growth are compiled by surveying teleport operators around the world as well as referencing the published results of publicly-held companies.
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A Big Deal For Cloud Constellation Corporation Cloud Constellation's SpaceBelt service offers a key market differentiator for data infrastructure providers, Internet service providers and telecommunications organizations.
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Small Rocket, Smallsat, Big Launch — All Part of JAXA's Master Plan For Less Expensive Launches The smallsat to be carried by the small rocket is the University of Tokyo’s TRICOM-1, which weighs some 3 kg.
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Alphabet Learns Their ABCs Attempting To Sell a Skybox to a Planet ...some jobs would be saved through attrition, employees of Terra Bella would move to Planet, and others may get different positions at Google...
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Deep Space Industries Goes Deep to Raise Up New CEO He established and grew his business from an initial $40K investment to produce $36M in annual income in less than a decade.
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Two Canadians C-COM and NSERC Invest $6.1M in R&D of Next Gen Intelligent Mobile Antenna Technology C-COM will provide total cash funding of $3,055,000 payable in installments until the end of 2020 which will be matched by NSERC.
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January 9, 2017 GEE What A Purchase... Global Eagle Entertainment Shops for a Satellite "...we’ve actually done a deal with our largest supplier to purchase essentially an entire satellite.”
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Iraqi satTV Channel Gains Capacity On Es'hail-1 Al Rafidain's satTV channel showcases Iraqi political, economic, cultural and social identity.
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The Crucial Role Satellites "Play" in New Nuno Donato Game The player must manage a complex system of satellites to ensure that your planet is able to maintain defenses from incoming missile threats.
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Arianespace's Two New Contracts In New Year...JSAT and Intelsat On January 4, 2017 Satnews.com shared Arianespace's announcement regarding...
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China's New Rocket Launches a Trio ...are experimental satellites to test technologies of low-orbit narrow-band communication and VHF Data Exchange System
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Siemens' SIECAMS® Satellite Geolocation Service Identifies Pesky Interference The ability to rapidly identify and mitigate interference, intentional or not, is crucial to protecting the core functionality of their most valuable assets.
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US Defense Agency Orders Norsat's GLOBETrekker 2.0 Terminals The GLOBETrekker 2.0 terminal was selected due to the functionality of the unit's built in spectrum analyzer...
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Capella Space's Cubsat Gets the Entire SAR Image Even Through Darkness and Clouds Capella’s satellites will be able to measure changes in the ground down to the millimeter level Full Story
January 8, 2017 SpaceX's NEXT Delay... Again... Extreme California Weather Certainly Musk never wants to experience the devastation of what occurred during a similar test September 1 in Florida, when a flaw in the design led to...
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NASA to Peer Through a New Window at Black Holes and Exotic Astronomical Objects “XPE will open a new window on the universe for astronomers to peer through. Today, we can only guess what we will find.”
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January 7, 2017 2017's SmallSat Symposium Simply Scintillating in Silicon Valley With a new venue, the introduction of four new workshops and numerous new sessions those attending will be light years ahead of their small sat competitors.
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A NASA and JPL Metallic Missions calls upon SSL for the platform This mission is to research the 210 km diameter asteroid, which is believed to be the only place in the solar system where a metal planetary core can be studied.
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Russia's Siberian Extreme... Creates World's First Satellite from a 3D Printer ...dynamic modeling, along with 3D printing, allow developers to reduce the satellite's weight, give it strong characteristics and resist vibration.
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Message From a Galaxy Far, Far Away ...Bursts From a Dwarf Although they last just milliseconds, the radio blasts can emit as much power as 500 million Suns.
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January 5, 2017 Es'hail-1 is Serving The tournament is taking place in Doha from January 2 to 7 and will be broadcast live in HD throughout the entire MENA region via Es’hail-1.
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NASA Sends Psyche and Lucy On A Most Excellent Adventure... Explore Early Solar System it's is the only known object of its kind in the solar system and the only way humans will ever visit a core. We learn about inner space by visiting outer space.
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NOAA Whoa, Again... Joint Polar Satellite System Delay Certainly a disappointment when it was announced that NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecraft had a technical issue.
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SpaceX's Delay-a-Day...On a One Day Hold ...the engines ignited before turning off seconds later, while the rocket remains anchored to the launch pad.
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January 4, 2017 SpaceX Gets Back Up On The Proverbial Horse and Plans A Launch “SpaceX usually pushes ahead a lot faster, so it seems like they’re not rushing ahead at this point, which is a good thing.”
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Inmarsat 's iSatPhone Has A UAE "In" The agreement will enable the latter two companies to sell Inmarsat’s GSPS IsatPhone satellite phones and IsatHub terminals to their UAE customers.
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TRAK Is Clocking In The 8835 GPS Clock offers extreme power and interoperability options ...
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Sale Of CapRock Communications Completed Proceeds from this transaction will be used by Harris to pay down debt and return cash to shareholders.
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GVF's New Board, New Year, New Ideas The election comes at a time when the GVF has been recognized by the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation with a 2016 Sir Arthur Award in International Achievement,
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US Army's Field Services Contract Bagged By DataPath More than 200 DataPath field service technicians will now be sent to various military commands in 20 countries.
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JSAT and Arianespace Sign On To Go Up Together Their aim is to maintain stable and high-quality satellite communications services.
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One Hundred and Three Smallsats, Sitting on a PSLV... The rocket in question is the PSLV-C37 and the date is set for February from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
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Norway Tracks Avalanches Via Satellite This is helpful as recent images reveal 50 new avalanches among a small portion of Svalbard
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January 3, 2017 EU Data Protection Laws Assistance For US Companies Via The Cloud The company has just announced that they have entered into a service provision agreement with Zettabox to assist companies in meeting new European Union (EU) data protection laws...
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Potential Impact Of Space-Based ADS-B Delved Into By Purdue University This technology offers both immediate cost savings to airlines and long term environmental benefits to society — a win-win combination.
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NASA.. New Horizon Cinches Up As Kuiper Belt Nears When 2014 MU69 was discovered, it was initially labeled 1110113Y, with a nickname “11”...
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NASA's Webb... Seeking Good Vibrations "This is why we test—to know how things really are, as opposed to how we think they are."
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January 2, 2017 First Satellite For Brazil's Visiona Scheduled For Launch This March The satellite will be shipping to French Guiana shortly for launch...
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'I Hate When That Happens'... China's Newly Launched Satellites Are In Wrong Orbit The satellites have onboard propulsion that may allow them to raise their orbits, but at some cost to their lifetime.
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Smallsat Build Assisted By A 3D Printer —Tomsk-TPU-120 To Launch From ISS This Summer Earlier this year, the Tomsk-TPU-120 satellite was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS)...
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Debris Destruction Is The Plan The cleaning spacecraft remains in place while "shooting" a stream from one of the engines to displace the defunct object from orbit.
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Airbus' Big Plans For New Medium Class Satellite Platform The platform is designed for creation of geostationary commercial medium-class satellites...
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Winged Horse Lives On... Orbital ATK's Pegasus Program Still Active Despite the fact that Orbital ATK’s Pegasus rocket is seldom used the program will remain active.
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India Rent-A-Satellite... Shortage Of Satellites A lease would be for two or three years...
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RSCC Makes First Payment For Sats Due In 2019 RSCC is having the two spacecraft built using financial support of...
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Yet Again, EchoStar 21 Launch On Hold The Khrunichev Center indicated that additional checks of the rocket and the booster unit are required...
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The Next NEXT Iridium Communnications President Matt Desch offered a tweet on December 25 that the launch would occur "very soon."
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China Is Raining Satellites... Suspects Are Wayward Out Of Orbit Satellites The debris found in Lingbao, some of which bears the wording “China Aerospace”...
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OneWeb's New Jobs In The New Year The company had a nice Christmas bonus with a billion-dollar momentum boost from investors.
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The Cause Of The September 1 SpaceX Falcon 9 Annihilation Is Determined Investigators scoured more than 3,000 channels of video and telemetry data covering a very brief timeline of events...
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