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October 30, 2008 C2SAT Cs2 Seanet Maritime's Needs It pays to cooperate is the mantra for C2SAT [NGM Stock Market Exchange, C2ST] who has signed a frame agreement with Seanet Maritime Communications AB (publ) for the delivery of 60 stabilized VSAT antenna systems.
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Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation... Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) reported revenue of $1.37 billion in its fiscal quarter ended September 26, 2008, an increase of 11 percent compared to $1.23 billion in the prior-year quarter.
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Telecommunications Industry Association Defines IP Network Model and More The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), a provider of advocacy, standards development, business development and intelligence for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry announced a new standard: TIA-921-A Network Model for Evaluating Multimedia Transmission Performance Over Internet Protocol.
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GeoEye SatImagery OK'd For Telespazio GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has signed a multi-year agreement with Rome-based Telespazio S.p.A., appointing Telespazio as GeoEye's new Commercial Regional Affiliate for the region of Europe and North Africa.
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Phoenix Powers Down Into Safe Mode Due To Weather + Dust + Less Sunlight NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode on Tuesday in response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions.
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Simon Bolivar Satellite Launched By China For Venezuela China successfully launched a Venezuelan telecommunication satellite into space during the early morning today. This is China's first manufacturing contract as well as a launch for a Latin American country.
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Bueno — Mas DIRECTV Adds Hispanic History Programming Satellite TV service provider DIRECTV has launched History en espanol on DIRECTV Mas, DIRECTV's Spanish and English-language programming service. History en espanol combines programming from the U.S. and Latin America highlighting Hispanic culture in Spanish, 24-hours a day.
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Development Of An Arab Space Agency Being Discussed The United Arab Emirates is encouraging Arab and North African countries to participate in the efforts to set up an Arab space agency (ASA), Dr. Omar Al Emam, Advisor, Arab Science and Technology Foundation told the Khaleej Times.
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Arianespace Gets Head Start With First 2009 Ariane 5 Delivery Preparations are starting for another busy year of Arianespace launch activity. The initial Ariane 5 of 2009 has now been delivered to the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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Lockheed Martin Fully Aware of U.S.A.F. Tactical Space The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a $30 million contract for the development phase of the Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) technology demonstration program.</b
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Granada TV Into Asia Via ABS Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and ITV Global Entertainment Ltd. have signed a multi-year contract to broadcast Granada TV channel across Asia on the C-band MCPC platform on the ABS-1 Satellite (75 degrees E).
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Cassini To Take Another Peek At Enceladus Just over three weeks after the previous fly-by of Enceladus, Cassini will again fly by this Saturnian moon, passing at an altitude of 197 kilometres.
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Mars, NASA's MESSENGER Discovers Rare Real Estate With a View While Mercury may appear as a battered surface, a NASA spacecraft gliding over its surface for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced several science firsts and is returning hundreds of new photos and measurements
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October 29, 2008 SBIRS Spurred On With Lockheed Martin Test Success Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully completed acoustic testing of the first geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) spacecraft in the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program.
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Democracy in Space as Astronauts Vote NASA Commander Mike Fincke (right) and Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff in the International Space Station should get a prize on November 4 for the votes that came the farthest — in this case traveling 220 miles above Earth and orbiting at 17,500 miles per hour.
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Data + Messaging In Flight Target Of ARINC's New Flight Info Management Solution ARINC delivers services within every aspect of business aviation, from a diverse array of flight support services, such as advanced flight planning and weather, flight following, contract fuel, international trip support, to services such as data link or satellite communications.
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NASA's Mars Orbiter Reveals Gem Show On Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed Martian rocks containing a hydrated mineral similar to opal described as a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars.
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Oil & Gas Communications Conference To Also Occur In Asia November 18th & 19th 2008 will witness the latest in the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) and UK-EMP series of Oil & Gas Communications Conferences take place at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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ASRC Research and Technology Gets PAAC III Nod from NASA — again NASA has selected ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, LLC, of Greenbelt, Maryland, to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract that will support NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Flight Projects Directorate in Greenbelt.
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TCS SNAPs To Additional Funding With CECOM LCMC Order TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NasdaqGM: TSYS) has received an additional $9.7 million of funding from the U.S. Army to provide additional Secure Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Satellite Systems.
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C-COM Now Offers Even More Support In China C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) has now established its second service and support center in China. The service center will be operated by one of C-COM’s Chinese value added resellers, Blue Satellite Communications Technology Co., Ltd. (BSC), located in Beijing.
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Moving On Up... DigitalGlobe... DigitalGlobe has added Karen Diener and John Allan to the the Company's defense team, effective immediately.
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Comtech Captures Contracts Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has received three orders totaling $6.2 million for satellite communications equipment.
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GlobeCast Shows Off New Singapore Facility GlobeCast's new playout facility at its regional headquarters in Singapore is open for business.
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NASA's Solution — Eliminate Commute Traffic with an Armored Personnel Carrier Sometimes it would be nice to have a big vehicle to help get through nasty traffice jams, and at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida the STS-126 astronauts practice driving an M-113 armored personnel carrier near the launch pad as part of prelaunch preparation known as Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (aka Driver Training).
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Major News from NASA's Spitzer, Two Asteroid Belts in Nearest Planetary System Big news came with the latest observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope which reveals that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts — our own solar system has just one. The star at the center of the nearby system, called Epsilon Eridani, is a younger, slightly cooler and fainter version of the sun.
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Congrats! NASA Selects 142 Small Businesses NASA has selected 142 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, known as SBIR. The selected projects have a total value of approximately $85 million.
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October 28, 2008 Mission Critical Video Info System Demo'd Successfully By Harris Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS has successfully demo'd the situational awareness benefits of its Full-Motion Video Asset Management Engine (FAME™) at Empire Challenge 2008, which was held this summer at China Lake, Calif.
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SatDelivery By Spacenet Part Of New Digital Signage Alliance Spacenet Inc has launched a strategic alliance program to offer integrated digital media services. As part of the new strategic program, STRATACACHE has joined as one of Spacenet's Digital Media Alliance charter members.
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Harris' Geospatial Data Boon Harris Corporation has debuted their Geospatial Search Tracking and Retrieval (GeoSTAR) tool. This a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), web-based graphical user interface that provides a simpler approach to researching, accessing, and controlling imagery and geospatial products.
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Harris Projects Storm Surges Advanced interactive, 3D visual models of harbors developed by Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) for the U.S. government were used by state agencies and various news organizations to alert the public of the potential catastrophic impact of Hurricane Ike's storm surge.
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Honduras Calls TSF — 200,000 Flood Victims Honduras' office of the UNDAC (the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination) requested Telecoms Sans Frontieres’ (TSF) support after devastating rains have killed least 24 people and thousands have been evacuated after several days of heavy rain leading to mudslides and floods. According to the government more than 200,000 have been affected, 25,000 have been left homeless and eight people are missing.
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Turksat Selects Glowlink For Geolocation Assistance Glowlink has won a competitive contract award from Turksat A.S. for geolocation and carrier monitoring equipment. Under the contract, Glowlink will deliver, install, and conduct training for the company’s Model 8000 and Model 1000 systems at Turksat’s facilities in Ankara, Turkey.
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NexGen + SESAR Future Demands To Be Met By Luciad Luciad, based in Belgium, has a core product called LuciadMap. The company’s software components are the building blocks for mission-critical ATC/ATM and Air Command and Control systems.
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OG2 Space Segment Rugged Computing Power To Be Delivered By Aitech Aitech Defense Systems Inc. has been selected by Argon ST (NASDAQ: STST) to provide the payload processor systems for ORBCOMM’s (NASDAQ: ORBC) nexgen low earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites.
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No GOCE Until 2009 The European Space Agency (ESA) is reporting that the Russian authorities responsible for the Rockot launcher designated to boost the GOCE Earth Explorer satellite into orbit have now completed the investigation of the failure in the guidance and navigation system of the launcher's Upper Stage (Breeze KM).
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Going From Graduation To UAV Training From the Air Force Times comes the report of the first airman to be assigned directly to UAV duty after he graduated from undergraduate pilot
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SSPI Looks To Future Leaders With Awards The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) has selected David Cavossa, Vice President, SATCOM, Arrowhead Global Solutions; Nick Mitsis, Manager, Corporate Communications, Intelsat, and Yvette Dominguez, Manager, Payload Design Section, Space Systems/Loral to be honored with “Promise Awards” which recognize young leaders in the satellite communications industry.
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U.S.A.F. Academy Conducts Space Deterrence Workshop The Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies held on September 22-23 a Space Deterrence Workshop, convening experts from military, civilian and industrial circles. A full-day of deliberation centered on review of deterrence theory, space domain-contemporary and future operating environments.
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Armadillo Wins $350,000 in NASA Prize Not the armored mammal that belongs to the order Cingulata, family Dasypodidae. Rather, Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, which earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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October 27, 2008 Success —30th Space Wing and Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed 3 Satellite Congratulations to Vandenberg AFB which successfully launched a Delta II rocket today at 7:28 p.m. preparing for the event in record time. The rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-2 carrying the Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed 3 Satellite.
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Payload Perfection Assisted By SRI Lighten your load with Summation Research Inc.'s (SRI) integrated Satellite and Range Quad-Band RF Exciter & Test Signal Simulators (TSS), which also now feature Auto-BERT — an automated test application for quick and simple construction and display of "waterfall" performance curves.
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Moving On Up... SMITHS Group plc... SMITHS Group plc has appointed Ralph L. Phillips President of Smiths Interconnect.
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ProtoStar Delighted With ITU Circular Telegram Executives of ProtoStar Ltd. praised the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Radiocommunication Bureau for issuing a Circular Telegram on October 8th, 2008, to all 113 member nations confirming ProtoStar I is, and has been, operating fully within applicable ITU rules and regulations since its successful launch on July 7th, 2008.
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Gulf Of Mexico SIG Deepens Commitment At Conference A group of key energy-sector interests have confirmed their intentions to reach out to providers of offshore communications in an effort to improve collaboration among all parties involved in the delivery of broadband solutions in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Spotlight On CSA SpotBeam Awards The California Space Authority (CSA) will host the 2008 SpotBeam Awards on November 19, 2008, at The Proud Bird in Los Angeles, California.
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COROT Is Starry-Eyed + IDs The Wobbles Sounding the Sun through a technique similar to seismology has opened a new era for understanding the Sun's interior. The COROT satellite has now applied this technique to three stars, directly probing the interiors of stars beyond the Sun for the first time.
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Lots Of Aerojet Propulsion Ahead For NASA's RBSP Mission Aerojet has been selected by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) to provide propulsion systems for NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission. The work will be conducted at Aerojet's Redmond, Wash. facility.
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Philippine Police Push Out Their Own UAV GIlbert Felongco, a correspondent for gulfnews.com, reports that police authorities in Makati and Manila have unveiled innovative solutions to address local security concerns using readily available materials and low cost technology.
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NASA's Desert RATS Test Drive Lunar Rover A collection of engineers, astronauts and geologists have spent the past week testing out the Small Pressurized Rover in the 11th annual Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) field tests. Two teams of one astronaut and one geologist each have been driving the rover through the Arizona desert, trying it out in two different configurations.
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October 24, 2008 Moving On Up... Global VSAT Forum... The international association of the satellite communications sector has confirmed that seven key industry executives have been elected to the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) Board of Directors, through which they will lead the organisation’s continuing efforts to advance the provision of satellite-based solutions throughout the world.
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Global Partnership Cemented By Squire Tech + DC-Sat.Net Squire Tech Solutions, LLC, and DC-Sat.Net have announced a new global partnership and are actively involved in Oil and Gas, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Response, IP Video Broadcast on demand and Critical
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Speed With A Commercial Grade Service Via Spacenet Spacenet Inc. has increased the speed of its commercial grade Connexstar Performance Series service to include a 5 Mbps (mega bit per second) option, which now makes this among the fastest pre-packaged satellite communications solutions available. The service also comes with the industry's only Minimum Assured Speed.
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Antenna Accomplishment For Iridium's 9555 SatPhone The Sarantel PowerHelix antenna technology was selected for, and is being built into, the just-released Iridium 9555 handset.
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Indian Satellite Markets Focus Of New NSR Research + Forecasting NSR has released their latest market research and forecast report: <i>Indian Satellite Markets</i>. Focused exclusively on the emerging Indian economy and specifically on the market for satellite capacity and services in the country, the report reviews the major industries such as Video Broadcasting, VSATs, and DTH contributing to demand for domestic and international satellite capacity across this South Asian country.
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A Blending Of Services Brings Nera + Becker Together for Asia Pacific Market Nera Telecommunications Ltd and Becker have signed a long-term teaming agreement. The companies are joining forces to integrate the <i>umc.global network</i> services into the <b>Nera Telecommunications Ltd</b>. communication solution portfolio to provide the best possible and broadest managed communication services for the Asian maritime community.
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Beating The Convergence With New SatTool For Broadcasters Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) has introduced Central Cast, an all-digital service being implemented by station groups that allows broadcasters who currently rely on microwave transmissions and fiber networks to send their signals to off-air repeaters, cable headends, and DBS uplink sites.
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RRsat Offers Additional Ku- Access Via Galaxy-25 RRsat launched an additional platform on the Galaxy-25 satellite Ku-band, which happens to be one of the most popular satellites in the U.S. for DTH viewers and cable operators.
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Uncle Sam Wants You to Go Fly a UAV New technology requires newly trained and skilled people to properly conduct the task at hand. And so it goes with the demand for unmanned aircraft, in fact the Air Force is launching two new training programs, including an experimental one that would turn out up to 1,100 pilots to fly the drones over Iraq and Afghanistan.
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New Radome Generation From MFG Galileo Composites MFG Galileo Composites has debuted their new Generation II radome design that features enhancements based on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) assignment to advance technology for ground-based radomes.
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Additional Asian Enhancement Completed By Paradise Datacom Paradise Datacom has created a maintenance and repair center in India. Services will be performed by Eltel Systems in their facility located in Bangalore.
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Thanks for the Memories As Soyuz Returns to Earth Last night two Russian cosmonauts and American space tourist Richard Garriott departed from the International Space Station for their return to Earth.
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The KillerBee's Wedge Winning Wing Hopes For A Win With an eye on a UAV market that may be worth $250 million, Raytheon promoting their heavy-lifting, flying-wedge, unmanned aerial vehicle known as the KillerBee.
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Quickbird Discovers Site of Human Sacrifices Imagine a piece of history being hidden for as much as 2,000 only to be detected by a new remote sensing technology that peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid.
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The Zeppelin Returns! Of interest to SatMagazine readers could be the latest incorporation of a technology that harkens back many decades — the Zeppelin. The largest airship in the world, the Airship Ventures Zeppelin, has successfully completed its trans-oceanic crossing from Hamburg, Germany to Beaumont, Texas.
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NASA's Next Moon Mission Sealed (In Thermal Vacuum) NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space. Not an easy method, unlike packing your dinner in a sealed plastic container
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Space Shuttle Moves Like a Turtle and Flies Like an Eagle In case you're keeping track, space shuttle Endeavour is in the process of moving slowly from Launch Pad 39B to Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, as preparations for the STS-126 mission move forward.
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Pan-African Market To Welcome New ComSat in 2010 There’s a new comsat scheduled to serve the pan-African market, thanks to an agreement signed between Arianespace and Thales Alenia Space.
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Eutelsat's W2M To Service MENA + European Markets Eutelsat’s W2M satellite has started its pre-launch processing at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana as preparations move into full swing for the upcoming Arianespace launch with a heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA.
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Capture + Stream The SatLynx Mobile Streaming Way Last month, Satlynx intro'd a transportable media streaming solution comprised of equipment that can be installed into and on almost any vehicle in combo with a flexible and affordable service.
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October 23, 2008 SatWiMAX En Route To Africa, South America + Asia Via Norsat Int'l Norsat International has established a WiMAX business unit to pursue satellite-enabled WiMAX opportunities in emerging markets throughout Africa, South America, and Asia.
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NASA's Space Shuttle Preps, Includes To-Do List The Space Shuttle Program’s Flight Readiness Review concluded Wednesday with program managers evaluating the readiness of space shuttle Endeavour to perform a re-supply mission and maintenance to the International Space Station.
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SCADA VSATS Reach 10,000 For Stratos Stratos Global Corp. has reached a milestone of 10,000 active supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) VSAT sites. The sites primarily support the upstream oil & gas, utility, water-management and tower-monitoring markets nationwide.
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FindWhere You Are, Now in Arabic FindWhere, a real-time GPS location tracking company now has a website available in Arabic at www.findwhere-me.com.
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More Than 100K Flight Hours For ViaSat's ArcLight ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) recently passed 100,000 flight hours for its ArcLight? airborne broadband system. The system delivers cable-like broadband service to business aircraft.
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Financially Speaking... Space Systems/Loral Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) and a leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, has entered into a three year, fully secured $100 million revolving credit agreement.
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SMi Brings Milcom Event To Your Attention On January 28th and 29th at the Marriott Prague in the Czech Republic, the Mobile Deployable Communications conference occurs.
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NSOM Program For U.S.A.F. To Continue With Harris Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a $60 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to continue work under the first-year option for the Network and Space Operations and Maintenance (NSOM) program.
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Financially Speaking... The Boeing Company The Boeing Company’s [NYSE: BA] third-quarter net income declined 38 percent, to $695 million, while earnings per share declined 33 percent to $0.96 per share.
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Daily Tech Offers Interesting Report On SatPower Generated Lightbulb That's correct — power from space! According to DailyTech's online website, there's a new project that hopes to gather and then send enough power from space to light one lightbulb.
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Xianglong UAV Being Developed By China China is reported to be developing a new UAV that's similar to the U.S.' RQ-4 Global Hawk. The Chinese aircraft is the Xianglong (Soaring Dragon) and is about half the size of the Global Hawk.
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Heron UAVs To Fly For Turkey Israeli contractors will be delivering 10 unmanned aircraft to Turkey to be used for, among other things, intelligence-gathering operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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On The Move... Satamatics... Satamatics provides satellite telematics, asset tracking, and monitoring services, and the Company has relocated their U.S. operation to larger premises in Marion, Illinois.
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Getting More Of Hispasat A five percent stake in Hispasat has been acquired by abertis, through that Company's abertis telecom subsidiary. The agreement to acquire this portion of the Spanish satellite operator was made with EADS/CASA and raises abertis' Hispasat stake to 32.4 percent.
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Boeing Joins The PlanetSpace Team PlanetSpace announced they have added the Space Exploration division of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) to its existing teammates, Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), on the proposed solution to NASA for the Commercial Resupply Services to the International Space Station.
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Financially Speaking... Lockheed Martin... Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) has reported third quarter 2008 net earnings of $782 million ($1.92 per diluted share), compared to $766 million ($1.80 per diluted share) in 2007.
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XMM-Newton Is Alive! Last weekend, the European Space Agency (ESA) lost contact with its XMM-Newton X-ray observatory. Many space agencies and organizations are now joining forces trying to fix the problem — a feeble radio signal has been heard, and ground-based observations confirm that the spacecraft is intact.
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Stratos Global's Milestone Out of Stratosphere Stratos Global Corp., a provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, today announced it has reached a milestone of 10,000 active supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) VSAT sites.
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Thuraya's Got the Whole World In Its Hand Thuraya, provider of handheld mobile satellite services offered demonstrations of a series of new products and services at GITEX 2008, furthering their business diversification and expansion.
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October 22, 2008 Aye! Bond Offshore Helicopters See Blue Sky Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd. based in Aberdeen, Scotland liked what Blue Sky Network, a provider of mobile asset management and fleet management solutions using GPS tracking, had to offer.
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China Readies for Emergencies With C-COM Satellite Ramping up for emergency situations, C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. [TSXV: CMI] has received an initial order for US$400,000 iNetVu Mobile systems from one of its resellers in Beijing.
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iDirect's Bettinger Becoming GVF Board Member iDirect, a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems) has announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Dave Bettinger, has been elected to the board of directors of the Global VSAT Forum (GVF), a London-based non-profit international association of the VSAT industry.
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Chiao! Countdown to Third COSMO-SkyMed Sats x 4 Vandenberg Air Force base in California is readying for the launch of the third satellite in the Earth Observation constellation, the Italian system COSMO-SkyMed, on a Boeing Delta II rocket.
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HD Network Suite To Be Pumped Out In HD By Sat, Telco, Cable + DTV ION Media Networks, Inc., owner and operator of the nation's largest television station group, has announced plans to launch its suite of networks — ION Television, qubo, and ION Life — in HD in 2009.
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BuckEye Re-Ups for Stint in Afghanistan The U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (Army TEC) has awarded a contract extension to Flight Landata Inc. of North Andover, Massachusetts, for the continuation of the BuckEye aerial imaging services in Afghanistan.
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Becker + SingTel Will Be Calling All Ships Becker Marine Systems Communication and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) have signed a teaming agreement to offer managed Infocomm Technology (ICT) solutions for the global maritime industry.
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New Business Pathways At Integral Systems There's a business reorg at Integral Systems. The company has reorganized their operations, and the subsidiaries Lumistar and RT Logic will now have a third compatriot in the space communications services group, that being SAT Corp.
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IDC Receivers Receive Recognition International Datacasting Corporation has received the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Regional Award for New Technology for the Ontario Region.
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Heavy Duty HD'ing For SES ASTRA SES ASTRA has experienced the number of HD channels broadcast via the ASTRA Satellite System increasing significantly over the past three months.
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Q3 Loss for KVH Industries KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008.
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WorldSpace' Requires More Financial Space WorldSpace, Inc. has announced they, along with its U.S. subsidiaries WorldSpace, Inc.Systems Corporation and AfriSpace, Inc., have filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
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RapidEye-1's First Shutter Release The first public release of a RapidEye image has now been unveiled on the company's website. This demo image highlights the capabilities of RapidEye imagery in many market segments by showing diverse landscapes that include agricultural fields, forests, cities and roads.
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India Has Done It — On the Way to the Moon Already on its way, India has successfully launched the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft on its first mission to the Moon. The launch went smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration, and was greeted with applause by scientists gathered at the site.
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Russian State Corporation For Space Industry Maybe In The Works Russia may decide to create a state corporation for the rocket and space industry next year, deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.
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ASTRA-1M Launch Falls Victim To Anomaly The launch of a Proton launch vehicle with the ASTRA 1M satellite payload was postponed after an anomaly was discovered with ground equipment at the launch site.
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SpaceDev Going To Sierra Nevada Corporation SpaceDev, Inc. (OTCBB: SPDV ) has signed an agreement to be acquired by privately-held Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC).
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Financially Speaking — Q3 Loss For Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) has reported third quarter 2008 net earnings of $782 million ($1.92 per diluted share), compared to $766 million ($1.80 per diluted share) in 2007.
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October 21, 2008 NASA Hitchhikes to the Moon on Indian Spacecraft If all goes well, on October 22 the Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, is scheduled to launch its robotic Chandrayaan-1 on from Sriharikota, India. Riding along on India's maiden moon voyage will be two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface.
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ESRI Continuing Their FAA Helping Hand ESRI has been awarded a multiyear enterprise license arrangement (ELA) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through a Blanket Purchase Agreement under the GSA Schedule 70.
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Understanding More About UCAV Europe's only dedicated UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) conference is upcoming... November 17th through the 19th, to be held in London.
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Harris FlyAway Brings FAA Relief During Recent Hurricane Horrors Dedicated teams of Harris Corporation employees provided emergency support during the past three months to ensure the integrity of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) telecommunications network in the face of four hurricanes and a severe tropical storm.
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Very HANDy Iridium 9555 Debuts Iridium Satellite LLC today unveiled its smallest, most powerful satellite phone – the Iridium “9555” – at its annual Partner Conference. The Iridium "9555" features an all-new design with a significantly reduced size, a more hand-friendly form factor, an intuitive user interface, and new features such as an internally stowed antenna.
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BADR-6 Bags More Capacity Clients CETel and Sudasat have signed a joint capacity agreement on Arabsat’ recently launched BADR-6 satellite, using a full 36 MHz transponder for expanded service offerings in Africa, the GCC, and Middle East market region.
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Better EMEA Bandwidth For NYNEX With iDirect iDirect, Inc. and NYNEX Network Solutions have launched a DVB-S2 network with Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM), based on iDirect’s Evolution product line.
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Media Solution Employs Mobile Satcom Portfolio From Vizada Vizada has developed a dedicated mobile satcom offering for media organizations. This customized media offering comprises the Inmarsat BGAN mobile satellite service, providing guaranteed streaming rates of 256 kbps for live video broadcasting.
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Medical Treatment Becomes Airborne With New Inmarsat System A new Inmarsat-supported aircraft telemedicine system allows doctors on the ground to treat passengers taken ill in flight.
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Phoenix Cooks Up More Martian Soil The Mars Phoenix Lander's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer (TEGA) on Monday, Oct. 13th. Four of the eight cells in the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander.
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Motors + More From ATK Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) supported the successful launch of an Orbital Sciences Corporation air-launched Pegasus XL vehicle from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
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SatBroadcasting Study Published A new study from Research and Markets examines the recent changes in TV markets from the perspective of satellite as a broadcasting network in national television markets.
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Rhea Captured By Cassini In this photo, the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape, with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background.
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Broadcasting Roots Supported By EUROBIRD-9 Roots Global is the new pan-European TV platform for South Asian communities in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and is expanding its offer of channels broadcast from the Eutelsat's EUROBIRD™-9 satellite.
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Hughes do Brasil Celebrates New Broadband Capacity Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) a broadband satellite networks and service provider announced that its Brazilian operating entity, Hughes do Brasil, will implement services on new Ku-band capacity on Intelsat's Galaxy-28 satellite to meet growing demand for its HughesNet broadband services across Latin America.
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Ship Shape — NMEA Votes KVH Sat TV Antennas the Best, Again Each year members of the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) recognize those products that they feel offer the best value, performance, and customer satisfaction in several categories. KVH Industries, Inc., again set the pace for marine entertainment products with the TracVision M3ST satellite TV system.
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Mission Over, TSTF Departs Haiti For more than one month TSF has assisted victims of the four consecutive cyclones that devastated much of Haiti: Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike.? The main affected area is Gona?ves, a northern city of 300,000 inhabitants already affected in 2004 where at least 250,000 people needed immediate assistance. Les Gona?ves soon became the main humanitarian hub for aid agencies (both UN and NGOs) with overall coordination in the capital Port au Prince.
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October 20, 2008 YahClick For MENA + More... Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat) has announced the launch of a new satellite broadband Internet service.
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Talia Directs iDirect Evolution Into Africa Talia has expanded their iDirect Evolution (DVB-S2) services to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Stinger Ghaffarian Makes NASA Happy Increases Contract Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) has certainly done everything right for NASA to increase the maximum ordering value of a contract by $49.2 million to support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Ahhhh, Those Winning, Rocket Ways Nine teams with rocket-powered vehicles will compete for $2 million in NASA prize money during the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, Oct. 24-25, at Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico.
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DVB-S2 Selection By DG FastChannel Pumps Up Cerona Networks Cerona Networks Corporation has been selected by DG FastChannel, Inc. to provide its XpressVu DVB-S2 Satellite Receiver for high-speed IP transmissions in support of DG FastChannel's SpotBox networks.
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NASA Launches IBEX — Let the Mapping Begin All is well after a smooth countdown and climb toward space, NASA's IBEX spacecraft is in orbit after launching from the Kwajalein Atoll, a part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. IBEX was launched aboard a Pegasus rocket dropped from under the wing of an L-1011 aircraft flying over the Pacific Ocean.
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NASA Rolls Atlantis, Again On the move again, at a snail's pace, NASA managers have adjusted the time for space shuttle Atlantis' rollback from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, October 20, to 7 a.m. EDT.
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Sanswire's Lighter Than Air UAV To Be Tested As A Surrogate Ground Station Sanswire Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SNSR) has entered into an agreement with Global Telesat Corp. (GTC), a provider of satellite-based tracking and monitoring services and satellite-based airtime to government and commercial end users of Globalstar, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GSAT) global mobile satellite system.
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Moving On Up... At BBN Technologies... BBN Technologies has announced Jeffrey Feinberg has joined the company as Vice President, Advanced Networking Systems.
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Landsat-7 Locates Overthrust In The Alps Geologists have long known that rocks layers are usually deposited onto the land surface in a certain order. Older layers of rock usually reside on the bottom and newer layers of rock on the top. Every so often, however, geologic investigations turn up situations where this principle of superposition is reversed.
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New VCO From LinkCrystek LinkCrystek has introduced the CVCO55CC-3619-3711 VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator).
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SS/L's 1300 Bus Base For New Sirius-5 => SES SES S.A.(Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has announced a new multi-mission satellite for the SES group, Sirius-5, which has been procured by SES’ leasing company, SES Satellite Leasing Limited in the Isle of Man, from the satellite manufacturer Space Systems/ Loral, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL).
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It's Paradise For Asian Net Expansion Project Intelek plc (AIM: ITK) designs and manufactures electronic systems and components for the satellite, wireless communications and defence sectors. The company has announced their wholly owned subsidiary, Paradise Datacom, has won a contract to supply their Evolution satellite modems for the first phase of a large mobile telephone network expansion project in Asia.
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October 17, 2008 In Support Of Ares 1 Is United Space Alliance With New ATK Contract Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has reached an agreement with United Space Alliance (USA) for that firm to perform subcontractor support to ATK for NASA's Ares I launch vehicle.
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Fermi Finds Gamma-Ray Blinker About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays.
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UAV Procurements High On India's Defense Needs Jane's Information Group is reporting that India is planning to significantly upgrade its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capability over the next decade in order to enhance situational awareness along its land and maritime borders.
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IAI's Heron UAV Hunkers Over To Canadian Forces In Afghanistan Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has delivered the first Heron UAV system to the Canadian Air Force. IAI and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) as prime contractor were recently awarded a contract to deliver IAI’s Heron UAV through MDA to Canadian forces deployed in Afghanistan (NOCTUA project).
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Lockheed Martin Protects MSL From All Sorts Of Potential Calamities Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently delivered the backshell for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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Omar Threatened, As Witnessed By NASA's Aqua + The MODIS By the afternoon of October 15, 2008, Hurricane Omar seemed poised to strike. Classified as a Category 1 hurricane at that time, the storm was strengthening as it moved toward the northeast.
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Cassini Sees Saturn's Southern Section NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the swirling clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. In this photo, the C and B rings are seen at right, beyond the planet's nightside limb.
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Plenty To Look At + Examine As ESA's Mars Express Gets Closer To Phobos European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a ‘rubble pile’, rather than a single solid object.
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U.K. Adds Spectrometer To India's First Moon Mission Chandrayaan-1 is the first lunar mission from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and is designed to orbit the Moon and carries radar and particle detectors as well as instruments that will make observations in the visible, near infrared, and X-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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SSTL Garners GIOVE A Award From ESA British small satellite manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has been presented with an award by the European Space Agency (ESA) acknowledging the successful GIOVE A mission and its outstanding contribution to the success of the Galileo program.
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Globalstar Moves Into Second-Gen Ground Core Network System With Ericsson According to the $22.7 million contract Globalstar, Inc. [Nasdaq:GSAT] signed an agreement with Ericsson Federal in which Ericsson will work with Globalstar to develop, implement and maintain a ground interface or core network system that will be installed at Globalstar's satellite gateway ground stations.
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ORBITZ — European Space Agency GOCE — IDC SSI Micro — Newtec Gateway Communications — Orbital Sciences Corp. — RigNet —
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October 16, 2008 U.S. Army's FCS Receive Full Funding, Includes UAVs The Army.Mil/NEWS site offers all information regarding FCS obtaining full funding in the Authorization Act. The testing of Future Combat Systems (FCS) equipment and testimonials from soldiers using it may have helped the program receive full funding for the first time.
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Sat DVB-S2 + MPEG-4 Efficiencies Touted By TANDBERG With New Transcoder TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group (NASDAQ:ERIC), has a new cable HD program transcoder that enables programmers to harness the bandwidth efficiencies of MPEG-4 AVC HD and DVB-S2 satellite distribution.
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XipLink + Lufthansa Technik + SatCom Direct Optimize Their Relationship Xiplink and Lufthansa Technik have completed integration of XipLink Embedded (XE) wireless optimization software on their Mobile Access Router.
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Global Teleport Sector Ready From WTA For Reader Edification World Teleport Association (WTA) has published a new report, New Markets, New Services, New Competition, addressing the changing applications, technologies and competitive dynamics of the global teleport sector.
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Airline Checkable, No Tools Required, New Flyaway Antenna From C-COM C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. has made available their latest iNetVu antenna system, the iNetVu 1.2M Flyaway.
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NASA's MESSENGER Is A Speed Burner Shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday morning, MESSENGER reached its greatest speed relative to the Sun. The spacecraft, nearly 70 percent closer to the Sun than Earth, was traveling nearly 140,880 miles per hour (62.979 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun.
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Flying High Is EMS Technologies and Panasonic Avionics Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) and EMS Technologies, Inc. now have a multi-year contract for the supply of Panasonic eXConnect system antennas.
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Expand's Satellite WAN Accelerator Now in PC-104 Form Factor Expand Networks, provider of application acceleration solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN), announced that it has launched the Expand Accelerator in a PC-104 form factor.
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Expand’s WAN Optimization Capabilities Win Out Over Comtech and XipLink Expand Networks, a provider of application acceleration solutions over the wide area network (WAN), announced the company has replaced Packeteer’s (recently acquired by BlueCoat) Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) for Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)’s DVB-RCS Network, based on its ability to provide a complete WAN optimization solution, rather than a TCP Acceleration only solution for the DVB-RCS VSAT network.
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ORBITZ — Numerex — Home2US SES AMERICOM —
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October 15, 2008 Welcome Mat is Out as Expedition 18 Parallel Parks at ISS We're here! Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke, an Air Force colonel, and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov, a colonel in the Russian Air Force, of the 18th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-13 to the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module at 4:26 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
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IBEX To Seek Interstellar Boundary Goodies The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space will be launched on Sunday, October 19, at 1:48 p.m. EDT.
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BAMS UAS Prime Has Help From Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences announced is now a supplier on the Northrop Grumman RQ-4N aircraft for U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program.
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A STRIX Test Upcoming By NATO From AvioNews, we learn NATO will conduct its next major field test, named Trial Imperial Hammer, this month in Sardinia, Italy (September 29th through October 15th) to demo the Alliance’s ability to share time critical intelligence, which will better protect NATO forces and populations from terrorist attacks through better ID and tracking of enemy combatants.
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Gamma-Ray Bursts Caught By ESA's Integral Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky.
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African Cellular Backhaul Net Gets Comtech Technology Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has won a US$1.1 million equipment order to support a satellite communications-based cellular backhaul network.
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Sat Delivered DigiCinema Agreements 'Tween IDC, Sensio, + Doremi International Datacasting Corporation, who distributes broadband multimedia content via satellite, has announced the Company has signed cross-licensing agreements with Doremi Cinema LLC. This will allow the use of leading edge 3D live technology from Sensio Technologies in Doremi playback servers.
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NASA's Aqua Grabs Flicks Of California Fires Driven by powerful Santa Ana winds, wildfires raged near Los Angeles, California, in mid-September 2008. Not only did the winds fan the fires’ flames, they also sent the smoke far out to sea.
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The Pressure Is Off At Honeywell Honeywell Inc.has introduced the Micro Switch 1HP series pressure switch to monitor and react to gas pressure or liquid pressure in aerospace or military systems.
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Phoenix Dusts Off After a Giant Twister From the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter comes a remarkable photo that reveals a 37,000 square-kilometer (almost 23,000 miles) dust storm that moved counter-clockwise through the Phoenix landing site on October 11.
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Cassini Sees Saturn's Southern Pole Heading Into Twilight Seasonal twilight is approaching for Saturn's south polar vortex — the giant hurricane-like storm swirling around the planet's southern pole.
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Atlantis on the Roll — Again There have been delays, but it looks as though Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll back from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, October 20, to await launch on its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Wind Brings Electricity Under Control With IcarusNet Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA, one of the leading players in the Italian telecommunications market, is integrating IcarusNet satellite communication services into its own network infrastructure. One reason for this move is for the monitoring and remote control of electrical energy production and distribution plants and systems, which requires a network infrastructure with extremely reliable features.
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UltiSat's VSAT Network of More than 200 in 100 in Less than 12 UltiSat, Inc., a global satellite communications provider and systems integrator completed the migration of a nongovernmental organization's global VSAT network comprising more than 200 sites in nearly 100 countries.
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ORBITZ — Alliant Techsystems — DLR Institute — ITT Corporation — Research and Markets — Stratos Global —
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October 14, 2008 NASA's Mars Odyssey Shifts and Re-ups for Extended Mission It's served the longest of six other spacecraft and now as a reward, NASA's Mars Odyssey will alter its orbit and continue on for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets. Odyssey originally reached Mars in 2001.
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Expedition 18 Off and Away It's a launch — the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, occurred Sunday, October 12, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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SS/L's Gonna Be Building Again — Sirius-5 This Time Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been awarded a contract to manufacture a new spacecraft for SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG).
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Volvo Launches Into the Deep With Inmarsat and Thrane & Thrane It's not going to be easy according to the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as it sets out for what could be the hardest fought ocean race ever, which begins in Alicante on October 11.
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U.S. Army Calls In DataPath's Hardware Kits for STTs DataPath, Inc., knows how to pack it up — it being spare electronics and other equipment used to operate and maintain hundreds of DataPath(R) Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs). In fact DataPath, a provider of satellite and wireless communications networks worldwide, has been awarded two delivery orders totaling $4.8 million by the U.S. Army for their hardware kits.
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HD SNG Treated Extremely Well By Fujitsu With New IP-9500e Firmware Release The latest revision of the IP-9500e MPEG-4 AVC encoder has just been announced by Fujitsu Computer Products of America. The revision 3.1 firmware expands the IP-9500’s capabilities for HD SNG apps, combining a robust, cost-effective solution for full HD video capture over DVB-ASI and IP with the IP-9500’s 300-millisecond total latency.
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Team Galileo Analyzes GIOVE's Health The European Space Agency (ESA) today hosted a workshop that shared the findings of the in-orbit verification and early experimentation from the GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B satellites. Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd's. (SSTL) Galileo team, led by Elizabeth Rooney, supported the workshop.
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Media Encryptors Solution For NSA Won By ViaSat ViaSat Inc. has been awarded a US$1.5 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract to manufacture KG-200 and KG-201 In-Line Media Encryptors (IMEs) in a competitive procurement by the National Security Agency (NSA).
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Draganfly Brings Commercial Capabilities To New Unmanned Chopper Draganfly Innovations has launched their Draganflyer X6 helicopter, a miniature aircraft for commercial/industrial aerial video and photography. The Draganflyer X6 helicopter is easy to fly, capable of operating autonomously, and has an appearance that is unlike a conventional helicopter, using six main horizontal rotor blades that allows the craft to hover efficiently and maneuver rapidly using differential thrust.
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German Navy Successfully Tests Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 has completed its toughest test to date. Three weeks of demanding flights in the Baltic Sea onboard the new K130 Class Corvettes of the German Navy were undertaken.
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Net Alliance In Africa Offers Hope NetHope, a US based global information technology alliance of 25 of the world's largest aid agencies, in partnership with the Global VSAT Forum (GVF), the African eDevelopment Resource Centre (AeRC), and iDirect, have announced an advanced VSAT installation and maintenance training program launch this week in Nairobi.
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Lockheed Martin Makes MUOS Move On Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully delivered the core structure with an integrated propulsion subsystem for the first satellite in the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) constellation.
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Venus Express Looks for Black Specks of Other Universes In the process of circling Earth, Venus Express' task is to observe whether Earth is habitable, which is no joke, but rather an exercise. Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy having taken its first image of Earth with its Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) soon after its launch in November 2005.
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ORBITZ — Arqiva — Intelsat — EchoStar Corporation — Numerex Ublip — ONDAS Media — Thales U.K. —
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October 13, 2008 Britain's Need For UAVs Finds Lease Plan In Effect With Thales The same contractor (Thales) providing Israeli Hermes 450 UAVs for British forces in Afghanistan has also offered to provide similar services for the French troops stationed in that region.
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SatNet Management Suite Brings Parallell Efforts To Ship Equip Parallel has signed a contract with Ship Equip, Norway, to supply the Company's enterprise grade satellite network management software suite, SatManage.
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IDC Presents @ SatCon... International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) provides solutions for the distribution of broadband content via satellites and the Company will be featuring products from its SuperFlex product lines for video, radio and data distribution at SatCon, October 15 and 16 in New York City. In addition to participating in the exhibition, Ron Clifton, IDC President and CEO, will be a featured speaker at SatCon on Wednesday, October 15th, when he will deliver a presentation entitled "Satellite is IPTV."
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All's Well With Orbital's NSS-9 Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite.
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Support For SpaceComNetSvcs Awarded To ITT ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has been selected by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions under the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) contract.
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The EUMETSAT Council Decides Third METEOSAT Generation's Future EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 65th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 9th.
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ATK's Talented Array Is A Success For NASA + NMP ST8 NASA and Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) have successfully concluded initial testing and deployment of the UltraFlex solar arrays for NASA's New Millennium Program Space Technology 8 Project (NMP ST8).
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ORBITZ — Intelsat Office des Postes et Telecommunications — Numerex Ublip — Thales U.K. —
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October 10, 2008 ISPCS 2008 New Mexico Offers More Aerojet There will be more Aerojet representatives at this year's ISPCS (International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight) held from October 22-23 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It seems as though last year's one rep, Senior Consultant Don Smith realized that the combination of the senior reps and the new Aerospacers was a good blend of those who have flown in space and those wanting to be a serious part of commercial Aerospace.
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Oui, Space Systems/Loral Gets Sirius About SES Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [Nasdaq:LORL] and provider of commercial satellites announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture a new spacecraft for SES [Paris:SESG] [LuxX:SESG].
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Countdown As NASA Expedition 18 Crew Readies for Baikonur Launch It's official, the crew of the upcoming Expedition 18 participated in a flag raising ceremony near the Cosmonaut Hotel at the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. Photo at right shows spaceflight participant Richard Garriott (left), along with cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov (center), Expedition 18 flight engineer; and astronaut Michael Fincke, Expedition 18 commander.
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NASA Improves Swimsuits, Babyfood, and Heart Valves Celebrating their 50th anniversary, NASA released the 2008 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication and highlights 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life.
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Meteosat-8 Rapid Scan Shoots Asteroid on Impact Over Sudan A rare series of events occurred early Tuesday morning, October 7, as asteroid 2008 TC3 hit Earth releasing a huge amount of light and energy before exploding in the atmosphere over northern Sudan. Even better is that amazingly, the Meteosat-8 Rapid Scanning Service managed to capture the impact.
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Glowlink Problem Solving + Management Tools Abound With New Contract Glowlink has been awarded a contract by a premier broadcast network to provide a Carrier Management System. The Glowlink Model 1000 Carrier Management System will provide the network real-time management and problem solving tools which will help ensure the network meets and exceeds the quality expected from viewers of their increasingly popular broadcasts.
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UAV Flight Control System Passes With Flying Colors Skilligent LLC and Siam UAV Industries Co., Ltd. today announced that an intensive program of flight testing has confirmed robustness, stability and high performance of a flight control system designed by Siam UAV Industries.
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Colorful Starry Region Captured By Spacecraft + Telescope Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region.
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Harris Will Guide Multiband SatCom For U.S. Navy Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a potential US$37 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, California.
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Mobile Satellite Ventures Receives Multiple Patents for Multiple Talents Hats off to Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) for their multiple patents awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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ORBITZ — EchoStar Corporation — ICO Global —
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Do It Yourself Track the Satellites With the weather turning colder in many places in the world it's a great time to gaze at the various satellites passing overhead, and some are extremely visible to the naked eye.
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October 9, 2008 SpaceX Falcon 1 Flight 4 Fabulous ... Still Follow up news regarding the September 28, SpaceX launch of Falcon 1 Flight 4 from the Kwajalein Atoll sent by CEO Elon Musk. "After a week spent reviewing data has confirmed that the flight went really well, including the coast and restart. The mood here at SpaceX is just ecstatic! This is the culmination of six years of hard work by a very talented team.
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NOAA Gets Even More on Track NOAA's National Geodetic Survey has recently incorporated 43 new GPS tracking sites into the Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network. This increase includes 13 sites established by the Federal Aviation Administration as part of their Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). Four of the new WAAS sites are located in Alaska, four in Canada, and five in Mexico.
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New Spacenet Services Applied To Europe + MENA Spacenet Inc. has expanded coverage for its commercial grade Connexstar service to include select countries across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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Kutztown First Subject For GeoEye-1 GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has released the first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from its recently launched GeoEye-1 satellite.
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Cassini Going All Out For Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's geyser moon, Enceladus. The October 9th flyby is the closest flyby yet of any moon of Saturn, at only 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the surface. The October 31 flyby is farther out, at 196 kilometers (122 miles).
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Globalstar's SatNetwork Meters Use Globalstar, Inc. has launched a new satellite-based remote automated utility meter reading interface solution designed to communicate with meters located in areas not served by the traditional public landline telephone system.
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GEOINT To Feel Effects Of New Harris Contract Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a US$140 million order to provide systems integration and information technology (IT) services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
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MQ-8B Fire Scout Handles Northrop Grumman Package With Aplomb Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) flew its new Airborne Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Minefield Detection System (ASTAMIDS) for the first time aboard an unmanned air vehicle.
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Nimiq-4 Performing As Predicted — Perfectly Telesat’s Nimiq-4 satellite has successfully completed in-orbit tests and has been placed at the 82? W orbital slot.
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ASTRA-1M To Head For Orbit On October 31st SES ASTRA will launch their new ASTRA-1M satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 31, 2008.
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October 8, 2008 A New Moniker For UAV Firm Sanswire Corp. develops lighter than air unmanned aerial vehicles has confirmed the Company's previously announced corporate name change from GlobeTel Communications Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GTEM) to Sanswire Corp. is now effective.
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UAVs Weather The Battle With TACMET II TACMET II has been fielded on more than 50 UAV ground control systems for the U.S. military. Climatronics Corporation now offers an improved, tactical weather station, the EMI-hardened TACMET II (P/N 102304), to provide real-time surface weather input for UAV ground control stations.
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ISIS NYC '08 Update On October 14, Helen Domenici, Chief, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, will be the featured luncheon keynote speaker at ISIS NYC '08. As the satellite industry mulls over "what's next," industry executives, government representatives, and the financial community will come together to discuss where we are, where we are going, and what is in store for the satellite and related telecom markets. Other keynote speakers include...
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Exotic Find In Space Made By COROT COROT is a mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES), with contributions from ESA, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Brazil. The craft has discovered a massive, planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before.
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Mercury Fully Revealed By MESSENGER MESSENGER is the first mission sent to orbit the planet closest to the sun. On October 6, 2008, at roughly 4:40 a.m. ET, MESSENGER flew by Mercury for the second time this year.
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Sky Warrior Succeeds With Automated Takeoffs + Landings General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) and the Company's "Team Sky Warrior" partners AAI Corporation and L-3 Communication Systems-West have successfully first-attempted automatic takeoffs and landings of a Sky Warrior UAS controlled from the AAI-developed Extended Range/Multi-Purpose (ER/MP) One System Ground Control Station (OSGCS).
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SATCOM For NETCOM Is DataPath's Charge DataPath, Inc. has received a $3.7 million order to provide on-site personnel to operate and maintain satellite communications (SATCOM) systems managed by the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations.
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TSF Serves to Help After Haiti's Triple Hit Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) is among the first to help in times of need, especially when a country such as Haiti, the poorest in the Western hemisphere, which was already suffering from a global food crisis then got hit by three consecutive hurricanes. In August and September 2008, Gustav, Hanna and Ike devastated the island nation.
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ORBITZ — Agilent Technologies Aeroflex Microelectronic Solutions — Cobham Satcom — DigitalGlobe Microsoft — Frequency Electronics — Harris Corporation PacStar — Tesacom Stratos Global Addvalue Communications — ViaSat KVH Industries — Vizada —
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Countdown to Satellite Finance Symposium Less than one week to secure reservations for ISIS NYC '08, and with that comes news that on October 14 Helen Domenici, Chief, International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, will be the featured luncheon keynote speaker.
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October 7, 2008 Mt. Lemon Telescope Picks Up Approaching Space Rock The Mount Lemon telescope first observed a small space rock early on Monday... the noticed item is actually an asteroid measuring several feet in diameter and the traveler was expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere over northern Sudan just before dawn tomorrow at 5:45 a.m. local time (10:46 p.m. EDT Monday).
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Spaceflight Confab In New Mexico Smart people want to share their knowledge — they want to learn from primary sources and have fun while doing it — they come to the International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, or ISPCS.
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Interstellar Boundary To Be Breached By NASA's IBEX The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch on October 19th.
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CAPping Power Amplifier Needs CAP Wireless, Inc. (CAP) has debuted their KS5388, a high performance, solid state, power amplifier that is ideally-suited for use as a broadband driver or moderate power output stage in instrumentation and electronic warfare (EW) simulation.
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Wavestream Makes Headway In China Wavestream Corporation's Distributor-Partner in The People's Republic of China, Beijing Sat Trac Telecommunications, will showcase Wavestream's Matchbox line of Ku-band Solid-State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) with integrated Block Upconverters (BUCs) at the 2008 China-Satellite Conference, to be held October 20-23 at the Hotel Nikko in Beijing.
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Harris' Falcon III Meets JTRS Requirements Harris Corporation's Falcon III AN/PRC-117G(V)1(C) manpack networking radio has fulfilled Joint Tactical Radio System test requirements.
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TacSat Terminals En Route From Harris Harris Corporation has introduced the first tactical satellite terminals with the capability of transmission/reception of TOP SECRET global wideband data communications.
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ViaSat Says Come Fly With Me ViaSat Inc.and Lufthansa Technik AG are now offering an end-to-end, ground to cabin broadband IP networking and entertainment system for business aircraft.
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General Dynamics Delighted With JTRS Tests The General Dynamics C4 Systems Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit (HMS) radios have demonstrated their critical networked-communications capabilities in recent government-run Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) field tests.
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Upcoming Conference Addresses Armed UAS The Armed UAS Conference occurs in Washington, D.C., from October 28th through 29th.
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SkyTrac Tracks President Clinton In Africa The responsibility of ensuring the whereabouts of an American President is huge, and Everett Aviation of Africa recently found themselves with that task using the technology of SkyTrac Systems for satcom solutions for data, text, and voice communications.
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The Difference Between Planets and Brown Dwarfs News from The European Space Agency now has all involved rethinking the classification of a discovery by COROT as to whether the find is an exoplanet or brown dwarf. A brown dwarf is a ‘failed star’, a sub-stellar object that is not undergoing nuclear fusion at its core, but displays some stellar characteristics.
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Guardrail For Army Ground Components Fielded By Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully fielded Guardrail Ground Baseline (GGB) 2.0 hardware and software to U.S. Army military intelligence battalions, standardizing Guardrail ground components across the service.
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October 6, 2008 ORBCOMM + U.S.C.G. Enter AIS Relationship ORBCOMM focuses on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and, through the use of global network of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites and accompanying ground infrastructure, ORBCOMM’s two-way data communications products and services track, monitor, and control mobile and fixed assets in four core markets: commercial transportation; heavy equipment; industrial fixed assets; and marine/homeland security.
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Donley Confirmed As New Secretary of U.S.A.F. The next secretary of the U.S. Air Force will be Michael B. Donley, who has been serving as the acting secretary since June 21, 2008.
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Orbiter Mini-UAV Finds A Great Deal Of Cooperation AAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Systems, has entered into a teaming agreement with Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. of Israel to market the Orbiter Mini-UAV (unmanned air vehicle) system jointly to U.S. and select international customers.
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October 5, 2008 Vandenberg A.F.B. Celebrates Its Fiftieth The California Space Authority (CSA) offers its congratulations to Vandenberg Air Force Base (Vandenberg AFB) on its fiftieth anniversary.
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Award Winning POISE From Shrewsbury School Wins SSTL Competition The Space Experiment Competition for U.K. schools, which will see the winning team flying their entry on board a British-built satellite, has been won by Shrewsbury School with their proposal for an ionospheric scintillation experiment called POISE.
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October 3, 2008 Hubble Hiccup Has Halted Data Delivery At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, September 28th, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode due to errors being detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.
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Info Leveraging For SpaceX Via Siemens PLM Siemens PLM Software has announced Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has standardized on NX™ and Teamcenter software for product design, simulation, and product data management.
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JPL Applauds Antenna Acumen Of Astro Aerospace NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has recognized Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) with a Group Achievement Award for a deployable antenna flown on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
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KillerBee UAS Proves Combat Capabilities Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) KillerBee unmanned aircraft system demonstrated its interoperability, integration and functionality as an end-to-end UAS combat system.
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NASA Awards Grants for Studying Back to the Future Grant money has been awarded from NASA to 10 research teams from across the country to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The teams won grants that average US$7 million for a five-year study.
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U Bet, Ubik.com Was Named Best Mobile Publishing Platform Volantis, a supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation solutions for the mobile Internet won over five, short-listed nominees, by a judging panel of 400 of the mobile content world's respected executives, covering all aspects of the industry to be named “Best Publishing Platform” at last week's ME Awards 2008.
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Gain Solutions at Global MilSatCom 2008 in Cheerio London Perfect timing considering the global situations for gathering the best at the Global MilSatCom 2008, November 3-5 at the Millennium Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom. This is the tenth anniversary of the event in which the European hub for Military Satellite Communications nations gather and discuss national developments, international cooperation and current operational challenges.
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ORBITZ — GeoEye Inc. — Telenor Satellite Broadcasting & BBC HD —
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October 2, 2008 Aye Laddie, The Isle of Man's First International Institute of Space Commerce What a dicotomy on the Isle of Man where ancient ruins are visible is the world’s first International Institute of Space Commerce (IISC), opening on Saturday October 4th at the International Business School.
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ISIS NYC '08 Now Even More Critical, Wall Street Crisis and Satellites Right on the heels of the critical roller coaster ride currently seen of the world's financial institutions comes ISIS NYC '08, with the closing session just added: Analysts Spotlight on the Wall Street Meltdown.
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Spacenet Nets Major Service Expansion to Europe, Middle East and Africa Spacenet Inc., a satellite networking service provider has teamed with Globecomm Services Maryland, a division of Globecomm Systems Inc., to support its expansion of services to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Spacenet will offer both custom and pre-packaged satellite solutions for voice, video, and data communications exclusively for U.S. based enterprise and government organizations with overseas operations.
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ViaSat Brings Expertise To MilSatCom Via LinkWayS2 Contract ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been awarded contracts totaling US$25 million for LinkWay?S2 satellite modems to support the U.S. Army, USMC, and other DoD customers.
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MSV Gets SMART Accross America and Its Territories It has finally been done — Mobile Satellite Ventures and Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroups created a way for mutual aid radio talk groups to communicate across the country and a number of U.S. territories.
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Boeing Receives ISS Support Contract Extension From NASA NASA has awarded a two-year, US$650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. to continue engineering support of the International Space Station. The contract runs through September 30, 2010.
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NASA TV To Broadcast Spacey Stuff There's going to be a lot of activity at NASA Television, as they will broadcast the launch of the next International Space Station crew October 12 and the landing of the current crew on October 23. NASA's Expedition 18 Commander and Science Officer Mike Fincke, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov and spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, a U.S. citizen, are scheduled to launch Sunday, October 12, at 3:01 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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STANTRON Presents @ SATCON... Stantron will show their range of equipment racks and accessories for broadcast, cable, and satellite facilities at the upcoming SATCON show (Jacob Javits Center, October 15-16, Booth 610).
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WEGENER Presents @ SATCON Wegener Corporation will exhibit at the SATCON Conference and Expo—a Communications Industry event focused on content delivery over satellite, fiber and hybrid networks—being held October 15-16, 2008 at the Javits Convention Center, in New York, New York.
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IDC Casts Their SuperFlex Net + Grabs Follow-On Contract International Datacasting Corporation has received a follow-on order from a leading aerospace and defence contractor for the Company’s new DVB-S2 dual tuner integrated receiver and decoder (IRD), the SuperFlex SFX3104-L.
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PCI Gets Down and Dirty with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiative Where would we be without agriculture and specific regions described as the "the cereal, bread, salad and fruit bowls" of the world? In an effort to be even more productive PCI Geomatics, software and solutions developer for geospatial imaging applications, will provide technology and training services to support its soil survey projects at 1:20000 and 1:50000 scale of the Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI).
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UAV Pilot Career Path Now Open In U.S.A.F. From the Air Force Times, bylined by staff writer Michael Hoffman, comes a story headlined "Hundreds of Reaper, Predator pilots needed.
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NASA Sends a Messenger to Flyby for Retakes of Mercury NASA will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on October 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and collect science data. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft will pass 125 miles above the planet's cratered surface, taking more than 1200 pictures. The flyby also will provide a critical gravity assist needed for the probe to become, in March
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MITEQ Makes A Loud Noise Regarding New Low Noise Amp MITEQ Inc. has introduced a new addition to the Company's family of waveguide LNAs — the AMFW-8F-17702130-120-23P. This is a very low noise, high dynamic range, Ka-band waveguide front end.
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ORBITZ — Advent Communications — DataPath WildBlue —
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October 1, 2008 NASA's Crew Ramps Up for Discovery's Sts-129 Mission NASA has determined the crew for space shuttle Discovery's STS-129 flight whose mission will be to deliver two experiment racks, parts, and two spare gyroscopes to the International Space Station. The mission will feature four spacewalks, and returns Canadian Space Agency astronaut and station crew member Robert Thirsk to Earth. This is slated to be the final space shuttle crew rotation flight to or from the space station.
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ISRO Teams Are Awarded By IAA + Space Cooperative Agreement With France The prestigious Team Achievement Award of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has been awarded to the team that successfully realized the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) mission by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as well as the team who deployed and recovered Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1).
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SpaceX Is Spot On For SpotBeam Award To recognize Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) for its recent launch and orbit success, the California Space Authority (CSA) will honor the company with a Space Innovation SpotBeam Award at this year’s SpotBeam Awards Dinner and Ceremony.
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GMV Hammers Home Ground Support Contract GMV will provide support to The Hammers Company for a US$14.9 million contract with NASA to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE).
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Fire Scout VTUAV Continues Production For U.S. Navy Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) system has moved into the second year of low-rate initial production (LRIP) with a US$32.9 million contract award from the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command.
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ATV Makes A Speedy Exit From The Space Stage Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne successfully completed its six-month ISS logistics mission yesterday with its controlled destructive re-entry over a completely uninhabited area of the South Pacific.
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Wavestream BUCs Up TeleCommunication Systems Wavestream Corporation has received initial orders for its Ku-band and Ka-band Matchbox Block Upconverters (BUCs) from TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.(TCS) (Nasdaq: TSYS).
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U.S. Navy's Single Shot At Satellite Successful Thanks To Sandia Supercomputer The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Red Storm supercomputer, located at its Sandia National Laboratories, helped the U.S. Navy shoot down an errant satellite in February 2008.
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NASA Asks Students to Help with Rover NASA isn't referring to caring for a dog, rather a new NASA contest challenges college-level students to design tools or instrument packages that could be used on the next generation of human-driven moon rovers.
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ORBITZ — Asia Broadcast Satellite — SES AMERICOM Canby — SSPI Awards —
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GOCE's New Launch Date After Eurockot's No-Go The European Space Agency (ESA) and European industries have updated the planning of the preparatory activities for the GOCE satellite, with a tentative launch date of October 27th just announced.
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