September 2018 Satellite NewsVisit www.satnews.com for today's news
September 30, 2018 NASA JPL's Tiny Storm Tracking Satellites are Radar in a CubeSat The people behind the miniature mission celebrated after RainCube sent back its first images of a storm over Mexico in a technology demonstration...
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La Compagnie Airline's New A321neo Aircraft to Provide Viasat's Unlimited High-Speed Wi-Fi to All Passengers unmatched speed, quality and affordability so everyone can experience the internet just like home or office. Business-class democratization is in our DNA.
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Harris Two-Channel Handheld Radios Ordered by U.S. Army The AN/PRC-163 enables users to send information up and down the chain of command as well as across the battlefield network backbone and...
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September 28, 2018 Akash Systems' Chief Architect is Former OneWeb Satellites' CEO... Joins as They File for Experimental License with FCC brings extensive space satellite experience from his work directing the design and construction of satellite constellations for major commercial organizations.
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Blue Origin's BE-4 Engine Selected by United Launch Alliance to Boost the Vulcan Centaur Rocket System The Vulcan Centaur rocket design leverages the proven success of the Delta IV and Atlas V launch vehicles while introducing advanced...
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Luxembourg to be the Location for the New CubeRover Planetary Lander Developments Astrobotic developed the CubeRover platform in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University under a NASA technology development contract at ...
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Quantum Space Technologies Development Initiative Collaboration Between the UK and Singapore The £10 million initiative between the UK and Singapore governments is to build and fly a satellite quantum key distribution (QKD) test bed. Through this collaboration...
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September 27, 2018 Applied Satellite Engineering is Acquired by Blue Sky Network to Further Develop SATCOM Products and Services BSN and ASE have been Iridium value added manufacturers since 2004 and will continue to develop innovative products and services leveraging Certus ...
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Northrop Grumman Awarded (Maximum) $500 Million HELIOS Contract by the Defense Intelligence Agency The HELIOS program provides the opportunity for continued innovation in science and technology for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Another New World Teleport Association Certification ... Elara Communications Elara is a company with a narrow focus on customer experience, and this certification is the result of the continuous work carried out by their team
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Comtech Telecommunications Promotes Two into New Leadership Positions Mr. Porcelain has been SVP and CFO of Comtech since March of 2006 and was previously VP of Finance and Internal Audit of Comtech from 2002 to...
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Euroconsult Reveals Their Latest Analysis of the Prospects for Space Exploration Fifteen leading space programs worldwide are estimated to contribute to this global investment with the U.S. accounting for 74 percent of the total...
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Space Flight Laboratory to Feature Their Smallsats @ Three October Conferences, Including Satellite Innovation 2018 Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) is celebrating their 20th year in business and will showcase applications of upcoming smallsats at three conference exhibitions ...
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Space Foundation Names Richard B. Cooper to New VP Role for D.C. Office Most recently, Cooper was the Senior Principal Policy Advisor for Homeland Security and Justice at the SAS Institute, Inc. In that role, he provided...
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Maxar's Mike Gold Appointed to the NASA Advisory Council A strong advocate for the commercialization of space and a trailblazer in his field, Gold guides Maxar through the regulatory and legal landscape...
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An Astronaut and 'Army Strong' Woman as This Soldier's Childhood Dream Comes True "I always tell people it is amazing the perspective you get when you get out of your comfort zone long enough to make it your comfort zone."
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September 26, 2018 An Innovative AI-Driven Processor Release from Mirabilis Design The generated model is pipeline-accurate and has port integration with standard buses and memories. This processor model is used to compare...
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Boeing Completes Their Acquisition of Smallsat Company Millennium Space Systems Millennium Space Systems will operate under Boeing Phantom Works as a subsidiary called Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company. The...
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Iridium Communications Engages with The Ocean Cleanup to Rid the Oceans of Plastic The Ocean Cleanup is embarking on one of the largest environmental initiatives of this generation by cleaning up ocean plastic debris, starting...
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Africa XP Announces a Fresh Bouquet via SES... 13 Free-To-Air Channels Unveiled SES reaches over nine million DTH households in West Africa. Those with FTA set-top boxes can watch the new channels on their existing STBs for free.
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Financial Backing for GHGSat from OGCI Climate Investments Building on GHGSat’s achievements in detecting and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities around the world, the...
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Thin is Good ... ThinKom's First Aero Terminal Reaches Connectivity with SES' O3b MEO Satellites the ground and coming aero tests show ThinKom's antenna operates on the O3b MEO satellite network, and will pave the way to full commercialization.
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Capella Space Announces US$19 Million Series B Funding Led by Spark Capital and DCVC This funding will finance the first operational launches of the company’s cloud-penetrating, radar-powered smallsats, designed to deliver high-quality...
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ispace Selects SpaceX to Launch HAKUTO-R to the Moon The company’s first two lunar missions will be carried out under the program name HAKUTO-R, standing for “Reboot,” a reference to ispace’s...
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The First and Only ...Vector's Patent for Their Enhanced Liquid Oxygen-Propylene Rocket Engine According to the firm, Vector is the first and only launch provider to use propylene fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) in an operational launch system...
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UHP Networks' 'Stellar Award' ... Wins 2018 Best Ground Segment Technology Award UHP Networks has been recognized for their technology, which has transformed many aspects of the VSAT industry, particularly in the private...
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SSL Reports: The Azerspace-2 / Intelsat 38 Satellite Peforming Post-Launch Maneuvers as Expected The satellite deployed its solar arrays shortly after launch and will begin firing its main thruster on September 27 to propel toward its final orbit at...
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MT Aerospace is Proudly a Part of Ariane 5's Successful 100th Launch and Has Been There Since the First
the company’s production processes have been improved and, with the aid of a newly developed weld booster, have made a significant contribution to ...
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British Association of Remote Sensing Companies Celebrates SSTL as Their New Corporate Member
SSTL has always been an innovator within the industry and this continues with news of the successful commissioning of the RemoveDEBRIS mission
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September 25, 2018 Ariane 5 Celebrates Multiple Successes Including a Dual Satellite Sendoff and the 100th Launch Maybe a champagne toast will come later at Arianespace after today's multiple accomplishments.
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Morocco Steps Up ... Ready to Launch Their Second Earth Observation Satellite Soon The satellite has a panchromatic resolution of 50 cm, and is capable of taking more than 500 images a day and updating its data every six hours.
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Ireland's First Satellite Completes Major Milestone EIRSAT-1 (Educational Irish Research Satellite-1) is a smallsat and is comparable in size to that of an average shoebox. In May 2017, EIRSAT-1...
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Reaps Million Dollar Award for Their C5ISR Systems Kratos Modular Systems Division, which received this contract award, is an industry leader in providing specialized systems in support of unmanned...
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NovelSat Provides Broadcasting Solutions for VRT, Belgium National Broadcaster They approached NovelSat with a request to replace their ground station links and contribution SNG transmission equipment.
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MoU Signed Between ThinKom and Telesat for Enterprise User Terminal for LEO Satellite Constellation As an initial step in the process, ThinKom’s ThinAir® Ka2517 phased array antenna system, which is currently in production for commercial and...
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Spacecom Negates their SSL and SpaceX Contracts for the Amos-8 Satellite The company added that September 25 was the last day for issuing an advance payment for Amos 8 and that the agreement will not be extended...
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SiriusXM Enfolds Pandora's Streaming Music Service Into Their Satellite Radio Offerings The combination creates the world's largest audio entertainment company, with more than $7 billion in expected pro-forma revenue in 2018 and strong...
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Human-Machine Teaming Gains Funding from DoD for U.S. and UK Collaborative and Innovative Project The U.S. research team will receive up to $3 million of U.S. DoD funding over three years, and the U.K. research team will receive up to £1.5 million...
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Airbus' Space Solutions Shared as Sponsors of the 69th International Astronautical Congress Monday an announcement of The Moon Race competition founded by Airbus and international partners, to boost the movement around Moon exploration
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Statement from SKY Perfect and JSAT Regarding Successful Launch of Horizons 3e Communications Satellite provide high-quality satellite services and increase flexibility to reinforce our growing fleet, ensuring the highest level of reliability for our customers.
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September 24, 2018 UP Aerospace Goes Up and Completes Two Space Launches and Experiments Within Five Days SpaceLoft 11's experiments from NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Armstrong Research Center, Barcelona Tech, Controlled Dynamics, Celestis, and FAA.
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It's a Win-Win for the Hometown Company with Ariane 6 as the Centerpiece at the International Astronautical Congress Furthering the pride of the local company and the conference, an emblematic one-quarter-scale Ariane 6 has been erected at the IAC site.
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An Enhanced UseGalileo.eu Site Debuts From the European GNSS Agency Behind this increase in use is the wide array of Galileo-enabled devices and services that have entered the market — including more than 60...
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Five Antennas for the SCISYS Heinrich Hertz SATCOM Mission to be Built by MT Mechatronics Germany The five ground stations with antenna diameters between 7.3 to 13 meters will be performing various functions within the ground segment (in Germany)...
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Northern Sky Research's Question... Can OneWeb Cross the Valley of Death? OneWeb’s optimistic plans to launch its satellites every 21 days also creates added risks such as loss of a substantial part of their system in case of launch failures
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Strategic Collaboration by Panasonic Avionics and Inmarsat for Commercial Aviation Connectivity This collaboration will enable airlines, aircraft manufacturers and passengers to benefit from the combined expertise of two companies that ...
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NovelSat NS4 Just Moved the Satellite Transmission Efficiency Bar... Even Higher Head-to-head comparison tests performed by a large teleport in the UK reveals NovelSat NS4 performs up to 32 percent more efficiently compared
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NASA's JPL Sends a Cereal Box-Size Satellite into the Center of Hurricane Florence and Reveals the Results "We were challenged to fit this instrument into such a small satellite without compromising data quality and were delighted to see it work right out of the box"
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DoD Confers MUOS-Capable Airborne Radio Contract to Rockwell Collins A five year agreement through the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ)...
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Payload Delivered by Orbital Micro Systems to Clyde Space for UK's Space Applications Catapult Mission Employing proven technology used in many larger weather monitoring platforms, such as the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS)...
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STS Global Inviting Interested Parties to Meet During Satellite Innovation 2018 Silicon Valley Whether the objective is to broadcast a live event, create systems that provide services to remote locations, transmit critical data to a battlefield...
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Aeromexico Selects Viasat In-flight Internet for New Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft ... Accommodates Needs Now and Later
Aeromexico’s ability to tap into the ViaSat-2 satellite as well as Viasat’s future satellites, gave the airline great confidence
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RUAG Space Has Contributed to Successful Ariane 5 Launches ... and Then There's Tomorrow's 100th company will also supply the on-board computer, the "brain" of the rocket, and the launcher telemetry antenna, made at its Swedish site.
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September 23, 2018 Talia and Arabsat's Partnership Ensures Secure TV Broadcast customers can benefit from secure broadcasting service that is immune to signal jamming and interference at 26 degrees E hot spot.
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Indonesia's First ... Surya University Selected by United Nations and JAXA to Launch Cube Satellite will be designed for a two-way communication for educational and disaster mitigation purposes, to be carried out by anyone with a valid amateur radio
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Northrop Grumman's Successful First Qualification Test of Graphite Epoxy Motor for ULA's Atlas V Northrop Grumman began developing the motor just three years ago, reaching this static test milestone in rapid time for such a complex drop-in
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World Teleport Association Certifies COMSAT Top Level Tier 4 at Two U.S. Teleports This has been COMSAT’s goal since the beginning of the Teleport Certification Program and they are proud to be the first two in North America
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Building Tomorrow's Science and Tech Leaders is the Goal of Hughes Support for 4-H Since 2014, HughesNet has worked with 4-H, the nation’s premier youth development organization, to empower the next generation through STEM...
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September 21, 2018 Uplink: Innovation — Comtech EF Data, and a Discussion with Michael DiPaolo, VP, Cellular Backhaul Business Development Bringing innovative ideas to fruition can be a daunting task and requires the efforts of many specialized professionals within a company to deliver a final product...
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AsiaSat Secures Second U.S. Patent for Improving Spectrum Utilization for SATCOM This new patent is about the methods and systems to mitigate the imbalance of uplink and downlink spectrum allocation in satellite ...
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Arianespace to Launch KARI's KOMPSAT-7 Satellite For nearly 30 years, Arianespace and Korea’s satellite technology research centers have developed a sound relationship, with the launch of both...
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September 20, 2018 SatADSL and Talia Offer Iraq and Afghanistan Broadband Solutions Using Newtec Dialog® Multiservice Platform the services can be quickly and easily installed by users and offered at an extremely competitive price... bridging the digital divide.
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SBIRS GEO-3 Receives Good 'Health Report' as it Successfully Achieves Operational Acceptance the achievement of operational acceptance means the spacecraft’s infrared sensors are now considered fully operational and ready for warfighters.
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Russia's 24th GLONASS Satellite Removed from Operation Resulting in Compromising Global Coverage According to earlier reports, global coverage will require 24 operational GLONASS satellites, including 18 to cover the Russian territory — 13 of the 26 satellites...
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Euroconsult's Annual Awards for Excellence Announced ... Selected by Industry Experts These annual awards recognize companies and their management for their outstanding accomplishments. Winners are chosen by a panel of industry...
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ST Engineering's New President and CEO for U.S. Headquarters was Previously President of Raytheon International His last position was President, Raytheon International, Inc., where he oversaw the international sales and marketing efforts for more than 80 nations
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The Air Force Association Position on the Proposed Establishment of a Space Force as an Additional Armed Service The Air Force Association position and rationale on the proposed actions regarding a new organization and the associated proposals for DoD space...
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More Beidou's from China to Orbit The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 10:07 p.m. — this was the 285th mission...
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Kleos Space Signs Rocket Lab to Launch the Kleos Scouting Mission Satellites The multi-satellite system of the Kleos Scouting Mission (KSM) will form the cornerstone of a 20 system constellation that will geolocate VHF...
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The Gateway Human Base in Lunar Orbit Now Has Airbus Engaged in Two Studies Commissioned by ESA The Gateway, previously known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG) or Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G), is a project involving NASA, Roscosmos, CSA, JAXA and ES)...
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Long-Term Revenue Growth For FSS Industry Predicted by Euroconsult Based on the latest market projections, wholesale capacity revenues from telecom applications will surpass video applications by 2021. The growth is...
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Forrester Report: Avanti's Hylas-2 Satellite Supplying Capacity to Intersat for East African Connectivity The service will use Avanti’s Hylas-2 satellite,and beam high throughput broadband to help grow small, medium and large enterprises throughout...
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September 19, 2018 Hisdesat's PAZ Spanish 'Spy' Satellite Enters into Service PAZ orbits around the Earth 15 times a day. The detailed radar images provide information especially useful for multiple applications
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NSR's Global Satellite Capacity Report Finds Skyrocketing Revenues by 2027 Technology development has consumed most of the attention in the early stages of NGSO development. However, as we approach entrance into...
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Successful Space Debris Capture in History Achieved by Surrey Space Center and Surrey Satellite Technology In the coming months, RemoveDEBRIS will test more ADR technologies: a vision-based navigation system that uses cameras and LiDaR technology to...
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Two Beidou Satellites Set for Launch by China A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) filed last week indicates a window of 1358-1432 UTC (21:58-22:32 local, 9:58-10:32 Eastern) for a launch from...
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Inmarsat Bringing Fleet One Connectivity to Groupe Beneteau's Shipyards Available through partner Advanced Tracking, the offer provides boat owners with a cost-effective, two-year package that features unlimited...
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South African Innovation Summit Showcases the Satellite Industry Including a Gecko and a Chameleon SCS Space as a satellite systems integrator demonstrated how collaboration and the advances in miniaturization and standardization of space technology...
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SatADSL and Marlink's Newtec Dialog® Platform Enable the Partners to Expand Worldwide Coverage be able to link to Marlink’s Newtec Dialog® platform providing high-bandwidth C- and Ku-band VSAT give SatADSL a global presence for the first time.
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Hughes to Support the Government Education and Training Network The contract award, estimated at $15 million in total funding for up to five years, marks the third time Hughes has been selected to deliver the turnkey...
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SES Secures Extension Agreement with Channel 4 ... Continues DTH Coverage of the British Isles Channel 4 extends satellite capacity agreement with SES for Direct-to-Home broadcast services in the UK and Ireland
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SatTV Broadcaster Cyfrowy Polsat Selects MaxLinear's MxL541C STB Satellite Receiver The MxL541C is a four-channel satellite receiver and Evobox HD STB makes use of the device’s very low power consumption and its Unicable...
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Forrester Reports: Eutelsat's Loss of Flix TV Will Have No Financial Impact Flix TV is using the Telekom Austria white labelled DTH platform (itself a client of Eutelsat 16A). This platform will continue to operate and will ...
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Orbital Insight Acquires AI Company FeatureX FeatureX, founded by serial entrepreneur and machine learning expert Gil Syswerda, specializes in computer vision for satellite imagery...
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China's Long March-9 Rocket to Debut and Launch in 2028 Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the CNSA, said that the length of the Long March-9 will exceed 90 meters and the...
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New Satellite Tech Partnership in Chile for Agri Data Launching this partnership at an industry event in Osorno in Chile’s Los Lagos region, Cooprimsem agricultural engineer and soil control expert...
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Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) Add GPS L5 and Galileo E5 Sim Capabilities to Simulator Although this multi-frequency capability, as well as having to process signals from diverse navigation systems such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo or BeiDou, make...
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September 18, 2018 Brazil Plans for Lucrative Small Sat Launch Business, But First Must Provide U.S. Safeguards A previous attempt at a U.S.-Brazilian space partnership was scuttled in 2003 when the TSA ran into resistance from the leftist government of former ...
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IEC Telecom and Scanmarine Deliver Satellite Solutions to Danish Customers As a result IEC Telecom is a significant player in the Scandinavian market both on land and maritime, and is now present in Denmark.
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Commercial Satellite Contract Awarded by NASA to General Atomics GA-EMS’ hosted satellite services provide a unique opportunity for customers to launch experimental hardware and payloads into Earth orbit...
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Innovative Approaches for satIoT Initiated by Three Luxembourg-Based Companies The project is specifically targeting the oil and gas, maritime, industry 4.0 and transport segments particularly for the management and tracking of...
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Link Microtek's Integrated Rotary Joint and Slip-Ring Assembly Lowers Profile of Ka-band Satellite-on-the-Move Antenna Integrated rotary joint and slip-ring assembly lowers the profile of Ka-band satellite-on-the-move antenna systems.
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UCLA's ELFIN Smallsat Successfully Launched ... Built by 250 Students Over Nine Years The Electron Losses and Fields Investigation (ELFIN) is the first satellite built and operated entirely at UCLA. The program is currently comprised of...
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U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Counters Space Force Proposals U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, Heather Wilson, has countered several Space Force proposals that have been championed by Deputy Defense Secretary
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Acoustic Testing of the SBIRS WFOV Optical Payload Completed by L3 Space & Sensors The successful acoustic testing is a significant milestone that will keep WFOV on track for launch. As part of the SMC’s Space Modernization Initiative (SMI)...
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Contract Awards in the Millions for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to Build Earth Stations Kratos will deliver two Ku-band Earth station solutions that include Kratos’ high-performance 5.0 meter and 6.2 meter Ku-band limited motion antenna ...
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Thales Alenia Space Signs On to Support the ESA's Sentinel 2A and 2B EO Satellites The service contract is worth 29 million euros for the period from May 2018 to December 2021 and is being carried out for the European Commission as part of ...
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mTenna PLUS and mTenna SELECT Introduced by Kymeta mTenna PLUS and mTenna SELECT work with Kymeta KyWay™ outdoor units (ODUs) to deliver performance amplification and coverage extension...
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Thaicom to Provide Development Services for Bangabandhu Satellite Under the agreement, Thaicom will provide BCSCL comprehensive business and market development services for the Bangabandhu Satellite-1, the first ...
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September 17, 2018 Newtec and Arabsat's Long Partnership Just Got Longer with Multi-Million-Euros Contract @ IBC 2018 The new agreement will enable the launch of new High Throughput Satellite (HTS) services in the Middle East and Africa, including Enterprise and VNO services...
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SSTL's NovaSAR-1 and SSTL S1-4 Successfully Launched by ISRO The two satellites were launched into a 580 km. SSO on board the PSLV launch vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on September 16...
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CNES' New CosmiCapital Fund for the Space Industry to be Managed by CapDecisif CosmiCapital, which will be the first French investment fund dedicated to space, was set up by CNES. The fund aims to raise between 80 and 100 million euros...
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Eight to Ten Maritime Satellites to Form a Constellation Being Planned by CNES and ISRO This will be India’s largest space cooperation with any country, officials said. Additional information revealed that the launch of these maritime...
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ISRO's Full Commercial Night Launch is A-OK This was the full commercial launch after many years as no Indian satellite was launched this time and both the UK satellites were the main payload.
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Lockheed Martin Gains $7.2 Billion U.S.A.F. Contract for 22 GPS IIIF Satellites Today, the USAF operates a total of 77 satellites vital to national security that provide communications, command and control, missile warning...
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RUAG Space and SWISSto12 Sign Phased Antenna Array Collaborative Agreement The collaboration will focus on the development, design and manufacturing of phased array antenna products that leverage the unique and...
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NASA and JPL's GRACE-FO Satellite Ready to Throw the Switch on a Backup System The mission has not acquired science data since mid-July due to an anomaly with a component of the Microwave Instrument on one of the GRACE-FO
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AddValue's iFleetOne Terminal and VMS are Quite a Catch for U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement Similar global VMS regulatory programs are estimated to affect over 50,000 commercial fishing vessels.
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Latin American Viewers Can Now Access Insight TV via the SES-14 Satellite Insight TV’s unique 4K UHD content is now available on a 24/7 basis in English, Spanish and Portuguese to all cable, IPTV and DTH providers who...
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Cobham SATCOM's New SAILOR GX Terminal for Inmarsat's Fleet Xpress The compact 1 meter, 3-axis stabilized Ka-band user terminal is specifically designed to enable Inmarsat’s newly launched high data rate plans...
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Telstra's Australian Teleports Gain WTA Provisional Certification Since introduction at IBC 2015, the Certification program has quickly grown in popularity, with 12 teleports currently engaged in the quality evaluation ...
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RUAG Space Played an Important Role for ICESat-2 The RUAG Space GNSS navigation receivers allows ICESat-2 to maintain its position down to a critical few centimeters, giving the satellite’s multi-beam laser system...
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At Andicom in Colombia, Globalsat Presents Iridium Certus Comms Solutions With their presence in Andicom 2018, Globalsat presented on-site demonstrations of all high-portability satellite solutions for voice, data and...
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Forrester Reports: '8K TV is Coming,' According to SES Video's Ferdinand Kayser Kayser confirmed that he did not expect 8K transmissions for the public to start for the next two years. But he was significantly more optimistic about ...
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Orange Slovensko's Multi-Year Contract with Eutelsat Takes Pay-TV and Sports into a New League The premium content offered by their television will be available to almost all Slovaks.
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Marlink's Contract with SES Networks Offers Much to Many at a Greater Reach and Faster Deployment adding the O3b services to its portfolio, Marlink will now be able to reap the benefits of MEO and offer more differentiated solutions for its customers’ ...
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September 16, 2018 DISA's Additional Second Operations Watch Floor is '24/7 Active-Active' Ensuring National and Military Security Active-Active gives the agency an advantage to further the warfighter’s success in defense of our nation and to increase the lethality of the DOD
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QVC Renews Their Broadcasting Contract with SES Video The new agreement covers QVC’s continued lease of capacity from SES’ ASTRA 2G satellite and complementary ground services such as encoding...
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ULA's Successful Launch of NASA's ICESat-2 and the End of an Era of a Reliable Rocket “This vehicle has truly created a legacy throughout its history launching NASA, critical U.S. military satellites and commercial clients.”
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Brown Space Engineering's EQUISat Continues a Successful Ride A team of students at Brown Space Engineering (BSE) has been collaborating on the project since its conception nearly eight years ago. As...
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ARABSAT's Latest Announcements, Agreements and Enhancements of Their Hot Spot to be Showcased at IBC The Secretary General praised ARABSAT's satellite communications, ranking them among the world class international satellite operators through its ...
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PlanetWatchers Aims to Assist Forestry Asset Management with New Geoprocessing Technologies PlanetWatchers, a geospatial intelligence and enterprise natural resource monitoring services company, is the first startup in the new space revolution...
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Forrester Reports: C-Band Restructuring Experiencing Some Optimism Jefferies says that Intelsat highlighted the time spent with FCC commissioners and which “suggest the FCC understands the role the...Full Story
Northrop Grumman's Successes... Manufactured ICESat-2 Satellite and Much of ULA’s Delta II Rocket 10,000 laser pulses per second, the fast-shooting laser technology allows ATLAS to take measurements every 28 inches along the satellite’s path.
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Es’hailSat's Es’hail-1 is the Choice of Many with Great Plans Shared at IBC for Upcoming Es'hail-2 Es’hail-2, a new high-performance satellite with sophisticated anti-jamming capabilities will be positioned at the 26 degrees East hotspot...
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September 15, 2018 NASA's New Director of Marshall Space Flight Center is a First ... She's a Singer will lead one of NASA's largest field installations, with almost 6,000 civil service and contractors and an annual budget of approximately $2.8 billion.
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Dr. Slaney Appointed as CTO at NSSLGlobal Dr. Slaney will work alongside the NSSLGlobal leadership team to roll out the company’s technology roadmap, to deliver innovative engineering...
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Australian Space Agency Signs Their First International MOU with CNES Recently, the ASA's first international Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed in Sydney, joining with France to build space industry...
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SES and Kiwisat Sign Leasing Extension and MX1 and Smart Mobile Labs Partner on LTE Tech into MX1 OU Flex Kiwisat is leasing additional capacity to transmit the 60 additional channels via SES-10 and the new feature combines OU Flex’s 150 Mbit/sec of reliable bandwidth supplied by...
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SSPI Announces the 2018 Promise Award Winners to be Presented at Satellite Innovation 2018 The Promise Awards honor three space and satellite employees or entrepreneurs age 35 and under for outstanding achievement in the early stages of their career...
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September 14, 2018 Uplink: Innovation — A Discussion with Frost & Sullivan Subject-Matter Experts The industry is constantly changing by default and right now it is observing waves of disruptions by design cutting across business models,...Full Story
Ultra Electronics, Gigasat Complete Initial Deliveries of Their New DA-150 Lite Vehicle Mount Satellite Antenna Building on the success of the DA-180 Lite and DA-200 Lite products, a new 1.5 meter version has been developed to meet growing demand...
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September 13, 2018 Hiltron Communications Debuts Their HRMU — To be Presented at IBC 2018 The HMRU is based on the proven design of the Hiltron HCS4 controller generation and is tailored to manage different control applications for...
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US$1 Billion+ for LeoSat Enterprises Big Data and Cybersecurity are driving the need for new communications infrastructure. Data volumes are exploding with more data carried in the...
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A Potential US$2 Million Deal for C-COM Satellite Systems the multi-year contract valued at US$2 million covers the company's extensive line of iNetVu® mobile antenna systems. This agreement shows...
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NASA and Roscosmos Release Their Joint Statement Regarding the Recent ISS Leak “NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin met for the first time yesterday via teleconference to...
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Phasor and Kepler Create a First as LEO Satellite, KIPP, Communicates with Flat Panel Antenna the first example of a wideband LEO satellite to have been auto-acquired, auto-tracked, communicated with, by flat panel, electronically-steerable antenna.
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Luxembourg Space Agency Debuts The management of the Luxembourg Space Agency has been entrusted to Marc Serres, who until then was Head of Space Affairs at the Ministry of the Economy and...
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Advanced TV Report: OneWeb's Challenges OneWeb is, in theory, extremely well backed. The company has the might of Japanese media conglomerate SoftBank’s wealthy ‘Vision Fund’ as a...
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Expect Seven Additional Chinese Beidou Satellites to Launch this Year The next launch is currently understood to be taking place around September 19 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the...
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MT Aerospace Successfully Completes An Important Milestone in their Ariane 6 Launch Facilities Construction Contract With the transfer of the ARIANE 6 launching table from its assembly site to its final position, an important milestone has been achieved in the...
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HughesON™ Network Managed SD-WAN Solution Wins Product of the Year Award Hughes was recognized for its innovation, vision and execution in delivering superior SD-WAN solutions to distributed enterprises by combining...
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Launch this Weekend: Two SSTL Satellites Aboard ISRO PSLV-C42 to Head to Orbit The plan is to launch both of the satellites with the PSLV-C42 launch vehicle into a 583 km. SSO...
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Kymeta Promotes Three (Newly Hired) Executives to Build an Even Better Global Sales Force These executives, who have been onboard for just a few months, must have done everything right to achieve promotions so quickly. Full Story
GapSat Orders Multi-Band Smallsat from Terran Orbital GapSat-1 is a multi-band system offering wide band solutions in C-, Ku-, Ka- and Q/V-bands. The spacecraft will be injected directly into the...
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September 12, 2018 Space-Based Optical Comms Potential Leads Boeing to Invest in BridgeSat BridgeSat is developing a global network of optical ground stations (OGS) to transmit large amounts of data into space quickly and reliably. Its stations...
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Launches to GEO Procured by Spaceflight and will be Boosted by SSL The first mission will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, which was procured by SSL, a Maxar Technologies...
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RBC Signals Beat a Deadhorse Deadline Completing New Arctic Ground Station the new antennas provide a compelling ground station alternative to other high latitude locations with political sensitivity, challenging regulatory hurdles,
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NASA's BioSentinel Smallsat Selects DDC's NAND Flash Memory for OBC Integration DDC’s 192 gigabit NAND flash provides the smallsat spacecraft with compact, high density memory, along with the advantages that a 24-bit bus...
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NSSLGlobal's New Chief Technology Officer Will Roll Out Their Technology Roadmap brings a wealth of experience leading design teams at CTO and Technical Director level, and has a proven track record for fast-tracking product growth ..
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Hispasat and Thales Alenia Space Send Up the Balloon ... Stratospheric Balloon Testing 4G/5G Applications Stratobus™ a stratospheric airship that's the best of drones and satellites with a low-cost system that offers autonomous operation and permanent ...
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CBC Radio-Canada Commissions UHP Networks for New VSAT Hub The new UHP Hub is serving remote areas in the Canadian North and supports high-speed connectivity for multimedia applications.
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On Orbit Commissioning of Three Cubesats Accomplished by Blue Canyon Technologies The payloads on all three 6U CubeSats, TEMPEST-D, CubeRRT, and HaloSat, have started operations with engineers monitoring from BCT’s...
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Awards Seven Geospatial Analytics Contracts BIG BAA contracts are part of NGA’s effort to enhance the ability to use advanced algorithms and machine learning to characterize geospatial data.
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Harris Corporation's New President of Communication Systems ... He is a 33-Year Harris Employee He is a 33 year Harris employee and most recently served as SVP and chief global business development officer for the company, overseeing...
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Forrester Reports: SES Plans to Order New Satellites Moreover, SES is also looking to launch 3 satellites on a single rocket, which would then place them into their correct orbital locations. This would...
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Major Wins for Mission Microwave Major customer wins include applications for Ku-band BUCs across the 25 to 400 watt range. These BUCs are used on extremely lightweight, fly-away...
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Airbus Defence and Space's Plan with Orbital Insight to Build a Suite of Geospatial Analytics Services and Tools The agreement will provide Orbital Insight with access to Pleiades and SPOT satellite imagery at scale and provide Airbus with analytics services...
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September 11, 2018 NSSLGlobal Introduces Their Cruise Control+ at SMM18 in Hamburg This brand new virtual platform is designed to provide maritime companies with a secure, integrated solution for managing all aspects of voice and data...
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Russia's Samara University's Water and Alcohol Propulsion System for Nanosatellites The development opens the possibility of creating a reliable and inexpensive system for maneuvering of such devices in the orbit
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Dynamic Threesome, SatADSL, iSAT Africa, and APT Satellite Combine Talents to Connect Africa Platform-as-a-service solution from SatADSL will empower operators to deliver competitive broadband services – including voucher-based schemes
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A New Joint Venture Brings Yahsat and Hughes Together for Ka-Band Comms Across MEA and SW Asia This new venture combines Hughes expertise as the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services with Yahsat’s position and...
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Northrop Grumman Receives $19+ Million Mod Contract from the DoD for DSP Support This support provides root-cause analysis as a key component of the lifetime extension of DSP orbital assets, as well as mission event analysis...
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Leading the Way into a Bright SATCOM Future — The Big Data and A.I. Focus at Satellite Innovation Data processing requirements present a new paradigm and promise to tame the deluge of information — Big Data tools and Artificial Intelligence ...
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GTX is On Track with U.S. Air Force's Personnel and Equipment provide devices that can transmit data through RF technology, report latitude and longitude coordinates every second, and encrypt the data.
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Kineis' IoT Smallsat Constellation Scheduled to Launch by 2021 Currently, 90 percent of the world is either not network-connected, or connected but prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, today’s IoT offers are...
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IsoTropic Networks Bandwidth and Technology Has Just Gotten Bigger ... Major Expansion, and a Datadragon the company has more than doubled its satellite data bandwidth for its European and Pacific coverage areas and can now offer enhanced speed and
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DARPA Actively Addressing AI Starting in the 1960s, DARPA research shaped the first wave of AI technologies, which focused on handcrafted knowledge, or rule-based...
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U.S. Air Combat Command Obtains Ku- MILSATCOM Support from SES Government Solutions and Bushtex Bushtex Inc., a woman- and minority-owned small business based in Gilbert, Arizona, is a MILSATCOM provider that currently delivers...
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Intelsat Enjoys a Contract Extension from Grupo Television As part of the new, multi-year agreement, Grupo Televisa will leverage Intelsat’s global hybrid network to distribute its payTV programming to...
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SPACE DRONE™ from Effective Space Gains Tech and Financial Cooperation from IAI Under the conditions of the term sheet, Effective Space will appoint IAI as the primary contractor of its SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft, while IAI will...
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Astrocast Signs Agreement with Leaf Space for Ground Station Utilization The antennas included in the agreement will be built and operated by Leaf Space and will be strategically located across six locations, providing...
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Forrester Reports: Eutelsat's Take on 5G A report, timed to coincide with the opening of Eutelsat's World Satellite Business Week, from investment bank Exane/BNPP and authored by...
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Viasat Names United Launch Alliance to Propel Their ViaSat-3 Satellite to Orbit The Viasat mission will carry one of the ViaSat-3 series spacecraft and is scheduled to launch in the 2020 to 2022 timeframe from Space Launch Complex-41...
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Maxar's SSL Advanced HTS Built for Telesat Reports to Work Beginning with On-Orbit Operations
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September 10, 2018 India and U.S.' Defense Agreements Welcomed After Concerns About Russia and China ... Before and After The nuclear-armed Asian giants were locked in a 10-week military stand-off last year in a remote, high-altitude stretch of a boundary in the Himalayas.
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Potential $600 Million for DigitalGlobe's Contract with National Reconnaissance Office The EnhancedView program seeks to provide authorized government staff with access to high-resolution commercial imagery derived from...
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Space Foundation Washington, D.C. Enlisted this Colonel to Head Strategic Operations as the U.S. Army Legislative Affairs Principal Military Deputy, where he was responsible to the Secretary of the Army on congressional issues.
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GateHouse Telecom's Global Xpress Link Emulator to be Sold in UK Via Global RadioData Communications is another step into a new market, the UK, for GateHouse Telecom's products and system integration solutions for commercial, government and military.
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The First Puerto Rican Smallsat Being Built by Interamerican University and the University of Central Florida This cubesat, which will study the role of dust in planet formation, is another example of the kind of growing impact UCF is having in space research...
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Airbus' Life Support Rack will Support ISS Astronaut's Lives with Oxygen Its technology is a critical step forward towards a closed loop life support system, necessary for human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit.
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France to Invest $4 Billion in Military Satellite Technologies On June 28, the French parliament adopted a bill on military planning for 2019 to 2025, envisaging the increase of defense spending up to 2 percent...
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Grace Brethren School Students Delve into Cubesat Composition with Help from General Dynamics They’ll also be able to track, monitor and record the data that is sent back to Earth. The students — mostly juniors and seniors in high school — will also...
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SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 and Sends Telstar 18 VANTAGE Satellite Soaring Telstar 18 VANTAGE is the third high throughput satellite (HTS) in Telesat’s global fleet and the first with coverage over the Asia Pacific region.
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Cayman Islands Implements Emergency SATCOM System Prompted by communications issues that arose following devastating storms in the Caribbean last year, the British government is equipping their...
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New Product Array Slotted by Quintech Electronics & Communications for IBC 2018 Quintech’s XTREME 80 and XTREME 32 matrix switches have been rapidly adopted by broadcasters, teleports, equipment manufacturers, and...
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September 9, 2018 Ariane 6 Engines' Good 'Report Card' After a Successful Summer Sendoff This is a decisive step in the development of the Vinci®, as this re-ignition capability is a key features of Ariane 6, notably for launching satellite constellations.
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Jacksonville's Cecil Airport is Under Control with Plans for Spaceport Control Center JAA's newly designed air traffic control center at Cecil Airport and Spaceport will stand 135 feet tall, replacing the airport's current 55-foot tower.
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Uplink: Innovation — Far More Than A Catch Phrase... Plus, a Discussion with Mike Antonovich, CEO, Eutelsat Americas Satnews Publishers asked Mr. Antonovich about his thoughts regarding why innovation is important to the industry and, in particular, to Eutelsat Americas?
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New Portfolio of VSAT Plans and an Agreement with pressreader all Part of Speedcast's Latest Moves All of the VSAT plans come with Committed Information Rate (CIR), which provides customers with a guaranteed level of performance. The plans are...
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ESA's Aeolus Satellite Pumping Pulses to Measure the Earth's Wind Launched into space on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana just two weeks ago, ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite has been...
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Global Invacom Acquires Certain Assets from Skyware Technologies Group The Acquisition is for an initial cash consideration of $3.1 million, with a further $0.3 million to be provided as product, and a maximum additional...
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GPS III Ground System Support and M-Code Ops Being Prep'd by Lockheed Martin In 2016 and 2017, the U.S. Air Force placed Lockheed Martin under two contracts, called GPS III Contingency Operations (COps) and M-Code Early Use (MCEU), which...
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JP Thieriot to CEO at Uphold — Former CEO Adrian Steckel to CEO of OneWeb The leadership succession comes after two years of rapid growth at Uphold. The blockchain-powered platform has become recognized for offering the...
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China's Launch of Marine Satellite is Successful to Monitor Ships, Ocean's Color, Temperature and More an automatic identification and monitoring of ships, to help safeguard maritime rights, and provide data for disaster prevention and fishery production
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September 8, 2018 GMV's Largest Contract of 250 Million Euro Also the Biggest Contract Ever Awarded by Spain’s Space Industry maintenance of all the already deployed systems, assuring operations already underway and organizing the future upgrading of the whole system.
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A "Cash Windfall" for Intelsat from C-Band Networking... No doubt coincidentally, Intelsat, on September 5, announced they would be raising up to $2.25 billion of new debt via a tender offer, due for repayment...
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September 6, 2018 Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Kacific Broadband Satellites Ground Station Agreement Kratos will help address Kacific’s HTS gateway infrastructure needs by designing and building a state-of-art Ka-band multi-site gateway solution for...
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The World Teleport Association's Top Teleport Operators Survey Now Available for Input The Top Operators announcement receives press coverage within the industry and provides valuable exposure to the operators included in the...
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The Global Hybrid IP Satellite and Cellular Service from LiveU is Expanded Across Europe and North Africa Increasing the range of options, the new solution, based on Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite, will allow customers to use satellite or cellular connectivity...
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CPI Antenna Systems and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Celebrate 20+ Years of a Rewarding Partnership Most businesses would be ecstatic if they had a mutually agreeable and financially rewarding partnership with a company for more than 20 years
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The First Live Motor Cast for OmegA Rocket is Completed by Northrop Grumman OmegA supports Northrop Grumman’s initiative to develop a rocket in compliance with the U.S. Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)...
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Satellite Big Data 3L’s: Location, Location, Location — NSR's Big Data Analytics Via Satellite Report Available NSR’s Big Data Analytics via Satellite, 2nd Edition report identifies seven vertical markets as growth areas, and more than 70 percent of the...
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Garmin® Refreshes Their Handheld GPSMAP® Series These updated premium handhelds bring expanded wireless connectivity, direct-to-device access to BirdsEye Satellite imagery and a larger 3 inch...
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NovelSat's Official Launch of Their PCIe-Based Satellite Broadcast Cards for OEM Integration These new cards from NovelSat are designed for plug and play integration into any PC-based satellite broadcast platform for Cable, DTH and OTT live...
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Advantech Wireless and Alga Microwave Joining Forces for IBC 2018 Advantech and Alga will be showcasing their Ultra HD ready satellite solutions. Their proprietary new generation of Gallium Nitride (GaN) based...
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DISA Awards Viasat with In-Flight Broadband and Connectivity Services Contract Over the past two and a half years, Viasat has provided in-flight broadband and connectivity services to senior leader aircraft under the AMSS IIa contract...
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The CIRRUS Hybrid Satellite-OTT Platform from Eutelsat Enters the Market Eutelsat CIRRUS will provide a turnkey content delivery solution via satellite and OTT to operators seeking to launch or upgrade their service, offering...
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SES Networks Signed On by Navarino for Ku-Band Comms Support Navarino has a wide customer base with a broad range of diverse requirements that demand reliable and consistent high-speed connections for their data services. This makes SES Networks...
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China to Launch Two Satellites on Friday, One is a Secret the Other Isn't the Taiyuan Satellite Launch center in Shanxi Province, north China, will see the launch of a Long March rocket to place an unknown satellite into orbit,
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India and France Collaborate on ISRO's First Human Space Mission Beginning with Space Medicine mission is significant as it would make India one of the four countries in the world after Russia, US and China to launch a manned space flight.
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September 5, 2018 China's First Privately Developed Rocket from Landspace Nearing Launch Zhuque-1 was expected to launch in the final quarter of 2018, with liftoff now looking likely to occur in October. Aboard will be a small satellite...
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MILSATCOM Support from Ultra Electronics Communications & Integrated Systems Contracted by General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada The terminals will allow the CAF to deliver voice, image and data between deployed operations and commanders back in Canada...
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Marlink's XChange Cloud Seas Solutions for Maritime File Transfer and Data Sharing Should a ‘pushed’ status report (or any other file) become lost or damaged, it can easily be recalled due to the file redundancy feature, which stores ...
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ABS' Major Management Shakeup of Nine Executives Reflects Transition to Company's Next Phase a huge management change has taken place at ABS as they announce nine new appointments and changes of its executive team to transition into...
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EXOS Aerospace Successfully Launches Their SARGE Rocket at Spaceport America The SARGE rocket reached an altitude of approximately 28 km. Launch and recovery took place at Spaceport America on August 25, 2018. The rocket ...
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Advantech Wireless Presenting Their 2Gen GaN Pulse Amplifiers at MSPO 2018 Advantech’s Solid State Pulse Amplifiers (SSPAs) are fully modular systems that can operate over the band of 2.9 to 3.1 GHz or 2.7 to 2.9 GHz. This line...
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Dave Kagan to CEO at Globalstar, Jay Monroe to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors In keeping with the strategy the Company previously disclosed in connection with the intended merger, the promotions separate management...
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Chinese Satellite Orbiting Moon Shares Data and Images with Amateurs Scheduled December Landing on the Far Side number of cameras and science payloads to analyze the South Pole-Aitken Basin, a fascinating, large and ancient impact basin on the lunar far side.
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Luxembourg's Officials Agree to Develop 'Space Research Program' companies to collaborate to advance knowledge, to attract top-tier talent, and provide sustaining ecosystem contributions to the Luxembourg space industry
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Three Satellites Launched to Orbit via i-Space's SQX-1Z Carrier Rocket The mission was conducted at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. This was also a first as the debut launch of a private...
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KVH's CaaS Program Sails to Success KVH recently reported that the company has successfully shipped almost as many VSAT systems in the first six months of 2018 as they shipped in all of...
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Globecast's Digital Media Hub is a Suite Solution for Cross-Platform Live Content Publishing provides content publishing flexibility via an integrated suite of services that can also be modular, using a single supplier.
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September 4, 2018 Newtec Industry Sessions Announced for IBC 2018 presenting their expertise: BBC, Broadpeak, Dejero, Euroconsult, Eutelsat, ESA, Intelsat, LeoSat, Methera Global, Network Innovations, SES, Newtec ...
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Now Fully Engaged at 47.5 Degrees West is the SES-14 Satellite The all-electric satellite, which has C- and Ku-band wide-beam coverage and Ku-band high throughput spot beam coverage, is SES's second hybrid...
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Trimble RTX's Survey-Grade Corrections Delivered Via Satellite Now Accurate to 2 cm. Trimble RTX™ GNSS corrections technology achieves horizontal accuracies of better than two centimeters with full accuracy in less than 15 minutes.
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A New, AMOS-8 Satellite to be Subsidized by the Government of Israel This satellite, which will be built entirely by Israel Aerospace Industries, will have “long-term strategic significance and is relevant to all the critical...
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Pakistan's the First ... to Map Crops with a UK Satellite The purpose is to determine the kind of crops, their health and the moisture in the soil to predict the quantum of production.
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Egypt's Fears of Border Security Threats Hopefully Allayed with Reconnaissance Satellite Egypt launched the Russian-made EgyptSat 2, with the same objective but lost contact with the $45 million satellite in 2015 in a national scandal.
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Rohde & Schwarz to Feature a New Family of Satellite Uplink Amplifiers at IBC 2018 The R&S PKU100 Ku-band satellite uplink amplifier combines the best of two worlds in a single device: the unbeatable strengths of solid-state...
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The Japanese Space Agency Races to Land Two Robots on an Asteroid and Bring Back Samples ... Next Month The mission will see scientists detonate an explosive on the rock known as Ryugu
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General Atomics Expands Team Reaper Australia with Sentient Vision Systems ISR Capabilities Sentient Vision Systems, Team Reaper Australia’s newest member, is the only Australian provider of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions...
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Forrester Reports that Intelsat Won't Be Targeting Asia with 5G C-Band Restructuring The operator’s C-band proposals for the U.S. (made in a consortium with SES) provoked a strong condemnation from other Asian satellite operators...
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Debuting @ IBC 2018 are SpacePath Communications High Power Uplink Amplifiers Comprised of two indoor redundant controllers and two redundant sub-systems in 1:1 and 1:2 redundant and power combined configurations, the...
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Satellite Telecommunications Network Commits to Crystal Control NMS for the Teleport As a global provider of Broadcast, Media and Data delivery solutions, STN was looking for a robust, multi-process architecture control system to enable...
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September 3, 2018 Marlink to Debut Xchange FX in September XChange FX provides previously unavailable network and service information in real-time, enabling users on board to manage usage...
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ABS' Successful Seminar Session Focused on SATCOM for Timor Leste The half-day session was attended by government departments including the Ministry of Transport and Communications, key telecom companies...
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Convertible Marine Antenna is Issued by Intellian The v85NX is a future-proof system that supports GEO constellations as well as ensuring compatibility with future networks, such as LEO and MEO...
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Scotland's First Commercial Rocket Launch Occurs from a Planned Spaceport in the Highlands Skyrora saw its 2.5 meter (9 ft.) projectile reach altitudes of almost four miles after taking off at the Kildermorie Estate in Ross-shire. Known as...
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Kleos Space S.A. and Airbus Defence and Space's MoU Takes Radio-Frequency to a New Frequency capturing data currently excluded from detection, transmissions without AIS, GPS or VMS protocol for real societal challenges, security and for defense
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Avanti Communications Further Validates Their African Commitment with Local Presence in South Africa will operate with 64 fixed and four steerable beams from five Gateway Earth Stations extending Avanti’s West and Central Africa coverage for the first time
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Webscales and Telcos Should Partner to Bring Atmospheric Satellite Services to Unconnected ... Says GlobalData On the other hand Alphabet, the parent company of another social media behemoth, turned its Loon balloon project into an independent company
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AST Marine Networks is Onboard with Seaside Global VSAT Services to Spliethoff Group ...successfully completed a seamless migration of the Spliethoff network with no downtime or interruption of service to 80+ vessels across multiple fleets.
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Marlink Dives into Hapag-Lloyd Cruises with Sealink Services Contract Marlink’s global Sealink services provide stable, dependable and flexible global connectivity for secure onboard ship management, enabling...
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