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June 30, 2008 TerreStar Tells The Good News, Then The Bad News... TerreStar Corporation (NASDAQ: TSTR) and its majority-owned subsidiary, TerreStar Networks Inc., announced that its satellite TerreStar-1 (TS-1) has successfully completed Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) and High Power and Passive Intermodulation (PIM) testing of the flight model S-band feed array for its 2 GHz mobile satellite service satellite.
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AEHF Space Environments Testing Underway By Lockheed Martin The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite is now undergoing thermal vacuum testing at the Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California, facilities.
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NASA—Passing On and Stepping Out to New Ventures Three personnel events of note from NASA, which include:
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ProtoStar Pumped + Prepped For Flight ProtoStar I, a high power Ku- and C-band satellite that will provide DTH service to Asia, is scheduled for launch on Friday, July 4th, from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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IRIS Payload Milestones Achieved By Intelsat General Intelsat General Corp., has achieved a number of key milestones with the satellite payload that will demonstrate Internet routing in space (IRIS) for the U.S. military.
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ORBITZ — AsiaSat + Eurovision — CETel + Arabsat — DIRECTV — GIT Satellite Communications — International Launch Services — InventHelp + Clear Signal — — AsiaSat + Eurovision — CETel + Arabsat — DIRECTV — GIT Satellite Communications — International Launch Services — InventHelp + Clear Signal —
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June 29, 2008 Shiron Satellite's Success With VSATs Shiron Satellite Communication's Brazil office has just closed a commercial agreement with Sanmina-SCI to produce state-of-the-art, broadband satellite communication VSATs (Very Small Aperture Terminal) locally in Hortolândia (SP), district of Campinas.
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Joint STARS To Receive Expand Networks Acceleration Expand Networks has announced Northrop Grumman and the United States Air Force have integrated their Accelerator 4820 and Accelerator 6940 into the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) communication system to provide application acceleration and bandwidth optimization.
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Digital Opera From Arqiva Via Eutelsat AB3 Arqiva in Italy has successfully delivered live HD opera performances from Italy and Spain to cinema audiences across Europe.
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Serving Up Multi-Band Power To WGS Is SWE-DISH SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath company, has expanded its line of CommuniCase Technology (CCT) terminals to feature Ka-, Ku- and X-band capability.
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Hmmmm, Sounds Like... ESA's Cluster Has The Answer The first sound an alien race is likely to hear from Earth are chirps and whistles.
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History's Most Prolific Comet Discoverer Is... SOHO The 1,500th comet has been discovered by the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft, making it the most successful comet discoverer in all history.
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Snow White Soil Success By Phoenix NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26th, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil, and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
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No, No, No! No Terrestrial Service In Ku-Band he global satellite communications sector has opposed a proposal made at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow terrestrial fixed services to operate in the 14.0-14.5 GHz band.
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ORBITZ — NASA — Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne — — NASA — Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne —
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June 26, 2008 Communicating With Offshore Oil and Gas The eighth annual Offshore Communications 2008 conference is scheduled for Houston, Texas, November 4-6.
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Failure Analysis Heading Into The DUMSTR Failure Analysis has partnered with one of the largest satellite producers to provide satellite concepts for DUMSTR NRO/DARPA satellites.
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SpaceX Falcon 1 Rocket Dress Rehearsal Is A Blast Imagine trying to hold down the explosive forces generated by a rocket.
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HD World, SATCoN, and IP Media Expo Comes to New York Information is now available regarding the HD World, SATCON, and the IP Media Expo, slated for October 15-16, 2008 at the Javits Convention Center, New York, New York.
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Will the TV Distribution World, As We Know It, End After February 2009? If you weren't able to attend the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show this last April in Las Vegas, Nevada, all is not lost.
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ORBITZ — NASA — SES ASTRA — SKYBITZ — — NASA — SES ASTRA — SKYBITZ —
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June 25, 2008 Turned Away, But Not Forgotten — Télécoms Sans Frontières Leaves Myanmar This is a most frustrating situation for all countries and agencies wishing to assist with the tragic aftermath of Cyclone Nargis
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Phoenix Mars Lander Plays In The Dirt NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of Martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory today for the first time.
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NASA's Mars Orbiter + Global Surveyor Offer Impactful Info New analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system.
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Earth Station Contract For ND SatCom ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, has announced their US affiliate ND SatCom Inc. has been awarded a blanket contract with an anticipated procurement of up to $20.5 million from a global multilateral organization.
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Thermal Vacuum Testing Of LCROSS Finishes Ahead Of Schedule Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully completed one of the most critical spacecraft environmental tests on NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), two months ahead of schedule.
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Raytheon Tracking For Sat-based Defense Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has successfully completed a key satellite payload trade study with Northrop Grumman, the prime contractor for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS).
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ATCi's Antenna Attention Antenna Technology Communications Inc. has integrated a complete Fly Away Broadcast System for Kuwait-based HNDC.
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Gilat To Bring Net Works Into Kenya Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:GILT) has been selected by Alldean Satellite Networks (Kenya) Limited, a leading African satellite service provider, to deliver a SkyEdge II network that will serve customers throughout Kenya.
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ORBITZ — Space Systems/Loral + Satmex — NASA Astronaut Class — — Space Systems/Loral + Satmex — NASA Astronaut Class —
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June 24, 2008 Moon Aqua Adventures Engineering teams are conducting final
checkouts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite,
known as LCROSS.
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Federal Supply Rewards A True Patriot Patriot Antenna Systems, Inc. and ProGov Solutions, LLC, have announced the approval of Federal Supply Schedule Contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States and now enters into a management and marketing agreement.
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Cadence In Step With Mobile Satellite Ventures Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has selected Colorado-based consulting services firm, Cadence LLC, to lead the design, architecture, and development of MSV's Integrated Services Delivery Framework (ISDF).
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Arianespace Kept Hopping With Ariane 5 Launch Prep The fifth Ariane-5 of this year has arrived in French Guiana—Arianespace keeps up its mission pace during the busiest year of commercial mission activity for this workhorse launch vehicle.
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Peek At Pulsars At Play Provided By XMM-Newton The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton has, for the first time, detected signals from both stars of a binary pulsar system in X-rays, unveiling a scientific goldmine.
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SatBroadband Revenues To Best Broadband VSAT By 2013 NSR LLC has released findings from their latest report, "Broadband Satellite Markets, 7th Edition", that indicate revenues from consumer satellite broadband services will overtake enterprise class broadband VSAT network services by 2013.
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Sea Success For Thuraya Thuraya’s recently launched ThurayaMarine solution has resulted in ten, new distribution agreements.
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iDirect Gets To The Hub Of The Matter VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect) has installed an iDirect Series 15000 Universal Satellite Hub at Cobbett-Hill Earth Station Ltd. (CHE) in the United Kingdom.
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SES AMERICOM's REDISat Ready To Offer Financial Biz Emergency Com Protection SES AMERICOM, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG), have announced their REDiSat™ Network satellite communications technology is providing disaster recovery services to financial service providers in the Gulf of Mexico area, including St. Martin Bank & Trust in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
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ORBITZ — CeBIT Show — Gilat Satellite Networks — MEASAT — SkyBitz — — CeBIT Show — Gilat Satellite Networks — MEASAT — SkyBitz —
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Full Media Support For DVIDS By Crawford Communications Crawford Communications, Inc. has secured a long-term agreement to provide content aggregation, media relations, Internet and satellite services for the U.S. military’s Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS).
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June 23, 2008 Lockheed Martin Moves AEHF Ahead In The Schedule The Space and Missile Systems Center's Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing has announced the core propulsion module of the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite was shipped from Lockheed Martin at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, and arrived safely at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California.
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DataPath to Provide Sat Communications in Afghanistan DataPath, Inc., a provider of satellite and wireless communications networks has been awarded $3.7 million by the U.S. Army to manufacture and install DataPath DKET LT satellite communications hubs to support the U.S. military Joint Task Force in Afghanistan.
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AYR SkyTracs Over Inhospitable Areas The AYR Group has made a decision that will keep them safer while in some of the world’s most inhospitable and austere environments.
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COM DEV Sings "Oh, Canada" COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX: CDV], a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, has been awarded an $8.6 million contract to design, build and launch a micro-satellite for the Government of Canada.
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NASA Review Has Humans Returning To The Moon + Establishing A Base by 2020 NASA engineers and scientists have completed a milestone review to help determine the systems needed to return humans to the moon and establish a lunar outpost.
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ISS Gets A Boost From ESA's ATV For the second time since April, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jules Verne ATV was used to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS).
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A GEM Of A Project For ATK Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) played a key role in the successful launch on June 20th of the United Launch Alliance's Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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DataPath DKET SatCom To Aid In Afghanistan DataPath, Inc. has been awarded $3.7 million by the U.S. Army to manufacture and install DataPath DKET LT satellite communications hubs in support of the U.S. military Joint Task Force in Afghanistan.
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Warfighters To Receive Better Broadcasting From Arqiva Arqiva has been awarded a contract by the Services Sound & Vision Corporation (SSVC) to significantly increase the number of BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) television channels being broadcast to UK armed forces personnel stationed overseas.
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Financially Speaking... Intelsat Ltd... Intelsat, Ltd. intends to offer an aggregate principal amount of approximately $2.8 billion of 11-¼ percent senior notes due 2017...
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ORBITZ — Alcatel-Lucent — Dell'Oro Group — RSCC — TIA — Telenor + Datametrix — — Alcatel-Lucent — Dell'Oro Group — RSCC — TIA — Telenor + Datametrix —
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June 22, 2008 U.S.A.F. On Target With SBIRS The Air Force has successfully completed the early on-orbit checkout of the second space based infrared systems (SBIRS) sensor operating in a highly elliptical orbit (HEO) over the northern hemisphere.
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NASA's Explorer Program Nabs Newbies Two science proposals have now been selected by NASA to become the agency's next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations.
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ORBITZ — ABI Research — MEASAT + National Geographic Channel — Research and Markets — — ABI Research — MEASAT + National Geographic Channel — Research and Markets —
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June 20, 2008 Oui! NASA's Jason 2 Launches—A Quadripartite Launch Success NASA successfully launched on Friday a new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a globe-circling voyage.
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Asian Markets Ripe For Biz, But Need To Open Up, Say CASBAA Attendees Some of the issues covered during the recent CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2008 in Singapore included: satellite spectrum management, market consolidation, government, military technology developments, capacity provision, as well as Asia’s seemingly unflagging demand for satellite services.
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June 19, 2008 RT Logic's Cross Domain Solution Receives Accreditation RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-ISYS), has announced the successful PL4 (Protection Level 4) C&A (Certification and Accreditation) of the RTGuard Cross Domain Solution product, a cost-effective, low-risk, CDS (Cross Domain Solution).
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UK-DMC-2 EO Satellite On Track For Build Completion SSTL's privately funded UK-DMC-2 has today passed its Test Readiness Review (TRR) at its Manufacturing Integration and Test Facilities in Guildford, United Kingdom.
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ATV Feeds A Hungry ISS ESA’s Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time on Wednesday to transfer, in one step, 811-kg of refuelling propellant to the International Space Station—while this was occurring, the two vehicles orbited Earth at 28,000 km/h.
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Harris To Suit Up For Constellation Communications Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been selected for a potential seven-year, $58 million contract to provide the RF communications/navigation system for the nexgen space suit that will support NASA's Constellation program.
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iSuppli Has N.A. IPTV @ 4X... The number of IPTV subscribers in North America nearly quadrupled last year to reach 1.2 million and total subscribers in North and South America rose 257 percent to reach 1.8 million at the close of 2007.
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ORBCOMM's Synchronicity Sends Six Soaring Quite an achievement...ORBCOMM Inc. [NASDAQ: ORBC] has announced that six new ORBCOMM satellites have been successfully launched from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
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ORBITZ — AsiaSat + Essel — SES NEW SKIES + TM — — AsiaSat + Essel — SES NEW SKIES + TM —
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June 18, 2008 Vados Shakes Hands With the Viper Comtech EF Data Corporation announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Vados Systems, a provider of converged integrated solutions to the mobility market.
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SkyTrac is Chopper Certified SkyTrac, a leading supplier of SatCom systems for flight following, mapping and communications based on data, text and voice, earned their Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Robinson R22 and R44 Aircraft Types.
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Another EPOCHal Opportunity For Integral Systems Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-ISYS) now has a contract with Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS).
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SingTel Sings SES Praises SES NEW SKIES, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], announces that Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), an Asian telecommunications group, is extending its suite of maritime satellite solutions globally by contracting capacity on SES NEW SKIES’ NSS-7, NSS-703 and NSS-5 satellites.
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Got Rocks? NASA's Moon Digging Contest Goes For Deep Pockets Did you sign up? Hope so, for the deadline is now closed for team registration at the California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI), with a record number of 25 team entrants having signed for the upcoming 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge involving a NASA winning purse of $750,000.
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Cancer Research Climbers Tackle Mt. No Name, With Vizada SatCom Support As part of an awareness campaign for cancer research members of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Big Expedition for Cancer Research left Saturday on a quest to scale an unclimbed, unnamed peak in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park.
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US Monolithics Helps With SatTransmission + SatReception US Monolithics, the supplier for more than 650,000 Ka-Band transceivers for consumer broadband, has launched a line of commercial C-and Ku-band satellite transmit and receive products.
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What's Going On With W5 — Eutelsat Statement The W5 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications has experienced an anomaly to a portion of its power generator subsystem. The problem first became evident between the 16th and 17th of June.
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ProtoStar-I Gets Pumped Up, Fuel-wise The fourth Ariane 5 flight for this year is continuing its preparation in French Guiana for launch, as Arianespace ensures the mission's ProtoStar-I payload is fueled in the S5A hall of the Spaceport's satellite work facility.
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ORBITZ — AsiaSat + Chitkara — Globecomm Systems — OmniGlobe Networks — Solaris Mobile — Telenor Pakistan — — AsiaSat + Chitkara — Globecomm Systems — OmniGlobe Networks — Solaris Mobile — Telenor Pakistan —
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June 17, 2008 Vizada Taking Thuraya Orders Vizada, ever widening their services as a provider of satellite communications solutions, is offering the full range of Thuraya mobile satellite services in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Harris SATCOM Terminals Keep Navy Morale Shipshape Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] received a potential five-year, $77 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy for development and production of multiband satellite communications terminals.
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Raytheon Implements More Broadcasts For Pacific-Based Warfighters The Global Broadcast Service Satellite Broadcast Manager facility in Wahiawa, Hawaii, recently began operational broadcasts over the U.S. Air Force's new Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite.
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Moving On Up... At Raytheon Company Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has named Catherine H. Blades vice president for communications and public affairs at its Space and Airborne Systems business.
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Globecomm Into Foreign Affairs Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has been awarded an infrastructure contract from a foreign government valued at up to $8.0 million.
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VSAT Management Strategy For Comtech + Vados Comtech EF Data Corporation now has a strategic cooperation agreement with Vados Systems, a provider of converged integrated solutions to the mobility market.
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Remote Knowledge In-Motion With Sea Trials Remote Knowledge, Inc. (Pink Sheets: RKNW) has announced with Alpha Circuits the production of its marine broadband router for use in customer sea trials, which will commence in July and are expected to last through the summer, concluding with a planned product launch in the fall of 2008.
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A Fresh Breeze For Proton Launch Vehicle The Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), convened by International Launch Services (ILS), has cleared the Proton Breeze M to return to flight this summer, following its examination of test results and analysis regarding a redesigned engine component.
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BAE Systems Getting Into A Dozen Sats BAE Systems’ new single-board computers will manage the data processing and command-and-control functions of more than a dozen satellites to be launched over the next 18 months.
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A Crucial Micro Step For COM DEV Int'l COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV) has announced they have formally commenced a $7M internally funded program to develop an advanced micro-satellite platform and associated micro-sat mission capability.
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NSSL Knows Getting Better Sometimes Means Going Smaller NSSL is launching its Cruise-IP maritime broadband system with a “compact antenna”.
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Moving On Up... At RSCC... According to the decree of Federal Communications Agency #19-k dated on June 10th, 2008, Alexey V. Ostapchuk has been appointed to the position of RSCC’ Director General.
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Thuraya-3 Is Commercially Cranked Up Thuraya has announced the commercial readiness of its third satellite, Thuraya-3.
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Hughes Leverages SPACEWAY-3 For Speedy SatBroadband Made possible by the launch of Hughes' SPACEWAY™ 3, the largest satellite in the US and the world's first commercial satellite with on-board switching and routing, Hughes Network Systems, LLC., (HUGHES) has announced the availability of the fastest consumer broadband satellite Internet access plans ever offered.
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The Importance Of HDTV In Asia-Pacific Reported By MEASAT + Euroconsult MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. and Euroconsult jointly announced the results of a study into the development of HDTV in the Asia-Pacific region.
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ORBITZ —BIG Broadcasting + AsiaSat — SES NEW SKIES + CSTV — —BIG Broadcasting + AsiaSat — SES NEW SKIES + CSTV —
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June 16, 2008 ELVIS Has Re-Entered The Building For Analex Corp. Analex Corporation has received an option for the Expendable Launch Vehicles Integrated Support, or ELVIS, contract from NASA.
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Antenna With Polarization Switching From C2SAT C2SAT (NGM Stock Exchange, C2ST) is going to debut their C-band version of the present patented 4 axes stabilized antenna at CommunicAsia 2008 in Singapore.
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DTH To Impact Asian Markets Via NSS-11 SES NEW SKIES has concluded a multi-year agreement with Global Broadcasting and Multimedia Inc. (GBMI).
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SWE-DISH Serves Up WGS System SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB, a DataPath company, has expanded its line of CommuniCase® Technology (CCT) terminals to feature Ka-, X-, and Ku-band capability.
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GAIA Gets Going With Parasol Work By CTA CTA (Aeronautical Technologies Center) has, until now engaged in the field of aeronautical tests.
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True Visions' Vision is Furthered with TANDBERG TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson group [NASDAQ:ERIC] has extended its relationship with Thailand’s True Visions Public Company Limited Corporation by providing a new DTH head-end for the True Visions satellite pay-TV service.
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ATK + NASA Are All Fired Up NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have reached another
milestone.
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ORBITZ... Agilent Technologies, Globecomm Systems, Integral Systems, Intelsat Ltd., Newtec, Round Solutions, Thales Alenia Space Agilent Technologies, Globecomm Systems, Integral Systems, Intelsat Ltd., Newtec, Round Solutions, Thales Alenia Spa
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June 15, 2008 Wargames For SkyPort Global Communications SkyPort Global Communications is participating in the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID), June 9th thorugh the 19th, at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, and the Kelly Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany.
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AGS To Provide Increased Intelligence For U.S. Army AMERICOM Government Services (AGS) has won a follow-on contract via a competitive tender with an initial value of $136.2 million over a five year base period in support of the U.S. Army’s TROJAN Network.
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Meshing DVB-RCS VSAT Nets A STM Group First STM Group has announced their R&D center, operated by STM Norway AS, has completed the development of the first DVB-RCS compatible mesh VSAT network system, as an extension of its SatLink product platform.
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Evolution Time — iDirect Directs Debut Of DVB-S2 Suite VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has launched the first suite of DVB-S2/ACM products in its Evolution product line—the Evolution X3 router, XLC-10 line card, and iDX software.
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ORBITZ... — ISCe — Macedonia State Broadcast Council — Thuraya —
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Orbit Brings SatTrains Into Reality Orbit has debuted their OrSat system, a Ku-band Maritime Stabilized Antenna—this is the world’s only system of its kind and size to offer Eutelsat and Intelsat Type Approvals.
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June 14, 2008 NASA's Shuttle Discovery—You've Come a Long Way, Baby Perfect. That's pretty much the description of the return trip that the space shuttle Discovery and its crew enjoyed as they landed without incidence at Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday at 11:15 EDT.
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Booz Allen Hamilton's Constellation Shines Bright At NASA NASA has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. a contract for technical support services for the Constellation Program, which is developing new spacecraft to travel beyond low Earth orbit.
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Teachers To Be Taught More About Space The Space Foundation's Space Discovery Institute is set to start on June 16th.
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June 12, 2008 WildBlue Communications Serves Up More Support WildBlue Communications has new partnerships with three U.S.-based call center providers that will strengthen the company’s ability to better serve its customers.
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Keepin' Those Engines Comin' For NASA A $16.8 million contract mod has been assigned to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Inc. by NASA.
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Oceaneering Well Suited For NASA Oceaneering International has been awarded a contract by NASA for the design, development, and production of a new spacesuit system.
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Financially Speaking... COM DEV International... COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has announced its Q2 financial results for the three-month period ended April 30, 2008.
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Intelsat Is More Than Game For EBU Olympics Delivery Intelsat, Ltd. has announced the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has signed a multi-transponder deal for the video carriage of the 2008 Summer Games to Europe.
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Lockheed Martin + Northrop Grumman Bringing It All Together Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has successfully mated the spacecraft core structure and the payload module for the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite.
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Globalstar Goes North To Alaska... And Even Further North Globalstar, Inc. has expanded its satellite Simplex data coverage to include all of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and the surrounding maritime regions including the Gulf of Alaska and portions of both the north Pacific and south Arctic Oceans.
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Skynet-5C + Turksat-3A Success... Astrium, Paradigm, + Thales Alenia Space Delighted! Astrium and Paradigm and Thales Alenia Space complete their satellite launch for Skynet-5 and Turksat-3A.
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NASA Collects Cosmic Dust Dust is usually something to get rid of, but not so for NASA.
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Ulysses Study of The Sun Sets It's been a long run, and the Ulysses performed beyond expectations.
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RapidEye Lives Up To Its Name RapidEye's constellation of five satellites will download an enormous amount of data with the capability to image up to four million square kilometers of the earth's surface daily.
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Channel Stacking and Single Cable LNB Specs Improve SatDelivery Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced their Channel Stacking Switch products support the ASTRA Single Cable Low Noise Block (LNB) down converter technical specification.
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Need For Hurricane Help Gets Echoed Officials of Echo Satellite Communications, Inc. (Other OTC:ECSC), a global provider of wireless, non-line-of-sight satellite communications products and services, has announced a hurricane awareness marketing push.
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Discovery Coming Home >Hopefully the return of the space shuttle Discovery crew will go smoothly when they land on Saturday, June 14 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:15 a.m. EDT.
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June 11, 2008 L-3 Electron Technologies Amps It Up L-3 Electron Technologies, Inc. (L-3 ETI) has intro'd their model 8928H 150W K-band Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier.
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Checking Out The Ocean Without Getting Soaked—OSTM/Jason 2 Launch Set June 20th at Vandenburg AFB in California is the location... the date is June 20th... and vehicle is a Delta II rocket... and the payload is the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM/Jason 2).
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Worldwide Satellite Industry Revenues Ramp Up The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has released its 2008 State of the Satellite Industry Report.
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Packin' the Watts—No Passing Of The BUC By Wavestream Wavestream Corporation is going to showcase its new 80-watt Ku-Band Matchbox Block Upconverter (BUC) for a variety of commercial and military satellite communications applications at CommunicAsia, June 17-20, 2008 in Stand 6J1-01 at the Singapore Expo in Singapore.
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NASA'S GLAST Blast At Last! High-fives and a loud WooHoo! After a number of delays, finally, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:05 p.m. EDT, June 11th.
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SkyBitz Tracking Aided By Globalstar Globalstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSAT) has announced mobile asset tracking and information management service provider SkyBitz, Inc. has launched the GLS 100 satellite mobile communicator.
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L-3 Communications Is IT For Johnson Space Center L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has been awarded a five-year, $49 million cost plus fixed fee contract by NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) to provide space systems domain expertise to enhance space training for NASA engineers and astronauts.
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MSV Brings CUSEC Earthquake Comm Relief Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) to form a new satellite mutual aid radio talkgroup (SMART) dedicated to the preparation for and response to earthquakes throughout the central United States.
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Eutelsat's EUROBIRD-9 To Deliver Cantonese TV To Europe Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) of Hong Kong, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of Chinese programs, has selected capacity on the EUROBIRD™ 9 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications.
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Orbit Asked Back For An Encore Orbit, a provider of solutions for mobile SatCom, tracking antennas, and audio management systems, has received an order for a tracking system from BHP Billiton.
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TerreStar Gloms Onto Spectrum TerreStar Corporation (NASDAQ:TSTR) has obtained, through separate transactions, certain 1.4 GHz spectrum licenses held by EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) and CCTV Wireless I, LLC (CCTV).
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Double Whammy Win For Spacehab SPACEHAB Inc.,'s Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has won a fourth, fully-funded task order under the $35 million Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.
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June 10, 2008 GeoEye + ITT's Glassy-Eyed Project GeoEye, Inc.'s glass mirror blank for its advanced, nexgen Earth imaging satellite has been delivered to ITT Corporation.
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ISCe Honors Hershberg David Hershberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Globecomm Systems Inc., has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Satellite Communications exchange (ISCe).
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iDirect Gets To The Hub Of The Matter For Tatanet VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems) and ST Electronics (Satcom & Sensor Systems) Pte Ltd (STEE-SatComS), have just announced a strategic partnership with Tatanet Services Ltd (Tatanet), India’s fastest growing VSAT service provider.
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ATK Launches Unified Single Business Unit Approach Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) will be combining its Launch Systems and Space Systems groups into a single business unit to prepare for future growth in space-related markets, nexgen missile defense, and prompt global strike missions.
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Slovenia "Signs On" With ESA An agreement on closer cooperation between ESA and Slovenia was signed on 28 May, by René Oosterlinck, ESA Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, and Mojca Kucler Dolinar, the Slovenian Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology.
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NASA Has One Coming Home + One Heading Out On Wednesday At 7:42 a.m. EDT, Discovery is scheduled to undock from the ISS to initiate the return home of the STS-124 crew.
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Defense Secretary Gates Explains Reasons For Air Force Leadership Dismissals If it were not for the serious decline in the Air Force's nuclear mission focus and performance, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during a speech at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia on June 9th that he would not have felt the need to replace the Air Force leadership.
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Blue Sky Network Has Got the 411 on Tracking As if sky rocketing gas prices aren't enough, it can be a jungle on the road, especially in hostile areas.
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ORBITZ... — Broadpoint — Failure Analysis — Marshall Space Flight Center —
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June 9, 2008 NASA + ATK Are Vertically Challenged NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have unveiled a new vertical test stand that will be used later this summer to support NASA's Constellation Program.
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SIDSA Assisting With MENA HD Protection The global technology provider, SIDSA, is providing Al Jazeera Sport with KeyFly Conditional Access System to protect its HD content.
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Globecomm Well Grounded With Ground Station Contract Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has been awarded a contract to build and install a new Ku band earth station valued at $3.1 million from an existing telecommunications customer in Asia (the customer).
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Arianespace Launch Back On Track After a delay, the lift-off of an Ariane 5 launch vehicle carrying the Skynet-5C and Turksat-3A is now scheduled for Thursday, June 12th.
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ChinaSat-9 Propelled Into Orbit ChinaSat-9 has been launched into orbit — otherwise known as ZhongXing-9 (ZX-9), the satellite was carried aloft by a CZ-3B Chang Zeng-3B (CZ3B-10 launch vehicle from the LC2 launch complex at the XiChang Launch Center.
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ORBITZ — Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) — International Datacasting — XM + FCC — ViaSat —
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MultiMedia Intelligence Forecasts In-Flight Broadband a Boom Flying now means you're not going to get a bag of peanuts, meals for the most part are a thing of the past, luggage costs extra, but wait—there's news regarding in-flight broadband.
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June 8, 2008 2009 Should See Cleared Spectrum Going To Auction In U.K. Ofcom, the United Kingdom's Office of Communications, has revealed detailed proposals as to how the organization will release the valuable spectrum that will be freed up as a result of the switchover to digital television.
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Dragon, ISS, SpaceX + NASA To Provide For One Another Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and NASA's Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Facility at Fairmont, West Virginia, working through the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of Greenbelt, Maryland, have announced the signing of a Space Act Agreement effort to advance the state of the art in mission as well as safety-critical software that will be used for sending SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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New DIRECTV MFH3 Software Release Is a 2X'er Recently recognized as the most significant and innovative technology for the multi-family housing market, the MFH3 (Multi-Family Housing version 3) satellite-based distribution platform, developed by DIRECTV and Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453) (NYSE: TMS), is being rolled out with a new software release.
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June 6, 2008 Many Awards By NASA For Kennedy Space Center Work NASA has selected contractors for a multiple award contract to provide fabrication of ground support equipment for Constellation and other space programs at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Time For The Right Stuff Again @ NASA NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in cooperation with the agency's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, recently issued a Cooperative Agreement Notice seeking research projects for the NASA Lunar Science Institute.
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Jason-2 Launch Jammed Up Jason-2's launch has been postponed by Eumetsat.
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Advent Flyaways Are HD + SD Players Advent Communications will show the 1.5 meter version of its FlyDrive satellite antenna at Broadcast Asia with its 5000 Series electronics package.
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SITA Starts Sending Flying Signals Via Iridium Net SITA is going to use the Iridium network to serve short haul aircraft as the company expands their aircraft communications business.
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June 5, 2008 COM DEV Proves Their Art Of Detection COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV) has announced a space-based AIS (Alarm Indication Signal) payload, launched on a dedicated satellite on April 28th, has validated the advanced space-based AIS performance capability, which COM DEV has developed.
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GLAST BLAST Done In By A Battery Dunno... this must be the fourth revisitation we've had regarding the launch date for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)
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Secretary of the Air Force and the USAF Chief Of Staff Forced To Resign + The Reasons For This Action In an official memorandum from the Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs, both the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff United States Air Force have been forced to resign their posts.
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Moving On Up... At COM DEV International... COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV) has appointed George Cwynar as President of COM DEV Canada and Michael Williams as President of COM DEV International Products.
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DataPath Fly-Away Brings WGS To Warfighters DataPath, Inc. has launched the DataPath V-SNAP Fly-Away multi-band SATCOM terminal as part of its continued focus on developing systems that leverage the U.S. military's newly deployed Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.
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ORBITZ... — Alltel + Verizon — GlobeCast + Pacific Century Group — Intelsat ± Rikor TV — Lavell Systemss + SkyPort Global Communications — NXTcomm08 —
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June 4, 2008 Military Expertise Abundantly Present At ISCe 2008 Featuring highly focused presentations conducted by leading industry execs, the 7th annual ISCe3 2008 Conference and Exhibition will be underway from June 10th through June 12th at The San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina in San Diego, California.
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GeoEye Looks At A $22M Add-On GeoEye, Inc. [NASDAQ: GEOY] has received new awards totaling $22 million to supply geospatial products and related services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
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Iridium and Vizada Supply a Boat Load of Solutions Vizada has agreed to become a global distribution partner for the Iridium OpenPortSM service.
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Software Glitch Responsible For Launch Delay Under Investigation During the final checks of last Friday's planned Ariane 5 ECA mission, a software programming error was discovered, resulting in the launch of the rocket with Skynet-5C and Turksat-3A satellites aboard being negated.
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Lockheed Martin In The Flow For IRIS The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and a national and international team of co-investigators, have been selected by NASA to complete a $750,000 six-month study to design a new NASA Small Explorer Mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).
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Clouds Make For A Brighter Day At Northrop Grumman What influence do clouds have on the temperature of the Earth?
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A Simplex Success For Globalstar Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has installed a simplex data applique at its new gateway ground station in Singapore.
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Viva GMV! To Provide Support For Brasilsat Good news arrived at GMV when the company learned it has been selected by Star One to upgrade the Brasilsat Satellite Control Facility for the Brasilsat B1, B2, B3 and B4 spacecraft.
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Boeing's Huge Contribution to Discovery The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] provided more than 1,600 of the components in the payload that Space Shuttle Discovery is delivering to the International Space Station (ISS).
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June 3, 2008 Newtec Is Above Par + Creates A Revolution in Russia Newtec, an innovator in the satellite and communication's industry, announced results of their satellite transmission tests.
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High Five for SpaceX's Five Firing of Falcon 9's Rocket Engines Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the first five-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas test facility.
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Government Space Acquisition To Acquire Intelligent Discourse U.S. Government spending on space accounts for one-quarter of the $251 billion global space economy.
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Financially Speaking... Iridium... Iridium Satellite continues to thrive with their mobile satellite services (MSS), which was further validated with an increase of 20 percent in their annual maritime subscriptions.
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Earth Station Mobility Is In Globecomm Contract Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has been awarded a blanket indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract from a global multilateral organization.
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Boeing Blesses New Ares I Subcontractors The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has awarded subcontracts to three small businesses under its NASA Ares I avionics contract.
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Deep Impact Obtains Epoxi NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called Epoxi.
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MSV's Nexgen SatNet Deployment Won't Be Difficult On Customers Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV)has announced plans to further extend its current generation network voice and mobile data services through December 31, 2012, and will offer these services on its nexgen hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications network slated for launch in 2010.
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Nilesat-201 To Carry Thales' Good Name Into Orbit Thales Alenia Space now has a contract with Nilesat, the Egyptian satellite company, to provide the Nilesat-201 broadcasting communication satellite and associated services and ground stations.
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ORBITZ.. — Eutelsat — MFG Galileo Composites — NASA —
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June 2, 2008 Satisfied Customer Places Add-On Order With Orbit The truest compliment of a job well done is to have a client return for more goods or services.
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ULA Is Ready, Once Again, To GLAST Off On June 7th. Gee, this is getting repetitive... this is the third date change for the launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket—now scheduled for Monday, June 7th.
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Moving Sideways... At Intelsat... Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Freimark of Intelsat, Ltd., a provider of fixed satellite services, announced his resignation, effective June 5th.
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Intelsat To Bring Food Relief Planning To Viewers Intelsat, Ltd. and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have announced that the FAO’s World Food Security Summit in Rome from June 3-5 will be broadcast globally via the Intelsat satellite network.
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New Thuraya Terminal Loves Ocean Cruising Thuraya has recently launched a new ThurayaMarine service designed for a wide variety of sea-going segments.
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Added VSAT Verisimilitude From SatLynx Satlynx, a GE Company now has available a range of Maritime VSAT services across its portfolio of platforms including SCPC, and shared and dedicated TDMA hubs.
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Arianespace Halts Launch A launcher software test being conducted during the final, pre-launch checks for the upcoming Ariane 5 ECA launch was considered to be not normal with its results.
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No Place Like Home For STS-124 Crew Space Shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station at 2:03 p.m. EDT Monday, delivering the second component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and a new Expedition 17 crew member.
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June 1, 2008 More to Offer With Triple Conferences at ISCe Hannover Fairs, USA, flagship ISCe will join forces with the AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference and the second annual Navy SATCOM Users Workshop.
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Successful Discovery Lifts Off With Lab—Toy And Plumbing Tools For Weightless Head... Another great day for NASA.
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ULA Now Ready To GLAST Off On June 5th The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is now scheduled for Thursday, June 5.
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Rapid Eye Eagerly Awaits Ship Date For EO Sats The wait is almost over as the expectation of an imminent launch adds excitement to the RapidEye Team these days
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Marlink Floats New Contract Marlink, a Vizada company, now has an agreement to provide the Sealink Maritime VSAT solution to Wilhelmsen Ship Management (WSM), market leader for the international transportation of vehicles at sea and part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services.
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SSTL CARES A Great Deal Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has secured a contract worth 1.6 million euros from Astrium GmbH, Germany, to proceed with work on a new contract to develop and supply the Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) EarthCARE Mission.
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ND SatCom's Terminal Affair With The U.S. Navy ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, has announced the company's U.S. affiliate ND SatCom Inc. has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, performance-based contract from the US Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Financially Speaking... SkyTerra Communications... SkyTerra Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: SKYT) has further extended the expiration date for its previously announced offer (the "Offer") to issue options to purchase shares of common stock of SkyTerra, in replacement of and upon termination of options to purchase limited partnership units of Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. ("MSV").
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Tracking A Follow-On Contract Is Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) last week announced their Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a $2.6 million follow-on contract from the Joint Contracting Command (JCC) — Iraq.
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