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April 30, 2016 Controlling Interest Of O3b Networks Now In SES Hands SES will pay USD 20 million to increase its fully diluted ownership of O3b from 49.1 to 50.5 percent.
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Sky Sailing Stratollites World View will be accelerating the development and commercial adoption of its “Stratollites”—or, high tech balloons that operate in the stratosphere.
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NSR Addresses The Elasticity Of Demand... How To Ensure It Doesn't Snap Back One of the hottest topics in satellite telecommunications is the concept of elasticity of demand.
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THAICOM 8's Trip From Orbital ATK's Virginia Facility To Cape Canaveral Is Successfully Completed THAICOM 8 is the second satellite Orbital ATK has built for Thaicom PLC and is based on the company’s flight-proven GEOStar-2™ platform.
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OneWeb Petitions The FCC For LEO Satellite Constellation Access To US Markets OneWeb's non-geostationary satellite constellation will make broadband access available today to many individuals across the world who have limited or no access.
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ULA Provides Updates Re: OA-6 Anomaly + MUOS V Processing Status The Atlas V MUOS-5 launch is targeted for early summer; a new launch date has not been secured on the Eastern Range.
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April 28, 2016 Russia's First Launch From The Vostochny Cosmodrome Successfully Rises The satellites aboard the rocket include Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218.
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Two Ka-Band Prototype Satellites Procured By Telesat—SSL & SSTL To Do The Honors Telesat has secured priority rights to certain Ka-band spectrum in non-geostationary orbits (NGSO) at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to operate such a constellation.
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An Exclusive NavWorx ADS-B Solution For Dallas Avionics The unit offers three simultaneous display capabilities and provides traffic and weather updates.
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DigitalGlobe Signs On New International D&I Client This agreement brings total commitments from customers for capacity on WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 since the third quarter of 2015 to $355 million
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USAF 2nd GPS III Launch Services Contract Awarded To SpaceX SpaceX will provide the government with a total launch solution for the GPS-III satellite, which includes launch vehicle production, mission integration, and launch operations and spaceflight certification.
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A UAS Traffic Management System Is In The Works Silent Falcon will be implementing a client that interacts with the NASA UTM.
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Product Additions To Norsat International's Microwave Portfolio The latest addition, the Median 40W BUC, joins the 16W and 25W versions that were announced earlier in 2016.
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Eurovision Rio Olympics & Facebook African Broadband Needs To Be Satisfied By SES & Gilat Bringing Rio Olympics to the world and high-speed broadband connectivity services to Sub-Saharan Africa in support of Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi program all SES projects.
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JAXA's ASTRO-H Satellite Left To Its Own Devices The organization has made every effort to confirm the status of ASTRO-H and to regain the satellite's functions.
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India's Seventh & Final IRNSS Satellite Is Launched he satellite was launched via the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), which took off from the Sriharikota launch pad at 12.50 p.m.
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Thaicom Signs Global Distribution Deal With Somaliland National Television... Deliver To Over Four Continents "The agreement will enable SLNTV to broadcast our network programming fare—which is comprised of entertainment, news and sports—to a worldwide audience.”
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BlackSky And United Nations Join Efforts To Create Constellation That Will Help Mankind BlackSky and the UN plan to utilize data and images collected from small satellites in revolutionary ways.
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April 27, 2016 Telenor Satellite To Host iRG Interference Event In Early May The workshop will educate the audience about recent developments, as well as giving case study examples of interference resolution.
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Advanced Space Radio Monitoring System For Sultanate Of Oman Finds Kratos ISR Completing CDR The successful completion of the CDR is significant as it demonstrates that the maturity of the design is appropriate to proceed with full-scale fabrication, assembly, integration and testing.
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A Global Forecast — The Satellite Transponder Market Commercial communication applications are projected to dominate the global satellite transponder market over the forecast period.
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Yahsat Celebrates Fifth Anniversary Of Y1A Launch In 2011, the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the satellite launched from the European Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
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First Partner For Thuraya's North American M2M Service Is Named... X2nSat Working in partnership with X2nSat, Thuraya will now be able to further extend its reach into US markets.
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Outerlink Global Has FAA STC Approval and Rings In Bell Helicopters IRIS combines multiple features currently available from various vendors into one single solution at a fraction of the cost that an operator would pay for each of the components it replaces.
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Advantech Wireless And Decibel Technology Make Great Sounds As Reseller/Partners ..."our recent expansion in Southern Asia has led to the need to establish high quality sales and support channels for our products.”
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Global Teleports Provides Just What The Folks Need... Broadband Service Even At The Most Rural Events Ah, the irony of attending a technology show and not having adequate broadband service at the event—there is now a solution.
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April 26, 2016 Marlink Flexes Their SATCOM Services The service enables Marlink customers to increase their bandwidth on-demand on their VSAT connectivity service.
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SSL's LEO Award SSL will also provide the launch and will operate the satellite on orbit.
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NSR Finds That The Fundamentals For UltraHD Via Satellite Are Strong The pieces of the UltraHD puzzle are finally beginning to come together—this will drive higher ARPUs, higher leasing revenues, and global growth opportunities long term.
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TRACE Urban Channel Heading Into APAC Via ABS-2 Satellite TRACE Urban is the #1 international urban music channel.
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DEV Systemtechnik’s New L-Band Matrix Switch Provides Mobile Broadcast TV Production, OB, SNG, And Head Ends A Performance Boost “Most RF equipment providers have either small or large L-Band Matrix Switches, but nothing in between covering particularly asymmetrical configuration sizes."
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Going CLUBBING With MEASAT Satellite Systems The channel will reach more than 200 million households across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Australia and East Africa.
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The Stratobus Project From Thales Alenia Space Has Now Started Stratobus is an autonomous stratospheric airship that was just approved by the French government’s “investment in the future” program, with funding of 17 million euros.
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Newtec & Kacific Engage With Dialog South-East Asia and the Pacific, from Sumatra, Indonesia, to the French Polynesian archipelagos, will ultimately benefit from the Kacific broadband service.
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NSIDC's Daily Sea Ice Updates In Hot Water... Issues With The Satellite Data The special sensor on F-17 is experiencing difficulties, therefore the sea ice time series are temporarily suspended.
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ESA Says "Fly Your Satellite!" And So They Did... Including A First For Amateur Radio Signals from all three have been received on Earth.
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KVH's Milestone Exceeds 6,000 TracPhone Satellite Communications Antenna Systems Since that early market introduction, the company has ramped up to an average of nearly 1,000 systems per year for five consecutive years...
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DISA's Name Change Better Reflects True Missions The 164,000 square foot, $100M facility features a global operations center and also includes a cafeteria and fitness center.
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April 25, 2016 GNSS Dead-Reckoning Receiver Debuts From SkyTraq Technology S1722DR8 engineering sample, evaluation kit, and datasheet are available in May.
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Globecomm Brings Satellite Connectivity To AT&T IoT Services This service now provides one integrated solution for managing IoT devices, networks and applications.
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Intelsat's Game Is On For The Rio Olympics High throughput satellite technology makes its first EpicNG play at the Games this summer.
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High Power Solar Electric Propulsion In Development By NASA NASA has been refining development of spaceflight electric propulsion technology for more than five decades.
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China Planning To Reach Mars By 2021 The spacecraft will be launched by the new-generation Long March-5 heavy lift rocket.
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On The Show Floor: NanoSpace & ECAPS At Space Propulsion Exhibition 2016 In Rome Attendees will learn more about these exciting technologies at the planned presentations...
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Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Market Report 2016-2026 Reveals Drive Up In Demands The global military unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market is a dynamic one that will register strong growth during this period.
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NEC & Gazprom Have 4K Success Via Yamal-401 Satellite The companies confirmed it is possible to broadcast in 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) format through Gazprom Space Systems' Yamal satellite network.
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Boosters For NASA's SLS Cast At Orbital ATK'S Utah Facility Casting involves filling the insulated metal case with propellant and allowing it to solidify or “cure” for several days.
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Ball Aerospace Scores Instrument Builds For NOAA's JPSS-3 & -4 Ball Aerospace will manufacture, test and deliver two OMPS instruments, support instrument integration on the JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 spacecraft, and provide launch and post-launch support.
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Arianespace Launches Sentinel-1B... On Its Way To Meet Its Twin ...Copernicus Now Compete Working together, the Sentinel-1 satellites will image the entire planet every six days.
EMC Receives Multi-Year Contract ...Provides Mission Critical Operations To Oilfield Services Company "While others are cutting back to accommodate market conditions, we are investing in the future to distinguish our global leadership in mission-critical communications and content.”
SES' Offers SATLAS... A Business Incubator That Provides New Life To Companies With Satcom Applications SATLAS will support entrepreneurs with innovative Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services ideas which could benefit from satellite communications.
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Airbus Defence And Space Detects Changes After Huge Hurricane In Farquhar Island, Seychelles Impressive changes to an island that was practically blown away. EO satellites revealed almost total devastation.
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April 24, 2016 Arianespace Anounces Soyuz Flight VS14 Back On Again... The launch is back on again.
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April 23, 2016 Howdy!...Cobham Antenna Systems Are Now Available In Texas As Well As The UK Cobham Antenna Systems existing range of airborne and satcom antenna products currently available in England are now available in Cobham Antenna Systems Lewisville, Texas.
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April 22, 2016 NSR Likens Darwin's Theory Of Survival Of The Fittest To Adaptable Changes In The Satellite Industry report found that in commercial markets, average annual GEO orders will decline by 5 percent, and non-GEO orders will increase by more than 600 percent in the coming decade.
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Liftoff at NASA's 16th Annual Student Launch Challenge Nearly 50 middle and high school, college and university teams from 22 states competed in the challenge, demonstrating advanced aerospace and engineering skills related to real-world activities and programs on NASA's Journey to Mars.
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Pre-Summit Kickoff Briefing For 2016 Space 2.0 To Feature NovaWurks Founder The April 26 Pre-Summit Briefing precedes the three-day Space 2.0 Summit profiling industry breakthroughs in space commercialization.
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DigiTerra Explorer 7 Drives Spectra Precision Antenna This new interface enables the DigiTerra Explorer to drive the MobileMapper 300 directly.
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Ecuadorian Emergency Support By Télécoms Sans Frontières With Inmarsat BGAN A team from TSF is now supporting its UN partner in its connectivity efforts for the country’s most affected zones.
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Mitsubishi Electric Group To Aid Victims Of Japanese Earthquakes Mitsubishi Electric will also coordinate a matching gift program in Japan through the Mitsubishi Electric SOCIO-ROOTS Fund.
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Mars Orbiter Satellite Designs Now Being Solicited By NASA Under the direction of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is conducting pre-formulation planning for this possible orbiter mission.
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NASA In Discussions With Orbital ATK For VAB Use at Kennedy Space Center If an agreement is negotiated, NASA will act as the overall site operator for the facility.
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Non-hobby UAS Registration Via A New System Is Recommended By The FAA In contrast to paper registration, web-based registration significantly speeds up the process.
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Cobham SATCOM's EXPLORER 540 M2M Terminal Obtains Inmarsat Type Blessing EXPLORER 540 delivers real-time M2M communication for diverse applications including IP SCADA for data backhaul, asset tracking, real-time surveillance and remote telemetry.
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By 2016, UAV Market To Reach $7,447 Million In Value, According To ASDReports The report contains 301 tables, charts and graphs that utilize visual representation in order to clarify trends and market projections within the military UAV market.
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Australian Defence Force Names Harris For Battlespace Comms Provisioning The plan will modernize the Australian Army’s communications network
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Thirty Years Of Success In Japan Celebrated By Arianespace The first Japanese commercial telecommunications satellite, JCSAT-1, was orbited by Arianespace on March 6, 1989, for the operator Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation.
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Healthcare In Niger To Be Enhanced By SES' SATMED E-Health Services The SATMED e-health platform was conceived by SES Techcom Services and is funded by the Luxembourg Government and the Ministry for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action.
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April 21, 2016 Partnership Signed Between Optus Satellite and RigNet Australia This agreement will see RigNet providing services to the Australasia region and in establishing presence and assets into Optus Satellite east and west coast Earth stations.
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Yippy For Globalstar Yippy has just completed the installation of the first six Blue Flame appliances on Globalstar's network.
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Haigh-Farr Showcasing Antenna Solutions at Inaugural DATT Summit Haigh-Farr, a founding sponsor of this event, will showcase a range of applicable antenna products throughout the run of the show.
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Satellite Broadband In Western Russia To Be Powered By Gilat for Eutelsat Services Gilat's SkyEdge II-c hub with X-Architecture and SkyEdge II-c small user terminals will deliver broadband services using the new Express AMU1/EUTELSAT 36C satellite.
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The 500th Large-Scale Rocket Structure Milestone Attained By Orbital ATK The 500th structure is a boat tail manufactured with zero defects for a ULA Atlas V launch vehicle.
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April 20, 2016 RSCC’s Eutelsat Receivables Have Been Lifted By A French Court The French court has held that the attached assets did not belong to the Russian Federation but were the property of RSCC.
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Maritime MOU Between SpeedCast and Beijing Marine Signed For Strategic Partnership MCN and SpeedCast will integrate MCN’s VSAT network in Asia Pacific and SpeedCast’s global VSAT networks to provide global connectivity to the maritime industry.
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Novra Technologies + International Datacasting Corporation Agree To Merge + No Finder's Fee By combining forces with IDC, Novra is well positioned to increase its market share in the data, radio and television broadcast segments along with Digital-Cinema, and IP-TV.
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A Pivotal Role To Be Played By Thales Alenia Space In The Horizon 202 Research Program The French-Italian company naturally takes an active role in the Horizon 2020 program and has already been awarded a number of key projects.
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Witbe Extends Their Partnership With Canal+ The Witbe Robots are able to check any Set-Top-Boxes for black screens, frozen pictures, error screens, DRM/CAS issues and sound unavailability on any live stream, even when they are scrambled.
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Soyuz Stands Set—Sentinel-1B To be lofted on the April 22 mission is Sentinel-1B, which will provide all-weather, day/night images as part of Europe's Copernicus Earth observation program.
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Inflight Connectivity Bandwidth Over Key Regions Added By Global Eagle Entertainment Via SES Transponders These latest agreements between GEE and SES secure multiple transponders of wide beam Ku-band coverage aboard SES’s NSS-12 and AMC-1 satellites.
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Royal Malaysian Navy Goes With Rohde & Schwarz For Comm Systems R&S NAVICS is the core component for the next generation of highly integrated communications systems for naval applications.
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MAPS™ MEGACO Rolls Out From GL Communications The MEGACO protocol is implemented in binary encoding over 2G/3G core network.
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Arianespace Multi-Mission Payload Aboard Soyuz Ready For Launch Date The launch vehicle will deploy the passengers into LEO during a mission lasting 4 hours and 52 seconds.
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April 19, 2016 The Trends and Markets Analyzed By NSR In Their Latest Report This report provides a deep-dive into where the market is going for In-service Units, Capacity Demand, and Revenue Opportunities.
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Sentinel-1A's Twin Receives A Major Comms Assist From RUAG Space The Sentinel satellite family will deliver data for a variety of environmental and safety-related applications, including detecting oil spills, mapping sea ice, monitoring the movement of land masses and mapping trends in land use.
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Bringing ORBCOMM and Skygistics Together Is Near Earth LLC Skygistics provides a broad range of satellite and cellular connectivity options as well as telematics solutions centered around the management of remote and mobile assets to more than 250 telematics and enterprise customers.
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SES and Rutgers University Test Satellite CDN Delivery For Streaming OTT and 5G A national demonstration of the satellite-based CDN will make up the second phase of the project, through a collaborative effort involving other universities and their network test beds across the U.S.
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OHB Space Center For Optics and Science Is Inaugurated The laboratory facilities are spread over a total of 1,000 square meters and accommodate all the development and testing equipment required for executing space system projects.
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Partnerships Initiated Between LandWorks and USLandGrid LandWorks will exclusively resell USLandGrid data sets via its sales force and Web AutoMapper.
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The Forestry Commission Of The UK Now Involved In Final Rollout Of SPOT Gen3® Messenger As many as 550 of the devices will be used by the Forestry Commission to enhance the safety of its staff.
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Major Maritime Terminal Deal For Addvalue Innovation Satellite communication terminals will be supplied, as well as related support services to the China regional maritime vessels market.
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OneWeb Satellites Drives Into Florida With Multi-Million Dollar Manufacturing Facility The factory near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is set to open in 2017.
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Arianespace Enjoys A Double Celebration... 30 Years + 30 Contracts With 30 contracts signed in 30 years, Arianespace has launched 75 percent of Japan's commercial satellites,
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April 18, 2016 On The Show Floor — Advantech Wireless Will Spotlight Broadcasting Solutions At NAB2016 he WSM-5000 supports single carrier data rate up to 500 Msps (600 MHz) with an improved 1 percent roll-off-factor, delivering cost savings of up to 30 percent in broadcast and broadband DVB- S2X deployments.
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Globalstar + Manx Teaming Up To Develop A First — An Integrated Cell and Mobile Satellite Service One of the first services to be developed by the new alliance, and supported by specialist technical consultancy firm, Intelcomm, is FRAN.
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Harris Tactical Radios Consigned To MENA Defense Forces Harris will provide Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) vehicular radios.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... NSSLGlobal Navigates To A Majority Ownership Of Marine Electronics Solutions The further strengthening of the already existing long term strategic relationship will allow these companies to pool their engineering expertise.
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Cobham Antenna Systems Spiraling Their Way With New Antenna This antenna is suitable for multi-band communications as well as cellular countermeasure and security applications.
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Reconnaissance Satellite Sale To Egypt In The Works The satellite purchase is part of a military deal package that includes navy vessels and military transportation aircraft.
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EUMETSAT Reports Moscow Is Now Included In EARS-ATMS + EARS-CrlS Geographical Coverage Roshydromet's European regional center in Moscow has made available more timely regional Suomi-NPP data from the two instruments.
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Lockheed Martin Blasts-Off Taking Students On An Experience Of A Lifetime ...Generation Beyond "This is the generation that will walk on Mars, explore deep space and unlock mysteries that we can’t yet imagine...”
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Airbus Defence & Space FOG For SWOT Mission The gyro will be integrated at the heart of the KaRIn (Ka-band Radar Interferometer) instrument.
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CPI Satcom Division Awarded With $1 Million Contract For DTH Broadcast Services Support CPI was selected because the company is a leading supplier of klystron-based amplifiers worldwide.
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Inmarsat's Strategy For Broadcasters Is Validated With A Show + Tell... From Rio de Janeiro To Vegas Inmarsat unveils new satcom strategy to support the mobile journalist with live Global Xpress broadcast from Rio de Janeiro to NAB in Las Vegas
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April 15, 2016 Smart Shipping For Nanjing Tankers From Cobham SATCOM + Inmarsat Cobham and Inmarsat partner Beijing Marine Communication & Navigation Company Ltd. (MCN) will manage the roll-out of Cobham’s SAILOR 100 GX and SAILOR 60 GX antenna systems to NTC.
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C-COM Training For iNetVu In Tandem With CommunicAsia2016 This training event will run on both days of this trade show
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Double US Army TROJAN Contracts For SES Government Solutions These contracts support the premier Army intelligence network, using the SES global data network.
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Russian SuperLab Opens For Students The "SuperLab" specializes in space technology and biomechanics.
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New TV Distribution Platform Created By Spacecom & Encompass The joint service will be distributed throughout EMEA over the AMOS-6 Ku Pan-European beam from the satellite's 4 degrees West prime orbital position.
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Partnership Between PCI Geomatics & MapAfrika Is Renewed The increased use of Geomatica in the region can be traced back to key initiatives such as the one initiated in March 2015.
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ND SatCom's New Satellite Courses In Poland All SKYWAN products are able to implement star, multi-star, hybrid or full mesh satellite networks.
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Rocket Lab's Second Stage Test Firing Successful The second stage is responsible for delivering payloads of 150 kg to a nominal 500 km sun-synchronous orbit.
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Moving On Up... MDA Appoints Lance To President + CEO Mr. Lance succeeds Daniel Friedmann who has served as CEO of the company since 1995 and he'll continue to serve as member of the Board of Directors.
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Connectivity In Rural Bangladesh To Be Supported By SES SES Techcom Services recently partnered with FRIENDSHIP in Bangladesh to install its state-of-the-art maritime VSAT antennas and to deploy SATMED, the satellite-based e-health platform, on three FRIENDSHIP hospital ships.
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Skyware Technologies Garners Inmarsat's OK For ATOM 99 The terminal will provide high quality live broadcast capabilities in even the most inaccessible regions.
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April 14, 2016 The Advantech Wireless Launch Of Advanced SCPC Modems These new modems support all of the latest DVB-S2X standard’s modulation and coding.
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First Live 4K UHD Broadcast In France Powered By ATEME In parallel, the satellite signal was transcoded by IRT using TITAN to power a fine-tuned UHD DASH OTT real-time delivery on Arte’s HbbTV portal for smart TVs.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know... ORBCOMM + Skygistics Join Forces Skygistics will add distribution for ORBCOMM’s broad range of products in some of the fastest growing IoT markets.
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Integrated Satellite Email & Weather Service Launched The integration of the two products gives world-class weather information to users.
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Continent Mapping Initiative For PSMA Australia Completed By DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is creating a massive amount of geospatial content and location information derived from more than 7.6 million square kilometers of high resolution satellite imagery.
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Self-Contained, Remote Networking System Debuts From DataPath The kit’s transportability and simplified user panel make the solution ideal for remote operations such as newsgathering, government and military, disaster recovery, and oil and gas applications.
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Sentinel-1B To Work Its Wonders After April 22nd Launch Once in orbit it will join its twin, Sentinel-1A (launched in April of 2014) to complete the Sentinel-1 polar orbiting constellation.
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ETL Systems Storms NAB 2016... With Hurricane 64x64 RF Router Susan Saadat, ETL’s Vice President of Americas will be among ETL representatives at the event to demonstrate the range of products...
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April 13, 2016 SSC Brings A New Ground Operations Approach For SmallSats + Constellations The new endeavor aims to lower costs while providing reliability to the SmallSat and CubeSat market.
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Near Real-Time Vessel Monitoring Achieved By ORBCOMM ORBCOMM launched six of the industry’s most powerful AIS satellites in 2014, significantly improving the company's ability to provide global AIS data.
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Free-Space Optical Comms Solution In The Works By SST-US & BridgeSat Under this partnership, Surrey will build the flight laser terminal units that will communicate with BridgeSat’s global ground network.
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Orbital ATK To Extend Satellite Life For Intelsat Orbital ATK will manufacture, test and launch the first Commercial Servicing Vehicle (CSV), the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1), which incorporates flight-proven technologies the company has used in its commercial satellite and space logistics businesses.
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On The Show Floor—DEV Systemtechnik at NAB2016 RF signals at both the output of the ARCHIMEDES Matrix, and from separate equipment, can be analyzed without the need for additional rack space or measurement equipment.
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American Space Renaissance Act Released By Bridenstine... EchoStar Welcomes The Legislation "The American Space Renaissance Act makes comprehensive and bold policy advances and reforms necessary to ensure American leadership in space.”—Congressman Jim Bridenstine.
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CNES Selects Airbus Defence And Space To Build MicroCarb Map To Measure CO2
The instrument is so accurate it can measure CO2 levels accurately to within one part in a million.
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Alpha Satcom Antennas Avoids The Chills With Walton De-Ice Systems Walton Hot Air De-Ice systems heat the entire antenna reflector uniformly, which minimizes reflector distortion that can cause signal problems.
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Eutelsat Deploys V-Nova PERSEUS™ For Faster Feeds
The deployed system will be used from the quarter final onwards to enable RAI to offer live coverage of the final stages of the football tournament in Ultra HD/4K
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April 12, 2016 USAFA FalconSAT Update During 32nd Space Symposium FalconSAT is the U.S. Air Force Academy's capstone undergraduate systems engineering course.
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Slovakian Smallsat To Gain Orbit Mid-Year The pocket-sized one-unit CubeSat, named skCUBE, is currently slated for liftoff this June atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Bigelow's Spatial Habitats Involve United Launch Alliance Boost The volumes will be based on the Bigelow Aerospace B330 expandable module with the initial launch to orbit in 2020 on ULA's Atlas V 552 configuration launch vehicle.
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Curtiss-Wright's KAM-500 Destined For Rocket Lab's Electron Curtiss-Wright will supply Rocket Lab with its Space COTS Acra KAM-500 DAU products.
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Flash For NISAR This Airbus D&S flash-based solution offers 60 percent better performance, is also 2.5 times lighter, 5 times smaller and consumes 3.5 times less power than previous offerings.
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UHD Live European Sports Event To APAC Viewers Via AsiaSat 4 This will be the first ever live UHD telecast of a major European football competition match in the Asia Pacific
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Weebill's HyperQube Needs A Kick Weebill wants to put its 10cm x 10cm x 10cm satellite—the HyperQube—into the hands of consumers, businesses and actually anyone who wants access to space.
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Blue Canyon Technologies To Build CubeRRT For Ohio State University
RFI is a growing concern for Earth science observations due to its negative impact on science measurements with microwave radiometers.
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Blue Canyon Technologies' 6U Spacecraft Selected By Colorado State University To Test Storms And More A future five-satellite TEMPEST mission would provide the first temporal observations of cloud and precipitation processes on a global scale.
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ONE CONNXT Chosen By ONE World Sports For NASL Defending Champions... NY Cosmos “We are extremely excited about the quality, speed and low cost of ONE CONNXT’s video transport capabilities and ...
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April 11, 2016 Orbital ATK En Route To Major Event And Also The Recipient Of A Major NASA Sounding Contract Featured in their exhibit will be industry leading space launch vehicles as well as related rocket propulsion systems and more...
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SMI's MilSatCom USA To Have A Commanding Presence In Arlington This highly popular defence conference will provide the latest updates on the MILSATCOM programs of the UK, Canada, Spain, France and NATO.
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A Fantastically Free CubeSat Movement For US Colleges And Universities CubeSat competition applications must be returned by June 1, 2016.
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NASA's Kepler Heads Into Emergency Mode For signals to traverse this vast distance, 13 minutes are needed for the completion of communications.
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GeoSync Microwave Syncs In A New Synthesizer Supplied are two separate RF output frequencies which are independently programmed and can be either arbitrarily stepped, swept or hopped.
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Ball Aerospace Delivers Their Expertise To The 32nd Space Symposium Their new branding coincides with the launch of Ball’s new website at Ball.com.
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45th Space Wing Assists The Dragon This was the seventh major launch operation for the Eastern Range this year and was also the eighth contracted mission by SpaceX under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract
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NSR's Study... Will Energy Have The Energy To Recover? Between the ‘if-it-ain’t-broke’ mindset prevalent in the Oil & Gas industry to the US Government purchasing a keg’s worth of capacity one-pint-at-a-time
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Deep Interest In CubeSats Draws Rear Admiral Brown To Cal Poly During his visit, Brown spoke with members of Cal Poly's CubeSat program on various topics such as Cal Poly's activities with CubeSats.
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DARPA's XS-1 Program Enters Phase 2...Despite Declining Budgets Fly 10 times in a 10-day period...
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On The Show Floor—Newtec at NAB2016 Newtec will be offering live demos of their Mx-DMA® in action.
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Thuraya Cements APAC Maritime Comms Support Into Place This new service agreement aims to speed the response times for service partners who require vital maintenance work, resulting in faster response times for service partners and end customers alike.
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Euroconsult Offers Their EO For Defense & Security Expertise The manufacturing market value of these 80 EO defense satellites over 2016-2025 will be approximately $20 billion.
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Kepler Stable On Sunday morning, Kepler reached a stable state and the antenna once again pointed toward Earth.
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ULA's Update Regarding Atlas V's Latest Delay It's better to err on the side of caution, ensuring a safe and successful launch.
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SpaceX-8 Payloads Arrive At ISS... Now The Work Really Begins There are a variety of scientific disciplines represented with this latest arrival at ISS.
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April 8, 2016 Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) Welcomes The Newest Member... India Chapter The start of the Indian chapter represents a significant milestone in advancing India’s space ecosystem and raising public awareness of the benefits of the space industry and science to the people of India.
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BUCs + TWTAs Heading To European Integrator From CPI Satcom Products These amplifiers will be used to support transcontinental broadcasting and data transfer applications.
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SpaceX Did It...'Of Course I Still Love You' Launches + Returns With A Perfect Three-Point Landing What goes up at 4,000 miles per hour hopefully comes back down in reverse for a perfect three-point landing. How'd it go?
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New Version Of DataMiner At NAB2016 This new version of DataMiner brings a new array of features to the NMS/OSS environs
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General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies Heading To Kwajalein With Space Fence Structure The structure stands 12 meters tall and is about the size of two regulation NBA basketball courts placed side-by-side.
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A No Go For MUOS-5 An ongoing evaluation process is now underway.
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Lockheed Martin's NIRCam Exceeds Requirements For JWST Inclusion Not only is the optical performance better than required, the results were rock-steady and revealed no measurable change between the tests.
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National Space Society Lauds SpaceX Landing Accomplishment NSS believes that this form of competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin will drive rapid space progress forward.
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April 7, 2016 Satellite Services For Aircraft Analyzed By NSR In Their Upcoming Report NSR’s extensive experience in assessing aero SATCOM trends and drivers helps readers map their future in this high growth market.
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New Video Animation From INTEGRASYS For Their Satmotion Pocket Product The video is entitled "Satellite Made Easy" and is hosted on YouTube.
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Data Being Received From The Sentinel-3A Satellite Is Most Promising Sentinel-3A was launched on February 16 of this year and is now operating nominally and all instruments are activated.
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Forging A Link For Uplink With Babcock Is SIS LIVE The service commenced this month with SIS LIVE providing uplink facilities from their MediaCityUK teleport.
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GeoSpatial Experts Think GIS® Suite Gains With A WTH Technology Partner WTH customers will now be able to quickly and easily collect field data with mobile devices and integrate the data into their Think GIS® mapping system.
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NSSLGlobal Is Pluggin' + Playin' In The Maritime Sector CC-LITE is compatible with both FleetBroadband and Iridium Open Port, meaning it can be integrated into a number of vessels across A1 to A4 regions.
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DARPA Helping Aircraft To Automatically Avoid Mid-Air Collisions The integrated sense-and-avoid (SAA) system includes a single optical camera that provides imagery for detection and tracking.
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RF-Design Is Flexible w/FlexLink S7A-1616... Showcased @ CommunicAsia 2016 This new Switch Matrix unit is especially designed for smaller sized RF distribution and signal management architectures.
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USAF Space Command's Space And Missile Systems Center + 460th Space Wing... Transfer Sats + Payloads "This is a major milestone along the path to demonstrating the ability for Block 10 to conduct the missile-warning and defense missions of the SBIRS and DSP constellations, and...
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Northrop Grumman Alerts USAF...Ready To Take On GPS III The Air Force is looking to update the GPS system, which has been delivering precise global position, navigation and timing services worldwide for more than two decades.
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Striking Oil In Space? China Goes High To Study Earth’s Depths... Sends Pressurized Oil Into Space
The Soret Coefficient in Crude Oil experiment will measure how hydrocarbon molecules redistribute when the temperature is not uniform.
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DigitalGlue... Highest $ales Achievement Award From Harmonic ...Five Out Of Six Years
This is the fifth time out of the last six years that DigitalGlue has received this honor.
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April 6, 2016 Quakin' Queries On ISRO's + NASA's Agenda The satellite is called NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR.
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French Defence To Obtain New Digital Maps From Airbus Defence & Space + Thales The maps will mainly be based on images acquired by the two Pléiades satellites.
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A First For Cobham SATCOM's AVIATOR Systems — A Boeing Certification Agreement The agreement is Cobham SATCOM’s first contract with an airplane manufacturer for the AVIATOR S Series, which supports Inmarsat’s new generation SwiftBroadband Safety service.
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Moving On Up... Monteverde Named As Hiltron Communication's New Sales Director He joins the company from AFT Microwave where he was responsible for sales and business development of microwave components for space, defence, medical, sensor, and industrial applications.
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To Protect + Defend Is Trustwave's Plan For Inmarsat's Maritime Offerings Among the features offered are advance firewall, anti-virus, intrusion prevention and web filtering, which is backed by global round-the-clock support.
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Vanguard Space Technologies Modular Solar Arrays Incorporated Into Surrey Satellite Technology US Orbital Test Bed Mission Solar panels are among the most specifically tailored component on any spacecraft, rarely the same between any two, and yet nearly every spacecraft needs them.
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April 5, 2016 Major International Satellite Navigation Contest Now Underway... Get Going... Each year, the competition unveils new trends and more than 500 business ideas.
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A Future Connected World—IoT and Smart Cities Take Asia by Storm—A CommunicAsia2016 Highlight Asia contains nearly half of the world’s Internet users and countries in the region are eager to implement these technologies to connect their cities.
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Capacity Increase Via Thaicom Transponders Acquired By Forever Group The contract is a major milestone in significantly increasing the utilization rate on Thaicom satellites.
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Artel Video Systems Bringing New Satellite Scanning Product To NAB2016 DLC510 functions as an L-band satellite demodulator and as a fully automatic L-band transponder scanner.
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What'll It Be? AIMS Or ASPEN? Bridge Technologies Will Support Both... AIMS and ASPEN are competing proposals for Video over IP as the broadcast industry transitions away from SDI.
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GL Enhances MEGACO (H.248) Emulator with Binary Encoding GL's MAPS™ (MEGACO /H.248) can simulate both MSC and MG network elements across Mc interface in 2G/3G and VoIP networks.
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Ship-To-Shore Emailing Evolution Via GTMaritime's New Service Usage of GTMailPlus is already approaching 1,000 ships and builds on the popular GTMail platform in use on over 3,000 vessels.
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The Price Is Right — NSR's New Satellite Capacity Pricing Index Q1 2016 Is Published This pricing index zeroes in on today's pricing dynamic and provides real, current pricing information for satellite capacity at the most detailed level possible.
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Get More Out Of Your Waveform Generators By Attending Free Keysight Webinar We'll discuss ingenious ways you can use your function generator to create and generate signals with amazing flexibility and get a signal that more accurately represents your true waveform.
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RF Electronic Warfare App Order Received By Mercury Systems The order was received in the Company's fiscal 2016 third quarter and is expected to be shipped over the next several quarters.
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Moving On Up... Walter To Vice President @ Sevis Systems... The appointment follows the successful integration with multiple vendors of satellite ground segment equipment.
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Satellite Industry Forum To Be Launched @ NAB2016 — Keynote By ViaSat's Dankberg The forum will focus on the role the satellite industry plays in broadcasting and delivering high quality video content to and from anywhere on the planet.
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China Launches Their SJ-10 Research Satellite SJ-10 was put into orbit by a Long March 2-D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern China's Gobi desert.
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HSN Shops Around... Signs On SES Furthering SES' North American Orbital Arc
HSN broadcasts live to approximately 95 million households across the US using SES satellite capacity.
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Clyde Space Has A New Space... New Look + Branding The website now offers integration with our social media feeds so feel free to comment, share and like our social media pages.
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DSI Selects ORBCOMM ... Keepin' 'em Chilled... Telematics Solutions For Dry + Refrigerated Trailers Fleet-wide solution improves asset utilization, operational efficiency and customer service
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Sweden’s Civil Contingencies Agency Plans Protection... National Emergency Communications w/2wcom
The FM and RDS measurement and monitoring functionality of the FlexMon FM02 was enhanced for this project with the ability to monitor early warning messages and switch to the national EWR channel.
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April 4, 2016 The Lockheed Martin Exhibit Center Is Packed To Capacity At The 32nd Space Symposium More international participation than ever is expected this year, with 30 international exhibits representing 14 countries.
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European Space Solutions Conference At The Hague Is Underway... The European Space Solutions conference brings together business, policy makers, developers of spaced-based solutions and users to provide opportunities for learning, exchange of information and ideas and networking.
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GAO Assesses NASA's Major Projects Over the last two years, eight projects in the portfolio established cost and schedule baselines
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Rockwell Collins Extends Their Talons For The Peruvian Navy The Talon radio will provide secure voice and data communication capabilities to support the various missions of the SH-2G platform.
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ORBCOMM’s Cold Chain Monitoring Solution Selected By Fairchild Freight For Freezing Telematics ORBCOMM will provide both satellite and cellular connectivity through state-of-the-art hardware and a web-based reporting platform for optimal fleet management.
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Moving On Up... WTA's Board Of Directors Adds New Members “WTA benefits enormously from the willingness of these top decision-makers to contribute their time and expertise to the Board,” said executive director Robert Bell.
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A December Launch Is Anticipated For India's GSAT-11 Satellite The GSAT-11 payload will provide a capacity of about 10 Gbps to render broadband connectivity in rural areas.
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DARPA Wishes Gremlins To Be Everywhere... In The Air... The Phase 1 contracts have been awarded to four teams whose proposals cover a spectrum of technical approaches to this challenging mission.
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GTMaritime Takes Shipboard Email To Another Level Usage of GTMailPlus is already approaching 1,000 ships and builds on the popular GTMail platform in use on over 3,000 vessels.
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April 1, 2016 An Asian UHD Neighborhood Being Constructed By MEASAT MEASAT will use MEASAT-3a’s global beam to deliver the channel to payTV operators across Asia Pacific and Australia.
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New Keysight Application Note Discusses IoT Design + Test Challenges Engineers are provided with hardware and software test solutions for the many RF and high-speed digital technologies used in IoT.
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Norsat International Prepared To Show All During NAB2016 Covering transmit frequencies from 12.25 to 18 GHz, including CDL-band and Low Ku- band, the ATOM 250W SSPAs and BUCs can be configured to suit operation on any Ku-band satellite.
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Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2016 Report Released By The World Teleport Association This is the sixth report in WTA's annual Satellite Operator Benchmarks series.
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Progress Pushes Off From Baikonur For ISS A payload of some three tons of equipment and necessary supplies is aboard Progress.
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