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February 26, 2010 Vaddio — Conversion Considerations, Format Formulations (SatBroadcasting™) Vaddio is now shipping the new UXHD CrossPoint, a dual input, dual output video format converter and scaler for HD-SDI and analog video signals.
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Numerex — Financially Speaking... Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) announced financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009.
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NASA — Three Decades Of Rocket Tests Over NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.
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Bueno! EchoStar And Partner Bid On Satmex For $267 Million U.S. satellite fleet operator EchoStar and its Mexican satellite-television partner are proposing to buy struggling Mexican satellite operator Satmex for $267 million in cash in a deal endorsed by Satmex management but still awaiting make-or-break approval by Satmex bondholders, “some of which … are opposed to the transaction,” EchoStar announced February 26.
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February 25, 2010 Skyview Networks — Ensuring There Is A Receiving End (SatBroadcasting™) Skyview Networks, an integrated professional sports broadcasting and advertising company that specializes in satellite distribution and automation systems, has released their new X-Digital XDS Pro-1 and Pro-4 satellite receivers to its radio network of more than 400 professional sports and news affiliates.
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digiGO!™ — The Digital (R)Evolution never.no — Telmap — VISLINK
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Comtech — A Force For The Blue Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force Tracking ("BFT-1") program contract with the U.S. Army.
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ESA — SMOS Scandinavian Sensitivity In less than four months since launch, the first calibrated images are being delivered by ESA’s SMOS mission.
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RSCC — In A Romantis Situation The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC), the Russian state satellite operator, and Romantis GmbH, a European provider of satellite capacity, hardware and support services, jointly announced today that they will cooperate to develop joint business packages for the EMEA based on RSCC satellite capacity and Romantis hardware products and solutions.
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USAF | SMC — OCX Is Under Control Officials from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced the award of the Next Generation GPS Control Segment (OCX) contract to Raytheon Company, Intelligence & Information Systems, Aurora, Colorado.
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Arianespace — Not A Long W3B Wait Arianespace's ability to accommodate its customers' launch timing requirements is being demonstrated once again with the scheduling of Eutelsat's W3B telecommunications satellite for an Ariane 5 launch this August/September.
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SIA — SATCOM's Rescue Roles The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) announces a half-day workshop focusing on the role of satellites for Public Safety and Disaster Relief at the upcoming IWCE 2010 in Las Vegas, NV on March 9, 2010.
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Thales Alenia Space — Yahsat Looms Large With Two Sat Deliveries Thales Alenia Space has delivered the YahSat 1A communication module to EADS Astrium, for integration on their platform and tests.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Molten Montserrat (NASA) A massive eruption of Montserrat’s Soufriere Hills Volcano covered large portions of the island in debris.
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Harris — USMC Has High Freq Tac Talk Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS has received an order valued at $78 million to provide additional Falcon II(r) AN/VRC-104 high-frequency tactical radio systems for use in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs).
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PCI Geomatics Has Created A Million Dollar Image To Eye For PCI Geomatics will be in the news in China now that they've signed a million dollar contract with Beijing Space Eye Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. (BSEI) to supply an automated image processing system to the China Centre for Resources Satellite Data and Application.
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Moving On Up @ SRA SRA International, Inc. [NYSE: SRX], a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients, today announced the appointment of Colonel (Ret) Carl Williamson as vice president.
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Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award — The Pride Of Tennessee Takes The Title It takes a special talent to get students interested in subjects that can be challenging, and that is what won Allen V. Robnett, a science teacher at Gallatin High School in Gallatin, Tennessee, the 2010 recipient of the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award.
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February 24, 2010 Stampede Technologies Herds Up Solutions And Ropes Up FX 1000 Remote Office Stampede Technologies, Inc. has launched the FX Series 1000 Remote Office Appliance, which offers the most diverse set of WAN optimization and acceleration products for enterprises and satellite network operators.
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NDS — A DTH Launch In South Africa NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that On Digital Media has selected NDS as technology provider and prime integrator to support the launch of its DTH platform in South Africa.
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News Corp. — Relish For Rotana (SatBroadcasting™) News Corporation has reached an agreement to purchase a 9.09 per cent stake in Rotana Group, the Middle East media group.
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NASA — Helping Ares Rocket To Success NASA's Stennis Space Center in Stennis, Mississippi, unveiled an initiative today to chart the future of the nation's premier rocket engine testing facility.
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Globecomm — Communication Verisimiltude For Vessels Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) wholly-owned subsidiary, Telaurus Communications, has been awarded a three-year maritime managed services contract from Singapore based PACC Ship Managers Pte Ltd.
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SatMAX — Addressing First Responders SatMAX Corporation (Pinksheets:SATM - News) has a joint marketing partnership with TLC Engineering, a GSA registered, 8(a) engineering firm based in Houston, Texas.
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DigitalGlobe — Financially Speaking... DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.
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Thales Alenia Space — Oceanic Opportunities Open Up Thales Alenia Space has signed with French Space Agency (CNES) and now has the contract to build the Jason-3 satellite.
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Newtec ASBU-ARABSAT — MENOS — Ecstatic About Exceptional Expansion The Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), Arabsat and Newtec will be able to provide additional TV/Radio contribution and exchange services to their existing users and facilitate services expansion to additional customers on this successful and growing network.
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Astrium — Dispensing Good News Astrium has successfully completed qualification testing on the Dispenser for the second-generation satellites of the Globalstar constellation.
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Come To The CASBAA And The Shangri-La They are ramping up for the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia's (CASBAA) 10th CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum on June 14th in Singapore at the Shangri-La Hotel.
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PCI Geomatics — Sharpening The Image For MDA PCI Geomatics has signed a significant six-figure contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to develop and deploy an enterprise level image management system to support the processing of RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery for an international customer.
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February 23, 2010 Gilat — An Amazonian Advantage Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) announced that Brazil's Amazonian Protection System (SIPAM) will deploy a Gilat SkyEdge II broadband satellite communications network at more than 1,000 sites.
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CASBAA — Member Moves CASBAA now has four Corporate additional members as of January 2010 – European news channel France 24; global video, media data and advertising solutions provider Concurrent; global media company News Corporation, and K , a platform joint venture between Vietnamese broadcaster VTV and French pay-TV group Canal Plus.
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IBC 2010 — IPTV In Focus (SatBroadcasting™) The demand for IPTV has shown explosive growth over the last 12 months.
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Euroconsult — Space Sizzling... Euroconsult has revealed worldwide government expenditures for space programs grew by 10 percent in 2009 over 2008, reaching an historical peak of $68 billion.
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Expand Networks — Infusing Inmarsat Influence... Expand Networks' advanced WAN Optimization solutions have been validated by Inmarsat.
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Hughes — Care Enough To Send The Very Best To Troops Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has signed Operation AC as a Value Added Reseller (VAR) of broadband satellite services focused on Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Dutch Space — An Unfolding Act Dutch Space has been granted two new contracts for the delivery of solar panels for the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites.
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26th National Space Symposium — Attend And Prosper — No Spock Ears Required! SatNews has been sharing with you all of the events and speakers that will be in attendance next month from April 12-15 at the beautiful five star Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, including Leonard S. Nimoy and now there is more . . .
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Boeing — TDRS Review Is Righteous Boeing [NYSE: BA] and its customer NASA have announced that the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) K-L program successfully completed its system-level Critical Design Review (CDR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR) in El Segundo on February 19.
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EMS Technologies + OuterLink — Track + Map An agreement has been signed between EMS Aviation, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc., and OuterLink Corporation.
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February 22, 2010 ESA — CryoSat Launch Cancelled... For Now This week's scheduled launch of a European satellite designed to monitor the response of icesheets to climate change has now been delayed by technical concerns, the European Space Agency (ESA) stated last Friday.
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U.S.A.F. — Chief Of Staff Acknowledges Airmen's Efforts In Armed Forces Success The Air Force's highest ranking uniformed officer spoke on the value of space and the emerging medium of cyberspace during the Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition on February 18 in Orlando.
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ESA — That's No Potato... That's Prometheus! Saturn's potato-shaped moon Prometheus is rendered in three dimensions in this close-up from Cassini.
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ESA — Set For Spatial Studies ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has approved three missions to enter the so-called definition phase.
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SS/L — DISHing Out Another Satellite Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has shipped a communications satellite built for DISH Network L.L.C., to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).
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Marshall Communications — Doing Good For DISA/DoD The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded MARSHALL Communications Corporation two contracts for maintenance and support on the DVB-RCS Hub located in Landstuhl, Germany, and the Hub located at DISA’s Skyline, Falls Church facility.
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Bluebell — Mux To The Max (SatBroadcasting™) Based around the BC Series modular format, Bluebell will introduce the TDM-300 card to the North American market at NAB2010.
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Cobham SATCOM — Love That Licensing Cobham SATCOM's latest milestone is for the Company's Sea Tel range of Ultra Small Aperture Terminals.
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SpaceX — Vertically Challenged SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle is now vertical at Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral.?
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O3b Networks — Moving On Up... O3b Networks Limited, the developer of a new global, high-speed, satellite Internet network for telecommunications operators and ISPs, has appointed Mark Rigolle as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect.
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Spacenet + EchoStar — VSATS + Capacity For Haiti Spacenet Integrated Government Solutions, a division of Spacenet Inc., and EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, have engaged in a collaborative effort to deliver two-way satellite communications involving space and ground equipment to the American Red Cross to aid in relief efforts following the devastating earthquake.
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CABSAT — Talia Tallies Up New Service Regions Talia, a major provider of satellite services in the Middle East and Africa, will unveil new and expanded services at the Cable, Satellite, Broadcast & Communications Exhibition (CABSAT) conference in Dubai, March 2-4 March.
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Thuraya "Always On" — Has Got A Big Package For The Smallest Solution To Get You Started Thuraya, a major provider of mobile satellite services launched its Thuraya IP Starter Package offering users high-speed mobile satellite broadband.
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Iridium — SatPhone Sustenance Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM), together with service partner Tecnologías de Control del Norte (TECNOR), has announced that the Mexican Red Cross, the United Nations, and multiple other Mexican government agencies have increased their usage of Iridium 9555 satellite phones in support of Haiti relief and recovery efforts.
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Taiwan — A Fine Predicament For Satellite Remnants An interesting article in the Taiwan News reveals that prosecutors in Taipei are investigating the offer by a foundation to sell remains of a NASA satellite to help pay a NT$300 million fine for a jailed businessman.
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South Africa — SumbandilaSAT's Stellar Success The first images from the Sumbandila satellite have been received by South Africa.
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Moving On Up... SES... SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) has appointed Andrew Browne as Chief Financial Officer and member of its Executive Committee, replacing current CFO Mark Rigolle who is taking up the position of Chief Executive Officer of satellite infrastructure start-up O3b Networks.
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Global Industry Analysts — SatTV To Garner Billions (SatBroadcasting™) The global market for mobile television has been witnessing substantial development in the recent past, with services being implemented in several countries across the world.
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Hughes — Signing On With SCADA Support Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) announced the availability of its 9201-M2M terminal that provides a single, universal SCADA solution operating over Inmarsat's BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) satellite service.
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IDGA Goes Over Bord(er) And Sees Through The Dark A border is certainly more than a line drawn in the sand, or a perimeter viewed on a map — a border involves laws, people, pollitics, safety and much more.
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DigitalGlobe And AEgis Provide The Thrill Of Victory In 3D Not everyone can be at the 2010 Olympics in Canada, but DigitalGlobe and AEgis give viewers the interactive feeling of being there with NBC's Olympic Coverage that features fly-through simulations.
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Boeing — GOES To Go On March 2nd... Boeing [NYSE: BA] has announced that the commercial launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P, (GOES-P) is scheduled for March 2 aboard a Delta IV rocket.
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Northrop Grumman — Building Up... Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Navigation Systems Division has recently broken ground on a facility expansion designed to increase factory output and better serve its commercial, defense and national security customers.
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PCI Geomatics — More Windows, More Sats... PCI Geomatics has upgraded its remote sensing and image processing software Geomatica?.
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Paradise Datacom — MAX Power Paradise Datacom reveals a significant milestone in the evolution of PowerMAX, the Company's modular, soft-fail redundant ultra-high power Solid State Power Amplifier system.
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February 19, 2010 PPC + Evolution Broadband — Acquiring Minds Want To Know... (digiGO!™) PPC has agreed in principle to acquire Evolution Broadband, a leading supplier of home distribution and subscriber drop systems for the North American cable and telecommunications market.
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Spain + Norway — MilSatBrothers Spain is to supply the technology for a new communications satellite for the Norwegian army, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg informed reporters.
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BusinessCom — IO Sats Bring Satisfaction BusinessCom, a global satellite telecommunications service provider, has launched the Advantage IP VSAT service, based on Ku-band IO satellites, providing coverage to more than 18 countries in the Middle East and parts of CIS and Asia, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
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VeriCorder Technology — Sounding For iPhone + iPod touch (SatBroadcasting™) In broadcast news, it’s critical to be first with a breaking story — VeriCorder Technology makes it easy with the introduction of VC Audio Pro for iPhone and iPod Touch.
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SIS LIVE — Need To Knows @ NAB (SatBroadcasting™) SIS LIVE has plans to exhibit its uPod Micro uplink series and RouteCase plug and play flyaway kit at Satellite 2010 in Booth 2008.
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ATK — This IS About Attitude Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has delivered the Orion launch abort system (LAS) attitude control motor (ACM) from its facility in Elkton, Maryland, to the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, for NASA’s upcoming pad abort 1 (PA-1) flight test.
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Latens — Totally Pay-TV Amenable (SatBroadcasting™) Latens has launched CAS 5, a software only Conditional Access System (CAS) which will work on all networks from the same headend, thereby making it a safe investment no matter how operators decide to expand their Pay TV services.
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Lockheed Martin — Temple 1 Target Of Stardust NASA’s Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on February 17 to purposely delay its arrival at comet Tempel 1 by 8 hours 21 minutes.
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Thales Alenia Space Ships Sats — For German Military Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has shipped to the Kourou spaceport the second ComSatBw satellite, which will be launched on March 24 by an Ariane 5 ECA.
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NASA Patches Up Before Retiring A contest was held by NASA to commerate the the retirement of the space shuttle.
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February 18, 2010 GeoImage + DigitalGlobe — It's A DigiRoadShow, Australian-Style Geoimage and DigitalGlobe are excited to announce the Australian sessions of the WorldView-2 Roadshow, coming to Perth, Brisbane and Sydney in March 2010.
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RAI — Bringing Italy To Asia (SatBroadcasting™) NewCo Rai International has launched a new Italian language channel — Yes Italia — to Asia.
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ESA — Skimming Skills Required For Phobos Mars Express has begun a series of flybys of Phobos, the largest moon of Mars.
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Astrium's AXIO-NET — German + Danish Cross Pollination Precision satellite navigation is set to be used in the construction of a motorway and rail link between Germany and Denmark.
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Brick House Video — NAB Nuances (SatBroadcasting™) Brick House Video’s NAB 2010 line-up will include a balance of new and enhanced compact and cost-effective equipment for production and post-production.
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U.S.A.F. — It's All About SATCOM, Navigation + Timing For Haitian Relief Activities Members of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg AFB are continuing to support relief efforts in Haiti by providing space effects, such as satellite communications and position timing and navigation services.
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Space Micro — Radiation Free Space Radio Space Micro Inc. has been awarded a $100,000 by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop space communications hardware that is compatible with a wide variety of existing communication systems and is not susceptible to the damaging effects of radiation in space.
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Alliant Techsystems — An ORS-1 Bus Trip Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) is preparing to conduct final testing and then will ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite bus, after building it in just 16 months.
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Cassini Captures — A Minimized Mimas The Cassini spacecraft captures a "mutual event" between Titan and Mimas in front of a backdrop of the planet's rings.
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NASA — WISE' Unearthly Views A diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first survey images NASA released Wednesday from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
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Lockheed Martin — Woz To Make MILCOM Memorable Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced that Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer, Inc. co-founder and Fusion-io chief scientist will deliver the opening keynote address at MILCOM 2010.
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NASA — The Sun Won't Set On Your iPhone Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand.
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exactEarth — AIS Attracts CSA, Big Time... exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), has signed a $1.4 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to provide space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) data.
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Orbital Sciences Corp. — Financially Speaking... Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009.
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GSA + DISA — Cost Calculations Create Commercial Communications Considerations Bob Brewin in nextgov has succinctly summarized the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) initiation of a multibillion-dollar governmentwide procurement to purchase commercial satellite communications services to provide everything from connectivity for forces in Afghanistan to distance learning systems in the United States.
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SPOT — Spot-On Sequel Spot LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT), has started shipping the new SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger(TM) to customers and retail partners.
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BAE Systems — SDO's Computers Can Take The Heat Three BAE Systems space computers have taken flight on a NASA satellite, to study the sun's influence on Earth and near-Earth space.
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Avanti Communications — Export Award Imported To Company Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN) has been awarded the Technology Exporter of the Year award at the London Export Awards 2010 organized by the UK Trade & Investment (“UKTI”).
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NASA | JPL — Hubble Hunts Down Hickson Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies that has waited 10 billion years to come together.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Kamchatka 'Canoes Get Uppity Neighboring volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula acted up at the same time in mid-February 2010.
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February 17, 2010 Latitude Technologies — Sentinel Supports Drop Track Reporting Latitude Technologies Corp. has announced the IONode 100 onboard system integration product and the Air Tanker Information System software management tool kit.
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EchoStar — Bell TV Slings It (SatBroadcasting™) Sling Media, Inc. a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), has announced that Bell TV will license SlingGuide™ to deliver advanced TV search, remote scheduling, and recording services to its customers.
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$atellite Finance Forum — Ever Have To Buy A Satellite? There is tremendous expense involved in all aspects of the satellite industry, and these issues will be addressed at the Satellite Finance Forum, sponsored by Futron Corporation and Access Intelligence, at the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, M.D. on Monday, March 15.
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February 16, 2010 SES Watch 'em Grow — EP$ Increases By 25 Percent Growth is always good news in the business world, and the financial results for SES S.A., a worldwide satellite operator [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], had a positive report for the 12 months to 31 December 2009. Earnings per share (EPS) increased by 25 percent.
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Televisa — Financially Speaking (SatBroadcasting™) Grupo Televisa, the Mexican broadcaster, has agreed to purchase a 30 percent stake in the Mexican telecommunications unit of NII Holdings for $1.44 billion in cash.
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Nokia + Intel — Mobility Makes Majors Move (digiGO!™) Nokia and Intel have announced the merger of Maemo and Moblin to create MeeGo, a Linux-based software platform designed to work across a range of hardware architectures and devices including mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.
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SES + GVF — Tied Into Training SES has adopted GVF's Installation?Training Program?in order to help prevent RF interference.
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Russia — Glonass Gets The Putin Push Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed introducing the Glonass navigation system throughout the country's regions and getting it onto "commercial rails."
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Selex Galileo — Aye, Laddie! Scotland's Gyro Keeps Satellites On Track They may be a small Scottish company, but Selex Galileo, an Edinburgh-based defense electronics firm, has won 600,000 (pounds 522,000) in funding to complete the development of an orientation system for satellites.
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Iran — Infused With Their Own Orbital Potential Iran has revealed the development of a new Simorgh space booster and three new satellites that include an imaging spacecraft that may provide Iran with a rudimentary space reconnaissance capability.
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U.S. Senate — "No" To SatTV Law (SatBroadcasting™) Legislation to renew the satellite television law governing the transmission of broadcast signals via DIRECTV and the Dish Network just can't cut a break.
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Sierra Wireless Talks Business No Strings Attached With French Wireless Sierra Wireless [NASDAQ: SWIR; TSX: SW] announced a new offer for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, in partnership with the French wireless network operator Bouygues Telecom.
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Solaris Mobile — S-Band, Shrinky Dinky + Mobile Solaris Mobile Ltd, the Dublin-based operator of new pan-European hybrid satellite and terrestrial wireless networks for nexgen mobile services, has announced the development of a mobile gateway device allowing the reception of services in S-band on smart phones.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — This Dome's A Bust (NASA) At 12:35 p.m. local time on February 11, 2010, Soufriere Hills Volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat experienced a partial dome collapse.
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Getmapping — Company Namesake Says It All Getmapping has released a number of new datasets including LiDAR elevation data captured by the Environment Agency.
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Taifatech — SoC It To HDTV (digiGO!™) Taifatech Inc., a provider of system-on-a chip (SoC) solutions for the digital home, has announced the launch of a low cost full HD solution for connecting PC and other video devices to HD televisions through standard networks.
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NASA's ISS — Relocating The Ultimate Room With A View — No Small Task Not your typical chore that involves the relocation of the piano, or adding a room to a home — no, the International Space Station’s new viewport is facing the Earth now, ready to provide a panoramic view of the planet below and approaching cargo ships.
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In-Stat — 3DTV + Ultra-HD Happy Days Ahead (digiGO!™) As HD video has hit its stride worldwide, the TV and film industry are looking ahead to the next new thing.
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GlobeCast — Olympics Broadcast Betterment (SatBroadcasting™) GlobeCast teams are on site in Vancouver to provide service including playout, live positions and HD/SD delivery to clients from around the globe at what promise to be very exciting Winter Games.
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DVEO — Liking That Linux... (SatBroadcasting™) DVEO is now shipping three new Linux? based MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoders.
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Latitude Technologies — Trust This Tracking... Latitude Technologies Corp. has added a configurable “G” switch accelerometer to the UDG100 and S100/S200 SkyNode product lines.
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SkyTrac — Hardware Has Aerospace Happy... SkyTrac has been selected by Dubai-based Aerospace Consortium FZE to supply SATCOM/flight following solutions for Aerospace’s fleet of Boeing-747, Ilyushin-76, Antonov-26, Antonov-72, Anotonov-74, MI 8T, MI 8MTV, Kamov 32, and Bell 412.
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Orbit Technology Group — Tracking Success With Lockheed Martin Orbit Technology Group has received an order from Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] for an advanced tracking antenna solution.
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CapRock Communications — Peter Shaper Rocks! As Satellite Executive of the Year Peter Shaper, CEO of CapRock Communications is a name that has been highly recognized in SatNews, and he was the feature of the September 2009 issue of MilsatMagazine's Command Center.
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Boeing + U.S.A.F. — GPS IIF Busts Out And Is Delivered Boeing [NYSE: BA], on February 11th, shipped the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from the company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
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AAE Systems — A Middle Eastern Business Trip Of Major Significance AAE Systems, Inc. (AAE), a satellite-based equipment manufacturer and turnkey communication solutions provider, will be part of a delegation comprised of 25 U.S. companies selected to participate in the International Trade Administration’s inaugural trade missions to Algeria and Libya.
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TerreStar — Moving On Up... TerreStar Corporation (Nasdaq: TSTR) has announced that Jeffrey W. Epstein has added Chief Executive Officer duties to his position at TerreStar Corporation and its subsidiaries, and will assume the title of President & CEO, effective immediately.
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SkyTrac Systems — NexGen Software Release Upcoming SkyTrac Systems will release the nexgen of its software — SkyWeb V 3.0 — at Heli Expo 2010 in Houston Texas.
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SBCA — A Meeting Of SatMinds... The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) announces it will be holding its first Regional Chapter Meeting of Satellite Professionals on Thursday March 4th at the Doubletree Hotel in Wilmington DE from noon until 4:00 p.m.
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AccessKey IP — All About Broadcasting Security (SatBroadcasting™) AccessKey IP, Inc. (OTCBB:AKYI), developer, designer and producer of advanced entertainment and communication devices, announced the Company's entire end-to-end Open Internet Broadcasting (OIB), is fully functional and ready for market.
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Gilat — Financially Speaking... Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) has reported its results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.
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U.S.A.F. — Scintillating SBIRS Successes For GEO-2 The U.S. Air Force’s second geosynchronous Space Based Infrared Systems satellite successfully completed its first Baseline Integrated System Testing, February 10, at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California.
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MapMart — Aiding ArcMap Access MapMart has introduced the MapMart On-Demand? Toolbar for ESRI ArcMap.
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Harris — Up NEXIO Is Avid (SatBroadcasting™) Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has announced the Company's NEXIO AMP and NEXIO XS™ servers now support Avid file interchange of native Sony XDCAM HD422 HD material via Avid Interplay Transfer software.
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GMV — Solid Grounding = Future Success For WSO-UV GMV has successfully tested the satellite ground segment of the World Space Observatory Ultraviolet mission (WSO-UV).
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Newtec — Stellar Sat3Play Showing Newtec has announced that European Commission representatives, led by director-general Fabio Colasanti, of the Directorate General for Information Society and Media (DG INFSO), and additional key representatives from European institutions and Regions, attended a workshop on satellite telecommunications entitled “Bringing Broadband to the Regions”.
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exactEarth Gives exact Data To Canadian Government — exactly As Requested exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX: CDV], today announced that it has signed a $1.4 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to provide space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) data.
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Moving On Up . . . Integral Systems Salutes. . . Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS], announced today that it has appointed Colonel Robert F. Wright, Jr., United States Air Force (USAF) as Senior Vice President, Military and Intelligence Group. Colonel Wright joined the company on February 1.
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Nagravision — An HD Helpmate In Korea (SatBroadcasting™) Nagravision, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.VX) company, has announced their NAGRA Media ACCESS conditional access system (CAS) was selected by SkyLife, the sole DTH pay TV service provider in Korea with 2.4 million subscribers to secure their new HD platform.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Of Alluvial Attention (NASA) In northeastern Egypt, roughly 33 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Gulf of Suez, rugged hills give way to flat terrain.
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February 15, 2010 Digital Rapids — Energetic Encoding (SatBroadcasting™) The Company's StreamZ Live family of encoders features exceptional output quality and robust reliability for live distribution channels from Internet TV and IPTV to mobile video.
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February 12, 2010 ATK — Composed Composites Have SOL Protected Alliant Techsystems' (NYSE: ATK) composite technology supported the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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Spatial Energy — Basin Beckonings Spatial Energy, the energy industry’s source for digital imagery and related solutions, has added 19 oil and gas producing basins to its BasinWatch imagery service.
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ILS + Intelsat — Proton Ejects IS-16 Into Assigned Slot For SKY Mexico Intelsat S.A. has informed all that International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully launched the Intelsat 16 satellite (IS-16).
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February 11, 2010 Boeing — Moving On Up... The Boeing (NYSE: BA) board of directors has elected former U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab as its newest member.
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ULA —SunSat Launched A United Launch Alliance Atlas V with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory launched from its Space Launch Complex-41 launch pad at 10:23 a.m. EST on February 11th.
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Cassini Captures — Eyeballing The Death Star (NASA | JPL) On Feb. 13, 2010, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its closest examination yet of Mimas, an eyeball-shaped moon of Saturn that has also been likened to the Death Star of “Star Wars.”
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MTN — Float Your Boat With Flex SATCOM MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has intro'd a new flexible, cost-effective satellite communication service for megayachts with varying bandwidth requirements.</font
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SSI — Signing On For USAF Spaceport Services Spaceport Systems International (SSI), a limited partnership between ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) and California Commercial Spaceport, Inc., has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide spaceport launch services for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Test Squadron.
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SpaceX — Falcon 9 Finishing School Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced that all flight hardware for the debut launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle has arrived at the SpaceX launch site, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — An Olympic Moment For Landsat-7 (NASA) In early February 2010, organizers were putting the finishing touches on venues for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Mitec Telecom — Going South With MTX Mitec Telecom Inc. ("Mitec") (TSX: MTM) has received a new order for its VSAT MTX Block Upconverter product line.
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SES WORLD SKIES — Securing That S.A. Slot SES WORLD SKIES, an operating unit of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announced the Company has reached an agreement with the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) regarding the long-term use of the 67 degrees West orbital position.
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CABSAT Mena 2010 — MENA's Digital Broadcasting Boom Blossoming As the demand for higher quality digital broadcasting services gains momentum in the Mena region, broadcasters must be equipped to embrace the digital boom, according to Jamal Al Sharif, Executive Director, Dubai Studio City.
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NASA — A WISE + Cold Comet NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has discovered its first comet, one of many the mission is expected to find among millions of other objects during its ongoing survey of the whole sky in infrared light.
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ESA — Crunch Time For CryoSat-2... Signed, Sealed, + To Be Delivered As preparations for the launch of ESA's ice mission on February 25th continue on schedule, an important milestone has just been reached with the team at the Baikonur Cosmodrome saying farewell to CryoSat-2 as it was encapsulated in the rocket's 'space head module'.
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ESA — A Symmetrical Saturn Is A Hubble Happening Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of the giant planet's poles.
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Arianespace — Antonov Arrives, ASTRA 3B Offloaded The first of two satellite payloads for Arianespace’s initial Ariane 5 mission of 2010 has arrived in French Guiana.
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ComArch — SATCOM Transaction Layering In response to the growing needs of satellite broadband providers, Comarch has developed a solution combining pre-integrated CRM, BSS and network management systems.
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ILS + SES — A Sat Pairing International Launch Services (ILS) and global satellite operator SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) have announced the ILS Proton launch of the SES-3 satellite with the Kazsat-2 telecommunications satellite in 2011.
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Alhurra — Finding An Oasis Of Content Management (SatBroadcasting™) Alhurra, an Arabic-language satellite TV network in Springfield, Virginia, has deployed Bitcentral’s Oasis and Pr?cis systems to improve its news workflow and make it easier to share and manage media assets between geographically separated locations.
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PolarSat — Making A Mesh Of Things PolarSat Inc. has successfully completed system acceptance testing and 6 months of live operation of a disaster relief VSATPlus 3 VSAT network.?
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SUIRG — Award Honors Those Who Fight Sat RFI The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) is proud to have been named a recipient of the 2010 Industry Innovator Awards, given by the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).
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NASA And ISU Welcome YOU To Public Face Space And The Ultimate In Recycle From February 16-18, International Space University (ISU) in collaboration with NASA will welcome more than 150 space experts from various space agencies, industries and academia at the occasion of its 14th Annual Symposium entitled “The Public Face of Space” in Strasbourg.
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Arianespace — Sat Significance For France + Italy Arianespace has been selected to launch the French-Italian Athena-Fidus dual
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Astrium Celebrates There Were No 'Terrible Twos' For Their Columbus No birthday cake, but just the same the European Columbus research laboratory is celebrating its second successful year of space operations. As an integral part of the International Space Station (ISS), the laboratory has successfully hosted around 50 research experiments from a broad array of scientific disciplines over the last 24 months.
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February 10, 2010 UPDATE ULA's Atlas V And NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go — Yet! Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. (Feb. 10, 2010) - The launch attempt of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite was scrubbed today due to high ground winds violating launch weather criteria.
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NOAA — New Directions + Web Work U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has announced the intent to create a NOAA Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s strong climate science and service delivery capabilities.
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Symmetricom — Clocking In... Symmetricom(R), Inc., a supplier of precise time and frequency technologies, has announced the Time-Scale System, a fully integrated world-class redundant nanosecond level timing solution.
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FreeHD Canada — Freebie Programming (With A Proviso...) (SatBroadcasting™) Susan Krashinsky of the Globe and Mail is reporting that a satellite TV upstart has won limited approval to do business in Canada.
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Newtec — Satellite Broadband Access To Enlighten All At Free Webinar Newtec is offering a free Sat3Play Webinar entitled "Offering Large Scale Satellite Broadband Internet Access: Key Success Factors".
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OnAir — Moving On Up... OnAir has appointed Richard Briffod as the company’s new Director of Business Development for Mobile Network Operators.
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SkyTrac — Aircraft Assist Allows For Haitian Assist Trans Capital Air, a Canadian charter operator contracted by the United Nations (UN) for humanitarian relief efforts, learned only hours after the earthquake that it needed to deploy an aircraft to Haiti as soon as possible.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Fiery Finds In SE Asia (NASA) The climate of Southeast Asia is dominated by the Asian monsoon.
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CASBAA At The Shangri-La Ooh La La! India’s leading broadcasting and telecommunications policy officials will speak at the CASBAA India Satellite Industry Forum 2010 at the Shangri-La Hotel in New Delhi on March 22nd.
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Thales Alenia Space — Dual Nation MILSATCOM Draws Development Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the French and Italian space agencies, CNES and ASI, to develop, construct, test and deliver in orbit a broadband civil and military telecommunications satellite, Athena-Fidus.
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SKY Television — A Traveling Treat (SatBroadcasting™) Travel Channel International and New Zealand’s SKY Television have confirmed that the launch of Travel Channel on SKY will occur on May 1st, 2010.
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Globalstar — Tracking, Botswana-Style Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has commenced construction of a satellite tracking station in Botswana, located in Southern Africa.
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SIS LIVE — Driving Into HD (SatBroadcasting™) SIS LIVE’s low cost, compact OB vehicle, SISCaster, has achieved widespread acceptance for live broadcasting, web streaming and mobile content delivery, and has opened up new opportunities for multiplatform event coverage.
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Surrey Satellite Technology — Cheers! For Lord Drayson's Pub Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) believes that the publication of the Space "Innovation and Growth Strategy" document announced today by Lord Drayson is a welcomed initiative that will act as a catalyst to generating much needed additional business for the UK space industry and simulate the expansion of the small satellite sector.
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GeoSpatial Experts — Fed Stimulus Program For GPS-Photo Link GeoSpatial Experts announces the U.S. government has approved four of its photo-mapping product bundles for direct purchase by federal agencies.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)evolution™ —Broadcasting + Mobility — AXEL TECHNOLOGIES — BLUESTREAK TECHNOLOGY — ENENSYS — COMPIX — HARMONIC — STREAMBOX — UTAH SCIENTIFIC —
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February 9, 2010 Harris — Moving On Up... Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has named P. Harris Morris as president of the company’s Broadcast Communications business.
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RigNet — Moving On In... RigNet, Inc. has recently relocated its Aberdeen operations to a new and improved facility.
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Coda Research — Mobile Making Major Moves (SatBroadcasting™) A new survey from the Coda Research Consultancy has found that the number of Americans accessing video content via their mobile phones will climb to 74 million by 2015 and create traffic totalling 145 terabytes per month.
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Gilat — Implementing Their Edge In Costa Rica Gilat Satellite Networks has announced the Company has received new orders from Costa Rica’s national telecommunications operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), for the deployment of Gilat's VSAT platforms to provide broadband services to approximately 1,000 new sites.
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Stampede Technologies — Accelerating The Potency Of MilSat Nets Stampede? Technologies, Inc., a provider of WAN optimization and acceleration solutions for satellite and terrestrial-based networks, announced they have signed an OEM agreement with Global Protocols, Inc. (GPI) for integrating SkipWare onto its FX series appliances that are designed to accelerate and optimize satellite communications for IP traffic.
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Numerex — A Meeting Of M2M Minds Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX), a source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, has entered into a long-term agreement with Rogers Wireless, Canada's largest wireless provider and a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., which will further enable the expansion of Numerex's M2M business in Canada.
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ESOA — Moving On Up... The European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) welcomed the European Parliament’s approval of Neelie Kroes as the new Commissioner for the Digital Agenda portfolio.
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iDirect — A Moving Experience In Europe iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has opened its new Europe office, located in Eton, United Kingdom (UK).
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Northrop Grumman — Moving On Up... Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has appointed Linnie Haynesworth vice president and deputy program director for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
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ViaSat — Financially Speaking... ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) has announced financial results for the third quarter ended January 1, 2010(1).
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February 8, 2010 SkyTrac — Airing Out Solutions For CAE Aviation SkyTrac has been selected by Luxembourg based CAE Aviation to supply SATCOM/flight following solutions for CAE’s fleet of Cessna Grand Caravan, Fairchild Merlin III, Turbine Islander, CASA 212-200 & 300, and Skyvan’s.
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TS2 Satellite Technologies — New Services Deployed On Eutelsat Birds TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new broadband services on Eutelsat EB4 & W6 satellites for the Afghan market.
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Spacecom — Counting Clients Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), the AMOS satellite fleet operator, has announced their AMOS-5i satellite has secured additional clients since announcing operational status on January 28th.
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DMCii — Determined Deforestation Decision British satellite imaging company DMCii welcomes International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander's announcement that the UK has joined forces with the Indonesian government to tackle deforestation and prepare Indonesians for the impacts of climate change.
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OnAir — Airborne With Airbus OnAir has been selected by Airbus as the first connectivity solutions provider to be linefit offerable on A350 XWB.
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ATK — Moving On Up... Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) and its Board of Directors has unanimously voted to appoint Mark DeYoung as the company's new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately.
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Opinion Alert — Has Obama Just Handed The Moon To China? SatNews is publishing this compelling article written by Tim Edwards from The First Post of the U.K. — President Barack Obama's proposal to cut the $81bn funding for Nasa's Constellation manned spaceflight programme spells the end of America's attempt to return people to the moon by 2020.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Oli's Omnipresence (NASA) Cyclone Oli was a Category 4 storm on February 4, 2010, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image.
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ATK — A Last Test For The Space Shuttle Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) and NASA will conduct the last ground test for the Space Shuttle program on February 25, marking the closure of a program that has spanned more than three decades and ushering in the era of the next generation of space exploration.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — D.C. Dumper (NASA) An exceptionally severe winter storm dropped several feet of snow around the Washington, DC area in early February 2010.
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NASA — Endeavor Writes History With Final Launch Space shuttle Endeavour lit up the predawn sky above Florida's Space Coast on Monday with a 4:14 a.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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VSAT Systems — More Help For Haiti Immediately following the terrible tragedy that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the surrounding countryside in January, Akron’s VSAT Systems, which has satellite broadband Internet customers across Haiti and the Dominican Republic, began receiving requests from both sides of the border, as customers found themselves at the center of disaster response and human relief.
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MEASAT — Making Moves Of The Scholarship Kind MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) is inviting Malaysians to apply for a fully paid scholarship to study for a Masters Degree in Space Studies or Space Management at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.
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Globalstar — Korean Kan Do Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has signed a joint venture agreement with Arion Communication Co., Ltd., a provider of mobile satellite voice and data products and services to maritime customers in Korea.
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Iridium — NEXT Up, Hughes... Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has selected Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) to develop an Access Network Controller (ANC) in its gateway ground radio control network.
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Hughes — A COTS Conclusion With BGAN Betterment Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has now made available their Hughes 9350 BGAN mobile satellite terminal, fully type-approved for operation over Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite service.
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Thales Alenia Builds And Sees NASA's Launch Of The Ultimate Room With A View Yes, the Shuttle Endeavour 's STS-130 mission lifted off this morning from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and on board is the Node 3 and Cupola which are a module and a workstation both fully built in Thales Alenia Space’s plant in Turin.
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February 5, 2010 TeamCast — SFN Support With New Software Version (SatBroadcasting™) TeamCast, involved in Mobile TV and DTV transmission technology, has released a new software version for its DVB-T2 modulator, the Power4-T2, which supports the new T2-MI input stream interface as well as the SFN (Single Frequency Network) operating mode.
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NAB's Keynote Speaker, Harris' Pres And CEO, Unlocks Cross-Over Broadcast Technology Harris Corporation Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Howard Lance will be a keynote speaker in a morning session titled "Dual Utilization of Broadcast Technology for Industry and Government" at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 14.
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Avanti Communications Group — Financially + Operationally Speaking... Avanti Communications Group plc, the broadband satellite operator, has announced its Interim Results for the six months ended 31 December 2009.
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Opinion Alert — Has Obama Just Handed The Moon To China? SatNews is publishing this compelling article written by Tim Edwards from The First Post of the U.K. — President Barack Obama's proposal to cut the $81bn funding for Nasa's Constellation manned spaceflight programme spells the end of America's attempt to return people to the moon by 2020.
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February 4, 2010 EADS — SAR Sat Gets Nod From NGA EADS North America has received a five-year contract to provide commercial radar satellite data to the U.S. government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for use in intelligence, military and homeland security applications.
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Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council — New Dates For 12th Conference The 12th APSCC 2010 will be held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 5 to 7.
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Snell — Snappy Stuff For CABSAT 2010 (SatBroadcasting™) Snell will showcase a broad array of solutions for creation, management, and distribution of content at CABSAT 2010, all designed to ease broadcasters' transition to digital, HDTV, and 3Gb/s operations.
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International Launch Services — Intelsat-16 Up, Up + Away — Shortly International Launch Services is getting set to launch the Intelsat-16 satellite aboard a Proton M/Breeze M rocket on February 11th at 7:30 p.m., EST.
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Harris GOES To Washington Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has expanded its already strong presence in the Washington, DC area with the opening of a 24,400-square-foot facility to support activities for the company's 10-year, $736 million Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - Series R Ground Segment (GOES-R GS) contract.
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Technicolor — Not Too Shabby... 100 Million! (SatBroadcasting™) Technicolor (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TCH), formerly Thomson, has reached the milestone of delivering 100 million digital set-top boxes (STBs) over multi-networks since it entered the market in 1994.
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AT&T — Sling This For 3G Mobile (digiGO!™) AT&T has announced that its 3G mobile broadband network will support Sling Media, Inc.’s SlingPlayer Mobile™ app.
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ABI Research — Asian STB Significance (SatBroadcasting™) Set-top boxes (STBs) are set to reach Asian consumers at an ever-increasing rate, according to new STB market data published by ABI Research.
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Iridium — ProTECTS Others The ProTECTS (Promotion of Two-Way Emergency Communication and Tracking Systems) Alliance held its first organizational meeting, in Phoenix, Arizona, immediately following the annual Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) Partners Conference in late January.
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SIRIUS XM Radio — Bringing Blackberry Into The Fold SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) has announced the availability of a free application for BlackBerry(R) smartphones, giving consumers access to more than 120 channels of sports, talk, entertainment, news, comedy and commercial-free music on compatible models of the popular BlackBerry devices — the BlackBerry Storm(TM), Bold(TM), Tour(TM) and Curve(TM).
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February 3, 2010 Here's Looking @ Earth — A Chile Volcano (NASA) A layer of snow rested on a relatively calm Llaima Volcano on December 11, 2009, as the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite passed overhead.
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Reportlinker — Transponders, Technologies + Trends Reportlinker.com has a new market research report available in its catalogue — Satellite Transponders - International Technology & Market Trends.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Fami's Stormy Travels NASA's Aqua satellite caught the 13th tropical cyclone in the southern Indian Ocean as it formed very quickly.
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ViaSat — Secure Speak Via LinkWayS2 For MILSATCOM ViaSat (Nasdaq:VSAT) has received additional orders for its LinkWayS2? satellite modem systems to support U.S. government networks.
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Northrop Grumman — A Cooler Environment Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been selected by ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads for two international weather satellites.
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Iran — An Eclectic Mix Of Rodent, Reptile +Tubular Invertebrate Catch A Ride Into Space Iran has successfully launched a home-produced satellite on the Kavoshgar 3 (Explorer) satellite launcher.
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NASA — Moving On Up . . . NASA has been in SatNews most recently regarding the 2011 Budget Overview, and again another announcement from Administrator Charles F. Bolden naming Robert D. Braun the agency's Chief Technologist, effective Wednesday, February 3.
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Orbital Sciences Corp. — A Nod To Obama's Space Policies Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has announced the Company’s strong support for the Obama Administration’s new direction for the country’s civil space programs, as outlined in the recently-released GFY 2011 proposed budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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TechniSat — Bon Jour! As Office Is Established In France TechniSat, known in Germany for digital receivers and a provider of IDTVs, is expanding into the French market and has set up TechniSat Digital France E.U.R.L. in the French capital, Paris.
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Stratos Global — They Khan Assist In Nat'l Geographic Adventure Stratos Global Corporation is supplying Inmarsat BGAN mobile satellite communications service to University of California San Diego (UCSD) researchers to support their ambitious archaeological survey in remote Mongolia.
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NASA Rings True And Extends Tour Of Duty For Cassini One of the elements in NASA's 2011 Budget Overview that can enjoy a healthy extension is the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its planets to 2017.
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February 2, 2010 Tecore Networks — Speaking Of Stimulus (digiGO!™) Tecore Networks has welcomed the joint NTIA-RUS announcement of a second round of federal stimulus funding to expand broadband access throughout the United States, as required by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).?
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NASA Recruits United Launch Alliance For Their Crew While some companies are finding the economy challenging good news came to those companies selected by NASA as part of its Commercial Crew Development Program (CCDev) such as United Launch Alliance (ULA).
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India — SatPhone Sat Schedule Surmised India will soon have its own dedicated satellite for providing satellite phone (satphone) services, instead of depending on foreign satellites.
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Integral Systems — Moving On Up... Colonel Wright... Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-ISYS), announced it has appointed Colonel Robert F. Wright, Jr., United States Air Force (USAF) as Senior Vice President, Military and Intelligence Group.
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NASA's 2011 Budget — Reactions, Plans, Hopes . . Today the White House released the 2011 Budget Overview (22 pages) of their plans and financial information for NASA. According to SatNews' interpretation of the various statements, there apparently weren't any major surprises, and reactions of key players accept the recommendations.
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SkyTrac — Moving On Up . . . SkyTrac recognizes that moving various onboard data to multiple locations for multiple purposes without additional onboard hardware is the future of the aviation industry.
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atrexx — Offers Satellite First Aid Assistance With Anomaly To Restart IS-4 atrexx, a specialist provider of telecommunications and broadcast solutions, is offering to restore the services of Intelsat-4 customers after the satellite experienced an anomaly resulting in the switching off of the communication payload to conserve battery power.
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NASA Resuscitates, Recovers And Reinvests With $50 Million In Awards In an effort to recover and reinvest in our nation's businesses, NASA has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector's capability to support transport of crew to and from low Earth orbit.
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AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference — Relax! Abstract Deadline Extended Busy lives and deadlines are stressful, but now the abstract deadline for the 28th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2010) has been EXTENDED to 15 February 2010.
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EchoStar — A Heaping Helping Of Mega Hertz (SatBroadcasting™) EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today that Mega Hertz, Inc., has joined the ViP-TV™ Reseller Program.
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KVH Industries — FOG Expansion In June of 2009, KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) introduced the world’s most compact precision fiber optic gyro (FOG), the affordable DSP-1500.
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The White House — NPOESS Killed The White House announced on February 1st it will end a civil-military weather satellite program and, instead, pursue two separate lines of polar-orbiting satellites to serve military and civilian users.
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Vizada — Crew Members Get Carded Vizada has launched a new generation of its Universal Card(TM).
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Hughes — Losada Has Shipboard SATCOM On His Agenda Dan Losada, Senior Director of the Defense & Intelligence Systems Division at Hughes, will discuss how shipboard satellite communications are critical to maintaining net-centric operations during missions at the SIA SATCOM User's Workshop.
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Space Foundation — Obama's Mixed Spatial Bag It's not going to be business as usual — that is perhaps the only definitive thing the Space Foundation can say about President Obama's FY 2011 NASA proposal, released on February 1st.
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February 1, 2010 Comtech Xicom Technology (R)Amps Up With New Site Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., a provider of high power amplifier products for satellite communication (SATCOM), now has an amped up new and expanded website . . .
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Gilat — Getting To The Hub Of The Matter Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd.'s Bandwidth Optimizer (BWO) solution has been successfully deployed at hub sites in Asia.
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AsiaSat — New Moniker For AsiaSat-2 Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) has announced that Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has signed a contract for the exclusive use of AsiaSat-2, an AsiaSat satellite formerly located at 100.5 degrees East, and has now been relocated to 17 degrees East and renamed AMOS-5i.
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RUAG Space — Antennas For EO Downlinks RUAG Space in Sweden has received its first order for satellite hardware from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.
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Gateway — Multipoint Broadband Net In Nigeria Gateway Communications Nigeria, headquartered in Lagos, has announced a contract with Cambridge Broadband Networks to create the Nigeria’s largest point to multipoint broadband wireless network.
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RRsat Provides New Platform For Spanish And Portuguese Adding To HISPASAT RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. [NASDAQ: RRST], a rapidly growing provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced today that it has launched a new platform for the distribution of Spanish and Portuguese language content into European markets over the Hispasat 1D satellite.
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SatMex — Number Five Takes A Permanent Propulsion Pause Mexican satellite service provider Satelites Mexicanos, or SatMex, said last Friday the failure of the primary propulsion system on its Satmex 5 unit will shave more than a year off its remaining life.
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NASA — NPOESS Imagery Instrument Inbound The development of a new series of weather and environmental monitoring satellites has marked a significant milestone with the delivery and the beginning of spacecraft integration efforts for a key science instrument.
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Eutelsat — W2 Working Well Again Working in close collaboration with clients, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) confirms that all services affected by the anomaly which occurred in the evening of January 27th on the W2 satellite are now fully restored at 16 degrees East.
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National Space Symposium Speaker — Erudite In Air Force Matters — NRO Director Carlson Gen. Bruce A. Carlson, USAF (Retired), director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), is slated to be a featured speaker at the 26th National Space Symposium April 12-15 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — Kazakhastan Crater Capture In the grasslands of western Kazakhstan, roughly 320 kilometers (200 miles) north-northeast of the Aral Sea, lies Chiyli Crater.
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Northrop Grumman — Monolithic They May Be, However, MMICs Are Mighty Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE:NOC) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) are flying aboard two state-of-the-art European Space Agency (ESA) space telescopes.
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RADARSAT-2 Results In Rescue And Rehabilitation MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of information solutions, has provided imagery acquired by the RADARSAT-2 satellite over Haiti in support of disaster recovery and reconstruction efforts by the Canadian Government and relief agencies through the Canadian Space Agency’s participation in the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters”.
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U.S.A.F. — Financially Speaking... Air Force officials in Washington, D.C., have reinforced their commitment to fund and support operations while posturing for future challenges through the service's portion of the president's fiscal year 2011 budget February 1st.
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Intelsat — IS-4 Suffers SCP Anomaly Intelsat S.A.'s Intelsat 4 satellite (IS-4), located at 72 degrees East Longitude, experienced an anomaly on February 1, 2010, at approximately 00:18 GMT.
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iDirect — Hub Trio Heads To SkyDelta iDirect, a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has announced SkyDelta Satellite Networks, a subsidiary of Horizon Satellite Services, has purchased and installed three iDirect Series 15000 Universal Satellite Hubs to expand the applications and geographical reach of its IP satellite broadband offerings.
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CapRock Government Solutions — CommandAccess Helps Haitians Via U.S. Navy CapRock Government Solutions has been awarded a contract with the United States Navy’s Naval Beach Group (NBG) to provide emergency satellite communications services as part of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti.
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Vocality International — SATCOM Router Ramped Up Vocality International's router platform — used worldwide in armed forces and satellite communications networks — is now available in a PC/104 integrated kit.
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IDC — It's All About Support For Warfighters Via CDN (SatBroadcasting™) International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has received a contract from the Canadian Department of National Defence, (DND), valued at $2.8 million CDN for the continued operation of Canadian Forces Radio and Television, (CFRT).
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EchoStar — It's ViP-TV Treatment For BTC (SatBroadcasting™) EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), will now deliver its ViP-TV(TM) video transport service to BTC Broadband, a provider of whole home telecommunications services in Oklahoma.
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Integral Systems — Financially Speaking... Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) has reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010.
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Space Micro — Moving On Up... Space Micro Inc has added Dr. Bert Vermeire as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) to its Management Team.
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Rascomstar-Qaf — One Satellite Going Down, Another To Go Up Rascomstar-Qaf will launch a new satellite in May, two years after launching their Rascomstar-QAF1 that is expected to cease functioning by the close of 2010.
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Here's Looking @ Earth — The Bering Brrrrrrrrrr (NASA) Winds from the north pushed sea ice southward and formed cloud streets — parallel rows of clouds — over the Bering Strait in mid-January 2010.
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