October 2007 Satellite NewsVisit www.satnews.com for today's news
October 30, 2007 AsiaSat Brings Luxury To Pan Pacific Viewers Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and LUXE.TV are in agreement in regards to a new distribution program.
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Aurora Obtains Additional Flight Expertise Thru Acquisition Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation announced today that it has acquired Payload Systems, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts effective October 26, 2007. Payload Systems was founded in 1984 with a mission to provide science and engineering services for spaceflight and terrestrial applications.
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Ciao In Africa, And Juniper Reports On Study Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] has released the results of a recent survey conducted by Ciao Group Online Market Research. The research firm interviewed IT managers from a wide array of industry sectors across South Africa.
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Financials In For Telesat Canada Telesat Canada has announced their unaudited financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2007. The company posted increases in both revenue and profitability.
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Thales Is An Award Winner Thales Communications, Inc., has received, from the Joint Program Executive Office Joint Tactical Radio System (JEPO JTRS), two awards for their AN/PRC-148 JTRS handheld radio. The award is under the Consolidated, Interim, Single-channel, Handheld Radio (CISCHR) contract.
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Electrochem Getting All Powered Up The assets have been acquired of a firm whose products operate in environments where wired are undesirable or impractical.
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Genesis Networks Fibre Epiphany For Sur Genesis Networks has publicized the fact that popular Mexican television channel SUR Mexico has started broadcasting to U.S. cable audiences over the Genesis fiber network.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Moving On Up… At ABI Research - A New Internet Video Standard From Skype & Logitech - For Rippin’ Video On Demand, An Agreement Between On2 & RipCode - A Future View… Of Commercial Space… - Xirrus Xtends Conference Coverage
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October 29, 2007 MilsatMagazine’s Printed Version Debuts At MILCOM 2007 Orlando, Florida, is this year’s base for the MILCOM 2007 trade show — muggy weather, unexpected rain, but as is the norm with our industry, hard working set up teams have completed their work and the exhibitors lavish the various military and civilian attendees with great attention.
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MilSatCom Info Heads Into London The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is hosting the 26th International Communications Satellite System Conference (ICSSC), Global MilSatCom 2007, from November 5th through 7th at the Millennium Conference Center in London, United Kingdom.
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Solutions Delivered by One Touch and BTV A new partnership has been announced between One Touch System and BTV+. The companies will provide a new solution for delivering live, enterprise-wide communication and learning to large corporate and government organizations. This will be a thorough, end-to-end solution that includes interactive apps, broadband delivery, network implementation and support services.
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EMS Tech & Windmill In Cahoots For Military Eval EMS Technologies, Inc. [NASDAQ: ELMG] and Windmill International, Inc. announced at MILCOM 2007 that the military has started their evaluation of the first fully portable Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Receive Suite.
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Antenna Access Is Slim With Fractus Fractus has launched debuted TVNext. This product is a slim and compact internal VHF antenna (20 x 10 x 1.6mm) that can easily be integrated into wireless devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. The new antenna also completes Fractus' digital TV antenna portfolio, which now encompasses all mobile TV systems and frequency bands.
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Customer Basing In South America By Iridium Iridium Satellite has a partnership with Tesacom, one of the key South American channel partners of Iridium service provider, Stratos Global Corporation. Stratos is planning to offer a number of enhancements for Tesacom customers through the Stratos Advantage.
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NDS Reveals Positive Financials and Two Deals NDS has announced another increase in the company’s quarter of earnings, up 25 percent from Q1 07. Quarterly net income of $46.294 million has risen as compared to $35.088 million a year ago.
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Raytheon In Pursuit of HC3 With Power Team Raytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] will pursue the Army's next generation of satellite communications, the High Capacity Communications Capability, or HC3, with a team of com solutions providers. HC3, the next generation of Army SATCOM, is a family of reconfigurable communications terminals that will provide soldiers with high-capacity, multiband, multimode connectivity.
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SES ASTRA De Acuerdo Con Sogecable SES ASTRA, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], has signed an agreement with the leading Spanish pay-TV operator, Sogecable, to use an additional transponder.
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SES Makes Fiscals Available SES has made public their financial results for the three months ended September 30th… the recurring revenue of EUR 405 million was up 9.6 percent over the previous year’s same period of time, with reported revenue being EUR 406.9 million.
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October 27, 2007 James Webb Space Telescope Is Truly Wired For Space By Northrop Grumman A new and advanced technology interface named SpaceWire will be used in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman for NASA. This technology will allow the telescope’s components to work far more efficiently and more reliably with each other.
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Globalstar & Orbit One Bet Their Assets There’s a new satellite tracking tag out there, and it’s known as SX1. Globalstar Simplex data integrator, Orbit One (a Numerex company) has launched the SX1, which is designed to communicate using the Globalstar satellite Simplex data network, a part of Orbit One’s Total Asset Visibility solution.
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Senior Army Leaders In Panel Discussions At MILCOM 2007 Senior leaders from the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and
Instrumentation (PEO STRI) will be participating in the 2007 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) Oct. 29 through Oct. 31 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
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Shirking One’s Duties?? I Think Not… Hartley here, and I will be away for the first three days of this week as I attend the MILCOM 2007 exhibition and conference in Orlando, Florida.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Harmony In Effect With SES AMERICOM - Northrop Grumman Reports Heady Q3 Results - OK, Sat Folk Were Correct (As Usual) Re C-Band’s Prospects! - Thuraya Is Reported To Have Delayed Launch - Chang’e-1 Draws Closer To Lunar Goal - Galileo Still Not Gainfully Employed - Bless Boeing, Benefactor
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October 26, 2007 DMC Int’l Imagery Logs On To Halt Logging The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has initiated a third year contract with DMC International Imaging Ltd., (DMCii). The contract calls for the acquisition of high-resolution satellite images of the entire 5 million square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest.
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Canada’s PM & Radarsat The Honorable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), visited the Canadian Space Agency David Florida Laboratory, in Ottawa, to view the next generation commercial satellite, RADARSAT-2. This satellite will launch on December 8, 2007 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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ABI On BPON, EPON and GPON Demand for high-speed Internet access and broadband services is escalating quickly due to services such as video on demand (VOD), Internet protocol television (IPTV), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), and the integration of mobile and wireline voice services with traditional residential communications services.
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GETAC Tablets & Notebooks Are Warfighter Rugged Computers used in the field by warfighters have to be as rugged as those who use them… and that’s one reason GETAC Inc. will be showcasing their line of aptly-named Rugged notebook and tablet PCs during MILCOM 2007. The exhibition and conference, located at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida, will host the event and GETAC will be located in Booth #1508.
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October 25, 2007 Nigeria & Venezuela _May_ Be In SatCom Agreement From the online auspices of the allAfrica.com news website comes a story bylined by Patrick Ugeh indicating that Nigeria may well assist Venezuela in launching a satellite which they have named Simon Boliva.
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Radyne Has Terminal Experience Radyne Corporation [NASDAQ:RADN) has received orders totaling $1.6 million for modems in support of the Ground Multi-band Terminal (GMT) program as well as for another military communications program.
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KVH Is Fleet Of Fleet With SatPhone Debuts Using the soon-to-debut Fleet Broadband service from Inmarsat, KVH Industries, Inc., has introduced their new TracPhone FB250 and FB500. Both offer enhanced data performance as well as voice services within a compact and cost-effective package. Both units offer fully stabilized operation.
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Stratos Responsible for 100 Million Messages! Stratos Global Corp. ([TSX: SGB] has reached a milestone of100 million messages sent via its AmosConnect from Stratos maritime satellite communications service. That’s quite a record! AmosConnect from Stratos integrates vessel and shore-based office applications and is an easy-to-use email service that seamlessly integrates email, fax, telex, GSM text, interoffice
communication and access for mobile personnel into a single messaging system. It is designed for use with Inmarsat systems, as well as with Iridium data and Iridium RUDICS system
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ORBITS: News Briefs XM $$$ Down, Subs Up - EchoStar’s Push And Pull Plan For VOD - Comcast’s Q3 $$$ Down - And ViewCast Finds Out Who The Winner Is… It’s Them! - TomTom Beats Out Solid Earnings Report
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October 24, 2007 Verizon Packs In A Couple Of Potent Products Verizon has been pretty active… first, the company has a brand new agreement with Thrane & Thrane that will find the delivery of portable satellite services to the former’s enterprise customers.
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Hughes Chipping Away With TerreStar Hughes Network Systems, LLC has a new agreement with TerreStar Networks Inc. This association will find Hughes designing, developing and supplying a satellite chipset platform based on UMTS standards to enable wireless mobile devices to communicate via the satellite portion of TerreStar’s network.
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Lockheed Martin Nets 16 Percent Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] today reported third quarter 2007 net earnings of $766 million ($1.80 per diluted share), compared to $629 million ($1.46 per diluted share) in 2006.
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SES ASTRA Deliberate In DTH Approach Because their ASTRA 1D satellite is nearing the end of its life, and as the company wishes to further extend their Direct-To-Home (DTH) services for broadcasters across Europe, SES ASTRA has undertaken a space move. That’s right! Their satellite ASTRA 1E is now relocated from its 19.2° East orbital position to 23.5° East.
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Starsem Sends Another Aloft The 1,727th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle, Moiniya, occurred last Tuesday, October 23rd, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The lift-off occurred at 8:30 a.m., Moscow time. Starsem, Arianespace and their Russian partners all report the government’s spacecraft was accurately placed in target orbit.
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Boeing’s Billions Boost Per Share Value The Boeing Company’s [NYSE: BA] third-quarter net earnings increased to $1.1 billion, or $1.44 per share, from $694 million, or $0.89 per share, in the same period last year. Third-quarter revenues increased 12 percent to $16.5 billion while earnings from operations rose to $1.5 billion, yielding a 9.1 percent operating margin.
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A Lot Of Harmony At ISS On Tuesday evening, October 23rd, at 11:38 p.m. (EST), Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Low Earth orbit was successfully entered after almost 8 minutes of powered flight.
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Vizada Has Maritime Expectations Vizada today announced the company has been appointed as the official distribution partner for Inmarsat's FleetBroadband service, the first maritime communications service to provide cost-effective, simultaneous voice and high-speed data communications through a compact antenna. Vizada will combine the FleetBroadband offering with its own integrated solutions to enhance communications for its maritime customers.
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Gilat Empowers Rural Russia With More SatCom Capabilities Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [NASDAQ:GILT) has announced that one of Russia’s largest telecom companies, North-West Telecom, is expanding their Gilat SkyEdge satellite network. This will bring telephony and broadband Internet services to a growing number of remote communities in North Western Russia. North-West Telecom originally deploye
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The Inmedius Book On Publishing… From A MUOS Perspective Inmedius announced the adoption of its S1000D Publishing Suite by General Dynamics C4 Systems to support the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program’s compliance with the ASD S1000D lifecycle; from the management of logistics source data, to technical documentation production and publishing of Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant training materials.
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ORBITS: News Briefs General Dynamics Brings Smarterware to NSA - China Moving Ever Closer To The Moon - Israel Ignition OK Awaited By India - It’s All In The Swing For MEASAT - Ads That Make The Grade At CASBAA - SkyBitz One Of Deloitte’s Favs…
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October 23, 2007 Juniper Networks’ NetRevs Jump 28 Percent Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] has reported its results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007. Net revenues for the third quarter of 2007 were $735.0 million, compared with $573.6 million for the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 28 percent.
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NavDev Shipments Will Continue To Grow, According To ABI Shipments of navigation devices worldwide will continue to increase from 2007 to 2012, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.5 percent, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.
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SiRFing For Location Based Awareness SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: SIRF] unveiled its SiRFecosystem strategy and introduced SiRFstudio. This is a standards-based, end-to-end location services enabling platform designed to simplify and speed the development and deployment of location-aware applications across a broad range of mobile devices.
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Agilent Technologies Has Interoperability As Ultimate Goal The WiMAX teamwork between Agilent Technologies [NYSE:A] and Sequans Communications will continue as both collaborate to include Wave 2 Mobile WiMAX mobile station (MS) and base station (BS) protocol testing.
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Boeing’s Harmony Is Definitely Modular In Nature The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is playing a significant role in the current 14-day Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-120) mission, which will deliver the European Space Agency's Harmony module to the International Space Station. Boeing has worked with Thales Alenia Space in Torino, Italy, for more than 10 years to assemble and prepare the Harmony module for launch.
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AST Australia Assists Fire Fighting Cause Applied Satellite Technology Australia Pty Ltd, an Iridium value-added reseller, has won a major contract from the Australian Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) West Australian Fire Management Services.
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TECORE Runs With RAN TECORE Wireless Systems has announced the commercial availability of its CoreCell CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A product line in Pico, Micro, Mini and Macro (omni directional and sectored) configurations. These integrated Radio Access Network (RAN) products deliver the latest in 3G applications and services, and support peak data rates of 3.1 Mbps on the forward link and 1.8 Mbps on the reverse link.
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Satlynx Has A Moving Experience Following their acquisition this last spring by GE, Satlynx has moved their headquarters.
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October 22, 2007 GeoEye Looks Sharp With Award & Contract GeoEye, Inc.’s [NASDAQ:GEOY] CEO, Matthew O’Connell, has been awarded the Intelligence Achievement Award for Industry from the United States Geospatial Foundation (USGIF). Plus, the company has now contracted with ITT Corporation [NYSE:ITT] to start work on the camera for GeoEye’s next satellite, GeoEye-2.
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ESA Eager For Future Missions Ariane 5’s readiness for the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer vehicle is now one step further ahead, thanks to the successful re-ignition of the upper stage engine during its most recent mission. Additionally, during the October 17th through 18th 2007 meeting in Paris, the ESA’s Space Science Advisory Committee selected the new candidates for possible future scientific missions.
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Trac-ID Dives Into Radio Linkage Trac-ID Systems will now be able to offer the two-way, 155 Mbps TracLink Service for the offshore market, thanks to a new Radio Link Strategic Business Agreement between them and C2SAT Communications AB.
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SES SIRIUS Ships SIRIUS 4 SES SIRIUS, a SES ASTRA company, has delivered the SIRIUS 4 satellite to the Baikonour Cosmodrome.
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Globalstar’s Four More Four… that’s correct, four… satellites were successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle, and Globalstar Inc. is delighted to be able to augment the earlier four satellites launched in May of this year.
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SkyBitz Can Fill You In On Your Cargo And Your Trailer Two new products have been added to the SkyBitz tracking and information product suites. The first is Cargo Sensor and the second is Tractor/Trailer ID.
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Upgrade Path From DataPath A $3.2 million contract has been awarded to DataPath, Inc. This award is from Program Manager WIN-T’s Commercial SATCOM Terminal Program at the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and was made under the Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs).
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MoUs From Four A Treat For Thuraya Thuraya has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with four of the top satellite application developers. These developers will be innovating new telecom applications and accessories for Thuraya products.
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PCI Turns Geospatial Data Into Geosuccessful Ops PCI Geomatics has successfully demonstrated their Automatic Ingest Mosaic Mapping System (AIMM) in a coalition military environment. This system is used to transform geospatial data and imagery into valuable information that can assist commanders in making key decisions in support of operations.
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Stratos Global Broadens Their Band For Aeronautical Types Stratos Global Corp. [TSX: SGB] has launched its new, aeronautical broadband satellite communications solution, based on Inmarsat's SwiftBroadband service. SwiftBroadband from Stratos is available now in packages designed for government and military agencies, commercial airlines and private jet owners. SwiftBroadband from Stratos provides cost-effective, high-speed data and voice communications, all available simultaneously, at speeds up to 432kpbs.
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ESA Looks… And Finds Galileo Avionica Galileo Avionica has recently been awarded three important contracts by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the creation of special coatings with very high performance levels to be applied on components to be installed onboard optical systems in upcoming ESA missions. The company’s Vacuum Technologies center at Carsoli carries on Research and Development activity as well as specialized production in optical coatings.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Effnet AB Compresses Paradise - Juniper Accelerates Security Solutions - Mobile & Deployable Sessions Announced By SMI
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October 20, 2007 Vizada Ventures Into Malagasy Cup New video satellite communications will make it possible for the general public to follow the five stages of the Malagasy Cup (October 21st through 26th) occurring along the Madagascar Coast. This is because Vizada (formerly FTMSC) and Satellite Air Time will manage the race communications as well as communicate photos and videos from these remote areas.
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Near Earth Knows New Media, Music, Satellites & More At http://www.nearearthllc.com/analysis/presentation.asp, investment banking firm Near Earth LLC offers a highly informative online library.
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The World Through DigitalGlobe’s Eyes & Oracle’s Spatial DigitalGlobe and Oracle are getting together to offer satellite imagery to Oracle Database 11g customers. Sample imagery of the city of San Francisco is now available and downloadable through the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
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TCS Communicates Well With The USMC TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS), a global leader in mission-critical wireless communications, today announced the award of a five-year contract for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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TCS & Glowlink Duo Win With WGS TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) {NASDAQ: TSYS] and Glowlink Communications Technology, Inc. have won a satellite hardware and services contract valued at approximately $8 million.
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AeroAstro Sends Simplex Flying Further As Globalstar & Radyne Buddy Up Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ:GSAT] has announced that Radyne Corporation business unit AeroAstro will supply Globalstar with the necessary network upgrades to enhance both the receiver sensitivity and the overall customer messaging capacity of the Globalstar Simplex data network.
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NovaTel To Start Afresh With Hexagon NovAtel Inc. (NASDAQ:NGPS), a Calgary-based provider of global navigation satellite technology, has struck a friendly deal to be acquired by one of its key customers, Hexagon AB [STO:HEXA.B] of Sweden, for US$50 per share, or US$390 million.
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Johannesburg Site For Satcom World Africa 2008 Satcom World Africa 2008 will be in its 11th year running the only conference aimed at the VSAT, mobile and broadcasting sectors of satellite communications. It is scheduled for April 7th through 10th at the Sandton Convention Centre in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Iridium’s Brazilian Connections Strengthened In its effort to continue its expansive growth in the Brazilian market, Iridium Satellite announces a strategic partnership with Tesacom do Brasil, a Brazilian telecommunications company.
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SRI Sim Excites As Well As Tests The SE-4257 Flight Telemetry RF Exciter & Test Signal Simulator from Summation Research, Inc. (SRI) combines a state-of-the-art high data rate digital wideband waveform modulator with a high performance radio frequency (RF) upconverter to produce transmission-ready signals in the Baseband, Upper L-, Lower L-, and both Transmit and Receive S-Band frequency bands.
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October 18, 2007 Q3 Results Launched For Orbital Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE:ORB] has revealed the company’s financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of 2007. Orbital’s third quarter revenues increased 46 percent to $289.5 million in 2007, compared to $197.8 million in 2006.
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Devine Obsession For Digital Content Delivery Devine Entertainment Corporation [OTCBB:DVNNF] is establishing an online content distribution unit to accelerate revenue growth in the expanding marketplace for digital download of film and television content. The newly formed Devine Digital Content Group will spearhead initiatives to maximize revenue opportunities in the double-digit industry growth of video-on-demand (VOD), Internet, wireless and mobile communications, and other new electronic distribution channels.
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NXGen Enjoys Monetary Infusion NXGen, Inc. has announced they have obtained a commitment, of $1.65 million in equity financing over the next twelve months.
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Open Standards Association Appoints New Chairperson Rear Admiral Robert C. “Willie” Williamson, United States Navy (Ret) will serve as the chairperson of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) and will lead the organization for the next year. Lieutenant Colonel Terrence C. “Terry” Morgan, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret) of Cisco will support him as vice chairman.
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Trimble’s Fleet Flexibility Heads Into Europe Trimble [NASDAQ: TRMB] has now launched its wireless fleet productivity solutions for the European commercial vehicle market. The company provides Global Positioning System (GPS) based fleet management products for a variety of industries.
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BAE Delivers Truly RAD Command & Control Two BAE Systems RAD750 radiation-hardened single-board computers are managing the command and control functions onboard the WorldView-1 satellite, launched September 18th aboard a Delta II rocket. WorldView-1 was built by Ball Aerospace and is owned and operated by DigitalGlobe in Colorado.
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COM DEV To Test Marine AIS Breakthrough COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX: CDV] has secured a space flight opportunity to demonstrate an advanced AIS data detection capability from space. AIS, or Automatic Identification System, is a VHF broadcast system required aboard major marine vessels to locate and identify ships at sea.
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Moving On Up… At COM DEV COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), a leading manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that James C. Adamson has been appointed to its Board of Directors, as well as the Board’s Human Resources and Compensation Committee.
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No Heartbreak Film Break With Microspace Satellite Digital Film Delivery Microspace Communications Corporation (Microspace), the leading distributor of digital cinema via satellite, today announced the satellite distribution of DreamWorks Pictures’ “The Heartbreak Kid” to theaters nationwide. The film’s stars include Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan and Malin Akerman.
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EUMETSAT & Canada Engage In Sat MOU EUMETSAT and Canada today initialed a memorandum of understanding to advance cooperation in satellite monitoring activities. Under the agreement, which will come into effect in 2008, Europe and Canada will work together to improve weather, climate and environmental monitoring through the observation of atmosphere and oceans.
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Livewire Adds Broadcast Capabilities To Royal Navy The Royal Navy has enhanced the fleet with new Livewire Digital broadcast systems. The material will be used for both internal purposes, such as training, and for interaction with the broadcast news channels.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Digital TV Switch Has Started In The UK - Hyatt Hikes Football For Guests - eRide’s True Positioning Chip - A Harmonic Agreement - CCI Engaged By Malaysian Government For Launch Coverage - Taxes On SatTV in Ohio Nixed
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October 17, 2007 Comtech Gifted With SatModem Testimonial A testimonial is a gift to any company receiving such positive, reflective statements of support for a particular product or line of products. Comtech EF Data has just received such from ST Teleport. That company happens to be a full-service satellite communications solutions provider.
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ABI Research Offers Insight Into Mobile Productivity Apps ABI Research survey results reveal North American business customers spend 23 percent more on mobile services than consumers. But until now, mobile productivity application development has lagged behind mobile entertainment services development, limiting the opportunities for serving the business customer.
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Globalstar Constellation Course Continues Coverage Creation Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ:GSAT] has announced the scheduled launch date for four of their firstgen ground spare satellites — October 21st. These four satellites, in conjunction with the four satellites launched on May 30th, will be used to augment the company's current first-generation LEO (low earth orbit) satellite constellation.
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Moving On Out… At BAE Systems Long time company executive Mike Turner will be stepping down as the Chief Executive Officer of BAE Systems, as well as leaving the Board of Directors, at the end of August 2008.
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ViaSat Cryptic With New Contract ViaSat Inc. has been awarded an $8.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Cryptographic Support Group (CPSG) for system design and development of the next generation Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) cryptographic unit. The system is designed to replace legacy equipment used in satellite ground stations.
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Build, Build, Build For Benham Science Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI] announced their subsidiary, Benham Companies LLC, has been awarded a $51.4 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract calls for Benham to design, engineer and build two testing facilities.
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Dig In With DoD At Workshop The Third Annual DoD Commercial SATCOM Users Workshop will be conducted at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington D.C. from November 13th through the 15th. Leaders from DoD Combatant Commands, services and agencies, along with satellite operators, service providers, resellers, ground equipment suppliers and manufacturers, will be in attendance.
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Moving On Up… At NewTek NewTek, Inc. has announced Ralph Messana is the company’s newly named Director of Latin American Sales.
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Moving On Up… At SkyBitz SkyBitz has announced the board of directors has elected Dr. Homaira Akbari as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
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Lockheed Martin GPS Launch Goes Good As you may have read in our October 17th news story entitled Lockheed Martin Has No Blockage for IIR-M… Launch Set”, such has come to pass. A U.S. Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle.
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ORBITS: News Briefs GigaSat Continues To Develop Friends At BBC - NewTek Scores Home Run On The Web - TEAC Flying High With Airbus and Boeing - Juniper Routing Exhibits To Atlanta - Sigma Signs With Xener For Strategic Solutions Deployment - MWEB Gains More Influence In Africa - MEASAT & MTV
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October 16, 2007 NAVTEQ To Help Deliver The Mail and Improve Microsoft’s Location Awareness NAVTEQ [NYSE:NVT] is a global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation and the company has just been selected by Intelligent Direct to provide map data for use in its CASS-certified US Postal Carrier Route Boundaries.
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Lockheed Martin Has No Blockage For IIR-M… Launch Set The fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR satellite built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the U.S. Air Force is set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket on October 17th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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DigitalGlobe’s Grand Globe Gathering Gesture DigitalGlobe has released the first images from WorldView-1, the highest resolution commercial satellite that was successfully launched on September 18 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The satellite has been undergoing a routine calibration and checkout period.
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China’s Chang’e I Ready For Moon Visit The ShanghaiDaily.com online news website is reporting that the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, located in Sichuan Province in southwest China, will be the site of the nation’s first lunar satellite launch, set for October 26th. Named “Chang’e”, the satellite has been given the name of the Chinese goddess who flew to the moon.
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SATCOM Ops Turned Over To Boeing & Airmen Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron and Boeing Corporation contractors took over early-orbit operations on Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite Vehicle 1 from a Boeing facility in El Segundo, California, on October 10th, approximately 30 minutes after the vehicle was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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C-COM Offers Sat Mobility To A NATO Warfighter C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. [TSXV: CMI] has received a $475,000 order for its iNetVu Mobile units from one of its European resellers. The iNetVu mobile systems have been delivered, installed, and commissioned by this reseller and are now in use by one of the armed forces of a NATO member country.
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Verso & Hughes Perform Well Together Verso Technologies, Inc. [NASDAQ: VRSO] and Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes) have successfully concluded inter-operability testing of the Verso NetPerformer solution over the Hughes broadband satellite platform. As a result, Verso’s optimized NetPerformer satellite solution is now offered to wireless carriers worldwide for GSM and CDMA backhaul applications.
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Moving On Up… At Boeing Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney has named Shephard W. Hill president, Boeing International, replacing Laurette Koellner, who is retiring. At the same time, he named Michael J. Cave to replace Hill as senior vice president, Business Development and Strategy at Boeing Corporate Offices. Cave moves from Boeing Commercial Airplanes, where he led Business Strategy and Marketing.
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Network Innovations Eliminates Dispatch Delay Network Innovations has solved the issue of voice delay on MSAT G2 systems with the release of the SATRAD Console Interface System (CIS). The CIS integrates existing dispatch console systems with the SATRAD MSAT G2 satellite dispatch radio service and eliminates the voice delay associated with a standard G2 dispatch unit.
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OmniGlobe Embraces Remote Endeavor OmniGlobe Networks, Inc. has signed a 10 year contract with a total value of $5.48 million with the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach’s Internet Service Provider (ISP) Naskapi Imuun, Inc. Under the terms of the contract, OmniGlobe will provide Naskapi Imuun with increased satellite bandwidth.
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OmniGlobe Embraces Remote Endeavor OmniGlobe Networks, Inc. has signed a 10 year contract with a total value of $5.48 million with the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach’s Internet Service Provider (ISP) Naskapi Imuun, Inc. Under the terms of the contract, OmniGlobe will provide Naskapi Imuun with increased satellite bandwidth.
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ORBITS: News Briefs NemeriX’ Chip Off A New Block - Effnet AB Licenses Compression Goodies - AsiaSat Into Children’s Programming Channel - Double Star Mission Satellite Bids Adieu - A Chinese Broadcasting Day Dawns In Canada Via Genesis Networks
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October 15, 2007 Motricity Drives Additional Services Thru Acquisition Providing mobile content services and solutions, Motricity has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the mobile services business unit of InfoSpace, Inc. [NASDAQ: INSP]. To acquire this leading developer of mobile technologies and infrastructure services will cost approximately $135 million in an all cash transaction.
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RT Logic’s Firm Belief In Hot Swapping RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS], has debuted their Telemetrix® 500RX High-Rate Digital/Analog Recorder System (T500RX). Combining RT Logic high-speed FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)-based hardware and firmware with affordable COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) PC server technology, the T500RX provides aggregate recording and playback rates in excess of 1 Gbps.
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Advantech Has Proven They Are Rather Gamey About RF Advantech AMT manufactures satellite and terrestrial wireless communication equipment. The company, in collaboration with ProComSat, their Algerian partner, had successfully installed RF equipment in support of the All-African games broadcasts.
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Telecom Satellite Work For India To Proceed The Telecom Commission (TEC) has approved the Department of Telecom (ToC) to start work on a independent, dedicated satellite that will provide telecom services. The probable winner of this award will be the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as the ToC continues to work out the more minute details of satellite development.
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Billions And Billions Of… Dollars! The Space Foundation has released The Space Report 2007. Their publication reveals in 2006 the global space industry grew to nearly $220 billion in total revenues. The Space Report 2007 contains global space industry budgets and revenue data for calendar year 2006 and, along with the updated Space Foundation Index, demonstrates dramatic growth in the space economy that is outpacing most other markets and indices.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Stratos In A Transceiving Mode Of Miniature Proportions - Teens Don’t ID With Cell-Based GPS - Angara To Assault The Heavens In 2011 - JAXA’s Baby Sat Out Of The KAGUYA Nest - Sprint Ring’s Bell Industries’ Bell
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October 14, 2007 SES Sets Specific Single Solution SES [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG] has consolidated their satellite, ground, procurement, engineering and operational services into a single division. Martin Halliwell, previously Chief Technology Officer of SES ASTRA, is the President of this new entity to be called SES ENGINEERING.
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Lockheed Martin & Northrop Grumman TSAT Triumph The Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] / Northrop Grumman [NYSE:NOC] team has successfully completed the last in a series of verification tests of its Next Generation Processor Router (NGPR). These tests were performed during the Risk Reduction and System Definition (RR&SD) phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment.
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East Is East and West Is WEST 2008 From February 5th through February 7th at the San Diego Convention Center, WEST 2008 will be underway, co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute.
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Boeing’s WGS Effort Signals In Good Health Boeing [NYSE: BA] has acquired signals from the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite. This is a new military spacecraft to help meet the growing demand for military satellite communications by providing a 10x increase in telecommunications capacity over the satellite it will replace.
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Cassini Captures Lakes On Titan For ESA Newly assembled radar images from Cassini provide the best views of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Saturn's moon Titan. A new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes.
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Lagos, Nigeria, HQ For Important CommSummit For West Africa Taking place in Lagos, Nigeria, from November 20th through the 21st, is the 3rd West Africa Satellite Communications Summit (WASCS3). The organizers of the summit, GVF, have announced the high-level support and participation of major commercial organisations from both the satellite communications industry, and the oil & gas, financial services, and enterprise & distribution vertical markets.
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ORBITS: News Briefs ABI Addresses STB Stall With New Report - French PM Flying High With Investment Program - Radiant Jumping For Juniper - WeComm Welds Symbion Partnership Even Closer - A New Body Of Work By The TSA Using L3 Technology
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October 11, 2007 European Customers To Get Static From Globalstar Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ:GSAT] has announced their subsidiary, Globalstar Europe, is launching Static IP (Internet Protocol) address and virtual private network or VPN capability for its satellite data customers throughout western Europe. The new services are possible due to enhancements at the Globalstar gateway ground station located in France.
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Geomatica Grows Under PCI Geomatics’ Auspices PCI Geomatics has developed the Geocor ProPack, under the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Earth Observation Application Development Program (EOADP). The Geocor ProPack will be made available through PCI Geomatics as an add-on module to the Geomatica 10 software suite.
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SatModem Successes For Comtech Comtech Telecommunications Corp. [NASDAQ: CMTL] subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has received $2.6 million in orders for satellite communications equipment. The equipment will support an expansion project of a satellite-based cellular backhaul network to remote areas in Asia.
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Harmonic Brings More To Pentagon’s Headend Harmonic Inc. [NASDAQ: HLIT] has announced that General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] is implementing Harmonic’s IP-based digital video and HFC broadband access solutions to upgrade the cable video system operated at the Pentagon. The project included an upgrade of the entire video headend and expansion of the transport infrastructure to support more standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video channels, as well as on-demand video applications.
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Surrey Space & Satellite Schooling Significant For Nigerians From the Daily Trust in Abuja and the allAfrica.com news website we learn of a second Nigeria satellite plan. Named NX2, this space vehicle is going to be designed and manufactured by Nigerian engineers. In fact, it appears as though NX2 will launch with NigeriaSat-2 during Q4 of 2009.
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RigNet’s Righteous ReFi RigNet, Inc. provides managed communications solutions for the upstream oil and gas industry and the company announced today the refinancing of its debt with Comerica Bank. This refinancing will continue the funding of the Company’s strong growth, reduces total borrowing costs as well as simplifies the debt structure.
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Russian Investigation Into JCSAT-11 Mishap Is Completed The Russian State Commission investigating the unsuccessful launch last month of a Proton vehicle carrying the JCSAT-11 satellite has determined that a damaged pyro firing cable on the interstage truss prevented the activation of the pyro bolts that were to have separated the first and second stages of the rocket. Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) and chairman of the 18-member investigative commission, announced the findings after meeting with government officials in Kazakhstan.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Majority Enjoy Mobile Apps, Reports Telephia - AND There May Be More… - Better Delivery Bang At Short Range
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October 10, 2007 Double Dose of Monetary Infusion For Comtech Comtech Telecommunications Corp. [NASDAQ: CMTL] subsidiary Comtech PST Corp. has received $1.5 million of orders for high power amplifiers from a leading provider of aviation electronics and communication systems. These amplifiers are used as part of satellite communications systems which provide commercial mobile airborne-to-satellite-to-ground communications service.
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SIMULIA & MicroSat Into Deep Analysis Dassault Systèmes [NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA] and MicroSat Systems are accelerating the evaluation of product performance and reliability with Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA.
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IDC Coffers Content With Contract Culminations International Datacasting Corporation [TSX:IDC] has received new orders for Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) products and related services from three separate customers. These orders total more than $1.7 million USD.
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JAXA Jazzed By BabySat & KAGUYA Mooning The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performed the separation operation of one of the onboard baby satellites, the Relay Satellite (Rstar,) of the "KAGUYA" (SELENE). The Rstar was released at 9:36 a.m. on October 9 (Japan Standard Time, JST).
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MITEQ’s Trio Of Temptations There are some new products newly available from MITEQ.
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Motorola Wishes You To Appropriately Receive Motorola, Inc. [NYSE: MOT] is going to demo their high definition (HD) video delivery offerings at the HD World Conference & Exposition. The demonstrations will feature Motorola’s first public display of the DSR-6000 series receivers, the first of a new generation of receiver-transcoders.
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Wal-Mart Shoppers, A RAMTelecom Blue Light Special… RAMTelecom Inc. [TSX-V:RTC] has been selected by ShopCast to provide satellite service to support the EK3 Narrowcasting network in Wal-Mart Canada Corporation stores across Canada. ShopCast, a Toronto-based company, will use RAMTelecom satellite communications services to enable the EK3 Narrowcasting Network to run Wal-Mart’s closed circuit TV, which will communicate directly with shoppers.
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Udcast Into Mobility And More At SATCON UDcast provides Mobile TV infrastructure solutions and satellite-aware enterprise networking equipment and, during the Satcon Expo in New York, is going to demo the role that satellite is playing as the company rolls out MobileTV.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Agilent Offers Doubt Reduction - CSR Helps Chinese Figure Out What’s Where - EU Galileo Funding Remains Up In The Air… Not The Satellite! - MEASAT Packs In South Asian ChannelsMEASAT Packs In South Asian Channels - OnStar Stops Cars - SES’ Stake In Glocom - WildBlue Dishes Up New Dish - Beer, Beer, Beer, It Can Make You Feel… Attuned, Astronomically Speaking!
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October 9, 2007 For Andrew, Passivity Is A GOOD Thing Andrew Corporation has added low-passive intermodulation (PIM) capabilities to many of its satellite antenna products. Generation of interfering signals caused by passive intermodulation is disruptive to successful network communications. Low–PIM equipment helps create higher quality communications, with less interference and data loss.
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JEM Junks Reno Tradeshow Via a brief, all capitalized message on their website, JEM Communications, Inc., has informed all that the Satellite & Broadband Expo, known as SBE 2007 West, is canceled.
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GRT Brings Relief To The Red Cross Global Relief Technologies, LLC has been selected by the American Red Cross to equip a cadre of Red Cross disaster relief professionals with GRT’s patented Rapid Data Management System (RDMS) product. RDMS will do much to augment the Red Cross’ disaster response communications capability.
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New Trio To Tempt Biz With Power Packing’ VPN Net WildBlue Enterprise Solutions, XipLink and Trispen have just announced a technical and commercial solution that will provide a new integrated, high performance VPN network for small to medium size businesses. This secure VPN network allows for accelerated communications and optimized bandwidth over satellite. This new solution will be available through WildBlue Enterprise Solutions' Value Added Resellers (VARs).
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Northrop Grumman Has Multi-Mission System Test Success NPOESS is the nation's nextgen, low-Earth orbiting, and remote sensing system. NPOESS will provide environmental data to military and civilian users. Prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] leads the overall systems engineering and systems integration effort under contract to the IPO, which consists of the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Defense and NASA.
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Landsat & Juno Become Atlas V Passengers Launch service contracts for two future NASA space exploration missions have been landed by United Launch Alliance. The missions will be Landsat and Juno, scheduled to launch in 2011.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Intelsat Ices A New Deal - Xirrus Offers Something Cool… For Nothing! - Smart & ViaSat Accurate Alarms Tell Of Tsunami - WTA Reveals 17 Percent Revenue Growth For Teleports — To $15 Billion!
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October 8, 2007 A Healthy Dose Of Iridium For New Zealand Augmentation of land-based telecommunication services is certainly of high importance to most governmental agencies, especially those involved in the area of public health. And that’s why the New Zealand Ministry of Health is now going to rely on Iridium Satellite phones to help the agency ensure continuity of operations in the event of natural or manmade disasters.
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ITC’s Coax Confab Requires No Tools There’s a new, cost-effective series of coaxial connectors from ITC. This division of The Quest Group has debuted this product that’s designed for A/V installers in Europe and other regions with identical connector standards. The company’s patented system offers an alternative to soldering or compression methods, especially as the later systems require multiple tools or dies to make that connection.
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Noise Can Be A True Communication Friend, Says NuCrypt There can be no doubt that ultra-secure data transmission is a critical component in military communications. However, for such to be successfully deployed, the technology must be available at reasonable cost and convenience. That is the core innovation of NuCrypt.
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Light Noise Can Be A True Communication Friend, Says NuCrypt There can be no doubt that ultra-secure data transmission is a critical component in military communications. However, for such to be successfully deployed, the technology must be available at reasonable cost and convenience. That is the core innovation of NuCrypt.
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A Better View Of Disasters From SSTL Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is to launch two new enhanced
Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) satellites during the fourth quarter of 2008. Deimos-1, which was built for Deimos SL (Spain), and SSTL's UK-DMC2 will be launched by a Dnepr rocket from the new Kosmotras launch site in southern Ural. Both Demios-1 and UK-DMC2 will carry an enhanced version of the DMC wide area imaging system.
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THOR Turns Transponder Temptation Into Intelsat Reality Intelsat, Ltd. and Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) have completed an agreement wherein Intelsat will purchase 10 transponders on Telenor’s THOR 6 satellite, which is due to launch during the second quarter of 2009. Under the contract, Intelsat will gain the additional capacity needed to expand its growing DTH business within Central and Eastern Europe.
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Repurposing Battlefield Satcoms In DataPath’s Hands DataPath, Inc. has been awarded $56 million to reset, repair and upgrade DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and Unit Hub SATCOM Trucks used in the U.S. Army's Joint Network Node (JNN) program. This is also known as Increment One of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. DataPath's contract with the Army includes a base year and three additional years of work that could total up to $270 million in awards for the company.
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A More Secure Business Environment Via Juniper Juniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] has debuted Juniper Networks Unified Access Control (UAC) version 2.1. This version advances the solution's ability to meet the evolving access control and security requirements of high-performance businesses.
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Nepal’s New Chinese ComChannel In April of 1995, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPT) and the State Planning Commission formed the China Orient Telecommunications Satellite Company, also known as COTS (not to be confused with Commercial Off The Shelf… but it is!)
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MDA To Bring A New Jewel To Space MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. [TSX: MDA] has won an approximately $65 Million contract from Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) to deliver an information solution called SAPPHIRE for the surveillance of space objects. SAPPHIRE is DND's first dedicated space mission and will support Canada's NORAD commitments with the delivery of critical information.
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Hexagon Firms Up Their Positioning Capabilities Hexagon AB [STO:HEXA B] and NovAtel Inc [NASDAQ:NGPS] are going to be the fastest of friends… the firms have entered into a definitive agreement under which Hexagon has agreed to acquire all the outstanding shares of NovAtel for US$50D per share.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Vonage & Sprint No Longer In Contention
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October 6, 2007 Injection Of Orbit And Joy For JAXA Thursday, October 4th was a big day for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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A Decade Of Momentous Messaging At ACM Expo One of Asia’s leading tradeshows for the ICT and Media industry is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary… the ACM Expo & Forum is going to occur from November 20th through the 22nd at the Kuala Lumpur convention Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Inmedius Provides Due Diligence For Docs Inmedius, Inc. now has a multi-user, multi-year contract with Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions (IS&S) for the use of their S1000D Publishing Suite which will support the production of electronic documentation for Lockheed Martin’s Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) Mission Operations System (TMOS).
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Thanks To Advent, Rugby Rules On TVNZ New Zealand's National broadcaster, Television New Zealand (TVNZ), has completed factory acceptance tests on a new 1.2-meter motorized FlyDrive satellite antenna from Advent Communications, which they have selected to use in covering the final stages of the Rugby World Cup. TVNZ mounted the FlyDrive on a hired vehicle to drive it to France to cover the Rugby World Cup.
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Moving On Up… At Thales Communications Now joining Thales Communications, Inc., is Cesar A. (Tony) Urenda. Mr. Urenda is joining the tactical communications team as the business development manager and his primary responsibility will be to liaison with the U.S. Special Operations forces.
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WildBlue Wild Over Udcast Udcast and WildBlue Enterprise Solutions have entered into a technical and commercial partnership to jointly develop new products, services and markets for the enhanced delivery of broadband Internet by satellite to the business sector. As part of this agreement, WildBlue has approved the UDcast UDgateway as an accelerated VPN solution for enterprise users of its broadband Internet service by satellite.
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Number 11 For Intelsat And Number Four For Optus Rocket To Success Certainly is a great feeling when a launch goes as planned… just ask Intelsat, Ltd., whose Intelsat 11 satellite, and Optus’ D2, were successfully launched aboard Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket at 6:02 p.m. EDT on Friday, October 5th. The satellite packs a payload of 25 C- and 18 ku-band transponders for content broadcasting in the Americas and Europe.
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Moving On Up… At Omnilink Systems, Inc. Omnilink Systems operates in location-based services (LBS) and the firm has just announced Wain Kellum has been appointed at their Chief Executive Officer. He will be responsible for driving the company’s strategy and brings more than 25 years of experience to his new role.
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October 4, 2007 Contractor Jells Juno To Jupiter Jump NASA’s Launch Services Program Office has selected Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services for the Juno mission to Jupiter. This is a $190 million contract award.
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Star One Setting Up For Space The Star One C1 communications satellite has been transferred to the Kourou, French Guiana launch site by Thales Alenia Space. Star One C1 is dedicated to the Brazilian satellite operator Star One.
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Thuraya Gets No Shore Leave After Boeing Shipment The third Thuraya communications satellite has now been shipped by Boeing [NYSE: BA] from their El Segundo, California manufacturing facility to the Sea Launch Home Port located in Long Beach, California. At the Sea Launch facility, the satellite will be prepped for its launch next month.
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DataPath’s Swan Smiles DataPath, Inc. has received US$8.7M in delivery orders for continued support and enhancements to the U.S. Marine Corps' Support Wide Area Network (SWAN) programs. Under the delivery orders, DataPath will upgrade VSAT flyaway systems and Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs).
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More Mega Viewing Via Intelsat Intelsat, Ltd. has signed a new multi-year contract with Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. [NASDAQ: SBSA] of Miami, Florida. Under this agreement, Spanish Broadcasting System will use Intelsat’s complete network of satellite, teleport and fiber for distribution of its Mega TV network programming to cable operators, direct-to-home (DTH) providers, and free-to-air affiliates throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
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SkyWave’s Super Sales Success SkyWave Mobile Communications has exceeded sales of 110,000 terminal units at the close of its most successful year to date. Bolstered by the recent launch of the DMR-800D terminal and the SkyWave IsatM2M network service, the company has shipped more than 30,000 units this year alone, representing a growth of 40 percent year-over-year.
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Serious Satcom Seminar TTC and ATSI will be presenting a new, two-day seminar entitled, “SATCOM Networks - Broadband, Mobility and Innovation for Government Services” with leader Bruce Elbert, President, ASTI, and guest expert Andrew C. Oak, Chief Engineer, Communications and Network Systems Engineering Group, The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Great Galileo Goodies For NovAtel NovAtel Inc. [NASDAQ: NGPS] has been awarded of a contract worth €6.3M (US$8.6M) by Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) for the continued development of the Ground Reception Chain (GRC) reference receiver for Galileo, Europe’s state-of-the-art Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). TAS-I, NovAtel and Space Engineering were initially selected by the European Space Agency (ESA)/ESNIS/Thales Alenia Space France (TAS-F) and began work on the program in June 2005.
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Moving On Up… At Radyne Radyne Corporation [NASDAQ: RADN] announced that Lou Dubin is now the President of its Radyne Division. The Radyne Division designs and manufactures satellite and microwave modems, frequency converters, switches, troposcatter modems, and the recently announced SkyWire TDMA platform.
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ORBITS: News Briefs A Sporting Signing For AsiaSat - Statement From AMF & EADS Re Trading Investigation
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October 3, 2007 Orbital Sciences' News Omnipresence Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] has been selected by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, manufacture, integrate and test the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array (NuSTAR) scientific satellite. Plus, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV), which is the booster rocket for the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), was successfully launched as part of a test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program.
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SpaceDev’s Thermal Thrust SpaceDev [OTCBB: SPDV] is the recipient of a contract from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The first phase contract value is $3.75 million for the initial development of solar thermal propulsion (STP) and bus design for the High Delta-V Satellite Program. SpaceDev has assembled a team, including General Atomics and BAE Systems, to deliver strong and proven capabilities to address the program’s technical challenges.
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Getting Gaia Going, Maxwell’s Goal Maxwell Technologies Inc. [NASDAQ: MXWL] has won a contract valued at approximately $3 million from Astrium’s United Kingdom-based satellite unit to supply single board computers (SBC) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) “Gaia” astronomy mission. The goal of the mission is to survey more than a billion stars and other celestial bodies in order to trace the origin and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Modem Government Work For Comtech EF Data Comtech Telecommunications Corp. [NASDAQ: CMTL] subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has garnered a $1.2 million order from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for satellite communications infrastructure equipment. The equipment will be deployed to support a new, managed satellite-based communications network.
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Dynamic Contract For GMV GMV has a new contract from Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide their GEO flight dynamics system called focusGEO for Measat-1R. This is the new telecommunications spacecraft being built by Orbital Sciences Corporation for Measat Satellite Systems of Malaysia.
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Learning The Hughes Way Hughes Network Systems, LLC [Hughes] and their Brazilian operating subsidiary have completed the rollout of HughesNet broadband satellite service in the state of Amazonas. This includes the installation of more than 200 Hughes HN terminals.
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Image Is Everything For PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics will support image products from the THEOS satellite (Thailand Earth Observation System), which is to be launched in November 2007. PCI Geomatics will develop support for THEOS data import, precision orthorectification models, image mosaics, and advanced data fusion techniques, such as panchromatic sharpening.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Aussies Go With WGS - Murdoch May Not… - Hubble HobKnobs With Nebula - Offshore Concerns Of Prime Importance - Space U Wants U To Bid - Juniper Routing For Turk Telecom - On2 Onto Cool Live Tech
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October 2, 2007 Power To The Project By QinetiQ A battery developed by a QinetiQ-led consortium, including ABSL Space Products (ABSL), has successfully powered key, scientific payloads during the final stages of the Foton-M3 mission into space. Foton-M3 is a Russian unmanned spacecraft launched on September 14th from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Moving On Up… at Juniper Networks The new Chief Marketing Officer at Juniper Networks is Ms. Penny Wilson. She joins the firm with more than 25 years of marketing and technology leadership experience. She served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Macromedia, Inc., which was acquired by Adobe Systems, Inc.
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Pumping Entertainment Into The AsiaSat Environs Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited [AsiaSat] and US entertainment network E! Entertainment Television Inc. have announced the signing of a contract that will find E! International Network distributed to Asian cable and satellite networks, terrestrial stations and pay TV platforms. Such will occur through AsiaSat 2’s wide C-band coverage beam and full transponder C-band MCPC platform operated by AsiaSat’s Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong.
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Sky Has A Picnic Sky has unveiled further details of the company plans to offer broadband, telephone and digital terrestrial television services under an entirely new brand to customers across the United Kingdom. The new business will operate under the Picnic brand offering customers a variety of simple, flexible options to combine the services that they want.
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A JEM Of A Sat Show In Reno Upcoming is SBE 2007 West from October 10th through 13th at the Reno Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada. This expo started in Memphis in 2005 and is now heading west for the first time.
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Comsys Offers Brain Fuel In Hong Kong Comsys is presenting Satellite Communications Fundamentals for Non-Technical Professionals. This is an intensive, two-day training seminar occurring on October 29th and 30th at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong.
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A Friendly Exchange of Capacity By ABS and VTI Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and Vietnam Telecom International (VTI) have announced a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) has been signed by the firms to exchange capacity on the two satellites ABS-1 and VINASAT-1. The MOU serves a start for a joint cooperation for telecommunications and satellite services between the two companies.
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Procera Speeds Up Chile Procera Networks, Inc. [AMEX: PKT] announced that Comunicación y Telefonía Rural S.A. of Chile has deployed multiple PacketLogic products in its satellite and WiMAX networks to control and optimize bandwidth and to ensure quality of service (QoS) for its growing customer base. Procera reseller and systems integrator I-Systems S.A. of Santiago de Chile provided initial consultation and deployment of the PacketLogic Systems.
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Spanish Municipalities Getting New Tech From Skylogic Skylogic, the broadband affiliate of Eutelsat Communications [Euronext Paris: ETL] is the recipient of a contract from the Diputacion Provincial de Zaragoza to implement full broadband capabilities to 120 communities in the region of Saragossa in northern Spain. The Zaragoza Internet Provincial programme was initiated to facilitate access to new technologies for all municipalities in the province and to provide citizens in all communities with free broadband access to public service amenities and on-line documentation.
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Both Beaming—BSAT-3a & Lockheed Martin Now operational for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) is the Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] BSAT-3a broadcasting satellite. The on-orbit deployment and spacecraft system checkout were all successful.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Profusion Of Product From Patriot
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October 1, 2007 Nokia Nabs NAVTEQ The news blurted out the information early yesterday morning during the business report — Nokia is going to acquire NAVTEQ for an aggregate purchase price of about $8.1 billion (€5.7 billion), or approximately $7.7 billion (€5.4 billion) of NAVTEQ existing cash balance. That works out to about $78 per each share of NATBEQ, including outstanding options.
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Dashing Dashboard From Stratos Part Of New Inmarsat Services Stratos Global Corp. [TSX: SGB] has unveiled their commercial availability of Inmarsat's Satellite Phone Services in mobile, fixed-land and fixed-maritime packages. Customers using Inmarsat Satellite Phone Services from Stratos will benefit from the Stratos Advantage, a wide range of value-added services that ensure optimal communications performance and cost efficiency.
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Moving On Up… At Newtec Jean-Robert Barallon is the new Vice-President of Sales at Newtec, and he brings his more than 30 years of experience to the firm to further consolidate its presence in the Americas. Jean-Robert has enjoyed success in sales, marketing operations, mergers and acquisitions as well as teleport management.
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Agilent Knows How To Measure Success Agilent Technologies Inc. [NYSE: A] is going to showcase their newest test and measurement solutions for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) at the upcoming 2007 European Microwave Conference, Pavilion 908. This event will take place during European Microwave Week in Munich, Germany, Oct. 8-12.
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Communications Capabilities From TechStart Include Mobility And More TechStart, LLC has debuted their Rapid Deployment Communications (RDC) Flyaway Kit (TSL-100RDC). The kit is based on the ICG Core Iridium System (CIS-100) and offers a ready-to-go voice and data communications management system for use on the move, literally anywhere on the planet.
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Moving On Up… To TV One Ltd. TV One has appointed Steven Mattingly as the company’s Managing Director of TV One Ltd after he successfully headed up TV One’s European Offices as their General Manager for more than two years.
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Verizon VSATs The USPS Verizon Business will provide a new custom satellite network to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The network will provide reliability and cost-effective delivery of voice and high-speed data to areas where wireline or wireless access is unavailable or too costly. Formerly known as a VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) satellite system, point-to-point communications for about 5,000 Postal Service sites in the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico, and backup connectivity for a number of larger USPS sites, will be available.
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ORBITS: News Briefs Chinese Continue Maritime Satsations… - Space Gold In California - Processing Priorities For Wegener & Mega Hertz
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