April 2015 Satellite NewsVisit www.satnews.com for today's news
April 30, 2015 HISPASAT's Best SATCOM Innovation Project Contest Now Enters The Second Round In round two, which is now under way, the jury will assess the technical soundness of these five projects before delivering its final decision this May.
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Dauria Aerospace + ILS ... Plan Their Dual-Launch Projects Together Using Proton...Stack 'Em Up + Go With this agreement, ILS would identify spacecraft that could be paired with Dauria’s ATOM spacecraft...
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KVH Keeps Afloat...Launches Global Conference Series + Addresses Key Trends In Maritime Connectivity "With the exploding demand for broadband at sea coupled with the challenges of controlling costs in a competitive market..."
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Thaicom Responds With SATCOM Equipment + Engineers To Assist With Nepal Earthquake Disaster "During crises such as these, satellite is often the only system available for vital communications and this system will provide the first means of communications since the earthquake."—Suphajee Suthumpan, Chairman + CEO. Thaicom.
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SES Joins emergency.lu... Expedites Connectivity Services To The Devastated Nepal The 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Saturday, April 25, and aftershocks, have claimed more than 5,500 lives—rescue efforts are intensifying.
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TSF Brings Their Expertise To The Nepal Disaster NSF teams have set up a high-speed satellite Internet connection for the UNRDC—United Nations Reception/Departure Center.
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COM DEV Ups Their Record Breaking $65 Million (Canadian) Commercial Contract w/$10 Million More Report indicated that the multiple-satellite award was its largest ever commercial contract in excess of $65 million, $38 million of it was recorded as an order.
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Globalstar Europe... It's So Fine That Sat-Fi's Capabilities Enable Connections When Beyond Range Of Mobile Network “Although we live in a connected world, there are still billions of people who work, play and live in remote locations lacking reliable and affordable voice and data communications."
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Jeff Bezo Is Tickled Pink With Blue Origin's Test Launch Of New Shepard... Almost 100 Percent Successful "In fact, if New Shepard had been a traditional expendable vehicle, this would have been a flawless first test flight."
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NASA's MESSENGER...A Bittersweet End To An 11-Year Journey As Mission Is Accomplished The mood in the Mission Operations Center at APL was both somber and celebratory as team members watched MESSENGER’s telemetry drop out for the last time...
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Advantech Wireless successfully completes a live demonstration of its Cellular Backhaul LTE Solution in LATAM. Once again Advantech Wireless has demonstrated its technology is able to support all market applications.
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Globalstar Europe Satellite Services SPOT + Rescue Extreme Athletes In Sahara With sand in their eyes and no other competitors in line of sight, athletes did occasionally miss the markers and stray off course.
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April 29, 2015 Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... Emerging Markets Communications To Gain MTN Communications "The acquisition of MTN makes our vision a reality."—Abel Avellan, founder + CEO, EMC.
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DirecTV-15 and SKY Mexico-1 Launch Prep Continues @ Spaceport In French Guiana Scheduled for May, the Ariane 5 flight with DirecTV-15 and SKYM-1 is designated VA223 in Arianespace’s numbering system.
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X-Band Capacity Made Available To Nepal Search + Rescue Efforts By XTAR “Satellite communications are often the first and only link to needed resources in catastrophic natural disasters.”—Philip Harlow, President + COO, XTAR.
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Inmarsat Appoints IEC Telecom With Additional Responsibilities “Our intention is to double our reseller channel by mid-2016."—Erwan Emilian, CEO, IEC Telecom Group.
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APAC's LTE Coverage Is Expanded By XCom Global XCom Global’s high-speed Internet access rental service provides international travelers unlimited data usage and the freedom to wirelessly roam abroad in more than 175 countries around the world.
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Eumetsat's MSG-4 Satellite Lands Safely In French Guiana For Arianespace Launch Later This Year MSG-4 arrived yesterday evening aboard a chartered An-124 cargo jetliner that landed at Félix Eboué Airport near the French Guiana capital city of Cayenne.
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Thuraya's Most Advanced Satellite Phone In The Market ...Gorilla® Glass Is Nothing To Monkey Around With
...offers the longest talk-time, the largest display, and all three major navigation systems.
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FAA's $238 Million Award To Harris Buys A Lot Of Weather Program Support Services Enables decision-makers to make better routing decisions and enhanced predictive capabilities reduce flight delays and associated costs.Full Story
Tuvalu Telecommunications....Small Islands Need Big Help... Call On ABS-6 To Deliver High-Speed Internet
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IRG Hosts Interference Mitigation Tour @ CommunicAsia...Much Wider Issues Addressed
This tour will give participants practical advice and guidance on the tools available, and what steps they need to take to become as interference-free as possible.
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NSR's Encouraging Report Maintains Linear Satellite TV Will Hold Its Own Despite Growing Strength Of OTT Over 21,000 Channels to be added across UltraHD, HD and SD over next ten years...
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Cree® Releases Higher Power + Efficiency + Creates Breakthrough Ku-Band MMIC HPA "Delivering higher power, gain, and efficiency at an affordable price point, this amplifier will set the new standard for Ku-Band performance."
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Haigh-Farr Keeps 'Em In The Air + More...Newest Broadband Blade Antenna The antenna exhibits omnidirectional coverage in the azimuth plane and a filled-in null in the elevation plane.
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Russia Cancels Resupply Cargo Craft That's Out Of Control...Unable To Deliver Goods... Spins 360 Degrees Every 5 Seconds The scheduled rendezvous with the ISS was canceled as Russian officials try to regain control of the craft.
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Airbus Defense and Space's Pléiades Satellites Puts On Their Overalls + Enters The Field Of Precision Farming In The U.S.
Factors such as seed density, fertilizer, water and other inputs will be adjusted on a sub-field level with pinpoint accuracy.
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April 28, 2015 The Mystery Tour... As ULA Plans Launch Of U.S.A.F.'s X-37B Space Plane The United States Air Force's X-37B space plane will launch on its fourth mystery mission next month.
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Ericsson Video Storage and Processing Platform 2015 NewBay Media Best of Show Award TV service providers to give consumers control to record and watch TV content anytime, on any device.
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Global Net Vitality Leaders Measure Up In This New Broadband Comparison Index The paper notes that innovation and investment are the most important building blocks for government policymakers to take into account, and finds that the five Net Vitality Index leaders have a powerful common driving force—innovation.
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Two New Upper Millimeter Wave Offerings Rollout From L-3 Electron Devices The compact modules are designed to cover a broad range of applications, including performance capability at up to 50,000 feet in altitude.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: Partnership Between Albis + STMicroelectronics Will Result In TV Connect 2015 Solution For OTT The solution will power NetTV Plus, an OTT application that provides viewers with over 200 TV channels in crystal-clear HD quality, radio listening, real-time news updates, and more.
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Instrument Integration Nearly Completed By Ball Aerospace For JPSS-1 — Environmental Testing Is Next Polar weather satellites contribute 85 percent of the data that goes into numerical weather prediction models.
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DigitalGlobe's WorldView-3 Imagery Of Nepal Earthquake Available to Public DigitalGlobe captured imagery of the area yesterday through heavy cloud cover with its WorldView-1, and WorldView-3, and GeoEye-1 satellites.
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Checkout Of Sentinel-2A By Arianespace Preps Satellite For Fifth Vega Launch Sentinal-2A will provide information for agricultural and forestry, as well as help to manage food security.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: Arabsat's BADR-6 Bringing CNNI To MENA The agreement gives Middle Eastern audiences the opportunity to watch CNN International’s broadcast mix.
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Push Toward Solar Space Power By Northrop Grumman + Caltech Applauded By National Space Society "At a time when the U.S. Government has virtually abandoned SSP research it is encouraging to see private industry and universities stepping forward to fill the gap."—Dale Skran, Executive V.P., NSS.
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The U.N.'s Open Satellite Resources Will Provide Emergency Response Teams In Nepal With Assistance To support the rescue efforts, several agencies are involved in producing satellite-based information. UN-SPIDER has now compiled this information into an easily accessible format.
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Extension to Air Force Research Laboratory's APS Project Afforded To Orbit Logic “We are developing a scalable and flexible software architecture that will make autonomous planning accessible for any mission."—Ella Herz, COO, Orbit Logic.
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Liftoffs For Lockheed Martin-Built Hellasat-4 | Saudi Geo Satellite-1 To Be Managed By Arianespace This is the 10th launch contract that Arianespace has signed with Arabsat.
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Airbus Defence & Space's New Head Of Sales Latin America Also Continues As Head Of Governmental Sales Space Systems He is taking over of this role in addition of his current responsibility in the Space Systems business line.
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Airbus Defence & Space Satellites' Images Of Kathmandu Before + After The Explosive Earthquake The before and after Pléiades images over Kathmandu, show the devastation caused by the earthquake.
Airbus Defence & Space Deliver A Unique 'Comcept'...Super High-Speed Satellite Network “With Comcept, the French Army joins the United States and the United Arab Emirates in a very select group of armed forces with satellite-based military Ka-band networks,”
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Progress Spacecraft Anomaly Noted By Vandenberg Air Force Base's Joint Functional Component Command "We will continue to monitor the situation and work with our government, international and industry partners to ensure the safety of the astronauts onboard the ISS and provide for the long-term safety, sustainability, security and stability of the space domain."—Lt. Gen. Jay Raymond, JFCC Space + 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) Commander
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EUMETSAT's MSG-4 Satellite Will Ensure Safety Of Lives + Provide Nowcasting Of High Impact Weather
These geostationary satellites are vital to ensure the safety of lives, property and infrastructure, through the nowcasting of high impact weather.
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Lawyers In Space ...American Bar Conducts The Forum On Air & Space Law...Current + Future Issues Wherever people go laws must be observed, they are what keep us civilized... even in space.
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EM Solutions' Diamond Series Sparkle As Smallest + Lightest Packages In Ka-Multiband ... its linearizer can be programmed to compensate for the distortion introduced by many types of power amplifiers that follow in the transmitter chain. Full Story
April 27, 2015 In Support Of SBIRS, A RIF Award Garnered By Space & Missile Systems Center's Remote Sensing Systems Directorate "At the tactical level, there is potential to improve force protection for in-theater assets by providing units more warning time to enter a protective posture."—Colonel Mike Guetlein, Director of the Remote Sensing Systems
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: IHS Tackles MENA's PayTV Market The report found that 2014 was another year of substantial growth for the pay TV market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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New Tool From Exelis Handles Airspace Surveillance As Well As Sense + Avoid Capabilities Symphony® RangeVue™ puts real-time Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) surveillance data, flexible background maps and weather information in the hands of UAS operators and test range personnel.
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Emergency Comms Equipment Rushed To Nepal By ITU In Response To Massive Earthquake The emergency equipment includes 35 satellite mobile phones and 10 satellite Broadband Global Area Network terminals along with solar panels and laptops to support relief coordination efforts.
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C+C For NASA's SGSS Finds General Dynamics' Initial Integration Successful "The new SGSS lab provides NASA with an extremely efficient and cost-effective path to Space Network ground system modernization."—Chris Marzilli, President, General Dynamics Mission Systems.
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Partnership For M2M Comms Products Between Quake Global + Hitachi Quake Global’s product family for Hitachi establishes a new era in the ability to monitor and control Hitachi’s assets as well as other heavy and light equipment assets.
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Cobham Antennas Make Their Way To iBwave The range includes omnidirectional, bi-directional and directional antennas for use indoors and in large open areas.
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Dynamic SATCOM Course To Start @ University of Oxford “This course addresses the need for training the satellite communications specialists of the future to enable Europe to keep its place at the forefront of space technologies and services.”—Peter Holland, CPD Technology Program Manager, University of Oxford. Full Story
Dnepr Rocket Qualification Dispenser Is Completed For Iridium NEXT Initial Launch “Completion of the dispenser confirms rocket readiness—another critical step toward the launch of our first satellites.”—Scott Smith, COO, Iridium.
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Spacecom Comes To The Rescue For The Nepal Earthquake With Additional Capacity "AMOS-4 at 65 degrees East is in an excellent position to provide emergency services and capacity for occasional use needs in Nepal and the region."—Eyal Copitt, Sr. V.P., Spacecom.
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The MERLIN Build Requires Airbus Defence & Space's AstroBus-S Platform MERLIN is the first institutional program to be based on the new AstroBus-S platform, developed by Airbus Defence and Space in partnership with CNES.
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Boeing Puts A Halt To the April 29 Launch Of Mexico's Centenario Satellite Boeing decided to postpone the launch due to a technical failure in a...
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SSL's THOR-7 Is Smooth Sailing + Performs Post Launch Maneuvers It will begin firing its main thruster later today in order to propel it toward its final geosynchronous orbit.
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Telenor Satellite Broadcasting Proud Of Successful Launch Of THOR 7...Their First Growth Satellite THOR 7 will now undergo extensive in-orbit testing and will be ready to deliver DTH services in six weeks.
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SICRAL 2 Military Telecommunications Satellite Launches "The launch of the Sicral 2 satellite marks another major step forward in the successful French-Italian collaboration on space programs,"
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April 26, 2015 Cobham’s Smallest Transmitter Has A Home In VeloVue HD System... Covered UCI Track Cycling World Championships ...the world’s smallest HD transmitter, has been deployed as part of Broadcast RF’s new VeloVue HD system.
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TelOne's Zimbabwe Customer Base Now Has Additional Avanti Communications Satellite Support "Our contract has enabled us to address Zimbabwe’s gaping digital divide at pace."—Chipo Mtasa, Managing Director, TelOne.
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UAE Launches New Space Center In Preparation Of Mission To Mars Last year, the UAE became the first Arab country to launch an outer space exploration mission when it announced a planned unmanned probe to the red planet in 2021.
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SmartOne From Globalstar Selected By FAGOR Electronics For Hybrid Satellite + Fleet Tracking “When the vehicle moves out of GSM range, satellite transmissions automatically take over."—Ernesto Pérez, Overseas Distribution Manager, FAGOR.
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Liftoff of Ariane 5 with THOR 7 + SICRAL 2... Successful Separation Soon To Begin Their Missions THOR 7 satellite was released approximately 28 minutes into the flight, and the second passenger, SICRAL 2, deployed some six minutes later.
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Airbus Defence and Space Takes A Bow w/Successful Launch Of Ariane 5... 64th Successive Launch ... the future of Ariane is therefore also inextricably linked to our company, and will continue to be via our subsidiary Airbus Safran Launchers.
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Dawn Mission Status Report... Observes Bright Light On Ceres... What The? Dawn delves into the unknown, drives new technology innovations, and achieves what's never been attempted before.
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ILS Prepares For Mexico's Centenario Launch April 29 ...Mexsat, which already consists of the Bicentenario satellite, launched in 2012 and providing internet services to 5,000 public locations via the Mexico Connected program.
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April 24, 2015 Liftoff Date For THOR 7 + SICRAL 2 Now Re-Set By Arianespace The payload lift performance for this first Ariane 5 mission of 2015, designated VA222 in Arianespace’s numbering system, is estimated at 9,850 kg.
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Globecomm's Maryland Teleport Obtaining ASC Signal Antenna Improvements In addition to the new 9.4-meter antenna, ASC Signal is providing Globecomm with a NGC upgrade for an existing 5.6-meter ASC antenna.
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April 23, 2015 Juniper Research Reveals An Anticipated 4x Market Increase By 2019 For OTT Market ...TV providers, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, will generate $31.6 billion by 2019, up from just under $8 billion in 2014.
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Tempus Global Data Understands Tempus Fugit... Forecasts STORM® Well Ahead + On A Global Scale Think of it as a CAT scan of the atmosphere.
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Raytheon To Make Air Travel Safer "The WAAS system is a critical component to ensuring our national airspace remains safe, especially with the increased volume of air traffic."—Michael Espinola, Managing Director, Raytheon Air Traffic Systems.
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Another Entry Into Aviation History By Northrop Grumman + U.S. Navy With The X-47B "The AAR system and X-47B both performed as expected."—Pablo Gonzalez, UCAS-D program manager, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
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GEO Illustration Challenge "Transcending Borders" Is Now Open For Submissions Participants will receive access to free satellite image data provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) through the competition website.
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Day Long Conference Set For Women In Aerospace Organization In DC Women in Aerospace (WIA) is dedicated to expanding women's opportunities for leadership and increasing their visibility in the aerospace community.
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Applied Systems Engineering Announces New TWT Amplifier This TWT Amplifier has been specifically designed to operate pulsed traveling wave tubes up to 200 watts peak power at frequencies in the 34-36 GHz range.
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ARABSAT Celebrates Newtec's 30th Anniversary w/Ambassador, Diplomats, Business + Industry Delegates “Arabsat is pleased to take part in this event as Newtec is one of our most valuable strategic partners."
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Jason-3 Is A Big Boy... Launches Website ...A Precursor To His Launch These data provide critical ocean information that forecasters need to predict devastating hurricanes and severe weather before they arrive onshore.
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Russia's Express-AM7 Slides Into Slot Ready For Service After In-Orbit Testing “The commencement of the satellite operations is another important step towards completely eliminating inequality of access to information among our citizens..."
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Optical Surfaces... Here's Looking At You w/Light Weight Mirrors for Satellite + Astronomical Telescopes To discover new celestial objects and to study known objects more ...accurately, ultra-high precision telescope mirrors that do not increase payload weights are increasingly required for experiments conducted outside the Earth's atmosphere. Full Story
April 22, 2015 Delivery Accomplished By Orbital ATK Of The SKY MEXICO-1 Satellite To Kourou The SKYM-1 satellite will now undergo pre-launch preparations for a late May launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.
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Jason-3 Is A Good Lad...Satellite To Maintain Observations Of Sea Surface Height These data provide critical ocean information that forecasters need to predict devastating hurricanes and severe weather before they arrive onshore.
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New STK Training + Certification Classes Upcoming From AGI A number of new classes are being offered by AGI...
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Northrop Grumman Seeks Young Cyber Security UK Talent w/ CyberCenturion Competition CyberCenturion is the U.K.'s first team-based cyber security contest specifically designed to attract 12 to 18 year olds.
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Analog Devices To Spotlight Their RF + Microwave Solutions @ IEEE MTT-S Int'l Microwave Symposium Analog Devices will demonstrate its broad RF & Microwave portfolio including the HMC7056 Ka-Band Block Upconverter and more...
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Earth Climate Science Mission Will Be Aboard A New Spacecraft Built By Blue Canyon Technologies “BCT has created a low-cost, Complete Small Spacecraft Solution that allows customers like APL to focus its resources on the mission science.”—George Stafford, President, BCT.
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A New Webinar From Keysight Technologies Gets Into 5G Waveform Generation + Analysis Using A Flexible Testbed Challenges of today’s 5G research are the many waveforms, frequencies, and bandwidths being investigated.
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Space Partnership International Has A New Senior VP Of Engineering...He Comes From Lockheed-Martin ...brings his industry knowledge and systems engineering background to the development of commercial and international government satellite programs with an emphasis on Europe and Australia.
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SES GS...SES-15 Gets The Green Light From Raytheon...Contract Spans 14 Years ...the Wide Area Augmentation Systems (WAAS) hosted payload will serve as an air navigation aid to the Global Positioning Systems (GPS), with the goal of...
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International Datacasting Corporation To Sell Broadcast Products Business + Related Assets To Pico Digital Inc. The acquisition will include IDC's product portfolio, customers, and supplier relationships.
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NASA's Famous Telescope Celebrates A Silver Anniversary... Cheers! To Hubble In its quarter-century in orbit, the observatory has transformed our understanding of our solar system and beyond,
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Russia Commissions Express-AM6 + Which Performs A Delicate Dance While Changing Orbital Slots "The Russian constellation development not only enhances the reliability of the satellite system, but also helps to protect the orbital slots,"
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CommunicAsia2015 Singapore... Defines What’s Shaping the Future of The Global ICT World The rising size of the mobile workforce and increasingly complex user demands, coupled with the proliferation of connected devices has made this industry more dynamic than ever.
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Small Satellite Conference All Systems Go! The Conference's Keynote Speaker is John E. Hyten, Commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
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NASA's RapidScat The Eye-In -The-Sky Doesn't Blink At Nasty Storms The instrument's data on ocean winds provide essential measurements for researchers and scientists to use in weather predictions, including hurricane monitoring.
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April 21, 2015 Ultra Portable SATCOM System For U.S.A.F. Via GATR Contract GATR's initial SBIR contract led to the development of a system that is deployable in two cases, each weighing less than 100 pounds.
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Monthly Visits To Vanderberg Space + Missile Heritage Center Now Available... The monthly visits to the Vandenberg Space and Missile Heritage Center at Historic Space Launch Complex-10 are on the third Tuesday of each month at 1:00 p.m.
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GPS OCX Encryptors Are Delivered By Exelis "The encryptors will be enablers for M-code processing to improve the overall GPS program and its security.”—Joe Rambala, V.P. + GM, positioning, navigation and timing, Exelis.
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L-Band Receiver To Be Incorporated Into Fox-1C and Fox-1D CubeSats “Rather than adding a complete new receiver, the L-band ‘Project Downshifter’ will convert the received L-band signal down to the Fox-1 uplink frequency and feed it to the UHF receiver on the Fox-1 satellite."
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This u-blox GNSS Module Supports All Satellites As Well As Concurrent Ops "The CAM-M8C module offers a very cost-effective way to bring products to market quickly due to its small size and high levels of integration."—Kim Kaisti, Product Manager, Product Center Positioning, u-blox.
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Globecomm Continues To Keep NATO On Track...$6.8 Million Contract Extension For GPS-Based Force Tracking System Globecomm previously announced approximately $84 million in contracts from NATO for this project to design and install a GPS FTS.
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MTN's UltraBurst's Burst Ability Provides Yachts The Highest Communications Speeds Commercially Available UltraBurst service delivers the only on-demand, consumption-based, high-throughput Ku-band connectivity solution available to yachts today.
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NSR's Maritime Satcom Markets, 3rdEdition Covers A Lot Of Water...From M2M/IoT To Non-GEO HTS Providing a complete picture of the maritime market, readers can navigate through the trends, drivers, and restraints shaping the maritime industry—from end-user trends to the latest SATCOM developments.
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Shipment Of Sentinel-2A Successful With Arrival @ Arianespace Launch Facilities In French Guiana This 1,140 kg. satellite will deliver high-resolution optical images from around the globe.
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Avanti Communications Shakes Hands w/HRH...Receives Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2015
This satellite operator was awarded UK’s highest accolade for International Trade.
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Advantech Wireless' Solid State Ku-Band SATCOM Transceiver Passes Muster Of Indian Defence Environment Standard “We are proud to be the first company worldwide to receive Indian Defence Certification for Ground based Solid State Amplifier."
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Honeywell, Inmarsat + Kymeta Collaborate On Advanced Internet Connectivity “Honeywell and Inmarsat changed the connectivity landscape in 2012 when they announced GX Aviation..." Full Story
Orbital ATK Delivers SKY MEXICO-1 To Arianespace A Mile Ahead Of The Milestone = 4 Months Early The company produced the satellite at its Dulles, Virginia manufacturing facility in just 20 months, four months ahead of the original baseline schedule.
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Thales Alenia Space One Step Closer...Completes Preliminary Design Of Koreasat-7 + Koreasat-5A Satellites This is a major milestone for both KTSAT and Thales Alenia Space, whose the extended powerful version of...
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Asian Satellite To Rely Upon COM DEV Int'l Equipment "This satellite will help the operator expand its business by addressing demand for additional capacity in its local market."—Mike Williams, President, Product Division, COM DEV International.
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Ready For Orbit Is Aitech's Space-Qualified 3U Compact PCI SBC "The results obtained in qualifying the SP0 were even better than anticipated."—George Romaniuk, Product Manager, Aitech.
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MSS Operators Face A Challenging Market As Revealed In A New Euroconsult Report "The growth is mostly from lower-end markets and due to an increase in airtime prices by certain operators."—Wei Li, Senior Consultant + report editor, Euroconsult.
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2015 European Games Appoints Azercosmos ....As Official Supplier Of Broadcast Telecommunication Satellites ...play a key role in transmitting the exciting images of the event to billions of television viewers across Europe and the globe.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: The Drone Encoder Pro From Streambox Wins Best Of NAB Award The Drone Encoder Pro weighs only 220 grams and has more than four hours of operation from external or UAV battery.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... Boeing Senses ISR Opportunity + Acquires 2d3 Sensing “This supports our effort to differentiate our platforms and services with integrated information solutions."—Steve Nordlund, V.P., Unmanned Airborne Systems, Boeing Defense, Space & Security
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Lockheed Martin Engages In STEM Outreach With Code Quest “From the gadgets in our hands to the vehicles that will explore deep space, programmers are advancing technology and changing our world.”—Anne Mullins, CIO, Lockheed Martin.
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Affordable PTW Space Processor Demo'd By Northrop Grumman For Assured Warfighter Comms "Each dollar spent developing the demonstration platform for this effort has directly reduced the future cost of an eventual flight unit."—Tim Frei, V.P., Communication Systems, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
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Datasat's Solution Comes In A Box...‘Site in a Box’ Internet + Communications Solution
The lack of communications on a site can cause projects to be delayed, create safety concerns amongst the workforce and impact on overall project costs
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Ocean Monitoring To Be Accomplished By Clyde Space + SeaHawk CubeSats... "We’ll be producing two of the most advanced CubeSats ever built."—Craig Clark, CEO, Clyde Space.
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Frontier Communications' New President, National Region, Is Ready To Run w/Her Great Track Record The new president for the company’s National Region encompasses: Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah.
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From Forbes: Raytheon Acquires Websense...Will Offer "Defense-Grade" Cyber Solutions To Civil + Commercial Customers From Kennedy’s viewpoint, global demand for cybersecurity products and services is exploding, and the joint venture will enable his company to deliver market-beating solutions across the full range of potential customers.
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Harris Falcon® Orders Fly Out w/$74 Million From International Customer For Tactical Radio Modernization The nation is also acquiring Harris’ HF manpack radio which delivers reliable beyond-line-of-site terrestrial voice and data communications, reduced size and weight, and extended battery life.
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INTEGRITY Selects Security Innovation’s Aerolink™= Vehicle Security “It is our natural choice to include Aerolink for V2X message security compliance with our Security Credential Management Systems...”
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United Launch Alliance Commits To NRO Launch Vehicle Production Services This modification also procures backlog transportation for the GPS IIF-10 and GPS IIF-11 missions as well as mission specific
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A WIN-T Win For General Dynamics C4 Systems This is a firm-fixed-price multi-year contract in support of WIN-T Increment 1.
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Space Tech Conference Is Just Around The Corner... The fourth annual conference and expo has returned to Long Beach for three days of insight and discussion from the space industry’s leading experts and pioneers.
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KVH Is On Track w/TracVision® Yachts + Vessels Extended Coverage, Tracking + Reception @ Ports Worldwide is compatible with nearly all Ku-band services around the globe, and supports services such as DIRECTV®, DISH Network® and DISH HD, and Bell TV in North America, and TrueVisions, Astro, and Sky TV in the Asia-Pacific region.
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NorStar Space Introduces NorthStar A Constellation Of 40 Satellites For Diverse Markets To Improve The World Constellation of 40 satellites will enable predictive analytics to meet global challenges to diverse markets worldwide including Mining, Forestry, Energy, Oil and Gas, Agriculture, Fresh Water, Oceans and Fisheries.
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April 16, 2015 ABI Research...Middle East and Africa's Commercial Telematics Subscriptions To Reach 4 Million by 2020
With economic growth fueled by human and natural resources in Africa and the oil and gas industry in the Middle East, opportunities exist to...
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ScheduALL Takes Best of Show Award @ 2015 NAB Show in Las Vegas ScheduALL Portal™ simplifies the creation of complex bookings of Occasional Use transmission feeds in real-time, directly into a transmission provider's system.
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Inmarsat Confirms It's A First....Approval Of Cobham's Auto-Deploy Vehicle Mounted Terminal Over Inmarsat's Global Xpress “Today’s announcement is a significant milestone in the GX program and yet another step forward as we continue rolling out our revolutionary Ka-band network across the globe.”
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Date Set For THOR 7 + SICRAL 2 Satellite Re-Launch By Arianespace An Ariane 5 ECA will be used to orbit the THOR 7 and SICRAL 2 satellites.
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NASA/ESA's Hubble...Galaxies Sputter + Die From The Inside Out...'Red + Dead' ...three billion years after the Big Bang, these galaxies still made stars on their outskirts, but no longer in their interiors.
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Airbus.... Group Annual General Meeting Announcements Airbus Group N.V. would be renamed Airbus Group SE and continue to have its registered seat and head office in Amsterdam.
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Sierra Nevada + German Aerospace Chase New Dreams...Cooperative Venture Signed @ Space Symposium "The versatility of the Dream Chaser, crewed or uncrewed, allows for multiple applications such as transportation of cargo and humans as well as direct use for activities such as removing space debris.“
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Winegard + Accelerated Media Technologies Make Their Own News...Bring On Game-Changing VSAT Performance “First, the system’s value and size makes it cost effective to mount on small vehicles used by smaller TV stations. Second...
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Space Dynamics Laboratory Receives Patent For Multiple Petal Deployable Telescope... Continues 55 Year Legacy To do this, it requires no positioning sensors and precision positioning actuators typical on prior deployable space telescopes.
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April 15, 2015 Airbus Defence & Space's NEWTON Gyroscope Increases EO Efficiency + Makes Agile Satellite Missions Possible One key difference was to “not reinvent the wheel”, but to reuse an existing space qualified reaction wheel within the NEWTON mechanical actuator design.
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@ 31st Space Symposium: Exelis Brings On Small Sat Solutions... Exelis small satellite solutions are an example of innovative product offerings the company has as part of its strategic focus.
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SES Government Solutions Awarded Task Order...Ku-Band Satellite Deploys w/U.S. Central Command + Troops This agreement enables U.S. troops to send and receive information through satellite services and offers Central Command the flexibility to support forces deployed in the region when and where required.
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ViaLiteHD RF Supplies Intelsat's EPICNG..."Most Exciting Project In Satellite Communication"
“We are proud to be part of the most exciting project in satellite communication.”
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Airbus Defence and Space Ensures Customer Support In Europe, Middle East and Far East w/New Field Service Partners
Six more partners join Airbus Defence and Space Field Service Alliance
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NovaWurks To Provide Space Segment For NorStar Satellite Constellation
...is pioneering a new approach for designing and building satellites where space systems are constructed by aggregating mass producible elements called satlets.
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Satcom Global Digs In The Saharan Sand... Ensures Broadcast Of Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes + Marie Curie Charity
Last weekend, the famous explorer became the oldest Briton to complete the six day ultra-marathon raising £1m in donations for Marie Curie.
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BlackBridge's Global Reference Takes Global Positional Accuracy to a Higher Level The alignment and compatibility of RapidEye ortho-products with other high-accuracy geospatial datasets have improved significantly.
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Spliethoff Group Extends Imtech Marine's Contract ...Continue VSAT Network Of Radio Holland Amsterdam-based Spliethoff Bevrachtingskantoor BV and Radio Holland have worked together for decades and 27 vessels are already connected.
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Honeywell's Global Tracking Passes Muster ...Dramatically Reduces Search + Rescue Time For ESA's Galileo “Our Medium Earth Orbit-based search and rescue solution will lead to faster recovery missions and improved international search and rescue operations,
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April 14, 2015 Anomaly On The Pad Delays Ariane 5 Launch Of THOR 7 + Sicral 2... The payload lift performance for this first Ariane 5 mission of 2015, which is designated VA222 in Arianespace’s numbering system, is approximately 9,850 kg.
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Delivery Of More Than 90 Million Km² Of The Earth’s Landmass Now Possible With Airbus Defence & Space' WorldDEM DTM... This addition completes the WorldDEM portfolio enabling Airbus Defence and Space to provide both surface and terrain elevation information, in support of global customer projects.
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Of SatBroadcasting Interest: DataPath + ScheduALL Offer An End-To-End Solution For Seamless Provisioning "The solution will allow operators to maximize equipment and resource usage saving the station time and money."—David Myers, President + CEO, DataPath.
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NSR To Offer Complimentary Webinar With A Focus On LEO-HTS Supply How does an industry brace itself for the possible resurrection of LEO constellations— this time with a broadband data focus?
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Of SatBroadcastng™ Interest: An Optimized OU Experience Now Incorporated Into Intelsat's Asset Management System ScheduALL Connector offers our strategic sales partners and customers an option to link directly with Intelsat's ScheduALL system to access real-time Intelsat capacity."—Peter Ostapiuk, Head of Media Services, Intelsat
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A Significant Triple Play For Cobham SATCOM's Airline Services Offerings... “Using SwiftBroadband IP connectivity for all domains of the aircraft is new to the aviation industry and will provide safer and more efficient flights."—Kim Gram, V.P., Cobham SATCOM.
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Efficiency Between Operators + Missions Has Lockheed Martin Integrating New Ground Station Technology “We want to shape the future of the industry.” —Vinny Sica, V.P., Lockheed Martin.
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Orbital Deployment Stages For I-5 F2 Handled With Aplomb “Once fully tested, the satellite will be moved into its final orbital location where it will become ready for commercial service."—Michele Franci, CTO, Inmarsat.
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Communications & Power Industries Does The Wave To Celebrate...Awarded US$1Million For Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers CPI’s amplifiers will be used to support a major direct-to-home television service provider.
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Globecomm's New Executive Is... Senior VP Of Corporate Strategy + Product Management
Much of his technology focus has been satellite-enabled communication and Earth observation/remote sensing services; data, information and business intelligence services as well as...
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Ozsay Upgrades... Transal A Turkish Tanker Operator w/Airbus Defence + Space Satcom Connectivity Solutions ...a leading Turkish tanker owner, will gain twice as much data through the Pharostar VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) service upgrade, to improve vessel operational and crew welfare facilities.
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Kymeta Appoints Two Top Tier Executives...CEO + CFO “The board is extremely confident in Nathan as CEO and is as optimistic as ever regarding Kymeta’s future,” said Bill Gates, Kymeta investor and board member.
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SpaceX's Sixth Successful Start...However, Tipsy Landing Could Be Deadly Musk described Tuesday’s landing “too hard for survival.”
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Rocket Lab's Revelation...First Battery-Powered Rocket for Commercial Launches to Space
"This monumental advancement in space technology gives satellite-reliant businesses the freedom they have been waiting for, which will lead to vast improvements in how we use satellite technology in space."
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April 13, 2015 KVH Market Share Is Double Of Competitors Relates Industry Report...Surpasses 20,000 Target Now @ 50,000 “The COMSYS Maritime VSAT Report, 4th Edition” concludes that KVH mini-VSAT Broadband service has nearly double the number of vessels in service versus that of the nearest competitor
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Clipper Round The World Race + McMurdo...MOD Saves Man Swept Overboard...Register To Win AIS MOB @ Webinar “…my AIS device saved my life…” Clipper Race Sailor Andrew Taylor Releases Book Detailing Amazing Rescue at Sea Using McMurdo AIS Man Overboard Solution
Satellite Connectivity For Aeronautical Markets Pursued By NSR In An Upcoming Report... This complete analytical tool helps readers track the development and advances of this evolving market and answer fundamental questions about aeronautical SATCOM services.
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Vanguard Is At The Vanguard Of New Space Technologies + Products...A Good Reflection On Them Fixed mesh reflectors are half the weight of competing antennas, are impervious to vibration during launch, and reduce shadows that can block solar arrays on satellites.
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ULA Delays Atlas V Launch For National Defense... U.S. Air Force's AFSPC-5 Awaits Mission The launch will be delayed two weeks to resolve an undisclosed issue with the payload...
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Advantech Wireless Is Noticed Globally + Rewarded @ IAIR Awards® ...was selected for being a leading wireless broadband communications solution provider that allows clients to achieve reliable connectivity anywhere in the world thanks to its...
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Northrop Grumman's 'Welcome To Our Neighborhood' Takes On New Meaning @ 31st Space Symposium The Company will be participating in several events at the annual event at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Thuraya Telecommunications Goes Limitless Beyond Line-Of-Sight It allows for the transmission of real-time encrypted communications directly to an operations room or another network anywhere in the world, be it land or sea...
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SSPI Opens Scholarship Program To Deserving Students...Assist w/High Costs Of Undergrad + Post-Grad Studies The SSPI Scholarship Program assists deserving students with meeting the high costs of undergraduate and post-graduate study in satellite-related disciplines.
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STEM Studies Front + Center @ 31st Space Symposium Through Air Force Associatiom “We believe it is important to get industry tools into the hands of tomorrow’s leaders in space.."—Paul Graziani, CEO, AGI.
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NSR’s Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 9th Edition...Have Seen Changes + Developments On All Levels 2014 and 2015 have seen filings for LEO orbits, while SpaceX and OneWeb officially announced their plans to launch such systems...
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Of SatBroadcasting Interest: The Good Life, Courtesy of AsiaSat + TVMONDE On AsiaSat 5 At its launch in Asia, ‘TV5MONDE Style HD’ offers six four-hour blocks of art of living programming per day during the weekdays.
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Imagine Communications, Does Just That... Imagines + Then Provides “Broadcasters are increasingly challenged to find quick and cost-effective ways to expand their audiences through multiscreen services,”
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McMurdo Goes Fishing For Compliments... First Official Safety Beacon Partner Of “Deadliest Catch”
“Enabling a faster search and rescue process is paramount when dealing with the frigid cold waters of the Bering Sea, where ‘Deadliest Catch’ vessels are deployed.
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SES GS Takes The GOLD For NASA “The images that GOLD will take are unprecedented. It’s something that scientists have wanted since the beginning of space exploration.”"
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Norsat's New Family Member... That Is Quieter, Costs Less + Provides High Performance
“The launch of the 5000 Series is a testament to Norsat’s continued commitment to deliver high performance products to meet the requirements of our customers and demand in the marketplace." Dr. Amiee Chan, chief executive officer of Norsat.
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Vulcan Rockets To Starring Role @ United Launch Alliance "ULA’s new Vulcan rocket is a game-changer in terms of creating endless possibilities in space."—Tory Bruno, President + CEO, United Launch Alliance
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Two Satellites For KT Sat To Be Built By Thales Alenia Space Built on the upgraded Spacebus 4000B2 platform from Thales Alenia Space, Koreasat-7 will be fitted with Ku-band transponders and Ka-band transponders.
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SpaceX Hoped To Make History But Clouds (Not The Good Type) Changed Those Plans Clouds for computer storage are a good thing, but clouds, strong winds and lightening...not so much
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Intelsat, BT Group + ITC Global Scramble After Cyclone Pam To Assist South Pacific Island Of Vanuatu "Our thoughts are with those impacted by Cyclone Pam, and we are proud to be able to respond quickly with these communications services.”
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Harris Receives $27 Million From USSOCOM... Birds Of A Feather Flock Together...Falcon III® Wideband Secures SatComs The radios enable Special Operations Forces (SOF) to extend secure wideband networking to the tactical edge, in addition to critical terrestrial and ground-to-air communications.
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SES Partners w/ Technology Innovators To Bring... Live + Linear From Las Vegas @ NAB “Satellites provide the best solution for delivering high quality, premium content into the homes of American viewers..."
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April 10, 2015 Wireless HD Video Transmission Solution From Amimon For Aerial Drones Offers Zero Latency "CONNEX brings extended HD video transmission range with zero latency to a much broader group of users and applications."—Ram Ofir, CEO, Amimon.
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At The Edge Of Enterprise, GlobeRanger Ushers Out A Special Configuration For Their IoT Offering The GlobeRanger iMotion™ IoT Edgeware Platform addresses key device connectivity or information processing requirements for mid- to large-sized companies with distributed locations, high transaction levels, or large data collection and aggregation activities.
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a.i. solutions @ 31st Space Symposium Will Be Astrodynamically Speaking Meridian is optimized for flight dynamics operations typical for managing a fleet of satellites.
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Comtech Xicom @ NAB Is Bringing Their SuperPowers To The Event Comtech Xicom will also be showing their additional Green Power products.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NAB... ENENSYS Will Demo How LATAM Providers Can Lower CAPEX + OPEX "We’ve drawn on our engineering expertise to make the multiple headend and regional transmitter technologies that form OneBeam compatible with the ISDB-Tb standard used across Latin America."—Richard Lhermitte, V.P., ENENSYS
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Critical Comms Support From Exelis Supported NASA's Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 Mission One Hundred percent of the mission data was transmitted, received, and routed.
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Orbital ATK @ 31st Space Symposium... Has Product Showcasing + Panel Presentations... Orbital ATK subject matter experts will be available to answer questions and provide additional information.
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@ 31st Space Symposium, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Will Highlight Their Tech + Offer Discussions... For the 31st Symposium, Ball is the sponsor of the Exhibit Pavilion, where the world’s latest space technologies, products and services will be showcased.
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AGI @ Space Symposium... Serves Ice Cream + Takes On Space Domain Awareness Challenges “We are thrilled that the ComSpOC can help Boeing safely navigate through some of the more densely populated altitudes..."
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Intelsat's NexGen IntelsatOne® Prism To Rely On Newtec Dialog® For Core Services "On top of efficiency, scalability and flexibility; automation of broadcast workflows and effective usage of available resources are key differentiators of the Newtec Dialog multiservice broadcast solution."—Serge Van Herck, CEO, Newtec.
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April 9, 2015 A Million Euros Are @ Stake In The European Satellite Navigation Competition "Those who enter the ESNC benefit in particular from our global network, which provides them with tailored support in developing their business concepts and bringing them to market."—Thorsten Rudolph, managing director, Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen.
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Network Orchestration From NovelSat Includes Optimization + Automation For Satellite Services "The new NovelSat SNO helps satellite service providers comply with customer SLAs as well as to deliver bandwidth and resource optimization, all the while saving money."—Oscar Glottman, CMO, NovelSat.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Adds Their Expertise With A Roundtable On Unique Approach to Additive Manufacturing
Over the past couple of years, the Company has developed additive manufacturing.. from discrete component demonstrations, to hot-fire testing of entirely additively manufactured engines and propulsion systems.
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NASA's TRMM Is Trimmed Huffman and his team combined TRMM data with precipitation data from several other microwave imaging satellites in orbit, many of them weather satellites. Together with significant advances in data management they created the new TRMM product.
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Hamlet Enterprise...Alas Poor Yorick, Didn't Have Access To Hamlet's Streaming Analyzer Hamlet will also launch at NAB the combined IP, ASI and OTT analyzer of streaming services, with the addition of cost saving RF spectrum analysis.
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Sevis Systems + Eutelsat...More affordable + Optimized Sat Backhaul Services For 3G + LTE In Remote Locations “This latest solution will dramatically decrease the total cost of ownership for satellite service providers and mobile operators and further extends the scope of the professional communication services that can be delivered over KA-SAT.”
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April 8, 2015 Service Partnership Signed By YahClick With SkyGate "The demand for widespread access to reliable broadband Internet in the Middle East has never been greater."—David Murphy, COO, Yahsat.
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UAE Space Agency Visits The U.S. To Strengthen Ties + To Develop Strategic Partnerships he value of U.S. exports to the UAE in 2014 exceeded US$24 billion and more than 1,000 US companies operate in the UAE.
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The Global Satellite TV Market Is Examined By NSR In An Upcoming Analysis... This report contains the industry’s most comprehensive and in-depth view of all forms of Linear TV via Satellite.
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@ NABSHOW—Skyline Communications To Focus In On Their New DataMiner Product... Visit the company's booth to experience how DataMiner, deployed by leading broadcasters, service providers and broadcast unions, takes care of your entire infrastructure, services, SLAs and unified media workflows.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NABSHOW, MobileViewpoint Will Launch WebStreamur Product Line "WebStreamur gives the smaller content producers and sport teams easy access to a bigger audience and a global marketplace to monetize their content.“—Michael Bais, CEO, Mobile Viewpoint.
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Non-Explosive Actuators From Eaton Expose Satellites To Space “All non-explosive actuators were deployed in the model 9421 separation-nut configuration.”—Peter Anderson, Director, Eaton.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: New 4K Ultra HD 8x8 Matrix Debuts From Gefen “Today's corporate and presentation venues require a reliable method of accessing and distributing high-end Ultra HD content.” Tony Dowzall, President, Gefen.
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@ NABSHOW, General Palumbo Will Keynote Media Technologies For The Military + Government Workshop The Media Technologies for Military & Government Workshop focuses on the challenges faced by government and industry, solutions for those challenges and future opportunities.
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Satellite Market Now Has New Radiation-Tolerant FPGA From Microsemi Typical uses for RTG4 include remote sensing space payloads, such as radar, imaging and spectrometry in civilian, scientific and commercial applications.
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@ 31st Space Symposium, Space Systems Connectivity Solutions To Be Highlighted By TE Connectivity TE will feature various end-to-end solutions for rugged and flexible connectivity that offer design engineers modularity for easy integration.
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Satellite Data To Be Afforded To The Ukraine By The Canadian Government, Despite Its Own Data Shortage The government received a request from Ukraine last year for imagery.
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At Baikonur, The Proton-M ILV Launch Vehicle is Prepped for MexSat-1 Launch MexSat-1 (often referred to as MexSat Centenario in the Mexican press) was manufactured by Boeing Satellite Systems and uses the company's 702 HP platform.
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Ball Aerospace Built GMI Boasts Flawless Performance During First On Orbit Year Of NASA's GPM Mission The NASA Precipitation Measurement X-Cal working group noted the radiometer’s accuracy after analyzing GMI’s performance during its first year of operation.
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BIGmate Joins In With KORE's M2M Hour During Connect 2015 Event "KORE believes that CONNECT guests will be able to get a full understanding of the IoT and how best to approach the market.”—Alex Brisbourne, CEO, KORE.
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@ NABSHOW, Quintech Will Present Their New RF Matrix Switch, ARCHIMEDES, + Other Products... The L-Band Distributing matrix ARCHIMEDES allows for the largest configuration in the most compact chassis.
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Thor-7 + Sicral 2 All Prepped By Arianespace + Everywhere To Go... Designated Flight VA222, liftoff is scheduled during a 1 hour, 54 minute. launch window opening on April 15 at 4:43 p.m. local time in French Guiana.
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A FeatherCraft In Their Cap... SST-US, Aerojet Rocketdyne + NanoRacks Combine Forces For New Satellite Platform “FeatherCraft will reduce payload integration and testing time for our customers, which facilitates rapid and cost-effective deployment of their payloads.”—Dr. John Paffet, CEO, SST-US.
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LinkedIn Reveals Their Connections When They Deliver Visionary Address at CommunicAsia2015 + BroadcastAsia2015 Social media isn't just gossip and photos of lunch, there are serious and solution-solving aspects such as LinkedIn.
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Quintech Electronics and Communications... Hits Milestone Customers Switch To Broadcast RF Signal Switching announced that it has delivered one hundred and twenty-five of its QE3 systems to date, making the QE3 L-Band Matrix Switching System for broadcast, cable, and satellite operating centers the most-selected product in its category,
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NSR’s Aeronautical Satcom Markets, Third Edition Takes On Tracking All Sizes + Shapes Of Satcom Services offers a unique guide to mapping revenues, types of units and capacity needs of passengers and crew on a global scale, by region, by service type and by airframe
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ESA Addresses A Sobering Issue...What If An Asteroid Were Headed Towards Earth? AIM will also put down a lander, ESA’s first touchdown on a small body since Rosetta’s Philae landed on a comet last November.
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TIA To Host oneM2M Showcase + Workshop To Share Transformative Changes The group’s work will ensure that machines and applications can communicate with each other across different platforms, industries, and sectors.
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April 7, 2015 Moving On Up... Annadurai To Lead The ISRO Satellite Center Annadurai joined the ISRO in 1982 and began his career at ISAC as the team leader to design and develop Software Satellite Simulator.
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@ NABSHOW: An Asset Protection Super Session That Addresses Cybersecurity + The Media. “This year, NAB Show will host a broad range of experts and innovators in the cybersecurity field."—Chris Brown, Exec. V.P., NAB .
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Cementing Cargo Into Place For the ISS Is Lockheed Martin's Charter This is the second of four options in the original Cargo Mission Contract awarded in December 2010.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NABSHOW, NovelSat To Demo A New Twist On An Old Technology The NovelSat DVB-S 5% ROF solution is already available now with the NovelSat NS1000 Satellite Modulator.
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@ NABSHOW: Norsat International Present + Accounted For With Their Satellite + Microwave Offerings Attendees will be able to see the company's latest in satellite and microwave solutions.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NABSHOW, Integrated Microwave Technologies Debuts Their New Radome "IMT is able to provide CIRAS-x6, a new class of fully autonomous central receive systems that brings significant value and efficiency to the industry.”—John Payne IV, CTO, Integrated Microwave Technologies.
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Dig Into IoT/M2M With Keysight Technologies' Upcoming Complimentary Webinar IoT/M2M project managers, marketing engineers, developers, and test engineers should consider attending this complimentary one hour webinar.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NABSHOW, Volicon Will Be Presenting Their Just Released Observer OTT "Eliminating the need for manual checking of numerous viewing devices, Volicon's OTT makes effective OTT service monitoring both feasible and affordable."—Andrew Sachs, V.P., Volicon.
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Motoring Along With Lockheed Martin For An Attitude Control System For Orion The ACM adds to Orbital ATK's contributions to the LAS, which already includes the primary launch abort motor and the initial system design and engineering.
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High Impact Creative Debuts Their 31st Space Symposium Teaser Trailer A teaser trailer for the 31st Space Symposium.
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April 6, 2015 Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: Moving On Up... Maimon To Senior Director @ SkyVision Global Networks "Following the vast number of customers requesting broadcast services, we quickly took the steps needed to respond to their requirements."—Ori Watermann, CEO, SkyVision.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NAB2015, Artel Video Systems To Debut Their Newest L-Band Demodulator "Customers came to Artel looking for a cost-effective L-band demodulator solution that could be integrated into their existing chassis."—Richard Dellacanonica, President, Artel Video Systems.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NAB2015, Bridge Technologies To Offer New Digital Services Protection “We think the introduction of Gold TS Reference is really a profound change for the future of digital media monitoring."—Simen Frostad, Chairman, Bridge Technologies.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: HEVC Live Encoder Makes Its Market Entry From Digigram "With our compact new encoder, our customers can reap the benefits of HEVC even when space is tight."—Laurent Gros, Video Product Manager, Digigram.
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This Coming October, ISPCS Is Underway For the 11th Year... Experience two high-impact days of dynamic programming, collaboration and networking.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: @ NAB2015, SD-To-HD Conversion From Thomson Video Networks To Be Showcased "The ViBE EM4000 is ideal for a wide range of broadcast applications including satellite, terrestrial, cable, and IP television."—Eric Gallier, V.P., Thomson Video Networks.
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Quintech Electronics and Communications... The Switch To A Stronger Performance Showcases @ NAB “ARCHIMEDES offers stronger performance than any competing product on the market in its class and does so in a smaller, smarter package.”
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Atlas V Gets Ready To Launch AFSPC-5 To Support National Defense For The U.S. Air Force A launch in support of the national defense will take place next month.
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Deployment In One Hour For ImageSat's New Mini-Terminal For EO Data Delivery "The system delivers images of large areas in the shortest possible time, from the battlefield or the location of an event."—Rani Hellerman, V.P., Business Development, ImageSat.
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Twenty-Five Years Of Proven Flight Succcess for Orbital ATK's Pegasus Rocket "The spirit of innovation that Pegasus reflects is alive and well at Orbital ATK today, with several exciting new projects now underway."—Dr. Antonio Elias, CTO + Pegasus’ inventor, Orbital ATK.
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WGS SATCOM Terminals To Be Supplied By DataPath To The U.S. Air Force Work will be performed in Duluth, Georgia, and is expected to be complete by June 30, 2016.
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Optus Satellite + Laser Light™ Plan All Optical, Hybrid Global Network aka HALO “Our aim is to work with, not compete, with the world’s leading telecommunications companies to provide a mutually-beneficial integrated communications infrastructure."
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Good Reports Of HD TV In The Arab World Arab Advisors research and analysis shows that the number of HD TV channels has grown by 45 percent between February 2014 and March 2015...
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April 3, 2015 Nearly 200 Gbps Projected To Flow Over Sub-Sahara Via Satellite, According To Euroconsult Analysis "The significant addition of satellite capacity supply has resulted in a fill rate decrease and in greater competition and pricing pressure."—Pacome Revillon, CEO, Euroconsult.
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Harris' Falcon III Flying Into NATO Nation With Tactical Wideband + High Frequency Radios The nation is acquiring the Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G manpack, AN/PRC-152A handheld, and AN/PRC-150 HF radios.
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McMurdo Is Certified By FAA and EASA For Kannad Integra ARINC 429 Navigation Interface + GPS Redundancy ...provides dual GPS redundancy that can result in aircraft being found much faster compared to standard ELTs in event of an emergency.
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Trends + Technologies Of The Asian Broadband Industry Featured @ CommunicAsia2015 In total, there are 12 tracks and 3 workshops at the Summit, bringing together 200+ experts.
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First Contract For AGI's ComSpOC Will Track Boeing's 702SP Satellites. The contract will find AGI delivering space situational awareness (SSA) data to Boeing.
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Onlime Makes Others See Green ...Awarded World Teleport Association's 'Independent Teleport Of The Year Award' Onlime proved to be a winner at this year's Satellite2015. Full Story
Board Business @ SES... Ries + Wehr-Seiter Are The Newest Members... “We welcome Anne-Catherine and Katrin to the Board of Directors of SES. Their experience and sector knowledge will be valuable for the continued growth of our business."—Romain Bausch, Chairman of the Board, SES.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: Deployment Of Video Microwave Link Services By Quinto + IMT In Australia High-quality, high-efficiency H.2 64 SD/HD video encoding and transmission capabilities in the new 2 GHz frequency band have now been enabled.
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New Telemetry Controller IC From Microsemi Offers Significant Weight Reduction, Increased Reliability + Board Space Savings “An ongoing challenge in the satellite market is to reduce weight and board space and to increase reliability."—Dorian Johnson, Marketing Manager, Microsemi.
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NSR Offers Guidance For The In-Flight Connectivity Markets This complete analytical tool helps readers track the development and advances of this evolving market and answer fundamental questions about aeronautical SATCOM services.
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Orbital ATK To Boost ULA's Delta IV Heavy With NASA's SPP Mission Push... Non-stop To The Outer Atmosphere Of The Sun “One of Orbital ATK’s strengths is providing new launch capabilities that leverage flight-proven subsystems.”—Ron Grabe, President, Orbital ATK’s Flight Systems Group.
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April 2, 2015 Moving On Up @ Intelsat... Riegelman + DeMarco To Senior Vice President Positions I’ve worked closely with both Kurt and Mike and have been impressed by their hard work, dedication and the strong leadership that they have demonstrated throughout the years."—Steve Spengler, CEO, Intelsat.
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Multi-Emitter Scenario Generation For Aerospace/Defense App Now Made Simpler By Keysight Technologies Engineers can download the multi-emitter scenarios, created in Signal Studio, directly to one or more UXGs as pulse descriptor word (PDW) lists.
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Cliburn Live Piano Concert Has The Keys To Successful Streaming Over a four-year period, CLIBURN LIVE will webcast over 250 performances live and on demand to the world—
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ONE CONNXT In Action... Announces New Technical Engineering Head + Readies For NAB
Dave Almstead, CEO of ONE CONNXT stated, “Chris’ vast experience in video delivery platforms and developing technologies makes him an ideal choice for our Technical Engineering Head
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: SES' ASTRA 19.2 E Pumping BBC World News In HD Across Europe “The momentum for HD has been rapidly increasing as more people appreciate the level of detail that HD delivers."—Ferdinand Kayser, COO, SES.
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AirRobot To Fly With Northrop Grumman's Remotec Inc. "AirRobot systems complement Remotec's UGVs to enhance our customer's mission effectiveness both on the ground and in the air."—Walt Werner, Director, Remotec.
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The U.K. Brings New Orders For COM DEV International To Fulfill "We are very well positioned to win significant further orders this year as we step up our capabilities in the UK."—Rob Spurrett, President, COM DEV's Systems Division.
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Skyware Technologies Partners With Ireland's Science Foundation For ATOM Terminal Development + A New CEO... “Shipment commencement of the ATOM terminals is a significant milestone for us."—David C. McCourt, Chairman + CEO, Granahan McCourt Capital.
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Gilat Releases In Rio...Takes Rapidly Deployable Cellular Backhaul Solution To LTE Latin America it intends to present its rapidly deployable cellular backhaul solutions at LTE Latin America 2015,
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Newtec...Now Showing For The First Time In Vegas...MCX7000 Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateway The easily upgradeable nature of this DVB-S2X platform means we can guarantee increased functionality and higher density. This makes the MCX7000 future-proof...
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exactEarth Ahoy! ShipView Is Your Porthole Into Instant Access Of Dynamic Shipping Information
...so you can access ShipView anywhere, any time, from any web browser to immediately analyze your maritime domain picture.
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April 1, 2015 AVIWEST Partnering With Hughes For Video Delivery Via Satellite "Today's consumers demand crystal-clear video quality on a wide range of devices."—Ronan Poullaouec, CTO, AVIWEST.
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The Final Assembly Of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is Underway By Lockheed Martin Working toward a September 2016 launch, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid back to Earth.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: BGAN 'Bonded HDR' Satellite Video Broadcast Accomplished By NSSLGlobal + BBC By ‘bonding’ two portable BGAN EXPLORER 710 satellite terminals (on Inmarsat’s satellite network), NSSLGlobal was able to deliver double the normal HDR bandwidth for this transmission.
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Up, Up + Away For OrbitalATK The payload consists of tracking and communication instruments that are needed for the test flight.
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Extending Satellite Services Into The Middle East + Turkey Is Avanti Communication's Goal With Balkan Telecom "Avanti’s HYLAS 2 satellite provides extensive coverage of the major countries that we want to target.”—Hüseyin Aktaş, CEO, Balkan Telekom.
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Of SatBroadcasting™ Interest: SmarDTV Gains Partnership Between NAGRA + EchoStar "Our goal is to leverage the strengths of both companies and to further expand our partnership by providing premier solutions to the market.”—André Kudelski, Chairman + CEO, Kudelski Group.
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DIRECTV-15 Arrives @ Félix Eboué Airport In French Guiana For Arianespace Pre-Launch Prep This spacecraft will be one of two passengers for an Arianespace heavy-lift mission in May.
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EVS Scores @ Sports Technology Awards More than 10 million apps were downloaded and as many as three million users a day chose to enrich their experience using the application.
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COM DEV Rides In High On A Wave + Then Acquires It...US$20.1M For Pacific Wave Systems
They are designed to efficiently direct electromagnetic signals between various components, including the filters and switches that COM DEV produces.
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KVH ...A Real Reality Check...Facing Exploding Demands Of Seafarers w/ Ship-to-Shore Connectivity
Services for data access at sea need to address increasing operational demand and the threat that crew's broadband data usage could overwhelm a vessel’s data network
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Frontier Communications Loads 'em Up + Down Results = Symmetrical Broadband Speeds ..."customers have the bandwidth to do basically anything they want—the possibilities are endless.”
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Global Xpress Is Coming To China w/VAR Agreements x 4 New agreement to bring Inmarsat’s superfast global, mobile broadband service to Chinese users
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