October 2010 Edition - The Launch Sector
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September 30, 2010
NASA... Energy Assured (Launch Support)
[SatNews] NASA has signed a $60.3 million contract modification to space shuttle main engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Inc. of Canoga Park, Calif., to provide continued space shuttle main engine prelaunch, launch and landing support from Oct. 1, 2010, through March 31, 2011.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Taking The Fall In Alaska (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] Rivers of water and ice flow across the landscape north of Anchorage, Alaska, where summer is fleeting and fall arrives early.   Full Story

RigNet... Making The Inc. Grade...
[SatNews] RigNet, Inc. has been listed No. 1619 on the 2010 Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine's annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.   Full Story

Intelsat... Financially Speaking...
Intelsat S.A. has announced that its subsidiary, Intelsat Corporation ("Intelsat Corp"), has received the requisite consents to amend certain terms of the indenture governing its 9-1/4 percent Senior Notes due 2014 (CUSIP No. 45823VAE1) (the "2014 Notes") and the indenture governing its 6-7/8 percent Senior Secured Debentures due 2028 (CUSIP No. 697933AM1) (the "2028 Notes" and together with the 2014 Notes, the "Notes").   Full Story

Integral Systems... All For One, One For All (Interference Mitigation)
[SatNews] Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ISYS) has revealed the firm's wholly-owned subsidiaries, RT Logic and SAT Corporation, have introduced satID(r) Expert with Monics(r), an integrated, all-in-one signal monitoring, detection and geolocation system.   Full Story

euronews... Baltic Beginnings (Content)
[SatBroadcasting(tm)] euronews, the international news channel, and Viasat Broadcasting, the free-TV and pay-TV operator with TV channels in 31 countries, has concluded an agreement to broadcast euronews in Scandinavia and in the Baltic states.   Full Story

PCI Geomatics... Making MASTERful Moves (Distribution)
[SatNews] PCI Geomatics, a leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, has announced the appointment of Geo-Alliance as Master Distributor of PCI’s solution technologies and Geomatica family of products for the Russian Federation, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, and the Ukraine.   Full Story

SSPI... Dining With The Leaders... (Event)
[SatNews] The Society of Satellite Professionals International has honored three outstanding young satellite professionals with its 2010 Promise Awards, which recognize the potential of young satellite professionals to play a leadership role in the industry — and the winners are:   Full Story

U.S.A.F... Code Warriors Complete Grounding (MILSATCOM)
[SatNews] On Sept. 13th., and eight days ahead of schedule, the SBIRS ground team completed the GEO Interim Operations Ground Segment System integration testing for Missile Warning Message Certification at the Interim Test Center in Boulder, Colorado.   Full Story

Harris... C4I Compact For Asian Nation (MILCOM)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received orders totaling $69 million from a nation in Asia to support the next phase of a comprehensive command, control and intelligence system.   Full Story

COM DEV... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] COM DEV International Ltd.'s (TSX:CDV) data services subsidiary, exactEarth Ltd. (“the Company”), has added a strategic investor that will play an important role in delivering and growing the Company’s exactAIS™ service in the marketplace.   Full Story

Russia... NewGen Glonass Getting Set (Launch)
[SatNews] The first launch of the new generation Glonass-K navigation satellite from Russia's Plesetsk space center will take place in December, the Space Forces commander said last Friday.   Full Story

Latens... A DISH Play In Nepal (CAS)
[SatBroadcasting(tm)Latens announced that DISH Nepal, a payTV provider, has selected Latens CAS to secure content and revenues for their latest DTH services in Nepal.   Full Story

Cobham SATCOM And Uplogix Boost Up Uptime (VSAT)
[SatNews] Cobham SATCOM’s Sea Tel® Products and Uplogix announced today new levels of automated control and recovery for maritime Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) and IP networking devices through a reseller agreement with Uplogix, a leading provider of remote network management.   Full Story

US Coast Guard To Stay On Track With KVH TracPhone®
[SatNews] The U.S. Coast Guard today selected KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) to supply the next-generation satellite communications solution for its small cutter fleet.   Full Story

European Space Agency... MIRI Heads For The Big Time (Satellite)
[SatNews] A major instrument due to fly aboard the James Webb Space Telescope is getting its first taste of space in the test facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the United Kingdom.   Full Story


September 29, 2010
Here's Looking @ Earth... Dance Of The Dunes... In Idaho (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] Driving down Highway 20 from Idaho Falls toward Yellowstone National Park, green and golden fields flash past the car windows, interrupted only briefly by small towns.   Full Story

Failure Analysis... SETA Setup...
[SatNews] Failure Analysis has been selected as a systems engineering and technical advisor (SETA) to the Department of Defense Office of Responsive Space (ORS) located at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico.   Full Story

Harris... A Guarded Approach (MILCOM)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a $10 million contract by the United States National Guard Bureau to upgrade communications for eight Air National Guard (ANG) facilities.   Full Story

Integral Systems... Ramp Up ROI (Event)
[SatNews] Robert Potter, President of SAT Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, will take part in a panel discussion at the 2010 Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) Satellite Conference and Exhibition.   Full Story

SSTL... Facilitating Expansion... Moving On Up...
[SatNews] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), in partnership with the University of Surrey’s Surrey Research Park, is taking a new technical facility opposite its headquarters building in Guildford, UK, providing the flexibility to work on a broader range of satellites and the capacity to integrate and test more satellites in parallel.   Full Story

Thuraya... Turkish Service Support (SATCOM)
[SatNews] A commercial agreement between Thuraya and the Turkish firm TEKNOMOBIL has been signed by both firms, whereby the latter was appointed as a service provider for Thuraya IP, the world’s smallest and most porta   Full Story

European Space Agency... Hearty + Hale Hylas-1 To Ship Out (Launch)
[SatNews] Following extensive testing in India, the Hylas-1 telecommunication satellite has been given the go-ahead for shipping to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana for its November flight.   Full Story

China... Chang'e-2 Journey Set (Launch)
[SatNews] China plans to launch its second lunar probe, the Chang'e-2 satellite, at Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 06:59:57 pm on Friday, a spokesman of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) said on Wednesday.   Full Story

Israel Aerospace Industries... TECSAR Turned Out (Satellite)
[SatNews] Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) presented its TECSAR satellite model at the annual open house at the president's residence, held in Jerusalem.   Full Story

LightSquared... Community Communication Concentration (SATCOM)
[SatNews] LightSquared(tm) and the Indian Health Service (IHS), the lead federal agency to serve health needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons, have announced the signing of an agreement through which LightSquared will donate satellite phones and associated service for use in AI/AN communities.   Full Story

Intelsat... Moving On Up x2...
[SatNews] Intelsat S.A. has announced that Mr. Terry Bleakley has been appointed Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific Sales, to be effective November 15th.   Full Story

JAXA... No Longer Drifting Around... Orbit Set (Satellite)
[SatNews] The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has controlled the orbit of the First Quasi-Zenith Satellite "MICHIBIKI" to insert it into the quasi-zenith orbit from the drift orbit starting on September 21st (Japan Standard Time, JST).   Full Story

Raytheon... Applicable Assurances For NGA (Cybersecurity)
[SatNews] The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a one-year, $30 million extension for the Information Assurance Services (IAS) contract.   Full Story

Raytheon... Righteous Review For GPS OCX (Satellite)
[SatNews] The Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) team developing the nexgen Global Positioning System (GPS) Advanced Control Segment (OCX) successfully completed, on schedule, an integrated baseline review with the U.S. Air Force.   Full Story

Harris... FAME, Fortune + The UAE (JV)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a $10 million contract by the United States National Guard Bureau to upgrade communications for eight Air National Guard (ANG) facilities.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... New Zealand Quake Quantified (JAXA)
[SatNews] On September 4, 2010 (UTC), a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred inland (43.53? S, 172.12? E, 5 km in depth) on New Zealand's South Islands.   Full Story

NASA... Cementing In A Flyby (Satellite)
[SatNews] Earlier today, navigators and mission controllers for NASA's EPOXI mission watched their computer screens as 23.6 million kilometers (14.7 million miles) away, their spacecraft successfully performed its 20th trajectory correction maneuver.   Full Story

GlobeCast Australia... Global Goodness
[SatBroadcasting™] GlobeCast Australia’s Summer slate is providing its biggest season ever of delivering global events.   Full Story

UC Santa Cruz Discovers "Goldilocks" Planet May Be Possible To Inhabit Not Too Hot Not Too Cold
[SatNews] US astronomers said Wednesday they have discovered an Earth-sized planet that they think might be habitable, orbiting a nearby star, and believe there could be many more planets like it in space.   Full Story


September 28, 2010
Arab Advisors... Ad Funding For FTA (SatBroadcasting™)
[SatNews] The average advertising rates of free-to-air (FTA) satellite news and current affairs channels in the Arab world is US$ 5,219 for a 30-seconds advertisementduring peak time.   Full Story

Omnibus... Migration Magic (Systems)
[SatBroadcasting™] In the most significant OmniBus Systems deployment this year, Starz Entertainment has migrated its entire automation and playback operation to the OmniBus iTX broadcast automation and playout platform.   Full Story

Cassini Captures... Solstice Study Set (NASA—Satellite)
[SatNews] NASA's Cassini spacecraft started its new mission extension — the Cassini Solstice Mission — yesterday.   Full Story

Global Satellite Engineering — Power To The PBX (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Global Satellite Engineering (GSE) has just announced its new enhanced MCG-108, its 8 channel satellite PBX solution that provides reliable communication when power fails.   Full Story

EM Research... Synthesizer Sensibilities (SATCOM)
[SatNews] EM Research now offers the THOR Series in custom designs from 1 GHz to 18 GHz with fixed-to-greater-than 30 percent bandwidths, step sizes of 100 KHz to 10 MHz, and output power levels to 15 dBm — the series is optionally available hermetically-sealed per MIL_STD-883.   Full Story

Agilent Technologies... Microwave Mentoring (Network Analyzer)
[SatNews] The world’s highest performing 67 GHz PNA-X Series vector network analyzer (VNA) has debuted from Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A).   Full Story

RRsat... Moving On Up, Even More So...
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST has expanded the responsibilities of Eric Larsen, recently hired as Senior Director of Sales for RRsat America.   Full Story

GTX Corp... Phone Finder (GPS)
[SatNews] GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB) business unit LOCiMOBILE, Inc. is launching a series of GPS and personal location-based “apps” and web services.   Full Story

GVF... The Boardroom...
[SatNews] GVF, the international association of the satellite communications industry, has announced the result of the 2010 election for its Board of Directors, the body which sets and guides the overall strategic policy development and implementation direction for the global industry's initiatives and programs.   Full Story

a.i. solutions... Orchestrating Orbits (Application)
[SatNews] a.i. solutions has created an application that allows users to interactively design and explore satellite orbital geometry using the touch screen interface of the popular Apple iPad device.   Full Story

ViaSat Ensures Encryptor Security Without Excessive Expenses
[SatNews] ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) is introducing the AltaSec IPS-250 inline network encryptor (INE), the first network encryptor to be compatible with the new Cryptographic High Value Product (CHVP) Suite B standards specified by the National Security Agency (NSA).   Full Story

Thales Alenia Space + Zodiac Data Systems... Interference Interruption
During the Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) annual conference, Thales Alenia Space and Zodiac Data Systemsannounced that they plan to team up on solutions for the monitoring of satellite transmissions and protection against interferences, whether intentional or not.   Full Story

AST Marine Sciences... Logging In (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Figures published by the MMO (Marine Management Organisation) on 15th September 2010 show that AST Marine Sciences Ltd have installed more than 85 percent of all commissioned UK fishing vessels with their Electronic Logbook (e-Log) solution, which received approval from the UK Fisheries Authorities in May 2010.   Full Story

Glowlink... Single Satellite Solution (Interference)
Glowlink has rolled out the capability to locate satellite interference emitters using a single satellite.   Full Story

Integral Systems... An Epochal Decision (C+C)
[SatNews] Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) has been awarded a sole source contract from a leading Satellite Communications (SATCOM) service provider to expand its existing satellite fleet control system to support four Boeing 702 satellites already in orbit.   Full Story

Gilat Satellite Networks... Orange Ops (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) has signed a corporate sourcing contract with France Telecom SA for the provision of satellite communications equipment.   Full Story

Newtec One Of Three Chosen... Now Go On To Compete
[SatNews] And the winner is...Newtec has been rated one of the top three companies in Flanders, Belgium in Ernst & Young's annual Entrepreneur of the Year award.   Full Story


September 27, 2010
Globecomm Gets $4 Million And Gives US Government The Axx
[SatNews] Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) is on the receiving end of several US government agencies' contracts valued at $4 million.   Full Story

Arqiva... Co-Location Competencies (SatBroadcasting™)
Arqiva has signed a co-location agreement with major US West Coast Teleport operator, USEI.   Full Story

China... Practice Makes Perfect For Chang'e-2 (Launch)
[SatNews] A photo taken on Saturday, September 25, 2010, shows the Chang'e-2 satellite, carried by the Long March 3C rocket, in the No.2 Launching Tower in the Xichang Satellite Launching Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.   Full Story

Cassini Captures... A Mooning Moment (NASA—Imagery)
[Satnews] Looking like half of a figure eight, two of Saturn's moons appear conjoined in this Cassini spacecraft image.   Full Story

Ball Aerospace... PERfect Prep (Satellite)
[SatNews] The fully-integrated NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) weather satellite has successfully completed its Pre-Environmental Review (PER) on-schedule in advance of flight environmental testing at Ball Aerospace & Technologies.   Full Story

SenarioTech... Helping Out HYLAS 2 (Technology)
[SatNews] SenarioTek, LLC, has been awarded a contract by Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: Orb), of Dulles, Virginia, to provide test technology to extend the capabilities of Orbital’s installed payload test systems for the HYLAS 2 satellite payload.   Full Story

NASA Takes It To The Edge — Of The Solar System
[SatNews] NASA will host an important media teleconference about the boundary of our solar system.   Full Story

Northrop Grumman... 100 Years Is Cool (Technology)
[SatNews] Cryocoolers built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) for satellite applications have recently accumulated more than 100 years of flawless on-orbit performance.   Full Story

ESOA... Key Roles Continue For Satellites In European Broadband (Services)
[SatNews] European Satellite Operators noted last week the European Commission’s Communications on Broadband[1] and Radio Spectrum[2], where satellites were recognized as a fast and feasible solution to complement terrestrial services and ensure tota   Full Story

Newtec... Expertise Via The Web (Event)
[SatBroadcasting™] Join Newtec for this FREE informative webinar on...   Full Story

Gilat Takes It To The SkyEdge...Enables VSATs To Change On A Burst
[SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced the release of Dynamic Channels as part of SkyEdge II version 6.4 software release.   Full Story

ISRO... Assistance Via AIS-SB (SATCOM)
[SatNews] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will soon join a select group of institutions providing rescue and relief support to ships in distress across the globe.   Full Story

Raytheon... Encouraging STEM (Project)
[SatNews] Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) have announced three new activities to help policymakers and educators tackle the challenges associated with improving science, technology, engineering and ma   Full Story

Virgin Galactic... In 18 Months You, Too, Can Be Spatially Experienced
[SatNews] Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said last Monday that Virgin Galactic is on track to offer commercial space travel within 18 months, and that space ho   Full Story

MTN Satellite Communications... Let's Go With MESCO
[SatNews] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN), announced that it has signed MESCO Limited as an authorized reseller.   Full Story

ViaSat Earns Additional $5.5 Million MIDS LVT
[SatNews] ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has been awarded an additional order valued at? $5.5 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System – Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVT) and spares from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego.   Full Story


September 26, 2010
NASA... Ball Bounces Into JPSS Court (Satellite)
[SatNews] NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado.   Full Story

Integral Systems... Moving On Up...
[SatNews] Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISYS) announced its Integral Systems Service Solutions (IS3) business unit has significantly expanded its management team to address growing customer demand for its Global Managed Network Services — Cliff Lewis has been promoted to Vice President and will lead IS3’s newly created Commercial Services Division (CSD).   Full Story

Newtec's Capacity To Help...Russia Goes With The Multistream Flow
[SatNews] Newtec presented some results today in Moscow at the SATRUS-2010 show of its landmark trials of DVB-S2 Multistream with major Russian satellite operators including the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC)..   Full Story

Broadcom... A Prominent Position (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Broadcom Corporation's (Nasdaq: BRCM) single-chip global positioning system (GPS) solution for mobile devices supports the new Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) launched by Japan earlier this month.   Full Story

Lockheed Martin... Moving On Up...
[SatNews] Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Board of Directors has named Patrick M. Dewar the corporation’s new senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, effective Oct. 1.   Full Story

NASA + Raytheon... A Visible Project For JPSS (Satellite)
[SatNews] NASA has awarded two sole source contracts on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the common ground system and a scientific instrument on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1).   Full Story

Raytheon... FMV For Fighters (ISR)
[SatBroadcasting™] Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has delivered the final phase of expanded Global Broadcast Service full-motion video (FMV) capabilities to improve intelligence video imagery available to warfighters.   Full Story

NASA... Tests Continue For Discovery (Launch)
Technicians completed checks of the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate and the solid rocket boosters aft skirt purge at Launch Pad 39A as space shuttle Discovery is readied for launch on STS-133.   Full Story

U.S.A.F. — It's Space For SBSS (Launch)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the first Space Based Space Surveillance spacecraft carried aboard a Minotaur IV launch vehicle at 9:41 p.m. PDT, September 25th, from Space Launch Complex 8 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.   Full Story

Boeing + Ball... SBSS Signals Success (Launch)
[SatNews] The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has acquired initial on-orbit signals from the first Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite following its launch at 9:41 p.m. Pacific time on September 25th from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.   Full Story

Globecomm Systems... Controlled Ku- (Services)
[SatNews] Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a global provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services, announced that the Company has been awarded a one-year contract from a US Government Agency valued at $4.0 million.   Full Story

COM DEV... Switched On (SATCOM)
[SatNews] COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, has been awarded an authorization to proceed (ATP) to provide switches, filters, and multiplexers for a commercial communications satellite.   Full Story

International Space University (ISU)... Promising Plane Project Is Balloon-Based (COM)
[SatNews] The International Space University - Balloon Air Traffic Control Experiment (I-BATE) is ready to launch from the Esrange Space Centre in the Swedish Arctic between October 4 and 9, 2010.   Full Story

OnAir and AirAsia Make The Connections And No Luggage Was Lost!
[SatNews] A team effort has made it possible for Mobile OnAir to launch services onboard AirAsia's low cost Airbus A320.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... All Fired Up In South Africa (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] As iconic as Yellowstone National Park is for the United States, Kruger National Park is for South Africa.   Full Story


September 24, 2010
MDA... Armed With A Contract Extension
[SatNews] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has received a $6.4 million (CAD) contract extension from NASA.   Full Story


September 23, 2010
European Space Agency + NASA... Hubble Has Heart (Imagery)
[SatNews] A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveal   Full Story

Russia... Soyuz Payload Pumped Up
[SatNews] New onboard digital command and control systems have helped increase the payload of Russia's manned Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft by 70 kg, the head of the Energia space corporation said on Tuesday.   Full Story

Lockheed Martin | Savi Technology... A Savi Tracking Technology (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Lockheed Martin’s Savi Technology has announced the first-of-its-kind technology device that can switch from satellite or terrestrial wireless systems to continuously monitor the location and condition of shipments anywhere and at anytime.   Full Story

OmniGlobe Networks Places In Fast 50™ Canadian, Good News Eh?
[SatNews] OmniGlobe Networks announces that it is a Canadian Technology Fast 50™ winner.   Full Story


September 22, 2010
NASA... Granting Educational Resources (Program)
[SatNews] NASA has awarded grants to nine academic institutions and their partners that serve large numbers of minority and underrepresented students to strengthen offerings in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM.   Full Story

GeoEye... Financially Speaking...
[SatNEws] GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY) has completed the previously announced private placement of 80,000 shares of the Company's Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to Cerberus Satellite LLC, an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.   Full Story

Agilent Technologies... Winding The STEM (Program)
[SatNews] Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) has joined Change the Equation (CTEq), a CEO-led initiative to cultivate widespread literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).   Full Story

ARINC... Their CUPPS Runneth Over (Application)
[SatNews] ARINC Incorporated announced its common-use passenger processing technology vMUSE™ has achieved certification to the aviation industry’s CUPPS 1.1 standard.   Full Story

NASA + MIT... Students' STEM Satellite Success (Program)
[SatNews] NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., have selected 24 high schools to participate in a new science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education program — the teams will design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station (ISS).   Full Story

CPI Takes The (C-) Band To Russia And Gets Amp'ed Up
[SatNews] Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI), (Nasdaq: CPII) is working with Russia, having received an order for C-band satellite communications amplifiers.   Full Story

ViaSat + JetBlue... MOU Flying High (SATCOM)
[SatNews] JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU) and ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) plan to create the industry’s best inflight broadband for commercial aviation using ViaSat’s innovative high-capacity satellite technology.   Full Story

MTN Satellite Communications... TV Cruising (SATCOM)
[SatBroadcasting™] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) now has a major addition to its popular MTN Worldwide TV service, which broadcasts live programming to cruise ships at sea.   Full Story

Zatix + Iridium... Fleet Flow (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Zatix and Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) have announced that JBS Friboi, the world's largest animal product processing company, has equipped 1,500 long-haul trucks with VOLKSNET, an Iridium-based, Zatix-powered telematics solution.   Full Story

Thales Alenia Space... Three's Not A Crowd (Satellite)
[SatNews] Thales Alenia Space announces tri-partite contracts with RSCC (Russian Space Operator) and JSC “ISS – Reshetnev Company” to supply the Express AM8, AT1 and AT2 communications satellite payloads.   Full Story

GlobeCast Australia... 3D Game On! (SatBroadcasting™)
[SatNews] The Grand Finals of both the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) football codes will be delivered live in 3D to cinemas, via GlobeCast Australia networks and services.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Mead Problems Surface (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] In August 2010, Lake Mead reached its lowest level since 1956.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... What's Shaking @ Shiveluch (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] Shiveluch (also spelled Sheveluch) is one of the largest and most active volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.   Full Story

Northrop Grumman... Significant STEM Support (Program)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland are joining forces to establish a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educational outreach initiative in Baltimore focused on inspiring young girls' interests in engineering and science-related activities and studies.   Full Story

European Union + Norway... Ground Gains For Galileo (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Norway will play an active role in the Galileo satellite program, Europe’s global navigation satellite system which will provide more precise and more widely available positioning signals to citizens in Europe and across the globe.   Full Story

Eutelsat + SpeedCast... Region Reaching (SATCOM)
[SatNEws] Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) and SpeedCast Limited have further expanded the reach of their regional maritime broadband service with the extension of their 60 cm coverage to include the Mediterranean region.   Full Story

China... Lofting Remote Sensing Satellite (Launch)
[SatNews] China successfully launched a remote-sensing satellite "Yaogan XI" Wednesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province.   Full Story

Russia... Soyuz-ST Send Up Soon (Launch)
[SatNews] The first flight of Russia's Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the European space center in French Guiana may take place in March 2011, a senior Russian space official said on Wednesday.   Full Story


September 21, 2010
Frost & Sullivan... Study Signals Superior SatPhone (Report)
[SatNews] In an effort to provide satellite phone users with information on two of the handset products currently available in the market, and provide an independent evaluation of their service quality, Frost & Sullivan conducted an exhaustive study of the differences between satellite phone devices and services and detailed those in a report published September 21, 2010.   Full Story

Gilat... It's All In The Numbers (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) has completed the deployment of a new VSAT network for lottery in a North African country.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Info Of Interest To The Broadcasting + Related Industries...
... Deluxe Digital Cinema + EchoStar Form JV ... SES ASTRA Brings Belgians SatBoosted Broadcasting ...   Full Story

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL)... Pertinent Presentations (Event)
[SatNews] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is sponsoring the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2010 in Prague from September 27th to October 1st.   Full Story

Gilat Satellite Networks...Kenya Can Bank On Them
[SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) can 'take it to the bank' as it was selected by Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) to provide a SkyEdge II broadband satellite network.   Full Story

Quintech's Q-SENSE Makes Sense... Redundancy Ensures Results
[SatNews] Reliability is critical in routing signals, something that Quintech has put careful thought into and delivered solutions.   Full Story

ARINC Helps... Veterans Who Have Protected And Served Now Find Work
[SatNews] Owners and managers of nearly 100 Service Disabled and Veteran Owned Small Businesses received encouragement and guidance Monday on ways to pursue new business opportunities from federal and state procurement agencies and the Department of Defense.   Full Story

Cobham SATCOM... A Very Stable Beta Begins (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Cobham SATCOM has launched its beta program for the ST24 marine stabilized TV receive-only product for the yacht industry.   Full Story

GTX GPS Smart Shoe™ Innovation Nomination...Tracks You When You're On The Fast Track
[SatNews] The people have made their choice and GTX Corp (OTCBB:GTXO) has been selected as a finalist in the Most Innovative Location Device category.   Full Story

SENCORE... Transcoding, Multiplexing + Modulating On Display (Event)
[SatBroadcasting™] On display at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo(r) will be the new SENCORE TXS 3453, a high-performance transcoding platform delivering multiple channels of best-in-class transcoding in a reliable, high-density 1RU chassis.   Full Story

L-3 Communications + 3Di Technologies... Acquiring Minds Wish To Know...
[SatNews] L-3 Communications has acquired 3Di Technologies, LLC (3Di).   Full Story

LightSquared... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] According to Bloomberg, LightSquared, the $7B Long Term Evolution (LTE) open-access mobile network that will use satellite spectrum (acquired by New York investment firm Harbinger Capital) has obtained a four-year $750M loan from UBS.   Full Story

AT&T + TerreStar... Pure GENUS (SATCOM)
[SatNEws] AT&T's new Satellite Augmented Mobile Service with the TerreStar(tm) GENUS(tm) dual-mode cellular/satellite smartphone is now available for enterprise, government and small business customers.   Full Story

SatLink Live From Red Sea to Photokina 2010...HD Broadcast of Underwater Filming
[SatNews] The Photokina 2010 Show for photography and imaging in Cologne, Germany is hosting the world’s first-ever Live HD underwater broadcast from the Epson Red Sea event between 21-23 September.   Full Story

Boeing + Ball Aerospace... SBSS Senses A Spatial Sending (Launch)
[SatNews] The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and its teammate Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. have announced the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite and ground system have completed final testing — the satellite is scheduled to be launched September 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California.   Full Story


September 20, 2010
O3b Networks + Pak Datacom.... Setting Up Services (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Pak Datacom Limited (one of Pakistan’s largest Data Network Operators) has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement as O3b’s exclusive supplier of services into the Pakistan market.   Full Story

MITEQ... Product Trilogy
[SatNews] MITEQ Inc. has introduced a new addition to the company's extensive line of very low noise waveguide LNAs, a new Triple-Balanced Mixer, and a new LNA.   Full Story

SenarioTek... Furthering Frequency Factors (Satellite)
[SatNews] SenarioTek, LLC, a provider of custom RF/microwave test and measurement solutions, has been awarded a contract by Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: Orb), of Dulles Virginia, to provide test technology to extend the capabilities of Orbital’s installed payload test systems for the HYLAS 2 satellite payload.   Full Story

Global Science & Technology... Know-How For NOAA
[SatNews] Global Science & Technology, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland., has been awarded a contract to help manage NOAA’s satellite Climate Data Records (CDR) program, which is based at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.   Full Story

KVH + Virtek... Acquiring Minds Wish To Know...
[SatNews] KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has completed the $6.5 million all-cash acquisition of Virtek Communication AS.   Full Story

NASA Cassini Zips By And Snaps Saturn's Moon
[SatNews] Even though it was travelling at a great speed, the Cassini spacecraft managed to capture this close view of Saturn's small moon Helene. This took place during a flyby on March 3, 2010.   Full Story

Cobham SATCOM... A Stable Offering (SATCOM)
[SatNews] MTN Satellite Communications is incorporating Cobham SATCOM's Sea Tel’s 4010 marine stabilized antenna into its product portfolio.   Full Story

Vizada And Inmarsat Are All Ears In East Africa 
[SatNews] Vizada in partnership with Indigo Telecom launches the IsatPhone Pro in Kenya.   Full Story

ARINC Direct... The Link Is In @ Oxford
[SatNews] ARINC Direct(sm) has deployed a new air/ground communications station at busy London Oxford Airport, serving north-west London and the Thames Valley region.   Full Story

ScheduALL...Golf Channel Takes ScheduLINK To The Links
[SatNews] Golf Channel's operations are now well managed using ScheduLINK to further Golf Channel's production operations in conjunction with best-practice business tools for bookings, resource management and invoicing.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Info Of Interest To The Broadcasting + Related Industries...
... Arqiva Turns On Aberdeen + Aberdeenshire ... ATEME Performs Admirably ... GlobeCast Finds Agreement In China + Poland ... Onyx Networks Has STB'itus ...   Full Story

Globecomm + ViaSat... Jumping For JIPM (MILSATCOM)
[SatNews] Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has announced that the U.S. Army has exercised a $4.3 million contract option for the continued production of the Joint IP Modem (JIPM).   Full Story

Wade Antenna... Moving On Up...
[SatNews] Effective September 2, 2010, Ryan Murphy has been promoted to the position of President of Wade Antenna Inc. and TACO Antenna.   Full Story

Arianespace... Board Onboard (Launches)
[SatNews] The Board of Directors of Arianespace met on Monday, September 20, 2010 in Evry, near Paris — the Board approved the launch manifest for 2010 and 2011, congratulated the company on its record order book, and started operations to strengthen its financial structure.   Full Story

Northrop Grumman... STSS Satellite Success
[SatNews] A Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellite built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) autonomously transferred target track data from its acquisition sensor to its tracking sensor, July 23, the first time such a capability has been executed in space for the program.   Full Story

ITT... Sounding Off For CRIS (Satellite Instrument)
[SatNews] NASA has awarded ITT Geospatial Systems of Rochester, N.Y., a $98.6 million cost-plus contract to build an infrared sounding instrument that will fly on the first of a new generation of civil polar-orbiting weather satellites.   Full Story

Lockheed Martin... It's All About SDR (MILCOM)
[SatNews] A developmental radio for a revolutionary Internet-Protocol tactical communications network has been delivered ahead of schedule to the U.S. Army AH-64D Integration Team.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Utah Up In Smoke (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] Strong winds and dry air created dangerous fire conditions in parts of Utah on September 19, 2010.   Full Story

ULA Lifts Atlas V And Delivers A Stronger Defense
[SatNews] Moments ago a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at 9:03 p.m. PDT.   Full Story


September 17, 2010
Cassini Captures... All Clumped Up (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] Clumps of ring material are revealed along the edge of Saturn's A ring in this image taken during the planet's August 2009 equinox.   Full Story

Hiltron... Freeze Not! (Antennas)
[SatNews] Hiltron Communications, a European provider of satellite and microwave communication equipment and systems, has released a major, new addition to its range of satellite communications control equipment.   Full Story

Thales Alenia Space... Ready To Communicate (Satellites)
[SatNews] Rascom-QAF1R and Nilesat 201 telecommunications satellites, launched from Kourou in French Guiana by an Ariane 5 ECA rocket on August 4, are now in operation.   Full Story


September 16, 2010
Pactel International... Linking Up (SATCOM)
[SatNews] This month, Pactel International established a new satellite link between their US Hub and the Cocos Islands, using Newtec’s DVB-S2 technology — the new service addressed the immediate expansion needs for the local Internet service provider, CIIA.   Full Story

NASA... To The Tune Of $15B, Launchers ID'd (Launch Services)
[SatNews] NASA has announced the awards for the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II Contract — the award will provide a broad range of launch services for NASA's planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites.   Full Story

Intelsat... Financially Speaking x2...
Intelsat S.A. has announced that its subsidiary, Intelsat Jackson Holdings S.A. (“Intelsat Jackson”), intends to offer $900 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2020 (the “notes”).   Full Story

Space Systems/Loral... Looking To The Future With STEM (Program)
[SatNews] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) is supporting Change the Equation (CTEq), a CEO-led initiative to cultivate widespread literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).   Full Story

Spacenet IGS... Ramping Up (Operations)
[SatNews]Spacenet Integrated Government Solutions (SIGS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Spacenet Inc., is now managing operations of Raysat Antenna Systems’ (RAS) US division.   Full Story

KVH... A Better Bundle (SATCOM)
[SatNews] KVH has introduced several new airtime rate plans from KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) — they include TracPhone(r) V7 hardware and mini-VSAT Broadband airtime bundle for only $995 per month, as well as a new seasonal rate plan for subscribers who don’t use their vessel on a year-round basis.   Full Story

Astrium... Landing A Lunartract (Manufacturing)
[SatNews] Astrium has won a new competitive contract from the European Space Agency (ESA), as a follow-up to the Next Exploration Science and Technology (NEXT) study to develop a Lunar Lander.   Full Story

RapidEye... A Safer Situation (Imagery)
[SatNews] RapidEye has successfully passed the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) for the European Space Agency (ESA).   Full Story

WTA... Ka-band's Business Betterment (Report)
[SatNews] World Teleport Association has published a new white paper, Ka-Band and the Teleport, which examines how the coming wave of Ka-band satellite capacity may transform the business of companies that create and deliver services via satellite today.   Full Story

SkyTrac... Chopper Communication Challenge (SATCOM)
[SatNews] On August 8th, Heliventure 10 ended successfully after nearly 9000nm of flight in a Robinson R-44 Clipper II (OO-HEY).   Full Story

ViaSat's New Software Knows How To LinkWay(S2) Over Yonder
[SatNews] ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) released software enhancements for its LinkWayS2™ satellite network system that adds mobile communication capabilities and network control center operating system options.   Full Story


September 15, 2010
SBCA... It's Certifiable (Training)
[SatNews] The Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association (SBCA), has endorsed the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) VSAT Installation & Maintenance Certification Program and is promoting the training to the North American installer community as a valuable means of strengthening their involvement in the satellite communications sector.   Full Story

u-blox... Mobile Telematics Module (SATCOM)
[SatNews] u-blox announces LEON G100 Automotive, a surface-mount, automotive quality grade GSM/GPRS modem.   Full Story

MTN... Moving On Up...
[SatNews] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has appointed Joseph R. Wright as Chairman of its Board of Directors.   Full Story

iDirect... It's Evolutionary For GE Satcom (SATCOM)
[SatNews] GE Satcom, a provider of satellite communications services throughout EMEA, has unveiled the commercial launch of a satellite-based communications service for merchant vessel operators based on iDirect’s Intelligent Platform.   Full Story

Newtec + K-NET... Time To SatPlay (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Ghana-based triple-play solutions provider K-NET is now using Newtec’s Sat3Play(r) to extend the reach of broadband services throughout West Africa.   Full Story

Marlink + Vizada... An Expanding Effort (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Marlink and Vizada have instituted a significant expansion of Marlink's contract with one of the world's largest shipping companies, AP Moller-Maersk.   Full Story

Bangladesh... Coming Up To Standard (Satellite)
According to the sify news website, Bangladesh will soon launch a new satellite for improvement of information and communication technology, a government statement said.   Full Story

ERDAS + InfoTerra... Team-Up For TerraSAR-X (Imagery)
[SatNews] ERDAS will collaborate with Infoterra GmbH, a provider of radar satellite data and services and exclusive holder of commercial exploitation rights to TerraSAR-X data.   Full Story

Boeing + Space Adventures... Space Seating For Seven
[SatNews] The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Space Adventures, Ltd. have established a memorandum of agreement regarding the marketing of anticipated transportation services to destinations in low Earth orbit (LEO) on Boeing commercial crew spacecraft.   Full Story

Russia... Weather Work (SATELLITES)
[SatNews] Russia will fully rebuild its network of weather forecasting and monitoring satellites by 2030 under a state program for the development of meteorology, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.   Full Story

Astrium Sees Spots... Signs With Russian R&D For a Decade Of SPOT Sats
[SatNews] Astrium Services has signed a 10-year partnership with the Russian research and development center ScanEx for the reception and distribution rights on the upcoming SPOT 6 and 7 satellites.   Full Story

NASA... LRO Heads Into Research From Exploration Mode
[SatNews] NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, will complete the exploration phase of its mission on Sept. 16, after a number of successes that boosted the understanding of Earth's nearest neighbor.   Full Story

EUMETSAT... A Meeting Of Meteorological Minds (Event)
[SatNews] On September 20-24, 2010, meteorologists, scientists, and researchers will meet in Cordoba, Spain, for the 2010 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, hosted and co-organised by the Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia (AEMET), the Spanish State Meteorological Agency.   Full Story

VISLINK Has The Turnkey Link For Salam Media Cast
[SatNews] VISLINK News & Entertainment announced they will supply a cutting edge high-definition satellite news gathering solution to Salam Media Cast, the Qatar based systems integrator, who are providing a turnkey solution for a major award winning customer with global influence.   Full Story

Inmarsat... 1K+ Up In The Air (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT) has activated the 1,000th channel of SwiftBroadband, the company's high-speed aeronautical service, making it the fastest growing aeronautical service introduced by Inmarsat.   Full Story

Thales Alenia And NASA Celebrate A Conversion Of Leonardo
[SatNews] It was a moving experience — Thales Alenia Space enjoyed the official ceremony marking the conversion of the Multipurpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Leonardo into a Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) and its transfer of ownership from Italian space agency ASI to American counterpart NASA, was held last week at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.   Full Story


September 14, 2010
SUIRG... Last Call! (Event)
[SatNews] You should consider registering now to attend the SUIRG 7TH Annual Satellite Interference Conference, September 28-30, 2010, in San Francisco, CA.   Full Story

International Datacasting... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) announced its financial results for the three- and six-month FY2011 periods ended July 31, 2010. All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Of Interest To Broadcasting + Related Industries...
Miranda Technologies... An Eye For 3D   Full Story

Gateway Communications... Making African MNOs Happy Folk (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Gateway Communications, the largest provider of carrier solutions in Africa, is launching CellDirect, a new addition to its Africa Direct product line.   Full Story

iDirect + SkyVision... The Advantage Flies High (SATCOM)
[SatNews] SkyVision Global Networks LLC has upgraded its SkyVision Advantage and SkyDirect Premium satellite-based Internet services with iDirect’s Evolution platform.   Full Story

Integral Systems (SAT Corp.)... A Proper Grounding (Monitoring)
[SatNews] Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, has been selected by Hispasat, S.A. to upgrade its existing Monics Carrier Monitoring System at their ground stations in Spain and Argentina.   Full Story

DEV Systemtechnik... IBC Show Off...
[SatNews] At IBC2010, DEV Systemtechnik presented more than 50 new products for the optical transmission, reception and distribution of RF signals in satellite communications and CATV systems.   Full Story

Morgan Stanley + DigitalGlobe... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] The private-equity arm of Morgan Stanley (MS) plans to sell nearly half its 31 percent stake in DigitalGlobe Inc. (DGI) as shares of the provider of imaging services to the defense community have jumped one-third this year.   Full Story

Quintech... The Switch Is On (RF)
[SatNEws] Quintech Electronics and Communications Inc. has debuted its new 16 x 16 RF LTE RF Switch.   Full Story

Northrop-Grumman... STSS Accomplishes A First (Satellite)
[SatNews] A Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration program satellite showed an increased set of capabilities when it detected and tracked a resident space object — another satellite — on July 19th.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Info Of Interest To The Broadcasting + Related Industries...
... Nevion Plays Well With Star TV ... ScheduALL Tees Up ScheduLINK ... Microspace Finds WEGENER COMPELing ...   Full Story

European Space Agency... Mirror, Mirror, Mirrors Everywhere (Imagery)
[SatNews] ESA's mission to measure the precise positions of a billion stars reached an important milestone on September 3rd with the delivery of its first primary mirror.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Igor's Impact (NASA-Imagery)
[SatNews] Hurricane Igor continued its westward trek across the Atlantic Ocean on September 14.   Full Story


September 13, 2010
@ IBC2010... Cisco's Pavilion Product Parade
[SatNews] Visitors to Cisco's booth (Hall 1, D.71) at IBC2010 will have the opportunity to experience how continued innovation in video and IP technologies are transforming the way we work, live, play and learn.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Hazardous Hermine (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] Though Tropical Storm Hermine brought strong winds and tornadoes to parts of Texas when it moved inland on September 7 and 8, the storm’s greatest hazard came from heavy rainfall.   Full Story

SkyTrac... The SAR Agenda In Aberdeen (Event)
SkyTrac Systems will be attending Shephard’s 13th annual Search and Rescue Conference and Exhibition (SAR 2010) in Aberdeen, Scotland, from September 15-16, 2010.   Full Story

MEASAT... Racing For More Capacity (SATCOM)
[SatBroadcasting™] MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) has an agreement with Phumelela Gold Enterprises (“PGE”) to provide C-band capacity for the distribution of its equestrian sports channel via MEASAT-3.   Full Story

STM Group... Better Bandwidth For The Government (SATCOM)
[SatNews] STM Group, Inc. (“STM”) has officially launched their Government Division.   Full Story

Newtec And Delta Co. ...Air To A Kingdom Of 25 Million
[SatBroadcasting™] Newtec is now appreciated by an audience of 25 million people in Saudi Arabia as they tune in to five new private rado stations that broadcast to 30 FM radio towers.   Full Story

KVH... Brazil Bound (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Filling in a major new region in its worldwide satellite communications network, KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has signed an agreement with Star One to support mini-VSAT Broadband(sm) coverage for Brazil and its offshore waters.   Full Story

Rockwell Collins + ND SatCom... Technology Team Up (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Rockwell Collins has teamed with ND SatCom to integrate the SkyWAN 7000 series modem into the SWE-DISH CommuniCase(r) Technology (CCT) platform, providing a new network processor for Rockwell Collins' CCT-based products.   Full Story

Numerex... Monitoring Motion (Telematics)
[SatNews] Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX), a single source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, has unveiled its AccelaView™ application to meet the core needs of the insurance industry and other customers.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... Lowdown On 92L In The Caribbean (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] The GOES-13 satellite keeps an eye on the eastern U.S. and the Caribbean Sea and has been monitoring System 92L for days.   Full Story

DMCii Assists ESA...Determined In Disasters
[SatNews] DMCii is at work assisting with issues pertaining to space, and is set to become an important resource for UK disaster response efforts.   Full Story


September 12, 2010
SpaceX + Astrium... Falcon Finds European Possibilities (Launch Services)
[SatNews] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astrium have engaged in a commercial agreement to provide dedicated launch services to the European institutional small satellite market.   Full Story

Eutelsat... @ IBC2010 With Their SatShow...
[SatNews] Eutelsat is displaying a variety of digital solutions for broadcast and Internet markets at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam.   Full Story

KVH... Creative Caring (SATCOM)
[SatNews] KVH Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:KVHI) now offers a service designed especially for customers aboard commercial vessels — the GlobalCare Premium Support Program for TracPhone(r) V7.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Info For Broadcasting + Related Industries...
| Digital Rapids' Wades Into A New Stream | Encompass Digital Media's New Veep | Entropic Communications Stacking DBS | Harris Communications @ IBC2010 | Juniper Networks' Switching Success | Miranda + OmniBus' Permanent Partnership | Optus + GlobeCast Australia Have Politics In Common |   Full Story

RapidEye... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] RapidEye has mandated Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to support its effort to raise additional funding for the company.   Full Story

SES WORLD SKIES And SSVC A Real Brit Boost For Troops In The Boonies
[SatNets] A good morale boost, no doubt, as SES WORLD SKIES, dedicated to keeping armed forces connected, announced that the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) has extended agreements to deliver television and radio programming to British troops around the world.   Full Story

Uplogix + Tec-Nor... Cementing In Connectivity (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Tec-Nor, a data and communications systems integrator headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, has deployed Uplogix appliances in VSAT applications for the oil & gas industry.   Full Story

iDirect... Another Earth Hub... (SATCOM)
iDirect, Inc. (iDirect) has revealed that Cobbett Hill Earth station, an independent UK-based teleport operator offering a complete range of satellite communications services for business and government customers, is expanding its satellite infrastructure with the purchase of a third iDirect Evolution hub.   Full Story

Comtech Telecommunications... A Blue Force To Be Reckoned With... (MILCOM)
Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., has received orders totaling $24.9 million under its existing $384.0 million BFT contract with the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command.   Full Story

Harmonic... VOD Is A Big 'yes'
[SatBroadcasting™] The ‘yes’ DBS Satellite Services has deployed Harmonic’s MediaPrism(tm) converged video suite as part of its recently launched video on demand (VOD) service, delivered to subscribers over-the-top (OTT) via a broadband Internet connection to the STB.   Full Story

TSF Still Calling In Pakistan — Reconnecting Families (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Reports from Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) in north western KPK Province and southern Sindh Province indicate that their calling operations are continuing.   Full Story

Arqiva + Thomson... Exciter Moments (DVB-T2)
[SatBroadcasting™] Arqiva, a communications infrastructure and media services company, has selected Thomson Broadcast (formerly the transmission division of Grass Valley) for the high-power sites of its new DVB-T2 network for terrestrial HD services in the United Kingdom.   Full Story

Newtec At IBC2010... Broadcasters Migrate And Converge
[SatBroadcasting™] Newtec is promoting its DualFlow™ technology in Europe at IBC2010 by facilitating day-to-day contributions, DSNG and distribution operations.   Full Story

SES ASTRA And Digitaria Reveal Newtec's Sat3Play® Brings On Energy
[SatNews] SES ASTRA and Italian integrator Digitaria are creating a nationwide energy monitoring system using Newtec’s Sat3Play® technology for connecting remote sites.   Full Story

Secure World Foundation... Security Of The Spatial Kind (Report)
[SatNews] Secure World Foundation is now making available an authoritative report that examines current space security issues.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Info For Broadcasting + Related Industries...
Advanced Digital Broadcast—An Awarding Day ... Arqiva + Empire Cinemas—Digital Entertainments ... Ericsson—Fine Tuning FTA ... Globecast—Ecosystem Enthusiasm ... Miranda Technologies—Releasing Router ... SIS LIVE iDirect—SNG Support ...   Full Story

Permira + Asia Broadcast Satellite... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] A company backed by the Permira funds, along with the Asia Broadcast Satellite (“ABS”) management team, has reached an agreement to acquire Kingsbridge Limited, the holding company for ABS, one of the fastest growing premium satellite operators in the world.   Full Story

SES ASTRA Broadens Broadband To Biggest Service in Europe
[SatNews] SES ASTRA (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced today that it is expanding its enterprises with a new distribution partner to market its satellite broadband service ASTRA2Connect in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.   Full Story

@ IBC2010 ...
... Appear TV With DVB-T/T2 Demo ... Harmonic's Rhozet Is CrossChecked ... Netgem Is Certainly Adapter Friendly ... Signiant's Content Control ... Softel Has Omneon Support ... Wohler + Sky ... Telestream Has Unification On Tap ... Wohler's Monitor Enhancements ...   Full Story

Hiltron Communications...Turns A Cold Shoulder To Ice, And Offers A Warm Dish
[SatNews] Dr. Michael Schiestl, Hiltron Communication's Managing Director (in the photo at right) is presenting HDCU-E control module, which is a combined ice sensing and dish heating system for use with large satellite antennas.   Full Story

Adtec Brings Hi-Def To IBC (SatBroadcasting)
[SatBroadcasting™] Adtec Digital has more than 24 years of industry experience, and provides hardware and software solutions for contribution, distribution, studio, commercial insertion and professional video playback applications.   Full Story

AMOS...Creates Hot-Spots, No Fire Needed (Sat Launch)
[SatNews] SatNews met with Donna Tal, Director of Marketing Communications at AMOS Spacecom (in photo at right) at IBC2010, and they are busy planning for the AMOS-5 launch in mid-2011.   Full Story

Glowlink... Complete Commissioning (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Glowlink has announced the industry's first commercially available VSAT terminal commissioning product — the VSAT X-Pol Alignment and Commissioning System (VXCS(tm)).   Full Story

@ IBC2010 ... ioko + Samsung Have Plans
ioko (stand 1.A50) has teamed up with Samsung to further accelerate the development of direct-to-TV applications for Samsung TVs.   Full Story

@IBC2010... Nagravision Nabs Kudos
Nagravision's Nagra Media PRM (Persistent Rights Management) won the CSI Awards’ "Best Content Protection Technology" category.   Full Story

@ IBC2010... Appear TV (SatBroadcasting™)
Appear TV launched their new DVB-S/S2 modulator at IBC2010, a product that's designed to modulate SD/HD services on to satellite.   Full Story

SnapTV... Cruising The World Of IPTV (SatBroadcasting™)
[SatNews] SnapTV has supplied The World, the largest private yacht on Earth and the only residential community at sea, with a complete Infotainment system.   Full Story

@ IBC2010... Envivio Reveals All For One + One For All
[SatNews] Envivio announced at IBC2010 that a new firmware upgrade for its 4Caster C4 family of Three Screen video encoders brings to market a unified, broadcast-quality, video processing platform with built-in support for all leading IPTV, Mobile and Internet TV video formats.   Full Story

@ IBC2010... Streambox + AJA Newsgathering Nuance
[SatNews] Streambox, at Stand 7.J49, announced they have integrated the Streambox(r) ACT-L3(tm) Software Encoder with AJA's Io Express portable audio and video I/O interface.   Full Story

@ IBC2010... SENCORE Believes In Video Compliance
[SatNews] SENCORE has debuted a new features that make its CMA 1820 compressed media analyzer the industry's first total solution for encoding compliance testing of video content for broadcast and Internet streaming.   Full Story

@ IBC2010... Utah Scientific Is Patently Proud
[SatNews] Utah Scientific announced the company has been awarded a U.S. patent on its UTAH-400 iP router, which gives broadcasters real-time, on-the-fly control of port priority, port speed, and security groups on Ethernet networks.   Full Story

@ IBC2010... Netgem Is Ranked First
[SatNews] At IBC2010, Netgem announced it has now passed the 3 million set top box (STB) and middleware client milestone.   Full Story

Wegener... In The Name Of Unity (Receivers)
[SatBroadcasting™)Wegener Corporation (OTCQB: WGNR.PK) has received an order valued at more than $400,000 for Unity 552 satellite media receivers.   Full Story

@ IBC2010... OmniGlobe Networks
[SatBroadcasting™] OmniGlobe Networks EMEA, a supplier of communications equipment and systems for satellite and terrestrial transmissions, and Sat-Comm Ltd. have announced the debut of the Ghazala, a ruggedized, portable Fast News Gathering (FNG) terminal that is pending full MENOS accreditation.   Full Story

SatNews' Hello And Handshakes At IBC 2010...
Many friendships were renewed at IBC 2010 and we have a glimpse of a few of these meetings as follows...   Full Story

Arianespace... Me, Too, For Metop-C (Launch)
[SatNews] The European meteorological satellite organization EUMETSAT has selected Arianespace to launch its new satellite, Metop-C.   Full Story


September 11, 2010
Euroconsult... Movers In SatManagement (Award / Event)
[SatNews] Euroconsult has just announced the winners of its 7th Annual Awards for Excellence in Satellite Management.   Full Story

IMS Research... No Slowdown For SatSTBs (Report)
[SatBroadcasting] Demand for satellite STBs in emerging markets, such as India and China, will drive STB shipments in 2010 as many advanced markets recover from the global economic slowdown.   Full Story

NASA... Going For The Gold
[SatNews] A bit of gold made its way into the Rocket City last week in the form of a gold-coated James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror segment.   Full Story

NASA... Up, Up + Away...
[SatNews] NASA has selected the winner of the national Balloonsat High Altitude Flight Competition, a contest that introduces high school students to engineering principles and encourages engineering practices.   Full Story

Alliant Techsystems... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) is in discussions with a group of lenders about refinancing its existing senior credit facilities, consisting of a $500.0 million revolving credit facility and a $257.8 million term loan.   Full Story

Cassini Captures... Rings And Moons (Imagery)
The F ring's shepherds, Prometheus and Pandora, join Epimetheus in this image of three of Saturn's moons and the rings.   Full Story

Russia... A Trio's Travels (Launch)
[SatNews] A Russian Rokot carrier rocket orbited a Gonets-M satellite and two Kosmos satellites on Wednesday, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said.   Full Story


September 8, 2010
World Teleport Association... And The Winner, Please... (Event)
[SatNews] World Teleport Association has opened the application process for its 2010 Top Operators rankings, the world's only yearly rankings of teleport operating companies by revenue and growth rate.   Full Story

KVH To Acquire Virtek... The Perfect Middleware Marriage (SATCOM)
[SatNews] A big announcement just over the wires from KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) and Virtek Communications AS in which they have entered into an agreement for KVH to acquire the software company.   Full Story

Stratos Global... All Is Shipshape For Evergreen (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Stratos Global has successfully deployed the Inmarsat FleetBroadband satellite communications service on an entire fleet of 70 container vessels for its long-time customer, Evergreen Marine Corp. Ltd.   Full Story

GeoEye... Paris Prize Placement (Award)
[SatNews] GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY) has been named Earth Observation Operator of the Year by Euroconsult.   Full Story

Moving On Up @ KVH...
[SatNews] KVH announces the selection of Mr. Patricio Baez to serve as the company’s new vice president of commercial sales, Americas.   Full Story

CSA + COM DEV... Webb Weaving (Satellite)
The Canadian Space Agency has delivered a test unit of its contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope, successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.   Full Story

Newtec DualFlow...Answers Converge At IBC2010
[SatBroadcasting™] More news from Newtec at IBC2010 this week in Amsterdam.   Full Story

Arianespace + ESA... Significant Signing (Launch)
[SatNews] Arianespace and the European Space Agency have signed a production contract for the first operational Vega launch.   Full Story

Lockheed Martin Looks Good To GeoEye...To Go Places on Atlas V (Launch)
[SatNews] Here's looking at you...Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, [NYSE: LMT], announced today that it has been selected by GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) to launch the company's next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-2, on an Atlas V rocket.   Full Story

Avanti Communications + Astrium... In Bed Together (MILSATCOM)
[SatNews] Avanti Communications (AIM: AVN) has entered in to an agreement with Astrium Services to establish a new military and government advanced Ka-band test-bed.   Full Story

SES ASTRA... Making the MENA Connection (SATCOM)
[SatNews] SES ASTRA has signed a new service distribution agreement with the Amman, Jordan-based satellite services provider, GSISCO (German Satellite Internet Service Company), to market its satellite-based broadband service ASTRA2Connect in the Middle East.   Full Story

Iridium and Danes Collaborate In Maritime Safety
[SatNews] Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) is collaborating with the Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA) in EfficienSea, a pilot e-Navigation project for Maritime Safety Information (MSI) broadcasts to ships in waters outside the coverage of terrestrial communication systems.   Full Story

Iridium... It's A DaMSA Good Idea (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) is collaborating with the Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA) in EfficienSea, a pilot e-Navigation project for Maritime Safety Information (MSI) broadcasts to ships in waters outside the coverage of terrestrial communication systems.   Full Story

Gilat... You Can Bank On It... (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) has been selected by Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) to provide a SkyEdge II broadband satellite network.   Full Story

Comtech Telecommunications + CPI Int'l... The Merger Is Off!
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) and CPI International, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPII) have announced that, effective as of September 7, 2010, they have terminated the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 8, 2010, among Comtech, Angels Acquisition Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech, and CPI.   Full Story


September 7, 2010
NASA... You Are My Sunshine... (Mission)
[SatNews] NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before with a project named, slated to launch no later than 2018.   Full Story

TechniSat... TechniStar' SatTV Tie-In (DVB-S Receiver)
[SatBroadcasting™]... TechniSat has introduced a powerful DVB-S receiver.   Full Story

Verimatrix... @ IBC2010 With... (Video Streaming Security)
[SatNews] Verimatrix is now making available their ViewRight(r) Web client family.   Full Story

Europe Media Port... Pushing Persian Content (SatBroadcasting™)
[SatNews] Europe Media Port (“EMP”) has announced that Kahkeshan Digisat, an emerging DTH broadcaster for Iran and Iranians living in Europe and the Middle East, has selected EMP for the provision of DTH uplink teleport and transmission services to its European and Middle East targeted markets.   Full Story

Isle Of Man... Ramping Up The Robots (Event)
[SatNews] The Isle of Man Government and the X PRIZE Foundation have announced the fourth Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Summit will be hosted on the Isle of Man on October 4-5, 2010, during the United Nations declared World Space Week.   Full Story

NASA... The iPad Universe
[SatNews] NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad.   Full Story

Harmonic... @ IBC2010 With...
At IBC2010, stand #1.C61, Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) will introduce several product enhancements and showcase its comprehensive portfolio of solutions for high quality video delivery to multiple devices.   Full Story

Stratos Global... A Maritime Milestone (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Stratos Global has reached a milestone of 5,500 FleetBroadband activations.   Full Story

Inmarsat... @ IBC2010 With...
[SatNews] Inmarsat will be displaying its portfolio of end-to-end satellite broadcasting solutions during IBC2010 in Amsterdam.   Full Story

Cobham SATCOM... A Stabilizing Endeavor (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Ship Equip, a long standing Cobham dealer since 1996, has placed the largest single quantity order ever received for the company's Sea Tel 09 series antennas.   Full Story

Euroconsult... An In-Depth SatLook (Report)
[SatNews] Euroconsult has forecast an estimated 1,220 satellites will be built for launch over the next decade.   Full Story

GE Satcom Uses Newtec To TelliCast Its Triple-Play (SATCOM)
[SatNews] At IBC 2010 in Amsterdam this week GE Satcom is announcing that they use Newtec’s TelliCast IP software to power its maritime service that provides broadband satellite connectivity across land and ocean to shipping customers.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Info For Broadcasting + Related Industries...
— EVS — IMS Research + Apple TV — LG Electronics +Sky 3D — Miranda Technologies —   Full Story

BSKyB... Getting Set To Move In... (SatBroadcasting™)
[SatNews] BSkyB has selected ATG Broadcast to install, test, and commission the studios and post-production facilities for BSkyB's new broadcasting facility at the network's corporate headquarters in Osterley, west London.   Full Story

China... SinoSat-6 Sent Spacewards... (Launch)
[SatNews] China has successfully launched its "SinoSat-6" satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.   Full Story

Globalstar... Soyuz Set, 2G Sats Send-Off Soon (Launch)
[SatNews] Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has announced October 19th as the scheduled inaugural launch date for six, new, 2G Globalstar satellites, using the highly reliable   Full Story

International Datacasting... @ IBC2010 With...
International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has announced its lineup of products to be displayed at IBC2010..   Full Story

TechniSat... @ IFA With...
At this year’s IFA show, TechniSat will be presenting their new hybrid receiver models, DIGIT ISIO S and DigiCorder ISIO S, for the first time.   Full Story

Thuraya... Small In Size, Big In Performance (SATCOM)
[SatNews] To enhance streaming speeds of Thuraya’s IP terminal, the Company has launched a new compact antenna manufactured by the antenna specialist, SCAN Antenna.   Full Story

Newtec + Quantis... Needy Neighborhoods (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Spanish broadband specialist Quantis is bringing the full-service broadband experience to remote and rural communities across Spain, via Newtec's satellite-based Sat3Play(r) technology, including hub and low-cost, easy-to-install terminals.   Full Story

Iridium... Sat Savvy Shipping (SATCOM)
Norbulk Shipping is installing Iridium OpenPort(r) high-speed satellite communication systems across its fleet of more than 70 ships in a move to reduce its monthly   Full Story

ITT... The "Eyes" Have It (Imagery)
[SatNews] ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) has been selected to build the imaging system — the “eyes” of the satellite — for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 high-resolution commercial earth imaging satellite, anticipated to be available for launch by the end of 2014.   Full Story

Intelsat... Delving Into DTH (SatBroadcasting™)
[SatNews] Orion Express, a major satellite television provider in Russia, is now offering expanded DTH programming via capacity on the Intelsat 15 satellite (IS-15).   Full Story

Intelsat... TV Ties Into Transponders (SatBroadcasting™)
[SatNews] Bulgarian telecom provider, VIVACOM, the leading telecommunication service provider in Bulgaria, has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for Intelsat capacity on the Intelsat 12 satellite (IS-12), located at 45 degrees East.   Full Story

Telespazio + Thales Alenia Space... Turkey In Space (Satellite)
[SatNews] Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space have announced the official start of the G?kt?rk observation satellite system for the Turkish Ministry of Defense.   Full Story

BAE Systems + OASYS... Acquiring Minds Wish To Know...
[SatNews] BAE Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OASYS Technology, a privately owned company specializing in the design and manufacture of electro-optical systems and subassemblies for aerospace, defense, industrial and commercial markets.   Full Story

GMPCS... A Pipeline To Communications (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Whether a ship at sea, a disaster responder in the field, or a journalist rushing to breaking news, Internet access and phone service are required for daily work flow but it can become a real premium when cellular networks are not available.   Full Story

Stratos Global... SCADA Set-Up (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Stratos Global has joined forces with its new Channel Partner, Zedi Inc., to deploy the world’s first large-scale SCADA network based on Inmarsat’s BGAN mobile broadband satellite service.   Full Story

iDirect... Open Up For OpenAMIP (SATCOM)
[SatNews] iDirect has announced that three leading manufacturers of stabilized marine VSAT antennas – Sea Tel, Intellian and Jotron – have implemented the OpenAMIP protocol developed by iDirect and have completed successful interoperability testing with iDirect’s suite of broadband satellite routers.   Full Story

TeleCommunication Systems... WWSS Win (MILSATCOM)
[SatNews] TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received orders with a value of $3.8 million from the U.S. Army for antenna systems, quad band satellite emulators, and other support equipment.   Full Story

European Space Agency... GOCE's Gravity Going 'gain (Satellite)
[SatNews] ESA’s GOCE gravity mission has recovered from a glitch that prevented the satellite from sending its flow of scientific data to the ground — news of the recovery comes earlier than expected, thanks to the fervent efforts of a team of experts.   Full Story


September 5, 2010
Cassini Captures... Cool Crescent (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] A thin crescent of cratered terrain is illuminated on Saturn's third largest moon, Dione.   Full Story

Inmarsat... An Honorable Happening? (Award)
[SatNews] FleetBroadband 505 Emergency Calling has been shortlisted for an the Lloyd's List Global Award in the innovation category.   Full Story

Chandra Collections... A Galaxy Cluster (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] This is a composite image of the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth, showing the effects of a collision between two smaller galaxy clusters.   Full Story

COM DEV Int'l... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) today announced third quarter financial results for the three month period ended July 31, 2010 — all amounts are stated in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.   Full Story

Skyline Communications... Cube It With DataMiner (NMS)
[SatNews] Skyline Communications will introduce DataMiner™ 6.5 at IBC2010, the latest version of the company's network management system (NMS).   Full Story

Star Navigation... Bye Bye Blackbox? (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Star Navigation Systems Group Ltd. has introduced the new and improved STAR-ISMS(tm) In Flight Safety Monitoring System, the ideal counterpart to the "black box" and a quantum leap in aerospace safety technology.   Full Story

Euroconsult... Maritime Growth To Continue (Report)
[SatNews] Euroconsult has forecast that the number of satellite communications terminals aboard commercial and private ships will more than double over the next decade, as demand for bandwidth on the high seas continues to surge.   Full Story

SUIRG... SIC Plots (Interference)
[SatNews] The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) has launched an important new tool in its continuing quest to identify and mitigate the ever-growing problem of satellite interference.   Full Story

RRsat... Moving On Up...
[SatNews] RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) has appointed Mr. David Aber as its new Chief Financial Officer.   Full Story

MTN Satellite Communications... Certainly Ship-worthy (SATCOM)
[SatNews] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has announced StreamXcel Plus, a new integrated hardware and software solution for managing shipboard satellite communications.   Full Story

Integral Systems... Continued CCS-C Cemented Into Place (MILSATCOM)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force (USAF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded Integral Systems a $1.5M contract modification to its Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) contract.   Full Story

RapidEye... A View Of State (Imagery)
[SatNews] RapidEye's Brazilian distributor, Santiago & Cintra Consultoria, has provided RapidEye images to the State of Minas Gerais.   Full Story

OnAir Egyptians Communicate From Pyramids To The Skies
[SatNews] OnAir, the world’s leading provider of inflight communications, launched full Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir inflight passenger communications services on the first of EGYPTAIR’s fleet of twin-aisle Airbus 330-300 aircraft.   Full Story

Vizada... Fishing In Spanish Waters (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Vizada has teamed up with its long-term service provider partner Nautical to provide the Inmarsat FleetBroadband service to more than 300 Spanish fishing vessels, enabling them to comply with new European Union (EU) regulations.   Full Story

Thrane & Thrane's EXPLORER 325 Travels The Planet By Electric Car...No Extension Cord Needed
[SatNews] Thrane & Thrane provided an EXPLORER 325, to handle the communications during a 'green' expedition in which two electric Nissan Qashquais are driven around the world.   Full Story

Here's Looking @ Earth... An Energetic Earl (NASA—Imagery)
[SatNews] At 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on September 2, 2010, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Hurricane Earl was roughly 245 miles (395 kilometers) south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and about 720 miles (1,155 kilometers) south-southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts.   Full Story

SES ASTRA... The Correct Image For 3DTV (SatBroadcasting)
[SatNews] SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced a new initiative to support the introduction of 3D television in Europe.   Full Story

Arqiva...Encore! Says Radio Télévision Belge de la communauté Française (SNG Transmission)
[SatNews] Please continue, so says Radio Television Belge de la communaute Francaise (RTBF) to Arqiva as they provide the state broadcaster for Belgium with SNG transmission services.   Full Story

Northrop Grumman... An Honored Position (MILSATCOM)
[SatNews] A structural test vehicle from the Defense Support Program, which helped provide the Air Force with early warning of ballistic missile launches or above ground nuclear detonations, was recently donated to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force by Northrop Grumman.   Full Story

Volicon... Rules + Regs Protection (SatBroadcasting)
[SatNews] SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, a leading Japanese satellite communications company and platform operator of multichannel pay TV satellite broadcasting services, has installed the award-winning Volicon Observer(r) digital logging and monitoring solution.   Full Story

International Launch Services + SES... Mixing In A Sixth (Launch)
[SatNews] International Launch Services (ILS) and SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) have announced the extension to December 31, 2014, of the SES Multi Launch Agreement (MLA) and the addition of a sixth firm ILS Proton mission through 2014.   Full Story


September 3, 2010
Alliant Techsystems... Financially Speaking...
[SatNews] Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE: ATK) has called for redemption all of its outstanding 2.75 percent convertible senior subordinated notes due 2024 (the "Notes") in an aggregate principal amount of $279,763,000 and bearing CUSIP 018804AH9.   Full Story


September 2, 2010
Russia... GLONASS Constellation Continues To Grow (Launch)
[SatNews] Three GLONASS global navigation system satellites were placed successfully into their designated orbit on September 2nd.   Full Story


September 1, 2010
PCI Geomatics... Tool Trade Up (Imagery)
[SatNews] When it comes to correcting raw satellite imagery, one of the tools used is PCI Geomatic's GeoImaging Tools.   Full Story

NASA + United Space Alliance... More Opportunities For Flight Ops
[SatNews] A contract extension is always a joy to receive.   Full Story

Stratos Global... GoM'ing Up (Broadband)
[SatNews] Stratos Global has begun deployment of its new StratosMAX II broadband service across the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region.   Full Story

Globalstar... Trio To Travel (Launch)
[SatNews] Three more for the company, as additional 2G satellites are delivered to the launch site for constellation inclusion.   Full Story

Integral Systems | RT Logic... It's All About Location (SATCOM)
[SatNews] A new product line that extends the reach of the satID(r) Geolocation System has debuted.   Full Story

Globecomm Systems... PoPping Off (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Connectivity requirements around the world have now been simplified with an increase in the number of this company's facilities.   Full Story

Boeing... A Grand GOES Acceptance (SATCOM)
[SatNews] With acceptance by NASA and NOAA for full service, the 8th GOES satellite has graduated from on-orbit testing.   Full Story

VISLINK Launches The Advent Of A NewsLite (SatCom)
[SatNews] VISLINK News and Entertainment announces the unveiling of the new Advent NewsLite at IBC 2010.   Full Story

VISLINK Goes Over The Wall To China (Joint Venture)
[SatNews] VISLINK announces the formation of VISLINK (China) Limited.   Full Story

Newtec... CETel Africa Upgrades Trunking Service — Elephants Need Not Apply
[SatNews] CETel has put Newtec Elevations modulators, shapers and encapsulators to work thus enhancing its IP trunking services to Africa and the Middle East.   Full Story

COM DEV... Moving On Out...
[SatNews] COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has commenced the search for a new Chief Executive Officer, following the decision by the Company to replace Mr. John Keating.   Full Story

SIA... An Updated Exam (Report)
[SatNews] The Satellite Industry Association’s 2010 State of the Satellite Industry Report (prepared by Futron Corporation) now shows improved U.S. employment numbers for year-end 2010.   Full Story

Romantis GmbH... Saving Space Saves Costs (Router)
[SatNews] There's a new version for the EASTAR(tm) satellite router from this company.   Full Story

COMSYS... Volumes + Volumes Of VSAT Info (Event)
[SatNews] In just two weeks time, at VSAT2010, the leading innovators in the VSAT market will deliver their views on the needs of customers and the development of new applications and platforms.   Full Story

Stratos Global... A Mountainous Project (SATCOM)
[SatNews] At an elevation of more than 29,000 feet, the deployment of an Inmarsat BGAN mobile broadband SATCOM service is a communications feat of elevated proportions.   Full Story

European Space Agency... Absolutely MAVelous (SatNav)
[SatNews] An unmanned aircraft system guided by satellite navigation has been developed within ESA’s Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones — the planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia fight land erosion.   Full Story

Eutelsat... 3DTV Is A Racket @ IFA (Content)
[SatBroadcasting] Capacity on the EUROBIRD(tm) 9A satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) has been selected by Eurosport to transmit the TENNIS US Open in 3D for demonstrations at IFA, the consumer electronics show held in Berlin from September 3rd to the 8th.   Full Story

SatBroadcasting™ — Info For Broadcasting + Related Industries...
— Cinegy — Harmonic — Snell — Strategy Analytics D.I.S. Consulting —   Full Story

MEASAT... Game Time In India (Content)
[SatBroadcasting(tm)] MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) now has an agreement with GlobeCast to provide Occasional Usage Services (“OUS”) capacity for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.   Full Story


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