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June 30, 2016 Moving On Up... Space Foundation Names DeBates As Vice President—Education DeBates will administer the development and implementation of the Space Foundation's education programs that support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
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EUMETSAT Priorities Established For The Next Decade — Meteosat-8 Move Approved Named “Challenge 2025,” the new strategy targets the smooth transition from the current to the next generation of EUMETSAT satellite systems...
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Managed Comms Services From Harris CapRock For Oceaneering Harris CapRock will deploy voice and data services over its new uncontended Time Divisional Multiple Access (TDMA) network.
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STS Global Broadband Connectivity Event Upcoming... This event will review the major players, the global coverage, as well as the various market applications.
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Inside The Top Operators (2016) Report Just Released By World Teleport Association The Top Operators respondents provides financial data for the past two complete fiscal years...
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Custom Design Radiation Hardened DC-DC Power Converters For Space Applications Debut From Modular Devices The intended application is to power space instrumentation.
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Interdiction Support For US Coast Guard Through Insitu's ScanEagle UAS The Coast Guard has conducted years of operational demonstrations involving UAS, including ScanEagle.
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Booster Qualification Motor Test #2 For NASA's SLS Conducted Successfully By Orbital ATK Orbital ATK developed the two five-segment rocket boosters for NASA’s SLS, a heavy-lift rocket designed to enable new deep space exploration missions.
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Globecomm's Services Increase With Telesat’s Telstar 12 VANTAGE... Expands Its Service Over Europe and Africa ..."we are excited to now be utilizing the advanced capabilities of Telstar 12 VANTAGE to bring DTH video and other services to our customers in Europe and Africa.”
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Shijian-16-2 Satellite Launched By China The launch took place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 03:21 UTC on Wednesday.
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Taiwan To Temporarily Gain Access To Japanese Satellite Services Until Formosat-5 is put into service, Taiwan will rely on Japan for satellite services.
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One Acquisition Completed + Another Just Around The Corner For Satellite Solutions Worldwide The combined acquisitions, once completed, will add 2,400 customers to the company's customer base.
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Airbus A320 + A330 Aircraft Families To Use Inmarsat Cockpit Comms In a landmark agreement, SB-S will be featured in the Airbus A320 single-aisle and A330 wide-body families.
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Personal On-The-Move SATCOM Micro-Terminal Debuts From Israel Aerospace Industries This product provides personal bi-directional voice and data communication for lower echelon ground combatants.
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Safran + Airbus Have Completed Their Airbus Safran Launchers JV Airbus Safran Launchers was already managing launcher program activities and associated equity stakes.
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Debut Of VCOs From Fairview Microwave A comprehensive and growing portfolio of VCOs from Fairview includes more than 60 different models.
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A Decade Of Innovation For Rocket Lab Founded in June 2006 as a center for advanced space systems, Rocket Lab is best known for its Electron orbital launch program.
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June 29, 2016 The First Nanosatellite For The UAE Is Now Built + Ready For Launch The satellite has also successfully passed all stages and tests and is now ready for launch into space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket
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The Scientific Instruments Aboard Russia's Aist-2D Smallsat Have Been Activated The satellite is carrying six packages of scientific equipment, five of which were designed by Samara University.
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Arizona State University Bringing LunaH-Map Nano To Fruition The smallsat is called LunaH-Map because of the craft's goal will be to map the distribution of hydrogen on the moon.
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Digital Divide Negation In Taiwan With CPI's ASC Signal Division's New Earth Station Antennas CPI ASC Signal Division will provide a broad range of Earth station antennas.
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Oceaneering International Is Impressed With Harris CapRock + Extends and Expands Managed Services Agreement This architecture allows access to committed bandwidth levels at all times—an advancement over traditional contended TDMA networks that share bandwidth across multiple satellite circuits. Full Story
First International Deployment Of HughesNet Occurs In Brazil HughesNet service reaches 85 percent of Brazil’s population.
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WTA Provides A Webinar To Deal With The Future... What Will The Teleport Of 2020 Look Like? How convenient...Not available on that date? Sign-up and you will receive a link to the recording after the event. Full Story
June 28, 2016 DigitalGlobe + Esri Improve Their Image... New Long-Term Partnership Expands World Imagery Map ...allowing users to perform advanced analytics at scale against a 15-year time-lapse image library to solve complex problems.
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On The Show Floor... LizardTech's Geospatial Solutions @ 2016 Esri International User Conference At the conference, LizardTech will showcase their entire line of geospatial products.
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Cooperative Agreement Signed By EUMETSAT + CNES Regarding The ARGOS Data Collection System The new agreement will ensure the continuation of these vital data into the 2022-2040 timeframe.
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The Latest GVF + EMP Partnership Explored Cellular Backhaul + The Role Of Satellites The conference in London took place with the participation of representatives of the satellite and wireless industries.
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AsiaSat + JIB Expand Partnership... New Viewing Experience NHK WORLD TV HD + SD "Our new HD service will bring a brand new viewing experience of high quality news and entertainment content to home viewers and travellers in Asia."
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NSSLGlobal Enables BBC Series Of Live Bonded HDR From M.V. Aquarius As They Rescue Migrants To avoid having to install an expensive dedicated broadcast network communications specialist, Keith Wood had the innovative idea to bond together two EXPLORER 710 HDR terminals that would traditionally only be used on land. Full Story
Sierra Nevada Corporation Furthers The Dream...MOU With UN For Dedicated Dream Chaser® Spacecraft Mission to develop an interface control document and payload hosting guide to allow payloads developed by participating countries to be hosted and operated on a dedicated mission, providing those countries affordable access to space.
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June 27, 2016 Disputed Nepal + Indian Border Areas Intend To Install GPS Pillars Boundary System To Help Solve Geographical Differences The third meeting of the Nepal-India Boundary Working Group (BWG) decided to install the 8,553 border pillars with the Boundary Global Navigation Satellite System
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China's Largest Launch Vehicle To Launch Later This Year The rocket, designed to carry 25 tons into LEO, will be launched from the Wenchang satellite launch center in south China's Hainan Province.
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AVIATOR 200S From Cobham Aerospace Communications Wins Airbus Contract The Aviator 200S aims at providing voice and data air-ground communication,
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The Needs Of The Humanitarian Community Served By Télécoms Sans Frontières + Inmarsat Inmarsat became the first official partner of TSF in 2000 and continues to provide free satellite equipment and airtime wherever the NGO deploys for first responder operations.
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More To See Now With DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1 Satellite WorldView-1 now passes directly overhead Earth locations at approximately 1:30 p.m. local time.
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Harris SINCGARS Radio To Support Aviation Force In The Middle East Harris will provide Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) radios.
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Israel's EROS-B Satellite Rustles Up High Res Images For Rio Olympics Eros-B will provide security; Israeli firms will transmit live video and guide tourists to the best transport routes between competitions. Full Story
Combining Imagery Forces Are Sentinel-1A + Sentinel-1B With both satellites finally in the same orbit, together they can cover the entire globe every six days.
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China's Successful Launch Of New Generation Long March-7 Rocket The launch success also marks a key step towards China's plans to eventually operate a permanent space station in the final step of the country's three-phase manned space program. Full Story
UAE Space Agency + Lockheed Martin Collaborate... On Track To The Path For Next Generation Space Talent The program supports the UAE’s strategic vision to create an indigenous talent pipeline of students and professionals inspired towards long-term careers in the space industry.
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GNSS Positioning Product Partnerships For Septentrio + Innovelec This new partnership enables Septentrio’s products to meet the needs of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) customers in the European market.
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Agile Complex Wireless Signals Can Certainly Be Challenging — Keysight Technologies' Free Webinar To Sort All Of That Out... Selecting the correct test instruments has become essential for the current project as well as future ones.
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Space Foundations Opens Nominations For General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award Any person may nominate a candidate for the award, with the exception that individuals may not nominate themselves.
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Electronic Warfare (EW) Award By US Navy Goes To Harris Electronic Systems The contract also includes testing and engineering services.
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The Space + Defense Organizations Of Aerojet Rocketdyne Get Re-Org'd A key aspect of the alignment is placing Aerojet Rocketdyne’s newly formed Defense Business Unit headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, along with the company’s Defense Advanced Programs, known as the Rocket Shop℠.
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Rural Broadband Penetration Webinar To Be Conducted By Gilat + NSR Hear more about how to cost-effectively provide home broadband connectivity in rural areas.
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Inmarsat's GX Aviation Keeps 'em Connected...Certified For 6,500+ Of Airbus' A320 Aircraft In total, more than 6,500 Airbus A320 family aircraft are currently in operation, representing over three quarters of the overall Airbus aircraft currently being flown worldwide.
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Globalstar’s SPOT Gen3 Assures Extreme Vigilance Over Extreme Runners In Extreme Spanish Gran Trail Aneto Posets Race
...300 participants will run with a SPOT Gen3 mounted on his/her backpack ... precisely track each runner’s location online as they cross challenging terrain including snow and boulder fields.
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NASA To Fire Up + Test World's Most Powerful Rocket...A Gynormous Booster For Trip To Mars The booster for the world's most powerful rocket, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), which will power the agency’s astronauts on the journey to Mars...
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PrecisionHawk Helps Shape The Fourth Industrial Revolution... Awarded Technology Pioneer By World Economic Forum
"PrecisionHawk is among those companies that help shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and relate to one another."
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June 26, 2016 More MUOS Makes Five ...ULA Launches MUOS-5 + Completes The US Navy's Five-Satellite Constellation “I am so proud of the team for all their hard work and commitment to 100 percent mission success. It is amazing to deliver our second national security payload from the Cape in just two weeks."
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's Thrusters Provide Roll, Pitch, Yaw + Settling Burns In US Navy’s MUOS-5 Satellite Launch Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion included an RL10C-1 upper-stage engine, five Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), six helium pressurization tanks and a dozen Centaur upper-stage thrusters used for roll, pitch, yaw and settling burns.
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June 24, 2016 Analysts' Views Regarding The UK's Regulatory Environment Now That Brexit Has Occurred The outcome will take several years to unfold, with consequences for IT investment and the telecoms regulatory environment.
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Inmarsat's First Demos In LATAM For Fleet Xpress Also Involve Globalsat Group + Cobham SATCOM The seminars were conducted in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico, and focused on the maritime and offshore markets in the Gulf of Mexico; and in Mazatlan, Sinaloa.
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Satellite Network Emulation Developed By Indra The Indra emulator allows teams to evaluate the required capabilities of a network in order to support the necessary applications, all on the ground and prior to deployment in space.
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The 2016 Better Satellite World Awards Are Now Open For Nominations By SSPI The winners will be named at the prestigious Better Satellite World Awards Dinner on December 5 in London.
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AMREL + Airbus Defence & Space Bring GATOR Into The Geospatial Worlds This encapsulated geospatial server enables easy access to geospatial data even when the Internet isn’t available.
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Drone-Based Remote Sensing Now Has A One-Stop-Shop With CompassDrone™ CompassDrone™ can match the correct airframe and software to get the required results.
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Boeing's Broadband Satellite Spectrum Battle: Read The Complete Article @ GeekWire "The Boeing Co. is laying out plans to put more than 1,000 satellites into low Earth orbit to provide broadband Internet service—..."Full Story
SES + Singapore EDB's Office For Space Technology And Industry Team Up With Next Generation Satellite Technologies + More The partnership will also pave the way for collaboration between Singapore and Luxembourg universities and research institutions to develop state-of-the-art satellite and radio communications technologies.
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EUMETSAT's Thirtieth Anniversary Events Scheduled "This success is shared with the European Space Agency and other international partners from Europe and around the world and is also owed to the support of Germany, our host country."—Alan Ratier, Director General, EUMETSAT.
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June 23, 2016 A New Space Station Being Planned By Axiom Space LLC The move to initiate a new space station was discussed by Suffredini at the recent NewSpace 2016 Conference in Seattle, Washington.
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Airbus Defence & Space Is Cleaning Up In Poland The clean rooms will initially be used for the production of harnesses.
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OHB + Fraunhofer Space Alliance Combine Their Expertise Via A New MoU The memorandum seeks anchor this partnership at an enterprise-wide level for OHB and Fraunhofer.
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The Authoritative Guide To Space Activity Now Published By Space Foundation The Space Report is published annually by the Space Foundation.
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On The Show Floor... LandWorks @ Esri User Conference With New Spatial Aligment Tool The Spatial Alignment Tool works with any vector land grid or parcel data.
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Image Processing Software Released By Icaros For UAS Icaros developed the OneButton family for geospatial end users to easily and automatically generate precise, fully orthorectified 2D maps and 3D models from frame-based aerial imaging systems.
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WTA Webinar To Address Building The Teleport Of Tomorrow Accelerating trends suggest that "business as usual" will not be a recipe for success.
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Winning Ways — First In The World Tier 4 Certification By WTA Awarded To Eutelsat Teleport Tier 4 is the highest of four quality tiers and the Paris-Rambouillet Teleport is the first in the world to achieve that level of Certification.
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NSR The Key To Unlock Cellular Backhaul Via Satellite With the arrival of HTS, now is time for the ground players to develop new technologies and applications.
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Harris' $1.7 Billion Contract... Foreign Military Sales For Tactical Communication Solutions ...has received a five-year, $1.7 billion ceiling, single-award follow-on IDIQ contract from the US Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) to supply...
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June 22, 2016 Canadian Space Agency's M3MSat Into Successful Orbit The M3MSat mission will improve ship detection and marine traffic management in Canadian waters by testing new technologies including an innovative antenna designed by the University of Waterloo.
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China Wishes To Make Their BeiDou Navigation Satellite System A Global Service The navigation services were first planned only for domestic users, but the network had expanded in 2012 to cover the Asia-Pacific region.
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The Political Priority Must Remain Focused On Deep Space Exploration The Coalition is the voice of America’s deep space industry, with more than 40 corporate members supporting NASA’s deep space human exploration and science programs.
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Satellite Evolution + Service Revolution White Paper From SES + Nigerian Satellite Monitor Study Released The White Paper states that the next generation of satellites will be flexible and adaptive, providing an improved customer experience and will be able to transmit thousands of Gigabits per second.
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Mobile Asset Tracking Becomes More Accessible Through CompassCom + Latitude Geographics Togetherness The integration of these products greatly simplifies their ability to view the activities of mobile assets and work orders via a single map interface.
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Airbus Defense And Space's 'Twins' Double The Coverage For 3v Geomatics...Regardless Of Weather Conditions
Both sensors deliver imagery access with resolution ranging from 25cm to 40m ...and the ability to collect anywhere in the world, independent of weather conditions.
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Advantech Wireless Salutes The Military With Their Newest Advanced Military-Grade Satellite Modem These modems were designed to fulfil two-way satellite gateway communication requirements in Defense Satellite Communications Systems
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Enterprise Level Classified + Secure Unclassified Mobile Comms Router + TACOMMS Solutions Debut From IAS The CCESR is the smallest, lightest isolated Red/Black dual Cisco 5915 enterprise class router/VPN gateway available.
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Russia's Report Reveals Location Of US Military Satellites In Free Space Database The databases would apparently help make orbit operations more secure and hazard-free, but would also contribute to shedding more light on the militarization of outer space, which Moscow has opposed for many years.
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Second Cargo Delivery Mission To ISS Completed By Orbital ATK Including Additional Tasks The mission, known as OA-6, marked the company’s fifth CRS-1 mission and the first time its Cygnus™ has been used as an in-orbit research platform.
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CPI Enables ViaSat To Reach Milestone... Provides Ku-/Ka-Band Radome For ViaSat STC On A320 Aircraft This radome will be fully compatible across all ViaSat satellite network operations, including aircraft served by ViaSat-1, ViaSat-2 and ViaSat-3.
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PCI Geomatics + CGG’s NPA Satellite Mapping Combine Forces In Webinar NPA Satellite Mapping will discuss the operational use of DEMs in planning mine logistics in Mali as well as for other exploration applications.
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June 21, 2016 SpeedCast Expresses About Expansion... Inmarsat's Fleet Xpress Part Of Maritime Sat Services Portfolio
...providing its maritime customers with a new alternative solution for their global communication needs.
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Hot Niches, Global Insight + Success Stories To Abound At Space Foundation's Space Technology & Investment Forum Also learn the steps for various investment goals and approaches.
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Stena Line's Ferry's Receive Marlink VSAT Connectivity Upgrades Marlink has more than trebled the bandwidth in Stena Line’s fleet-wide Closed User Group (CUG) service and integrated GSM 3/4G services for connectivity during voyages in addition to in-port Internet Wi-Fi networks.
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Russia + Italy Agree To A Lot Of Sensing The nations will look at the possibility of establishing and using of a new space-based Earth Observing radar system.
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Space-Based ADS-B Is The Focus Of A New Aireon MOA With Two Russian Organizations Analyses will be performed on how space-based ADS-B will enhance air traffic monitoring, support air traffic management and improve airline and airport operations.
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Moving On Up... New Interim COO @ Astrosat... She Was Hired On The Spot Astrosat has had great success in finding Earth-bound applications for space-based or ‘downstream’ data, that is, large data sets beamed down from orbiting satellites
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The European Union's Copernicus Program Has A New Hub In Australia This regional hub will be Copernicus’ master data repository for the South-East Asia and South Pacific region.
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Twenty-Five Million USD Closes By Spaceflight Industries In Latest Financing Round Spaceflight is the first launch services provider to be awarded a GSA Schedule Contract.
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A Major Refinancing Of Debt Underway By Aerojet Rocketdyne The Company expects the annualized reduction of interest expense to be approximately $20 million.
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Returning A Falcon 9 Booster To Port Canaveral Could Be Costly For SpaceX Two other proposed routes for new rail service from Port Canaveral also have been proposed, although the port had put those proposals on hold while it focuses on the feasibility of a rail route through the Air Force station.
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The Safety Benefits Of ADS-B Technology Analyzed By Flight Safety Foundation The study identifies immediate, mid-term and long-term safety benefits of space-based ADS-B.
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Future-Sat Africa Upcoming From GVF + Extensia Future-Sat Africa will enable attendees to learn more effective delivery of nexgen satellite innovations in Africa.
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NSR's Question: Is “Sticky” Good Enough In Maritime? Using data from NSR’s Maritime Satcom Markets, 4th Edition, the market for broadband maritime connectivity by 2025 will be worth approximately $3.3 Billion.
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Doves Depart For Orbit Spaceflight has negotiated the launch of 81 satellites on behalf of their customers and has contracts to deploy more than 150 satellites through 2018.
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ISRO's Launch Is Successful With A Full House Of 20 Satellites Mission accomplished as ISRO's rocket soared stuffed with 20 satellites. Full Story
June 20, 2016 South African Office Opened By NSSLGlobal Heading up the new office is NSSLGlobal’s Head of Sales and Business Development—Africa, Steve Tunks.
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Globalstar's Asset Tracking Solution Selected By Shell Oil The solution ensures that equipment test certificates are valid, eliminating paperwork while cutting time and costs as well as speeding up supply chain operations.
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ABS-2A Launch Recap The ABS-2A satellite is the second of the pair of the all-electric propulsion satellites and was manufactured by Boeing Satellite Systems International.
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Thales Alenia Space's Pay-Off For Payload... They'll Supply The Heart Of The System For RSCC’s Express-80 + Express-103 Thales Alenia Space Italy won a competitive international tender to supply the communications payloads, the “heart of the system...”
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SSL Banks On Good Returns As Indonesian Bank's Satellite BRIsat Performs According To Plan ...to provide expanded secure banking communications to almost 60 million customers across the Indonesian archipelago, including locations where banking services were previously unavailable. Full Story
M3MSat + GHGSat Plan To Escape Gravity On The 21st The M3MSat mission aims to test and demonstrate the viability of new technologies that will advance Canada's capabilities in monitoring maritime traffic.
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Spaceflight Industries Closes $25 Million Financing Round Led by Mithril
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June 19, 2016 NSR Asks... Is The US Government Setting Its Own Industry Up To Fail? In what will be a challenge for incumbent and new market entrants, US Government launch demand is not expected to increase at a comparable rate in the coming decade.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's AR1 Engine Test Goal Is One Step Closer To Eliminating Russian Engines For Space Launches Preburner testing is the latest AR1 program milestone achieved on the AR1 program and further demonstrates that the company has consistently met every milestone laid out in its plan since the program began in 2014.
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India's College Of Engineering-Pune Hope For Satellite Dream Realization On June 20th Since 2008, the students have been working on this mission using a fund of Rs 50 lakh.
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AST's iRAMS Going Aboard ICENI Fleet iRAMS is a cost effective, remote vessel management system providing anomaly alerts via email/SMS on a wide range of vessel data, in near real time.
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New Precision Manufacturing Facility For Aerospace + Other Concerns Opened By SAS Manufacturing The Englewood facility also operates 3D printers for additive manufacturing.
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Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... International Datacasting Has Merged With Novra All conditions of closing have been met—the agreement to merge the two companies was successfully closed on June 15th.
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Advantech Wireless’ "Work Horse Wonder" Of 530,000 Hours More Than Doubles MTBF With GaN-based SSPAs ...has exceeded the barrier of 240,000 hours of recorded Mean Time Between Failure... more than double of the original calculated MTBF values.
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A First For African Schoolgirls As They Build Africa's First Satellite The satellite will be launched into space later this year as part of a program sponsored by The Meta Economic Development Organization
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Up, Up And Away Ariane 5 Whisks Record Payload...Today's Launch Of EchoStar XVIII and BRIsat ...it delivered a total calculated mass of 10,730 kg. into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO)—setting a new launch benchmark for the Ariane 5 ECA version
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Airbus Defense And Space... It Takes A Team For A Successful Launch “Yet again, Ariane 5 has demonstrated itself as a leader on the world market, which doesn’t just happen by chance.”
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Blue Origin Brings In New Shepard For The Fourth Time The capsule separated from the rocket and both eventually executed what the hosts of Blue Origin launch webcast called "picture-perfect" landings.
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Airbus Safran Knows How To Lift Up The Big Ones...Record Weight For Ariane 5 Launch This Arianespace launch pushed 10.730 tons into space, which is a new record for the Ariane 5 launch vehicle—the previous record was 1.5 tons...
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Tracking Sixty Years of Successful Service For The Naval Research Lab's Blossom Point Facility By July 1956, the Blossom Point station went into operation.
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June 16, 2016 The First Of Iridium's NEXT Satellites Are Ready To Go Each satellite features more than 5,000 individual parts assembled, culminating in one hundred thousand hours of workmanship by hundreds of engineers.
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Skytech Ka-Band Antenna OK'd By Telenor For THOR 7 Comms Skytech is the latest antenna supplier to receive approval from Telenor Satellite for the company's recently launched THOR 7 satellite.
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The Second Copernicus "Eye" Completed By Airbus Defence & Space The completed satellite will undergo a series of environmental tests at ESA’s research and technology center ESTEC, Noordwijk (The Netherlands).
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Hong Kong's Genting Selects Harris CapRock Comms Services For Star Cruises Fleet Harris CapRock will use its technologies and equipment to boost bandwidth nearly 300 percent.
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Moving On Up... McGuirk To CCO @ Globecomm Mr. McGuirk will lead the global commercial team to deliver consistent and profitable sales growth, to operate as a high-performance professional sales team and to achieve strong customer relationships and satisfaction around the globe.
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Interference-Free Satellite Services Subject Of Recent ITU Symposium Discussions centered on the current situation regarding satellite services and more...
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MEASAT-3a Capacity Contracted By PLANETCAST For Their Video Services In India The agreement looks to increase in particular HD and 4K/UHD offerings in India with the potential to expand across the Asia Pacific.
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RedPort Global's XGate + Optimizer Satellite Data Routers Gain Expedition Navigation Software The integration enables users of Expedition to easily access weather data via their XGate subscription or an Optimizer router connected to any standard satellite communications device.
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GVF: Satellite-Enabled Cyber Security Threats In Use Of Cloud + IoT With Fewer Crew On Larger Ships Using More Devices The event, which takes place every two years, is one of the most prominent events in the maritime and shipping calendar...
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Arianespace Flight VA230 Moves Closer + Closer To Launch Riding atop a mobile launch table, Ariane 5 was transferred to the ELA-3 launch zone from the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building
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June 15, 2016 Rural New Zealand Broadband Support From Optus Satellite For Farmside The agreement will see the delivery of satellite Internet services to Farmside’s residential, farming and business customers in remote and rural locations across New Zealand.
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Smallsat EO Platform Planned By NewSpace Systems + Oakman Aerospace Their products will be available to government, commercial, and academic customers across the globe.
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exactEarth + DigitalGlobe Casting Their Services To Stymie Illegal Fishing The integrated solution will leverage both organizations' big data and predictive analytics capabilities in order to help governments to address IUU fishing and also their broader maritime surveillance.
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On The Show Floor... Thuraya's Defense + Security Sector Products To Be On Display @ Eurosatory Visitors to Hall 5–B800 can engage with senior leaders from Thuraya, who will answer questions on the rugged and durable defense portfolio that includes Thuraya’s IP Commander broadband terminal.
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SpaceX Launches Sats But, Alas... Returning Rocket Crashes... EUTELSAT 117 West B + ABS-2A Successfully Soar Skyward "Maybe hardest impact to date. Drone ship still ok," Musk shared on his social media account.
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Spacecom's AMOS-3 Is Kicking The Euro 2016 Football Tournament Into Hungary For Viewers Spacecom's AMOS-3 communications satellite, from its 4 degrees West prime orbital position, is supporting the Tournament.
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General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies Heightens Pinpoint Accuracy For Giant NASA Deep Space Network Antennas Beam waveguide-style antennas house sensitive electronics and systems in a room that is inside of the antenna's ground-based pedestal.
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United Launch Alliance's Update to OA-6 Cygnus Anomaly...The Atlas V MUOS-5 Launch Soon In June "We would like to thank our customers and supplier partners for their outstanding collaboration in the detailed review of this anomaly.
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No-Go For Arianespace Flight VA230 — Next Planned Liftoff Window Is June 17th As a result of this anomaly, Arianespace has decided to delay the launch.
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ABS Celebrates ABS-2A's Launch The World's First All Electric Propulsion Satellite By Boeing
“Boeing is proud to have ABS as one of our first customers to choose the 702SP design, the world’s first all-electric propulsion satellite.”
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June 14, 2016 Telespazio France + exactEarth's Contract Provides The Exact Satellite AIS Services That French Navy Needs
...will provide a Satellite AIS data feed of the French economic exclusion zone, which encompasses 11 million square kilometers, to Telespazio France ...
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Copernicus Masters Offers Prizes For Best Concepts + Ideas For Use Of EO Data The sixth edition of Copernicus Masters is now looking for outstanding ideas.
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Ariane 6's First Design Phase Has Now Been Finalized By Airbus Safran Launchers The company's conclusions were presented to ESA on June 10.
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ILS' Statement Regarding The Launch Of Intelsat 31 “A launch is always a culmination of years of hard work and dedication that begin with the design and manufacture of the satellite up to its delivery to orbit."
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Planetary Resources Is Getting Closer...Partnering With The Government Of Luxembourg To Advance The Space Resource Industry Core hardware and software technologies developed at Planetary Resources were tested last year when the Arkyd-3R satellite was deployed from the International Space Station.
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Marlink Provides Guest Connectivity With State-Of-The-Art Technology For MSC Cruises' Fleet MSC Cruises will provide bandwidth to its 12 existing ships as well as the next-generation ships currently under construction, including MSC Meraviglia and MSC Seaside.
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APAC Weather Alerts + Seismic Data For NOAA Via SES + O3b Networks Services Installation The task order is part of the NOAA Worldwide Satellite Communications Systems II (WSCS II) contract.
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National Science Foundation's Antarctic Broadband Network RFI Tackled By LeoSat NSF has reached out to LeoSat with a request to respond to the the RFIs to allow LeoSat’s information to be included in NSF’s planning.
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Genscape™ Is Sure To Stay On Track With ORBCOMM's Satellite AIS ORBCOMM’s advanced satellite network provides revisit rates of eight to fifteen minutes over most of the world ... and as short as one minute in many areas.
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MUOS-5 Completes Constellation For US Navy’s New Network Ready to Go: Lockheed Martin-Built MUOS-5 Secure Communications Satellite Encapsulated for June 24 Launch
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June 13, 2016 Latvia’s First Ever Satellite Venta-1 To Be Launched Via An ISRO PSLV C34 Has Been Delayed... The plan was for Venta-1 to be placed into orbit by the PSLV C34 launch vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), along with 21 satellites from other countries.
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China's 23rd BeiDou Satellite Makes For Orbit The satellite was pushed to orbit by a Long March-3C carrier rocket.
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NASA's Dawn Mission Awarded Collier Trophy The 8 foot tall (2.4 meter) trophy resides at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington and is engraved with the names of recipients.
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First Nationwide 4G LTE Broadband Wireless Network For Public Safety Now In The Bidding Process Together, these organizations have proposed to build a nationwide dedicated mission critical LTE network in the 700 MHz spectrum licensed to FirstNet.
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Support For AVANTI's SBAS-Africa Being Provided By GMV The project, which started in September 2015, has enabled the deployment of an SBAS demonstrator to show the potential benefits of this technology in southern and eastern Africa.
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Fifty Thousand Orbits For EUMETSAT's Metop-A Satellite "Since launch, Metop-A has traveled almost 2.3 billion kilometers. By the time Metop-A reaches the end of her life, she might even have reached orbit number 200,000,Full Story
Marlink + Inmarsat's Fleet Xpress Bring Broadband Services Over Oceans + On Board Ships Through the agreement, Marlink will bring more than two thousand vessels to Inmarsat’s new Fleet Xpress service over a five-year period.
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DARPA Plans On More Sophisticated, Resilient + Collaborative Unmanned Air Systems CODE-equipped UASs would perform their mission by sharing data, negotiating assignments, and synchronizing actions and communications among team members and with the commander.
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Harris' Falcon III® Tactical Radio Family Adds A New Product Family This unit will provide modern-day warfighters with secure networked voice, data and situational awareness in a single, lightweight, easy-to-use platform.
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Satellite Ground Equipment Sector Featured In Upcoming NSR Study This study provides shipments and equipment revenues for all key industry segments.
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USAF's SMC's CAMMO Contract Goes To L-3 National Security Solutions This is a services acquisition effort integrating and consolidating AFSCN weapon system and operating location requirements into a single contract.
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Tactical Missions Now Come In Smaller Sizes + Competition Is Heating Up Smaller and lighter tactical drones that have evolved in Israel in recent years support such capabilities.
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Globecast's New Location And Facility Chosen To Better Build The Africa Channel We were also able to clearly demonstrate that we are extremely flexible, have a willingness to listen to their needs, and respond in a timely manner, which ultimately led to a large savings for them in OPEX.
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Flight VA 230 Given The OK To Blast Off On June 16th This mission is designated Flight VA230 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system.
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Hosted Payload Alliance Event Set For October — Register Now... HPA Chair and SSL VP Al Tadros will discuss recent opportunities and challenges for the hosted payload community.
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ULA's OA-6 Cygnus Spacecraft Launch Anomaly Is ID'd The Centaur upper stage identified the first stage performance shortfall and compensated with an extended burn to deliver Cygnus to the precise orbit, well within the required accuracy.
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June 12, 2016 ULA's Statement...Delta IV Successfully Sends Secret Satellite Skyward ...Most Powerful Rocket Rocks 'n Rolls With NROL-37 “We are so honored to deliver the NROL-37 payload to orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office during today’s incredible launch.”
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Advanced Airborne Satellite Phone Monitoring System From Horizon Technologies @ Farnborough Int'l Airshow The New 2nd Generation FlyingFish™ is the world’s most advanced airborne satellite phone monitoring system.
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SSL Reports Intelsat 31 Satellite Performing Post-Launch Maneuvers Successfully Intelsat 31 is an advanced 20-kilowatt class satellite that has both Ku- and C-band capabilities.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's Statement: Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports Launch of NROL-37 With World’s Most Powerful Hydrogen-Fueled Engines
“It’s an honor and a privilege to know our company’s propulsion is playing such a critical role in their safety and improved operations."
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June 11, 2016 CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2016 Wrap Up Nine high-level panels discussed a wide range of topics, from the latest strategies in the challenging market landscape, the rise in NGSO systems, to developments in the launch market and perspectives on airline communications, broadband and enterprise solutions.
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The Only Satellite Service Provider In Korea, KT SAT Signs On With SpeedCast The service will be installed over the next 18 months.
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June 9, 2016 SES Platform Services Brings SATMED Services To Benin The SATMED e-health platform was conceived by SES Techcom Services.
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No More Delays... Intelsat 31 Finally Gains Altitude Via ILS Proton-M Launch Vehicle This satellite is the first for the freshly upgraded Proton-M carrier rocket that is now able to handle increased capacity.
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Hughes' JUPITER™ System Empowers KBZ Gateway Earth Station In Myanmar The Earth station includes two satellite networks that will connect all KBZ Group company sites countrywide.
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Into Commercial Service Goes SES-9 SES-9, built by Boeing Satellite Systems International, is the largest SES satellite to serve the Asia-Pacific region.
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Inmarsat Goes Posh...SuperYacht Success for Fleet Xpress
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SpeedCast + Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress Now Part Or Maritime Satellite Services SpeedCast offers Fleet Xpress across it global sales network
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June 8, 2016 Arianespace Sets New Launch Date For Flight VA230 As a result of this anomaly, Arianespace has decided to postpone the Flight VA230 launch.
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MOU For SATCOM Services Signed Between Es'hailSat + Qatar Civil Aviation Authority Es’hailSat and QCAA also agreed to cooperate in joint investments in Earth Observation (EO) satellites...
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NATO Naval Comms Systems Completed By Hiltron Communications Ship to shore communication is a vital aspect of naval operation and is much easier to achieve using satellite links than traditional radio technology.
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NGA's GEOINT Will Continue To Receive MDA Support MDA’s sophisticated software identifies changes in land-cover that persist regardless of seasonal changes or weather effects.
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Marlink Unveils Global Sealink VSAT Via Smaller Ku-Band Antennas Sealink VSAT using 60 cm antennas introduces users to a true maritime broadband experience.
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Launch Is On For INTELSAT 31 Thursday... After Explanation Of ILS Proton Delay Cause The ground system was wrongly identified as the cause of today’s delay. The flight connector issue has been resolved and the vehicle cleared for flight. Full Story
Former CSA Executive To Head UN's Committee On The Peaceful Uses Of Outer Space Dr. Kendall has nearly 40 years of experience in the space sector.
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Phased-Array Beamforming Software Arrives From Keysight Technologies his kit provides system architects in SATCOM, 5G and Radar/EW with the essential tools to evaluate phased array and beamforming subsystems.
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Tracking Transported Goods Is Good Business, As Indicated In New ABI Research Report Sophisticated goods tracking technologies mitigate cargo theft...
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Satellite IoT — A Free, Informative Webinar Integrating higher-end satellite connectivity with cellular and other technologies is becoming far easier to accomplish.
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The TIA + IoT: Business Leaders Survey Available TIA concludes that IoT is set to become a mainstream enterprise element by 2019.
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Global Maritime Network Beefed Up By SpeedCast SpeedCast is now operating a global VSAT network with more than 90 satellite beams.
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First To Broadcast 4K Premium TV Content From beIN Sports For MENA Viewers Via Es'hailSat Hotspot Es’hailSat and beIN will be the first in the MENA region to transmit Live 4K sports to consumers via satellite.
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NOAA + AeroVironment Puma AE UAS Depended Upon Inmarsat SATCOM For Constant Connectivity Inmarsat’s SATCOM services served as the sole link to NOAA operations and their families.
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ESA's LISA Pathfinder's Mission Receives Raving Review + 'Exceeds Expectations' the two cubes at the heart of the spacecraft are falling freely through space under the influence of gravity alone, unperturbed by other external forces, to a precision more than five times better than originally required. Full Story
Inmarsat Provides PressReader's Remote Readers With An All-You-Can-Read Newspaper + Magazine Service
PressReader partners with Inmarsat to bring premium newspapers and magazines to some of the world’s most remote and inaccessible locations.
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Bayer Wants to Use Super-Powered Satellites to Improve Farming Bayer’s ultimate goals aren’t yet fully explained, as the news signals the start of a partnership that may eventually bear fruit via Bayer’s Digital Farming Initiative, but the company offered a couple of potential examples of what could come.
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June 7, 2016 Echostar XVIII + BRIsat Are Approved For Launch On June 8th This key milestone—held prior to each Arianespace mission—confirmed that the heavy-lift launcher and its dual-satellite payload are flight-ready.
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Space App Camp Now Open To Programmers To Deliver EO Data To A Broad Audience Based on the applications received, 20 of them will then be invited to participate in the free Space App Camp at ESA's ESRIN facility in Frascati (near Rome), Italy, from September 12 to 19, 2016.
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MRAMs From Cobham Are Board Bound In ExoMars The MRAMs are used by the Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD) instrument on the TGO.
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Lunar Payload Delivery Service In The Works With Astrobotic, DHL + Airbus Defence & Space This team will advance the technical maturity of the new “Peregrine” Lunar Lander towards the next big development milestone.
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Teledyne Defence Is Flexible... And Busy... For OneWeb As They Develop + Produce Flexible Channelizers For 900 Satellites Two flexible channelizers, also known as ‘converters’, will be required for each of the 900 small satellites that will be produced in the next few years by OneWeb.
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EMC's Big Gulp For The Gulf... As They Provide Seven GulfMark Vessels With VSAT Services
EMC has taken orders to supply VSAT equipment and services for seven platform supply vessels in the North Sea...
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SEANET Heads To JUPITER™ For Extending Internet Access Across Myanmar's Challenging Geographical Regions “There is a large pool of pent-up demand for Internet service in Myanmar’s business community”... Full Story
June 6, 2016 Maritime Satellite Market Is The Latest, Upcoming Report + Analysis From NSR Readers can navigate through the trends, drivers, and restraints shaping the maritime industry.
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Moving On Up... Inmarsat Appoints Sharma To Lead Indian Operations Mr. Sharma believes there is huge potential for Inmarsat and its services to support economic and social development.
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Sealink Connectivity With Marlink Renewed By CMA CMG + Palantir Network Management The contract is part of the recent renewal of CMA CGM’s Sealink connectivity services.
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SES Hybrid Bond Financing Is Priced This transaction is of strategic and long-term importance for SES and complements the recent equity raise which generated gross proceeds of 908.8 million.xxxx
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International Launch Services To Drive The Intelsat 31 Satellite To Orbit The Proton M launch vehicle will lift off from Pad 24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Multi-Year Contract Signed Between SES Platform Services + Fox Networks Group SES Platform Services already provided playout services for two channels—Fox and Nat Geo people—and extended the existing contract with FNG Germany.
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Russian Rokot Launch Vehicle Sends Defense Satellite To Orbit Rokot is a space launch vehicle capable of delivering light and medium payloads to orbit.
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EUMETSAT's Sentinel-3A Data Now Destined For Expert Users The Level 1B products are made available with global coverage and as datasets over selected geographical regions as required for the validation activities.
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Three Top Drawer Subcontractors Selected By OneWeb Satellites For Equipment Necessities The supply contracts have been signed with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) from Canada, Sodern from France and Teledyne Defence (a business unit of Teledyne Microwave Solutions) from the United Kingdom.
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American Airlines Selects ViaSat For Max 'At Home' Internet Experience On 737 MAX Fleet The service encourages higher passenger engagement per plane by offering an 'at home' Internet experience when in-flight...
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Extreme + Remote Polar Region Comms Supplied By Inmarsat For Heard Island Project The Heard Island Project’s goal is to bring technology to solve the challenges of projects that are of worldwide need and interest.
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A New Suite Of Global Marine VSAT Services Enters The Market From EMC EMC’s patented SpeedNet technology solves the age-old problem of latency in web access at sea.
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US Air Force Space Situational Awareness Contract Awarded To Orbit Logic Orbit Logic is teamed with the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Texas at Austin for this effort.
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idDAS From Cobham Breaks Out For Public Safety Use Expanding this usage to public safety provides further cost-savings and opens up the possibility of reserving high-capacity bandwidth for emergency service use.
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Less Than 24 Months Were Required For Airbus Defence & Space To Build PerúSAT-1 PerúSAT-1 was ordered by the Peruvian government for the country's national space agency, CONIDA, in 2014.
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Empowering The SELFSAT Flat Satellite Antenna Is MaxLinear's MxL862 FSC dCSS SoC he MxL862 is part of the MxL86x family of dCSS SoCs and features two FSC wideband RF inputs with a single L-band IF output.
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QVC Signs Capacity Renewal With SES QVC has signed a capacity extension to deliver a major portion of their regional 24/7 shopping shows and exclusive product showcase lineup via the SES-3 satellite
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Zetta Jet Is A 'Betta' Jet ...With The Addition Of ViaSat's In-Flight Internet's 'Best In Service' "In fact, we've seen record usage on ViaSat's network with over 40 GB consumed on one business jet in one month."
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American Airlines 737 MAX Fleet Soon To Be Maxed Out With ViaSat's 'At Home' Internet Experience The service encourages higher passenger engagement per plane by offering an 'at home' Internet experience when in-flight—with the ability to stream ...
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Thuraya + Satlink Step Up And Walk On... Walk On Project For Neurodegenerative Diseases To date, the Walk On Project Foundation has donated over €260,000 to research on neurodegenerative diseases.
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Signalhorn Sends Signals For Welthungerhilfe's... Communication Services To Aid Against Hunger + Poverty Across Africa The project will start with a number of sites in The Democratic Republic of the Congo, followed by a roll-out of further sites in more countries across Africa.
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June 3, 2016 Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... Apax Partners Brings Marlink Into Their Company Harbor Marlink’s maritime and land commercial SATCOM business is present in 14 countries.
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Seven Mixing Consoles From Lawo Being Supplied To Sky Germany's Satellite News Gathering Efforts The Lawo consoles are identically configured with 16 faders, 192 DSP channels and a routing capacity of 512 x 512 crosspoints.
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Final Russian Decision Regarding Delayed Soyuz MS Run Date To ISS Expected To Be Made On June 6th The government commission of the state-run corporation Roscosmos may make a final decision regarding the date of launching the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS to the International Space Station on Monday, June 6.
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ND SatCom Now Has A SKYWAN Partnership Cooking With Red Sun Synthesis This cooperation is based on ND SatCom’s flagship technology, the SKYWAN satellite modem product family.
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Three Year Warranty On AtlanTecRF Products Now In Effect The three year warranty came into effect on June 2nd and is subject to the company’s standard terms and conditions.
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Panel To Be Hosted By The HPA @ The Small Payload Rideshare Symposium "Hosted Payloads: The Other Access to Space," will include an overview of the American Space Renaissance Act (ASRA).
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RUAG Space Is Fairing Well For The Upcoming Ariane 6 Launch Vehicle RUAG has signed a contract providing for the development of a new payload fairing.
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NOAA's Jason-3 Satellite Ready For The Hurricane Season During this year’s hurricane season, Jason-3, and its predecessor, Jason-2, will provide NOAA with twice the amount of satellite data.
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June 2, 2016 Globalstar's SPOT Gen3 Rescues 22 People + Survives Camels, Extreme Heat And Death At Marathon Des Sables At one point the team was coordinating the simultaneous rescue of six separate competitors. All race marshals carried the devices... attached to security vehicles, medical vehicles, helicopters and even a camel.
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Automotive Antennas From Kymeta Receive New Product Innovation Award From Frost & Sullivan The award arrives in the middle of an exciting year for both Kymeta and the connected car industry.
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On Board Fire Fighting Comms From Cobham SATCOM The SAILOR 3965 UHF Fire Fighter portable radio is based on Cobham SATCOM’s series of SAILOR portable work.
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On The Show Floor... Thuraya Brings Their Military Defense Products To Kazakhstan Defense Expo Visitors to the exhibition from June 2 to 5 can engage with senior leaders from both companies, who will answer questions on a robust and high-tech defense portfolio that includes Thuraya’s IP Commander broadband terminal.
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Keysight Technologies Lets It Flow... Gen 3 Improves Data Streaming... Doubles System Bandwidth Doubling the system bandwidth, the new products improve data streaming for capture/playback applications, such as 5G and electronic warfare.
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Airbus Defence and Space's PILOT To Ensure Smooth Descent Of Luna-Resource Spacecraft On The Moon
“PILOT puts ESA at the heart of the next phase of lunar exploration and will guide European technology to the surface of the Moon for the first time.
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Airbus Defence and Space + ESA's Giant Project...Bartolomeo...A Commercial Payload Platform For The ISS The Bartolomeo all-in-one payload mission service is aimed at customers from areas including Earth observation, technology demonstrators, astro- and heliophysics, material science and new space flight applications.
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June 1, 2016 Newtec Dialog® To Play A Powerful Enterprise Services Role In Myanmar Newtec will supply Com & Com in Myanmar with a highly scalable 4IF Newtec Dialog Hub and hundreds of Newtec MDM2200 and MDM3100 Satellite Modems.
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Satellite Channels Stacking IC From MaxLinear To Support Global Invacom's Gateway Receiver Architecture Global Invacom selected MaxLinear’s EN5520 digital channel stacking switch (dCSS) IC for use in their FibreIRS system.
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On The Show Floor... AST Brings Portal Power To CommunicAsia2016 The new My AST Portal gives the customer the ability to create their own sub-accounts with access authorization controls.
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Flight VA230 Is Now Integrated + Ready For Final Checkout By Arianespace Both satellite passengers—EchoStar XVIII and BRIsat—have been installed on the heavy-lift vehicle.
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RSCC Verifies A VYPER Is The Cure...TeamCast’s VYPER Satellite Modulators To Rejuvenate Space Communication Center ...it offers the flexibility and the performance-over-cost ratio ... Furthermore, it can easily be managed from their remote network control center...
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VSAT Network Services In Myanmar For SEANET Will Be Via AsiaSat 7 SEANET will be one of Myanmar’s pioneering operators offering broadband data services on an AsiaSat satellite.
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A Hot Time For Orbital ATK's Antares Rocket's First Stage Propulsion System Initial indications are that the test was fully successful.
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On The Show Floor... SES Platform Services To Demo Products @ ANGA COM Visitors to the booth will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on testing of demo versions of the products and hear about the latest, added functionalities.
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Moving On Up... Picket Named As RigNet's New CEO + President He will be based in Houston and succeeds Marty Jimmerson, who served as the interim CEO and President.
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Space Foundation To Honor Colorado Space Heroes Anyone may submit a nomination for a Colorado "space hero" whose personal or professional contributions in space span a decade or more, and have lived or worked in Colorado.
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Moving On Up... Stier Named As ILS Senior Director Of Sales Stier is responsible for leading the sales and business development activities of Proton and Angara launch services for customers in the Americas region.
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Smallsats Study To To Be Embarked Upon By Tyvak International SRL For ISS Inspection + Support Tyvak International will serve as the prime contractor for the “Multi-Purpose CubeSat at International Space Station (ISS)” study.
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SES-9 Is Ready To Serve + Capacity For Studiotech Poland The new spacecraft will provide significant expansion capacity to serve the fast-growing video and mobility sectors across Northeast Asia, South Asia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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SpaceDataHighway Is Driving Home Its First Image...Enroute To Providing High Speed Laser Transmissions the SpaceDataHighway will be able to transfer high-volume information from Earth observation satellites, UAVs and surveillance aircraft, or even from a space station such as the ISS.
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Harris Completes Major Project Ahead Of Schedule... Enables Space-Based Global Air Traffic Surveillance Service The 81 ADS-B payloads were completed ahead of schedule and represent the largest implementation of a hosted payload solution ever achieved. Full Story
DARPA Seeks The Ultimate In Making Satellite House Calls A Reality The concept of servicing satellites in space has been studied and talked about for decades... But now with government funding, the concept is moving closer to reality...
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OneWeb Satellites + Airbus Defense and Space Forge Ahead Selecting Three Subcontractors To Supply 900 Satellites The space segment of OneWeb will initially comprise a constellation of 648 operational satellites and replacement satellites, all of which will be identical.
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KTsat Partners With SpeedCast To Provide A Global Broadband Service To 150 vessels “We are delighted to see the growth of ourpartnership with KTsat, servicing Korean shipping customers."
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