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April 30, 2010 Thales Alenia Space... Robotic Results Rock.. Thales Alenia Space has delivered the Eurobot Ground Prototype (EGP) to the European Space Agency (ESA), following successful testing and qualification.
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April 29, 2010 NASA... A Magnetic Move To November For Endeavour NASA has pushed to November the launch of one of its three remaining shuttle missions to modify an experiment module to be attached to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Space Program Now Hampered, Says Hall-Of-Fame Astronaut Story Musgrave... In a feature published on mlive.com, written by Jef Rietsma, the feature opens with "An old photo of a shirtless, diapered boy examining an insect seemed an unlikely visual to begin a speech by a NASA veteran with Hall-of-Fame credentials.
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Vizada... Training Tantamount To Success Vizada Networks has introduced its redeveloped Global Field Support Program (GFSP).
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Iridium... Super Pro Advice... Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has established a Government Advisory Board comprised of former senior U.S. government officials and business leaders.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... RADARSAT Views Oil Spoil An oil platform located 70 km from the coast of Louisiana sank on Thursday, April 22, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, spilling oil into the sea.
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Orbital Sciences... In A Supporting Role Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for a spacecraft and airborne system support services contract valued at approximately $95 million over a five-year
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Intersputnik Gets Its Annual Physical — Vitals Of Operations Recorded On April 27-28, 2010, Hoi An, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, hosted the joint XXXVIII session of the Board and 11th meeting of the Operations Committee.
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Integral Systems... Much Ado About Monitoring Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation has received a seven year contract to provide continued support to SKY Perfect JSAT's existing Monics CSM and satID Geolocation systems.
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Kongsberg Seatex Prevents Ships From Going 'Bump In The Night' The Norwegian satellite, AISSat-1 will be launched from India on 9 May.
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ISU And AIAA Bonding And Building Better Business The International Space University (ISU) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) have taken steps to work together, recognizing a mutual strategic interest in furthering educational opportunities with an international dimension, enhancing the health of the future aerospace workforce.
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April 28, 2010 Ericsson... Turning Tata Sky Onto Upgrades (SatBroadcasting™) Ericsson has equipped Tata Sky, the Indian DTH operator, with a head-end upgrade that enables it to launch HD channels and also increase its SD channel offering.
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Sky Vision... VPN Service Settles Into Kenya SkyVision Global Networks LLC has launched their new local hub in Nairobi, Kenya, to support the Company’s virtual private network (VPN) solution.
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Mum's The Word — Russia's Defense Kosmos 3M Launch A Kosmos 3M rocket launched from northern Russia overnight to place a military navigation satellite in orbit more than 600 miles [965 km] above Earth.
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Newtec And Raytheon Warm Up In Antarctica To Tackle Climate Change Newtec announces today that Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems selected Newtec to provide Newtec’s Elevation EL470 DVB-S2 IP modems with FlexACM licenses for Raytheon’s satellite communication system upgrade for McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
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In Memory Of . . . Satnews has learned of the death of William R. Schmidt, XTAR Vice President of Government Services.
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Harris... Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) reported GAAP income from continuing operations for the third quarter of fiscal 2010 of $166 million, or $1.27 per diluted share, compared with $136 million, or $1.02 per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter.
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ManSat... Moving On Up... ManSat has appointed Anthony Hewitt as a director of the company.
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NASA... MCDR Is Now A Successful Footnote For Webb NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review, or MCDR.
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Integral Systems + Sophia Wireless... Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) has acquired privately held Sophia Wireless, Inc.
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Swedish Microwave... Sweet Spot With X-band Swedish Microwave AB, a manufacturer of Low Noise Blockdownconverters (LNB), has debuted new X-Band products, starting with PLL LNB's.
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SES ASTRA + Samsung... A Three Dimensional Partnership... SES ASTRA and Samsung have joined forces to promote 3DTV.
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Thrane & Thrane... AeroSB Turns Into AVIATOR The Thrane & Thrane ‘Aero SB’ products will now be known as ‘AVIATOR’, a brand name destined to be synonymous with the power of Inmarsat SwiftBroadband and at the leading-edge of SwiftBroadband terminal technology for business and commercial aircraft communication.
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Harbinger Capital Partners... Moving On Up... Harbinger Capital Partners has announced a partnership with telecommunications visionary Sanjiv Ahuja and he has also been selected as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's new, nationwide 4G-LTE wireless broadband company.
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Hughes + Avanti... Footprint Friendship Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has an $18 million, multi- year agreement to supply Avanti Communications Group, plc with advanced Ka- band networking infrastructure for Avanti's HYLAS 2 satellite, building on the initial $24 million contract to supply Ka-band technology for HYLAS 1 signed last October
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April 27, 2010 Philadelphia Int'l Airport... NexGen Controlling Aircraft The planned $22 billion upgrade of the nation’s airways that is expected to make a significant contribution to southern New Jersey’s economy is testing one of its core technologies just 60 miles away.
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CapRock Is Robust — DATS All Right With The DoD's DISN CapRock Government Solutions announced to Satnews today the expansion of their robust satellite and terrestrial infrastructure to include bandwidth-on-demand to more than 35 major Department of Defense locations, and direct connections at 24 critical Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) access points.
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Orbital Sciences + USAF... Make Way For Minotaur IV Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has successfully launched the first Minotaur IV rocket in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) program.
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GE - Satellite... Unique UAV Science Support... GE - Satellite has been selected by NASA to provide Ku-band satellite connectivity for its ground breaking science mission to study atmospheric and environmental conditions across in the Pacific via Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).</font
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World Teleport Association... Moving On Up... The World Teleport Association (WTA) announced the results of elections for its Board of Directors for the fiscal year that began April 1, 2010.
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Astrium... Helios Has It All Happening... The in-flight acceptance of the Helios IIB satellite has been successfully completed by Astrium on behalf of the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) and under delegation from the French space agency, CNES.
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C-COM... Financially Speaking... C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) has announced financial results for its first quarter ending February 28, 2010.
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Avanti Communications... Marvelous MHz Monetary Moment... Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN) has signed a contract with a Government customer for the sale of an option over specific capacity on the HYLAS 2 satellite, which serves the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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Thuraya And Al Farhan Go Vertical And Thuraya Gets Tough Thuraya is always on the go with new and innovative partnerships, and so to further develop their growth in key vertical markets across Saudi Arabia, Thuraya is aggressively expanding its commercial activities within the oil and gas, government and other sectors in partnership with its National Service Provider, Farhan Commercial Company (FCC).
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Blue Sky Network... Priority—Peruvian Air Force Blue Sky Network has announced the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) will be using the Company’s GPS-based aviation tracking devices for its search and rescue (SAR) operations.
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European Space Agency... Planck Photo Permeations New images from ESA's Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in our Galaxy.
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Iran... Satellite Say-So Telecommunication Minister Reza Taghipour said on Monday Iran will launch new satellites capable of transmitting data and images by March next year, according to Iranian official media.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Impresive Infrared Input (NOAA) GOES-15, the final spacecraft in the latest series of NOAA geostationary satellites, took its first infrared image of Earth on April 26th.
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JAXA... Space Sailing... Japan is to launch a "space yacht" propelled by solar particles that bounce off its kite-shaped sails, the country's space agency said on Tuesday.
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Intelsat... Down Under UHF Understanding... Intelsat S.A. has expanded its April 2009 agreement for UHF hosted payload services with the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
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Harris... Falcons To Be Fielded By DoD Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a $20 million order from the U.S. Department of Defense for Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio systems, accessory kits and other tactical communications products.
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EADS Commemorates A Decade — Website Gets A Facelift Ten years after the company’s debut on the stock exchanges in France, Germany and Spain, the EADS Internet platform at has been given a new layout, new functions and a new navigation.
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April 26, 2010 ILS + SES WORLD SKIES... The Proton Push For SES-1 International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the SES-1 satellite directly into geostationary orbit yesterday (Saturday, April 24th) on an ILS Proton for SES WORLD SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG).
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Alteran... Post NAB — The Newbies... (digiGO!™ Broadcasting) Alteran Technologies debuted their highly integrated ViTaDi product suite that offers a cost-effective digital migration solution at NAB 2010.
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Orbital Sciences... Financially Speaking... Orbital Sciences Corporation's (NYSE: ORB) Board of Directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock over a 12-month period.
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NASA... Hubble's 20th... Space shuttle Discovery roared into orbit April 24, 1990, with a most precious cargo, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Harris + ViaSat... Link 16 Beefed Up With MIDS Follow-Ons Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a two-year, $18 million follow-on contract from ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) for additional hardware to be integrated into Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) terminals.
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RSCC... Make That 45 Years Of Molniya-1 SATCOM... In 1961, the Korolev prototype design bureau started research & development of the satellite Molniya-1, which had to transmit one TV program and to provide multi-channel telegraphic and telephonic communications.
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RSCC... EXPRESS'ing Interest In DTH (SatBroadcasting™) Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC), the national satellite communications operator of Russia, is going to develop DTH satellites Express-AT1 and Express-AT2.
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Zero Creative... Pumping 2D Into 3D (digiGO!™ Broadcasting) Last year, 3D media company Zero Creative launched its 2D to 3D conversion service for autostereoscopic 3D Displays (glasses free), such as its own xyZ 3D Display.
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Newtec... A 25-Year Success Story Newtec is celebrating its 25th anniversary this May and says “thank-you” to its customers, industry partners, and employees all over the world.
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Integral Systems | RT Logic... Its Fairbanks To Say A Wallop Of An Installation... Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ISYS) has announced that RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary, has completed delivery, integration, and testing of 42 Telemetrix 400XR (T400XR) Radio Frequency (RF) Modulator/Receiver systems for the Multi-Mission L&S Band Receiver (ML & SBR) project for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Gilat... Kazakhstan Hubs It With SkyEdge II Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) is providing a SkyEdge II broadband satellite communications network to its long-standing customer ASTEL, a leading telecommunications operator in Kazakhastan.
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ProTECTS Alliance... Two-Way All The Way... The ProTECTS Alliance (Promotion of Two-way Emergency Communication and Tracking Systems) is gaining momentum in its efforts to drive the two-way satellite tracking and messaging technologies.
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Thuraya... 20K Is The Expectation... Thuraya has now sold around 8,000 Thuraya XT units since the start of 2010 and expects to sell a total of 20,000 units by the end of the year.
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U.S.A.F... ULA Has AEHF-3 Propulsion Package Promised The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center recently awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-3 (AEHF-3) satellite aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.
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International Datacasting... Financially Speaking... International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) has reported announced its financial results for the three- and 12-month periods ended January 31, 2010.
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Intellian... It's All A Matter Of Eutelsat Characterization Intellian Technologies has completed the characterization of Eutelsat on its 60cm maritime satellite VSAT antenna system.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Sick Slick... A newly released NASA satellite image reveals oil leaking from the BP oil rig that sank after it exploded April 20, 2010.
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ESRI... Greater GIS Envelopes EUSC The European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC) recently signed a multiyear enterprise license agreement (ELA) with ESRI Espana, giving the agency greater access to the latest geographic information system (GIS) technology, training, and consulting services.
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European Space Agency... Funds Find AlphaSat Europe will launch an innovative telecoms satellite in 2012 with as much as 225 million euro ( GBP 195 million ) in backing from the EU's Risk-sharing Finance Facility ( RSFF ), created by the European Commission and European Investment Bank.
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April 25, 2010 Orbital Sciences... SES-1 Gains The Heavens Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has announced the SES-1satellite, built by the company for SES WORLD SKIES, was successfully launched into orbit aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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April 23, 2010 Cobham... Regally Speaking... Two Cobham businesses have been honored in the 2010 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the categories of International Trade and Innovation.
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NASA... Performance Period Extension NASA has exercised an option to extend the period of performance of the contract with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for the Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Center located at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
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Iridium... OpenPort Opened Up In Japan Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has extended its relationship with KDDI Corporation by making it an authorized service provider for the Iridium OpenPort high-bandwidth maritime satellite communication service in Japan.
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Intelsat... Financially Speaking... Intelsat S.A. (formerly Intelsat, Ltd.) has received the requisite consents to amend certain terms of the indenture governing its 7? percent Senior Notes due 2012 (CUSIP No. 45820EAB8) (the “2012 notes”) and its 6? percent Senior Notes due 2013 (CUSIP No. 45820EAH5) (the “2013 notes” and together with the 2012 notes, the “notes”).
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Harris... HD Has Its Way In Germany (SatBroadcasting™) Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) is providing its NEXIO AMP(r) advanced media platform to German national public television broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) to support the HD migration and centralization of ZDF's playout center in Mainz.
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Raytheon... Financially Speaking... Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) announced first quarter 2010 income from continuing operations attributable to Raytheon of $453 million or $1.18 per diluted share, compared to $449 million or $1.11 per diluted share in the first quarter 2009.
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SES ASTRA... FTA 3DTV ASAP (SatBroadcasting™) SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), will launch the 3D demo channel on ASTRA.
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NASA... Minus Methane, + Spitzer Take Note NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet — it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system.</font
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ULA — Successful Launch — Takes US Military Secret To New Heights United Launch Alliance successfully launched the U.S. military's X-37B, a prototype space plane also called the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) from the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air force Station, Florida.
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Arqiva... Lamb Ho!... (SatBroadcasting™) The BBC’s latest adventure into live natural history programming, Lambing Live, billed by some as ‘EweTube’, has been one of the surprise hits of the year so far, attracting more 2 million viewers in the UK on its opening night.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Tibetan Transcendental Treat (NASA) This other worldly landscape is actually Dagze Co, one of many inland lakes in Tibet.
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MTN Satellite Communications... A New Santander Solution MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has opened a new European satellite teleport in Santander, Spain.
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Stratos Global... More Than A Desert Dash Stratos Global Corporation is providing world-renowned adventurer Ray Zahab's "Running Tunisia" expedition with Inmarsat BGANmobile broadband satellite service.
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BT Takes Its Toll On The Troll In Antarctica The Satnews staff shivered just reading this news announcement from BT, which announced today the completion of its first satellite terminal in Antarctica, at one of the world’s coldest, driest, and windiest locations.
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April 21, 2010 Mars Society... Bummed With Obama Robert Zubrin, President of the Mars Society, continues to speak out against the President’s budget proposal for NASA in an article simply titled Obama’s Failure to Launch.
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CapRock Communications... An Entertaining Debut CapRock Communications has launched their latest value-added service offering, Crew Infotainment.
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Barcelona Moon Team... Pursuing The Prize The Barcelona Moon Team, a multidisciplinary joint venture bringing together Spanish entrepreneurial, industrial and academic expertise, announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE — a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks.
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Global Satellite Engineering... Expense Examination Employment Global Satellite Engineering (GSE) now has a partnership with the Ocens data services.
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Inmarsat... Funding Facilitated... Inmarsat plc (LSE: ISAT) has completed an 8-year facility agreement from the European Investment Bank ("EIB") to fund the build and launch of the Alphasat satellite.
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KVH Industries + ViaSat... The Broadband Blend For Maritime... KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has now doubled their mini-VSAT Broadband(tm) network's bandwidth in the North Pacific Ocean Region.
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Gateway Communications... Senegal Succcess, Guinea Gains Gateway Communications has further increased its presence in West Africa, having signed two deals in Guinea, expanding its work with Intercel, and agreeing an exciting new contract with ETI SA.
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Expand Networks... SATCOM For Scripps Expand Networks' advanced WAN Optimization technology is supporting satellite communication services for one of the world’s most important centers for global science research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego.
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NASA... Spacecraft's Solar Sense NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun's dynamic processes.
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ARINC's GLOBALink Links Asia Pacific Carriers To Improved Service ARINC Incorporated today announced that three major Asia Pacific carriers have selected the company’s GLOBALinkSM data link services for airline communications and flight operations.
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Boeing Financially $peaking — First-Quarter 2010 The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) reported first-quarter net income of $0.5 billion, or $0.70 per share, and revenue of $15.2 billion.
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April 20, 2010 CASBAA... Member + Event Adds... CASBAA is now the recipient of further membership growth, welcoming four new CASBAA Corporate Members for 2010, in addition to four new signings announced in February.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Chinese Catastrophe Captured Google released satellite imagery on Monday of the devastation from last week's earthquake which killed more than 2,000 people in northwest China.
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GMV... Growing Gains In Germany GMV has continued its plans of international expansion by opening a subsidiary in Darmstadt, Germany.
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ND SatCom... Welcome To A New Web World... ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, launched its new website at www.ndsatcom.com</a>.
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GeoEye... Mod For NGA Imagery Services... GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY) has signed a modification to a contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide web mapping services under the NGA's Rapid Delivery of Online GEOINT (RDOG) program.
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Integral Systems... Major Move For FSOF Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ISYS) has entered into an agreement with Aleut Communications Services to relocate the operational satellite ground system equipment of National Oceanic and
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Juniper Networks... Financially Speaking... Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) has reported preliminary financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2010.
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ARINC Inc... Cathay Pacific Checking Out EFB ARINC Incorporated has announced its long-time customer Cathay Pacific Airways has received approval to use the ARINC AeroConnx(tm) Electronic Flight Bag solution and has initiated operational evaluation.
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Arabsat... A Winner In South Africa... Through its active participation in the SATCOM 2010 exhibition and conference Johannesburg, South Africa, the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) has won the SATCOM Stars Award for best satellite communications service provider in 2010.
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Orbital Sciences... Financially Speaking... Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) financial results for the first quarter of 2010 have been released.
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Vintage Studio... Beaming Brightly On AsiaSat-5 (SatBroadcasting™) Ayur Living India, a new infotainment channel from India, has commenced free to air distribution on AsiaSat 5.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Plume Perceptions (NASA) NASA's Terra satellite flew directly over Iceland on April 19, 2010, allowing its Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument to capture a series of images of the Eyjafjallaj?kull volcano and its erupting ash plume.
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Lockheed Martin... Obtaining USMC's Uniform Support Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide equipment support, inventory management and fielding team support to the U.S. Marine Corps System Command, through a new task order with initial funding of approximately $10M.
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United Kingdom... Satellites Nab Speeders... New high-tech speed cameras that use satellites to help track speeders are being secretly tested in Britain, according to various media reports published on Tuesday.
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April 19, 2010 U.S.A.F. — Minotaur Makes Its Move... The first launch of the Minotaur IV Space Launch Vehicle is scheduled to occur Tuesday, April 20th, at noon PDT, from Vandenberg AFB, California.
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Rohde & Schwarz... The Intrigue Of 3DTV Implementation (digiGO!™) Viewers will soon be able to enjoy 3D entertainment not only in movie theaters but also at home, as new TV sets and set-top boxes (STBs) that make it possible to reproduce images in 3D are being developed.
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Avanti Communications... HYLAS Has Its Launch Act Together... Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN), the broadband satellite operator, has informed one and all that Arianespace and its subcontractors have confirmed the Soyuz launch for HYLAS 1 remains on target for launch by September 2010.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Eyjafjallajökull's Exhaust Ejections (NASA) On Saturday, April 17, 2010, the Hyperion instrument onboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft obtained this pair of images of the continuing eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallaj?kull volcano.
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ISRO... Pico Push With Friends Aboard After the failure of the GSLV-D3 launch last week, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday morning initiated the Cartosat 2B high resolution satellite's journey to Sriharikota.
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Smartmatic... VSAT To Handle Philippine Vote Count Smartmatic-TIM, the contractor for the May 10 automated elections in the Philippines, has started setting up satellite equipment in Negros Occidental for the rapid transmission of results.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: European Ash Attack Thanks To Icelandic Volcano (ESA) Thousands of planes have been grounded across Europe due to the spread of volcanic ash following the recent eruption under Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull glacier.
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Thales U.K.... This Watchkeeper Is Not A Timepiece Watchkeeper, the newest unmanned aircraft to join the ranks of the British Army, performed its first flight in the U.K. on April 14, 2010, at Parc Aberporth in West Wales.
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U.S. Congress... SatLicensing Extension Reveals — Yet Again — Congress' Inability To Actually Make A Decision... Congress last Thursday extended the satellite license yet again, this time to May 31st, which allows operators to deliver distant network TV signals.
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Russian Military Launch — Smile — I Spy A Soyuz rocket launched a Russian military payload Friday on a secret mission, but observers believe the satellite carries a high-resolution camera to spy on other countries.
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Iridium... A Good QUAKE Event... Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) and Quake Global, Inc. (QUAKE(TM)) are expanding on their value-added manufacturing agreement.
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Telenor + Arqiva... Bagging More For Thor 5 Telenor, the Norwegian owner and operator of the Thor satellites at 1 degree West, has renewed its contract with Arqiva for the uplinking of three digital multiplexes onto its Thor 5 satellite.
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International Launch Services... SES-1 To Sunder The Skies On April 24th... SES-1 is the 26th satellite in the SES WORLD SKIES fleet, which is part of the 42 spacecraft constellation of parent company SES.
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Teracue AG... Gateway Gatherer (SatBroadcasting™) The new DMM series from Teracue AG was developed for compact and cost-effective DVB-IPTV networking of radio and TV programs.
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SES ASTRA... Three Transponder Triumph SES ASTRA has signed a capacity agreement with South African pay-TV operator On Digital Media (ODM) for three transponders on its ASTRA 4A satellite, and has also contracted to provide the related broadcasting services via its affiliate ASTRA Platform Services.
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Lockheed Martin... Full GPS IIIA Ahead... Of Schedule... The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team developing the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, known as GPS III, continues to maintain schedule performance and meet or exceed key milestones in the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of the program.
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Ball Aerospace... From RF Immunity To Reduced Data Latency With GFO-2 The U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego, has selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for Geosat Follow-on 2 (GFO-2), the next generation ocean altimetry satellite.
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Vizada Gets Defensive During Asia-Pacific Exhibition Vizada unveiled its mobile satellite communications offering for Asia-Pacific military customers at the DSA (Defense Services Asia) trade show showcasing its mobile satellite communications services and solutions, designed to interoperate reliably with military networks around the world.
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April 16, 2010 PCI Geomatics... Rewarding GeoConference... PCI Geomatics has won the Geospatial Innovator Award from GeoTec Media for its GeoConference software solution, as publicized at the GeoTec Event in Toronto, Ontario.
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KVH Industries... More FOG Coming In... KVH has deubted their new CG-5100 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), a low drift, solid state, FOG-based commercial off the shelf (COTS) solution, well-suited for applications that might already have GPS, but need a full-function IMU capability.
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April 15, 2010 Agilent Technologies... Sequencing Superiority Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has announced the 81180A arbitrary waveform generator, a new generation of instrument that bridges the trade-off between bandwidth and bits.
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Juniper Networks... New Router Is Secure + Mobile... Juniper Networks(r) (NYSE: JNPR) announced the general availability of its new mobile secure router, the LN1000, the industry's first 8 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port, ruggedized blade router that provides radio router protocol support with hardware based queuing and an integrated intrusion detection and prevention system.
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National Space Symposium... Integral Systems: Transponder + Spacecraft Ops Verification With Space Network Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) announced at the 2010 National Space Symposium that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic, has successfully delivered its next generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) Cross Link Simulator (TSIM) to multiple civil government and commercial customers over the past year, with additional deliveries pending.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Infusion Of Icelandic Ash (EUMETSAT) EUMETSAT’s Meteosat-9 geostationary meteorological satellite observed the ash from the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
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RapidEye... The Swedish Connection RapidEye has entered into a contractual partnership agreement with Metria of G?vle, Sweden.
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Vizada... The Video SatView Vizada has launched a new video tool: SkyFile Video powered by ClipWay(r).
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Vizada... IsatPhonePro's Beta Beginnings... Vizada will, together with Inmarsat, launch a beta test program to validate full commercial readiness of the widely anticipated Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro.
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Alliant Techsystems... ORS-1 Ships To Goodrich Alliant Techsystems (NYSE:ATK) has shipped the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS) satellite bus to the Goodrich Corporation for payload integration after successfully completing environmental tests at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Maryland.
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COM DEV International + Routes AstroEngineering... Acquiring Minds Want To Know... COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has purchased substantially all of the assets of Routes AstroEngineering (“Routes”), a privately owned, Ottawa-based company specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced instruments for space science research applications.
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NOAA... GOES-13 Renamed And Heads East NOAA’s GOES-13 spacecraft has become the official GOES-EAST satellite, perched 22,300 miles above the equator in a prime location to spot potentially life-threatening weather affecting the eastern half of the nation, including tropical storm activity in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
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India... GSLV Goes Nowhere... It was a big moment for India — the launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
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Satnews Hosts Wine Party At NAB — Living Art Cheers! Satnews publisher, Silvano Payne is famous for his coveted wine parties and celebrates his own vintage at trade shows in which much sipping and networking takes place.
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April 14, 2010 Newtec — Knows When To "Say When" — When Will You? Newtec is launching an original campaign to promote and explain its exclusive DualFlow™ solution at NAB show in Las Vegas from 12th until 15th April 2010, booth SU2217.
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CPI... Power Pusher Communications & Power Industries (CPI) Satcom Division has introduced an enhanced version of its Ku-band High Power SSPB.
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NAB... Nagravision + SkyLife: 3DTV @ Home In South Korea (SatBroadcasting™) Nagravision, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company, and SkyLife, the sole DTH pay-TV service provider in Korea, are expanding their relationship to collaborate on 3D television (3DTV).
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PSSI + Ericsson... HD Sources Racing To RX1290 Decoder (SatBroadcasting™) NASCAR Media Group (NMG) provides multiple streams of HD content captured live at the races for viewing by its 75 million loyal fans throughout the world.
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NSR... The Demands For Hosted Payloads NSR has released its newest market survey and forecast report: Hosted Payloads on Commercial Satellites.
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Gilat... Gaming With VSATs In West Africa Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) it is providing a multi-million dollar broadband satellite communications network for a large gaming and lottery project in Africa.
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SAT Corporation... Know Your Spectrum SAT Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISYS), is now taking orders for its nexgen SAT-DSP instrument.
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Ericsson... Enhancing Egyptian Enterprise (SatBroadcasting™) Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has supplied Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) with a new contribution and distribution video headend solution to upgrade its network.
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Ericsson... Heads-Up Head-End Happening (SatBroadcasting™) Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has equipped Tata Sky, the Indian DTH operator, with a head-end upgrade that enables it to launch HD channels and also increase its SD channel offering.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... RapidEye: The Billionth RapidEye has now imaged one billion square kilometers of the surface of the Earth since becomin commercially operational on February 4, 2009.
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NAB... Harmonic: Video Asset Viability Venture (SatBroadcasting™) Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced the Rhozet(tm) Workflow System (WFS), a new task-based workflow engine for automated management of the video asset transformation process.
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NAB... Harmonic: Electra-fying SKY Brasil (SatBroadcasting™) Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) announced that SKY Brasil, Brazil’s largest HD pay-TV service provider in Latin America with approximately two million subscribers, has expanded its HDTV service based on Harmonic’s market-leading Electra(r) 8000 multi-channel universal encoder.
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Eutelsat... And In Dances 3DTV (SatBroadcasting™) Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) is teaming with Russia’s General Satellite Corporation and the Mariinsky Theatre for a satellite transmission on April 15th from St. Petersburg of an exceptional sequence of classical ballet performances by leading Russian dancers.
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Eutelsat... HD Has Eurobird Wings (SatBroadcasting™) The diverse range of HD channels broadcast by the EUROBIRD(tm) 9A satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) took a new step forward this week with the arrival of Sundance Channel HD and Mezzo Live HD.
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Lockheed Martin... AEHF Advances To Atlas Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has completed all factory testing of the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program and the spacecraft is ready for delivery to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for a mid-2010 liftoff aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle.
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India... GSLV Stands Ready For Launch India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) is ready for liftoff.
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April 13, 2010 NAB... Globecomm: Marches To A New Tempo With An Enterprising Debut Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has launched their Tempo(sm) Enterprise Media Platform, which is a hosted terrestrial service that provides enterprises with a single platform to deliver interactive training, employee communications, and digital display to global audiences.
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NASA + Chrysler... A RAM Charger To The Stars? Discovery To Become A Road Machine? A new agreement between NASA and Chrysler may put rocket science on the road and automotive technologies in space.
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Velocity Broadcasting + Global Vision... Idea Sharing (SatBroadcasting™) Pittsburgh-based VELOCITY Broadcasting(r), the largest global, private HD broadcasting network, now has a strategic partnership with Global Vision Networks, a provider of satellite-related services around the world.
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National Space Symposium... Goodrich: Celebrating 50 Years Of Spatial Involvement... Goodrich space products and capabilities will be on display on stand 614 at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from April 12-14, 2010.
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NAB... GlobeCast Goes 3D — Orange Company Expansion Has Others Turning Green With Envy GlobeCast has joined forces with NETIA once again to showcase the group’s integrated solutions across the whole broadcast chain with a shared stand (SU3502) at this year’s NAB.
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NAB... Comtech Xicom Technology Amps Up And Goes Tubular At NAB Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., announced new lightweight, high power, antenna-mount, traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) that expand the capabilities of broadcast and teleport operators.
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EchoStar + Pace Int'l... Content Coordination (SatBroadcasting™) EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C., a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), have announced that Minnesota-based Pace International, a national satellite TV hardware and content distributor and provider of IPTV solutions for telcos, ISPs and system operators, has joined the ViP-TV(tm) Reseller Program.
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SES WORLD SKIES... Collusions For Capacity... SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has signed a long-term, multi-transponder deal with Puerto Rico Telephone, a subsidiary of Am?rica M?vil, to deliver its CLARO TV premium DTH television offering to homes across Puerto Rico.
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NAB... Microspace Delivers To MegaSpaces Ensuring MaxiCoverage Microspace Communications a major provider of enterprise content delivery solutions of video, data and audio is a strong presence at NAB 2010.
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Skyware Global... Venezuelan VSAT Victory Skyware Global has been awarded a contract by Advantech Wireless Broadband to design and supply antennas for its recent multimillion dollar contract win to provide a new VSAT satellite communications network to the Venezuelan national telecommunications service provider, CANTV.
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Iridium... Moving On Up... Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has appointed S. Scott Smith to the role of executive vice president for Iridium NEXT, the company's next generation satellite constellation program.
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GlobeCast + FRANCE 24... New Accord To Expand English Language Channel (SatBroadcasting™) International news broadcaster FRANCE 24 has signed a three-year deal with GlobeCast to expand coverage of its English-language channel in the United States and Canada, using the Galaxy 23 satellite.
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National Space Symposium... Integral Systems: Enterprising SSA Solutions Integral Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: ISYS) wholly-owned subsidiary RT Logic will demo its SATOPS Enterprise architecture during the 26th National Space Symposium (NSS).
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National Space Symposium... RT Logic: SATCOM Signal Solidarity Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISYS) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic, has more than doubled the bandwidth of its real-time T400CS Channel Simulator from 40 MHz to 85 MHz.
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PCI Geomatics... Tool Works For GIS PCI Geomatics has released GeoImaging Tools for ArcGIS(tm).
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NASA Partners With Hawaii — Hula In Space? NASA and the State of Hawaii agreed to collaborate in a variety of activities involving small satellite development, advanced aviation, space exploration, education and science.
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DigitalGlobe + Raytheon... Collection Call DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has contracted with Raytheon Company to provide an enhanced constellation collection management system.
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Gilat... Giving ETC An Edge In Ethopia Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) is providing a broadband satellite communications network to Ethiopian Telecommunication Corp. (ETC), Ethiopia's national telecom operator.
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April 12, 2010 Miranda Technologies Creates An Epic 3D/2D Experience (SatBroadcasting™) Miranda Technologies announced that All Mobile Video’s new Stereoscopic 3D production truck, “Epic”, has been equipped with eight Kaleido-X16 and two Kaleido-X multi-viewers for Stereoscopic 3D monitoring.
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NAB... Zaxcom... Audio Loss? No Way... (SatBroadcasting™) Zaxcom has a new addition to its line of wireless digital audio transceivers, the TRX900LT.
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RRsat Global Communications Says 'iCan' To Asian iConcerts RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. [NASDAQ: RRST], announced that it has signed a new agreement to distribute the iConcerts HD channel on the Measat-3A satellite to Asia.
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ND SatCom... Company Is Truly XWARP'd ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, is on the short list for the Citrix Innovation Award 2010 with its satellite-based IT solution XWARP™.
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NAB... Net Insight: Cup Collusion (SatBroadcasting™) Net Insight has been selected by nine global media operators and major rights holder, including ESPN, to deliver live HD and 3D broadcasts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, when upgrading their networks with the Nimbra platform to deliver live video coverage and data services at 100 percent QoS to the 1.5 billion viewers expected to tune-in across the globe.
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NAB... Intelsat: Major Network Debut Intelsat S.A. has debuted its new terrestrial network, IntelsatONE, which replaces the Company's GlobalConnex(sm) network.
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Intelsat... A New Day For Intelsat 25 — New Dawn Comes Later... Intelsat 25 has now entered service and has expanded the Company's African satellite infrastructure, delivering fully integrated transmission solutions for customers in this region of the world.
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NAB... SENCORE... Multistream Mod Makes Entry (SatBroadcasting™) SENCORE has debuted their new SMD 989 DVB-S2 Modulator, a highly cost-effective device supporting multistream DVB-S2 modulation for video and audio broadcast delivery via satellite.
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NAB... SENCORE: Boosting Video Services Distribution (SatBroadcasting™) SENCORE has introduced a new line of cost-effective receiver/decoders designed for the distribution of video services in any network with a targeted application in mind.
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ISPCS... The Thrill Of It All... The goal of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight is to bring people together to help grow the industry.
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NAB... Marshall Communications: FMV Insights For The Military and More... Sonny Marshall, President & CEO of Marshall Communications Corporation (MARSHALL), will be speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Military & Government Summit (“Trends in Mission Critical Video & Data”), scheduled to take place April 13-15, 2010 in the Las Vegas, Nevada.</font
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NAB... Volicon: Gotta Love That Logging (SatBroadcasting™) Volicon has made available their Volicon Observer(r) Professional, the newest member of the company's award-winning Observer family of broadcast monitoring and logging systems.
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Modus Operandi... Data Wet Work For Subs Modus Operandi has been awarded a $600,000 U.S. Navy contract to develop a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework for data fusion on submarines.
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GlobeCast... At Home With Pramer (SatBroadcasting™) GlobeCast has signed a contract with Argentine broadcasting giant Pramer that will see the group base its playout and origination facilities at GlobeCast’s technical operations center in Sunrise, Florida.
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Latitude... New Certification Rings The Bell Latitude Technologies Corporation has announced their SkyNode S200 satellite communication and tracking product line have received a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC”10028910) that
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NAB... Ross Video: They Have The Vision (SatBroadcasting™) Ross Video has launched the world’s first 5 MLE production switcher control panel at NAB 2010.
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NAB... SENSIO + Grass Valley: 3D Partnership (SatBroadcasting™) SENSIO Technologies Inc. ("SENSIO") (TSX-V: SIO) is collaborating with Grass Valley(tm) at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show to demonstrate the future integration of the SENSIO(r) 3D Encoder IP Core with the Grass Valley ViBE EM3000 H.264 HD Encoder.
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Miranda Reads Their (3DTV) Rights With Products Popping Out At NAB (SatBroadcasting™) Satnews has been receiving many announcements this week from Miranda all revolving around 3D products.
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Avanti's HYLAS — Hungary For Capacity Feeds Schools Avanti Communications Group plc [AIM: AVN], has sold new capacity and services on its first satellite, HYLAS 1, to MPB, a longstanding partner in Eastern Europe on an initial three year contract valued at €443k.
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NAB... ADTEC Digital: Triple Play (SatBroadcasting™) At the NAB Show Adtec Digital has introduced two new encoders as well as a product that is the Company's debut into the Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) market.
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Integral Systems... Historic Handover... Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISYS), announced the on-schedule handover of satellite bus operations for the third Wideband Global SATCOM Space Vehicle (WGS SV-3) to the Command and Control System – Consolidated (CCS-C) baseline.
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NAB... SatNews Visitations: IDC, CPI Two of the many companies visited by SatNews publisher Silvano Payne were International Datacasting (IDC) and Communications & Power Industries (CPI).
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Norsat... Moving On Up... Norsat International Inc. (“Norsat") (TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF) has appointed Mr. Trevor Greene as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
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CET Teleport... Moving On Up... CET Teleport GmbH has appointed Matthew Ivey as the Company's new Vice President of Sales.
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Stratos Global... Early Orders Indicative Of IsatPhone Pro Potential Stratos Global Corporation has announced it already has received advance orders for more than 1,000 of the IsatPhone Pro, Inmarsat's new handheld satellite phone — the first in the Global Satellite Phone Services (GSPS) family which will be commercially available in June.
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USGS And Tokyo University — Satellites Are Going To The Birds To Study 'Bugs' For the first time, migratory birds marked with satellite transmitters were tracked during an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus (H5N1) in Asia, providing evidence that wild birds may be partly responsible for the spread of the virus to new areas.
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April 11, 2010 Expand Networks... Winning WAN Ways Expand Networks has announced a major upgrade to its operating system – OS 6.3 – that will significantly improve the functionality, value and installation of its Accelerators.
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TCS... SNAP To It TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received an additional $7.1 million in funding from the U.S. Army for the maintenance of Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Satellite Systems deployed outside the United States.
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Ericsson...No Sticky Wickets Here... (SatBroadcasting™) The Indian Premier League Twenty 20 (IPL T20) cricket enters its third season in 2010 and is expected to draw a TV audience of 200 million in India alone.
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NASA... A GOES-15 Eye Opener... From approximately 22,236 miles in space, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — GOES-15 — took its first full-disk visible image of the Earth on April 6th starting at 17:33 UTC (1:33 p.m. EDT).
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NAB... Gefen: Bringing Boucoup To Exhibition... (SatBroadcasting™) Gefen brings a new product line geared for broadcasters and post-production professionals to NAB this year.
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NASA... Science Success With Global Hawk... NASA has announced the successful completion of the first science flight to be performed by a large, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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Marlink... The Sealink Vipersat Solution Marlink has introduced the Comtech Vipersat Bandwidth & Capacity management platform to its industry leading Sealink(tm) VSAT solution.
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GlobeCast... Quite Fashionable, Globally Speaking... (SatBroadcasting™) GlobeCast has signed a multi-year agreement with Fashion|One TV, a new fashion entertainment channel owned by L.A.-based Bigfoot Entertainment.
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NAB... Omneon: Direction, Serving, and Xploring... At its 2010 NAB Show press conference today, Omneon Inc. unveiled new components and enhancements across its product line, along with key production application partnerships, that further extend the Omneon platform to support a broad range of production workflows.
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Juniper Networks + Ankeena Networks... Acquiring Minds Want To Know... (digiGO!™) Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ankeena Networks, a privately-held provider of new media infrastructure technology.
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NAB... Ross Video + Opticomm: Expansion Excitement... (SatBroadcasting™) Ross Video and Opticomm, an Emcore Company, officially announced their partnership to expand the openGear Platform.
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NAB... Singular Software: Willing Workflows For FCP (digiGO!™) Singular Software, developer of automation applications for post-production, has released the public beta PluralEyes version 1.2 for Apple Final Cut Pro(r).
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Xytech Systems... WIth A Finger On The Pulse... (SatBroadcasting™) Xytech Systems Corporation has unveiled MediaPulse Transmission, a groundbreaking product specifically designed to master operational issues facing broadcasters and transmission service providers.
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Solid State Logic... Console Considerations (SatBroadcasting™) Solid State Logic C100 HD and C100 HDS Digital Broadcast Consoles are setting the pace for the broadcast industry world-wide.
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NAB... HaiVision: Decoding Determination (SatBroadcasting™) HaiVision Network Video will be demonstrating its new Makito™ Decoder at the 2010 NAB Show — the first IP video appliance dedicated to the high-performance, high-density decoding challenge.
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NAB... Snell: Multiple Product Intros... (SatBroadcasting™) Snell has unveiled the Kahuna 360, a revolutionary production switcher platform that breaks away from the tradition of fixed M/Es, fixed resources, and fixed formats while supporting 16 simultaneous broadcast productions in a single mainframe, an industry first.
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NAB... Telestream: Product Intros Of Episodic Proportions... (SatBroadcasting™) Telestream(r) has debuted Episode 6. For the first time, users can pool resources to share encoding work across multiple computers in a mixed environment of Macs and PCs.
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NAB... Stratos Global... Nexus Know How (SatBroadcasting™) Stratos Global Corporation will use its NAB presence to showcase economical solutions that meet the specialized requirements of smaller, regional broadcasters and network affiliates.
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Space Foundation | NSS... Obama Observed... The Space Foundation has added a live link to President Barack Obama's scheduled April 15 address on space policy and a follow-on analysis and discussion to the agenda of the 26th National Space Symposium, which kicks off this Monday at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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April 10, 2010 SES... New Name From Division Combos Global Satellite Operator SES announced the Company is sharpening the focus of its U.S. Government business and is consolidating all USG capacity sales and delivery activities into a single business unit, named SES WORLD SKIES, U.S. Government Solutions.
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NAB... EditShare: With The Flow... (SatBroadcasting™) EditShare? has announced a wealth of new workflow-engineered capabilities for EditShare Flow, its production asset management solution for building collaborative media production infrastructures.
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NAB... Softron Media: BroadMacCasting... Softron Media Services has started shipping OnTheAir Node and OnTheAir Live for Macintosh.
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April 8, 2010 NAB... Harmonic: Electra Set To Electrify... (SatBroadcasting™) At NAB 2010, booth #SU7213, Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) will feature a 3D television demonstration in conjunction with DIRECTV and Panasonic.
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India... Cryogenics For SATCOM Launches India will soon launch an advanced communications satellite, put into orbit for the first time by a cryogenic engine developed by the country's own scientists.
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ESA + Astrium... A Spatial Climb For The Northern & Southern Climbs Europe's Ice research satellite CryoSat-2, which was built by Astrium, is now in orbit.
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SciSys... It's All About Attitude Adjustment For CryoSat-2 The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its CryoSat-2 mission from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan.
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MTN Satellite Commuinications... Cruising Along With SATCOM MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has signed an agreement with Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines, an international shipping company based in Norway, to outfit its entire fleet of ships, Balmoral, Boudicca, Black Watch, and Braemar, with MTN’s state-of-the-art VSAT equipment and services providing global, reliable broadband connectivity.
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Intelsat... Galaxy 15 Out, Galaxy 12 In Intelsat S.A.'s Galaxy 15 satellite (G-15), located at 133 degrees West, experienced an anomaly on April 5th, 2010, at 09:48 UTC.
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APSCC... Joining Up... The Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council has announced the three industry-leading companies have joined the organization — MELCO, PT Indosat, and ITSO.
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OmniGlobe... Elite Entry... OmniGlobe Networks has been recognized by the Branham Group as a leader in three categories.
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NAB... VISLINK: A NewSwift Arrival... VISLINK News & Entertainment has selected NAB as the venue for the debut of their latest vehicle-mounted satellite antenna, named >NewSwift LT.
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Latitude Technologies... Chopper Approvals Latitude Technologies announced their SkyNode? S100-001 satellite based tracking/messaging device has received Transport Canada Supplemental Type Certificate number “SH10-16” covering Bell Helicopter Textron models 206, 206A, 206A1, 206B, 206B1, 206L, 206L1, 206L3, 206L4 and 407.
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Comtech EF Data... Packet Processing Pride Comtech EF Data is pleased to announce the availability of an IP Packet Processor for the CDM-625 Advanced Satellite Modem.
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ND SatCom Sets Satellite Sites In Cloud Computing — Bumps Up To XWARP™ ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, will bring XWARP™ to the international satellite and IT community during SatCom Africa in Johannesburg (South Africa) from April 13-14, 2010. \
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NSS... Goodrich: ORS Else.. Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) will display a scale model of its Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) satellite at the National Space Symposium, April 12-14, 2010 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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NAB... SIS LIVE: Lightweight Antenna Unit Easier To uPak SIS LIVE will unveil uPak, a new Ku-band flat-panel antenna system for satellite contribution at low data rates at NAB.
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April 7, 2010 HaiVision... Military Metadata Mining (SatBroadcasting™) HaiVision Network Video has announced the availability of the Makito AIR(tm), a compact, ruggedized version of its commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Makito™ technology that also includes metadata capability.
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FCC... Court Negates Net Neutrality Planning On Tuesday, a Federal Appeals court determined the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to enforce what are known as Net Neutrality regulations on ISPs.
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C-COM... Mobile Antenna Action In Asia C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) (“C-COM” or the “Company”) has received $750,000 worth of new orders for its iNetVu? mobile antenna systems from the Asia Pacific region.
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PCI Geomatics... Travels To GeoTec PCI Geomatics will be involved as a silver sponsor at the upcoming GeoTec Event 2010 in Toronto, Ontario.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Robyn Rumblings (NASA) Robyn is flying into the tropical cyclone history books for this year's Southern Indian Ocean cyclone season.
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NAB... Fujitsu: Encoder Excitement (SatBroadcasting™) Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc. will demo its portfolio of high-fidelity, low-latency media solutions during the upcoming NAB Convention at booth SU5607.
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Futron... Ubiquitous URL Upgraded The Futron Corporation website has now been updated to reflect the company’s endeavors for 2010 and beyond.
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Harris... ADF Communications Backbone Deal Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a US$112 million (AUD$135 million) order for Falcon? tactical radio systems that will provide battlefield networking capabilities to the Australian Department of Defence.
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Newtec... Racing To Contribute Newtec has announced that Roberts Communications Network, LLC (Roberts) – North America's leading provider of horse and greyhound simulcast racing transmission services – has placed a multi-million US$ order with Newtec to upgrade its contribution network to a high definition and IP based DVB-S2 solution using Newtec’s unique DualFlow(tm) technology.
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Vizada... Training For NGOs T?l?coms Sans Fronti?res (TSF), a non-governmental organization (NGO) specialized in emergency telecommunications following conflict or natural disaster, will benefit from the Vizada Solutions Certification Program (VSCP).
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Yahsat... Insuring Success Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat) has successfully secured the first ever Shariah compliant space insurance policy.
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SES ASTRA... 3B Upwards On April 9th SES ASTRA, a SES company (Paris: SESG) (LuxX: SESG), announced that after additional technical checks, the launch of its new satellite ASTRA 3B is now scheduled for April 9, 2010.
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Alanco + ORBCOMM... Sharing The Space Alanco Technologies, Inc. and ORBCOMM Inc. have announced a major strategic investment by the latter, a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and provider of space-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) services. ORBCOMM purchased 500,000 shares of Ala
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April 6, 2010 MTN Satellite Communications... Moving On Up... MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has appointed Kerry Pettitt as executive sales manager for its superyacht business in Europe and Oceania regions.
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SkyTrac... Continuing Chopper Certifications SkyTrac Systems has obtained a supplemental type certificate (STC) for the installation of its automated flight following and satellite communications equipment on the AgustaWestland AB/AW139 helicopter.
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Vishay Intertechnology... Considerable Capacitance Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) has a new ultra-high-capacitance, wet tantalum capacitor approved to the new DSCC Drawing 10004.
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Newtec... Worthwhile Webinar... Join Newtec for a free webinar — "IP is Forcing its Way into the Contribution, DSNG and Distribution Workflows over Satellite. Are you Ready?" on...
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GlobeCast... Bollywood Broadcasting Begins (SatBroadcasting™) GlobeCast has completed a significant deal with leading Bollywood television network B4U to provide playout and media management services for eight of its worldwide channels.
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SPOT... Spot On With Outdoor Tour SPOT LLC is sponsoring Backpacker Magazine's 10th annual Get Out More Tour, a national interactive mobile media and education road tour designed to inspire and encourage participation in outdoor activities.
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Blue Sky Network... A Brazilian Aviation Buy... Blue Sky Network has announced Brazilian-based TAM Executive Aviation (TAM EA) selected Blue Sky Network’s automated flight following and communication equipment for its fleet of planes.
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Integral Systems... Financially Speaking: Suit Sunk... Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ISYS) announced today the conclusion of the class action case of Anthony Vidmar, et al. v. Integral Systems, Inc., et al.
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RUAG Space... CryoSat-2's Icy Future Starts Tomorrow... Equipped with two special radar antennas from RUAG Space, Europe's new environmental satellite CryoSat-2 will soon begin surveying the world's ice masses.
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COM DEV... ATP From CSA For Constellation Continuance COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) has begun work on the design phase (Phase C) of the Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM).
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iDirect... Assisting A Crossing Of The Global Kind In Brazil... iDirect, Inc. (iDirect) announced Global Crossing, a global IP solutions provider, has launched a next-generation satellite network based on iDirect’s platform to support Brazilian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and enterprises.
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NAB... Harris: Purveyors Of Codec Analysis (SatBroadcasting™) Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) is going to introduce a new line of multi-source analyzers for compressed audio and video streams at the 2010 NAB Show taking place April 12-15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (Booth N2502).
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NAB... MPEG Industry Forum: MPEG Moves... (SatBroadcasting™) The MPEG Industry Forum, the world’s largest advocacy group for the promotion of MPEG and related standards based technologies, has announced the following nine member companies will be exhibiting at NAB 2010...
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Guardian Mobility... Additional Airworthy GPS Adds Guardian Mobility has announced an upgrade to its Guardian Mapping, Enhanced ,and Premium Editions to help its customers get the most out of their Guardian Mapping.
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Romantis' Test Drive Try & Buy Program Results In Win-Win Romantis inaugurated a program that keeps everyone happy — the Romantis Try & Buy Program for EASTAR™ VSAT platform after responding to the customers’ requests to evaluate the equipment performance.
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Raytheon... Significant Sensing Storage Story Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was awarded a NASA Goddard contract to maintain and manage large volumes of sensing data and imagery from space instruments.
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CPI... FLV + ULV SATCOM Amplifiers To Be Provided Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI), a subsidiary of CPI International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPII), has been awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) to support the U.S. Navy's Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP).
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NASA Signs $335 Million For Russian's "Roadside" Space Soyuz Services Much more intensive than the typical auto roadside service, this contract involves NASA which has signed a $335 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation, rescue and related services in 2013 and 2014.
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DIRECTV... Moving On Out... Malone Leaving... (SatBroadcasting™) DirecTV said Tuesday that its chairman, John C. Malone, will resign from the company's board of directors.
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Star Navigation... Air Aware... Star Navigation (CA:SNA) is pleased to announce the signing of a Technical Partnership Agreement (TPA) with Astrium, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS, to enhance and implement the patented In-flight Safety Monitoring System (ISMS(tm)) — the next generation of aircraft data transmission systems that provides commercial aircraft operators with a capable, reliable, cost-effective solution to greatly enhance awareness of aircraft performance, status and location.
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Moving On Up @ RigNet . . . RigNet, Inc. a global provide of managed communications solutions fo the oil & gas industry announced that Dirk McDermott has been elected to its Board of Directors.
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SES WORLD SKIES... The Travels Of SES-1 End At Baikonur SES WORLD SKIES, an SES company (LuxX:SESG) announced the SES-1 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan onboard an Antonov cargo plane.
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April 5, 2010 Noorsat... Feeding Turkey, Big Time (SatBroadcasting™) Turkish Radio and Television Organization (TRT) has launched TRT Arabic Channel that is broadcasting through NOORSAT satellites.
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Bently Walker... Stocked Up For US + UK Warfighters Bentley Walker now has ready available stock throughout Afghanistan,and on most of the Major USA and UK , bases for the immediate delivery and installation of satellite Internet services.
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ViaSat... Financially Speaking... ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) has closed its previously announced underwritten public offering of common stock.
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ISRO... Slashing Launch Costs India plans to cut satellite launch cost in half with the heavy-lift rocket currently in development, a senior space department official said.
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NASA... Hubble, The Book... NASA set out on a monumental journey with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990.
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AGI... On Tour... Roadies Need Not Apply... Join AGI this spring as we bring the 2010 AGI Users' Conference to you.
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NAB... ToolsOnAir — It's just: Quicktime Based... (SatBroadcasting™) ToolsOnAir broadcast suite is the first Quicktime-based solution designed for the needs of broadcast video professionals.
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NAB... Compix — Generation Of The Graphics Kind (SatBroadcasting™) Compix has released their CompactCG HD, the latest addition to the company's CompactCG line of full-featured portable CGs.
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NAB... HaiVision — Worship Work HaiVision Network Video will participate in the Technologies for Worship Pavilion (N3134) at the 2010 NAB Show along with integrator Eastgate Productions.
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NAB... Telecast Fiber Systems' First Fiber Optic Option (SatBroadcasting™) Telecast Fiber Systems today announced the availability of the CopperHead™ 3200, the first in the company's new Series 3000 family of camera-mounted fiber optic transceivers.
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NAB... EVS Brodcast Equipment — Seamless Satisfaction (SatBroacasting ) EVS Broadcast Equipment and Omneon will be presenting their integrated instant tapeless production (EVS) and storage (Omneon) workflow at NAB.
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Comtech... Networking With The USAF Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc. and their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received satellite communications equipment orders totaling $12.1 million from a
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Iridium... Moving On Up... Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has appointed Thomas J. Fitzpatrick to the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), while Eric Morrison will continue with the company, assuming the new role of senior vice president, Iridium NEXT Financing and Planning.
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NAB... ADTEC Digital — Non-perplexing Multiplexing (SatBroadcasting™) ADTEC Digital will be demo'ing their DTA-3050 Multiplexer at NAB 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 12th through 15th.
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NASA... Last Of The "Teacher" Flights Launches... Space shuttle Discovery lit up Florida's Space Coast sky about 45 minutes before sunrise Monday with a 6:21 a.m. EDT launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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Stratos Global... A Future Asian Award? Stratos Global Corporation has been selected as a finalist for Technical Innovation at the Seatrade Asia Awards 2010.
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Skycasters... Focus On Final Four... Fans at this weekend’s Final Four NCAA playoffs in Indianapolis, Indiana, have been under the watchful eye of the many, behind the scenes safety personnel, including the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.
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NAB... Harris + Echolab: Switching Sensibilities (SatBroadcating™) At the 2010 NAB Show (Booth N2502), Harris will showcase Atem switchers packaged with an interface to the new Harris? Inscriber TitleOne™ XT graphics system.
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ScheduALL... Giving HBO Resource Management Tools (SatBroadcasting™) ScheduALL has been selected by HBO’s operations management solution for its Studio and Broadcast Operations, West Coast, in-house post-production facility.
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NAB... APT: Audio Codec Can Do... (SatBroadcasting™) APT, the codec specialists within the WorldCast Systems group, will launch a brand new IP audio codec, the WorldCast Astral, at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas.
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YahLive... YahSat Venture Signs On With Jordan Media City The new UAE-based satellite broadcasting venture YahLive has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jordan Media City, a Middle East region media hub based in Amman, Jordan.
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NSR... New Site'ing On their 10th Anniversary, NSR is excited to announce the launch of their nexgen website at www.nsr.com.
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USAF... X-37B From Boeing Gets Set For Launch The Air Force plans an April 19 launch for a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway.
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SatMex... Satmex 8 Project Is Initiated Sat?lites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. has entered into an Authorization to Proceed (APT) with Space Systems/Loral relating to the design and construction of a new, 64 transponder, C- and Ku-band satellite to be named Satmex 8, which will replace the Company's existing Satmex 5 satellite.
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Bolivia + China... Launch Buddies The Bolivian government and a Chinese corporation on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding on helping Bolivia launch communications satellite "Tupac Katari."
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April 2, 2010 ESPI... Using Space In An Equitable Manner A forthcoming publication provides a fresh, comprehensive evaluation on how to achieve the sustainable use of space by means of respecting fairness and responsibility.
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Streambox... The Portabililty Push Streambox has launched Avenir, the newest member of the company's family of portable video transport solutions.
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NASA... Soyuz Successfully Sending Spacefolk To ISS NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko safely launched to the
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Orbital Sciences... Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB has completed the acquisition of a Gilbert, Arizona-based, spacecraft development and manufacturing business from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD).
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Gefen... Konstructive KVMs (digiGO!™) Gefen brings two new KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) extension solutions to NAB this year.
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Spot... Spot On With Moroccan Desert Race... Spot LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) has partnered with RaceTracker to provide a safety and tracking solution to competitors at the 25th annual Sultan Marathon Des Sables adventure race in Morocco.
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Thales Alenia Space... Seventh Spatial Sojourn For Leonardo The Multipurpose Pressurised Logistic Module (MPLM) Leonardo built by Thales Alenia Space is ready for a new journey to the International Space Station (ISS).
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April 1, 2010 DirecTV — GOAL!!!! Duck! As 3D TV Brings 2010 World Cup Crashing Word is out, beginning in June there will be four channels on DirecTV dedicated to 3D content, which are; ESPN 3D, a 3D-only channel called N3D; one 3D pay-per view channel, and one 3D DirecTV on Demand.
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RapidEye... Imagery Clout In Columbia RapidEye has announced that Procalculo Prosis has signed a contractual agreement with the Company to be its sole data distributor in Colombia, South America.
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PCI Geomatics... UltraCam's Imagery Unification PCI Geomatics is partnering with Microsoft’s Photogrammetry division, Vexcel Imaging GmbH.
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Gilat Has Turned The Key Providing The 'Edge' To Latin America's Military And Homeland Security Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [Nasdaq: GILT] today announced that it has received a multi-million dollar contract to deliver a turnkey broadband communications solution for a major defense agency in Latin America.
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ARINC... Getting That Direct Inmarsat Interface ARINC Incorporated has been named a Distribution Partner (DP) by Inmarsat for its high-speed SwiftBroadband(sm) satellite communications service.
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SENCORE... First SatMod To Shine @ NAB (SatBroadcasting™) During the 2010 NAB Show, SENCORE will unveil its first DVB-S2 modulator, a cost-effective family of fixed-format receiver/decoders, and a multichannel transcoding platform that delivers high reliability at an unbeatable cost-per-channel.
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NASSA... Outsources — SatNews Wins! WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented move, the U.S. administration has instituted several new directions for the national space agency.
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Arianespace... Gantry Going Great The final major infrastructure element for Soyuz’ new launch site in French Guiana is taking shape, as the large mobile service gantry is assembled for this medium-lift vehicle at the Spaceport.
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NASA... ESDIS For Raytheon NASA has selected Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Maryland, for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development contract. The total value of the five-year, cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is $250 million.
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International Datacasting... Newbie Nuances @ NAB (SatBroadcasting™) International Datacasting Corporation, (TSX:IDC) will debut new products at the NAB Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, April 12 to 15, all at booth SU6321 in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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C-COM... Financially Speaking... C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) has announced financial results for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2009.
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Integral Systems Smiles — Signed Support Services In Asia $3+ Million Integral Systems, Inc., [Nasdaq:ISYS] announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Integral Systems Europe United Kingdom (ISE UK) has been awarded a contract in excess of $3 million to support a major satellite program in Asia.
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Harris... Maxing Mobility @ NAB (SatBroadcasting™) Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) comes to the 2010 NAB Show as a market leader in Mobile TV, with more than 40 sales of ATSC Mobile DTV systems confirmed to date.
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KVH Industries... Fresh FOG KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has introduced its new CG-5100 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).
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