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December 23, 2014 Advanced Rescue Technology Goes To The Dogs, Thanks To Cobham's New COLCAM “Combining the legendary detection ability of dogs with the COLCAM gives victims a much better chance of survival.”—Andrew Tilbury, Cobham Tactical Communication and Surveillance.
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Tracking Those Dry Van Trailers Made Easier Via I.D. System's VeriWise M2M Solution "Our technology has demonstrated the ability to reduce cycle times by an average of 72 hours per trailer per month, and increase shipment volume and revenue by 10 percent..."—Norman Ellis, COO, I.D. Systems.
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Eutelsat Tool For Locating Interfering VSATs Now Included For IRG Members “This GSM Demodulation tool is an elegant solution, which can quickly and efficiently identify the impact of GSM retransmissions.”—Martin Coleman, Executive Director, Satellite Interference Reduction Group.
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Sentinel-1's Crucial Role...Avoid A Replay Of The Titanic...Warns Sailor Of Massive Iceberg ...attempting to sail the Eco40non-stop around the world using only renewable energy in a project, even his food supply is self-sufficient.
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North Flight Data Systems To Equip Phoenix Heli-Flight Choppers With Integrated Flight Data System “By adding the new Outerlink IRIS broadband SATCOM, we will be able to provide the economical connectivity for voice and data in one box."—Jeff Warner, President, NORTH FDS.
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FAA Exemption Given to Compass Data's Trimble UX5 "This exemption should help companies that use the Trimble UX5, like CompassData, accelerate this process and allow us to get into the field in a timely manner."—Jeff Southard, Senior Project Manager, CompassData.
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Satellite Industry Plans For Africa’s Future... Improving The Quality Of Life To Remotest Regions At the same time, there are also moves afoot by big players in the satellite industry such as South African born billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk..
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SBCA's Annual Leadership Luncheon To Tackle Today's Telecoms Realm, Trends + Concerns For SatBroadcasting™ The emergence of digital technology has placed many traditional industries at significant risk. However, it has also provided them with access to new choices.
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Greater Detail, Without Interruption, With NOAA's DSCOVR Satellite The DSCOVR spacecraft is the nation’s first operational spacecraft in deep space, orbiting approximately one million miles from Earth.
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Sanitary Crisis Response Collaboration Calls Upon SES SATCOM Assistance "SES is proud to contribute to B-LIFE and enhance the international engagement for the creation and roll-out of powerful and effective e-medicine orientated applications.”—Gerhard Bethscheider, Managing Director, SES TechCom
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Euroconsult Delves Into the Satellite Value Chain This report includes sections on satellite manufacturing & launch services, satellite communications, Earth observation, and satellite navigation.
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Compact Directional Coupler Is Light In Weight, But No Lightweight In Functionality For many space-restricted applications, the compact size makes KRYTAR directional couplers ideal solutions.
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A Cool Project, Especially For Satellites "If successful, this technology solution could be headed for every major DoD space system..."—Dr. Greg Spanjers, Chief Scientist, AFRL's Space Vehicles Directorate.
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ATK + NASA Get Together For A Space Act Agreement “By sharing these innovative commercial space capabilities, we will strengthen our existing partnership with NASA..."—Tom Wilson, Vice President + G.M., ATK Space Systems Division.
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December 22, 2014 The Lives Of Two Satellites Have Been Extended By DigitalGlobe “We have now completed an extended period of investment in building out the world’s leading Earth Observation capability.”—Jeffrey R. Tarr, CEO of DigitalGlobe.
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MTN Government Knows Xactly What They're Doing w/X-Band Antenna In Spain...The Largest X-Band In Europe X-band antennas are configured to operate within both a global beam that is cross-strapped to a steerable spot beam and spot to pot beams.
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Northrop Grumman Brings The Fire Scout MQ-8B To The USCG "I'm confident that we'll demonstrate increased NSC effectiveness while lowering the Coast Guard's operational costs."—George Vardoulakis, Vice President, Medium Range Tactical Systems, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
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Additional APAC Coverage, This Time In The Philippines, For Gilat "This partnership with Gilat and Delnet, combined with PLDT's own network capabilities, further boosts our coverage and enables us to provide connectivity and access where these are needed the most."—PLDT Executive Vice President and Head of Enterprise, International, and Carrier Business, Eric Alberto.
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ManSat...Increases in Free Enterprise In Space Is Impetus For Increases In Board Of Advisors... x 3 "...[the Company] s driving some of the most innovative and impactful commercial strategies that I have seen in the satellite industry in the past decade."
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Airbus Defence and Space Second In Record For Longevity...This Satellite Must Have Taken All Its Vitamins Expected to serve 10 years in space, this healthy satellite lasted 23.5 years.
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Got 'Em For COTM—Exelis + Iridium Demo New Comms Capabilities For DISA “This successful demonstration is the first step in a major capability evolution for DTCS.”—Mark Adams, Vice President + GM, Exelis specialty applications business.
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Advancing GPS Modernization Occurs As Boeing Activates GPS-11F “With two-thirds of the 12 Boeing GPS IIFs now on orbit, the constellation is setting new records for accuracy and the Boeing GPS IIF’s are consistently among the best performing.”—Dan Hart, Vice President, Government Space Systems, Boeing Network and Space Systems.
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Having A Fling With A Fairing—Lockheed Martin's MUOS-3 Prepped For ULA Launch In January “MUOS is a game changer in communications for our warfighters..."—Iris Bombelyn, Vice President, Narrowband Communications, Lockheed Martin.
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A Hub Happening For Gilat In LATAM "Our technology supports multiple applications over the same platform very effectively."—Russell Ribeiro, Regional Vice President, LATAM, Gilat Satellite Networks.
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Rapid Response Solution Deployed By Luxembourg Government, SES TechCom and HITEC Luxembourg On behalf of SES and as a member of the NSCF-emergency.lu joint undertaking, we are pleased to provide the Luxembourg Government and their development partners with a satellite-based communication infrastructure...”—Gerhard Bethscheider, Managing Director, SES TechCom.
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Delnet Philippines + Gilat's Sky Edge Has The Edge...Enables Countrywide Connectivity For The Distance
...with each adapting individually and automatically to weather conditions to ensure high availability at remote sites.
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Satellite Structure Passes Qualification Testing For Millennium Space Systems “All of the structural modes measured during testing matched our pre-test analyses and models."—Scott Dow, Millennium’s Director of Assembly, Test and Launch operations, Millennium Space Systems.
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Hubble Reveals... Just In Time For The Holidays A Sweep Of Glitter In A Dwarf Galaxy It is thought to have never had a dormant period—a period during which no stars were formed—lasting longer than 100 million years. Full Story
NASA... SpaceX's Milestone Approved... Bringing It Back To The U.S. Taxi Crews To The ISS These contracts will end the nation's sole reliance on Russia and allow the station's current crew of six to ...
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NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory...Readies Launch To Gauge Sun's Solar Speed Of Wind is the nation’s first operational spacecraft in deep space, orbiting approximately one million miles from Earth.
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Kratos Drones On and On... Unmanned combat aerial systems from Kratos receive a new contract...
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NORSAT BUCs Up An International Defense Electronics Company “The ability to have high-level connectivity regardless of the location, conditions, or movement of the vehicle, plane or boat, is increasingly becoming a requirement from customers."—Dr. Amiee Chan, CEO, Norsat.
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From Baikonur With Thrust, ASTRA 2G Aims For Lift Off The satellite will have a launch mass of 6 tons, a wingspan of 40m, once its solar arrays are deployed in orbit, and a spacecraft power of 13kW...
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SES' Satellite Rapid Response Against Ebola In Guinea...Be Healthy w/B-LIFE
... this collaboration complements Luxembourg’s satellite-based rapid response platform, and SES’s support of the combat of Ebola...
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Inmarsat 5F-2's New Year's Resolution...Get Launched In 2015 "...we’re right on track to deliver this world-leading global network to our partners and airlines.”
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December 19, 2014 Driving The Changes That Are Needed In The Satellite Industry... SSPI's Gala Benefit Dinner SSPI kicks off their "How Satellites Make A Better World" campaign...
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Unmanned Airborne SAR To Receive Mercury Systems' DSPs "... our advanced, highly reliable signal processing systems have provided exceptional value and performance in SAR programs..."—Didier Thibaud, President of Mercury’s Commercial Electronics business unit.
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Keysight Technologies' New 89600 VSA Software’s Pulse Handles Jamming + Threats the software's pulse analysis option (BHQ) is used in radar and electronic counter measure applications for threats and jamming responses.
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GEE—Inflight Entertainment For WestJet Flyers "This is a first for the airline as it has traditionally managed content services in-house."—Amir Samnani, SVP, Content Services, Global Eagle Entertainment.
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In March of 2015, Canada Will Auction A Plethora Of Mobile Spectrum "Spectrum is essential to power our wireless devices, and our government is making it more available than ever before."—James Moore, the Canadian Minster of Industry.
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The First Indigenous Satellite Build Is Planned By Turkey—TÜRKSAT 6A—Plus, GÖKTÜRK-2 Celebrates Second Anniversary... On Orbit TAI Facilities in Ankara, Turkey, will build this new satellite...
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Harris' Falcon To Improve Philippine Army TacComms “This order will accelerate tactical radio modernization for the Philippine Army..."—Brendan O’Connell, president, International Business, Harris RF Communications,
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Twenty-Five Year HISPASAT Anniversary Could Also Net Prize Winning Submissions Thousands Of Euros The prize is open to all submissions from academic and industrial backgrounds that offer a solid, innovative, satellite telecommunications project...
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Inmarsat's L-Band Antenna Pumps 10Mbps Return Link Connectivity “Today’s government agencies and military forces are more mobile than ever, and require very nimble communication solutions."—Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat U.S. Government Business Unit.
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December 18, 2014 SES GS' Satellite Transmits Live Historic Orion Test Flight + Re-entry NASA's Orion will send astronauts to deep space destinations during future missions.
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Harris' Birds Travel To Middle East... Military's $50M Contract For Falcon III® Wideband Radios ...an order valued at more than $50 million from a nation in the Middle East to deliver...
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Thales Alenia Space's Four O3b Space Constellation Sats Launch New Record For Arianespace The 11th launch of the year sets a new all-time record and passes the cumulative mark of 500 satellites in orbit Full Story
Robinson, Welch, Tadros + Clark Elected To The Board Of The Hosted Payload Alliance "Since its inception, the HPA boasts many accomplishments working with government to further the development of a new hosted payload contracting vehicle..."—Nicole Robinson, Hosted Payload Alliance Chair.
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December 17, 2014 PocketQube Shop Offers A New Kit That Packs All Of The Main CubeSat Building Blocks "Our mission is to democratize low-cost access to space for Planet Earth and this kit is a key stepping stone to enabling this goal."—Tom Walkinshaw, Founder/CEO, PocketQube Shop.
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An Endorsement By ASC Signal For SSPI's "Better World" Campaign “Sponsorship is our way of thanking the Society for its contribution to the growth our business."—Keith Buckley, CEO, ASC Signal.
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ODU Debuts From Broadcom For SatBroadcasting™ "This integrated technology can also open the door to operator delivery of location-based social media and business applications."— Nicholas Dunn, Broadcom Vice President of Direct Broadcast Satellite Marketing.
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Key GVF Initiatives To Be Driven By New Board Of Directors "As the satellite communications industry addresses major challenges and opportunities, the need for a strong, well-credentialed GVF Board has never been greater.”—David Hartshorn, Secretary General of GVF.
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KORE Wireless Has Faith In New Chinese Partnership “Machine to machine technology is most dominant in South East Asia and China..."—Shane Murphy, Vice President and General Manager, KORE Wireless Asia Pacific.
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Four Global Hawks Heading To Republic of Korea Northrop Grumman will provide four RQ-4B Block 30 Global Hawk air vehicles...
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Demo Flights Prove Successful For Kratos' Unmanned Systems Division "These recent successful flights of our high performance unmanned aircraft represent important progress for our Company's unmanned systems initiative."—Eric DeMarco, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions.
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Globecomm + Tanzania Support Foundation Bring Computers + Hope Of A Bright Future To Rural African School
"Technology is our business and we are proud to donate the equipment to such a good cause. "
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Early Orbit Exercises by Lockheed Martin + Raytheon Demo New GPS Capabilities “Launch Exercise 4 demonstrated the team’s ability to complete nearly 100 percent of the GPS III space vehicle 1 launch and early orbit mission sequence.”—Mark Stewart,Vice President, Navigation Systems, Lockheed Martin.
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Netflix Comes To DISH PayTV SatBroadcasting™ Endeavors "Pairing Netflix with Hopper represents the consolidation of two incredible video experiences." —Vivek Khemka, DISH senior vice president of product management.
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NSR's Brazil Report... Noisy BRICS Bring Questions About A Bubble This has led to questions of a capacity bubble...to soak up the staggering amount of capacity coming online.
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For California's Severe Drought, NASA Reveals The State Is Short Some 11 Trillion Gallons of Water Recent California aren't nearly enough to end the multi-year drought.
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ND SatCom FIPS Their Lid... Now That SKYWAN 7000 Series FIPS Is Certified
...it can also undoubtedly be applied by other customers with the need for extra high security when transmitting data over satellite.
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Stevenson Astrosat Cracks Open The Whiskey...First Space Systems Bid Celebration "We cracked open the whisky when we won our first space-systems bid."
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December 16, 2014 Wideband Tactical Radios From Harris Heading Into Australian Defence Force “Harris Falcon radios provide the ADF with wideband capabilities..."—Brendan O’Connell, president, International Business, Harris RF Communications,
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Pad Placement For Soyuz... Push By Arianespace For O3b Networks' Four Satellites Arianespace's December 18 flight will be its third at the service of O3b Networks...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's RL10C-1 Exerts Influence For Atlas V + CHAMPS™ Hot-Fire Test For CubeSat Propulsion “Seeing the culmination of the team’s efforts to develop and qualify this configuration for use on the Atlas Centaur is very rewarding."—Michael Popp, RL10C-1 program manager at Aerojet Rocketdyne. ""The MPS-120 hot-fire test is a significant milestone in demonstrating our game-changing propulsion solution."—Christian Carpenter, MPS-120 program manager.
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Thuraya Debuts XT-LITE “Thuraya XT-LITE addresses the demands of users who need a simple satellite phone for work or travel in areas unserved by terrestrial networks."—Rashid Baba, Director of Products at Thuraya.
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KA-SAT To Assist Wireless Innovation With Water Emergencies In The U.K. “During emergencies, such as last winter’s flooding, this vehicle becomes the focal point and control center for those on the ground."—Clive Dickens MBE, Senior Technical Engineer for Operational Control, Thames Water
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Airbus Defence and Space Sells Tokyo Spot Image...Run Spot Run, See Spot Run To Direct Receiving Station ...with significant successes in the mapping, agriculture and forestry sectors, generating profit every single year.
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Vessel Tracking System Now Offers New Least Cost Routing Module GSM when inshore and Iridium when offshore...
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Low C-Band Tropo Freq A Perfect Fit For Advantech Wireless New Amp "This proves to be a viable solution when satellite links are either cost prohibitive or simply not available.”— Cristi Damian, VP Business Development, Advantech Wireless.
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Twenty Russian RD-181 Rocket Engines Allegedly Heading To U.S. Energomash is reportedly going to deliver 60 engines to Orbital Sciences...
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Improving A Riyadh Hub Accomplished By Arabsat "ARABSAT and STC continue to work very closely to enhance their presence in domestic and international markets.” —Khalid Balkhayour, President and CEO of ARABSAT.
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Space X Falcon 9's Next Goal...A First...To Launch + Land The Bird On Unanchored Ocean Platform The odds of success are not great—perhaps 50 percent at best.
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The 31st Space Symposium Offers Early Bird Rewards + A Stellar Lineup Of Speakers ....will host a separate event focusing on the evolving security challenges posed in cyberspace.
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December 15, 2014 India's ISRO... 2015 Will Be Busy, Busy, Busy... 4 + 5= 9 Launches ... with the two engines carrying a giant cup cake-like crew module.
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New Lockheed Martin Project Is To Improve Warfighters' Comms With MUOS “Lockheed Martin’s goal with the TRAF is to help terminal developers and application integrators get MUOS’ capabilities deployed to the warfighter as quickly as possible.”—Glenn Ladue, MUOS TRAF manager.
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U.K. Space Agency Plonking Pounds Down Into Europe's Space Program "Our investment at this ESA Ministerial is targeted towards a smart mix of commercial opportunity and inspiring exploration."—Dr. David Parker, Chief Executive of the U.K. Space Agency.
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Moog Assists With NROL-35's Ascent + Positioning he ULA Atlas V 541 rocket that carried the National Reconnaissance Office satellite into space includes several items supported by Moog.
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Space Start-Up Incubations Planned By Space-Nest. "An appropriate framework will enable small, innovative companies with strong teams to develop emerging technologies into commercialized products."—Ofer Lapid, Co-Founder, Space-Nest.
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Satellite Storage Demands Now A U.S. Government Accountability Office Study DOD spent over $130 million for satellite storage over the last 5 years and is expected to spend over $206 million over the next 5 years.
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EURO World Network + World Media International's IPTV Technology... Do It Yourself w/BYO TV + No Hassle The highest quality content will be king in this environment.
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Space Tech Expo + Conference 2015...Take A Sneak Peek + Catch The Early Bird Special conference focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing the military, commercial, and government space sectors
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Lockheed Martin To Bring More Resources To Alaska Aerospace Launch Ops “Athena and Alaska are ideal for sun-synchronous orbit missions like Earth imaging and remote sensing..."—Steve Skladanek, president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS).
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SES Check Off To Do List...Czech + Slovakian Public TV Tests Ultra HD Content “Having produced and broadcast all our shows in HD, RTVS is keen to remain the trendsetter in Ultra HD broadcasting..."
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James Webb Space Telescope...GAO Is Number Crunching For Most Complex + Expensive Projects ...delays have occurred on every element and major subsystem schedule—especially with the cryocooler—leaving all at risk of...
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ESA's Planck Satellite... Captures Beautiful Dust That Creates Stunning Image Unlike the unwelcome dust bunnies found under beds, this Galaxy's beautiful dust takes your breath away. Full Story
December 14, 2014 Einstein's Theory Of Relativity To Be Put to The Test By Airbus D&S Airbus Defence and Space is creating a “super clock” for the European Space Agency (ESA) that comprises two atomic clocks as well as laser and microwave links to the Earth.
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The NRO + ULA's Atlas V Launches NROL-35's Eye Spy In The Sky For National Defense Rain may have caused a delay, but this most powerful Atlas ever launched from California is now out of sight..
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Space-Based Observation Instrument From SwRI To Be Shown @ American Geophysical Union's Event "SSIPP uses a classic, two-stage pointing system similar to larger spacecraft, but in this case the first stage is a pilot who initially steers the instrument..."—SwRI Systems Engineer Jed Diller.
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Competing In The APAC Mobile Markets Focus of WTA + NewSat @ PTC'15 Event The opportunity for satellite capacity is clear. However, how can managed service providers best seize the opportunities created by demand for mobile services?
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ILS Successfully Launches Yamal-401 For Russian Telecommunications An early Monday morning launch from Baikonur
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December 13, 2014 Into Edinburgh, Scotland, Goes COM DEV INT'L For MESL Microwave Acquisition "We are now moving to a new phase in U.K. operations. We have seen growth in revenue in our Aylesbury facility over recent years and are anticipating further substantial growth in this supportive environment."—Michael Pley, CEO, COM DEV International.
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Less Than A Week Away... The O3b Networks' Four Satellite Launch
The O3b business model focuses on three key deliverables: high capacity, fiber-like latency, and bandwidth that is significantly lower in cost.
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Yamal-401 Readies For Monday's Launch The highest power of this beam will be focused on the most populated territory of Russia.
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Lockheed Martin + U.S. Navy’s MUOS... Crank Up A New Radio Terminal + Gets Communications Into The Good Guy's Hands Faster ...will be able to transmit and receive clear voice calls and data from almost anywhere in the world.
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December 11, 2014 Fregat + Fairing Finished—Arianespace Milestone For O3b Launch Completed Thales Alenia Space built the satellites as prime contractor, with the spacecraft having individual liftoff masses of 700kg.
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Boeing's CDR For Ground Segment Completed As Well As Baseline Design For NASA's CST-100 “This is an important step towards achieving human-rated certification."—Boeing Commercial Crew Program Manager John Mulholland.
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Harris' WxConnect To Play Its Role For NOAA "These Harris products allow forecasters to exploit new capabilities from the next generation satellites..."—Romy Olaisen, Vice President, Global Weather Solutions, Harris Government Communications Systems.
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iDirect's Evolution Brings The Comms Needed To Remote Areas In The Philippines "Globe Business will leverage iDirect’s best-in-class satellite capabilities and further strengthen our commitment..."—Nikko Z. ACOSTA, Senior Vice President, Globe Business.
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To Russia, With HX Gateway—Hughes To Modernize ROILCOM's System “The telecommunication services market is very competitive and operators need to stay ahead of the game."—Andrey Makarov, CEO, ROILCOM.
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Edmond de Rothschild Buys Into Thomson Video Networks "We are now fully equipped to accelerate growth and deploy our new 'Behind Every Screen' strategic approach..."—Christophe Delahousse, CEO of Thomson Video Networks.
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Moving On Up @ Intelsat Is Stephen Spengler, The New Deputy Chief Executive Officer... Effective immediately, Intelsat has a new Deputy Chief Executive Officer...
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EMC + Ceona's On-Board Communications For Flagship O&G Vessel...Go 10,000 Feet Deep
This vessel will be outfitted with on-board communications that parallel all of the ship's other cutting edge elements.
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ESA + USGS Water Science School Reveal Mexico City"s Dramatic Collapse Of Earth Due To Water Extraction ...Earth imaging photos of Mexico City reveal ground deformation when ground water is extracted, whether by drought or man.
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M2M World Alliance Foot Print Just Got Larger w/Telenor Connexion Multinational corporations planning to roll out connected devices worldwide face a multitude of hurdles.
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Myanmar Encouraged By CommuniCast 2014 Will Launch Ambitious Satellite + ICT Programs "...this sent a strong message to the world that Myanmar is committed to infrastructure development on a truly massive scale..."
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Uplogix + MTN Communications Combine Talents On Maritime Vessels + Provide Out-Of-Band Access + More
"...[this] software supports one of many initiatives we have underway to transform at-sea communications for customers..."
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Optus10 Opens For Aussies...Commercial Services Include Backhaul + Connection Services ..."we have a proven track record of providing seamless broadcast and communication services to Australians everywhere.”
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Gilat + OpenSky Order VSAT Network For ANTEL = Internet Access To Schools + Defense Related Enterprises “We were looking for a technologically strong satellite platform provider to meet a very demanding set of needs."
December 10, 2014 Have A Ball... Via Satellite On New Year's Day Free HD satellite feeds of the New Year’s Eve Celebration in Times Square...
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Annual Award Recipients Named By The National Space Club The Awards will be presented at the 58th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner, taking place at the Washington Hilton on Friday, March 13, 2015.
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Jean-Jacques Dordain To Be Awarded General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award By Space Foundation "Through his leadership, ESA has achieved remarkable success with programs like Gaia, Rosetta, ATV, the International Space Station and many others."
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New Group-Wide Airbus Corporate Foundation Initiated With the new Airbus Corporate Foundation, I hope we can reach out to a larger population and continue to inspire young people to pursue their studies and ultimately join the aeronautics industry."—Tom Enders, Airbus Group CEO.
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PlanetObserver's Silver Anniversary... Celebrates 25 Years Of Making Mosaics
The company’s founding principle remains: producing the most beautiful satellite image mosaics of the Earth.
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United Launch Alliance + U.S.A.F.'s 4th Space Launch Squadron Ready For NRO Payload Sendoff... "Our mission assurance technicians and engineers have worked hand-in-hand with United Launch Alliance going over critical procedures..."—Lt. Col. James Bodnar, 4th SLS commander.
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China's Yaogan-25 Is Lofted From Jiuquan China launches another of their "remote sensing" satellites...
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Thuraya + International News Safety Institute Adopt Safety Plans + Products ...addresses the rising need for providing safety training to protect journalists working in difficult and dangerous environments...
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NAGRA Sends End-To-End Solutions To the Cloud Any customer can sign up online ... the service is open even to non-cable clients.
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December 9, 2014 Into Mars Orbit Goes Cobham Motion Control Solutions The TAME assembly incorporates Cobham’s Motion Control zero cogging motors, which in conjunction with the Motion Control provided controller, minimizes torque ripple and jitter.
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Norsat's Small Form Factors Find Military Interest Via A New Contract The SigmaLink AUTO and Ranger products offer new capabilities and aperture sizes to meet the evolving needs of customers...
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An Electrifying Agreement For Airbus Defence and Space With ELV For Vega "... a successful synergy whereby we use the same elements as for Ariane 5 ..."
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Moving On Up @ Space Foundation, Brunswick To COO "She brings deep space industry knowledge and experience, award winning leadership skills..."—Elliot Pulham, Space Foundation.
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DigitalGlobe Wants Your Vote In Their Fourth Annual Top Image Contest Please join DigitalGlobe and vote in the fourth annual Top Image contest.
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Bringing Crucial Comms To Young Sailors Is A Globecomm Project The ship is sailing the West Indies’ trade route with its crew of teenage voyagers.
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Lockheed Martin Brings The Cloud To The NGA “This accomplishment demonstrates the power of what can be done by leveraging cloud technologies with mission driven software."
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MetOp-SG + FalconEye For UAEAF Are Both Now Part Of Airbus Defence & Space's Build Portfolio Microwave Sounder Instruments and an EO system all under contracts for builds...
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Comtech EF Data's LPOD BUC Line Is Now Complimented With LPOD-R The built-in data logging functionality of the LPOD -R is a true differentiator...
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Satellite Industry Association Announces New President
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Orbital's Good News x 3...Return To ISS + Upgraded Antares + Wallops Clean-Up ...revised approach is not expected to create any material adverse financial impacts in 2015 or future years.
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World Teleport Association Names Those At The Top... Top Operator Rankings for 2014 This end-of-year report may surprise the industry's peers.
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NetComm Wireless Jumps Into M2M Realm With n-Hub For Healthcare "...is a game-changer for the global healthcare sector."
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NetComm Wireless + SPHINX Computer Delivers A Plethora Of M2M Products ...delivers a range of wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) products to key vertical markets...
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Northrop Grumman Will Be Bringing Space Inertial Ref System To SBIRS #5 "This award extends our support of the SBIRS program and reaffirms our status as the provider of choice for complex technical missions."—Bob Mehltretter, vice president, Navigation and Positioning Systems, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems.
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Thales Alenia Space Begins Construction Of Optics Building ... Mais Oui, In Cannes The new optics building is the last step in the Odyssée program...
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PTC'15... Senior Industry Leaders Enjoy This Conference In Hawaii ...and a marvelous get-away to a tropical clime when most others are experiencing frigid temps.
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December 8, 2014 From Taiyuan Base, The Brazilian/Chinese CBERS-4 Satellite Makes For Orbit China + Brazil launch efforts have succeeded...
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NovelSat Names New Chairman Of The NovelSat BOD "...I am confident that NovelSat will reach new heights."
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Crucial Power Roles Played By Aerojet-Rocketdyne In Orion Launch... The power behind the Orion launch...
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SSL Is A Happy Camper... DIRECTV Satellite Responds To Maneuvers...Deploys Solar Arrays ...achieve the goal of a satellite that will advance the future of Ultra HD.
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SES GS Demos O3b Technology For MAG Personnel President and CEO of SES Government Solutions, Tip Osterthaler—“It gives the warfighter fiber-like connectivity on day one of operations."
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Scotland-Based Astrosat Wins Fifth Major Award "The Copernicus Masters helps stimulate innovative solutions for business and society based on Earth observation, and this award is a huge tribute to the entire team at Astrosat."
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Showcasing Es'Hail 1 at ITU Telecom World In Doha "...we have already started to plan, design and manufacture Es’hail 2."
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New PayTV Report From Euroconsult Reveals Strong Growth "Emerging markets are home to over 80 percent of the nearly 160 active platforms."
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PCI Analytics' Geomatica Is Bitten By Python “The scripts made available today leverage our most popular algorithms and will be of use to users, regardless of their familiarity with Python.”
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FreeWave Garners Bronze Medal For Innovation “This was a pivotal year, not only for FreeWave, but for the entire Machine to Machine market."
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GL Communications Delivers A Collection Of Solutions Quite a collection of new solutions. Full Story
ESA's Two Earth Observation Satellites Cooperate To Reach A Major Milestone This can significantly improve Earth observation applications and services.
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Numerex Says There's Nothing Quite Like Unlimited M2M Satellite Data Plans Numerex provides satellite tracking customers with a solution that allows them to more closely monitor their assets throughout each day...
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Kratos ISE Is Preparing The Way For Es'hail-2 Capacity Management Kratos ISE will expand that system with a monitoring site at the new Es'hailSat teleport...
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Northrop Grumman Betters The Production Schedule For An AEHF Payload... Again... "This hybrid approach is providing an overall reduction in program cost and schedule."
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ESA's Tandem Assignment For The Sun “For these studies, the satellites will fly 150m apart with millimeter and fraction-of-a-degree precision."
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SSTL Is Executing A Quantum Leap For Eutelsat "[This] ...is a milestone for SSTL providing an anchor customer for the transfer variant of our Geostationary Minisatellite Platform (GMP-T)."—Sir Martin Sweeting, SSTL.
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TSF... Ready, Set, Go...Gets In Position In Philippines Before Super Typhoon Haugpit Slams Preparing in advance is a luxury for this NGO which shows up in war zones, fires, earthquakes and more.
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TenCate's Super Strong + Super Heat Resistant Materials Used For Orion's Successful Launch The composite heat shield design allows very large composite structures to be fabricated out of autoclave.
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December 6, 2014 Orion's Journey Starts + Then Makes A Big Splash For Future Space Exploration The launch occurred after inclement weather yesterday was responsible for an initial scrub.
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Encrypted IP Video Satellite Broadcast Solution Delivered By Microspace “The ability to provide large amounts of information and a combination of various forms of video and data is an absolute necessity for our clients."
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Re-Joining MEASAT is Jarod Lopez as V.P.—Broadcasting Jarod will be responsible for overseeing the sales and marketing efforts of MEASAT in the broadcast industry.
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XTAR's Experimental Systems Goes KaBOOM “The KaBOOM program will allow NASA, and even the DoD, to track and characterize potentially hazardous objects."
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A Commitment Increase For Emergency Comms By Thuraya This agreement further extends the use of its satellite equipment for disaster relief.
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Arianespace' VA221 Flight Moves DIRECTV-14 + GSAT-16 Off Planet + Into Orbit DIRECTV-14 + GSAT-16 climb to orbit...
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Inmarsat Betters BGAN Via Citrix' Technology "Our work with Citrix is crucial in the delivery of optimized applications and services to our customers in remote locations around the globe."
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Ocean Surface Topography To Capture Jason-CS/Sentinel-6' Attention The measurements made are vital for modelling the oceans and predicting rises in sea levels.
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December 5, 2014 The SSL Build For HISPASAT's Amazonas-5 Cemented Into Place “Amazonas 5 is the fourth satellite that we will build for HISPASAT."
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Advantech Wireless Is Getting To The Hub Of The Matter In Southeast Asia A fully redundant Discovery Hub will be operating in C-band on two separate Forward Links (outbound carriers)...
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December 4, 2014 Azercosmos Reaches For The SkyEdge II-c From Gilat Targeting a diverse set of markets...
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Kacific is Island Hopping w/High-Speed Broadband for Tokelau With no airport, and remote islands they promise to bring a digital world.
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A Most Beneficial Investment Reveals U.K. Government's Support For Space Programs This success is largely due to continued public and private sector investment, enabling U.K. industry to retain its technical leadership in many space and satellite capabilities.
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An Elevated Certification For CompassData From The USDA “This certification provides assurance to our current and future USDA clients they are using a data verification tool that has been thoroughly scrutinized..."
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An Impactful Event Set For Next June—Asteroid Day ”Sometimes those heavenly bodies run into Earth. This is why we must make it our mission to find asteroids before they find us.”
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Innovative Apps For EO Behind The ESA App Camp Program Five challenges will inspire the participants to create the solutions of tomorrow.
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ITAR Regulatory Environment Has Been Altered—Be Aware... These final rules represent important progress in ongoing efforts to reform export controls...
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VeriSat Combats VSAT Interference “According to our statistics, VSAT systems cause approximately 40 percent of all interference, and are responsible for 50 percent of downtime due to interference."—Martin Coleman, IRG
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Frontier Communications Honored...Maintaining Open Communications Despite Wildfire...Terrible but Wonderful Terrible but wonderful.
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Arianespace Flight 221 Scrubbed...No Launch Today of DIRECTV-14 and GSAT-16 Telecommunications Satellites Bad weather = no go.
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CMMB Vision...Has a Vision to Jump Start Mobile Multimedia...Acquires 51 Percent in Dish-HD Asia
...intends to replicate the Chinese model with turnkey solutions to deploy in other Asia markets.
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Inmarsat Global Xpress...Passes with Flying Colors as Colors Fly w/First Live Video Streaming
"...with a ‘press of a button’ lining up and acquiring the network, creating a seamless plug and play experience!"
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Satellite Hall of Fame Award Nominations Needed Now! Help to select the winners of the Arianes awards...
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The Bringing Together of Orbital + ATK Receives Clearance From The DOJ The companies anticipate completing the transaction in February 2015...
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Boeing’s Spectrolab ...Life in a Cell...X 4 Million, It's a Record ...most recently creating a new solar cell wafer that is projected to reduce customer costs by up to 15 percent...
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December 3, 2014 Chopper SAR Ops Gain High-Speed Connectivity Via Iridium "The heavy rotorcraft segment provides an addressable market of more than 10,000 aircraft worldwide."
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All Is Shipshape With New Inmarsat + SpeedCast Distribution Partnership A new distribution partner for FleetBroadband, and Fleet One...
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Agencies + Schools To Benefit From Hughes' Helping Plans “Government agencies need greater capacity for access to their applications and to better serve constituents."
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Azercosmos + Gilat ...Another Partnership Agreement on Azerspace-1 ...signed an agreement to use the SkyEdge II-c network for multi-application satellite managed services for...
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JAXA Launches Hayabusa-2 Heading Toward Asteroid...Look Closely Moog's Spacecraft Mechanisms are on Board ...and returned to Earth in 2010 with a sample from a small asteroid near Earth named “25143 Itokawa”.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries + JAXA...Successfully Launch and Head to an Asteroid...for the Second Time ...setting out on a journey to clarify the origin and evolution of the solar system as well as life matter. Full Story
MDA/SSL... Allocation of ViaSat Settlement Resolved
More information regarding a legal matter...
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December 2, 2014 The 100th Successful Insertion For Aerojet Rocketdyne's HiPAT™ The R-4D-15 HiPAT™ performs orbit-raising maneuvers for many of the world's communication satellite platforms.
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Avia-GIS Disease + Pest Control App Has Sat Support From ESA Changes in the environment, global trade and travel are all factors in the ever-increasing numbers and movement of pests.
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Milestone Met By Boeing's Build For NASA's CCtCap “This first milestone establishes an expected operating rhythm for NASA and Boeing to meet our certification goal.”
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An Award Winning Moment For Proteus FZC For Habitat Mapping Project “The scale of this project and integration of land-based/maritime satellite imagery to influence planning decisions and track carbon is ground breaking."
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Airbus Defence and Space... Can See Even More Clearly Now w/ SPOT 7 Launch Completes Full Palette Earth Imaging ...the first operator in the world to offer customers a full palette of Earth-imaging data spanning multiple resolution and spectral wavelengths.
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Airbus D&S' SPOT On Agreement With Azercosmos OJC—Azersky Is The Result “Azercosmos” OJC, national satellite operator of Azerbaijan, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Airbus Defence and Space to acquire the rights to...
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Ariane 5 Rarin' to Lift Payloads x 2 Passengers...GSAT-16 for India + DIRECTV-14 + GSAT-16 So far, so good for December 4th launch of two passengers.
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Laser Comms Linkup 'Tween Sentinel-1A + Alphasat “Demonstrating laser data link-ups in space has involved excellent teamwork by many at ESA, Inmarsat, Tesat and DLR."
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European Commitment To Space Hailed By Airbus D&S + Their Proximity Platform Gains BGAN Services “This summit will go down in history as a bold step forward for European Space."
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Thales Keeps Japan Airlines' Passengers Entertained w/AVANT System AVANT is a popular system on newest generation aircraft and has been selected by 15 worldwide airlines.
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GVF + Broadcasters Agree...Train Operators to Eliminate Interference
"WBU-ISOG recognizes a significant portion of harmful satellite interference is caused by human error."
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December 1, 2014 The EUMETSAT Council O.K.'s The EPS-SG Program The Council authorized the Director-General, Alain Ratier, to start the program activities when 95 percent of the financial envelope is secured
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Russia's GLONASS-K Hits Its Orbital Mark There are currently 24 operational GLONASS satellites in orbit.
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Adieu, France... If ISRO Launch Of GSLV MARK III Is Successful "The test launch is to ensure the atmospheric stability of the launch vehicle."
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SES' Astra Pumps TurkShow Into Western Europe “This prime orbital position carries more than 800 TV channels and reaches over 100 million households on Astra across Europe."
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SPOT Will Have Shoppers Seeing Spots of Significant Savings Every 26 seconds a vehicle is stolen.
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Contribution + Occasional Use TV Markets Analyzed By NSR This report offers in-depth coverage and analysis to satellite operators...
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Denise Anderson Award For Outstanding Achievement Goes to a Darling at AST Today there are 60 worldwide companies and more than 1,700 employees.
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Ogive-Shaped Fairing Now Holds Duo In Place For Arianespace Launch Encapsulated in the ogive-shaped protective fairing, DIRECTV-14 has been positioned atop GSAT-16...
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Blowing Mitsubishi + JAXA's Hayabusa2 Launch Off Until Wednesday "Strong wind exceeding the weather restrictions was projected around the launch pad at the scheduled launch time..."
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Lockheed Martin Turns Extreme Hot + Cold on U.S. Navy's Fourth MUOS + Passes Thermal Vacuum Test
“The successful completion of thermal vacuum testing assures that MUOS-4 can endure the extreme hot and cold temperatures it will experience..."
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NASA's Orion Readies for ULA Launch...Another Step Taken in Preparation for Manned Deep Space Travel
Preparations for an upcoming launch with no seat belts fastened...yet. Full Story
Inmarsat Approves ...Hughes Proud of their Latest Generation...BGAN Terminal “BGAN HDR is a game-changing service..."
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SSC Supports the DEIMOS-2 Satellite from Launch through Commercial Service
It is the highest-resolution fully private satellite in Europe, and one of the few commercial submetric satellites in the world. Full Story
