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January 30, 2020 Successful SpaceX Launch that Sends Starlink Satellites Soaring SpaceX is leveraging its experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy the world's most advanced broadband internet system.
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Comtech Telecommunications Acquires Gilat Satellite Networks and CGC Technology Limited Both companies’ talented global workforces are expected to remain in place and focus intently on meeting all customer commitments and expectations...
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Virgin Orbit and ISI Develop Joint Rapid Response National Security Space Solution As such, the emergence of a responsive space solution to rapidly deploy and populate small satellite constellations will enhance space resiliency, enabling deterrence.
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C-COM and Isotropic Complete iDirect iQ 200 Integration compatibility of the iNetVu® Controllers with the iQ 200 satellite router that provides an advantage to C-COM partners who are currently using, or considering the latest iDirect modem.
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Azercosmos Signs SatBroadcasting Agreements During of the exhibition, Azercosmos signed cooperation agreements with Yuvelirochka channel of the Russian VES-Media company and TNV Planet...
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Forrester Reports: Game Over for the CBA Plan????? January 29th was catastrophic for Intelsat (down a massive 30.26 per cent) and SES (down 8.27 per cent) as news emerged that the FCC was likely to...
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NIC4 to Provide National Guard Bureau with SATCOM Services This contract gives the National Guard the ability to provide Commercial Satellite Communication (COMSATCOM) services to support the...
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Space Networking Solution for Smallsats Unveiled by Tethers Unlimited Satellites connected via SWIFT-LINQ can share resources and data, empowering groups of low-cost small satellites to perform missions that ...
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Speedcast Government to Tackle Electoral Fraud in Niger In preparation of the upcoming national elections, Speedcast Government has been asked to provide satellite internet services, equipment, life-cycle...
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OneWeb Scheduled to Launch 34 Satellites Via Arianespace @ Baikonur Cosmodrome This event marks the start of a regular launch campaign during 2020 that will rapidly grow OneWeb’s first phase constellation of 648 satellites and...
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January 29, 2020 Booz Allen Hamilton's $178 Million Contract to Modernize U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center's GPS Booz Allen will provide a range of essential services, including system definition, requirements synchronization, capability improvement...
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NOAA Satellites Helped Save a Record 421 Lives in 2019 In one harrowing case last year, the impact of the crash of a small aircraft near Skwentna, Alaska, activated the emergency beacon onboard.
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An NSR Focus: Fixed VSAT — When will Price Elasticity be Activated? Fixed VSAT is one of the largest space industry market segments with a cumulative opportunity of $189 billion during 2018-2028 timeframe, as...
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Raytheon Modernizes Data Collection for USAF's Missile Warning System To help with this mission, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services has developed a completely open framework — which the USAF calls the...
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Calian SED Has a New Director He is in Charge of Satellite Ground Antenna Systems for the company’s new line of high performance Calian Group Ltd.’s composite carbon fiber antennas, designed to meet the demanding operational requirements of Ka-/Q-/V-band ...
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GMV Will Install Control System for Space Norway’s Two Arctic-Deployed Satellites ...whereas ASBM satellites will be using their unique orbit to provide coverage in the Arctic, from 65 degrees Northwards, providing broadband for civil and military users in the Arctic.
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Canada's Kepler Communications Initiates Building of Smallsats In-House Creating New Jobs Rather than contracting from third parties, the new facility will allow the company to vertically integrate the development, production and testing of...
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Forrester Reports: C-Band Alliance Counters Last Week's Eutelsat Statement to the FCC Now, with two independent valuations, the C-Band Alliance (of Intelsat, SES and Telesat) has told the FCC that while the actual valuation cannot be...
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January 28, 2020 EU Reserves Four Ariane 6 Rockets for Galileo Navigation Satellites The first of those launches slipped to 2021 due to a disagreement between ArianeGroup, Ariane 6’s manufacturer, and the European Space Agency, that delayed the start of ...
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UK to Launch £5Billion Galileo Replacement as MoD Identifies EU 'Security Flaw' “So if satellites suddenly failed to work, the impact on all our lives would be colossal.
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Iridium's CloudConnect Debuts via AWS to Extend IoT Global Services This new service combines Iridium® IoT capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT and cloud services extending customers’ IoT reach to...
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Inmarsat and ITC Global Collaborate to Offer Broadband Solutions TC Global will offer Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress service, incorporating the Ka-band solution into its existing range of Ku-band connectivity services. Fleet...
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Node Module Port for ISS to be Built by Axiom Space This new commercial platform will significantly increase the usable and habitable volume of the ISS, provide for novel avenues of research in areas...
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Eutelsat-7C Satellite Announces Full Commercial Service Manufactured by Maxar Technologies, EUTELSAT 7C is a 3.4 ton, high-power, all-electric satellite carrying 49 36-Mhz equivalent Ku-band...
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Forrester Reports: OneWeb Signs Agreement with Astana International OneWeb plans to engage local telecom operators among its distribution partners to provide its ubiquitous, high-speed, low-latency ‘fibre-like’...
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ETL Systems' Growth Plans Supported with a Financial Boost ETL serves various end markets including broadcasting, energy, defense, government and maritime and has a distinguished track record of growth...
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Encore for AAC Clyde Space ... NSLComm's 15 MSEK (GBP 1.2 million) Contract for Satellite AAC Clyde Space will manufacture, launch, commission, operate the satellite and deliver a ground segment software solution.
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Solstad Offshore Renews With Marlink Ensuring Current and Future Connectivity Needs To meet the diverse demands of its OSV fleet, Solstad sought a highly flexible, customized and future-proof service. Building on more than 10 years’ partnership ...
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January 27, 2020 Speedcast to Deploy Newtec's Dialog® Platform The deployment will enable Speedcast to respond to the exponential demand for high-speed connectivity on board cruise ships and may also be...
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JCSAT-17 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B Prepped by Arianespace for Launch Both spacecraft, which will be deployed in geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) during the Arianespace mission, are undergoing their preparation...
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Nilesat Selects SpaceX to Launch Their Nilesat-301 Satellite A contract was sealed between Nilesat and SpaceX in Cairo on January 21 and this is the first cooperation between the two companies...
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Blending Their Smallsat Expertise — Orbital Transports + Innovative Solutions in Space (ISISPACE) Orbital Transports provides turnkey satellite solutions to companies who want access to space and yet have little-to-no prior experience with space...
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Aerospace Creates New Position of GM Corporate Planning and Financial Strategy for Him Victor brings the critical strategic planning and finance experience they need to continue their legacy of unparalleled support to the national security, civil, and commercial space communities.
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Aethera’s New RF Power Processing Unit for Ad Astra's VASIMR® Engine Passes Milestone The test was one completed one of the three remaining major technology milestones in the NextSTEP Partnership Program contract with NASA for the maturation of the VASIMR engine.
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The Satellite Industry Association Welcomes a New Member, Kaman Precision Products, into the New Year night vision systems, precision telescope positioning, fast steering mirrors for space-based and airborne applications, and image stabilization systems provides resolution to a nanometer
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How NASA's Webb Telescope Will Continue Spitzer's Legacy "The diversity of atmospheres around terrestrial worlds is probably beyond our wildest imaginations. Getting any information about air on these planets is going to be very useful."
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AAC Clyde Space to Work with Intuitive Machines to Empower a Lunar Lander Mission The Starbuck Mini is AAC Clyde Space's most powerful and cost-efficient power system for advanced space missions, with strong flight heritage and...
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India Unveils Anti-Satellite Missile The new weapon was unveiled at a time when the United States, China, and other countries are competing to develop weapons to secure a military advantage in outer space.
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A Stunner from Eutelsat to the FCC + Forrester Reports on the CBA Eutelsat in its FCC filing on January 23rd told the FCC that the CBA’s suggestions are “fatally flawed” because the auction value of the licenses...
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Boeing and DirecTV Are Scrambling to Move a Satellite Before it Explodes Spaceway-1 suffered thermal damage to its batteries as the result of a “major anomaly” in December. Boeing did an evaluation that showed “a significant risk that these battery cells could burst”...
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An EO Contract Received by QinetiQ from ESA for Smallsat Development The new 75 million euros contract will see the company develop and assemble the ALTIUS satellite at its new state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities...
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January 26, 2020 Global SATCOM Contract for $48 Million Awarded by DISA to Intelligent Waves The contract — called Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Global Logistical Services Management Contract (ELOG) — has a lifecycle value...
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Cybels Analytics Cybersecurity Platform to be Introduced by Thales Group The platform provides faster, sharper, more exhaustive detection of the most complex attacks in real time or proactively in differed time (hunting)...
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Russia Delays Launch of Their Meridian-M Military Satellite Three possible technical reasons were given for the delay... a failure in the Fregat booster, a failure in the carrier rocket or a failure in the operation of ...
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Successful Space Debris Demo Performed On-Orbit by Tethers Unlimited When the satellite has completed its mission and is ready to be disposed of, an electrical signal from either the satellite or an independent timer unit ...
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January 24, 2020 'Significant Risk' Boeing-Made Satellite Could Explode in Orbit Washington: A Boeing-made satellite is in danger of exploding and needs to be moved away from an orbital zone occupied by other big communications satellites.
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A Fire at Firefly When Test Engines Were Fired Anomaly Under Investigation Upon firing up the stage’s engines a fire broke out in the engine bay at the base of the rocket’s stage. The five-second test was immediately aborted and the test facility’s fire ...
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Astroscale Benefits from a $4.5 Million Grant from Tokyo Metro Government for Orbital Debris Removal Services The project, which was launched last year, aims to subsidize up to half of the expenses required for the commercialization and development of...
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Rocket Lab's 'Birds of a Feather' Mission is Ready for National Reconnaissance Office ... be attempting a guided re-entry of Electron’s first stage through Earth’s atmosphere, a successful maneuver they achieved during their most recent mission, Running Out Of Fingers ...
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January 23, 2020 GHGSat to Offer Free Visualization of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions A service at no cost to those interested in visualizing greenhouse gas emissions will become a reality courtesy of Montreal-based GHGSat.
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Independent Analysis ...Near-Zero Drag for ThinKom Satellite Antenna Radome on Regional Jets "The smaller, lower profile antennas of the Ka2517 have enabled achievement of a new high-water mark in radome design,” David Lednicer, VP Eng. Aeromechanical Solutions.
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Boeing Exits DARPA Experimental Spaceplane Program Boeing confirmed there decision by stating that the company would redirect their investment from XSP to other Boeing programs that span the sea, air ...
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KRYTAR's New Directional Coupler Makes Market Entrance The Model 106040020 is uniquely designed for systems applications where external leveling, precise monitoring, signal mixing or swept transmission ...
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No 'Manned' Launches from the Forthcoming Baiterek Complex at the Baikonur Cosmodrome The minister explained that, "’unmanned’ means that cosmonauts will not go into space from this launch site — there will be no pilots...
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Globalsat Group to Ride the Rails in Brazil Globalsat Group will provide a solution leveraging satellite connectivity from Inmarsat and Cobham connectivity terminals. This solution will connect ...
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Mission Critical Connectivity for Palmer Station in the Antarctic from SES GS, Artel and Leidos The satellite-based service will serve as the primary backbone for the sharing of leading year-round scientific research from the field to the...
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Forrester Reports: A 100 Million Euros Investment by the EU Commission into Arianespace + Nigeria OKs OneWeb The funding is good for 10 years and the cash is designed to help Europe maintain its strong place in supplying launch facilities to commercial...
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On-Orbit Tests for EDRS-C Completed — Airbus Now in Control After being delivered into its initial orbit by an Ariane 5 launcher, EDRS-C made its way to its final geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometres above Earth...
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January 22, 2020 UPDATED: Emerging from Stealth Mode, Skylo's Series B Round of Funding Garners $103 Million Skylo will bring instant, affordable and ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to millions of machines, sensors and devices, even in the most...
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U.S. DoD Contractor Orders $2.9 Million for Comtech EF Data Satellite Modems The DMD2050E Satellite Modem is designed to comply with the widest possible range of U.S. Government and commercial standards and is...
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U.S. Space Development Agency Soliciting Pitches for Surveillance Satellite Constellation Builds The SDA is responsible for unifying and integrating next-generation space capabilities to deliver the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA), a...
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New SAR Smallsat Platform Debuts from Capella Space According to the company, the enhanced technology package will deliver the most advanced offering for small satellite SAR imagery on the market....
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Dawn Aerospace Signs MOU for Suborbital Flights The company has signed an MOU with the Waitaki District Council for suborbital flights out of Oamaru Airport, New Zealand...
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Collaboration Between Kymeta and Isotropic Networks for Next Generation Flat Panel Antennas Kymeta Testing occurred last week in the Seattle area on Isotropic's E115 network. Previous testing took place on the AM2 and G28 satellites on the...
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Japan to Form Its Own Space Force Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday Japan will form a space defense unit to protect itself from potential threats as rivals develop missiles and other technology ...
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The First All-Iodine Electric Propulsion Systems Delivered by Busek Company The compact, low power thruster system is a key enabling technology for a number of upcoming smallsat missions, including Lunar IceCube program...
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January 21, 2020 Kratos Defense & Security to Work on U.S. Army Advanced Comms Systems The GTACS II contract will provide an acquisition vehicle for Kratos’ broad array of communications technology, including satellite solutions for signal ...
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RUAG Space Amps Up Eutelsat's KONNECT Satellite for a New Gen of All-Electric Satellites The electric propulsion is necessary to bring the satellite exactly into its position and to maintain this position over the lifetime of several years.
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BAE Systems to Acquire Collins Aerospace's Military GPS and Raytheon's ATR Businesses The asset purchase agreement for the Collins military GPS business calls for cash of $1.925 billion, with an expected tax benefit of approximately $365 million.
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Collins Aerospace Assists Lockheed Martin to Achieve NASA's 'Boots on the Moon' Goal Valued at $320 million, the systems being provided by Collins Aerospace will play an important role in enabling NASA’s goal of 'boots on the Moon'...
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Maxar's SecureWatch GEOINT Platform Signed On to by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence DGeo will leverage SecureWatch to enrich its geospatial foundation data holdings and derivative product portfolio that aid critical decision-making...
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Firefly Aerospace and ISILAUNCH Sign Smallsat Launch Services Agreement Under the agreement, ISILAUNCH will offer to its customers multiple dedicated and rideshare launch opportunities on the Firefly’s Alpha launch...
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PAE's Prime Position Wins Seat on $5.1 Billion Army Technology Contract multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle to supply technology services and hardware support to develop a new tactical communication network for soldiers.
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PTC'20: Vision 2020 and Beyond Announces Awards "...the PTC awards are exploding in terms of industry participation and it’s a pleasure to be able to recognize the brilliant work going on in the ICT industry, and particularly that..."
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Aloha Mission Microwave! They Were Surprised PTC'20 Award Winners working in their California offices and pleasantly surprised when they learned that they won an award for Outstanding Satellite Company in Category I: Core Network Products and Services.
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January 20, 2020 Egypt is Set to Launch a Program for the Manufacturing of Small Satellites in Universities nine satellites launched into space from 1998 to 2019 by Egypt’s Nilesat and the Egyptian government, Egypt currently tops the chart for the highest number of satellites launched by an African nation.
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NSR Publishes Their Commercial Satellite Ground Segment, 4th Edition, Analysis and Report This is the first and only report to segment equipment shipments and revenues into STB, modems, antennas and RF Equipment...
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Gilat Satellite Approaching NIS 2 Billion Acquisition by Unnamed Multinational The deal’s value reflects a 25% premium on Gilat’s market capitalization on market open Sunday
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Transformation of the EO Industry Focus of Frost & Sullivan's Global Earth Observation Market Analysis While surveillance and analytics solutions are being derived from massive data mines delivering diverse solutions across markets, multiple start-ups...
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Iran Says Getting Ready for Satellite Launch Iranian officials did not acknowledge the mishap until satellite imagery showed the explosion, which officials blamed on a technical malfunction.
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Strategic Partnership Formed Between HawkEye 360 and Airbus This partnership enables HawkEye 360 and Airbus to fuse complementary data sets to maximize value to customers. Airbus will distribute HawkEye...
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Rocket Lab Gets their Ducks in a Row for National Reconnaissance Office's 'Birds of a Feather' Mission has delivered 47 satellites to orbit on the Electron launch vehicle, enabling operations in space debris mitigation, Earth observation, ship and airplane tracking, and radio comm
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Iran's Home-Made Satellite Zafar Ready for Launch Zafar is a 90 kg remote-sensing satellite equipped with colour cameras and can be used for surveying oil reserves, mines, jungles and natural disasters ...
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Florida's Governor Welcomes New Headquarters forwMade In Space to Jacksonville The headquarters relocation is part of a multi-year expansion program that has generated over 50 new positions in Jacksonville since January 2019.
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Kleos Space Geollect as a Channel Partner and Data Integrator Geollect will procure and integrate data from Kleos’ satellites as it becomes a global leader in dark vessel tracking capability whereas Kleos data will be...
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A Bridge to Somewhere ... Australian-UK Space Bridge Webinar ...influence an emerging mechanism that provides the framework for effective collaboration and co-development of the space industry between two nations; the UK and Australia.
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TCarta Developing ICESat-2 Bathymetric Product In 2018, NSF awarded TCarta a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to commercialize new satellite-derived bathymetric ...
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January 19, 2020 Global Smallsat Market Forecast to 2024 Published by ResearchAndMarkets The global nanosatellite and microsatellite (smallsat) market size is expected to grow from $1.5 billion in 2019 to $3.6 billion by 2024, at a...
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TriSept Rideshare Mission to Climb Aboard an Orbex Prime Smallsat Launch Vehicle With its expansion into the UK space market already underway, TriSept is building a multiple spacecraft manifest for a dedicated rideshare mission...
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Smart Smallsat Pony Express 1 Developed by Lockheed Martin Now On-Orbit and Performing Well Recently, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) launched the Pony Express 1 mission as a hosted payload on Tyvak-0129, a next-generation Tyvak 6U smallsat.
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Beam Hopping Tech to be Included in Upcoming Smallsat Launch Set for 2021 This new technology will pave the way for satellites with a higher level of flexibility to efficiently support peaks in demand without oversizing the...
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2nd Space Operations Squadron Sets SVN-74 Healthy and Active ...GPS III satellites have three times better accuracy and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities than their predecessors, and a design life extending 25 percent ...
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USAF's 2nd Space Ops Sets Satellite Vehicle Number 74 as Healthy and Active The GPS III vehicle family provides new capabilities vital to ensuring the fidelity of the constellation and signal in the contested, degraded and operationally limited environments.
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January 16, 2020 "And We are Off" ... Arianespace Sends Telecommunication Satellites Soaring for Eutelsat and ISRO "And we are off, Ariane 5 is blazing a trail across the equatorial skies," said the announcer... for Arianespace's first flight of the new year and new decade ...
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Two Satellogic Smallsats Engage in Trip to LEO Placements This launch is but the first of many planned such events scheduled for 2020. Satellogic is excited by how the company has grown alongside the...
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March Lift-Off for UAE's Falcon Eye 2 Satellite The UAE will be launching the second version of its military satellite early March, about seven months after a European rocket lost the first one in space.
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Pence Swears In First Chief of Space Operations at White House Event "I was around when the President made that decision and I can tell you, he never hesitated. He knew right away there was no one more qualified or more prepared ..."
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‘Operating in Space: Current Multilateral Policy Issues and Challenges’, by Her Excellence Kara Owen, British High Commissioner to Singapore This should provide inspiration for discussions on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space under the UN Disarmament Committee in New York and the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva.
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In-Space Missions Service and a 10 Million Euros ESA Program In-Space has had commercial success with the Faraday 1st Generation (F1G) service that has attracted large space primes, start-ups and...
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Advantech Wireless Technologies Launches Olympus Terminals The four terminal types include redundant and phase-combined-redundant system configurations, designed to deliver the highest level of RF...
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Smallsat Expertise: The SmallSat Symposium's Exceptional Speaker Lineup This comprehensive assembly of industry leaders will present keynotes, technical briefs as well as market briefs in an engaging and balanced...
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OneWeb's Comms Services to Cover Alaska via Agreement with Pacific Dataport The collaboration will enable delivery of OneWeb’s high speed, low latency, communications services across Alaska. This agreement marks a key...
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SpinLaunch Receives $35 Million Investment The responsive launch system uses a large mass accelerator to provide on demand launches of smallsats in virtually any weather at an order of...
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Satcoms Innovation Group and Goonhilly Earth Station Host SIG Annual Workshop 2020
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In Africa, it will also be used in conjunction with public Wi-Fi terminals so that several users can share internet access, which will be marketed as coupons that can be paid using a mobile phone.
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January 15, 2020 Space Milestones: Here are the Missions to Look Forward to in 2020 It will also, if successful, be the furthest distance from Earth that a spacecraft which is capable of carrying humans has ever flown. The Orion spacecraft is comprised of the ...
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Plant-e and Lacuna Space Provide Plant Power as Energy Source for Smallsats Combining the innovative energy harvesting technology developed by Plant-e with the extremely power efficient devices from Lacuna Space...
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Telesat's LEO Satellite Constellation, Ball Aerospace and General Dynamics Mission Systems Enlist Their Services for U.S. Air Force A key priority for military planners is having access to a proliferated commercial LEO satellite system that can be far more robust and resilient in the event of attack versus ...
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Formal Authorization Received by Iridium from IMSO to Provide GMDSS Service The Letter of Compliance was formally presented to Iridium CEO Matt Desch by the Director General of IMSO, Captain Moin Ahmed, during a...
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TriSept's Full Manifest for 2022 Aboard Orbex Prime's Reusable Small Satellite Launcher ... up to 30 percent lighter than other small launch vehicles, utilizes bio-propane, a clean-burning, renewable fuel that cuts carbon emissions by 90% compared to traditional fuels.
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World Teleport Association's Top Operator Rankings for 2019... Global 20, Independent 10, and Fast 10 A new year and new decade, and with these milestones, so it is that the World Teleport Association (WTA) published its annual rankings for the Top Teleport Operators of 2019.
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Lockheed Martin Ships JCSAT-17 to Launch Site JCSAT-17 will provide flexible mobile communications services to users in Japan and the surrounding region. Arianespace will launch JCSAT-17 from ...
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Comtech EF Data's $4Million Satellite Modem Contract from U.S. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command This latest delivery order, against the $59.0 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (“IDIQ”) contract, is for $4.0 million.
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China Lofts Remote Sensing Satellite and Two Argentinian Smallsats The satellite, belonging to the Jilin-1 satellite family (also named Red Flag-1 H9) was launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 10:53 a.m., Beijing...
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January 14, 2020 Arianespace Completes Payload Integration for GSAT-30 Satellite This satellite was positioned on the assembled Ariane 5’s core cryogenic stage during activity inside the Spaceport’s launch vehicle Final Assembly...
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Scientist Invents New 'Light Sail' that Could Speed-Up Space Travel, Help Reach Closest Star to Sun would be able to reach the nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, in about 21 years, despite being a daunting 4,244 light-years away from Earth.
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Orbit Communication Systems Debuts Multi-Purpose Airborne Terminal The compact Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) 30WGX, featuring a 30 cm. (12-inch) antenna, will be able to deliver high-throughput wideband...
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Northrop Grumman to Rapidly Develop Open Architecture Radio for U.S. Air Force ... SPOC solution will provide the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center with an air-to-ground and air-to-air communications capability across four radio frequency waveforms ...
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How Would the Space Force Wage War? " ... are unable to do that, which has prompted military officials to warn that China and Russia could easily shoot them down, jam their signals, or blind their cameras.”
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New Space Force Chief to be Sworn in Tuesday at White House "The Space Force will help us deter aggression and control the ultimate high ground."
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Airbus Going with Arianespace Soyuz Rather than Vega for Falcon Eye 2 Launch Arianespace stated that this change in launch vehicles is not due to the grounding of the Vega that was resultant of the United Arab Emirate's...
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Forrester Reports: A 2020 Boom for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) ISRO saw overall revenues last year (financial year 2018-2019) of some $255 million. ISRO says that for 2020 that revenue could rise to more than...
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New HQ for Rocket Lab Construction on Rocket Lab’s Long Beach Complex has begun, with the facility scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2020. The...
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Tyvak's 6U Smallsat Achieves Mission Success The modular design of Tyvak's new smallsat platforms allows spacecraft to be configured and manufactured in a few months for missions from 10 to 290 kg...
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January 13, 2020 Septentrio GNSS Tech to Integrate with NXP's V2X V2X technology enables cars to communicate with infrastructure as well as other vehicles, making driving safer and more efficient. It enables cars to...
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Clumps in Space? NASA's Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter ... found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result confirms one of the fundamental predictions of the widely accepted "cold dark matter" ...
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Satellite Vu's New Views ... Office Relocation and Upcoming Events Their satellites will provide users with unprecedented data that will help business make better decisions based on their new infrared satellite imagery insights.
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Expectations: 2020 Satcom Finance Trends Some trends as voiced last year are fairly clear – the wholesale lease vs. service debate has been put to rest in a telecommunication economy...
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Dutch Researchers are Spot On Tracking Sargassum Seaweed with Globalstar Satellite
Dutch researchers fit drifter buoys with SPOT Trace in order to understand the source of the dramatic increase in Sargassum seaweed.
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ANGELS Satellite's Successful Payload
The beacon sending the first signals picked up by the instrument was on a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of Australia.
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A New Decade — A New Satellite Industry The Keynote for this years 2020 SmallSat Symposium will be delivered by Lieutenant General John F. Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile...
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SpaceFund's First Three Investments Announced SpaceFund is excited to continue to grow the firm's portfolio in 2020 and the first fund is still open for investment...
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Putin's “Satellite Killer” Broke Up In Space ... equipped to hit land- and sea-based targets with long-range precision weapons such as hypersonic missiles, possibly clearing the way for Navy vessels in the event of conflict.
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Thaicom Chatting with Foreign Firms Regarding Partnerships The deals are expected to be concluded this year, with operations kicking off next year, according to Thaicom Chief Executive Anant Kaewruamgvongs...
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The Amazonas Nexus Satellite Build for HISPASAT to be Initiated by Thales Alenia Space The new High Throughput Satellite (HTS) will enable HISPASAT to access new customers and markets, by delivering high capacity mobility services to...
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David Calhoun Now Taking Charge at The Boeing Company He has now assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of The Boeing Company...
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Maxar Satellites Capture, Even Through Smoke, Australian Fire Disasters With one of Maxar’s satellites (WorldView-3), however, the team is able to penetrate through the smoke using the spacecraft's Shortwave Infrared...
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Asia-Pacific to be the Leading Region for 5G Tech Adoption An analysis of GlobalData’s Asia Pacific Mobile Broadband Forecast Pack reveals that APAC will be the largest region followed by North America...
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Thuraya to Present Satellite Solutions at the 12th International Petroleum Technology Conference Visitors to IPTC 2020 will be able to view and test Thuraya’s voice, broadband and IoT/M2M solutions for land, maritime and aero platforms at ...
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New Venture in 2021 ... OneWeb and SatixFy Will Launch a Digital Technology Pathway Payload This combination of features enables significantly higher throughput to designated areas within satellite coverage, while continuing to meet all national security concerns.
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January 10, 2020 Frequency Electronics' Rubidium Atomic Clock Passes Muster Possibly for U.S.A.F.'s GPS IIIF Satellite The Air Force’s GPS IIIF satellites will add new capabilities, technology and resiliency to the next-generation GPS III satellites currently in production and launching to help ...
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January 9, 2020 Boeing and NASA are Forming an Investigation Team to Figure Out Cause of Spacecraft Mishap But the Starliner never made it to the space station. A glitch with the capsule’s internal clock prevented the Starliner from burning its engines at the right time during flight.
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Is It Terminal? Mess Threatens DoD SATCOM Multi-Domain DoD currently maintains 17,000 terminals with "approximately 135 different designs. Those terminals operate across diverse platforms such as ships, backpacks, vehicles all with differing ...
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Celestia Technologies Group Gathers Antwerp Space into their Fold The Celestia Technologies Group is a pan-European network of SME’s based on innovation and development of high technology products for the...
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Euroconsult's Report Forecasts Commercial Space Revenues to Reach $485 Billion by 2028 Satellite operations and services lead growth with five percent annual increase over the next decade. Manufacturing, launch and ground segment projected to grow four percent annually
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South Korea's Chollian-2B Satellite Scheduled for February Launch by Arianespace The Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) stated that this is the first time a GEMS (Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer) has...
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WTA's Tier 3 Certification of PlanetCast’s New Delhi (Noida) Teleport PlanetCast commented on the development saying that they operate the largest teleport in this part of the world and they are providing services to top broadcasters across ...
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Advantech Wireless Technologies Receives Millions for a FlyAway SATCOM Terminal Order The Engage Class Flyaway Terminal Solution includes the most advanced SATCOM technology. This flexible and transportable satellite terminal is a...
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SD Satellite Distribution Agreement Received by SES from Medien Gruppe RTL Deutschland The complete, free, TV channel package of the Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland will continue to be available via SES’s ASTRA satellites at the...
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January 8, 2020 Speedcast and Blue Arcus Technologies Provide 4G LTE Mobile Network to Australia's Norfolk Island Using Speedcast's 4G LTE network infrastructure and satellite backhaul solutions, the operator is empowered to deliver faster broadband speeds and enhanced mobile services.
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NASA’s TESS Mission Reveals Its First World With Two Stars “About three days into my internship, I saw a signal from a system called TOI 1338. At first I thought it was a stellar eclipse, but the timing was wrong. It turned out to be a planet.”
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Canadian Start-up, SkyWatch, Raises US$7.5 Million [$10M CAD] Makes Satellite Data Easy to Access enables application developers to programmatically integrate satellite imagery into any software application with an industry-leading user experience.
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Year in review: A Successful Year Ensures Space Superiority “The addition of this satellite to the protected communications constellation further promotes Schriever and America as being the masters of space,” 1st Lt. Scott Podlogar ...
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China's First Launch of 2020 Lofts Mystery Payload Chinese state media claimed the mysterious spacecraft has a communication and television broadcast mission, but analysts believe it could enter service for the Chinese military.
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Satellogic Will Launch Two New Earth Observation Satellites as It Expands Operations The company's overall goal is to provide not only Earth imaging to its customers, but also analytics and insights derived from the data gathered by its satellites.
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This Satellite Will Deliver Twice the Capability of the Current Constellation WGS-11+ enhances operational flexibility and performance to better serve the warfighter—the system will provide more coverage beams than the entire existing WGS constellation.
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Thales Alenia Space and Thales' Contract with French Defense for a Stratobus™ Type Platform The aim of the contract is to study the benefits of continuous stratospheric platforms to improve and expand France’s defense capabilities.
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In-Service Support Services for RADARSAT Constellation Awarded to Airbus As the designer and manufacturer of both the RCM and PE2 cryptographic subsystems, Airbus Defence and Space Limited was identified as the sole...
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January 7, 2020 NASA Reports: Ferocious Fires in Australia Intensify Over 4,000 people were forced to seek refuge on the beach and even boats in the water yesterday as deadly blazes closed in. The scene was described by residents as apocalyptic...
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Are China’s Civilian Satellites Being Used to Spy on a Japanese Airbase? Photographs of a Japanese military base have been published on Chinese social media, suggesting that China’s civilian satellites are being used to gather intelligence for military purposes.
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U.S.A.F.'s Space Force has a "Pitch Day" Scheduled for March As the newly-minted branch gets up and running, the 45th Space Wing, based out of Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Florida, is holding a...
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December Set for York Space Systems Launch of their Hydra Mission Series The Hydra series leverages York Space Systems' fully qualified operational spacecraft design and standardized payload interfaces, as well as an...
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Blue Canyon Technologies to Build Smallsat Bus for MethaneSAT MethaneSAT is a subsidiary of the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The donor-funded mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022...
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Satcoms Innovation Group's New Managing Director... She Already Plays Pivotal Role She has played a pivotal role within the group since 2011, in which time she developed and implemented membership and public relations strategies...
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Forrester Reports: U.S. C-Band Auction Could Culminate in Revenues of $50 Billion The Taiwanese bid reached a new record of $0.51 per Megahertz pop, which New Street analyst Vivek Stalam stated was 10 cents above the...
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2020 Shaping Up to be a Promising Year for Space Coast Rocket Launches Predicting the number of launches for an upcoming year is tricky business. Case in point: the Space Coast in 2019 was slated to host many more liftoffs than the 16 it actually saw,
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Envistacom's New Triple Patents Make 'Waves' Propelling Communications' Virtualization ...been issued three key patents related to technologies it has developed that enable real-time and continuous data to be processed in high performance heterogeneous ...
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A 40th Anniversary for Arianespace and a Successful 2019 The company recorded a solid operational and business performance in 2019 by orbiting 24 satellites with nine launches, while signing 14 launch...
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January 6, 2020 New Reports Focuses On 5G Services in North America The report discusses the different applications of 5G services in order to derive specific market estimates. The types of applications include URLLC...
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Aerospace Elects Three Members to Board of Trustees ... career in the Air Force spanned 39 years and numerous positions in staff, leadership, and command in nearly every operational tier of the Air Force.
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Forrester Reports: Iridium to Fund De-Orbiting Another 30 Old Satellites? Ninety-five Iridium craft were orbited between 1997 and 2002 and over time 30 of these malfunctioned.
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Umbra a Next Generation Space Company Prepares for Launch of SAR Microsatellite Once in space, Umbra’s antenna expands into a parabolic dish larger than the side of a small school bus, allowing Umbra to achieve unparalleled performance.
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NASA Loses Contact with Satellite Monitoring Mysterious Exoplanets
The briefcase-sized spacecraft was first of its kind to be deployed into Earth orbit in 2017 and spent three months “planet-hunting” by observing changes in the brightness of nearby stars.
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L3Harris 550 VSAT Fleet to be Upgraded for USSOCOM L3Harris will provide software, hardware and warranty upgrades that will extend the life of existing Hawkeye III Lite VSAT terminals and deliver...
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Get SAT's Dual SAT Terminal Achieves Successful Demo + Deployment via Inmarsat's Global Xpress Dual SAT provides an antenna diversity solution for mobility platforms where obstructions such as ship’s superstructures would cause blockage...
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Forrester Reports: A Busy Month for SpaceX with a Launch Today This first launch of the new year is just the start of a heavy schedule for Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The company is planning another three launches in...
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Twenty-Three Countries Setting the Pace for 5G C-Band Spectrum Auctions C-band refers to spectrum in the 3300 to 4200 MHz frequency range offering an optimal balance between coverage and capacity. 5G...
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New Year New Launches ... Success for SpaceX's Starlink 2 ... orientation changes and the satellites become significantly less visible from the ground. On this flight, SpaceX is also testing an experimental darkening treatment on one satellite ...
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Blue Origin Opens Their Operations Hub The facility is Blue Origin’s hub of operations as the firm continues to grow their team...
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January 5, 2020 Consortium Pays Maxar CAD$1 Billion for Sale of MDA The transaction includes all of MDA’s Canadian businesses, encompassing ground stations, radar satellite products, robotics, defense, and satellite...
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Commercial Technology Leveraged by SMC to Enable WGS-11+ to Deliver 2x Capabilities The SMC Production Corps and Portfolio Architect’s Mission System Integration team jointly championed a successful first-ever, cross-corps...
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Israel Aerospace Industries Set to Build Satellite for Israel Dror-1 will be a national communications satellite that has a life expectancy of at least 15 years. According to the agreement signed between Israel...
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Forty Satellite Launches Projected for China in 2020 The highlights of the space activities include the launch of China's first Mars probe, the Chang'e-5 lunar probe, which is expected to bring moon samples...
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January 2, 2020 Sierra Nevada Corporation and Air Force Research Lab a Step Closer to Rocket's Reality The overall size of the engine is also drastically smaller in comparison with traditional combustion upper stage engines, making it up to 50 percent cheaper.
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Apple Considering iSats... With the numerous reports now filtering to the internet, Apple's secret is "out"...
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Brazil and China's EO Satellite and Smallsats Driven into Orbit The China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite 4A was launched via a Long March 4B rocket from the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, the official...
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FCC Gives OK To SpaceX for More Satellites FCC's International Bureau granted SpaceX’s request to modify its initial authorization and allowed SpaceX to: (1) reduce the number of satellites in the constellation from 4,425 to 4,409;
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GAO's Analysis Regarding the DoD's Wideband SATCOM Processes DoD's analysis concluded that integrating military and commercial systems into a hybrid architecture would be more cost effective and capable than...
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Russian Rokot Pushes Three Smallsats Plus a Military Satellite to Orbit The Rokot light carrier rocket was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region) and delivered three Gonets-M communications...
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Key Allied Space Partnerships Expanded by USSPACECOM USSPACECOM maintains strong international alliances and partnerships to conduct operations in and through the space domain.
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OneWeb Satellites Launch Deferred to January 30 A total of 34 satellites will be launched via the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Fregat-M booster...
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January 1, 2020 Boeing-Built WGS-11 Targets 2024 for Delivery for USAF WGS provides dedicated high capacity broadband communications connectivity to U.S. and allied forces around the world and Boeing has been...
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Boeing's New Leadership... a President and CEO and a Chairman of the Board ... decided that a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in Boeing moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other ...
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