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October 29, 2009 NSS-12 and THOR 6 Successfully Blast Off To Orbit Via Ariane 5 Arianespace has successfully launched the Ariane 5 ECA with its twin passengers, NSS-12 and THOR 6, from the Spaceport in French Guiana. More to follow after the captured video is processed for viewing...
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A Better Microsoft Image Via DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to launch the Clear30 program, an initiative to distribute high-resolution, 30-cm aerial imagery of contiguous landscapes, initially in the U.S. and Western Europe.
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In Kazakhstan, Gilat Brings Backhaul To KT's SATCOM Net Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.'s long-time customer Kazakhtelecom JSC, (KT) has now added the Company's cellular backhaul solution to its SATCOM network.
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Helping NOAA To Help You NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco would like your help on December 2nd to help her chart NOAA’s future.
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Up + Down Is Paradise With New RBCs Paradise Datacom has released their complete line of indoor rack-mount block converters (RBC).
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KVH's New Compact HD7 Offers Maritime Magic There’s a new definition for satellite television at sea and it’s called the TracVision? HD7 from KVH Industries (Nasdaq: KVHI).
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Another Stormy Scare For The Philippines... Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31st.
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digiGO! — The DIgital (R)Evolution™ — Telmap Telmap has used its unique navigation technology and NAVTEQ’s global map data to bring a comprehensive mobile search, mapping and navigation solution for the iPhone, enabling mass adoption of mobile navigation.
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GOCE Going Good As An Earth Explorer The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) spacecraft, developed and built by Thales Alenia Space for the European Space Agency (ESA), has completed its in-orbit commissioning and calibration phase, by successfully passing an in-flight test review last week.
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No Twoways About It Eutelsat's Tooway Wins Ireland's Vote Eutelsat Communications [Euronext Paris: ETL], a prominent Europeon satellite operator, today announced that its Tooway™ satellite broadband service has been chosen under Ireland’s National Broadband Scheme to deliver high speed broadband connectivity to homes and businesses in rural Ireland.
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Government IT Market Conference Next March GovSec, U.S. Law, produced by 1105 Government Information Group for the government information technology (IT) market, will be held March 23-24, 2010, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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Diving Into The African Market Is IEC Telecom's New Sub IEC Telecom Group in Paris, an International Service Provider for Thuraya, Inmarsat, Iridium and SpeedCast (Vsat), with its subsidiaries SAFA Telecom in Dubai and DEVOR Technologies in Singapore, has established a new entity, ASTEC Telecom, operating from Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo.
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3 Ways To Bring Ireland’s Mobile Broadband And Jobs! Ireland’s mobile broadband provider 3, has today announced that it has awarded a contract to Satellite Broadband Ireland to provide satellite broadband services to homes and businesses in rural Ireland, under the Government’s National Broadband Scheme.
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October 28, 2009 Demo Day In Egypt For Thuraya Thuraya Telecommunications Company has introduced their satellite phone and the smallest portable satellite broadband terminal in Egypt.
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What Do Spaceport Investments In New Mexico + Sweden Have In Common? In January 2009, Spaceport Sweden and Spaceport America signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the aim to develop, in parallel, as sister spaceports.
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Soon To Spatially Sail — SMOS The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch a new environmental satellite on November 2nd — the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will measure soil moisture over the Earth's landmasses and salinity over the oceans.
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Financially Speaking... Liberty Media Corp... John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. has received approval from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for a tax-free split-off of its Liberty Entertainment unit ahead of a merger with DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV.O).
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Aviation Grounding — With ARINC ARINC Incorporated has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Aviation Data Communications Corporation (ADCC) of China to further develop its advanced aviation data link (GLOBALinkSM) communications for the Asia Pacific region and its customers.
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Digital Cinema Projector Brings intoPIX Into The Picture intoPIX, a leading JPEG 2000 solutions provider, has announced NEC Display Solutions has integrated intoPIX JPEG 2000 technology into their DLPTM Cinema projector.
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Clouds Ahead @ PTC'10 — WTA + SSPI To Guide Attendees With Info... At the upcoming PTC'10 conference in Hawaii, WTA and SSPI will host a half-day workshop, sponsored in part by Globecomm Systems, on January 17th.
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SATCOM Suppliers Better Get Familiar With Adds To IT Schedule 70 For GSA + DISA Satellite service providers met with government procurement officials October 22nd to hear details about the upcoming US$5 billion, 10-year Future ComSatCom Services Acquisition, and to proffer questions and concerns about this acquisition that could become a model for others to come.
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Bundeswehr Bets On Heron UAV For Afghan Ops Germany has added itself to the countries leasing UAV services for the Afghan conflict — the country signed a contract with Rheinmetall Defense and their partners at Israel Aerospace Industries to provide an unspecified number of Heron UAVs as the SAATEG (System zur Abbildenden Aufklarung in der Tiefe des Einsatzgebietes).
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SatCom Africa 2010 Attendance Reminder... Network, relax, and do business at SatCom Africa 2010, a dedicated networking experience. The Conference runs from April 12 through 15th, 2010, and the Exhibition from April 13th to 14th, all at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event offers attendees the perfect surroundings to relax with fellow industry colleagues during lunches, receptions and breaks.
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Jumpin' Jupiter! Barret Xplore Grabs Hughes Capacity... Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) and Barrett Xplore Inc. have committed to acquire and operate more than 10 Gbps of capacity on Jupiter, a nexgen, high-throughput satellite from Hughes.
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October 27, 2009 Spatial Sensings: The Devil Is In The Details... This high-resolution picture from the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)shows twisting dark trails criss-crossing light-colored terrain on the Martian surface.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Raytheon + BBN Technologies... Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has completed its acquisition of BBN Technologies, a leader in research and development and provider of critical solutions for national defense and security missions.
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Boeing's Financial$ Boeing [NYSE: BA] Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney reports that the board of directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of forty two (42) cents per share, payable December 4 to shareholders of record as of November 6.
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DMCii Is Tops In Their Field Monitoring The Fields For U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture Remote sensing solutions provider DMCii has [today] been approved as a supplier of satellite imagery to the Office of Global Analysis, USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service (OGA USDA FAS) through its procurement agency Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC).
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Great Energy As First Anniversary Of NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope It's been one year, and so NASA will conduct a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 28, to discuss the first-year science results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
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Moving On Up @ QinetiQ North America Mission Solutions Group QinetiQ North America announced the appointment of David F. Toomey III as Senior Vice President for Cyber Operations in the company's Mission Solutions Group.
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Repeat Renewing Rewards Of Globe Wireless and SingTel Globe Wireless has renewed its reseller agreement with SingTel, a major Asian communications group and a founding partner of Inmarsat services.
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Orbital Sciences Financial Result$ Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2009.
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Awarding Educational Moves By Hughes Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) announced that its Brazilian operating unit, Hughes do Brasil, will receive the WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) Award for the distance learning project developed for the Education Department of the State of Amazonas (SEDUC-AM).
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iDirect SatBroadband Svcs Reaching MENA + Asia Via NSS-6 iDirect, a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has announced that IDMI, the international arm of Lebanon’s leading Internet Service Provider, IDM, has launched an iDirect-based satellite broadband service covering the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia.
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Bringing 3D Sportscast To Mexican Soccer Fans Is IDC + Sensio International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) and SENSIO Technologies Inc. ("SENSIO") (TSX VENTURE:SIO) have announced their solution for 3D live events was selected and deployed by Mexico's Televisa for the historic first public broadcast of a live soccer game.
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SatBroadcasting: Atlantic Bird 3 Bringing More France 3 To Viewers France Televisions has signed a long-term contract with Eutelsat Communications to broadcast the regional channels produced by France 3 on the Atlantic Bird™ 3 satellite located at 5 degrees West.
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Financially Speaking... Iridium Communications... Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has engaged Goldman, Sachs & Co. as its lead global advisor on the financing of Iridium NEXT, the company's nexgen satellite constellation.
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Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation... Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 ended October 2, 2009, was US$1.20 billion, compared with US$1.17 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2009.
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Get A True Clue With GVF Hughes Installation Course GVF is pleased to announce that development of course GVF503H is complete and it is now available for registration at http://gvf.coursehost.com.
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Readiness Review Reports All Ready For Ariane 5 Launch On The 29th... Arianespace's sixth Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has been approved for its October 29th liftoff following the launch readiness review on October 27th performed at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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October 26, 2009 SkyTrac Shows Solutions At Air Medical Transport Conference SkyTrac Systems will be exhibiting at the Air Medical Transport Conference in San Jose, California, from October 26-28.
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2020 — ISS Should Be Maintained, Say The Experts The Space Foundation has strongly recommended the United States keep the International Space Station (ISS) functioning until at least 2020 and beyond, if possible.
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Smashing The Distance Record By A Billion Light Years — 'Newest' Old Galaxy Combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes has revealed the most distant galaxy cluster, to date.
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Indian ITAT Makes Life Difficult For "Foreign" SatCos A special bench of the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), New Delhi, last Friday held that fees paid by Indian broadcasting companies to
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Bezeq Has A Something To Smile About... The controlling shareholders of Bezeq, the Israeli telecom provider, definitively agreed Sunday to sell their 30.6 percent stake to Smile Communications Ltd. for 8 shekels (US$2.17) a share, or 6.5 billion shekels (US$1.76 billion).
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Bolivia Gains A Satellite The Bolivian government, China's Great Wall Industry Corporation, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), have all signed an memorandum of understanding to construct and post a satellite in orbit.
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iPhone Home — For NASA A NASA App for the iPhone and iPod touch is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.
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SatBroadcasting: SIS Cements In The Commonwealth Games Britain's Satellite Information Services (SIS) have the multi-million pound contract to produce and broadcast next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi for India's public broadcaster Doordarshan, it has been officially announced.
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Thrane & Thrane Filtering Finds Flight Folk With Happy Hailing Thrane & Thrane has received Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) for its unique Iridium Filter.
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SatVideo Services Tested By First Responders In Bay Area IP Access International provided a demo of their new satellite video communication services with a weekend web-broadcast of Urban Shield 2009.
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Tactical Communications Get A C-THRU From GD UK + Bubblephone General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited and Bubblephone Ltd. have demo'd to senior MoD officials the C-THRU network optimization software running on the Bowman military communications network.
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Thales Alenia Space' Corot Continues Cruising... Thales Alenia Space is well pleased with the decision by French space agency CNES, in agreement with its national partners, to extend the operation of the Corot satellite for an additional three years.
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Global Hawk Now Into NASA Research Flights NASA and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) have completed the initial flight of a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to be used for environmental science research.
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Financially Speaking... SES S.A... SES is report the Company's third quarter revenue rose 2.4 percent (versus prior) to 416.3 million euros, while a continued focus on cost control, coupled with the achievement of targeted efficiencies arising from the SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES combination, contributed to the 4.0 percent rise in reported EBITDA to 294.1 million euros.
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New Chairman At ISRO Newly appointed ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said on October 26th it was a great challenge to head the country's space agency, considering the high expectations from various quarters.
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Harris' Quarterly Return$ The Board of Directors of Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS], an international communications and information technology company, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 22 cents per share on the common stock, payable December 4, 2009, to shareholders of record November 20, 2009.
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Moving On Up... White Label Space... Christos Merkouris has joined White Label Space to advise the team on how best to take advantage of new nanotechnologies for nano-spacecraft.
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First Class Service — Thomson's IPTV Technology Goes Sky High Thomson [NYSE?: TMS], a worldwide leader of services to content creators, today announced that it has signed a long-term contract with LiveTV for the development of a live TV broadcast system for aircraft.?
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Trans-Atlantic Paddling With Iridium OpenPort Iridium OpenPort(R), the newgen maritime high bandwidth satellite communication service from Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM), won rave reviews from the participants in the recently completed Cap Odyssee Challenge.
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Avanti Has Strategic Partnership + Hughes Has HYLAS Avanti Communications Group plc (AIM: AVN) announces a contract win and major strategic partnership with Hughes Network Systems.
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Orbit Is Right On Track With Tracking Systems for Israel's Defense Orbit Technologies has been awarded a $3 million order to provide a wide range of advanced tracking tactical systems for various applications, including UAVs, large aerial platforms, and radar system integration to two leading Israeli defense companies with a range of tracking solutions over the coming year.
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SatBroadcasting: Interactive TV Testing Is Eased With Softel + TSS Softel and Telecommunications Support Services (TSS) have announced a joint initiative to offer comprehensive testing services for developers of interactive television applications, based on the integration of Softel's MediaSphere platform with the TSS test suite.?
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Get Your Compressed Footage Together With Divergent Media — GeoCities Is Gone — GlobeCast Part Of Partnership With MSP — Kudelski Group Offers More Docs For OpenTV Takeover —
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New Angle Certified Online — Training Installers Of Hughes Broadband Sats Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), a worldwide provider of broadband satellite networks and solutions, announced the launch of a new online training course, “GVF503H – Hughes Terminal Installation” in collaboration with the GVF and SatProf.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Pop, Snap, Hum Buzz All Gone! —
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SatBroadcasting — Ascent Media Singapore OmniBus Work On Playout — Showing Off @ TelcoTV 2009 Is Amino Communications — Appear TV's SC2000 Appears In Ukraine —
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Thales Alenia Space Taking Ball To Iridium NEXT Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Thales Alenia Space have agreed to work jointly on the nexgenn satellite constellation Iridium NEXT program.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Consider The Caldera... More than 9,000 years ago, a catastrophic volcanic eruption created a huge caldera on the southern end of Onekotan Island, one of the Kuril Islands, located off the southern tip of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
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Surfaceless Sub Comms Successfully Sail Thru With Lockheed Martin PDR A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led industry team recently completed a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the U.S. Navy’s Communications at Speed and Depth (CSD) program, essential to providing real-time, two-way communications to submarines without having to surface to periscope depth.
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October 23, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Make The Mubai Move For Broadcast India Broadcast India 2009 Exhibition & Conference will be held from October 29 through 31, 2009, in Hall V at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.
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October 22, 2009 TruEarth Imagery Into MapMart TerraMetrics, Inc., a developer of high-precision terrainrendering technologies and global satellite imagery for aviation, simulation, and geospatial markets, has announced that the company’s TruEarth 15-meter global satellite imagery is now available online through the MapMart.com website.
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Ariane 5 Has Double Duty Day Ahead On October 29th Arianespace's October 29 mission is now complete following the installation of its second payload — the NSS-12 satellite for telecommunications operator SES WORLD SKIES.
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Mitsubishi To Help Guide Cygnus Into The Future Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) has agreed with Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) to supply Proximity Link System (PLS) components to guide Orbital’s Cygnus Spacecraft to the ISS on nine re-supply missions for NASA.
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Being InControl Is A L-3 TW Specialty L-3 Telemetry-West (L-3 TW), which is a division of L-3 Communications, has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC) to supply a Command, Control, Communications, and Monitor (C3M) system used in factory testing on the GPS III Program.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Rumbling Ramil Resultant Rain In the Philippines... Typhoon Lupit (called Ramil in the Philippines) is already raining over the northern Luzon as of October 22.
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French Have A Harfang Hankerin' France has purchased six unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Canada and is currently in talks to buy another drone from the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.
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Korea's KAI's Kombat UAV Kaptures Krowds Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has unveiled an up-to-date tactical unmanned aerial vehicle using a parachute recovery system, the first of its kind in the country.
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Spoonbill UAV Makes The Grade For Taiwan An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) successfully completed its maiden flight, which was a new milestone in Taiwan's progress in the field, academic sources said Wednesday.
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Rockwell Collins Is A SCAMP For Canadian Nat'l Defense Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide Extended Data Rate (XDR) International Partners Variant (IPV) Single Channel Anti-jam Manportable (SCAMP) terminals to the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) for use with the U.S. Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites.
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SatBroadcasting: From Axia To Telos, Demos Abound @ Broadcast India 2009 Broadcast Professionals in India will get first-hand demonstrations of Telos, Omnia, Axia, and Linear Acoustic equipment at Broadcast India 2009 at booth H-803.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Tsunami — Turgid Terror... In the wake of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck on September 29, 2009, tsunami waves rolled onto the Tongan island of Niuatoputapu.
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DigitalGlobe Has A Deloitte Moment DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has been named to the Deloitte 2009 Technology Fast 500, an annual listing of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America.
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Financially Speaking... Juniper Networks... Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) has reported preliminary financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2009.
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SatBroadcasting: SatTV Channel For ASEAN Could Be Permanent Leaders of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) will launch the bloc's first satellite TV channel.
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October 21, 2009 Iridium Subsidiary Finds Mexico Open To MSS Iridium Communications Inc.'s subsidiary, Iridium Comunicaciones de Mexico SAPI de CV (“Iridium Mexico”), has received all necessary authorizations to operate, provide, and sell mobile satellite services (MSS) in Mexico.
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Syncing Military Network Ops Spectracom has introduced the SecureSync™ synchronization system at MILCOM 2009. Synchronization of field operations is critical for armed forces around the globe — virtually every network and communications system requires it.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Above The Archipelago... The European Space Agency offers this Envisat image capture of the Republic of Cape Verde.
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SatBroadcasting: Secure DTV Content To Rely On IPSoft Apps SecureMedia, who develops open content protection software for secure video and multimedia delivery over IP networks, and Netris, a software development and integration company for IP communications, have announced the latest addition to the IPSoft™ Interactive Digital TV family that provides an end-to-end cutting-edge solution for secured multimedia delivery over Internet.
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Newtec's Elevation Heading Into Middle East + Central Asia Newtec announced that InSat GmbH, which has been operating its own hub and related infrastructure in Saarbruecken, Germany since 2000, has selected Newtec’s equipment for a new project in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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Ship Shape eMail Debuts From Vizada Vizada has launched SkyFile? Mail 7.5, the latest update to its email service for crew members to use on board ship.
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When SpaceX Says "Fire 'em Up" Things Get Hot! Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully conducted two static firings of the first stage, nine engine cluster for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
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Free Satellite Imagery To Battle Deforestation Across The Globe The UN food agency has announced it will make available satellite imaging free to developing countries to underpin avoided deforestation efforts, while a partnership of governments and space agencies announces a new system to produce comprehensive annual assessments of global forest changes.
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SAT Corp's Monic's Ops Called For By ViaSat Integral Systems, Inc.'s(Nasdaq: ISYS) wholly-owned subsidiary, SAT Corporation, has been selected to provide Satellite Monitoring and Interference Detection capability to broadband gateway Earth stations from ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) for the previously announced high-capacity KA-SAT Ka-band satellite system.
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U.S. Gov't Not Passive With COM DEV USA Contract For Passive Microwave Equipment COM DEV USA, LLC, [TSX: CDV], today announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of US$7 million to supply passive microwave equipment for a U.S. Government space program.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Carbon Catching The Heat — Tundra To The Rescue? Over thousands of years, the remains of plants (and animals) that never fully decomposed have become part of the frozen soil in Alaska, Canada, northern Europe, and Russia.
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Financially Speaking... Boeing Corporation... The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) reported a third-quarter net loss of $1.6 billion, or $2.23 per share, as revenues rose 9 percent to $16.7 billion.
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7K Icy Miles For AAI's Aerosonde UAV AAI Corporation's Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft and air crew participated in a six-week University of Colorado exploration of the cold, rough katabatic winds present on the coast of Antarctica.
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Moving On In... GMV... GMV has opened a new subsidiary in Poland. The new office will enable GMV to provide broader services to clients in Poland and to continue with its international expansion particularly in the areas of Transportation, Space, Defense and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
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Google This — Now Android's (Smartphone) Runs RATS Battlefield System Google [NSDQ: GOOG]’s Android mobile operating system is apparently good for more than making your smartphone fun and powerful.
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ISRO To Launch Dedicated Sat For Indian Navy In 2010 The Indian Navy is going to receive its own satellite, with footprint coverage across the Indian Ocean region.
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October 20, 2009 SatBroadcasting: 100 Percent Of ShopNBC's FootPrint Preserved ShopNBC (NASDAQ: VVTV) has successfully completed negotiations with its satellite and cable providers pertaining to the carriage agreements that had expired at the end of the calendar year 2008.
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Financially Speaking... Integral Systems... Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISYS)has reaffirmed fiscal year 2009 (FY 2009) guidance and has provided initial earnings guidance for fiscal year 2010 (FY 2010), which began on September 28, 2009. Management reaffirms its previous FY 2009 guidance for full-year earnings per share (EPS) of approximately $0.15 per diluted share, in line with previous guidance.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — 10G EPON Makes Its Way From Alloptic — Over The Top Agreement 'Tween Endavo Etisalat — Statmon Digital Nivrana's System Management P'ship — "A" Is For "Android" "Alex" —
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A Royal Presence For A Majestic Newtec MOU Signing Newtec is to sign a major Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) with Arabsat next Sunday, October 25th, in the Chamber of Commerce in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the event will be witnessed by HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium as part of his Royal visit to the Kingdom.
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Here's Looking @ Earth: It's All About Love... Field For WorldView-2 DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) released the first images from WorldView-2, the company’s most recent high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite.</fon
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RapidEye Has Good Energy — So Says New Partner Spatial Energy RapidEye, owner and operater of a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today they have entered into a new strategic partnership agreement with Spatial Energy to be one of their U.S. distributors providing RapidEye with access to the energy business.
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Moving On Up @ Orbit Technologies Orbit Technologies, a developer of advanced solutions for stabilized mobile satellite communications and tracking antennas announces the appointment of William (Bill) Thompson as its new Marine Satcom Sales Director for the Americas.
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Email For Airborne Folk With Latitude SkyNode Gateway Latitude Technologies has announced the SEG100 SkyNode Email Gateway, which provides WiFi aeronautical email access for crew and passengers.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Rock Band Goes Mobile — Version 5.0 Of eMedia' Guitar Method Now Playing — An HD Cloud Hanging Over Transcoding — Video Storage Server For RED Ops To Debut From JMR —
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SatBroadcasting: CTV OB Gains Snell Tech Broadcast television system design and integration specialist Neil Wilson Enterprises (NWE) has integrated Snell routing and control systems at the heart of a newly refurbished and upgraded HD unit for CTV Outside Broadcast (CTV OB), one of Europe's largest and most respected independent OB companies.
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SatBroadcasting: Mobile DTV Standard Approval Cause For Harris Celebration Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) applauds the Advanced Television Systems Committee’s (ATSC) official adoption of the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard A/153 for the delivery of over-the-air digital multimedia services to consumer devices.
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SatBroadcasting: EVS Is Sky High With Sky News Deal Sky News has signed a contract with tapeless technology specialist EVS to provide a server solution for its launch of Sky News HD in Spring 2010.
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Moving On Up... @ PCI Geomatics... PCI Geomatics has appointed Michael Hollis to the position of President and CEO of PCI Geomatics Corporation (USA).
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SatBroadcasting: Bluebell Brings In FOS For SIS LIVE's OB Vehicle Bluebell has shipped a comprehensive fibre optic system (FOS) to SIS LIVE, Europe's largest uplink and OB facility provider, as part of their new SISCaster HD compact OB vehicle.
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SatBroadcasting: Pilating Scripps Networks Pilat Media, a global supplier of business management software solutions to the media industry, announced Scripps Networks has gone live using their IBMS broadcast management system for five major brands — HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network, and Great American Country.
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SatBroadcasting: The New FlipFactory Flips Out Telestream debuts a major release for its FlipFactory server software products.
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ViaSat Airborne Mobile Broadband Gets Into A Bombardier ViaSat Inc (NASDAQ: VSAT) and Innotech Aviation, a newly appointed ViaSat airborne terminal reseller, have successfully completed the first installation of ViaSat’s high-speed broadband terminal on a Bombardier Global Express XRS aircraft.
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Military + Commercial Applications For Harris' New Airborne Encoder Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has introduced a new airborne-hardened encoder.
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COM DEV Delves Into $12 Million Civil Space Program COM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV], a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, announced its appointment to begin major subsystem development and manufacturing work for a civil space satellite.
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Two Billion Served An Earth observing satellite that provides new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols play in regulating weather, climate, and air quality has hit its target two billion times.
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Financially Speaking... Lockheed Martin... Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) has reported third quarter 2009 net earnings of $797 million ($2.07 per diluted share), compared to $782 million ($1.92 per diluted share) in 2008.
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Financially Speaking... C-COM Satellite Systems... C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI) has reported revenues of $2,058,613 for its third quarter ended August 31, 2009 and a net income of $358,460 or $0.011 per share compared with results from the same quarter last year, when total revenues were $2,395,134 and net income was $780,622, or $0.024 per share.
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Arian 5 Preps For Heavy Lifting Of Big Boy THOR 6 Payload integration of Arianespace's sixth Ariane 5 for launch in 2009 has begun at the Spaceport, with the mission's lower payload, THOR 6 for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, now installed atop the heavy-lift vehicle.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Rick Manufacturing Moisture For Mexico... Residents in southern Baja California, Mexico still haven't recovered from last month's Hurricane Jimena, and Tropical Storm Rick is now bringing rains to southern tip of the Baja.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Lupit Luzon Landfall Expected Soon... Typhoon Lupit is closing in on northern Luzon, the Philippines, and its center is expected to make a short landfall (of about 24 hours) there October 22 before heading into the South China Sea.
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AsiaSat 3S Talks-The-Talk — Non Stop, Round The Clock English Programs Asia’s satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) announced that Japan International Broadcasting Inc. (JIB), has signed a contract to deliver a free to air English language news and information channel, NHK WORLD TV, through AsiaSat’s C-band full transponder MCPC (Multiple Channels per Carrier) platform on AsiaSat 3S.
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Harris' New Encoder Increases Intelligence Value Of Video For UAVs Standing tall Harris Corporation [NYSE:HRS] introduced a new airborne-hardened encoder that more efficiently packages and transmits data and full-motion video gathered by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) during military missions.
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October 19, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Seamless HD Transmissions Studied By SatOpsGroup Of The WBU The World Broadcasting Unions International Satellite Operations Group (WBU-ISOG) released the results of an 18-month interoperability testing program, with participation by 12 leading HD encoder/decoder vendors, to ensure that HD video feeds are transmitted seamlessly.</font
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Lending Itself To LRIT Is CLS Thorium, Now USG Approved Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) and Iridium Communications Inc.(Nasdaq:IRDM) have announced that the U.S. Coast Guard has type-approved the CLS Thorium™ terminal for Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT).
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Canadian Sperwers Join The French Military France has accepted delivery of six unmanned air vehicles from Canada.
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African State Purchases Two Falcon Eye UAVs Israeli unmanned air vehicle manufacturer Innocon is offering to an "African state" a UAV based on a motor glider that it calls Falcon Eye.
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Throughput Doubled For DigitalSkys By XipLink At the GITEX conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, XipLink announced that DigitalSkys has commissioned an additional high value premium managed service offering, using XipLink’s core optimization technology, to typically double throughput for its customers across the Middle East, African and Asian markets that they serve.
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Ethereally Rising Out Of The Fog Is ULA's DMSP-F18 Launch For U.S.A.F. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the Air Force’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F18 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-3 here at 9:12 a.m. PDT.
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SE Asia Oil & Gas Comms Crucial Conference Is Upcoming! Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia 2009: Redefining the Digital Oilfield Onshore, Offshore, Deep & Ultra-Deepwater (O&GCSEA2009) will be the conference event for 2009 at which key issues on the current regional oil & gas upstream exploration and production (E&P), and downstream refining and distribution, communications and applications networking agenda will take top priority.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Rick Developing Into A Major + Dangerous Hurricane For Baja + SoCal Based on computer forecast models, the residents of southern and central Baja California should prepare over the weekend for now Tropical Storm Rick.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Lupit Looming As Major Typhoon + Heading For Philippines Three instruments on NASA's Aqua satellite captured views of Typhoon Lupit on its western track toward the Philippines and are helping forecasters get an idea of its strength and behavior. Lupit strengthened quickly in 24 hours from a tropical depression to a typhoon, between October 15th and 16th.
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Moving On Up... At Alcatel-Lucent... Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has appointed Nicolas Bouverot as vice president and head of the company’s business in the Middle East region.
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Ka-OTM SATCOM Specs Released By EMS Solutions EM Solutions announces preliminary specifications for a Ka-band On-The-Move Satellite Communications System being developed under Round 12 of Australia’s Defence Capability & Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program.
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Moving On Up... At RSCC... Denis Pivnyuk has been appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC).
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Moving On In... IsoTropic Networks... IsoTropic Networks Inc., a provider of international satellite communication services and managed hub operations, announced they have opened a new office in Carlsbad, California, to better serve its expanding customer base.
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DMSP-F18 Gets Its Boost From Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne helped boost a Lockheed Martin-built meteorological satellite for the U.S. Air Force into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)evolution™ — DTV Standard Approved By ATSC — Media 100 Suite Goes To v.1.1 — RED Rocket, Fusion Drive + More For Media Distributors —
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Project Plethora For O3B Networks Portfolio O3b Networks, the developer of a new fiber-quality, satellite-based, global Internet backbone for telecommunications operators and Internet Service Providers, announced the Company will be closing out Q3 of 2009 with approximately US$600 million in contracts for services and a customer base for each product in its portfolio.
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Diplomas For Piloting While Outside A Plane At U Of North Dakota A new undergraduate program designed to train unmanned aerial vehicle pilots and sensor operators is available at the University of North Dakota.
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Jetting Away With Thrane & Thrane Thrane & Thrane and Embraer have announced that the former's latest SwiftBroadband solution Aero-SB Lite is to be installed onboard the new Embraer Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 Executive jets.
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YahClick Could Be Going Live With Microsoft Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft Gulf to potentially offer YahClick online services based on Microsoft Live to Middle East, Africa, and South-West Asia.
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iDirect Brings New SatStructure To NYNEX iDirect, Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has announced that NYNEX Network Solutions (Nynex), a satellite network operator headquartered in Germany, has expanded its DVB-S2 broadband satellite service to accommodate growing business demand.
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Financially Speaking... DigitalGlobe... DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has announced that lock-up agreements entered into with its underwriters in conjunction with its initial public offering will be extended 18 days beyond the Company's November 9, 2009, earnings release.
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Airly Speaking, Satcom Direct's FDF Now Super Compatibile Satcom Direct has added new features to its FlightDeck Freedom™ (FDF) service, which includes compatibility with most aircraft datalink avionics, integration with Satcom Direct’s new flight tracking solution, and compatibility with even more flight planning systems.
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Going Vertical With New Identity, Thuraya Reveals New Look and New Sat Phone To mark major strategy shifts towards vertical markets and maintain its place in worldwide mobile satellite services, Thuraya Telecommunications Company today announced at GITEX 2009 a new corporate identity 'THURAYA stay close',and the global launch of its new satellite handheld, Thuraya XT.
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MILCOM 2009 Has Strong Showing In Boston From now through Wednesday, October 21st, MILCOM 2009 will be underway at the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Here are the events scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th...
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COM DEV International's Waterloo COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV), a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, has been named one of the top 15 employers in the Waterloo, Canada, area for 2010.
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Ion Thrust Propulsion Could Aid Mars => Earth SATCOM Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet.
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Net Neutrality Concerns Prompt Letter From Media Companies A number of prominent media companies sent a letter to the Federal Communication's Commission's Chairman on October 19th, requesting the agency to ensure net neutrality.
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Harris Has The Army Manpack Radio Deal The U.S. Army has selected Harris Corp. to deliver its Falcon manpack radio technology to address tactical radio requirements of military units.
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Of Northstar Interest — SATCOM Support From Broadpoint Broadpoint, a U.S.-based telecommunications and network solutions company, has received a contract extension and additional sites to be deployed with Northstar Interests, LLC, an exploration and production company in the Gulf of Mexico.
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U.S.A.F.'s SMC's Review Of DMSP-F18 Launch The successful launch on October 18th of the Space and Missile Systems Center's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 18 on an Atlas V rocket marked significant program milestones for both the Defense Meteorological Satellite and Atlas rocket programs.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Rick Becoming Recalcitrant + Lupit Looks Nasty Powerful tropical cyclones have developed recently on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.
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EC Drops Galileo Sat Order To 22 In Number The European Commission has reduced the number of satellites it expects to order this year to 22 for the Galileo program. The reduced order is being done to preserve the ability to modify the spacecraft design early in the system’s life, according to European government and industry officials.
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MUOS Makes The Grade For Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has demo'd the interface compatibility of the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite's dual legacy and nexgen Ultra High Frequency (UHF) communications payloads with ground user test terminals.
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GeoEye Getting The Word Out Via Gibraltar Gibraltar Associates, a public affairs agency providing counsel on global and domestic communications and issues management, has signed an agreement with GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY) to serve as the company's public relations agency of record.
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Getting Beneath SatImagery Surfaces Is Geosemble Geosemble Technologies, Inc., who embeds data in satellite and aerial imagery, announced that it will demonstrate its GeoXray™ system’s open source data integration capability for maps and satellite imagery at GEOINT (Geospatial Intelligence) 2009 in San Antonio, Texas, October 19 to 21, 2009.
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Two Sats To Study Climate Change On Tap By ISRO India will soon join a select space club by launching two dedicated satellites in polar orbit to study climate change through atmospheric research and detection of greenhouse gases, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said last Sunday.
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A Forte For AirMail Is EMS' Sky Connect Owners and pilots of business aircraft who want unfettered access to e-mail via their BlackBerry smartphones, iPhones and other handheld devices, will want to check out demonstrations of the Forte™ AirMail™ service, the newest offering from EMS Sky Connect, during the National Business Aircraft Association convention next week.
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Make Room For 32 New ExoPlanets! Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-meter telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS's position as the world’s foremost exoplanet hunter.
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SMOS + Proba-2 Sats Get A Lift Onto Breeze KM The Khrunichev/ESA/Space Forces/Eurockot launch team preparing a Rockot launcher to its November 2nd launch with ESA’S SMOS and Proba -2 spacecraft has successfully completed the spacecraft and rocket elements standalone checkouts and has started joint operations on assembling the Rockot Upper Composite (consisting of the spacecraft, adapter, Breeze KM upper stage and the fairing).
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Re-Upping With MEASAT Satellite Systems MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. signed an agreement with Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad (“TV3”) to extend its contract for the distribution of the TV3 channel on the MEASAT-3 satellite for a further five years.
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October 16, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Harris Trucks Out Broadcast Betterments Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has announced Metrovision Production Group selected the latest Harris 3 Gb/s-ready broadcast solutions — including the X50™ synchronizer and converter and Videotek? Compact Monitor Series — to outfit a new HD production truck the media services company is building in partnership with Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network.
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ATK Saves Weight With New Composite Crew Module For NASA Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials.
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SatBroadcasting: Legalizers From Eyeheight For Post + QA Eyeheight announces three additions to its wide range of modular broadcast and post-production equipment — the LE-2nM, LE-2nS and LE-2nU, fully-featured single-card legalizers housed in a rackmountable or free-standing half-rack-width 1 U chassis with external mains power supply.
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SatBroadcasting: Moving On in + Moving On Up... HaiVision... HaiVision Network Video is establishing a direct presence in Dubai, U.A.E., appointing Mohammed Ghafari as vice president of Middle East operations.
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Demo'ing SATCOM To Help Developing Nations Via SIGNIS iDirect announced that SIGNIS, the non-government World Catholic Association for Communication with members from 140 countries, has invited iDirect to participate in its 2009 World Congress event in Chiang Mai, Thailand, during October 17-21.
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Overwatch To Keep Any Eye On SATCOM Solutions For Yahsat Overwatch, an operating unit of Textron Systems, announced that its Communications Systems business has been selected by Astrium Limited of the United Kingdom to provide SATCOM solutions in support of Yahsat.
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Ethereally Rising Out Of The Fog Is ULA's DMSP-F18 Launch For U.S.A.F. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the Air Force’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F18 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-3 here at 9:12 a.m. PDT.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Rick Developing Into A Major + Dangerous Hurricane For Baja + SoCal Based on computer forecast models, the residents of southern and central Baja California should prepare over the weekend for now Tropical Storm Rick.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Lupit Looming As Major Typhoon + Heading For Philippines Three instruments on NASA's Aqua satellite captured views of Typhoon Lupit on its western track toward the Philippines and are helping forecasters get an idea of its strength and behavior. Lupit strengthened quickly in 24 hours from a tropical depression to a typhoon, between October 15th and 16th.
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October 15, 2009 SatBroadcasting: All Manner Of Broadcasters Covered In Study Research and Markets has added the AIB 2009 Global Broadcasting Sourcebook report to their offering. The Global Broadcasting Sourcebook is the definitive media directory for the international broadcasting industry — unique in that it covers TV, radio, cable, satellite, IPTV, and mobile worldwide in a single volume.
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Financially Speaking... Intelsat... Intelsat, Ltd. today announced that its subsidiary, Intelsat Jackson Holdings, Ltd. (“Intelsat Jackson”), intends to offer senior notes due 2019 (the “notes”).
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Lava Dome Larger On Montserrat... Soufri?re Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat had been quiet for months before bursting into life in early October, 2009.
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Show Spotlight: The MENA Movement Into IPTV As more telcos in the Middle East and Africa prepare to launch IPTV services, and others move past phase 1 of their deployment, the region's pay-TV industry appears to be undergoing a considerable change.
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SatBroadcasting: NewsForce Substantially Upgraded By Harris + Inscriber G5 Demos Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) is showcasing its latest digital technology solutions at HD World 2009. Among the presentations is Harris? NewsForce™ HD/SD production platform, which has now been upgraded.
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BAE Systems Controls The Power Of The World(View-2) Lots of responsibility as BAE Systems equipment governs command and control functions and provides electric power aboard DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite.
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3G/4G Support + Intelligence Into Military Mobile Comm Unit Tecore Networks has evolved their Military Secured Rapid Deployment System (MilSec-RDS), a multi-technology voice and data communications platform built for use by the armed forces.
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Thrane & Thrane Give Latitude Accreditation Latitude Technologies' new Universal Data Gateway product has achieved accredited solution status with Thrane & Thrane.
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Moving On Up @ (Multiple Moves) GeoEye GeoEye, Inc. [NASDAQ: GEOY], a provider of satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today the appointments of four new members of its financial team.
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SatBroadcasting: CTV's 2010 Olympic Winter Games Coverage Gains Harris Broadcasting Tech Expertise Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium announced it has selected Harris Corporation to deliver an end-to-end HD broadcast solution for the Consortium's suite of assets during its coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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RapidEye's New U.S. Incursion Via MapMart MapMart of Greenwood Village, Colorado, has signed on as a data distributor for RapidEye in the United States.
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FEMA Says "Track This" To Numerex + QinetiQ Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) is now part of the QinetiQ North America team that has been awarded a multi-year contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for full program management of Asset Tracking Services facilitating in-transit visibility within FEMA's Total Asset Visibility (TAV) Program.
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Spatial Sensings: A Violet Vision In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet.
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Globe Wireless Decides To Addvalue To Maritime Offerings Globe Wireless has signed a distribution agreement to sell Addvalue FleetBroadband equipment to its maritime customers.
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Geospatial Data Asset From PCI Geomatics Goes To COTESA PCI Geomatics has successfully delivered an operational automated system for the orthorectification, pansharpening, and mosaicking of large volumes of satellite imagery to COTESA, a privately held GIS company based in Valladolid, Spain.
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Latitude's Lightweight UDG Is A Heavyweight For Aircraft Latitude Technologies has added to their Latitude product family — the Universal Data Gateway “UDG100, a SwiftBroadband Inmarsat I-4 accessory device designed for aircraft systems integration, flight tracking and anomaly reporting.
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Moving On Out + Up... @ Space Systems/Loral... Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL), has announced that Patrick DeWitt will be appointed to the SS/L Board of Directors as its Chairman and will relinquish his duties as Chief Executive Officer at the end of the year.
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Moving On Up... @ Lockheed Martin... Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] announced its Board of Directors has elected Christopher E. Kubasik to serve as president and chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1, 2010.
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SatBroadcasting: Three HOT BIRD Transponders Taken Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) announces a further extension of its multi-year relationship with Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland’s leading pay-TV operator.
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SatBroadcasting: Tibetan language satTV Channel To Debut In China An 18-hour Tibetan-language satellite TV channel is expected to be launched on October 28 in southwest China's Sichuan Province, this according to a local official.
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Joint IP Modem Contract Calls For Continued Globecomm Production Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has announced the U.S. Army has exercised a $2.3 million contract option for the continued production of the Joint IP Modem (JIPM).
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LCROSS Lunar Impact Under Observation The LRO Diviner instrument obtained infrared observations of the LCROSS impact.
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October 14, 2009 Martian Mentionables With this NASA image, Noctis Labyrinthus is viewed.
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Fuel-Celling UAV Flight Is The Ion Tiger From NRL The Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 23 hours and 17 minutes, setting an unofficial flight endurance record for a fuel-cell powered flight.
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SatBroadcasting: TV Experiences Encompass FTA + Customized IPTV Deployments The IMS Research study — IPTV: A Global Market Analysis — reveals that nearly 13 percent of total worldwide IP set-top box (STB) shipments in 2008 were operator deployed IP DTT STBs.
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SatBroadcasting: Telairity Opens For Biz In China Telairity has opened an office in Beijing, marking the official expansion of Telairity's business operations into China and the entire Asia-Pacific region.
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TWTAs — Four Of Them — Are Xicom Tech's New Offerings For SATCOM Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., a developer of high power amplifier products for SATCOM, has announced new lightweight, high power, antenna-mount, traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) that expand the capabilities of broadcast and teleport operators.
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MV Belugas Broach Northwest Passage With Iridium SATCOM Shipping Solutions Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) and H2OSatellite provided critical satellite communications for Beluga Shipping's successful pioneering transit of the challenging Northeast Passage this summer.
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SatBroadcasting: Switching + Control @ News 8 Handled By Utah Scientific Utah Scientific announced News 8, the 24-hour cable news station in Austin, Texas, has installed a 144-frame UTAH-400 routing switcher and SC-4 control as the basis for a phased-in HD upgrade.
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Third WGS Sat Shipped To Canaveral AFS By Boeing For Launch This November Boeing [NYSE: BA] has indicated the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite built for the U.S. Air Force was shipped on September 28th to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be tested and prepared for a November launch.
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DMSP Due For Launch From VAFB On Sunday, October 18th The U.S. Air Force is set to launch its next Defense Meteorological Program satellite, DMSP Flight 18, from Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 3, Sunday, October 18.
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'Xilerating X-band Xecution @ SATCOM By Globecomm Systems Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) is introducing a new portable X-band satellite terminal at the SATCON 2009 exhibition and conference at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City on October 14 to 15.
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SatBroadcasting: It's All About The Altitude On Galaxy 17 Intelsat, Ltd. has signed a multi-year contract for satellite capacity with Altitude Sports & Entertainment (Altitude) to distribute its regional sports programming to viewers across the United States in SD HD.
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Moving On Up... At RigNet... RigNet, Inc., a global provider of managed communications solutions for the oil and gas industry, has named Hector Maytorena to the position of Vice President and General Manager, Americas Region, announced Mark Slaughter, RigNet CEO & President.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Tsunami Terror Shatters Lives... On September 29, 2009, a tsunami struck the southern shoreline of Upolu, the easternmost of the Samoan islands. The tsunami killed nearly 200 people in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga, according to Reuters.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Australian Coast Experiences A Dusting... The plume of dust that swept over the South Pacific Ocean from Australia on October 13, 2009, was delicate, almost ghostly, compared to the large, dense plume of dust that darkened much of the east Australian coast on September 23.
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Financially Speaking... Orbit Technologies... Orbit Technologies has announced record orders for its satellite communication products — the company reports 2nd quarter additional orders in excess of $5 million of its marine VSAT systems.
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Job Security With The 600th Launch Of An Atlas Vehicle Atlas V is scheduled to launch the Air Force’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F18 (DMSP F18) mission October 18 from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, with a launch window of 9:12-9:22 a.m. marking the 600th launch of an Atlas vehicle.
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Telesat Takes Care Of Growing Demand For EchoStar Telesat, the world’s fourth largest fixed satellite services operator, announced today that its new Nimiq 5 broadcast satellite was placed into commercial service on October 10th.
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TDRS-1 To Traipse Away After a rocky start and then a stellar 26-year performance, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-1 (TDRS-1) is scheduled for decommissioning on October 28.
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SatLink FleetBroadband Goodies Get Globe Wireless' Support Globe Wireless and Satlink have signed a Marketing and Distribution Agreement which appoints the former as a distributor of the latter’s Inmarsat FleetBroadband 150 and 250 equipment.
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Moving On Up @ BOD Of Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Assoc. The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association Board welcomes four new representatives to the Board of Directors: C. Scott Hisey, CEO of Unitek USA, Michael Scherr, President of CASE-SRS Distribution, Dave Robison, CEO of DSI Systems, and Lee Hess, Chairman of INSTALLS inc.
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October 13, 2009 Spatial Sensings: Crab Collision Coming Spiral Galaxies A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies that resemble our own Milky Way smashing together at breakneck speeds.
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SatBroadcasting: HDTV Launch To Offer Year Of Free HD+ HD PLUS GmbH will launch its service for HDTV, HD , on November 1, 2009 — the market launch will include HD programs of broadcasters RTL and VOX; HD versions of Sat.1, with ProSieben and kabel eins to be added in January.
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SatBroadcasting: Bulgarian DTH Buyout By Mid Europa Partners Mid Europa Partners' acquisition of the Bulgarian DTH payTV operator Interactivni Tehnologii AD (“ITV”) has been completed.
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SatBroadcasting: Hip-Hip-HPA For SIS Live Wavestream Corporation announced that SIS LIVE, Europe’s largest outside broadcaster and uplink supplier, has selected Wavestream’s nexgen Ku-band High Power Amplifier (HPA) for integration into its uPod Micro mobile satellite uplink terminal.
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Numerex' Sprints With M2M + Has An AT&T Moment Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX), a single source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, has announced a wholesale data agreement giving their customers access to an extended range of technological and market opportunities.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Train + Tracks iPhone App For U.K. Travelers — Go With The FLO... TV — HAVA Brings TV Control To iPod/iPod touch — New SDK Enables Write Once For Many Mobile Platforms —
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Global VSAT Forum Teaches The Tools Of The Trade — Training For Oil & Gas The global satellite communications industry, in coordination with Access Intelligence, organizer of Offshore Communications 2009, is providing energy-sector interests with the information tools necessary to improve standards of satellite system deployment and maintenance worldwide.
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SatBroadcasting: A Switcher For All Reasons From FOR-A FOR-A, a manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and video production industry, will demo a wide range of products at the upcoming HD World Conference and Exposition, which runs October 14-15, 2009, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City (Booth #1009).
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SatBroadcasting: Appear TV DeScrambles Up New Products At SCTE Cable-tec 2009, Appear TV, a global provider of nexgen head-ends for broadcast and IP television, will launch two new products into the North American market.
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Thuraya To Debut New Goodies @ GITEX 2009 Thuraya is all set to unveil, during GITEX 2009, a new series of satellite telecom applications that cater to vertical markets such as the media industry, military and emergency communications, oil and gas, NGOs and others.
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Quicker Sat Assembly In The Works By Comtech AA Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced today its Virginia-based subsidiary, Comtech AeroAstro, Inc., has been awarded a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory ("AFRL") for the development of Advanced Plug and Play Technologies for space missions.
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DoD Space Projects Will Receive The Ball Boost With STPSat-2 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review for STPSat-2, the first spacecraft for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program.
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Sat Link Downtime Mitigated Via Uplogix/DTS Partnership Uplogix has announced Data Technology Solutions (DTS) will leverage its technology to strengthen service quality for oil & gas, maritime and government applications.
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SatBroadcasting: A Solid Snell Mix For Norway's TV 2 To facilitate its exclusive HD coverage of the recent Tour de France cycling event, Norway broadcaster TV 2 chose a new newsroom automation solution from Snell that integrates the Kahuna SD/HD multiformat switcher with technology from Mosart Medialab.
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Low Tariffs Make NSSL's Crew Calling A No Budget Buster Global Satellite Communications provider NSSL has launched their new Crew Card service on FleetBroadband.
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Greybeards — Three-Star Officers From DoD Share Perspectives at SATCON The Greybeards Speak: Perspectives on SATCOM from ’s Retired Leaders “If I could do that over again” will be a major theme of discussion at SATCON, October 14-15, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
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Express-AM44 Capacity Contracted To RRSAT + Earthly Orbit During the ITU Telecom World 2009, the Russian state satellite operator RSCC signed two long-term contracts for capacity lease on the new Russian Express-AM44 satellite located at 11 degrees W.
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Canadian Farming Gets Spatial Support From RapidEye RapidEye has delivered 2009's Canadian growing season images of agricultural areas ?to their customer GeoFarmSolutions Inc., in conjunction with the Agri-Trend Network.
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Saudi Arabian Airlines Connects With OnAir InThe Air Saudi Arabian Airlines and OnAir today announced an agreement to install full SwiftBroadband Mobile OnAir and WiFi Internet OnAir inflight passenger communications services on their fleet of twin-aisle Airbus A330 aircraft flying international routes.
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October 12, 2009 AGI Is Putting On The Blitz — For Training Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), is holding a series of free, half-day seminars focused on the company’s capabilities for unmanned software systems (UAS) in the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Israel, Japan, and Singapore during October.
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DoD Brings Spectrum Issues To The Forefront The Department of Defense’s 2009 DoD Spectrum Symposium will be held October 14-15, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia, bringing together leaders from the national security community with top policy and technology experts to discuss evolving spectrum policy trends and requirements.
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Spatial Sensing: A Merging Of Powerful Proportions This image of NGC 6240 contains new X-ray data from Chandra (shown in red, orange, and yellow) that has been combined with an optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope that was originally released in 2008.
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SatBroadcasting: The DI Is In @ ADS Advanced Digital Services, Inc. (ADS) has launched CLIPSTER DI at its facility, which will add to the diverse array of high-end post-production services currently offered by the company.
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SatBroadcasting: STB Performance Known By Bridge Technologies Bridge Technologies will be featuring their microVB™ miniaturized remote monitoring and analysis product for IPTV apps at the IPTV World Forum Middle East & Africa 2009.
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'Ello Gov'ner! Thuraya Partners With UK Defense and Government Thuraya’s satellite solutions to key European markets, have extended in a partnership with the U.K. based Global RadioData Communications (GRC), the specialist firm in communication solutions, that will promote and distribute Thuraya’s entire portfolio of services to government and defense institutions in Europe who demand secure, flexible and high-quality solutions.
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TS2 Takes It 2 International Market TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new satellite link products to the international market.
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SATCOM On The Move Aided + Abetted By Thales Group For France The French Defense Procurement Agency has contracted Thales Group to develop a program to equip armored vehicles with a mobile satellite communication system.
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Cricket, Bollywood and Russians at the CASBAA — What Do These Have In Common? The CASBAA Convention 2009 from November 3-6 at the Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong provide information that includes Asia remaining the top focus for global investment in media and telecoms.
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Da! 'Bring In The Clowns' Noses Not Included As Expedition 20 Returns Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte, the Canadian mogul worth £1.5billion after founding Cirque du Soleil, paid a reported £22million to travel to the International Space Station, have returned to Earth, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft. Landing occurred at 12:32 a.m. EDT, 10:32 a.m. Kazakhstan time.
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atrexx Not Fading Away In Africa atrexx Ltd. & Co. KG is offering more widespread 2way2sat services in C-band to tropical regions, especially to Africa, where rain attenuation often presents a problem.
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Racing With The Winners Is GlobeCast Australia GlobeCast Australia’s DSNG and GlobeCam units revved in to action over the weekend to broadcast Australia’s leading motor race, the Bathurst 1000, to the world.
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SK's Recalcitrant Radar Report Regarding NK Satellite Launch According to The Dong-A Ilbo news site, two pieces of radar equipment on the South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo were out of order when North Korea launched a satellite in April, a report said yesterday.
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SatBroadcasting: Elion + Viasat Broadcasting Have Estonian FTA Deal Modern Times Group MTG AB (publ.) (‘MTG’ or ‘the Group’)(STO:MTGA)(STO:MTGB) announced that Viasat Broadcasting has signed a four year agreement with Elion, which is the largest broadband and IPTV services provider in Estonia.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Freeview Gains Rovi IPG —
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Telemetry Processing Aboard WorldView-2 From SwRI DigitalGlobe’s recently launched WorldView-2 satellite provides an unprecedented level of detail and geospatial accuracy for imaging and mapping the Earth’s surface.
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Ariane 5 ECA Doubling Up Again For Late October Launch The next Ariane 5 mission has moved into its final preparation phase as the vehicle for this sixth flight of 2009 is delivered to Arianespace.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — A Pipeline + FlipFactory Fingerprinting For YouTube Vids — AT&T, FCC, Google, Mobile Entertainment Forum, + T-Mobile Peeks — KidZui iPhone App Is YouTube For Youngsters —
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Reaper Results: Ops Group To Become Attack Squadron Pilots from the 432nd Operations Group with the U.S. Air Force held their first local flight of the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Panasonic Flying High With New FlyNet Lufthansa has announced the return of in-flight passenger connectivity with the re-launch of their FlyNet branded broadband internet service.
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Tech + Support Award Has Harris Happy, As Well As AMC Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS has been awarded a potential three-year, $7.5 million contract to provide technical and support services — including information assurance, development testing, configuration management and training — for the U. S. Air Force Air Mobility Command's (AMC) command and control systems.
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Moving From LCS To Frigate Is U.S. Navy's MQ-88 UAV The U.S. Navy's new helicopter UAV, the MQ-8B (formerly the RQ-8) Fire Scout, is being assigned to another class of ships.
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Burgeoning UAV Market Due To Demand The UAV market has seen unprecedented growth since 2001, with its current projected value over the next 10 years estimated at $17.9 billion.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Lava Laydown — In Idaho Craters of the Moon lava field is a striking area of recent volcanic activity within Idaho’s Snake River Plain.
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Optus D3 Is O.K. — Sat Is Now Fully Operational Optus has announced that Australia’s newest state-of-the-art satellite, Optus D3, is fully operational after successfully completing extensive in-orbit testing ahead of schedule.
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Carpathia Hosting Serves It To The Feds Carpathia Hosting, provider of managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, today announced an expanded portfolio of secure, compliant hosting solutions designed specifically for federal civilian and defense agencies through its recent acquisition of ServerVault.
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Mexico City Latest SPACECONNECTION Connection The SPACECONNECTION, Inc., a provider of datellite transmission services, recently inaugurated a new office in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Moving On Up @ Carpathia Hosting Carpathia Hosting announces Seth Finkel, formerly Senior Vice President of Managed Services at ServerVault, will serve as General Manager of the newly formed government group.
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October 9, 2009 Bringing Business Better Ops Is NASA + JPL NASA will host its second annual NASA/JPL Small Business Symposium and Awards Ceremony Nov. 16 and 17 at the Marriot Bethesda North Hotel and Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Rd., Bethesda, Maryland.
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Raven Group Morphs Into Skyware Global Satellite Holdings has changed the name of their recently acquired Raven Group to Skyware Global.
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A Downright Smashing Day For NASA + The Moon The LCROSS Centaur and Spacecraft impacted the moon at approximately 4:30 a.m. PDT. LCROSS Centaur Separation occurred at 9:50 p.m. EDT (6:50 p.m. PDT), October 8.
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October 8, 2009 Futron's 2nd Annual SCI Ready For Reading Futron has released their second annual Space Competitiveness Index: A Comparative Analysis of How Countries Invest In and Benefit from Space Industry.
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SatBroadcasting: A Lot Of Bull For DISH The Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) and DISH Network, L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH), have announced that DISH Network will be the Official Satellite Television Partner of the PBR.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Parma + Melor Manufacture Major Maladies Once a powerful Super Typhoon, Parma crossed over the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines, on October 3rd, 2009, as a Category 1 typhoon.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Khronos Group's OpenMAX AL Opens Up — TV 3.0 Summit TV Innovation Award Winners —
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DigitalGlobe Sees A New and Improved World(View-2) Successful Launch! Delayed by a second stage battery check the launch of WorldView-2 occurred at 11.52 a.m. PDT at Vandenberg AFB, California, making DigitalGlobe the only commercial world-imagery provider with high-resolution, eight-band multispectral capability.
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SatBroadcasting: Satellite + Cable Broadcasters Reach Agreement With Canadian Government The federal government has decided to give up some $450 million at stake in legal dispute with broadcasters and cable companies in Canada.
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SatBroadcasting: NSR Knows About satTV + DTH According to NSR's new report, Global Direct-to-Home (DTH) Markets, 2nd Edition, satellite television has proven its resilience in tough economic climates, driven primarily by a larger section of viewers choosing television as a cost effective means of entertainment.
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Gilat Goes to the Head of the Class for Cable & Wireless Panama Today Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [Nasdaq: GILT] announced it has been chosen by Cable & Wireless Panama, Panama's largest telecommunications operator, to provide a SkyEdge II high-performance network that will be used to deliver broadband Internet to hundreds of schools in remote areas nationwide.
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Heartland Has High Speed Happiness With Omnicity Omnicity Corp (OTCBB:OMCY) has signed an agreement with StarBand Communications Inc. to offer StarBand satellite high speed internet service in Omnicity markets and throughout the United States.
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Official Unveiling Of EuroHawk By NGC For German Air Force Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and EADS Defence & Security (DS) have debuted the first Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in an unveiling ceremony today at Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, California, facility.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Henri — A Has Been... NASA satellite imagery has confirmed that tropical storm Henri has now weakened to a tropical depression — he is further expected to degenerate into a remnant low pressure area, much to his disappointment, but with much glee by those in the region of his frenetic wanderings.
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Unmanned MiniChopper Is Steady On For Its Debut An Israeli firm will unveil an unmanned helicopter next week that can carry out advanced surveillance and intelligence missions.
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SatBroadcasting: MAKITO Makes It To The Olympics HaiVision Network Video's MAKITO™ video encoder was selected by Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium to deliver HD H.264 program return video feeds for the venues at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games from February 12th through the 28th.
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YahClick Will Be SurfBeaming With ViaSat ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has received a $46 million contract award from Star Satellite Communications Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC (Yahsat), for SurfBeam 2 network infrastructure and initial customer premises terminals.
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Pre-Launch Capacity Captured By KT Corp. On IS-17 KT Corporation has signed a multi-year, pre-launch contract for capacity on the Intelsat 17 satellite (IS-17).
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SatBroadcasting: UTV Movies Gain MEASAT-3a Capacity UTV Entertainment Television Limited (“UTV”) has signed an agreement for capacity on MEASAT Satellite systems Sdn. Bhd.'s MEASAT-3a for the carriage of UTV Movies, their flagship Hindi movie channel.
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Aptilo's Aptitude to Accomodate Due to Digicel’s DigiNET Aptilo Networks, provider of solutions for control of billing, user services and access in wireless networks including WiMAX™ and Wi-Fi, announced today that Digicel, the fastest-growing telecommunications operator in the Pacific, is relaunching DigiNET, Digicel’s satellite wireless broadband service in the Kingdom of Tonga, using the Aptilo Carrier Wireless Service Management System™ .
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Five Thousand SAILORS & Counting... Thrane & Thrane has shipped its 5000th SAILOR FleetBroadband terminal since deliveries started in December 2007.
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Moving On Up @ Boeing BOD The Boeing [NYSE: BA] board of directors has elected retired U.S. Navy Adm. Edmund Giambastiani, Jr. as its newest member.
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SatBroadcasting: TDM Garners AsiaSat 5 Beaming TDM Satellite Channel, Macau, a new satellite television channel from TDM (Teledifus?o de Macau, S.A.) began free to air broadcasting on the newly launched AsiaSat 5 satellite.
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Emergency SATCOM For ITU Benefits From Inmarsat + Vizada Donations ITU, Inmarsat, and Vizada SAS have reached an agreement to improve emergency communications for disaster preparedness and to coordinate relief activities in the aftermath of a disaster.
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RapidEye Assists EOMAP With Spill Surveillance RapidEye has supplied the German company EOMAP GmbH & Co. KG (Earth Observation and Mapping) with satellite imagery to support mapping services for oil spill monitoring in Australia.
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October 7, 2009 Going Dock Hunting Are Boeing + RSC-Energia The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and Russian aerospace company RSC-Energia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on a future common docking system for advanced space exploration vehicles.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Accumulate Makes Internet Carrier For Sensitive Stuff — Entropic Brings Info To STB2009 Show Appoints New Sr. Veep — Juniper Networks Heading Over To NYSE — RTW Can Control The Loudness —
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — ITU Reveals ICT Stats —
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Get The Newtec Training While It's Hot With topics such as DVB-S2: The How, What & Why and Bandwidth Optimization Features and IP Network Design, a good idea would be to place Newtec's Customer Training Calendar on your "don't forget" list.
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MobiPower Selects Sierra Wireless' WMP100 (No Wimp!) — For M2M Asset Protection A collaboration between Canadian company Sierra Wireless [NASDAQ: SWIR - TSX: SW] and MobiPower of Brazil today announced their agreement in the development of stolen-vehicle recovery and asset protection solutions based on Sierra Wireless embedded cellular modules.
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NTS NanoSat Monitors Illegal Fishing For Canadian Forces exactEarth Ltd., a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), has successfully used its space-based AIS (Automatic Identification System) technology, exactAIS, to assist the Canadian Forces (CF) and Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in monitoring illegal unregulated unreported fishing (IUU) activity in the Pacific Ocean.
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SatBroadcasting: DTV Transport Stream Analysis + Probes From Triveni Digital At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo '09, Triveni Digital will showcase their new StreamScope MT-40LCP, a low-cost version of the company's award-winning StreamScope MT-40 analyzer, a comprehensive, user-friendly solution for real-time analysis and verification of DTV transport streams.
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SatBroadcasting: Signal Distribution + Camera Signal Handling From Telecast Fiber Systems Previewed at IBC2009, Telecast Fiber System's new patent-pending TeleCube Modular Media Interface (MMI) family of 3G transmitter and receiver modules is making its North American debut at HD World.
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Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance + U.S.A.F. All Set For DMSP Launch The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built under contract for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), is undergoing final preparation for a launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on October 18, 2009.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Henri Has Aqua's Attention Forecasters were watching a storm they designated as 91 on October 6th, until it organized into a tropical cyclone east of the Leeward Islands around 5:00 p.m. EDT. It was then named "Tropical Storm Henri," the eighth named tropical cyclone of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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SatBroadcasting: Encoders + Video Transport Systems To Be Demo'd By Streambox At SATCON 2009, Streambox will demonstrate Streambox Live that enables broadcasters to enhance breaking news stories with ad hoc broadcasting content supplied by a variety of contributors, including video journalists, stringers, and citizen reporters.
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Good News, No Need to Abandon Earth! NASA Refines Asteroid's Path Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid that indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
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This Ring Headed For Lunar "Plumatic" Destruction CSA Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of Moog Inc., announced that its ESPA (EELV Secondary Payload Adapter) is expected to impact the lunar surface on October 9, 2009, as part of NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission.
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GVF Creates New Certification-Path Courses For VSAT'ers GVF has announced the new online VSAT installation fundamentals training courses are now available.? The Company has taken the best of our Level 1 and 2 courses, along with extensive newly-created material, to build three new certification-path courses.
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Logging In With Inmarsat + SATLINK Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT and service partner SATLINK have won the first European contract to migrate fishing vessels from a paper logbook system to electronic recording and reporting.
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Come As You Are — COMSYS Welcomes Non-Tech Professionals There will be an intensive two-day training seminar from COMSYS:
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KVH Offers Heavyweight Lightweight For Marine SatTV + Partners Up With On-Waves Ehf KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) TracVision M1 satellite TV system received the National Marine Electronics Association’s (NMEA’s) “Industry Award” for best marine entertainment product.
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Spatial Surprises: A Helluva Ring For Saturn NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous and previously unknown infrared ring around Saturn. "This is one supersized ring," says Anne Verbiscer, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. "If you could see the ring in the night sky, it would span the width of two full Moons."
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October 6, 2009 Sniffing Support For UAVs Smiths Detection has successfully created and demo'd an unmanned aircraft chemical detection and identification system capable of warning troops against chemical warfare agents.
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Social Nets Now Flying With EMS Technologies EMS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELMG)? has debuted a new social media community designed to bring together passengers and in-flight communications (IFC) business leaders to promote the future of IFC.?
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Gateway Communications Pumps Up Africa — Begins Second Gen Gateway has upgraded its pan-African network from the original Digital Video Broadcasting standard for satellite to a second generation system; DVB-S2.
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution — Adobe Advances Flash To Mobile Devices — Cisco Openet Aid Turkcell — Win With Vodafone Wireless innovation Project —
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Solve a Critical Global Issue Win Part of $600,000 From Vodafone The Vodafone Americas Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the second annual Vodafone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Project, a competition to identify and reward the most promising advances in wireless related technologies, which can be used to solve critical problems around the globe.
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Tracking in South Africa — M2M Tracker and Vodacom Locate Stolen Vehicles Vodacom, South Africa’s cellular network, together with Tracker and Sierra Wireless [NASDAQ: SWIR - TSX: SW], launched a next generation SIM card for vehicle tracking, based on the inSIM technology from Sierra Wireless.
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M2M — Customers In Control Courtesy of ORBCOMM and Sierra Wireless ORBCOMM Inc. [Nasdaq: ORBC], a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, and Sierra Wireless [NASDAQ: SWIR – TSX:SW] announced an agreement to integrate innovative capabilities of Sierra Wireless’s M2M services platform (M2MOperatingPortal™) within ORBCOMM’s web services portal to enable customers to control their M2M services, devices, and communications.
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Bucks Assigned To SBIR Proposals By NASA NASA has selected 152 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, or SBIR — the selected projects have a total value of approximately $91 million.</font
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SatBroadcasting: Eating Well With Keystone's SatHD Keystone Enterprise Services is supplying turnkey satellite network services for a new Business Television network that will deliver closed-circuit corporate events in HD video to private dining rooms in restaurant chains.
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Antarctica Cruising + Iridium Inputs The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) has approved a resolution requiring members’ passenger ships to be fitted with satellite tracking devices based on Iridium (Iridium Communications Inc.) (NASDAQ: IRDM).
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A Company To Watch — Bushtex Bushtex Inc., a global SATCOM provider, has been named one of Comerica Bank’s “Arizona Companies to Watch.”
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TriaGnoSys In Good Voice With BGAN TriaGnoSys has successfully demonstrated its VoCeM satellite communications compression software over Inmarsat’s BGAN network and achieved good quality calls with a total bit rate of only 3.3 kbit/s.
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SatBroadcasting: Gateway Into 2G DVB-S2 Gateway has upgraded its pan-African network from the original Digital Video Broadcasting Standard for satellite to a second generation system; DVB-S2.
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Spatial Surprises: Herschel Has A Dark + Cold Experience Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important participation from NASA.
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SATCOM Terminal Gets UL OKAY For Hazardous Use SkyWave Mobile Communications (“SkyWave”) and American Millennium Corporation (AMCi) announce the MT3000 mobile satellite communications terminal has received Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Class 1, Division 2 (groups A, B, C, and D) classification for use in hazardous locations.
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Astrium Awarded Kazakhstan Sats + Facility The partnership between Astrium and JSC NC Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary (KGS), the national company charged with the development of Kazakhstan’s space program, has reached another major milestone with the signature of a contract for two Earth observation satellites as well as the foundation documents to create a Joint Venture for the construction of an Assembly, Integration and Test Facility in Astana.
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RapidEye In the Lotus Position RapidEye, the geospatial solutions provider that owns and operates a constellation of Earth Observation satellites, announced today a new strategic partnership agreement with Taipei City, Taiwan based Lotus (H&R).
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SatBroadcasting: i-concerts Into EUROBIRD 9A Swiss-based live music channel i-concerts has further expanded its international reach by finalizing partnership deals with Europe’s leading satellite operator Eutelsat Communications and YouTube.
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SWE-DISH SATCOM Delivery To Dutch By Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins will be delivering 23 SWE-DISH CCT120 Suitcase SATCOM terminals to the Dutch Ministry of Defence as part of a contract awarded to 2connect-IT, a Netherland-based distributor for SWE-DISH terminals.
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GPS Contract Mod To Northrop Grumman For Further Demos Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has received a contract modification from the U.S. Department of Defense to further demonstrate a revolutionary advance in inertial navigation.
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October 5, 2009 SatMax Repeater For Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute SatMax Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SATM) has announced another reseller agreement today, this time with Austin, Texas-based GIT Satellite Communications.
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Astronauts In Iran's Future — Allegedly Iran plans to send astronauts into space and is currently conducting the relevant studies, Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour announced on Saturday.
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Superb STP Record For DoD — 200 Missions + Counting The Department of Defense Space Test Program achieved a major milestone on September 10th when it flew its 200th mission.
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New Antenna Improves Cyclone Warnings In Indian Ocean The Meteo-France Centre on La Reunion, which is in charge of cyclone warnings for the south-western part of the Indian Ocean, recently installed a new antenna allowing it to receive data from EUMETSAT’s Metop-A and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s NOAA-17, -18 and -19 polar-orbiting satellites.
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Thaicom's SatOptions Might Include ProtoStar 1 Thaicom has recently proposed a procurement option to the Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Ministry — the name of the satellite being targeted has not yet been revealed.
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Earth Explorer Exploration Ideas Wanted By ESA As part of ESA’s Earth Observation program and its continuing endeavor to address critical Earth science issues, the Agency has released an opportunity for scientists to submit proposals for the eighth Earth Explorer mission.
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Testing Tracking Software Talents Are The U.S.A + U.S.M.C. The U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps are field testing software designed to better connect Blue Force Tracking systems on the battlefield, increase communications options and serve as a bridge to an improved system expected to be ready in 2010.
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SatBroadcasting: Self-Scheduling With ScheduALL TFO, the Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority, is using ScheduALL Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) software at its state-of-the-art HD facility to enable intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective scheduling of the people, rooms, and equipment involved in its production of programming for broadcast and other distribution platforms.
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Propulsion Push Using New Technology Developed By ISRO The Press Trust of India is report that, for the first time, India's space scientists have developed an electric propulsion technology that is expected to boost the life of geostationary satellites by as much as five years — the satellites which today have a lifespan of ten years could last for as long as 15 years.
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A Historic "Look" At Mariner 10 On November 3, 1973, the Mariner Venus/Mercury 1973 spacecraft, also known as Mariner 10, was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first spacecraft designed to use gravity assist.
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Ramp Up Continues For STS-129 Mission It was an ambitious last week at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston as preparations continued for the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station — the schedule remains on target.
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Sensing Success With CenTauri Solutions CenTauri Solutions, LLC (CenTauri) has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct a demonstration of the operational feasibility and military effectiveness of integrating an advanced, lightweight, high-definition electro-optical sensor with an unintentional electromagnetic emissions sensor system on an autonomous, vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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VTOL UAV Being Designed For Crowded Areas Fibreflight and Quantum CAD have joined forces to develop a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can be used for crowd control and aerial observations.
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Digitizer From Agilent To Close Threat Gaps Agilent Technologies has rolled out their Acqiris product line's highest-resolution VME/VXS digitizer — the SVM4800 is an eight-channel, 14-bit digitizer with more than 300 MHz input signal bandwidth, achieving sampling of up to 125 MS/s.
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LRIT Through Kemilinks Now Available Kemilinks International Pte Ltd (Kemilinks) is now offering Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) through the Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) satellite network.
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You Are There — Almost — WorldView-2 Satellite Launch The opportunity to experience a launch is now available.
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SATCOM Solutions Issue Forth From TS2 Satellite Technologies TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new satellite link products to the international market. These products are mainly used by the companies that execute contracts in the Middle East and Asia, as well as by soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Navigating Military Vehicles, Tactically, Is KVH KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has received a total of $2 million in new orders from multiple U.S. and international military customers for its TACNAV? tactical navigation systems and Universal Multilingual Displays (UMDs).
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GAIA's Gigantic Mapping of Milky Way Getting Underway The future GAIA mission, planned for December 2011, is a European Space Agency (ESA) project aimed at generating the largest known map of the galaxy.
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SNAPing SIPR + NIPR With VSATs Is TCS Award Win TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received $7.1 million in funding from the U.S. Army to provide additional Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Satellite Systems with related Field Service Representative (FSR) support.
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Getting STOCK'd Up: Kudelski + OpenTV The Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.VX) has announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Kudelski Interactive Cayman, Ltd., has commenced a tender offer to acquire all outstanding Class A shares of OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ: OPTV) not owned by Kudelski or its subsidiaries for US$1.55 per share in cash.</font
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digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Preventing Patent Violation Is MONKEYMedia — VimpelCom LTd. Comes Into Being —
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SatBroadcasting: Modular A/B Switcher From Eyeheight Into 1080i Ops Launched at IBC2009 and now in production, Eyeheight's playoutHD is a multi-definition version of the company's established playout compact SDI presentation switcher.
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Pay For USAF Pilots — Whether On Board Or Not Air Force officers trained exclusively to fly unmanned aerial vehicles will get their own career field and be considered “rated officers,” Air Force leaders decided Wednesday. The pilots also will qualify for flight pay.
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Spatial Surprises: Herschel Hones In On Heavens A new image from the Herschel Observatory shows off the observatory's talents for seeing multiple wavelengths of light — the infrared observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important participation from NASA, can use two science instruments simultaneously to see five different "colors" of infrared, which is light that we can't see with our eyes.
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EMP Occasional Use Service on MEASAT-3/3a Makes For Continually Happy Clients Great collaboration between Europe Media Port ("EMP") and Asian satellite operator MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. ("MEASAT") today with a new agreement to provide enhanced satellite connectivity between Europe and Asia.
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Good News Roll 'Out of Africa' — Soon to Receive KVH Broadband Internet and Voice Services The crews working the offshore oilfields of western Africa and maritime visitors to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be pleased to learn that they will will have a new means of staying in touch and up to date as KVH Industries, Inc., [Nasdaq: KVHI] prepares to roll out African coverage for its mini-VSAT Broadband service.
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SatBroadcasting: openGear Opens Up @ HD World 2009 Cobalt Digital, a designer and manufacturer of signal processing gear for the broadcast industry, will feature its new line of up, down and cross converters of all varieties for the openGear platform at HD World 2009.
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Waco Works Wonders For SpaceX Falcon 9 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has successfully completed the acceptance testing of the Falcon 9 first and second stages in preparation for the vehicle's first flight.
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Harris Has Handle On Combined Endeavor 2009 Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has linked deployed forces and their commanders through wideband battlefield communication networks that enabled real-time exchange of tactical voice, video and other data by participants in Combined Endeavor 2009 (CE-09).
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Spherical Measurement Accuracies NSI's Goal Nearfield Systems Inc., (NSI) will introduce its newest spherical antenna measurement system for stationary Antennas Under Test (AUT) at the 2009 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) annual symposium November 1 to 6 in Salt Lake City.
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Depilatory Dust Bedevils Washington State Visibility dropped to zero in parts of eastern Washington on October 4th, 2009, as a large dust storm blew through the region.
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A Major SBSS Stutter — Minotaur Malody The launch of a pathfinder space tracking satellite is on hold due to problems with equipment on its Minotaur 4 rocket, the Air Force said on Monday in a written statement.
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L-3 Communications Sees UAVs in a Whole New Light In a major new business strategy for the company, L-3 Communications is developing a family of unmanned aerial vehicles for which it will build and support the platforms as well as provide the onboard sensors.
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Practice Makes Perfect — a Dress Rehearsal for Space — Kinda' On October 13 reporters are lucky to be invited to cover space shuttle Atlantis' move to the launch pad, and the STS-129 mission.
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October 2, 2009 digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™ — Accumulate Signs On With Sony Ericsson — Getting A Closer iPhone Look With iMagnify — SMS For Mobile With TynTEc —
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October 1, 2009 SatBroadcasting: Ingest + Playout From Omneon For BBC Persian TV Omneon Spectrum media servers are being used for ingest and playout for BBC Persian TV, a new service launched in January 2009 by BBC World Service.
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Moving On Up... @ OmniGlobe Networks... OmniGlobe Networks, Inc, the privately held telecommunications company specializing in the delivery of cellular, broadband Internet and SATCOM services globally, has appointed Luigi Lo Basso as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.</font
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know... ViaSat + WildBlue Communications ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held WildBlue Communications Inc., the premier Ka-band satellite broadband service provider, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $568 million.
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GOCE Gets Gravitational The European Space Agency's GOCE satellite has initiated its mission of mapping tiny variations in Earth's gravity in unprecedented detail.
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Vandenberg AFB Fire Nearly Knocked Out A fire that scorched nearly 500 acres at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base was almost 90 percent contained, authorities said on Thursday.
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Getting Higher Is GIOVE-A Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully completed the planned repositioning of the first Galileo test satellite, GIOVE-A, to a higher orbit to make way for the operational satellites of Europe’s satellite navigation constellation.
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SatBroadcasting: The OTT Impact On payTV Market Analyzed By Trender Research Trender Research™ Inc. has a new strategic analysis of the over the top (OTT) video industry and its impact on the Pay TV market.
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SIA Offers Stirling Input To FCC Re SATCOM Benies The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in preparation of the next annual report to Congress of satellite competition, highlighting the significant innovation and investment in the U.S. satellite market.</font
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Bad News Comes in 3s — Philippines, Samoa, and Now Indonesia — Good News TSF Arrives Already two announcements from Telecoms Sans Frontieres in one week regading assisting two countries in emergency situations. Floods in the Philippines and earthquakes in Samoa and the subsequent tsunami, and now the 7.6 earthquake that struck Indonesia on September 30th, off the city of Padang, in the Western coast of Sumatra.
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SS/L Engineer To Receive Highly Deserved SSPI Award Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced one of its engineers, Dr. Max Kamenetsky, has been honored by the Society of Satellite Professionals International, for his leadership in driving technical developments.
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European EGNOS Debut Counters U.S. GPS — Getting Set For Galileo The European Union launched a free satellite navigation network on Thursday that could help pilots, drivers, and blind people by fine-tuning the accuracy of the U.S. global positioning system (GPS) to around 2 meters.
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APSTAR 7 Win By Thales Alenia Space Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the APT Satellite Company Limited, a leading satellite operator in the Asia Pacific Region, for the design, manufacture, and delivery of a high-capacity telecommunication satellite.
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SpaceX' Second User Conference Set Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced a second user conference for its commercial product DragonLab, a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from orbit.
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Catch the Launch of WorldView-2 Satellite Sensing Bigger and Better DigitalGlobe [NYSE: DGI], a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial clients, today announced the date and time for the streaming of the WorldView-2 launch, the company’s third high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite.
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NOORSAT Notches Up Services In Middle East With Eutelsat Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) and NOORSAT Co. W.L.L have signed a multi-year contract for the lease of three additional transponders on Eutelsat's ATLANTIC BIRD 4A satellite.
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Ariane 5 Doubles Up For Another Successful Arianespace Launch Arianespace achieved success with their Ariane 5 launch on October 1st — this was the vehicle's 33rd consecutive success and its fifth flight in 2009 — bringing total payloads orbited by the company this year to seven telecommunications satellites, two deep space telescopes and two piggyback spacecraft.
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The Ultimate (Rapid)Eye Test — Send in the Clouds RapidEye, a geospatial solutions provider that owns and operates a constellation of Earth Observation satellites, announced today that they will supply the state of Bahia with RapidEye satellite imagery through their Brazilian distributor Santiago & Cintra Consultoria.
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Vizada Brings On New Streaming IP Pricing Vizada and Inmarsat have introduced two new lower Streaming IP service rates on FleetBroadband, which became effective as of October 1st, 2009.
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