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Thousands Of Inmarsat Terminals For Chinese Fishing Vessels  - August 26, 2008 - A total of 2,500 Chinese fishing vessels are to be equipped with Inmarsat Mini C terminals in the first stage of a landmark deal backed by the Chinese government. The contract is the first to be awarded as part of the Chinese Zhejiang project, which seeks to equip a total of 16,000 Chinese fishing vessels with satellite-based safety and communication services by the end of 2009. . . Full Story

SatLink Flies With a HotBird  - August 26, 2008 - SatLink Communications Ltd. announced that Viacom's MTV Networks International has chosen the company to broadcast its newly launched channel, Nickelodeon Polska, a Polish-language channel targeted at viewers aged 2- to 12-years. SatLink is transmitting the channel on its MCPC (Multi Channel Per Carrier) platform on Hotbird 8 at 13 East for Digital-To-Home (DTH) digital broadcast. . . Full Story

ORBITZ — Integral Systems — Juniper Networks — SES ASTRA —  - August 26, 2008 - — GlobeCast — Harris Corporation — RigNet Inc. — WildBlue Communications — . . Full Story

Space Shuttle Has Repair Rendezvous With Hubble  - August 26, 2008 - Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, August 30th. Atlantis is targeted to lift off October 8th to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The first motion of the shuttle out of Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building is scheduled for 12:01 a.m. EDT. . . Full Story

Endurance Record Attained By Solar Powered Zephyr UAV  - August 26, 2008 - Zephyr's reputation as the world's leading solar powered high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been reinforced with a world-beating three and a half day flight at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The solar powered plane built by ered with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) under their Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) Program, which is designed to move urgently needed technologies rapidly into the hands of U.S. forces in the field. . . Full Story

Reaper UAS Completes First Weapons Engagement In Iraq  - August 26, 2008 - An MQ-9 Reaper dropped a 500-pound bomb against an anti-Iraqi target Aug. 16 in one of the first weapons engagements for the unmanned aircraft system. The Reaper began flying combat sorties in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom July 18th and joined the MQ-1 Predator as another UAS (unmanned aircraft system) patrolling the sky to protect coalition forces. . . Full Story

NASA Rolls Atlantis As Fay Leaves   - August 26, 2008 - NASA rolled the orbiter Atlantis from its processing hangar into the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building after getting a break from Tropical Storm Fay to move the spaceship from one building to another. The quarter-mile move set the stage for the huge event in just about seven days. The excitement mounts as NASA preps for the Hubble service mission. . . Full Story

Any Interest In Invisibility? (Off Topic, But Intriguing, To Say The Least)  - August 26, 2008 - Invisibility has long existed in the realm of imagination and fantasy, but for Army scientists and researchers studying ways to apply the latest technology to save Soldiers' lives, fantasy is slowly becoming a reality. Dr. Richard Hammond, a theoretical physicist who works in Optical Physics and Imaging Science at the U.S. Army's Research Office, participated in a blogger's roundtable to discuss the developments in the field of negative index materials research and meta materials. . . Full Story

Arianespace To Handle Koreasat-6 Launch  - August 26, 2008 - Korean Telecom Corporation (KT Corporation) has selected Arianespace to launch their next communications satellite. To be known as Koreasat-6, the satellite will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 or Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport, French Guiana, during the second half of 2010. Koreasat-6 is the second satellite to be launched by Arianespace for the Korean operator, following Koreasat-3, orbited in 1999. . . Full Story

Northrop Grumman's King of Estimators and Analysis  - August 26, 2008 - Imagine Dick Coleman's responsibilities as director of cost/pricing analysis for Northrop Grumman's Information Technology (IT) sector. Then imagine taking the top honor, and receiving 2008 Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis National Lifetime Achievement award presented by Bill Haseltine, president of the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis. . . Full Story

KVH Stays on Trac and Gives Free Boost to Mini-VSAT  - August 26, 2008 - KVH's [Nasdaq: KVHI] newest satellite communications compression technology now offers a free additional boost to mini-VSAT Broadband data rates for TracPhone V7 users. Already a popular item, the TracPhone V7 is a compact size, has a rugged design, offers lower costs, and speedy broadband data connections, which is appreciated by both leisure and commercial mariners. The newTracPhone V7 and mini-VSAT Broadband service from KVH Industries, Inc., supports Internet and Voice over IP telephone services at sea. . . Full Story

ESA's XMM-Newton Locates A Monster  - August 26, 2008 - ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so enormous there can only be a handful of them at that distance, making this a rare catch indeed. The discovery confirms the existence of dark energy. The newly-discovered monster, known only by the catalog number 2XMM J083026 524133, is estimated to contain as much mass as a thousand large galaxies. . . Full Story

ESA's Getting Set To Launch Core Work  - August 25, 2008 - The European Space Agency (ESA) is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth’s gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet, known as the geoid, with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will be placed into a low altitude near sun-synchronous orbit by a Russian Rockot vehicle launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia, some 800 km north of Moscow. . . Full Story

Rocket Failure Investigation To Be Started By NASA + ATK  - August 25, 2008 - An Alliant Techsystems suborbital rocket carrying two NASA hypersonic experiments was destroyed shortly after liftoff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Friday, August 22nd. No injuries or property damage were immediately reported. The exact launch time was 5:10 a.m. EDT. The anomaly that caused the failure occurred approximately 27 seconds into flight and is not known. . . Full Story

Thuraya Goes Wide With Distribution in Asia Pacific  - August 25, 2008 - Thuraya must be celebrating. We received word that they have signed commercial partnerships with three Service Providers in the Asia Pacific rim. These partnerships further widen Thuraya’s distribution platform, and help with their portfolio of Thuraya communication products in the region. . . Full Story

ILS + Inmarsat Launch Another Contract  - August 25, 2008 - International Launch Services (ILS) now has a contract today with Inmarsat for the launch of an S-band satellite to provide mobile broadcast and two-way telecommunications services throughout Europe.M/b> The contract follows last week’s successful launch of the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite on an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle. . . Full Story

SkyRAY Lights the Way  - August 25, 2008 - ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, will present their new VSAT application SkyRAY Light IPS HD for mobile video broadcasting at IBC 2008 in Amsterdam (indoor booth 1.C51). Described as an end-to-end solution as an all-IP package for the live video streaming based on the latest generation of H.264 AVC codec or store and forward video. The user-focused package contains three major components: ND SatCom’s lightweight VSAT antenna?SkyRAY Light 1200; the latest SkyWAN VSAT modem with a full set of IP functionalities; and an advanced H.264/MPEG-4 AVC HD/SD and MPEG-2 encoder. . . Full Story

SatService At Your Service  - August 25, 2008 - SatService GmbH will be at IBC 2008 presenting some new products of the sat-nms product family. Representatives will be available to discuss system-integration business and turn-key satellite ground station solutions or an upgrade of your station, as well as representatives, distributors and sales partners/system-integrators interested. . . Full Story

NASA/ESA's Hubble's Filament Find  - August 25, 2008 - The Hubble Space Telescope has seemingly uncovered a mystery in space. The telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by observing the details of giant, but delicate, filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. These filaments are the only visible-light manifestation of the intricate relationship between the black hole hosted at the center of the galaxy and the surrounding cluster gas. . . Full Story

Globe Cast's World TV Channel Content Continues Climb  - August 22, 2008 - World TV, a division of GlobeCast, announced their content and rights aggregation business has expanded, with the initial launch of 14 of its international channels on Verizon FiOS TV. GlobeCast and World TV are providing Verizon with rights, content aggregation, encoding and encryption as well as fiber delivery. . . Full Story

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