May 10, 2008 Moving On Out... At SES AMERICOM... Edward D. Horowitz, the president and CEO of SES AMERICOM, has resigned from the company in order to pursue other opportunities with Global Entertainment and Media Holdings Corporation.
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May 9, 2008 Lots To Learn From NASA's Digital Learning Network As part of NASA's 50th anniversary celebration, the Digital Learning Network will host a series of live webcasts with students across the country May 13th through 21st.
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Intelsat Brings Pangea Day—Live—To Five Continents Intelsat, Ltd., a provider of commercial satellite services will supply the global satellite capacity for the contribution and broadcast distribution of Pangea Day, May 10th.
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SatCom Sim To Aid With MUOS Development Virtutech, Inc. will have their Virtutech Simics deployed for the ground segment of the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective Object System (MUOS) program, thanks to General Dynamics C4 Systems.
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Thrane + Thrane BGAN Adventure Mark Kalch and Nathan Welch, two fearless Australian adventurers, have joined the elite few in history to have survived the treacherous journey from the source of the Amazon high in the Andes in Peru to the mouth of the river where it meets the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
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Ariane 5 ECA Has A Moving Experience The launch vehicle for Ariane 5's third flight of 2008 is now under Arianespace responsibility after delivery by prime contractor Astrium at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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Moving On Up... At Boeing... Boeing [NYSE: BA] Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney has named Timothy J. Keating senior vice president for Public Policy, effective June 2nd.
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Telecom Industry Issues To Be Addressed At GTM Intelsat, Ltd., has announced their annual Global Telecommunications Meeting (GTM) held in Washington, D.C., 2-5 June, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, will expand beyond carrier-oriented transaction services to a world telecommunications summit to address many of the most pressing issues faced by today's global corporate network operators, carriers and governments.
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Telenor Grabs 4G License in Sweden The Swedish Post and Telecommunications Authority has concluded the auction of spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band.
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Popular ASTRA Orbit Brings Additional Capacity Contract SES ASTRA has an agreement for an additional transponder on its new prime orbital position—23.5° E—for the Czech Pay-TV platform CS Link.
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A Web Of Cosmic Matter The European Space Union's XMM-Newton launched at the close of 1999, and now the satellite's orbiting X-ray observatory has uncovered part of the missing matter in the universe.
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SkyBitz Asset Tracking In The Saddle Again Saddle Creek Transportation Inc. has implemented the patented Global Locating System (GLS) asset tracking technology from SkyBitz to provide enhanced security for its customers’ high-value shipments.
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TIA Minimum Performance Specs Need Repeating For Mobile Developers The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has published TIA-1132, Minimum Performance Specification for Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast Forward Link Only Repeaters.
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U.S.Troops in Iraq Ask, "Mom, Can You Hear Me Now?" This is one of those "awww" stories that is perfect timing for Mother's Day, Father's Day, and July 4th, thanks to Cisco, Verizon Business and Wal-Mart, along with SkyPort Global Communications and the USO (United Service Organizations).
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May 8, 2008 Get Ready For ISCe 2008 Hannover Fairs USA, Inc. has announced the conference program for its 7th annual ISCe International Conference and Exhibition.
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Follow-up Regarding Sprint + Clearwire JV From ABI Research As you read in yesterday's news, Sprint and Clearwire announced a new joint venture to build an advanced mobile network.
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Digging Out The Aerospace + Defense Company Values Listed on the American Stock Exchange, the SPADE Defense Index [AMEX: DXS] is designed to benchmark the value that the markets ascribe to companies involved with defense, homeland security, aerospace, and space.
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GIOVE-B Tests Successful, Including The Wonder Clock Astrium has started operations in orbit of the GIOVE-B navsat, exactly on schedule.
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Maritime VSAT Report Offers An Ocean Of Info From COMSYS... COMSYS has just published their first Maritime VSAT Report. This comprehensive study offers market shares, growth rates, annual contract and sales bookings, business trends, industry as well as regional breakdowns with five year forecasts.
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Food + Space Goodies To Arrive At ISS The residents of the International Space Station will receive a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies next week, and NASA Television will broadcast its arrival live.
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ORBCOMM Preps For 18 2G Sats ORBCOMM Inc. [NASDAQ:ORBC) has signed a nexgen satellite constellation contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build 18 new ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites, with an option to purchase up to 30 additional OG2 satellites to augment and upgrade ORBCOMM's existing satellite constellation.
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ORBITZ... Dalet Digital media Systems, Spacenet
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May 7, 2008 Intelsat + Panasonic Flying High Intelsat, Ltd. and Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) have signed a multi-year service agreement that will result in the nexgen of in-flight passenger broadband access.
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SatSpace On W1 Gained By PBLSat PBLSat, specialists in Occasional Use satellite services, have redistributed their portfolio of European ad-hoc satellite space with the addition of Eutelsat W1 capacity.
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SES ASTRA Parlez-vous Francais With NordNet SES ASTRA has signed an important framework contract with the internet service provider NordNet to market its satellite based two-way broadband service ASTRA2Connect in France.
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Major Energy Belt Client Now in SkyPort's Porfolio SkyPort Global Communications now has an agreement to provide satellite bandwidth to Sabine Rig Communications’ oil and gas drilling clients.
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SatBiz Focus For Inaugural NY Forum From Space Foundation The Space Foundation has created a compelling new event focused exclusively on the needs of the New York financial community.
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Costa Rica Primed For Mobile Telephony Signals Telecom Consulting, a Latin American and Caribbean telecommunications markets consulting and research firm has just published their second edition of its “Mobile Market Analysis - Costa Rica”.
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CASBAA Acquires New Member With Media Clout SNL Kagan has joined the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), the media broadcasting industry advocacy group devoted to promoting multichannel television via cable, satellite, broadband and wireless video networks in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Huge $12B WiMAX Joint Venture with Sprint Nextel and Clearwire According to a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> (WSJ) report late Tuesday, Sprint [NYSE: S] Nextel and Clearwire are getting ready to unveil a $12 billion joint venture in order to create a nationwide WiMAX network.
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Moving On Up... At Globecomm... The new Vice President, Network Services, at Globecomm is Jeff Winkler.
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Mission Ops Folk Sought By Boeing The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is seeking talented mission operations specialists with current NASA experience in the Houston area in support of its bid for NASA's Facilities Development and Operations Contract (FDOC).
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J-2X Core Component Tests Completed Engineers at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center are wrapping up the first series of tests on core components for the J-2X engine that will power the upper stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle and the Ares V cargo launch vehicle.
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May 6, 2008 Mobile SatCom Focus Of MSUA Conference Space still remains available for the upcoming MSUA-5 Comms On The Move: Where Mobile Satellite Solutions Fit In conference and exhibition.
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C2SAT Brings Stability To Offshore Market Working together, C2SAT and Trac Networks have delivered the first, stabilized VSAT satcom solution for a larger tender.
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COM DEV Given OK For Acquisition COM DEV USA has been granted regulatory approval from the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for its proposed $12.2 million acquisition of the Passive Microwave Devices product line from L-3 Communications.
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Thuraya Supports A Mountainous Challenge Thuraya is sponsoring one of the world’s greatest explorers, Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE, who is climbing Mount Everest to raise funds for the UK-based Marie Curie Cancer Care.
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More MHz From SES NEW SKIES Contracted SES NEW SKIES, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], has announced that IDMI, the international arm of IDM, Lebanon’s leading ISP with more then 125,000 users, has contracted 40 MHz on SES NEW SKIES’ NSS-7 satellite.
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RRsat Finalizes Acquisition of Pennsylvania-based Teleport RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. [NASDAQ: RRST] has completed their previously announced acquisition of the Hawley Teleport, located in Pike County, Pennsylvania, for approximately $4.25 million, of which $4 millions in cash and $250,000 thousand in services.
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The GRAIL Will Be Lifted By ULA NASA has designated the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to fly aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy rocket.
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May 5, 2008 RADARSAT-2 Ramped + Radar Ready RADARSAT-2 completed its commissioning on April 25, 2008 and fully transitioned into commercial operations to deliver advanced radar images of the Earth, with this information delivered by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd. [TSD:MDA], owner and operator of the satellite.
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Discovery Settles Onto Its Pad Space shuttle Discovery has arrived at its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its launch of the STS-124 mission.
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UK Milsatcom Seminar Event Obtain the latest updates on recent developments in the field of military satellite communications in the UK and US markets at the upcoming Military Satellite Communication Systems event.</b></font> <b>The Institution of Engineering and Technology
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No NOAA Sensory Deprivation A sensor considered critical in monitoring global climate will be restored to the first satellite scheduled to fly in the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
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Moving On Up... At EMS Technologies... The new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for EMS Technologies, Inc., will be the company's new Vice President of Finance, Gary Shell.
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Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors? Huh? Kopin + NASA Have A Solar Clue... Kopin Corp. provides heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers for cellular phones and wireless local area networks and the company has just received an award of a $600,000 for solar cell development contract from NASA.
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May 2, 2008 UAE Wants In On Remote Sensing A remote sensing satellite is in the works for the United Arab Emirates and other member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
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"Spot On" With New Nations For Imagery... Spot Image has added nine new nations and regions to its line of SPOTMaps mosaics. The new areas include Iraq, Kuwait and North Korea.
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Agilent Helps Get That I-V Curve Just Right... A new, modular solar array that offers up to 1200W in a 2U high package has debuted from Agilent Technologies.
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Seven Year-Old Gets Fired Up By NASA NASA's Space Shuttle Program on Thursday successfully conducted a test firing of a space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor in Utah.
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U.S.A.F Changes Guard in the Space Based Infrared Systems Wing Change happens, as evidenced at the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base.
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Getting Your Name Into Lunar Orbit Is Easy! NASA is inviting everyone to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.
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A Healthy Battery = A Healthy Network Phoenix Broadband Technologies LLC has developed a breakthrough in battery and power systems monitoring technology, which provides predictive information about the state-of-health of each individual battery in the network, allowing preventive maintenance to be performed in a proactive and much more economical manner.
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Don't Let That Riggin' Spoil Your Chattin' International satellite communications service provider NSSL has developed a new solution designed to maximize broadband connectivity at sea.
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IRS Settles with Loral in Space When it comes to taxes, everyone has to file, but sometimes filing is late due to interesting circumstances. So it is with Loral Space & Communications [Nasdaq:LORL], a satellite communications company.
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ICO's Mobile Discoveries To Be Tested ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) [NASDAQ: ICOG] has reached an agreement with Discovery Communications, LLC, to provide content for the alpha trials of its mobile interactive media service, known as ICO mim.
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Imagery Infusion From CARTOSAT-2 + IMS-1 As our readers are probably well aware, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) successfully launched India’s Remote Sensing satellites CARTOSAT-2A and Indian Mini Satellite-1 (IMS-1), as well as eight nanosatellites, on April 28, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota.
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Hi-Res SatImagery Pouring Into MDA MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. [TSX: MDA] has revealed that RADARSAT-2 completed its commissioning on April 25, 2008 and fully transitioned into commercial operations to deliver advanced radar images of the Earth.
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SBIRS Spurred Onwards + Upwards, Thanks To Successful Test Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has achieved a major integrated test milestone on the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) spacecraft.
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April 31, 2008 SES Is In Dutch... And Belgium... SES ASTRA has launched a new HD bouquet on ASTRA, targeting the Dutch and Belgian markets.
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Go West, Jason-2, Go West... and Launch The Jason-2 ocean altimetry satellites has managed to complete its long journey to the United States and is currently scheduled for its launch on June 15th from Vandenberg AFB in California.
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Shuttle Off To A Discovery Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Saturday, May 3rd, as preparations for the STS-124 mission move forward.
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Better Martian Downloading Through AI for ESA As the European Space Agency's Mars Express continues its hunt for evidence of past or present life on the Red Planet, AI is being used at the European Space Operations Center to give the space vehicle a boost. Mars Express generates huge volumes of scientific data.
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A Healthy GIOVE-B The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported the GIOVE-B is well underway with the completion of its Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP).
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Astronauts To Be Honored On May 3rd Did you know there is a U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame?
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Glowing Success For Glowlink With WGSMS Glowlink has announced the Wideband Global Spectrum Monitoring System (WGSMS) the company designed has begun to actively monitor traffic carried on the first US DoD Wideband Global SATCOM satellite (WGS-1).
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RSCC With Express Dual Launch The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) received the payloads for the Express-AM44 and Express-MD1 satellites from Thales Alenia Space.
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Financially Speaking... Telenor... In Q1 2008, Telenor's pro forma revenues (including Kyivstar) increased by four per cent compared to the first quarter of 2007, reaching NOK 26.3 billion.
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Financially Speaking... Harris Corporation... Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] reported revenue for its Q3 of fiscal year 2008 of $1.33 billion, an increase of 24 percent compared to $1.07 billion in the prior-year quarter.
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SkyPort + AGT Join Florida's National Guard SkyPort Global Communications and Applied Global Technologies (AGT) have been selected by the Florida National Guard to provide satellite communications services and solutions in emergencies.
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More Chopper SatCom For SkyTrac SkyTrac has been selected to provide satellite communication and flight following systems to Sloan Helicopters, a provider of helicopter charter services for the oil and gas and forest management.
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iDirect Has Malaysian Connection iDirect, Inc. has a contract with ScopeTel Sdn. Bhd., a major provider of satellite-based telecommunication and networking solutions headquartered in Malaysia.
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Tanks A Lot For Lockheed Martin NASA has signed a $39.5 million contract modification with Lockheed Martin Space Systems to implement an external tank program employee retention plan.
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Gilat To Post VSATs For Russian Post Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been selected by Synterra, one of Russia's largest telecom operators, to provide a 1,000-site SkyEdge broadband satellite network for use by Russian Post.
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April 30, 2008 Southeast Asia Targeted For Improved SatCom Services... Joining forces are IEC Telecom and its Dubaï subsidiary SAFA Telecom, as the company has acquired a majority stake in DEVOR technologies and intends to sell and support value-added products and services into Asia.
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Repositioning and Renaming Has SES ASTRA SATurated SES ASTRA has started a new orbital position at 31.5° E.
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Proactive Communications To Provide More Milsatcom Services Proactive Communications, Inc. (PCI) now has an agreement with the Joint Contracting Command Iraq (JCC-I) for Task Force Iron (TFI), a military force operating in northern Iraq consisting of soldiers from multiple units based in Germany and United States, to deploy a satellite Internet and voice solution.
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C2SAT's VSAT's Stability Proves Worth C2SAT [NGM Stock Market Exchange, C2ST] has received a follow-up order from an Oil & Gas customer in the Middle East.
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Remote Sensing Imagery Assembly Automated by PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics has released ProLines, highly automated image processing chains that are used to correct, mosaic, and enhance imagery, as well as extract elevation data derived from satellite and airborne sensors.
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Partnership Drives GigaSat Terminal To New Heights GigaSat has announced the interoperability of GigaSat’s FA-120 satcom terminal with Vados’ range of rapidly deployable communications solutions.
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Financially Speaking... SES... SES S.A. reported their financial performance for the three months ended 31 March 2008. Their recurring revenue of 390 million euros was up 9.1 percent higher than the prior year period and reported revenue was stable at 390.6 million euros (Q1 2007: 392.0 million euros).
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Garnering A Five Year NASA Contract Is QinetiQ QinetiQ North America's (QNA) Missions Solutions Group has been awarded a five year, $190 million contract with NASA to provide mission-critical engineering, IT, and security support services to customers in the Space, Security, Defense and Intelligence communities.
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Moving From DVB-S To DVB-S2 Aided By Comtech Comtech EF Data's new CMR-8500 is the nexgen IP encapsulator.
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Advantech Pushes Production Higher and Faster and Offers Antennas... Advantech AMT has launched its new, expanded production line for Frequency Converters.. Plus, the company has launched their new mobile antenna systems.
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Raytheon Gets SMART-T Raytheon Company [NYSE:RTN] has won an $86.7 million contract to produce and install upgrade kits for the Army's Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal, otherwise known as SMART-T.
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April 29, 2008 Financially Speaking... Integral Systems... With revenue up for Q2, Integral Systems is reporting their financial results, with $44.9 million in revenues, up from the $15.8 million (55 percent) for Q2 of 2007.
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Hunt Goes Tracking WITH SkyBitz J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. [NASDAQ: JBHT] has selected the patented SkyBitz Global Locating System (GLS) to assist with asset tracking technology.
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ViaSat LinkStarS2A VSAT System Is A Step Above ViaSat Inc.’s [NASDAQ: VSAT] LinkStar VSAT system with bandwidth-efficient Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) is now available and implements additional bandwidth saving technologies that exceed the industry standard
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COM DEV Int'l Proud Of Nanosat... With the successful Antrix PSLV-C9 launch that occurred yesterday by the ISRO at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, COM DEV International's role with the University of Toronto in building an experimental nanosatellite has met with success.
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IDC On The Receiving End... International Datacasting Corporation [TSX:IDC] has successfully passed the conditions of a Letter of Intent previously announced on January 10, 2008 for the supply of a new generation of satellite receivers for the upgrade and expansion of an international broadband data delivery network.
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Financially Speaking... Iridium Satellite... Iridium Satellite LLC has announced record-setting financial results for their Q1 ended March 31, 2008.
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Land Launch of AMOS-3 The Land Launch Zenit-3SLB system debuted its first launch from the Zenit launch site at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on April 28, with the successful launch of the AMOS-3 communications satellite.
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Nowhere to Go But Up for Global Positioning Satellite Devices The count and the amount are in, and by 2013, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) end-user devices and systems will generate yearly revenues of $240 billion.
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April 28, 2008 AMOS-3 Back On Track Spacecom has announced their AMOS-3 communications satellite will now launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, May 28th.
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Financially Speaking... Orbital Sciences Corp... Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE:ORB] Board of Directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to $50 million of its common stock over a 12-month period, starting April 25th.
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By 2012, 3.5 Million Units In M2M Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Satellite Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Market Study" to their offering.
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Moving On Out... EMS Technologies, Inc... EMS Technologies, Inc. has announced James S. (Jim) Childress, President and General Manager of LXE Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of EMS Technologies, Inc., is retiring from the business.
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GIOVE-B Going, Going... GREAT! The successful launch of the European Space Agency's second Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE-B) occurred on April 27th from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz/Fregat rocket at 04:16 local time.
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NASA + Nanosats... NASA's Ames Research Center and m2mi Corp. now have a cooperative research and development agreement.
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ISRO Indicates MultiSats To Launch on April 28th The Indian Space Research Organization has announced that April 28th is the date now set for the launch of their Polar Satellite Vehicle, PSLV-C9 carrying aboard their latest remote sensing satellite, known as CARTOSAT-2A, along with Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) and eight nanosatellites, will launch at about 9:20 a.m.
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