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August 30, 2012 Vela... Multi-This + Multi-That (SatBroadcasting™—Encoder) [SatNews] Make life easier for your operators and process more files, faster with...
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KRYTAR... Coax Consideration (Microwave) [SatNews] KRYTAR, Inc. has announced a new precision coaxial termination covering...
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EAECC... East African IT Business-To-Business Platform (Event) [SatNews] The anticipated 2nd annual IT Leaders East Africa Summit will take place from...
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Sigma Designs... SoCs For XBMC (SatBroadcasting™—Processor) [SatNews] Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has announced its first XBMC port...
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Ideal Systems + Evertz... Expertise Inclusion (SatBroadcasting™—Business) [SatNews] Ideal Systems Singapore, part of Ideal Systems Group, is teaming up with...
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RUAG Space... One Thousand Cheers (Microwave) [SatNews] RUAG Space in Gothenburg, Sweden, has passed an important milestone with the delivery of...
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ULA’s VP Of Mission Operations Sponnick’s Most Excellent Award From NASA [SatNews] ...demonstrates a level of excellence that has made a profound or indelible impact to NASA mission success and the contribution is so extraordinary that other forms of recognition by NASA would be inadequate.
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Encompass Passes Milestone...Channels Clients Sends Signals From Singapore SatNews] “This reaffirms the confidence our clients have as they continue to entrust us with their most precious asset: their content.”
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August 29, 2012 Volicon + SuperSport... Taking All 64 Channels Into Account (SatBroadcasting™—Systems) [SatNews] SuperSport is using Volicon's Observer® digital video logging and monitoring system to...
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Newtec + PBS... Taking DVS-S2 + Anti-RFI To The Next Level (SatBroadcasting™—Modulator) [SatNews] The largest public media enterprise in the United States, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), has installed a...
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DISH... The Expanded World Of IPTV (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) has improved the DISHWorld IPTV experience by...
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SES + Romantis... Capacity Consideration (SATCOM) [SatNews] SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has signed a capacity agreement with...
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SIS LIVE... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Antenna, VSAT) [SatNews] Outside broadcast, uplink and product design specialist SIS LIVE returns to IBC 2012 to demonstrate...
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IRG, Newtec And GVF At IBC...No Interference Allowed At These Meetings (Event) [SatNews] ...”improvements have been made, but more work still needs to be done and we need to involve the entire industry...”
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Countdown To London's COMSYS VSAT2012 (Event) [SatNews] Two major European conferences are coming up, one on the coattails of the other...
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KVH Industries... Tracking The New TracPhone (SATCOM) [SatNews] KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has introduced a revolutionary new onboard terminal for its...
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S3 Group... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Testing) [SatNews] S3 Group,?an international digital TV company that enables?satellite TV companies such as...
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Space Foundation... Air Force Space Command Salute (Event) [SatNews] Individual tickets still remain for The Space Foundation Presents a 30th Anniversary Salute to Air Force Space Command, which will celebrate...
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Astrium... Dual Deliveries (Satellites) [SatNews] Following the successful acceptance review, Astrium has brought the...
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AVIWEST... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Uplink) [SatNews] AVIWEST has selected IBC2012 for the European launch of the world's most advanced...
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AsiaSat + Channel NewsAsia... Carriage Continuation (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) has announced that regional broadcaster, Channel NewsAsia, is...
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Beam Communications... Piracy Put Down (SATCOM) [SatNews] Beam Communications Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of World Reach Limited (ASX: WRR), has announced that the satellite piracy solutions...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Storming In At Night (Imagery) [SatNews] Early on August 29, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the...
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August 28, 2012 TUESDAY UPDATE: ULA Readies Atlas V Again New Launch Date (Launch) [SatNews] A new launch window is available (and new photos), and so once again the launch is set for...
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ATEME... Mobile PayTV For Polish Subs (SatBroadcasting™—Encoder) [SatNews] Cyfrowy Polsat S.A., the largest DTH operator in Poland and fourth largest in Europe, has selected...
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iDirect Government Technologies... Smaller Form Factor Plays Its Role (SATCOM) [SatNews] The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is using L-3 GCS Hawkeye™ III Lite 1.2M and Hawkeye III™ 2.0M VSAT terminals equipped with...
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Space Foundation + ScienSonic Labs... Space 'Citement Thru Imagination Certification (Tech) [SatNews] The Space Foundation welcomes ScienSonic Laboratories as its newest...
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GSA... Eight Are Worthy (Business) [SatNews] Eight companies will provide satellite telecom solutions to the Pentagon and other federal agencies under contracts potentially worth...
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Orbital... Moving On Up... (Business) [SatNews] Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has announced three high-level executive promotions designed to...
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NCMA... Attention to Acquisition, Contracting + Procurement (Event) [SatNews] More than 1,000 contracting, acquisition, and procurement professionals from both...
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NSR... Prepaid Subs' Future Revenues Not Significant (Report | Analysis) [SatNews] Inmarsat’s Q2 2012 earnings showed it reached 65,000 handheld subscribers and was growing its base by more than 1,000 units a week.
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Agama Technologies... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—IPTV + OTT) [SatNews] At stand 4.A55 at IBC2012 in Amsterdam, September 7-11, Agama will showcase...
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Cel-Soft... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—3D Analyzer) [SatNews] Cel-Soft will introduce powerful new features to its...
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Skyline Communications... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Network Management) [SatNews] Skyline Communications will launch DataMiner 7.5 at the IBC2012 exhibition in Amsterdam.
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SatLink + AsiaSat... Upgrading To Higher Performances (SatBroadcasting™—DVB-S2) [SatNews] SatLink Communications Ltd. has upgraded their MCPC platform on the premium...
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Iridium... Winning Ways (STEM) [SatNews] Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has announced the winners of its...
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Advantech Wireless... Passing The BUC (SATCOM) [SatNews] Advantech Wireless has released a 20W GaN X-band and C-band BUC that is perfectly suited...
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MTN Satellite Communications... Maritime Multi-Channel Is Even More Ship Shape (SATCOM) [SatNews] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has announced that MTN Worldwide TV is now available to...
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Globecomm Variety Of Products + Talents = Government Contracts [SatNews] “...demonstrate a wide array of capabilities from engineering concept and design, technology refresh, WGS certification through ongoing product sustainment....”
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Intorel... In Command Of DVB (SatBroadcasting™—App) [SatNews] Digital Video Broadcasting Master Commander (DVBMC) is the ultimate cross-platform software for the monitoring and control...
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Harris... A Cornerstone For The FAA (Comms) [SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been awarded a 15-year, $291 million contract to provide...
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C-COM Satellite Systems... Exede All Expectations (SATCOM) [SatNews] C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSX VENTURE:CMI) has received type approval for its...
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International Datacasting Corporation...Use Tattoos And LASERs To Generate Income [SatNews] "These innovative solutions enable the generation of new revenue streams, enhance service offerings, and expand audience reach...”
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August 27, 2012 SMPTE... From Key Papers To Symposiums... (SatBroadcasting™—Event) [SatNews] The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) has detailed a series of key papers at the...
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Space Foundation... "The Right Stuff... The Real Deal..." Neil Armstrong Has Passed... [SatNews] The Space Foundation, as well as millions of others, mourns the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human...
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Pixelmetrix + Verimatrix... The Importance Of Infrastructure (SatBroadcasting™—Tech) [SatNews] Pixelmetrix and Verimatrix are collaborating to integrate the...
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Comtech Xicom Technology... This HPA Is Touchy... (SATCOM) [SatNews] Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc. has unveiled a new, compact, LCD (liquid crystal display)...
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NASA + ADNET Systems... Directorate Support (Business) [SatNews] NASA has selected ADNET Systems Inc. of Rockville, Maryland, to provide a...
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European Space Agency (ESA)... A Shock To The System (Satellites) [SatNews] The BepiColombo mission to Mercury has undergone a series of shock tests at...
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EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference They Will Gather In Sopot, Poland [SatNews] They will gather, and share scientific exchanges in...
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August 26, 2012 Yahsat + Vox Telecom... Banding Together For Ka- (SATCOM) [SatNews] South Africa's first Ka-band satellite service, YahClick, was recently launched by...
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SATCON 2012... Critical Issues To Be Tackled... (Event) [SatNews] SATCON's world-class conference program, hundreds of exhibits, exclusive networking events...
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Envivio... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Transcoding) [SatNews] Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI) has introduced version 3.50 of its...
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Brüel & Kjær... Shake, Rattle + Roll To Ensure No Shake + No Rattle (Tech) [SatNews] Closed-loop control of vibration shaker systems requires controllers that deliver...
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VITEC... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Encoder | Decoder) [SatNews] VITEC has introduced two new portable Optibase IPTV appliances—the...
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NewSat... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] NewSat Limited (ASX: NWT) is reporting the Company’s performance for the year ending June 30, 2012. The financial highlights include...
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August 24, 2012 Ericsson... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Event) [SatNews] IBC 2012 (Booth 1.D61) will see the Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) market launch of the world’s first...
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RUAG Space... Ice Sheet Study To Get GPS Receivers (Satellite) [SatNews] RUAG Space has been selected to supply two space-hardened GPS receivers by...
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August 23, 2012 intoPIX + LEONIS Cinema... @ BIRTV 2012 With... (Digital Cinema—Tech) [SatNews] intoPIX and LEONIS Cinema have announced their strategic collaboration in...
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iDirect + THAICOM... Alliance Results In Turnkey Agreement (SATCOM) [SatNews] VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems, Inc. (VT Systems), has announced that THAICOM Public Company Limited and iDirect have signed...
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Paradigm... MiNDER's Role In Abu Dhabi (SatBroadcasting@—NMS) [SatNews] Paradigm Communication Systems Ltd has announced the completion of...
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Arianespace... Clean Room Checkout + More Arrive (Launch) [SatNews] The ASTRA 2F satellite to be orbited on Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 mission is now undergoing...
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Russia... Planning A Plant (Satelites) [SatNews] According to RIA Novosti, a space satellite manufacturing plant will be built...
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Vizada... Government Work (SATCOM) [SatNews] Vizada Inc., a subsidiary of Astrium, has been awarded by a...
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AsiaSat... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited (‘AsiaSat’ – SEHK: 1135) has announced its 2012 interim results for the six months ended June, 30, 2012. First half results reveal...
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SkyTrac Systems... @ AFAC Conference 2012 With... (Event) [SatNews] SkyTrac Systems will be exhibiting at the AFAC conference...
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South Africa... Not "Ze Plane," But "ZACUBE" (Satellite) [SatNews] A mini satellite weighing 1.2 kilograms will be launched from...
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XCOR Aerospace... They Will Come If You Build It (Spacecraft) [SatNews] XCOR Aerospace will establish an East Coast U.S. operational base in Florida and, as market demand dictates, establish...
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Arianespace... Two For The Upcoming Push + Fregat Fundamentals (Launch) [SatNews] Two Ariane 5 launchers have been positioned at the Spaceport for processing...
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Euroconsult... A Fine Year For FSS (Analysis | Reports) [SatNews] Euroconsult’s latest research report, Satellite Communications & Broadcasting Markets Survey, Forecasts to 2021, revealed that 2011 was a...
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COMSYS VSAT2012 Countdown...Vertical Value—Vertical Rewards (Event) [SatNews] Step out of one European trade show and right on over to another VSAT industry conference...
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GlobeCast's Panelists Present "Players" At IBC (Event) [SatNews] Talent will not be in short supply at IBC as this Company announced...
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August 22, 2012 Kongsberg Satellite Services + NASA... Station Support (Satellites) [SatNews] Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) has been awarded a contract to provide...
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Harris Corporation... Tablet To The Rescue (Comms) [SatNews] First responders needing mission-critical information while in the field or traveling to the scene of an incident now have a...
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CASIS... Proposals Push (Research) [SatNews] The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization promoting and managing research on board the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, will soon announce...
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International Datacasting... Reliability, Speed + Cost Reduction For Entertainment (SATCOM—Cinema) [SatNews] International Datacasting Corporation (TSX: IDC) now has a contract with Grupo Chilefilms, which owns and operates...
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IMS Research... OTT Evolution (Analysis | Report ) [SatNews] Over-the-Top (OTT) video service providers are keen to establish...
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Arianespace... Arrival Of Spatial Partner (Satellite) [SatNews] The second passenger for Arianespace’s upcoming Ariane 5 mission has arrived in...
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TE Connectivity... Doesn't Get Much Smaller... Or Tougher... (Connectors) [SatNews] Nanominiature connectors from TE Connectivity (TE) combine appealing size and weight with...
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ULA's Atlas V NROL No Go...For Another Delay [SatNews] It's a busy atmosphere, as the launch vehicles ready for action, one launch after another...
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Global Data Broadcast... Farewell Clunky, Hello Innovation (SATCOM) [SatNews] Private satellite broadcast networks have long been the domain of clunky terminals with gray metal rooftop dishes and expensive transponder time.
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August 21, 2012 ATEME... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Event) [SatNews] ATEME has announced that 2 SAT Europe bv, a provider of satellite connections around the world, has selected...
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SatLink Communications + Telesat... From EMEA To Latin America (SatBroadcasting™ + Event) [SatNews] SatLink Communications Ltd. now has a partnership with Telesat to deliver...
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SIS LIVE... And A Super Hi-Vision Time Was Had By All (SatBroadcasting™—Tech) [SatNews] Outside broadcast, satellite uplink, and product design specialist SIS LIVE has been supporting...
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Intellectual Ventures + Kymeta... An Antenna Adventure (SATCOM) [SatNews] Intellectual Ventures (IV) has announced that its newest spin-out company, Kymeta™, has closed a $12 million funding round...
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India... A Grant For Spatial Supervision of Programs (SATCOM) [SatNews] Haryana Space Application Centre (HARSAC), Hisar, India, is developing the spatial data infrastructure to provide satellite data...
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Arianespace... Next Step—Fueling (Satellites) [SatNews] The European MetOp-B satellite to be orbited from Baikonur Cosmodrome on the next Soyuz mission of...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... The Meager Mississippi (Imagery) [SatNews] In the spring of 2011, the Mississippi River swelled to historic levels, rising out of its banks, rolling across...
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Pactel ROCKs With Services For Nomads And Others On The Move [SatNews] The new platform can support a wide range of satellite mobility systems suitable for resource companies requiring frequent site relocation.
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NASA's Landsat...Mt. St. Helens Years After It Blew Its Top (Imaging) [SatNews] When devastation initially occurs, it is difficult for even the most optimistic person to imagine the healing...
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August 20, 2012 KRYTAR... Certifiably Certifiable (Business) [SatNews] KRYTAR, Inc. has announced its certification to AS9100 Revision C Quality Management System.
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NASA + JPL + Caltech... Back In The Saddle... (Business) [SatNews] NASA has awarded the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena a new...
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GeoImage... Nice To Have A ClearView (Imagery) [SatNews] Cloud cover has always been a problem for companies that rely on satellite or aerial imagery...
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Look Who Is Moving Up @ AGI To VP... [SatNews] He began as a systems engineer and now...
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ONE CONNXT... Encoding + Compression Enhancements (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] ONE CONNXT (OC) has just recently enhanced its technology and launched...
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THAICOM... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] THAICOM Public Company Limited (SET:THCOM) has released its half-year 2012 operating results, showing...
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IFEN + WORK Microwave... @ ION GNSS 2012 With... (RF) [SatNews] IFEN will partner with WORK Microwave to demo several innovative enhancements to the...
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Boeing... Signals Satisfaction (Satellite) [SatNews] Intelsat 21, the second Boeing [NYSE: BA] 702 Medium Power (MP) satellite, has begun...
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NASA... Handy To Have For Hurricanes (UAV | UAS) [SatNews] NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel Mission, or HS3, will be studying hurricanes at the end of the summer, and there will be...
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Hubble Happenings... A Long Look @ A Lonely Galaxy (Imagery) [SatNews] In terms of intergalactic real estate, our solar system has a plum location as part of a...
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Comtech Telecommunications Corp... Rural Relocations (SATCOM) [SatNews] Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., was awarded a...
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Astrium's ASTRA 2F Ships Out... Anticipation Of Launch [SatNews] Moving right along...
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U.S.A.F.—Air Force Space Command... It's Operational! (Satellite) [SatNews] The Commander of Air Force Space Command declared Initial Operational Capability Friday for...
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Northrop Grumman... Learning Of A New Fabrication (Satellite) [SatNews] The spacecraft that will carry NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to its orbit nearly a million miles from Earth...
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Globecomm Wins And Keeps On Winning...Contracts [SatNews] Not just one but several contracts...
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Advantech Wireless Proud Parents Of A New Generation [SatNews] A new generation is now available...
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August 19, 2012 UPDATE: Sea Launch Rocks As Intelsat-21 Roars Through The Night (Launch) The hour was late, the SatNews editorial team clocked in at 11:39 on a Saturday night, ready to view the launch from the Equator, 81 degrees F, a warm night...
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Satellite Industry's Win-Win...Hires Heros And... [SatNews] "..the opportunity... to gain access to employees who want to work in our industry and who have served our country is a great benefit; it is a win-win situation.“
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UPDATE RE: ULA's Rescheduled Launch [SatNews] The condition that caused the delay has been identified...
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August 18, 2012 Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel)... A True Fashion Plate (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) has launched...
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Microsemi... Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due (Spacecraft) [SatNews] Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) has extended its congratulations to...
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M.I.T... The Puff That Soars (Satellites) [SatNews] A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in...
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SATCON + The HPA... Awareness Ambassadors (Event) [SatNews] The SATCON 2012 event will feature discussions, solutions, networking and special events...
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PacStar... A Tactical Commitment (Comms) [SatNews] PacStar? has been awarded the TacSat Nano contract by...
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XCOR Aerospace + Uwingu... Supporting Crowd-Sourcing Spatial Missions (Business) [SatNews] XCOR Aerospace has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC's crowd-sourcing...
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August 16, 2012 Broadcom + SSP... 300 Semifinalists To Compete (STEM) [SatNews] Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science & the Public (SSP) has announced the selection of 300 middle school students...
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Bye Aerospace... Man Portable + Solar Powered (UAS | UAV) [SatNews] Bye Aerospace, in collaboration with Silent Falcon™ UAS Technologies, will feature the...
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Northrop Grumman... Successful Tracking Of Ballistic Threat (SATCOM) [SatNews] The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites participated in...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... A Pumice Puzzler (Imagery—NASA) [SatNews] Midway on its 800-kilometer (500-mile) voyage from Auckland to Raoul Island, New Zealand, the HMNZS Canterbury received an...
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Chandra's X-Ray Of Biggest, Highest + Gassiest Cluster (NASA) [SatNews] Stars forming in the cluster at the highest rate ever observed... is the most powerful producer of X-rays... the rate of hot gas cooling in the central regions...is the largest ever observed.
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Cobham Goes Wide With Modules + Hefty Boeing Contract [SatNews] The contract will be “highest-capacity military communications system” providing broadband communications connectivity for the U.S. and allied warfighters around the world."
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Kratos + SS/L... Carrier Monitoring Move (SATCOM) [SatNews] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) has announced that its SAT Corporation subsidiary has received...
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Russia... PM Wants An End To Problems Plaguing Roscosmos—Khrunichev Head Resigns (Satellites) [SatNews] RIA Novosti is reporting that the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered...
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Latin America Says, Viva DTT! [SatNews] Numbers can't lie, and so indications are that for the first time since TV was introduced in Lain America...
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August 15, 2012 Euroconsult... Issues + Strategies (Event) [SatNews] Communications and navigation applications
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NVerizon... A Higher Calling... (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] NVerzion has announced that Christian-based organization John Hagee Ministries (JHM) has selected...
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Thomson... @ IFA 2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] IFA in Berlin is one of the world's leading consumer electronics shows and one...
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Arianespace... One Sister Being Prepped, Another Enroute (Launch) [SatNews] Europe’s Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) satellite is undergoing...
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TE Connectivity + NASA... Relay Reliance (Spacecraft) [SatNews] NASA’s Curiosity rover landed in the Gale Crater on Mars on August 5, having flown...
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Narda Safety Test Solutions... Identifying Those Unknowns (Comms-Interference) [SatNews] Narda Safety Test Solutions has equipped the Interference and Direction Analyzer IDA-3106 with additional...
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Creonic... Coding Core (SatBroadcasting™—Turbo Decoder) [SatNews] Creonic has announced the availability of the world's first high-efficiency turbo decoder IP core...
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Adtec Digital... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Encoders) [SatNews] Adtec Digital has improved their ultra-low latency encoders...
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iStreamPlanet... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Streaming Video) [SatNews] At IBC2012, iStreamPlanet will showcase its portfolio of...
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RF Design... @ IBC2012 With... (SATCOM—Event) [SatNews] RF-Design invites attendees of IBC2012 to visit their...
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MTN Satellite Communications + Wireless Maritime Services... Making Waves With Voice @ Sea (SATCOM) [SatNews] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) and Wireless Maritime Services (WMS) have now made available the...
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Satellite Interference Reduction Group...It's A SIN Not To Use CID [SatNews] Stop Interference Now...it's a SIN. With that clever whit this same organization has identified products in compliance with...
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Telenor's Major Exec Moves x 2 [SatNews] Fine tuning a company with talent 'in house' is the best of all scenarios, such as...
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Elcome...A Welcome One-Stop Solution For Maritime, Shows And Tells [SatNews] The Company services over 600 vessels per month, with a first time fix rate of 96 percent.
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August 14, 2012 COMSYS... VSAT Concentrations (Event) [SatNews] Just one month to go until the COMSYS VSAT2012 Conference that will be held at...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... DOM Deliberations (Imagery—NASA) When rivers flow to the sea, they usually carry sediment and dissolved organic material—dead and decaying plant material—with them.
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Arqiva Supports A Star + Launches UK’s First South Asian HD TV [SatNews] Great news for fans of Hindi entertainment.
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Gilat's Milestone Is More Like A Boulder...Successful Deployments [SatNews] The joint effort between the Companies, first announced in May 2011, will include up to 48,000 SkyEdge II VSATs expected to be deployed over the next three years.
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Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel)... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) has announced a 3 percent increase in...
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JPL... Wheely Worrisome (Satellite) [SatNews] Engineers working on NASA's Dawn spacecraft are assessing the status of a...
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NASA... Two Of Four Delivered (Satellite) [SatNews] The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb)...
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Ball Aerospace... SpaceWire Support Enhancements (Satellite) [SatNews] Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will incorporate essential data communication enhancements for....
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European Space Agency... This Small Platform Captures An Olympic-Sized Picture (Imagery) [SatNews] This Olympics has been watched from all over the world—and beyond.
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Harris... The Host With The Most (Event) [SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) will be the industry host for MILCOM 2012, the premier...
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Sea Launch Rocks And Rolls On The Waves...Readies + Steadies For Launch (Launch) [SatNews] All is well at the Equator as the sea vessels prepare for the big launch.
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ULA's Atlas V NROL-36 Includes Cubesats Payload (Launch) [SatNews] The launch has been rescheduled this time it's...
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August 13, 2012 Secure World Foundation + Space Foundation... Security + Sustainability Is The Focus (Event) [SatNews] Secure World Foundation and Space Foundation will co-host a Congressional briefing to...
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Generator Research... Checking Out The Digital Media Sector (Analysis | Reports) [SatNews] Just released by Generator Research is their new, 100-page reference manual that is...
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Cobham... Major Modularities x3 (Satellite) [SatNews] Cobham has been awarded a $65 million contract to supply electronic systems to...
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NASA + DSS + ATK... Solar Sustenance (Spacecraft) [SatNews] NASA's Space Technology Program has selected Deployable Space Systems (DSS) of Goleta, California and ATK Space Systems Inc., of Commerce, California, for...
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NASA... Small, But Cutting Edge (Satellites) [SatNews] NASA has selected three teams to advance the state of the art...
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U.S. Army Space & Missile Command... Looking Mighty... Different On First Flight Test.. (UAV | UAS) [SatNews] The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command conducted the first flight test...
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USAF's AEHF Calls Home...Now In Geostationary-Orbit [SatNews] Success, from launch to burns expeditiously raised the satellite above the densest regions of the Van Allen radiation belts.
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NDS + Canal Digital... Imminent Immersion (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] NDS, now part of Cisco, and Canal Digital have announced that they are collaborating...
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Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel)... Rights On For mio Match (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) has announced that its mio TV service...
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NASA + Raytheon... A Major Weather Role Now Under Contract (Satellite) [SatNews] NASA has completed negotiations and finalized the contracts for the spacecraft and instruments that comprise...
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Russia... Finally, Some Somewhat Encouraging News... (Satellite) [SatNews] Contact has been made with an Indonesian telecommunications satellite that went missing...
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Vizrt...Now A Keystroke Takes You To The World's Hottest Spots (Earth Observation) [SatNews] "For reports on perilous events, like a nuclear power plant accident or tsunami, [this service] can give everyone a birds-eye view from the safety of an orbiting satellite.”
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SkyTrac Systems To Show At Show in Sao Paulo, Brazil [SatNews] "We are looking forward to attending LABACE and expanding our presence in the Latin American market."
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Moving On Up...He Walked In Space Now Works @ Orbital (Again) [SatNews] “We are equally proud of his return to the company after such a distinguished NASA career..."
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Oh Canada! State-Of-Art Antennas Monitor World's Longest Coastline And More [SatNews] "With the second-largest landmass on earth and the longest coastline in the world, Canada's sovereignty depends on the effective monitoring of our land and borders."
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eNews... The SKY's The Limit (SatBroadcasting™) South Africa's first independent 24-hour news service, the eNews Channel, has confirmed...
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JAXA... Scoping The Sun (Satellite) [SatNews] While the most powerful earthquake to occur since records began hit Japan in 2011, triggering a massive...
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DeLorme + West Marine... inReaching For New Heights (SATCOM) [SatNews] DeLorme has announced that West Marine is now selling the new...
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PCI Geomatics... The Views Of History For Today's GIS Pros... (Webinar—Imagery) [SatNews] Historical aerial photography archives contain valuable information that remains untapped.
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T-VIPS... @ IBC2012 With... (Event—SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] T-VIPS will launch their new CP524 TS Adapter, which supports multi-stream (any input to any output), remultiplexing, and flexible format conversion...
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Paradigm... Down On The Farm (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Paradigm Communication Systems Ltd. has announced the completion of...
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SatService... @ IBC2012 With... Tracking Success (SATCOM) [SatNews] SatService Gesellschaft fu?r Kommunikationssysteme will present its sat-nms ACU-RMU antenna tracking...
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NASA Calling All Cubes, It's Cool To Be Square (Proposals) [SatNews] These cube-shaped satellites are approximately four inches long, have a volume of about one quart and weigh less than three pounds and are...
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August 10, 2012 Norsat... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] Norsat International Inc. (“Norsat” or “the Company”) (TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF) has reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012.
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ORBCOMM... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) has announced financial results for the second quarter...
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August 9, 2012 MSG-3 Spins Out The Weather Report ...First Images [SatNews] It scans Earth’s surface and atmosphere every 15 minutes in 12 different wavelengths, to track cloud development.
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TE Connectivity... The Color ID (Tech) [SatNews] TE Connectivity (TE) has introduced an extension to its line of...
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Gilat Satellite Networks... Getting More Of An Edge (SATCOM) [SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT) has announced that Argentina's...
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Space Data Association + NASA... Driven By The Details (Business) [SatNews] The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, has announced...
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Harris... Handhelds For Ground Based Missions (Comms) [SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received a $6.5 million order from the...
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Boeing... UAV Range Repeater (Comms) [SatNews] Boeing [NYSE: BA] has delivered production units of a smaller, lighter version of its...
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Rome Research Corp... A GIG Gig (SATCOM) [SatNews] Rome Research Corporation (RRC), a subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR), has announced that the U.S. Navy awarded...
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Arianespace... Panels Put Thru Their Paces (Launch) [SatNews] India’s GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite—which is one of two passengers for Arianespace’s upcoming Ariane 5 mission in September—has been...
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Russia... Fueling The Failure's Investigation (Launch) [SatNews] Russia's Kommersant Daily is reporting that the failed satellite launch last Monday...
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Northrop Grumman... Joining The HPA... (Business) [SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has become a member of the Hosted Payloads Alliance (HPA), joining the...
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Maxwell Technology... The SkyMaxe Is The Limit—For S.A. Farmers (SATCOM) [SatNews] South Africa's farming and rural communities have lacked affordable, available connectivity to the Internet.
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Sierra Nevada Corp + ORBCOMM... Beating Vibration + Thermal Assaults (Satellite) [SatNews] Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems has successfully completed random vibration and thermal vacuum testing of...
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Astrotech... Moving On Up... (Business) [SatNews] Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC) has appointed Carlisle "Kirk" Kirkpatrick as Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of the Company.
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NASA Teases As We Wait For Info About Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster [SatNews] Short on info, but long on potential...
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August 8, 2012 SIS Live... France TV Sports Takes The Bus For The Olympics (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Outside broadcast, uplink and systems integration specialists SIS LIVE has been working in a collaborative venture with...
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RF Design... Mixed Configs Confirmed (RF) [SatNews] The Company's new FlexLink-K3 is a professional, flexible modular type...
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DEV Systemtechnik... @ IBC2012 With... (Event) [SatNews] DEV Systemtechnik will unveil its latest solutions for...
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Boeing... Little Bird, Big Plans.... (UAV | UAS) [SatNews] The Boeing [NYSE: BA] Unmanned Little Bird H-6U successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs...
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CETel Group + Teleport Kabel Deutschland Holding... Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... (Business) [SatNews] CETel Group (Central European Telecom Services) has acquired the...
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Intelsat + GVF... Taking Training Up More Than A Notch (Comms—Event) [SatNews] Intelsat S.A. is sponsoring communications training that is being conducted at...
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Hiltron GmbH's News Breaking, Newsgathering Antenna At IBC2012 [SatNews] Transmission is critical when an agency needs to file their news ahead of their competitors.
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TechNet Land Forces East...Attention: Expertise Of U.S. Army Colonel Cynamon [SatNews] “I look forward to discussing the Company's capabilities and recent advancements in military networking, along with how our bandwidth efficient technologies can help the military meet its budget gap.”
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DISH Network... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) has reported revenue totaling $3.57 billion for the quarter ended...
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Arianespace... Getting That Galileo Feeling... (Launch) [SatNews] The first of two Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) navigation satellites for Arianespace’s next Soyuz mission...
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Windstream's Smooth Sailing With Consent of Lenders [SatNews] The Company has more than $6 billion in annual revenues and is listed on the S&P 500 index....
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Inmarsat XpressLink™ Takes MISC Berhad's To Task [SatNews] The dual system design also results in unmatched redundancy delivering near 99.9 percent uptime.
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Loral's Historical Invitation... Participate In Plans For Future [SatNews] This Company hosts a conference call in which many aspects will be discussed.
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August 7, 2012 Harris... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Event) [SatNews] As IBC 2012 approaches, Harris Broadcast Communications establishes a common shared storage platform...
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Ball Aerospace... Low Profile, Better Coverage (SATCOM) [SatNews] Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully demonstrated its...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... Siberia Sizzles (Imagery—NASA) [SatNews] For more than a decade, scientists have used data from instruments on the Terra and Aqua satellites to...
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Costa Rica + Intelsat... There Was Nothing There... (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] According to the Inside CostaRica news site, both Tigo (Amnet) and CableTica lost their signal...
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Boeing... A Commanding "Swarm" Performance (UAV | UAS) [SatNews] Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) have demonstrated that an operator on the ground, using only a...
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions... A Winning Support Team (Business) [SatNews] Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.(Nasdaq:KTOS) has announced that it is part of the...
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Gilat Satcom... Educational Expansion Expressway (SATCOM) [SatNews] Gilat Satcom has donated a VSAT communication system to connect...
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Inmarsat... Resilience + Reliability Revealed (SATCOM) [SatNews] Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT.L) has introduced new promotional initiatives for its...
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ABI Research... In-Car Navigation Inspection (GPS | GNSS) [SatNews] The total in-car navigation market has been in continual decline for the last three years...
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Snell... For OB + In Studio (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Snell announced that Czech TV, the Czech Republic's public broadcasting network, has extended its...
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Space Foundation... Alan Shepard Awards Announcement (STEM) [SatNews] Educators who have demonstrated a commitment to inspiring students' interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) may...
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Pulse Power + Measurement... Heading Into The U.S.A. (Business) [SatNews] Pulse Power and Measurement Ltd. (PPM), manufacturer of RF over fibre equipment, has launched...
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Gilat Satellite Networks... Solution To Be Seen For Small UAV/UAS Platforms (SATCOM) [SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT) will be displaying its new integrated...
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Brüel & Kjær...Good Vibrations School Starts In September (Training) [SatNews] An education is an ongoing exercise, and so it is with ....
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Kratos SAT's New Global Coverage...No Dogs Here With Best Of Breed [SatNews] This service covers 1,127 beams from 269 commercial communications satellites, almost 90 percent of the world's global Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) constellation.
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AAI Test & Training + Orbital Sciences... Verification + Correction Testing = Product Viability (Satellites) [SatNews] AAI Test & Training, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced that the company has received a contract...
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AsiaSat 5 Is A Good Sport To Dubai And More [SatNews] "...it offers the greatest choice of Arabic content for Arab communities in Asia and Australasia...."
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Russia... Launches To Be Suspended + Squelching Rumors... (Launch) [SatNews] Given the failure of the Briz-M launch vehicle and the loss of the Telkom-3 and Express MD2 satellites yesterday...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... New Zealand's Tongariro Tantrum (Imagery—NASA) [SatNews] Late on August 6, 2012, New Zealand’s Mount Tongariro erupted for the first time in 115 years...
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NSR's Report Satellites And The Capacity To Grow [SatNews] “The Ku-band market will continue to be the main growth engine for the commercial satellite market for the coming ten years.”
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August 6, 2012 India... The Record Could Show 29 By The Close Of This Year (Launch) [SatNews] India will launch three satellites in September and two more...
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UC Berkeley... A Trip To The CINEMA... (Satellite) [SatNews] After three years of work by students and scientists from UC Berkeley and several higher education institutions around the world, a...
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Sierra Nevada Corporation... An Award For Chasing The Dream (Spacecraft) [SatNews] Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has announced that their Dream Chaser? Space System has been...
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Elbit Systems... Mixing It Up (UAV | UAS) [SatNews] Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT ("Elbit Systems") has been awarded a contract valued at many tens of millions of dollars to supply...
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Wildlife Acoustics... Bioacoustics, Remotely Garnered (SATCOM) [SatNews] Wildlife Acoustics has introduced a new system to allow remote access to...
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United Kingdom + Russia... Putting Satellites In Their Place... [SatNews] Being reported by RIA Novosti is the fact that Russia and Britain are discussing...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... The Attack Of The Aerosols (Imagery) [SatNews] NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the tiny airborne particles—aerosols—that arrive by air in North America each year.
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Eutelsat + MultiChoice Africa... Seeking SATisfaction (Competition + STEM) [SatNews] How can satellite technology help expand Africa’s horizons into the future?
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Space Systems/Loral... Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due—Intelsat 20 (Launch) [SatNews] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) (NASDAQ: LORL) is delighted with the launch of the...
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UPDATE! NASA + Aeroject + ATK + CSA... Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due—Curiosity (Spacecraft) [SatNews] Last night's (Sunday, August 5, 2012) landing of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), named Curiosity, was successful...
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Siemens CMT... Let Me See Your ID... (SATCOM) [SatNews] Siemens Communications, Media and Technology has released the first Carrier ID Detection System by...
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MTN's Newest Group Enables Transmission Anywhere...Even Submerged Submarines! (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] This Company's group enables transmissions on land, sea and air, including down deep in the sea...
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Sea Launch Preps To Launch Intelsat 21...An Odyssey At Sea (Launch) [SatNews] This rocket and satellite get to go on an ocean cruise before they are launched into the stratosphere...
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Kratos Financially Speaking 2012 Results + A Divesture [SatNews] Financials are available, and notice of a divesture...
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DigitalGlobe Sees Everything But The Olympic Gold Medals (EO) [SatNews] Satellite Earth observation photos can be inspiring, frightening and enlightening, and altogether amazing such as...
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ITT Exelis... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) has reported 2012 second-quarter revenue of $1.4 billion, a 7 percent...
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Silent Falcon UAS Technologies... Silence Is Golden (UAV | UAS) [SatNews] Silent Falcon™ UAS Technologies has unveiled the highly anticipated Silent Falcon™ solar electric...
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SES + Eurovision... Upped To 54MHz (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced a multi-year capacity deal with Eurovision ...
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Here's Looking @ Earth... On Highway 5 In Syria (Imagery—DigitalGlobe) [SatNews] These satellite images feature elements of a Syrian armored company staged along Highway 5 in the Hamadaniya neighborhood.
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GeoEye... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) has announced results for its fiscal second quarter ended June 30, 2012.
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Acquiring Minds Want To Know About... SkyVision + Afinis [SatNews] "...the acquisition supports the Company's goal of firmly establishing the company as one of largest satellite operators in emerging markets offering true Pan-African coverage and presence."
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Russia... Two NOT Off + Away (Launch) [SatNews] On Monday, Russia launched two telecommunications satellites via a...
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Vizada Steps Up With TSF When Others Flee [SatNews] located in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso, which is currently a very dangerous area due to the regional conflicts and food shortages.
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Eutelsat... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] The Board of Directors’ of Eutelsat Communications (ISIN: FR0010221234 Euronext Paris: ETL), met today and reviewed its financial results for the year ended June 30, 2012.
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Thuraya And Geolink Make The News For The News Agencies [SatNews] "“I am thrilled about the swift new speed we have achieved..."
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August 5, 2012 AT&T + NextWave Wireless... Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... (Business) [SatNews] AT&T has agreed to acquire NextWave Wireless, Inc.
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Globecomm... The Importance Of Infrastructure (SATCOM) [SatNews] Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has been awarded multiple infrastructure contracts from a...
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SpaceX + NASA... Spatial Expedition Craft To Now Become A Reality [SatNews] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has won a $440 million contract with NASA to develop...
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Miranda Technologies... Seamless Bridging (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Miranda Technologies Inc. (TSX: MT) has announced key improvements...
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Rohde & Schwarz... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH will be presenting its studio-broadcast and post production solutions...
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COM DEV USA... Ferrites, Filters, Switches + More (Satellite) [SatNews] COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), has been awarded a contract by...
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SATCON 2012...Look Who's Speaking Up... [SatNews] There aren't many speakers who have the expertise, respect and determination as...
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NASA's Goal Achieved... Their Curiosity Got Them To Mars! [SatNews] As the Olympic athletes were pushing their all, simultaneously, NASA's Curiosity achieved the Mars landing—both required long term goals on Earth...the other on Mars!
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Israel Can-Do...Build A Spy Satellite For Italy [SatNews] Collaboration between two for a common result such as...
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August 3, 2012 Futron... The Index Of Space Competitiveness (Analysis | Reports) [SatNews] Futron has announced the publication of the fifth-anniversary edition of...
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August 2, 2012 ULA's Atlas V NROL-36 Scrubbed...Now It's Next Week (Launch) [SatNews] Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (Aug. 2, 2012) – The launch of an Atlas V carrying the National Reconnaissance Office NROL-36 payload has been further delayed to no earlier than...
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Indra + Hispasat... Complete Control (Satellite) [SatNews] Indra has been awarded a contract by Hispasat to develop and implement the...
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Eyeheight... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Event) [SatNews] Eyeheight has announced a powerful addition to its product range that's scheduled for introduction...
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exactEarth... Ice + Traffic Patterns (Imagery) [SatNews] exactEarth Ltd. has released a new pre-packaged data product...
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Advantech Wireless... This Alliance Supports Interoperability (Business) [SatNews] Advantech Wireless has renewed its commitment to providing world-class, carrier-grade, standards-based communications products by joining...
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Intelsat's Second Quarter 2012 Reports Launches And Financials [SatNews] The numbers are in and the report states...
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Arianespace... September To See Another Dual Drive Into Orbit (Launch) [SatNews] One of the two satellites for Arianespace’s fifth Ariane 5 flight of 2012 is undergoing...
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SMPTE... Accuracy Despite Changing Content (SatBroadcasting™—Tech) [SatNews] The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has announced the publication of the BXF (Broadcast eXchange Format) 2.0 suite...
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Data Technology Solutions... Of More Than Remote Interest... (SATCOM) [SatNews] Data Technology Solutions has announced the signing of a new three year services contract with...
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SSPI Caring For The Industry's Future And Seeking Mentors [SatNews] This nonprofit member-benefit society serves satellite professionals throughout their careers.
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TeleCommunication Systems (TCS)... SNAP To It Again (SATCOM) [SatNews] TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received a new $19 million delivery order from the...
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Boeing... Contained + Shipped (Satellite) [SatNews] Boeing [NYSE: BA] recently completed shipment of the second of four 702MP satellites for customer...
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Comtech EF Data's Stampede Of Appliances + Wins With WAN Optimization [SatNews] Bright minds begat intelligent products, solutions and improvements such as...
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NASA's Chief... "U.S. Cannot Always Be The Leader"...Share Going To Mars [SatNews] Strong opinions generate strong responses, and with that...
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Arianespace... Double Success = A Mighty Milestone (Launch) [SatNews] Arianespace's mission that orbited the Intelsat 20 and HYLAS 2 satellites today marked the milestone...
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Telesat's Second Quarter Results Through June 30, 2012 [SatNews] Bean counters, number crunchers, pencil pushers, are those who track the pulse, the ups and downs of a company's financials...
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August 1, 2012 U.S.A.F. + Boeing—Bringing In Number 10 (Satellite) [SatNews] The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $338.7 million contract modification to..
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MDA + GMES... More Data For Decisions (Imagery) [SatNews] As previously announced on July 20, 2012, MDA’s Information Systems Group (MDA) has signed a contract...
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Harris... Manpack Maneuvers + Terminal Transfers (SATCOM) [SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received a $10 million order to supply the...
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Raytheon... This PDR Is Fenced In... (Tech) [SatNews] The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) have completed the preliminary design review (PDR) contract...
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Verizon + HUGHES Telematics... Acquiring Minds Wish To Know... (Business—M2M) [SatNews] Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) has closed its previously announced acquisition of HUGHES Telematics Inc.(HTI)...
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ITT Exelis... Echelon Enhancements For Second ID (SATCOM) [SatNews] ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) has been awarded a Rapid Equipping Force contract to provide...
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ATK... New Buses To Catch (Satellites) [SatNews] ATK (NYSE: ATK) has announced an expanded product line of small, agile satellite buses designed for a...
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Harmonic + ViewSat... Electra-fying For DTH (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced that ViewSat, has deployed a...
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iDirect + Elara Communications... Visibility Workup For Nets (SATCOM) [SatNews] VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems, Inc. (VT Systems), has announced that...
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MTN Government Services... RSOC Resource For DoD (SATCOM) [SatNews] MTN Government Services (MTNGS), a subsidiary of MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has been awarded a contract supporting the...
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EUMETSAT... You Try Circling For 30,000 Orbits! (Satellites) [SatNews] On July 31st, EUMETSAT’s Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite completed...
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EchoStar... @ ABTA 2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS) will showcase an array of products that will enable...
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C-COM Opens Service Center in Buenos Aires ¡Qué Bueno! [SatNews] Where do you go in Buenos Aires when your auto-deploying satellite antenna needs servicing?
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WORK Microwave... Speeding Up The Standard (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] WORK Microwave has announced several advanced new features for its comprehensive range of high-speed...
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Numerex... Financially Speaking... (Business) [SatNews] Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX) has added 116,000 net subscriptions in the three month period ended June 30, 2012 and...
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Arianespace... Prepped For The Big Push (Launch) [SatNews] Arianespace’s fourth heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission of 2012 has been given the...
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Inmarsat In Mali Brings The Phones As Refugees Flee [SatNews] Despite hardship, conflict and terror there are agencies that bring hope in the form of a phone...
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ONE CONNXT + Dallah... Tried + True Transport (SatBroadcasting™) [SatNews] One of the largest private production houses in Saudi Arabia, Dallah for Media Production (DMP), has signed...
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NORSAT's Portable Sat Gets The Go From NATO... Any Time Any Place [SatNews] ...this is an easy to deploy portable communications solution that delivers video, voice, and data connectivity anywhere on the planet....
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Orbital Sciences Ready HYLAS 2...It's All Good...Tomorrow (Launch) [SatNews] All is well in French Guiana before the fireworks begin...
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Space Studies Program Presents Team Projects + Critical Problem Solving [SatNews] It's not enough to recognize there are serious issues that need solutions—the solutions need to be calculated...
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