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May 30, 2008 The Coming Battle Of The Satellite Stars... EchoStar + Intelsat... An application for the authority to construct, launch and operate a geostationary C-band satellite has been filed with the Federal Communications Commission by EchoStar Corporation using the orbital slot 84.9° W, only recently made available for reassignment.
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May 29, 2008 No Gas Pains For Media Broadcast With Fleet of SNGs Soaring gas prices apparently aren't of concern to MEDIA BROADCAST... their latest transaction with ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, involves a new fleet of SNGs.
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GSM Network Can Come To Victims' Aid, Thanks To TriaGnoSys TriaGnoSys has completed a successful trial of its disaster-recovery communications solution, which is designed to establish a GSM communications infrastructure in the first 24 hours following a disaster.
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ILS + Khrunichev Become Even Better Friends ILS International Launch Services Inc. just announced Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has acquired the shares of ILS owned by majority shareholder, Space Transport Inc.
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Managing The X-Band Proves Enriching For Intelsat Intelsat General Corporation has been awarded a contract by DRS Technologies Inc. to provide X-band satellite connectivity, fiber, and teleport services in the Middle East using Intelsat infrastructure and the Skynet satellite fleet which is owned and operated by Paradigm Secure Communications.
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Voila! The 12th World Satellite Business Week En Paris The World Satellite Business Week will take place in Paris, France, from Tuesday, September 9th through Thursday September 11th.
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NASA Considers Proposals For Small Explorer Program NASA has selected six candidate mission proposals for further evaluation as part of the agency's Small Explorer (SMEX) Program.
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Moving On Up... At NASA... Dr. Daniel M. Schumacher has been appointed director of the Office of Strategic Analysis & Communications at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Moving On Up... At Iridium... Iridium Satellite announced the promotion of Scott Scheimreif to Vice President of Government Programs, where he will be responsible for management of the Iridium’s Government Programs portfolio, which includes Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Government services, and for new business development.
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ORBITZ... — Boeing — Honeywell — MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates — NemeriX —
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No Gas Pains For Media Broadcast With Fleet of SNGs Soaring gas prices apparently aren't of concern to MEDIA BROADCAST... their latest transaction with ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, involves a new fleet of SNGs.
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May 28, 2008 Turksat Ready To Take-Off At the Kourou launch site in French Guiana, the Turksat-3A communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space is ready for its boost into orbit
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U.S. Navy Will Acquire Harris Internet Technology For Ships At Sea Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded a potential five-year, $85 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Navy.
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Telenor Tumbles Scandinavian Pricing Telenor has significantly reduced its rates on mobile calls from ships sailing in Scandinavian and Nordic waters.
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SkyTime Set For Next SkyNet By Astrium Astrium is on target for the third Skynet-5 satellite launch with Skynet-5C scheduled for launch from Kourou, French Guiana on Nay 30th 2008 on an Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
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GPS OCX + Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Control Segment (OCX), achieving two major milestone reviews within a matter of weeks.
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Space Flying Pegasus Eyes The Ionosphere For Problems Air Force Space Command's Space Development and Test Wing has successfully concluded the launch and early orbit portion of operations for the Communication Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite and accepted the spacecraft from the contractor, General Dynamics.
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SS/L Dishes Up EchoStar XI To Sea Launch Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has delivered EchoStar XI to the Sea Launch home port in Long Beach, California.
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Dead Star Has a Ring, But No Plans for a Wedding NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that essentially blew up.
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ESA Says Go GOCE A new launch date has been set for GOCE. The change of date is due to precautionary measures taken after the malfunction of an upper-stage section of a Russian Proton launcher.
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NASA Knows This Arm Doesn't Do High Fives xciting stuff from scientists working with the NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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May 27, 2008 SatLink Expands Hope’s Global Coverage SatLink Communications Ltd., announced the launch of Brazilian spiritual channel, Hope Channel’s Novo Tempo in the Portuguese language to Africa.
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Moving On Up... at Globecomm Systems... Globecomm Systems Inc., a worldwide provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services announced that Stephen Wilson has been appointed Vice President of American Sales for Globecomm.
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Astrium Is Going To CARE A Great Deal Astrium will now be involved as the prime to develop and build the European Space Agency's EarthCARE Earth observation (EO) satellite.
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The Musey Trek Reaches The Summit Of Mt. Everest! What a glorious accomplishment! J. Armand Musey and his climbing team have successfully reached the 29,028-foot summit of Mt. Everest, capping an arduous six-week expedition over the most challenging terrain in the world.
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Moving On Up... At Newtec... In the new role of Business Development Director at Newtec is Didier Tymen.
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ProtoStar Pumped... SS/L Delivers... Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), has now shipped the ProtoStar I satellite to Kourou, French Guiana, where it is scheduled to launch as early as June 24th aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
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ATK's Phoenix Empowerment Alliant Techsystems' (NYSE: ATK) Ultraflex Solar Arrays deployed successfully and now provide power to NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander.
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NASA's STS-124 All Set For Liftoff NASA's Space shuttle Discovery is in place at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A and remaining work is on schedule for liftoff on May 31st at 5:02 p.m., EDT.
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Orbitz... — Orbit Technology + AITelecom — SkyTrac —
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More In The Way Of Discovery For MEASAT MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. now has an agreement with AETN All Asia Networks Pte Ltd to distribute The Biography Channel® on the MEASAT-3 satellite.
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May 26, 2008 Glory Is Also A GMV Goal GMV has been selected by Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) to provide an adaptation of its satellite flight dynamics software product, focusLEO, for the Glory scientific satellite program Orbital is executing for NASA.
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SES NEW SKIES Has A Natural Capacity For Nature SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has renewed its support, through the provision of optimal satellite capacity, of The Nature Conservancy, which counts more than one million members and has protected more than 117 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers in over 30 countries around the world.
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May 25, 2008 Phoenix Lands Safely! The Phoenix Lander has arrived at its destination—Mars.
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NASA's Official Phoenix Landing Press Release NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
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NASA's Official Phoenix Landing Press Release + Photos... NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
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May 23, 2008 Moving On Up... At Intelsat General... Congratulations are in order to sat industry vet Kay Sears... she has just been named the new President of Intelsat General.
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May 22, 2008 A Blast For GLAST The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) has now been targeted by NASA for a launch on June 3rd from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Thuraya Gives ITU Mobile Assistance >In support of the on-going relief activities in Asian countries, Thuraya Telecommunications Company has given key telecom equipment to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), with a view to distributing them to relief operation teams in disaster-struck countries.
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Failure Analysis Barks Up The Right Tree Failure Analysis has announced the company will expand its watchdog engineering services to space companies and organizations that rely on satellite and launch vehicle builders to produce highly reliable, fully tested, and ready to launch vehicles that do not want to suffer from a catastrophic infant mortality failure, or pay a higher insurance premium.
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This Spacial Exoplation Is Courtesy Of ESA's COROT An exoplanet is a planet that is orbiting a star other than our solar system's Sun, most having been detected by their gravitational influence on their star that causes a periodic shift in the spectral lines of the star.
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New NASA Dating Dynamics NASA has adjusted the target launch dates for two space shuttle missions in 2008. Shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is now targeted for Oct. 8, and Endeavour's STS-126 supply mission to the International Space Station has moved from Oct. 16 to Nov. 10.
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May 21, 2008 Galaxy 18 Into Orbit Thanks to Sea Launch + A Zenit-3SL Sea Launch Company has successfully delivered the Galaxy 18 communications satellite to orbit from its ocean-based platform on the Equator, marking its third successful launch in 2008.
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Mars Express Will Keep An Astute Eye On Phoenix May 26th, that's when the ESA's Mars Express monitors the critical entry, descent, and landing onto the surface of Mars by the Phoenix.
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SciSys Sun Shines With Ulysses Accolade Staff at SciSys’ Space Division are celebrating their part in an International Award for Outstanding Achievement.
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Es Bueno—Vizada Reduces Price, Not Service Vizada has reduced the pricing of its BGAN land mobile service in Latin America.
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Brazilian TV Goes Globe Trotting with GlobeCast Rede Record Internacional is partnering again with GlobeCast and satellite service provider SatLink to bring Brazillian TV to folks in Asia.
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NASA Good to Go—Pack Extra Pillows NASA's next space shuttle launch is planned for May 31.
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ORBITZ... — ICO Global Communications — Orbital Sciences Corporation —
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May 20, 2008 NCS Gets SMART With MSV Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has announced the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Communications System (NCS) is partnering with MSV to provide Satellite Priority Service to the NCS priority service customers.
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Everest Expedition Finds Musey Headin' To The Summit After several weeks of adjusting to life on less oxygen and making multiple treks between Base Camp and higher stopping points, J. Armand Musey and his eight fellow climbers have embarked on their final ascent of the 29,028-foot summit of Mt. Everest.
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Financially Speaking... SES... Satellite operator SES S.A. [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG] has received a vote of confidence... of sorts.
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Ariane 5 Faring Is Packed For The Dual Passenger Trip The third Ariane 5 for this year has finished the integration of the Turksat-3A and Skynet-5C satellites at the Spaceport in French Guiana and is now complete.
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SPACECONNECTION Gets Anik'd The SPACECONNECTION has just concluded a multi-year agreement with Telesat for the provision of Occasional Use (“OU”) satellite capacity on the Anik fleet of satellites.
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OSTM/Jason 2 Moves Closer To Climatic Launch On June 15th, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, OSTM/Jason 2 is scheduled for launch.
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Warrior Keeps On Trackin'... Satellites Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) has unveiled new features to its Warrior Satellite Surveillance System.
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Land Comm Mobility Aided By Explorer 727 hrane & Thrane has received Inmarsat approval of the EXPLORER 727, the company's new land mobile terminal.
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A Hi-Res Grounding From MDA MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has been awarded a multi-million dollar upgrade contract to supply a confidential customer with additional capabilities for a complete system solution for a high-resolution satellite program.
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ORBITZ... — Al Yah Satellite Communications Corporation — Integral Systems — Intelsat — NASA —
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May 19, 2008 Discovery + Kibo Will Kick Off On May 31 The GO has been given for May 31st as the official launch date for the STS-124 mission to the ISS. NASA completed a review yesterday of the space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight and the lift off will be at 5:02 p.m. EDT for Commander Mark Kelly and his six crew mates.
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Financially Speaking... Loral Space & Communications... Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:LORL) announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2008.
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May 21st Set For Galaxy 18 Liftoff By Sea Launch The Sea Launch team arrived at the launch site in the Equatorial Pacific over the weekend and initiated a 72-hour countdown, in preparation for the launch of Intelsat’s Galaxy 18 satellite on Wednesday, May 21.
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NASA Seeks New Blood With Transfusion Program In a creative attempt to improve their agency, NASA is seeking companies and organizations across America involved in cutting-edge innovation to partner with them in the Innovation Transfusion Program.
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SatModem From Comtech Packs In Advanced Comm Features In high volume production is the CDM-625 Advanced Satellite Modem from Comtech EF Data Corporation.
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Combo Sat Fleet Incorporation Handled With Integralability Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-ISYS) has completed the initial phase of a contract with Telesat to support activities associated with integrating the Loral Skynet and Telesat Canada satellite fleet operations under Telesat.
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Wealth With Galaxy 13 WealthTV, the luxury lifestyle and entertainment network, has announced its parent company, Herring Broadcasting, Inc., has contracted for a long-term extension of its transponder service agreement with Intelsat, Ltd.
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Scintillating SciFi Via ABS-1 Into Russia RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) has been selected to distribute AXN SCI-FI, the science fiction channel from Sony Pictures Television International (“SPTI”) into Russia via the company's premier RRsat Global Network.
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Both Globalstar + Hughes Will Be Well Grounded Globalstar, Inc. (MASDAQ:GSAT) has signed an agreement with Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES).
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A Sweet SatOrange For French TV Viewers With headend services provided by GlobeCast, the deployment of Orange's triple play offer will mean 24 million French households will be able to enjoy Orange TV starting on July 3rd.
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A DARPA HiDVE For SpaceDev SpaceDev, Inc. (OTCBB: SPDV) has been notified that the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), after the completion of a successful Critical Design Review (CDR), has elected to exercise its option for continuation of SpaceDev’s High Delta-V (HiDVE) Satellite program.
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May 18, 2008 More Than Food At This ITU Cairo-Based Lunch The challenges of providing African people easy and affordable access to broadband connectivity throughout the continent was discussed at political and executive levels during a luncheon meeting hosted by Thuraya at the ITU Telecom Africa event in Cairo last week.
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Additional Hands On ISS Work Awarded To ARES Last Wednesday, ARES Corporation (Houston, Texas) was awarded a one-year contract extension by NASA for services required to continue the development and operation of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Goddard Goodies To SP Systems SP Systems will be providing mission support services for NASA's Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract for the Goddard Space Flight Center's Flight Projects Directorate.
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Sat-Based Underground Mapping Is A Go For Failure Analysis Failure Analysis has been contacted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to start work on the Defense Underground Mapping Satellite Tracking and Ranging (DUMSTR) system that the Company proposed to the National Reconnaissance Office, Washington, D.C.
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AMC-11 Gains A Shopping Channel SES has announced they will be adding QVCHD to its line up of available channels. QVC is the first home retail shopping channel to offer HD programming through SES AMERICOM’s HD-PRIME ® platform.
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Financially Speaking... SkyTerra Communications... SkyTerra Communications, Inc.</b> (OTCBB : SKYT) announced it has extended the expiration date for its previously announced offer (the "Offer") to issue options to purchase shares of common stock of SkyTerra, in replacement of and upon termination of options to purchase limited partnership units of Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P.
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May 15, 2008 Red Planet Arrival Set For Sunday, May 25th. The Phoenix Mars Lander entry, descent, and landing on the Red Plant starts at 4:46 p.m. PDT on May 25th, according to the latest info from NASA.
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SMC's General Hamel Retires Today The Commander of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Lt. General Michael A. Hamel, will relinquish command of the Air Force acquisition center of excellence to Lt. General John T. "Tom" Sheridan.
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NASA Satellite Gets A Sudden Chill New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought.
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Quake Effects Captured By COSMO-SkyMed COSMO-SkyMed is coming to the regions in China hit by the devastating May 12th earthquake.
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The SPACECONNECTION Agrees with Canada's Occasional Use The SPACECONNECTION has come to a definitive agreement and will acquire the Occasional Use (OU) satellite space segment services business of 5DTV, which is Canada’s largest provider of such services.
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NexGen GPS Sat Awarded To... Lockheed Martin Space Systems Officials from the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Wing have just announced the award of the nexgen GPS Space System (GPS IIIA) prime contract—it's Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Newton, Pennsylvania, with a period of performance of FY 08-17 and valued at $1,463,969,301
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ORBITZ Globalstar, Industrial Computing, Intelsat, ViaSat
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May 14, 2008 Integral Systems To Present In New York Integral Systems (NASDAQ: ISYS) will be presenting at the Cowen & Company 20/20 Technology-Media-Telecom Conference on Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
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Financially Speaking... ViaSat Inc... ViaSat Inc. has announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008.
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SABER Rattling By Genesis Networks Genesis Networks has introduced SABER, the world's first hybrid satellite-fiber service to provide a comprehensive and seamless solution for global HD broadcast transmissions.
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NexGen Sat To Eyeball Earth To Launch In August GeoEye, Inc. has announced an August 22, 2008 launch date for its nexgen, earth imaging satellite, GeoEye-1.
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Helping Wetlands Wisdom Is PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CEODE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Arianespace Alters Launch Date Of Ariane 5 In order to perform complementary checks on the Ariane 5 launch vehicle, Arianespace has rescheduled the launch of Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A.
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Thales Alenia Space To Make It A Small World hales Alenia Space signed a contract with Korea Telecom (KT) to provide their next telecommunication satellite, Koreasat 6.
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Thales Alenia Space Enjoys a Payday With Payload to Russia Thales Alenia Space indicates that the company delivered the Express-AM44 payload module to the JSC ISS - Reshetnev Company site in Krasnoyarsk, Russia (formerly NPO-PM) for integration into JSC ISS' satellite platform, which started on April 25, 2008.
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ORBITZ DIRECTV Group, EchoStar Corporation, SES Americom
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Helping Wetlands Wisdom Is PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CEODE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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May 13, 2008 Sensor Systems Grabs WAAS By The Antenna Sensor Systems</a> has become the first manufacturer of antennas to receive Federal Aviation Administration TSO C190 approval for their GPS WAAS antennas for the Beta 3 apps.
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Two For Expedition 20 Crew Two crew members have been assigned by NASA and the agency's international partners as crew members to the Expedition 20 International Space Station (ISS) mission.
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Sectra's Secure Satellite Speakeasie Sectra’s Tiger system for secure voice communications has now been extended with support for the Iridium satellite system.
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ITU's "Connect Africa" Effort Doubles Furthering their support of the International Telecommunication Union’s ‘Connect Africa’ initiative, the global satellite communications sector will double the number of Earth station terminals operating in the region.
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Making Ready For Red Planet Arrival NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and start a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice.
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MDA Gains Boeing Info Solution Contract MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has announced that their Montreal operation has been awarded a $21 million USD contract by The Boeing Company (Boeing) for an information solution for the International Space Station (ISS).
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Rapid Scanning Service From Eumetsat Increases Imagery esterday, Meteosat-8 started the new Rapid Scanning Service (RSS), which replaces the Meteosat-6 RSS which ended in January 2007.<
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ORBITZ Intelsat, Lockheed Martin, NASA, SemperComm, SkyPort Global
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digiBITZ Briefs: Electronic Arts, PC World, Simtrol
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May 12, 2008 Acquiring Minds Want To Know... Comtech + Radyne It's going to be an all cash transaction... Comtech Telecommunications Corporation and Radyne Corporation have signed a definitive merger agreement, with the former to acquire the latter.
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The Advent Of New Speedyfunk DSNG Capabilities Speedyfunk TV, a live broadcast production company based in Munich and Vienna, has purchased two HD-ready DVE 5000 satellite transmission systems from UK manufacturer Advent Communications.
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Phoenix in Such Good Shape, Next Maneuver To Be Skipped There must have been lots of <i>'high-fives'</i> at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
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WGS-1 Gets a Big "WOW" Boeing [NYSE: BA] reports the U.S. Air Force has placed the first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite into operation over the Pacific region.
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SpaceDev $pace Milestone SpaceDev, Inc. [OTCBB: SPDV] reported its financial results for the three months ended March 31st, 2008 with revenue of more than $10.3 million, an increase of over 14 percent, net income of approximately $57,000 and Adjusted EBITDA of over $490,000.
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Moving On Up... At United Space Alliance... United Space Alliance (USA) announced the selection of Kim Doering as Vice President for Huntsville Operations, effective May 12th.
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ITT's ITT For ITT + CORSAIR Dev ITT Corporation has been selected for an award under NASA's Instrument Incubator Program.
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Hurrah For ICO Global Communications ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) (NASDAQ: ICOG) has filed its final milestone certification with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) confirming that their ICO G1 satellite system is operational.
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Raytheon Is Right On The Glory Road Raytheon Company has completed the manufacture and testing of the optics detector module for the aerosol polarimetry sensor.
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HughesNet Garners 400K+ Subs Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has announced the number of HughesNet residential and small business subscribers passed the 400,000 mark in the first quarter of this year.
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The Advent Of New Speedyfunk DSNG Capabilities Speedyfunk TV, a live broadcast production company based in Munich and Vienna, has purchased two HD-ready DVE 5000 satellite transmission systems from UK manufacturer Advent Communications.
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Spirent Systems Ships Sim System For GNSS Spirent Federal Systems provides navigation and positioning test solutions and the company has announced the Spirent GSS8000 simulation system, designed for use in the most demanding applications.
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May 11, 2008 Financially Speaking... COM DEV USA... Having been active in more than 100 U.S. satellite programs, the Passive Microwave Devices product line acquisition by COM DEV USA, LLC, has now been completed for US$12.2 million.
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MITEQ's Triple Product Plays Three new products have debuted from MITEQ.
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Highly Deserved Kudos + Award To ESA/NASA Ulysses Team he Ulysses spacecraft was launched in 1990 on a planned five-year mission; keeping the hugely successful spacecraft operating for more than 17 years has presented operations engineers on the ground with a series of unique challenges.
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CIRCOR's Space Program Controls Support Highly Appreciated CIRCOR Aerospace, Inc. (CAI) hosted representatives from Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems and Lieutenant Commander Christopher Cassidy from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA).
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STAR Shining Bright For TANDBERG TV TANDBERG Television has done it again... this Ericsson Group subsidiary has just revealed their new RX8320 ATSC Broadcast Receiver has been presented with the 2008 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) by the editors of TV Technology magazine.
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A Telecom Business Building BRIC From June 5th through the 6th in Washington, D.C., is the Emerging Telecom Market Forums: BRIC Opportunities, presented by Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) and the offices of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, this forum is going to focus on the opportunities and challenges in four of the world's largest telecom markets... Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Horizon Offers Multiple Standard Support With Smallest Form Factor Horizon Semiconductors now has available the smallest form-factor, multi-standard HD stand-alone transcoder reference platform for cable, satellite, IPTV and terrestrial distribution, broadcast, home media server, and set-top box markets.
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SES ASTRA's SatCapacity Accessed Again SES ASTRA now has an agreement for an additional transponder on its new prime orbital position, that being 23.5°E, for the Czech Pay-TV platform CS Link.
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What Do EPOCH IPS, PUS + EGSE Have To Do With Integral Europe? Lots! ISE (Integral Systems Europe), a subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-ISYS), has announced their EPOCH IPS (EPOCH Integrated Product Suite) COTS product is in compliance with ESA’s (European Space Agency) PUS (Packet-Utilization Standard) for Satellite Control Systems and EGSE (Electrical Ground Support Equipment). Integral has implemented a complete, database-driven system for PUS services, with an open architecture for mission-specific services and solutions.
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STAR Shining Bright For TANDBERG TV TANDBERG Television has done it again... this Ericsson Group subsidiary has just revealed their new RX8320 ATSC Broadcast Receiver has been presented with the 2008 STAR (<i>Superior Technology Award Recipient</i>) by the editors of <i>TV Technology</i> magazine.
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May 9, 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 8, 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 7, 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 6, 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 5, 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 4, 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 1, 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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