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| 10.12.2010 |
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Tachyon Takes DIY Approach to Develop aXiom COTM End-to-End Solution
[Satellite News 10-12-10] Engineers working for San Diego-based end-to-end satellite solution provider Tachyon Networks were inspired to develop their own military comms-on-the-move (COTM) solution after receiving feedback from customers for a product their...
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| 10.01.2010 |
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Military Mobile Broadband Market Taking Off: Ka-band Assets Open up New Bandwidth Options
The launch of the third Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite in December, along with the planned launches of several next-generation commercial satellites, has ushered in a new broadband satellite era where Ka-band and X-band systems are giving fresh...
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| 08.31.2010 |
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Air Force Officials Confident in AEHF 1 Rescue Plan
[Satellite News 08-31-10] The U.S. Military’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency 1 (AEHF 1) satellite, which experienced a main engine shut down shortly after its initial orbit burn on Aug. 30, will most likely be salvaged, a U.S. Air Force official told...
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| 08.09.2010 |
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Government Demand Triggers Inmarsat’s Ka-Band Satellite Investment
[Satellite News 08-09-10] The government’s expanding need for mobile broadband satellite services drove Inmarsat to order three Ka-band satellites and form a distribution partnership with Boeing, Inmarsat CEO Andy Sukawaty told Satellite News...
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| 08.06.2010 |
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Inmarsat Invests $1.2 Billion in Boeing Ka-Band Satellite Deal
[Satellite TODAY 08-06-10] Inmarsat will invest more than $1 billion in three Ka-band satellites that will be manufactured by Boeing based on the 702 high-power platform, which be used to launch Inmarsat’s Global Xpress service, the company revealed in...
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| 08.03.2010 |
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WGS-3 Satellite Enters Service; Completes U.S. Air Force Block 1 Network
[Satellite News 08-03-10] The third Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) military communications satellite, WGS-3, has entered service for the U.S. Air Force, completing the military’s Block 1 constellation, designed to deliver improved broadband communications...
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| 07.27.2010 |
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ViaSat’s Berry: Company Surprised by BFT-2 Contract Win
[Satellite News 07-27-10] In a decision that shocked analysts and even the competitors, the U.S. Army awarded ViaSat the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles with a next-generation tracking system intended to prevent...
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| 07.23.2010 |
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Comtech to Protest Blue Force Tracking-2 Contract Award
[Satellite News 07-23-10] Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said his company plans to file an appeal with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the U.S. Army’s Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract award to ViaSat, announced July 22. ...
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| 07.01.2010 |
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Intelligence in the Skies
With the ability to provide signal gain, double-hop elimination, IP multiplexing and mesh networking without a teleport, what impact can on-board processing have on satellite communications? On-board processing has the potential to bring video on-demand...
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| 06.10.2010 |
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Intelsat General Provides a Detailed Look into the U.S. Navy’s CBSP Program
[Satellite News 06-10-10] On the first day of its military Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP) performance period, contract winner Intelsat General received an emergency task order from the U.S. Navy to supply connectivity support to one of its...
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| 04.30.2010 |
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Col. Post: ComsatBW Ensures Satellite Capacity for German Armed Forces
[Satellite News 04-30-10] With its ComsatBw Stage 2 program, the German Armed Forces now control their own dedicated telecommunications satellites. The program is comprised of the ComsatBw-1 satellite, launched in October, and the ComsatBw-2 satellite, which...
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| 04.13.2010 |
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Cisco Exec Outlines Plans in MilSpace Arena
[Satellite News 04-13-10] Cisco Systems aims to increase its role in the military satellite sector by shifting the focus of its space strategy to provide the ability to route IP traffic on satellites. Satellite News recently caught up with...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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Lack of Strategic Milsatcom Synergy Plague EU’s Defense Architecture
[Satellite News 04-01-10] While individual European Union (EU) states are responsible for their militaries, agencies such as European Defense Agency (EDA) have been created to promote a defense structure and oversee temporary defense forces as well as...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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Governments Seek New Ways To Meet Communications Needs
The cancellation of the TSAT (Transformational Satellite Communications System) military satellite program ushered in a new era for military satellite communications. As a harsh economic recession took root, governments suddenly found they no longer had the...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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Pace of Operations increases demand on Satcom on the move
To operate in today’s theaters — with 38,000 NATO and 47,000 U.S. troops in mountainous Afghanistan and 115,000 U.S. troops in the deserts of Iraq — the military needs even lighter and more capable ground systems that provide...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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Letter From The Editor
The military satellite communications landscape has undergone some fundamental changes throughout the last 12 months. As an economic recession took hold around the world, governments had to examine where they were spending their money and whether space...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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Seems Satellite Contributions Remain an Afterthought
I have not been able to pick up a mainstream newspaper or magazine, turn on TV news, or check out a news Web site in the past several months without seeing discussions about the contributions of the satellite sector in modern society. Some of these...
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| 03.18.2010 |
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Seachange in Military’s View of Hosted Payloads Offers New Opportunities
[Satellite News 03-18-10] Hosted payloads increasingly should be seen as an attractive option for governments looking to provide advanced communications and observation capabilities in a more cost-effective manner. This was one of the key takeaways from the...
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| 03.16.2010 |
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Satellite Engineers Work to Solve COTM Challenges
[Satellite News 03-16-10] Engineers who develop satellite-based comms-on-the-move (COTM) systems face efficiency and bandwidth management challenges with physics that prevent 100 percent signal efficiency, according to a panel of engineers at SATELLITE...
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| 03.10.2010 |
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Harding Looks at Air Force Communications Challenges
[Satellite News 03-10-10] Col. William Harding, vice commander, Military Satellite Communications System Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, directs acquisition planning, programming, budgeting and operational support for a $46...
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