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| 02.01.2012 |
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Contracts News
Comtech EF Data Wins Mobile Backhaul Contract in Latin America Comtech EF Data was awarded a $4.1 million contract to provide satellite communications equipment supporting mobile backhaul network expansion to an unnamed telecommunications operator in Latin...
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| 01.01.2012 |
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NASA Sees Private Sector as Key to Escaping LEO
The future of NASA seems to be open to debate as budget cuts increase. With more encouragement than ever for private sector involvement in things like human spaceflight, will NASA retain its iconic status, or gradually start to fade into the shadows? When the...
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| 12.01.2011 |
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Contracts News
Arianespace Grabs Optus 10 Launch Deal Australian satellite operator Optus has selected Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket to launch its new Optus 10 spacecraft into geostationary transfer orbit in the middle of 2013 from the European Spaceport in French...
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| 12.01.2011 |
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Satellite Hacking and China’s Role
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a U.S. Congressional Commission charged with monitoring the trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (China) and assessing its security...
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| 10.17.2011 |
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DigitalGlobe Accelerates Disaster Analysis Processes with New GEOINT Services 
[Satellite News 10-17-11] DigitalGlobe has launched two new geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) services, DigitalGlobe FirstWatch and its Diplomatic Facilities Support Package with partner CACI International, the high-resolution Earth imagery solutions provider...
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| 09.26.2011 |
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U.S. Congress “Surprised” by the Cost of Wasted Weather Satellite Opportunities
[Satellite News 09-26-11] While congressional committees work to trim the United States’ costs by targeting valuable science and weather satellite programs, Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Andy Harris (R- Md.) admitted during a Sept...
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| 09.01.2011 |
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Earth Observation Wants More Recognition
The World Radiocommunication Conference in 2007 (WRC-07) adopted Resolution 673 on increased recognition of Earth observation and its applications. That resolution in turn led to a series of ITU recommendations, reports, conference and even a handbook on the...
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| 08.23.2011 |
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Proton-M Rocket Grounded After Latest Launch Failure
[Satellite News 08-23-11]The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) decided to ground its Proton-M rocket after an Aug. 18 Khrunichev launch failure placed the $265 million Express AM-4 satellite into a bad orbit and caused the satellite to lose connection...
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| 08.01.2011 |
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The Bright Future of Small Satellite Technology
With more and more countries around the world looking to develop a space based capability, but wanting to do it on a budget, it has never been a better time to be a small satellite manufacturer. Here, we look at international developments in the small...
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| 07.28.2011 |
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Analysts Weigh in on GeoEye Takeover Rumors
[Satellite News 07-28-11] GeoEye’s stocks are surging based on rumors that were published July 27 from various financial analysis firms that the imagery solutions provider hired Goldman Sachs to explore a possible acquisition sale to potential suitors...
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| 07.05.2011 |
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Analysts: RapidEye Bankruptcy Protection Displays Limits of Imagery Market Beyond Government
[Satellite News 07-05-11] RapidEye CEO Wolfgang Biedermann filed for Germany’s equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month after its financial sponsors felt the privately owned imagery firm’s overall debt was too high for the current...
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| 07.01.2011 |
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Smaller is Better How Small Satellites Have become a Compelling Option
In this day and age, with so much emphasis on cutting costs and debt reduction, the mantra is to do more with less. The satellite industry is no exception. With technology advances, small satellites suddenly look a whole lot more attractive on a number of...
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| 05.01.2011 |
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Where Goes Galileo?
The European Galileo satellite location system is intended to provide a strategic navigation option that reduces reliance on U.S. management of the GPS constellation. Galileo, however, has had some teething pains, and there still is debate regarding how it...
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| 02.07.2011 |
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Telespazio COO Defends Galileo Against Cost Critics
[Satellite News 02-07-11] The European Commission’s (EC) Galileo and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) mid-term review, released Jan. 18, revealed that satellite navigation programs would now cost more than 5.3 billion euros...
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| 01.01.2011 |
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The U.K. Space Industry
In its first year of operation, the U.K. Space Agency (UK Space) recently issued a report on the healthy British space industry. The report is very positive, which should give impetus to government regulators to treat this sector with tender loving care. UK...
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| 12.14.2010 |
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Czech Ministry of Transport Hails EC Decision to Host GSA in Prague
[Satellite News 12-14-10] The European Commission (EC) has selected Prague as the future location of the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Agency (GSA). The decision will see the first major European institution hosted on Czech Republic...
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| 12.01.2010 |
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Space Agencies Prep to Defend Their Interests at WRC-12
This column has discussed numerous preparations for the upcoming ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) in January and February 2012 in Geneva. One of the less visible groups preparing for WRC-12 are international space agencies, which, for years...
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| 10.08.2010 |
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EC Finds Galileo Project 'Over Budget, Behind Schedule and Unprofitable'
[Satellite News 10-08-10] A European Commission (EC) budgetary report released Oct. 8 found that the European Union's (EU) non-geostationary Galileo satellite navigation system is over budget, behind schedule and will be unprofitable for the first several...
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| 09.09.2010 |
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RapidEye Seeks Investors After Successful Global Partnership Campaign
[Satellite News 09-09-10] RapidEye has hired Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to help the German geospatial solutions provider attract new investors and raise additional capital to expand its business, the company announced Sept. 9. ...
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| 04.16.2010 |
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OHB’s Wunderkind Galileo Project Set to Leave the Nursery
[Satellite News 04-16-10] In January, medium-sized German space systems provider OHB Systems received its largest single order to date — a 566 million euro ($767.8 million) contract from the European Commission (EC) to build the first Galileo...
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