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| 03.01.2010 |
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Launch Vehicle Manifesto
The launch services marketplace always has been a tough place to earn a living. These days, there is a combination of strong demand and heavy backload, high barriers to entry, consolidated supply but with new market entrants and former players threatening...
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Contracts News
Arianespace Wins Contract for 10 Galileo Satellites The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Arianespace to launch the first 10 Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites in Europe’s Galileo satellite positioning system. The contract, managed by...
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Awards News
ISRO Wins IEEE Resnik Award for Satellite Navigation Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) technology specialist Surendra Pal was awarded the 2010 IEEE Judith A. Resnik award for the development of various space borne...
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Technology News
Comtech EF Data Releases CDM-750 Trunking Modem Comtech EF Data introduced its CDM-750 high-speed trunking modem to the commercial market. The CDM-750 modem combines DVB-S2, adaptive coding and modulation and DoubleTalk carrier-in-carrier technologies. The...
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Services News
Astra, Intersat Partner for Satellite Service in Africa Astra Broadband Services and Intersat Africa launched satellite broadband in East and Central Africa in early February. The Get2Net service is available in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi...
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Executive Moves News
CapRock Names DISA Officer as Director of Operations CapRock Government Solutions named Augustine Ponturiero director of operations. Ponturiero primarily will oversee the day-to-day functions of CapRock’s satcom division and its government-dedicated...
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Scripps Networks Looks to Serve Globe
Scripps Networks is carving a niche for itself in terms of lifestyle media channels. The company launched HGTV in 1994, and among its five other networks, probably is best known is the Food Network channel, which is available in more than 99 million...
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New Efforts to Mitigate Satellite Interference
The success enjoyed by the commercial satellite sector over recent decades comes as no surprise to the engineers, technicians and managers who have been contributing to its remarkable growth by providing customers with accurate and reliable services around...
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Teleport Operators Find Ways to Trim Costs
Teleports often are characterized as the ground-based infrastructure of a satellite network, but the term means different things to different people. There is a surprising amount of diversification in the field, and the term teleport covers a wide range of...
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Capacity Extremes Could Impact MENA
Belief that demand for capacity serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) soon will skyrocket has been building for more than a year, spurred by a combination of increasing demand for satellite-based services and government deregulation that is...
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Via Satellite’s Satellite Executive Of The Year 2009: Peter Shaper, CEO, CapRock Communications
Peter Shaper’s introduction to the satellite communications sector occurred while he was a partner in a private equity firm. Research into telecom companies that were “undervalued” led to CapRock Communications. Shaper’s interest was...
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Should Your Opinion Count?
Speak now or forever hold your peace or at least hold it for a long time until provision can be made to hear your arguments. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is required to consider your comments in the process of making rules. Public...
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Satellite Network Neutrality
Network neutrality is a hot topic in the United States that is generally viewed to apply to Internet services and IP networks. Although this topic arose in the United States and is being debated at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Europe...
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Michel de Rosen CEO, Eutelsat Communications
Michel de Rosen took over the role of CEO of Eutelsat Communications from Giuliano Berretta in November. For most of the previous decade, he served as chairman and CEO of ViroPharma, a U.S. pharmarceutical company and since 2008 as chairman and CEO of SGD, a...
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Standing Out in a Difficult Environment
In this issue, we honor Peter Shaper, CEO of CapRock Communications, as the Via Satellite Executive of the Year 2009. CapRock performed exceptionally well under Shaper’s leadership during a year that brought both the worst of economic times and the best...
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Satellite Broadband’s Future
The December closing of ViaSat’s $568 million cash and stock acquisition of Ka-band satellite broadband provider WildBlue, following November’s $75 million cash investment by SES into Google-backed startup O3b, which plans to provide high speed...
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Technology News
Parallel Upgrades SatManage Network Suite Parallel, recently acquired by iDirect, has launched a new version of its SatManage network management software suite. SatManage version 5 will be used by oil and gas and maritime VSAT providers to integrate and...
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Contracts News
AsiaSat Signs Vietnam DTH Deal AsiaSat signed a capacity deal with Vietnam Multimedia Corp. (VTC) for multiple Ku-band transponders on AsiaSat 5, the operator announced. VTC will use the capacity to support a new premium DTH service in Vietnam in early 2010...
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Executive News
EMS Appoints Executive Director to Maintain Clearance License U.S. facility clearance license laws have forced EMS Technologies to appoint Board Chairman John Mowell to the additional position of executive director, the company announced. EMS said the...
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Services News
ArabSat, NileSat Broadcast Channel for Turkish Government ArabSat and NileSat have agreed to help the Turkish government launch an Arabic language television station as part of an initiative from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to improve...
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