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Connectivity
Optus Offers Satellite Backup Service for SME Customers
[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] Australian satellite operator Optus Satellite has launched a new service for Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) businesses to ensure unhindered communications during terrestrial outages. Dubbed Optus Satellite […]
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Technology
Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK Sign Multiyear Propellant and Pressurant Tank Contract
[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with Orbital ATK for propellant and pressurant tanks for its modernized A2100 satellite platform. Under the new five-year contract, Orbital ATK […]
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Connectivity
SpeedCast Signs Sizeable Satellite Service Contract with Energy Customer
[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] SpeedCast International has won a significant satellite services agreement with an energy sector customer to provide communications in more than 20 countries. The multi-year, multi-million dollar contract […]
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Technology
Newtec, Intelsat Set New Spectral Efficiency Record
[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] Newtec together with Intelsat, have achieved a world first for the amount of throughput in a single transponder. During a demonstration at Intelsat’s Fuchsstadt teleport in Germany, engineers […]
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Connectivity
Encompass Digital Media Exec: DTH Outpacing Cable in Latin America
[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] Direct to Home (DTH) broadcasting appears to be outpacing terrestrial broadcasts in Latin America, according to Juan Salleras, EVP and general manager at Encompass Digital Media Latin […]
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Finance
Vostochny Cosmodrome’s First Launch Slated for December 2015
[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] Russia is pushing to have the first launch mission from the Vostochny Space Center conducted by December this year, according to an Aug. 20 statement from the […]
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Finance
Arianespace Dual Launch Lofts Intelsat 34, Eutelsat 8 West B
[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] Arianespace launched two satellites on Aug. 20, one for Intelsat and one for Eutelsat, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. Eutelsat 8 West B, riding in the upper […]
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Technology
Airbus Defence and Space Provides Spot 6 and 7 Imagery to SANSA
[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] Airbus Defence and Space has completed an imagery project covering all of South Africa in three months using the Spot 6 and Spot 7 twin satellites. A […]
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Technology
E2v Releases New Commercial Space Microprocessors
[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] E2v has launched a new grade of high-performance microprocessors based on the multicore processors from the Freescale QorIQ family. These processors produce tens of Gflop (1 billion […]
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Finance
H2B Launch Revitalizes CubeSat Activity on ISS
[Via Satellite 08-20-2015] On Aug. 19 an H2B rocket from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) successfully launched the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) 5 to […]
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Finance
Barry Matsumori Leaves SpaceX, Joins Virgin Galactic
[Via Satellite 08-20-2015] Barry Matsumori, formerly the senior vice president of sales and business development at SpaceX, has joined Virgin Galactic’s satellite launch team. With Virgin Galactic, Matsumori holds the title […]
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Technology
GPIM’s Green Propulsion System Shipped to Ball Aerospace
[Via Satellite 08-20-2015] Aerojet Rocketdyne has delivered the environmentally friendly propellant propulsion subsystem to Ball Aerospace for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM). Ball Aerospace, prime contractor for GPIM, will […]
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Connectivity
Satellite Solutions Worldwide Acquires Sat2Way
[Via Satellite 08-20-2015] Satellite Solutions Worldwide (SSW) a communications company specializing in rural, last-mile satellite broadband, has acquired Sat2Way, a satellite broadband provider in France for €825,000 ($925,000) in cash. […]
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Connectivity
DirecTV Releases 4K Ultra-HD Set-Top-Box
[Via Satellite 08-20-2015] DirecTV, now part of AT&T, is offering a new Set Top Box (STB), the 4K Genie Mini, to expand the number of customers who can access 4K […]
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Connectivity
Northgate Investment Offers US, Latin American Expansion Opportunities for Elara
[Via Satellite 08-19-2015] Mexican telecommunications company Elara Comunicaciones has recently struck a partnership with private equity firm Northgate Capital that will enable the company’s “aggressive” growth plans over the next […]
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Connectivity
New Satellites, New Antennas on the Horizon for O3b Networks
[Via Satellite 08-18-2015] O3B Networks is planning on ordering more satellites and releasing new antennas to bolster its Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) network in the near future. Steve Collar, […]
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Connectivity
Globalstar Refutes Cybersecurity Risks from Synack Research
[Via Satellite 08-17-2015] Globalstar is refuting claims from cybersecurity company Synack that its simplex network is extremely vulnerable to hackers. In a July 30 article on Wired, Colby Moore, manager of […]
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Connectivity
Meosat’s O3b Service Goes Live in Iraq
[Via Satellite 08-17-2015] Meosat has announced its O3b Networks satellite communications system is live and operational in Southern Iraq. O3b established a multi-year agreement with the company in April this […]
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Finance
US Navy’s MUOS 4 Encapsulated for August 31 Atlas 5 Launch
[Via Satellite 08-17-2015] Lockheed Martin subsidiary Astrotech Space Operations has encapsulated the U.S. Navy’s fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite in its protective launch vehicle fairing ahead of an […]
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Government/Military
Pascale Ehrenfreund Begins Leadership Role at the DLR
[Via Satellite 08-17-2015] Pascale Ehrenfreund took office as chair of the German Aerospace Center’s (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) executive board on Aug. 17. She begins her leadership […]
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Technology
OHB Ready to have GEO Market Presence
[Via Satellite 08-14-2015] German spacecraft manufacturer OHB Systems AG is taking fledgling steps toward greater prominence in building geostationary satellites. Hispasat AG1, the first satellite based on its SmallGEO platform, […]
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Technology
SES Partners with Post Telecom on Smart Cloud-Based ICT Products
[Via Satellite 08-14-2015] SES’ wholly owned subsidiary SES Techcom Services and Post Luxembourg’s subsidiary Post Telecom, a specialist in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions, have entered a new partnership […]
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Government/Military
Raytheon-Built Upgraded Satcom Radio Delivered for Certification Testing
[Via Satellite 08-14-2015] Raytheon has received a $36 million contract from the U.S. Army to fund the certification and testing of an upgrade to the AN/ARC-231 Multi-Mode Communications System. The […]
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Government/Military
Amprius, University of Maryland Win NASA Funding for Battery Research
[Via Satellite 08-14-2014] NASA has selected proposals from Amprius of Sunnyvale, Calif. and the University of Maryland, College Park to study new energy storage technologies. The proposals received awards through […]
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Government/Military
US Navy Awards Data Link Solutions $18 Million Terminal Contract
[Via Satellite 08-14-2015] Data Link Solutions (DLS), a joint venture between Rockwell Collins and BAE Systems, has received an $18.3 million award from the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare […]
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Technology
Historic Goonhilly Earth Station Revitalized by New Business
[Via Satellite 08-13-2015] The U.K.-based Goonhilly Earth Station is shifting back to prominence in the satellite industry after rebounding from an uncertain fate. The iconic facility, which beamed the very […]
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Connectivity
Inmarsat, Partners Bring Connectivity to Nigeria and Kenya
[Via Satellite 08-13-2015] Inmarsat has received funding for telecommunications projects in Nigeria and Kenya through the U.K. Space Agency’s $50 million, two-year International Partnership Space Program. The company is a […]
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Finance
NASA Starts Next CubeSat Launch Initiative Round
[Via Satellite 08-13-2015] NASA has initiated the next round of its CubeSat Launch Initiative, which provides access to space for CubeSats developed by NASA centers, accredited educational institutions, and non-profit […]
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Connectivity
SpeedCast Wins Multiyear Ku-band Connectivity Contract
[Via Satellite 08-13-2015] Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has agreed on a multi-year communications contract with SpeedCast International for its new dual-beam Ku-band satellite service. SpeedCast will provide broadband and voice […]
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Technology
Norsat’s Sinclair Technologies Division Starts Shipments of New Wideband Antenna
[Via Satellite 08-13-2015] Norsat International’s land mobile radio division Sinclair Technologies, has started shipments of the newly designed SE41x series of wideband enclosed dipole antennas, which covers the entire 746 […]



























