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Griffin Sees Several Thousand Space Jobs Lost In Florida, Louisiana
Gap Between Space Shuttle Fleet Retirement And Orion-Ares Spaceship Costly As Skills Are Lost, And U.S. Becomes Dependent On Russia For Space Transit Florida Senator Asks About Commercial Spaceship Launches […]
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Industry News: Executive Moves (March 08)
Americom Names Air Force Programs Director Americom Government Services Inc. hired Timothy Deaver as director of Air Force programs. Deaver has more than 20 years of experience in major commands […]
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Industry News: Contracts (March 08)
Gilat To Supply Broadband Network For Bharti Airtel Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. received a contract to supply Bharti Airtel with a broadband satellite network. Bharti will use the network, […]
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Industry News: Services (March 08)
Hughes To Connect Largest Grocery Store Chain In Brazil Brazilian grocery store chain Rede Smart, a Martins Group Co., will use Hughes Network Systems LLC to provide broadband satellite managed […]
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Industry News: Technology (March 08)
IDC Licenses Irdeto Encryption Technology International Datacasting Corp. entered an agreement to license Irdeto’s Cyphercast IP encryption technology. Ongoing sales and development of the Cyphercast IP product as well […]
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Sovereign Funds And The Space Business
The private equity investment of capital into the satellite sector since 2003 has fuelled industry growth, consolidation, and rationalization. The subprime mortgage crisis and resulting credit crunch across investment and […]
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Student Programs Developing Next-Generation Engineers
During the 1960s and 70s, the space industry attracted America’s best and brightest. But look around at nearly any conference and many of the attendees can be best described by […]
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Africa 2008: New Satellites, New Hopes
The launch of a pair of satellites owned and operated by African interests have given new hope to communications providers that transponder prices will come down and enable more networks […]
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Dealing Directly With Consumer Requires New Thinking
In my last column I sketched out the path by which the satellite industry transitioned from one wholly dependent on government and public switched telephone network (PSTN) customers to one […]
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Satellite’s Digital Dividend
Europe, as well as the rest of the world, is gearing up for the switchover from analog to digital television, and since digital TV will use radio spectrum more efficiently, […]
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Tim Bryan, CEO, ICO Global Communications
ICO Global Communications Ltd. debuted its new digital video broadcasting-satellite services to handhelds (DVB-SH) service in January. Alcatel-Lucent is providing the system architecture, design and installation for the mobile interactive […]
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Winning Satellite Executive Award Requires Global Effort
Selecting the Satellite Executive of the Year always is a time-consuming process, but the 2007 award added an extra layer of difficulty. In the middle of weighing the merits of […]
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Connectivity
Vista Appoints New CFO
[Satellite Today – 2-29-08] Vista Satellite Communications has appointed David Sprechman CFO, the company announced Feb. 25. Sprechman, who has more than 20 years of media experience, will be […]
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Connectivity
Intelsat Appoints Vice Presidents
[Satellite Today – 2-29-08] Intelsat Ltd. appointed Kurt Riegelman senior vice president of global sales and Tobias Nassif vice president of satellite operations and engineering, the company announced Feb. 25. […]
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Connectivity
Integral Develops Dashboard For Ground System Analysis
[Satellite Today – 2-29-08] Integral Systems Inc. has developed a control system feature that will provide customers with the ability to view and analyze ground system data, the company announced […]
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MSV Chooses Axiom, Active CatalogT For OSS/BSS Service
[Satellite Today – 2-29-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures has chosen Axiom Systems and Active CatalogT to design, assemble and deliver new services for MSV’s next-generation satellite-terrestrial network, MSV announced Feb. 26. […]
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Sirius, XM Extend Merger Agreement
[Satellite Today – 2-29-08] XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio will not exercise a termination clause in their merger agreement, extending the deal to May 1 while they continue […]
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EMS Posts Record Satellite Sales For Fourth Quarter 2007
[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] EMS Technologies Inc.’s satellite communications business reported 37 percent revenue growth for the quarter as well as a 37 percent increase in net sales, the company […]
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L-3 To Supply Software For Johns Hopkins Physics Lab
[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] L-3 Telemetry-West will supply software to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission operations center, L-3 announced Feb. 28. […]
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Hughes, Intelsat Rural Cellular Backhaul Services In Brazil
[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] Hughes Telecommunicacoes do Brasil signed an agreement with Intelsat to deliver a managed cellular backhaul solution in Brazil, Hughes announced. The system, which will be […]
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Wegener Broadcasts Live Video Over VSAT Network
[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] Wegener Corp. is teaming up with ViaSat Inc. to support live video broadcasts over a VSAT network, Wegener announced Feb. 27. Using standard ViaSat LinkStar […]
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XM’s Fourth Quarter Shows Revenue, Subscriber Gains
[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] XM Satellite Radio posted a 20 percent increase in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2007 as well as an 18 percent increase in subscribers for […]
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Intelsat Fills Land Launch Slots
[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] Sea Launch signed an agreement to launch two communications satellites being built by Orbital Sciences using the Land Launch system, Sea Launch announced Feb. 26. […]
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Arqiva Signs Broadcast Deals
[Satellite Today – 2-28-08] Arqiva will help BET International launch its new European Sky channel, Arqiva announced Feb. 28. The five-year broadcast agreement will make BET accessible to more […]
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Tata Signs NNI Agreement with China Entercom
[Satellite Today – 2-27-08] Tata Communications is expanding its global VPN service to China through a network to network interface (NNI) agreement with China Enterprise Netcom Corp. Ltd., Tata announced […]
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ViewAfrica Seeks More Capacity On Intelsat 10
[Satellite Today – 2-27-08] ViewAfrica has signed a deal for additional capacity on Intelsat’s Intelsat 10 satellite for increased channel distribution, Intelsat announced Feb. 27. ViewAfrica Network, uplinking out of […]
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Connectivity
StealthRay Receives FCC License
[Satellite Today – 2-27-08] RaySat Antenna Systems LLC (RAS) was awarded a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license for its StealthRay antenna system, the company announced Feb. 26. On […]
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Government/Military
Raytheon Completes NPOESS First Phase
[Satellite Today – 2-27-08] Raytheon Co. has completed the first phase of a major communications upgrade for Antarctica, a significant milestone for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), […]
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Northrop Grumman, SS/L Collaborate To Pursue Satellite Opportunities
[Satellite Today – 2-27-08] Northrop Grumman Corp. and Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) are pursuing a group of initiatives, which the two companies hope will broaden their opportunities to provide the U.S. […]
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DARPA Selects Orbital For System F6 Concept
[Satellite Today – 2-27-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a Phase 1 concept for System F6, Orbital announced Feb. […]