E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 12-16-09] Wavestream appointed Terry Magee executive vice president with responsibilities to manage the company’s business development, sales, marketing and product line, Wavestream announced Dec. 15.    He previously...

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] National Hybrid Inc., a provider of military databus products and technologies, has partnered with Pulse Engineering to develop Bus+ — a compact MIL-STD-1553 data bus that combines...

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] Spectrum Signal Processing, a supplier of signal processing, has released XMC-2131, a new high-speed I/O module, Spectrum announced Dec. 14.      The XMC-2131, which can be used...

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] Comtech Telecommunications will deliver $2.4 million in satellite modems and redundancy switches to the U.S. Department of Defense to support warfighter communications infrastructure, Comtech announced Dec. 14....

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] The U.S. Senate passed an omnibus spending bill, which provides NASA with an $18.7 billion budget through September and establishes new congressional oversight of NASA’s Constellation program,...

[Satellite TODAY 12-15-09] Arianespace rescheduled the launch of the French Space Agency’s (CNES) Helios 2B military observation satellite for Dec. 17, Arianespace announced.     The launch was delayed when a...

[Satellite TODAY 12-14-09] The United Kingdom will create a new executive space and satellite agency, the U.K. Science and Innovation Ministry announced Dec. 10.     The agency will replace the...

[Satellite TODAY 12-14-09] The U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Delaware has rejected a proposed agreement between ProtoStar and SES over the auction of the ProtoStar 2 satellite, scheduled for Dec. 16....

[Satellite TODAY 12-14-09] Parallel has launched a new version of its SatManage network management software suite, the company announced Dec. 11.     SatManage version 5 will be used by oil...

[Satellite TODAY 12-14-09] IoStar International Ltd. of Hong Kong is now using more than a full Ku-band transponder on Telesat’s Telstar 18 satellite to serve the communications needs of NATO...