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Government/Military
Northrop Grumman Delivers Antennas for RadarSat AIS Payload
[Via Satellite 08-15-2014] Northrop Grumman strategic business unit Astro Aerospace has transported 13 lightweight antennas to RadarSat’s prime contractor MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA). The antennas will be integrated into […]
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Technology
SSL, NanoRacks Leveraging Partnership to Enter New Markets
[Via Satellite 08-14-2014] NanoRacks and SSL’s partnership for the Hosted Payloads Solutions (HoPS) program is one of the most unique approaches to the Air Force’s recently announced Indefinite Delivery Indefinite […]
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Finance
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 3 Satellite Launched Aboard Atlas 5
[Via Satellite 08-14-2014] An Atlas 5 rocket launched DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 3 remote sensing satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services and subcontractor […]
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Connectivity
RigNet Wins High Bandwidth Managed Remote Communications Customer
[Via Satellite 08-14-2014] RigNet has upgraded the VSAT bandwidth of a global offshore drilling customer in the Barents Sea to 8 Mbps. Typical customers use around 1 Megabit per rig. […]
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Technology
BlackBridge, MDA Information Systems Launch Joint Product
[Via Satellite 08-14-2014] BlackBridge and MDA Information Systems have entered a strategic partnership to introduce a joint solution: RapidEye Persistent Change Monitoring (PCM). The product streamlines updates to cartographic data […]
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Government/Military
Johns Hopkins Selects Northrop Grumman Nav System for NASA’s Solar Probe Plus
[Via Satellite 08-14-2014] Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman worth close to $3 million for a Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU). […]
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Technology
Applied Systems Engineering Debuts New 750 Watt TWT Amplifier
[Via Satellite 08-14-2014] Applied Systems Engineering has released the Model 177Ka Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier capable of providing 750 Watts of peak power at duty cycles of up to […]
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Finance
ULA Pulls New Leadership from Lockheed Martin, Gass to Retire
[Via Satellite 08-13-2014] United Launch Alliance (ULA) president and CEO Michael Gass is stepping down from his leadership position effective immediately. Tory Bruno, formerly Lockheed Martin’s vice president and general […]
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Connectivity
Kacific Wins Customer on Upcoming High Throughput Satellite
[Via Satellite 08-13-2014] Solomon Telekom Company has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with Kacific for broadband services from the upcoming Kacific 1 High Throughput Satellite (HTS). Under the five-year contract, the […]
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Technology
ABS Selects Kratos ISI for Ground System Support
[Via Satellite 08-13-2014] Kratos Integral Systems International (ISI) will provide its Epoch IPS fleet management system for the upcoming Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) ABS 3A and ABS 2A satellites. The […]
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Connectivity
ViaSat to Offer ‘Virtually Unlimited’ Broadband to US Customers
[Via Satellite 08-13-2014] ViaSat has announced new “Freedom” plans that provide virtually unlimited satellite Internet through Exede. Customers on the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf Coast, as well as some […]
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Connectivity
ITC Global Appoints Former Globe Wireless CEO as President
[Via Satellite 08-13-2014] ITC Global has appointed David Kagan, the former CEO of Globe Wireless and former president and CEO of MTN Communications to the role of president. Kagan was […]
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Connectivity
Inmarsat Gets Approval to Sell IsatPhones in Colombia
[Via Satellite 08-13-2014] Colombia has approved the sale of Inmarsat’s IsatPhone. Globalsat Colombia, the local arm of the Latin American Globalsat Group will distribute the IsatPhone 2 and IsatPhone Pro […]
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Connectivity
Globalstar Advancing Domestically on TLPS Spectrum, Internationally on Duplex Subscribers
[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] By 2017, Globalstar hopes half of its subscriber base will be made of non-North American customers. During the company’s second quarter earnings call, Tim Taylor, VP of […]
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Connectivity
GenCom Awards SCS Networks Follow on Contract for Private Satellite Network
[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] GenCom, the communications arm of Genco Energy Services (GES) signed an additional contract with SCS Networks to use iDirect technology for a private satellite network. Under the […]
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Government/Military
DoD Signs Space Situational Awareness Agreement with Space Data Association
[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] The Space Data Association, an international consortium of commercial satellite operators dedicated to safe conduct in space, has reached an agreement with the United States Department of […]
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Connectivity
Télécoms Sans Frontières Evacuated from Iraq as Civil War Develops
[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] Inmarsat-supported aid agency Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) has been required to leave an Iraqi camp where volunteers were providing education for refugee children. Kurdish police forces evacuated […]
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Connectivity
NovelSat Completes Freeband Field Trial in Brazil
[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] NovelSat conducted a successful trial of its “free bandwidth” product, NovelSat Freeband at the Rede Novo Tempo de Comunicação broadcast center in Brazil. The trial was conducted with […]
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Government/Military
Kratos DRSS Division Receives Satcom Contract Worth up to $38.7 Million
[Via Satellite 08-12-2014] Kratos’ Defense & Rocket Support Services (DRSS) Division has been selected to provide satellite communications, radio frequency and navigation systems support services as a member of the […]
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Connectivity
Court Drops $283 Million Award, Sets New Date for ViaSat-SSL Case
[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] The United States District Court for the Southern District of California has vacated the $283 million in damages originally awarded to ViaSat in its dispute with Loral […]
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Technology
Avanti Selects Orbital Sciences to Build Hylas 4 High Throughput Satellite
[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] Avanti has awarded contracts for the manufacture and launch of the Hylas 4 High Throughput Satellite (HTS). Orbital Sciences was selected to build the spacecraft on a […]
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Connectivity
O3b Networks Selects Telecommunications Systems as Channel Partner
[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] O3b Networks has selected Telecommunications Systems (TCS) as a channel partner for providing satellite services to government and commercial customers. TCS will use its contract vehicles for […]
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Connectivity
Azercosmos Signs First TV Channel for Azerspace 1 Satellite
[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] Azercosmos Open Joint Stock Company, the state-owned satellite operator of Azerbaijan, has signed an agreement with Afghan Paiwastoon Media Communication (APMC) to broadcast Batur TV. The Free-to-Air […]
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Connectivity
NHK to Debut 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ Technology
[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] Japanese Public Broadcaster NHK plans to demonstrate its latest achievement with 8K Super Hi-Vision television: a complete end-to-end high frame system. The very high-resolution system runs at […]
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Government/Military
Air Force Awards Follow-on GPS Ground System Contract to Kratos Subsidiary
[Via Satellite 08-11-2014] Kratos subsidiary RT Logic received a $1 million contract for components to use in the Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Operational Control System (OCX) […]
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Connectivity
EchoStar Boosts Satellite Spending, Looking for New Pay-TV Partner
[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] EchoStar has ramped up its spending on upcoming satellite projects. Though some have experienced delays, three new satellites and a hosted payload were described as making steady […]
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Connectivity
Intelsat Inks Multiyear Contract for Oil & Gas Customer
[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] Intelsat has signed an agreement with Sonangol E.P. subsidiary MSTelcom for broadband services into and out of Angola. The oil and gas company’s multiyear contract will start […]
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Connectivity
RRSat Grows Sales Team in the Americas
[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] RRSat Global Communications Network has expanded its sales team in North and South America. Rick Phelps has been appointed U.S. director of sales, where he is tasked […]
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Government/Military
Canada Awards 12 Companies Contracts to Make Earth Observation Products
[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded 12 contracts collectively worth $6.7 million to develop new products from the agency’s Radarsat 2 Earth Observation (EO) satellite and […]
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Technology
Brazil, Japan Finish Final Analysis on Joint CubeSat
[Via Satellite 08-08-2014] The Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil, have completed the Security Assessment Report (SAR) for the collaborative CubeSat […]




























