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  • Intelsat 15 satelliteIntelsat Packs Future Capacity For Romantis Intelsat, Ltd. has announced Romantis GmbH (“Romantis”), a European satellite capacity trader providing satellite transmission services for European, African and Asian markets, signed another multi-year, multi-transponder contract for capacity on the Intelsat system to expand its service offering into the CIS, EU and the Middle East. Under the agreement, Romantis will receive Ku-band transponder services on the Intelsat 15 satellite which will be located at 85° E, once launched in 2009—Pembroke, Bermuda

  • SASSA Targeted By Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] submitted on May 1st its proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) program directly to the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California. Under a $30-million contract scheduled to be awarded in late 2008, SASSA will consist of a technology demonstration payload that will provide tactical space situational awareness. SASSA is being developed to demonstrate the ability to build a standardized threat warning system and communicate relevant information to operators on the ground—Denver, Colorado

  • NASA OSTM Jason 2 satelliteWater, Water, Everywhere, + NASA Will Take The Flick The OSTM/Jason 2 mission is set for launch in June and will help scientists better monitor and understand trends in sea-level rise and study ocean circulation and its links to Earth’s climate. The mission is a collaboration between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). Additional details here…

  • Sempercomm Foundation logoSemperComm Holds A Party On Thursday, May 22nd, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, the 2008 SemperComm Gala occurs in the venue’s Regency Ballroom. Starting at 6:00 p.m. with the VIP and General Reception, the festivities fire up with dinner, a live auction, entertainment by The Charlie Daniels Band, and the SemperComm Award Ceremony. Attire for the evening is black tie or equivalent military dress. SemperComm is a 501(c)(3) founded in 2004 to provide small, overseas remote U.S. military bases with communications and entertainment equipment, software, and services. More information is available here…

  • SkyPort Global Joins Up A contract to provide emergency satcom to the District of Columbia National Guard has been signed by Skyport Global Communications. As part of this agreement, SkyPort engineers have installed satcom hardware and dishes at a number of National Guard facilities in Washington, D.C. This equipment will connect Guard members to the worldwide communications network in the event of an emergency or loss of land-based net access. In case you didn’t know, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, SkyPort won the prestigious Minuteman Award from the National Guard for providing a high level of satcom support to units responding to the disaster throughout the southeast—Houston, Texas