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Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) is now shipping engineering silicon for their RT PolarFire Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) while the device is being qualified to spaceflight component reliability standards. Designers […]
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Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Veritas Capital, announced that Peraton, an affiliate of Veritas, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Northrop Grumman’s federal IT and mission support services […]
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ST Engineering iDirect has announced that their MDM5010 modem has achieved an aggregate speed of 600 Mbps, making it the industry’s fastest satellite modem for shared bandwidth capacity networks. While […]
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The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of General Chuck Yeager, who was 97 years in age: “Today’s passing of Gen. Chuck Yeager is […]
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Speedcast International Limited and Inmarsat have recently announced that they have reached agreement on the sale of Speedcast’s primary Fleet Xpress, FleetBroadband and Fleet One service contracts to Inmarsat. The […]
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Gartner and Frost & Sullivan have recognized Hughes Network Systems, LLC. (HUGHES) as a market leader in managed network services and SD-WAN. Under its HughesON™ brand, Hughes has proven its […]
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On Sunday, December 6, China successfully launched a new Earth Observation (EO) satellite that can capture high-resolution pictures of ground objects across the globe. The satellite was launched from the […]
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ORBCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBC) has entered into a $200 million five-year term loan facility (the “Term Loan”) and a $50 million revolving credit facility. Concurrently, the Company completed the redemption […]
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Renesas has introduced their ISL73141SEH analog-to-digital converter (ADC), delivering the industry’s highest performance for radiation-hardened space applications. The ISL73141SEH ADC is one of the key signal-path building blocks in long […]
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Maxar Technologies collected new satellite imagery on December 6 of the recently collapsed radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The 900-ton equipment platform that had been suspended […]
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