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According to the Chinese vice minister in charge of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, the life expectancy of Chinese homemade satellites will likely double by 2010, up from their current eight year life expectancy.
Read MoreNow forming an integral part of Vizada’s broadband offering is Inmarsat's FleetBroadband service. Vizada is a global provider of mobile and fixed satellite communications solutions for merchant ships, oil & gas platforms, fishing boats and many more.
Read MoreTrimble [NASDAQ:TRMB] has received a contract from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to provide as many as 400 reference station receivers over the next three years for the USCG’s Maritime Differential GPS (DGPS) Service modernization program.
Read MoreMobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) issued the following statement commending the work of the United States delegation to the recently concluded 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) held in Geneva, Switzerland...
Read Morewidth="200" height="70" border="0" alt="RigNet Logo" /><br /></span> RigNet, Inc. has named P. Eliassen as vice president and general manager of the Company’s Europe Africa region; John Moffatt as vice president and general manager of the Company’s Middle East region; and Hector Maytorena as vice president of global sales and marketing.
Read MoreStratos Global Corp. [TSX: SGB] announced the commercial availability of their new maritime broadband satellite communications solution based on Inmarsat's FleetBroadband service. FleetBroadband from Stratos offers a wide range of value-added services to provide ship managers with optimal communications performance and cost efficiency.
Read MoreLt. General Hamel, Commander, Space & Missile Systems, Space Command, has requested Boeing and Aerospace Corporation to investigate Failure Analysis’ telemetry prognostic technology used for predicting failures in satellites, launch vehicles and missiles which could lower the cost to produce expensive satellites and launch vehicles, shorten delivery schedules and increase reliability, stop launch failures, and yield uninterruptible on orbit payload services
Read MoreSES AMERICOM, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Exchange:SESG], and AT&T Inc. [NYSE:T] have reached an agreement to supply AT&T U-verseSM TV with international programming via SES AMERICOM’s IP-PRIME platform.
Read MoreIn an article bylined by BR Srikanth of the Hindustan Times, seems as though the Indians have now joined a rather exclusive league of U.S., Russian and European scientists in that the country now possesses the capability to design and build cryogenic engines. These engines are critical for boosting comsats and manned missions into space.
Read MoreJohn Bitove is Canadian Satellite Radio’s (CSR) controlling shareholder (CSR is also known as XM Canada). He also is in charge of the Priszm KFC fast-food restaurant trust (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silvers franchises throughout Canada).
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