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They’ve wrapped up their best quarter in the history of the company—Iridium Satellite LLC has announced the firm has approximately 225,000 subscribers worldwide as of the end of the third quarter. That’s a 33 percent increase over the third quarter 2006 total of 169,000.
Read MoreOn November 18th at approximately 04:39, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhastan, Launch Pad 39, the SIRIUS 4 satellite will be en route to its destination via a Proton M/Breeze M rocket and through the auspices of International Launch Services, McLean, Virginia.
Read MoreStratos Global Corp. [TSX: SGB] has introduced GSM Oceanwide, a dedicated, global GSM service for crewmembers and officers of merchant ships. GSM Oceanwide is the first service, using Inmarsat satellites, to enable seafarers to use their existing mobile phones onboard merchant ships in deep ocean waters, just as they would use them in port or on land.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully demonstrated secure interoperable communications between two Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) software-defined radios. This validates a capability that eventually will link ground, air and space platforms.
Read MoreA new $24 million contract has been received by AAE Systems, Inc., to provide a turnkey communications system in the Middle East. AAE Systems is a satellite equipment manufacturer and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) systems solutions provider.
Read MoreNovember 14th, a Wednesday evening, in Korou, French Guiana—Arianespace successfully boosted two sats into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). The Astrium built Skynet 5B is a military satcom for the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). The Star One C1 comsat is for commercial operation by Brazilian operator Star One and was built by Thales Alenia Space.
Read More“GaAs will remain the mainstream solution for cellular handsets, which will be reflected in the continued demand for epitaxial substrates,” predicts Stephen Entwistle, VP Strategic Technologies. And the latest Strategy Analytics study forecasts demand for HBT and pHEMT (pseudomorphic High-Electron Mobility Transistor) devices as continuing steady growth for semi-insulating GaAs epitaxial substrates.
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Read MoreA cooperation agreement for joint lunar research and exploration has been signed between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). Mr. G Madhavan Nair, the Chairman of the ISRO, and Mr. A. Perminov, the Director of Roskosmos, signed the agreement on November 12th in Moscow.
Read MoreIMS Research is reporting a 5-fold increase in the GPS Consumer Market, thanks to laptop computers and digital cameras. In their “The Worldwide Market for GPS/GNSS-enabled Portable Devices—2007 Edition”, GPS is going to be integrated into a number of portable devices, with an overall market increase of 5-fold by 2011.
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