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Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] and their Transportation Management Systems (TMS) division have been awarded a $15 million contract with the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA) of Rochester, New York. The company will develop an integrated public transit fleet management system for more than 300 vehicles.
Read MoreEcholab Corporation — Eutelsat Communications — IMS Research — International Datacasting Corporation — New Tek — On2Technologies — — Pinnacle Systems — Utah Scientific — SPOTS (Konami, Starz Media, Microsoft, NACE)
Read MoreCommunications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI) has received an initial award for satellite communications (satcom) amplifiers to support the General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies specialized satcom earth terminals. This will be for Increment One of the U.S. Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program (see Editor’s Note below for more info on this program).
Read MoreThe Chinese’ Xinhua news service is reporting the launch of a new, remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center which is located in northern China in the Shanxi Province. In a Rui C. Barbosa bylined article at the NASA website, the launch occurred yesterday (Monday, 22:48 UTC Sunday night) in the early morning hours.
Read MoreHughes Network Systems, LLC’s subsidiary HNS, Ltd., has sold to Bentley Walker an additional HX System Network Operations Centre (NOC). The HX platform employs a highly efficient implementation of the DVB-S2 industry standard, including Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM).
Read MoreIn close cooperation with the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) deployed two payloads of nuclear detonation detection equipment aboard an Air Force satellite. The payloads were separated from the second stage booster at 3:22 a.m. EST yesterday morning.
Read MoreViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ:VSAT] has received an order from Globecomm Systems Inc (GSI) for an open standard satellite communication network called the Joint Internet Protocol Modem (JIPM). The new networking modem is designed to integrate key technologies, including advanced commercial satellite networking and information assurance, into an integrated IP network for joint, interoperable communications.
Read MoreGlobecomm Systems Inc. [NASDAQ:GCOM] has received a contract from the U.S. Army's Communications—Electronic Life Cycle Management Command, under the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Project Manager Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems' (PM DCATS) World Wide Satellite Systems (WWSS) Program, to provide the Joint IP Modem (JIPM).
Read MoreCOM DEV International Ltd. [TSX:CDV] and GateHouse A/S of Aalborg, Denmark, have signed a strategic alliance agreement to combine their respective skills and to enable COM DEV's space-based Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) data to be collected, stored, managed and displayed. This will provide a global turnkey AIS solution for a range of user groups.
Read MoreIntegral Systems Europe (ISE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ:ISYS] and they have received a contract to provide a fully integrated Carrier Signal Monitoring (CSM) and transponder planning system for RascomStar-QAF (AKA Mission Control) and their Rascom-QAF 1 satellite.
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