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Because their ASTRA 1D satellite is nearing the end of its life, and as the company wishes to further extend their Direct-To-Home (DTH) services for broadcasters across Europe, SES ASTRA has undertaken a space move. That’s right! Their satellite ASTRA 1E is now relocated from its 19.2° East orbital position to 23.5° East.
Read MoreThe 1,727th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle, Moiniya, occurred last Tuesday, October 23rd, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The lift-off occurred at 8:30 a.m., Moscow time. Starsem, Arianespace and their Russian partners all report the government’s spacecraft was accurately placed in target orbit.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company’s [NYSE: BA] third-quarter net earnings increased to $1.1 billion, or $1.44 per share, from $694 million, or $0.89 per share, in the same period last year. Third-quarter revenues increased 12 percent to $16.5 billion while earnings from operations rose to $1.5 billion, yielding a 9.1 percent operating margin.
Read MoreOn Tuesday evening, October 23rd, at 11:38 p.m. (EST), Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Low Earth orbit was successfully entered after almost 8 minutes of powered flight.
Read MoreVizada today announced the company has been appointed as the official distribution partner for Inmarsat's FleetBroadband service, the first maritime communications service to provide cost-effective, simultaneous voice and high-speed data communications through a compact antenna. Vizada will combine the FleetBroadband offering with its own integrated solutions to enhance communications for its maritime customers.
Read MoreGilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [NASDAQ:GILT) has announced that one of Russia’s largest telecom companies, North-West Telecom, is expanding their Gilat SkyEdge satellite network. This will bring telephony and broadband Internet services to a growing number of remote communities in North Western Russia. North-West Telecom originally deploye
Read MoreInmedius announced the adoption of its S1000D Publishing Suite by General Dynamics C4 Systems to support the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program’s compliance with the ASD S1000D lifecycle; from the management of logistics source data, to technical documentation production and publishing of Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant training materials.
Read MoreJuniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] has reported its results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007. Net revenues for the third quarter of 2007 were $735.0 million, compared with $573.6 million for the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 28 percent.
Read MoreShipments of navigation devices worldwide will continue to increase from 2007 to 2012, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.5 percent, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.
Read MoreSiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: SIRF] unveiled its SiRFecosystem strategy and introduced SiRFstudio. This is a standards-based, end-to-end location services enabling platform designed to simplify and speed the development and deployment of location-aware applications across a broad range of mobile devices.
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