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Intelsat, Ltd. has signed a new multi-year contract with Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. [NASDAQ: SBSA] of Miami, Florida. Under this agreement, Spanish Broadcasting System will use Intelsat’s complete network of satellite, teleport and fiber for distribution of its Mega TV network programming to cable operators, direct-to-home (DTH) providers, and free-to-air affiliates throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Read MoreSkyWave Mobile Communications has exceeded sales of 110,000 terminal units at the close of its most successful year to date. Bolstered by the recent launch of the DMR-800D terminal and the SkyWave IsatM2M network service, the company has shipped more than 30,000 units this year alone, representing a growth of 40 percent year-over-year.
Read MoreTTC and ATSI will be presenting a new, two-day seminar entitled, “SATCOM Networks - Broadband, Mobility and Innovation for Government Services” with leader Bruce Elbert, President, ASTI, and guest expert Andrew C. Oak, Chief Engineer, Communications and Network Systems Engineering Group, The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Read MoreNovAtel Inc. [NASDAQ: NGPS] has been awarded of a contract worth €6.3M (US$8.6M) by Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) for the continued development of the Ground Reception Chain (GRC) reference receiver for Galileo, Europe’s state-of-the-art Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). TAS-I, NovAtel and Space Engineering were initially selected by the European Space Agency (ESA)/ESNIS/Thales Alenia Space France (TAS-F) and began work on the program in June 2005.
Read MoreRadyne Corporation [NASDAQ: RADN] announced that Lou Dubin is now the President of its Radyne Division. The Radyne Division designs and manufactures satellite and microwave modems, frequency converters, switches, troposcatter modems, and the recently announced SkyWire TDMA platform.
Read MoreOrbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] has been selected by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, manufacture, integrate and test the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array (NuSTAR) scientific satellite. Plus, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV), which is the booster rocket for the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), was successfully launched as part of a test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program.
Read MoreSpaceDev [OTCBB: SPDV] is the recipient of a contract from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The first phase contract value is $3.75 million for the initial development of solar thermal propulsion (STP) and bus design for the High Delta-V Satellite Program. SpaceDev has assembled a team, including General Atomics and BAE Systems, to deliver strong and proven capabilities to address the program’s technical challenges.
Read MoreMaxwell Technologies Inc. [NASDAQ: MXWL] has won a contract valued at approximately $3 million from Astrium’s United Kingdom-based satellite unit to supply single board computers (SBC) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) “Gaia” astronomy mission. The goal of the mission is to survey more than a billion stars and other celestial bodies in order to trace the origin and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Read MoreComtech Telecommunications Corp. [NASDAQ: CMTL] subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., has garnered a $1.2 million order from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for satellite communications infrastructure equipment. The equipment will be deployed to support a new, managed satellite-based communications network.
Read MoreGMV has a new contract from Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide their GEO flight dynamics system called focusGEO for Measat-1R. This is the new telecommunications spacecraft being built by Orbital Sciences Corporation for Measat Satellite Systems of Malaysia.
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