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When it comes to disaster recovery and first-responder action, a vehicle outfitted with all of the necessary communication equipment is mandatory. To ensure such is part of their role in emergency events, Spacenet Inc. has intro’d their new mobile Emergency Communications Vehicle, which serves as a transportable command post typically deployable in ten minutes or less to provide converged data, voice and video communications.
Read MoreNDS is working with VBox Communications [Vbox], Cyberlink and 'yes' to deliver on the promise of convergence. During IBC, the companies demonstrated the new, integrated solution, which included a DVB-S tuner from VBox integrated with the NDS VideoGuard PC software and Cyberlink’s PowerCinema. 'yes' is Israel’s premier satellite Pay-TV operator.
Read MoreSES Global South America Holdings, S.L., an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG] has just announced an agreement with AR-SAT, Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales, S.A. The recently formed satellite operator is based in Buenos Aires.
Read MoreIntegral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ: ISYS] today announced the results of its tender offer, which expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on September 11, 2007. The company has accepted for purchase 1,850,000 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $27.00 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $49.95 million.
Read MoreSatamatics has signed a long-term contract with Belgium’s data terminal manufacturer Dilupe and both companies will promote each other’s products. Satamatics will have exclusive rights to the DMT-70, a new data terminal designed by Dilupe, to integrate into Satamatics’ range of Inmarsat D+ and IsatM2M (Machine-to-Machine) satellite terminals.
Read MoreMILCOM, the Premier Military Communications Conference, to be held from October 29-31, 2007 at Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Orlando, FL, has updated the list of influential and knowledgeable subject-matter expert speaker list. They are as follow:
Read MoreThe Swedish Armed Forces have purchased Iridium satellite services for the newly formed Nordic Battle Group. Service will be initiated at the close of this year. The Iridium satellite services are being supplied under a service agreement with IDG Europe AB.
Read MoreNSSL is an international satellite communications provider and the company has just been awarded an extension of a major contract to become the sole provider of commercial satcoms for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The contract, which comes under the umbrella of the Skynet 5 PFI, will run through 2020 and reflects the good relationship enjoyed between the Ministry of Defence and NSSL over the past 20 years.
Read MoreELISA (Electronic Intelligence by Satellite) satellites are going to map the entire globe using radar transmitters. ELISA is the first step toward the future ROEM (Renseignement d’Origine ElectroMagnetique) (Elint) electromagnetic reconnaissance program (language spell checker, don’t fail me now….). This is a demo project sponsored by the French defence procurements agency (DGA).
Read MoreFrom an article in KOREA.net’s online news service, an article was published indicating Korea has started to assemble and test the components of an indigenous maritime weather and communications satellite. The vehicle is being assembled at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and will weigh 2,500 kg.
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