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Moving into the American market is Arqiva as the company has acquired British Telecom’s (BT) Satellite Broadcast Services. The new operation includes long-term customer contracts, operations and personnel located in the USA.
Read MoreHow FAB… actually, FAB-T… Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals, with The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] successfully demo’ing for the first these systems can acquire an operational satellite and complete downlink transmissions. During the Low Data Rate test, a FAB-T radio communicated with an operational Milstar satellite and completed a series of downlink tests.
Read MoreChris Stocking has been appointed as the new president for the United Kingdom for Genesis Networks. He is going to be responsible for expanding the company’s business opportunities through the U.K and Europe.
Read MoreHeadquarters Air Force Space Command was the location for an assemblage of some 70 senior leaders and experts from across the Services, joint agencies and Intelligence Community to discuss what lays ahead for Operationally Responsive Space. A clearly defined joint process for identifying and developing ORS requirements and capabilities was the objective of the conference.
Read MoreRussian Joint Stock Company Iskra Research & Development, located in Krasnoyarsk, have now been provided with an HN NOC and 500 HN7000/7740 remote satellite terminals from Hughes Network Systems [HUGHES]. With government agencies, large enterprises, small and medium enterprises (SME) and telecom operators as their primary customers (in Siberia, the Urals, and Far Eastern Federal regions), these new Hughes supplied terminals will aid in the company’s support of a wide range of web apps, VPN services, Voice over IP (VoIP), videoconferencing, as well as broadcast and multicast apps
Read MoreA launch agreement has been signed between Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ: GSAT] and European launch services company, Arianespace. The event both will work on is for the launch of Globalstar’s secondgen Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation.
Read MoreMaking content easier for terrestrial and mobile TV network distribution is the key element of the cooperative agreement just signed ‘tween SES ASTRA (yes, the satellite operator) and Newtec (satellite communication technologies). The two firms plan to test and demo a managed satellite distribution system that will deliver several mobile TV channels from Betzdorf, Luxembourg, to a number of remote and unmanned terrestrial transmission sites.
Read MoreThe last time a Zenit-3SL booster attempted to launch a satellite, the result was not of a positive nature—there was an explosion and the Dutch communications satellite became as dust. However, the old motto of try and try again certainly applies to Thuraya, a United Arab Emirates company.
Read MoreThe initial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) $207 million, three-year contract for the development and deployment of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system has been awarded to ITT Corporation. This program is tasked with improving the safety and efficiency of the growing demands of air transportation.
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