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[SatNews] LightSquared, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network, has issued the following statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Conditional Waiver of the Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) Integrated Service Rule:
Read More[SatNews] The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, has announced that the organization now provides conjunction assessment (CA) processing (assessing the physical proximity of objects in space) for more than 60 percent of all operational satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO).
Read More[SatNews] Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed into law the ratification of a Russian-Kazakh space cooperation agreement, the government press service said on Monday.
Read More[SatNews] The Press Trust of India is reporting that the U.S., which imposed curbs on trade with defense entities like ISRO and DRDO following India's nuclear tests in 1998, has set in motion regulatory changes to lift the ban soon, fulfilling a commitment made by President Obama.
Read More[SatNews] Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Russian government will spend $3.8 billion on its national space program in 2011.
Read More[SatNews] Canada, which currently relies upon other countries to launch its satellites, has the technological ability to build its own rockets, according to space experts.
Read More[SatNews] Today, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of ESA, and Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency, signed a new Cooperation Agreement between ESA and Canada that will extend their partnership for a further 10 years, until 2020.
Read More[SatNews] Iran plans to construct its second spaceport, Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour said on Sunday.
Read More[SatNews] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Executive Board Johann-Dietrich Worner have signed a framework agreement for cooperative activities in aeronautics, exploration, and the peaceful use of space at NASA Headquarters.
Read More[SatBroadcasting(tm)] Linear Acoustic? has posted on its website detailed answers to questions TV broadcasters have concerning passage of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM Act).
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