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The Space and Missile Systems Center's Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing has announced the core propulsion module of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite was shipped from Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, and arrived safely at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California, on Wednesday, Nov. 14.
Read MoreThe MILSATCOM Systems Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base has revealed that on October 29th. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, California and Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, California successfully completed the first system-level intersegment test of an Advanced EHF Payload Engineering Model.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully demonstrated secure interoperable communications between two Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) software-defined radios. This validates a capability that eventually will link ground, air and space platforms.
Read MoreAustralia and the United States have signed an agreement which will find the two nations cooperating on the wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system. This will expand this constellation to six satellites.
Read MoreA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Australian Department of Defence and the U.S. Navy, which covers the arrangements for a joint military communications, ground station near Geraldton, Western Australia. This new ground station will support the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
Read MoreNorsat International Inc. [TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF] unveiled their GLOBETrekker X-Band at the 9th annual Global MilSatCom Conference, Europe’s largest independent military satellite communications conference. The Norsat GLOBETrekker X-Band terminal is available as a highly integrated system.
Read MoreIridium Satellite continues to relish the continued growth in the firm’s military sector business—they know have cumulative Department of Defense (DoD) subscribers reaching 31,000. Military traffic through Iridium’s satellite network is up more than nine percent (an increase of almost 10 percent over last year).
Read MoreEMS Technologies, Inc. [NASDAQ: ELMG] and Windmill International, Inc. announced at MILCOM 2007 that the military has started their evaluation of the first fully portable Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Receive Suite.
Read MoreSenior leaders from the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) will be participating in the 2007 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) Oct. 29 through Oct. 31 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
Read MoreRadyne Corporation [NASDAQ:RADN) has received orders totaling $1.6 million for modems in support of the Ground Multi-band Terminal (GMT) program as well as for another military communications program.
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