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Broadcom Corporation [NASDAQ: BRCM] has announced the world's first full-featured, single-chip 802.11n solution. The newest member of the Broadcom® Intensi-fi product family is the smallest and most cost-effective 802.11n solution on the market and is the first to enable Wi-Fi products to achieve over 200 Megabits per second (Mbps) of actual wireless throughput.
Read MoreThe MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) probe to Mercury will use low-gain radio frequency antennas and other telecom systems to study various aspects of the planet. The probe’s Radio Science team has just completed a month of successful Doppler performance testing sims within an environment similar to what the probe will encounter in space.
Read MoreHemisphere GPS has reported the company has reached a confidential settlement with Trimble Navigation Limited. The suit related to outstanding patent infringement lawsuits filed in the Northern District of California and the District of Kansas. The company has also announced the latest addition to its product line, Eclipse dual-frequency GPS receiver technology.
Read MoreThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is reported to be developing an India-specific navigation system along the lines of the Global Positioning System (GPS) at an investment of about Rs 1,600 crore, according to The Economic Times (Indiatimes) online news site. The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), comprising seven satellites, should be ready in 2011-12 according to a statement made by the ISRO Chairman, G Madhavan Nair, on September 27th.
Read MoreNASA's Dawn spacecraft initiated its 3 billion kilometer (1.7 billion mile) journey through the inner solar system on Thursday at 7:34 a.m. Eastern Time (4:34 a.m. Pacific Time). The mission is to study a pair of asteroids. The Delta 2 rocket, fitted with nine strap-on solid-fuel boosters, safely climbed away from the Florida coastline and launch complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Read MoreAs we reported yesterday, in spite of the fact the Young Engineers’ Satellite (YES2) was able to detach the Fotino capsule from the Foton 3M research satellite. The tether began to unwind, but only 8.5 kilometers of the strong, man-made fiber was deployed of the total 30 km length.
Read MoreOne of the projects closely watched by SatNews is the Second Young Engineers’ Satellite (YES2). Aboard a Foton-M3 orbital mission that launched via Soyuz rocket on September 14th from Baikonur, the satellite separated from the spacecraft on September 25th. The tether then deployed for 8.5 km due to a preprogrammed command cutting Fotino loose from the spacecraft itself.
Read MoreFrom the Russian News & Information Agency (RIA Novosti) comes a report that the Foton-M bio-satellite’s re-entry module, launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on September 14, has landed successfully approximately 105 miles away from Kostanai in northern Kazakhstan. All of the scheduled experiments were successfully carried out, according to Nikolai Sokolov, the flight director of the 12-day mission.
Read MoreYou may recall reading about the funding troubles plaguing the European Union’s (EU) Galileo satellite in previous issues of SatNews… processes for an implementation to pay for this positioning system space vehicle continue to have trouble. A week after the EU proposed to pay for the satellite using the bloc’s joint budget to come with the needed 2.4 billion euros.
Read MoreSpirent Communications has made improvements to customer support capabilities across the world. In Asia, Spirent has added dedicated support facility for its Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) test systems, based out of the existing Spirent offices in Beijing, P. R. China. This new facility enhances Spirent’s existing support offices in USA and Europe.
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