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XipLink has announced a single board computer version of its wireless bandwidth optimizer, the XE-104. The rugged board can be used to rapidly integrate specialized satellite acceleration software into custom communication controllers for maritime, aviation and other mobile satellite applications. Historically, TCP accelerators have been deployed in MilSat networks using appliances that followed the SCPS-TP standard for interoperability.
Read MoreAdvent Communications has an enhanced version of its popular 1.5m and 1.8m NewSwift antenna to support high power C- and and Ku-band RF and HD system requirements. To be shown at IBC 2008, the enhanced NewSwift antenna will have a larger electronics pod that will enable it to accommodate a pair of 400W C- or Ku-band TWTAs, either as 1 1 phase combined or 1:1 redundant pairs, or a 1:1 redundant pair of 750W C or Ku-band TWTAs, or a 1:1 redundant pair of outdoor SSPAs.
Read MoreBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp.’s Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Protoflight Model (PFM) that will fly aboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has entered final integration and acceptance testing. The Company expects to complete integration and testing in August and deliver the OMPS PFM for spacecraft integration no later than September 30th.
Read MoreBoeing [NYSE: BA] is ready to use a new "pulse line" process for assembling satellites in El Segundo, California. The new process is expected to shorten the time required to build a space vehicle. The first satellites to be manufactured on the pulse line will be the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites Boeing is building for the U.S. Air Force.
Read MoreActel Corporation has added new ProASIC3 and ProASIC3EL FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) to its military-qualified product offerings. Verified to operate across the full military temperature range (-55 to 125 degrees Celsius) and ranging in density from 600,000 to 3-million system gates, the new low-power devices are immune to neutron-induced configuration upsets ("firm errors"), saving board space and minimizing complexity in the system, Actel officials say.
Read MoreAndrews Space (Andrews) has been awarded a contract valued at more than $1.5M to develop plug and play spacecraft subsystems and demonstrate integrated spacecraft capability.?
Read MoreSkyTrac is always moving forward (and upward) with new products. SkyTrac's latest is the new portable DSAT-200 which is gaining acceptance with rotary and fixed wing operators to remain in compliance with government Automatic Flight Following (AFF) and/or do not require voice and/or full text capabilities.
Read MoreL-3 Electron Technologies, Inc. (L-3 ETI) has debuted their model 8923H dual-band 300W 30 GHz / 175W 45 GHz Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier. Designed for military SATCOM uplink applications, the new TWT has a remarkably small footprint and weighs less than four pounds.
Read MoreAl Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat), the UAE’s first nationally-owned satellite operator and wholly-owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), received secured commitments for $1.2 billion US to finance the Middle East’s first hybrid satellite communications system.
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