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Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution received approval from the Mexico Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) to operate in Mexico. This marks the start of a yearlong, cross-border demo project allowing U.S. trucking companies to operate in Mexico for the first time.
Read MoreThe European Space Agency’s (ESA) Member States participating in the GMES Program approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Program. GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is an EU-led initiative aimed at implementing information services dealing with environment and security.
Read MoreGeoEye owns and operates the IKONOS satellite and is nearing completion of the integration and testing of its next-generation commercial satellite, GeoEye-1. This space-based camera will provide imagery with a ground resolution of 0.41-meter panchromatic (black & white) and 1.65-meter multispectral (color).
Read MoreVBrick Systems, Inc. and CapRock Communications have announced a partnership wherein dynamic video communications services via satellite will be provided. The combined solution delivers 24/7 video connectivity between distant operations and central commands.
Read MoreThe board of directors of E.ON Ruhrgas AG has decided to transfer the operation and marketing of its ascos satellite reference service to a new provider. The new ascos provider is to be a joint initiative between Astrium Services (Munich) and ALLSAT (Hannover). Additionally, Astrium has also a new working agreement with India’s space agency.
Read MoreIridium Satellite has announced that four, major, North American air ambulance and medical transportation fleets have switched to Iridium for mobile satellite communication services.
Read MoreHughes Network Systems, LLC [HUGHES] has now shipped more than 300,000 broadband satellite terminals compliant with the DVB-S2/IPoS air interface standard, including the Adaptive Coding Modulation (ACM) feature that was introduced in mid 2006.
Read MoreGlobal Relief Technologies provides rapid data management services to help governmental and non-governmental organizations and private companies involved in disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, homeland security, emergency prepared and crisis monitoring. The GRT solution allows users located anywhere in the world to collect mission-critical field data on easy-to-use handheld devices and to seamlessly transmit that data on a secure basis to a virtual network operation center (VNOC). The company is delighted to announce the addition of Richard J. Gustafson as its Executive Vice President of Operations.
Read MoreGigaSat has launched a new range of fully integrated solid state BUC’s (Block Up Conductor) to complement its FA-120 and FA-100 flyaway systems. The “Turtle Power Modules”, so named due to their unique mechanical construction with a molded carbon fibre shell, are available in X-band, Ku-band, Ka-band and even dual band (i.e. Ku/X or Ku/Ka in one housing).
Read MoreSES NEW SKIES, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG], has announced FRANCE 24 is now broadcasting across Africa on the NSS-7 satellite located at the orbital position of 338° E. FRANCE 24 is a free and unencrypted 24/7 international news channel offering a French perspective on world events.
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