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ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, will deliver a turnkey redundant 5 1 uplink station for TDF’s teleport in Nantes,France at the end of 2008. The installation supports TDF’s position as a leading broadcast network operator and strengthens the company’s backup business in case there are transmission breakdowns at other urban teleports due to bad weather.
Read MoreSatService GmbH will be at IBC 2008 presenting some new products of the sat-nms product family. Representatives will be available to discuss system-integration business and turn-key satellite ground station solutions or an upgrade of your station, as well as representatives, distributors and sales partners/system-integrators interested.
Read MoreHawaii Pacific Teleport announced they have put into service a Standard ‘A’ (15.5m) c-band antenna on the NSS-5 satellite at 183? E for an anchor customer who serves maritime end users across the Pacific Ocean.
Read MoreVT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), has launched its Series 12200 Universal 4-Slot Industrialized Hub, which allows network operators to implement and manage a mobile satellite network in the field. The new 4-slot hub will operate using iDirect’s enhanced iDS 8.3 software, engineered for use in mobile applications. The software also supports iDirect’s new SkyMonitor Spectrum Analyzer, a core network management tool that allows satellite operators to troubleshoot and monitor network performance.
Read MoreGMV has released version 6.0 of its hifly(r) Satellite Control System, the latest version of its 100 percent flight-proven communication satellite operation software that supports satellites built by manufacturers around the world from launch and early operation procedures (LEOP) to routine on-station operations of satellites.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has completed a $10 million, 20,500-square-foot satellite Mission Control Center (MCC) in El Segundo, California. The MCC can manage up to four commercial or government satellite missions at the same time and replaces another Boeing facility in El Segundo that was smaller and had limited capacity.
Read MoreGMV supplies satellite ground system software for agencies, operators, manufacturers, and integrators around the world.
Read MoreGeneral Dynamics C4 Systems recently mounted three 18.4-meter satellite antennas on 53-foot-tall pedestals in Wahiawa, Hawaii, as part of the preparations to deploy the new Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), the U.S. military’s nexgen narrowband global mobile satellite communications system.
Read MoreAntenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) has intro'd their specialized 2-channel flyaway broadcast system that is geared toward specific applications in Southeast Asia.
Read MoreRohde & Schwarz released an ESMD wideband monitoring receiver that offers a unique range of functions; as a 20 MHz realtime bandwidth and a wide frequency range, the receiver also detects signals quickly and without interruption; performs highly accurate signal measurements and demodulation; and because of its modular concept, the ESMD arrives ready to go.
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