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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 MoreAAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced the Company's family of Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations (TADSS) has been selected to support training for Army National Guard units operating the RQ-7B Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS). Awarded by the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation in Orlando, Florida, the initial order, valued at $11.9 million, includes 25 high fidelity Shadow Crew Trainers (SCT) and interactive multimedia instruction.
Read MoreND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, will present their new VSAT application SkyRAY Light IPS HD for mobile video broadcasting at IBC 2008 in Amsterdam (indoor booth 1.C51). Described as an end-to-end solution as an all-IP package for the live video streaming based on the latest generation of H.264 AVC codec or store and forward video. The user-focused package contains three major components: ND SatCom’s lightweight VSAT antenna?SkyRAY Light 1200; the latest SkyWAN VSAT modem with a full set of IP functionalities; and an advanced H.264/MPEG-4 AVC HD/SD and MPEG-2 encoder.
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 MoreSeanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions will assist NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) in performing nightly scans of the skies to capture any new, undiscovered objects.
Read MoreHi tech at its best will be produced by a team effort of satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe, and expert modelling and simulation services AEgis Technologies Group to provide NBC Universal with access to a 3D digital model of Beijing. This will occur during the network’s broadcasts of the Olympic Games.
Read MoreITT Visual Information Solutions has released its premier geospatial image processing and analysis software, ENVI. The new release, ENVI 4.5, allows the integration of geospatial imagery into geographic information system (GIS) workflows, by providing users with the ability to share data seamlessly between ENVI and ESRI’s ArcGIS.
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