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GMV has a new contract from Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide their GEO flight dynamics system called focusGEO for Measat-1R. This is the new telecommunications spacecraft being built by Orbital Sciences Corporation for Measat Satellite Systems of Malaysia.
Read MoreEnea [NordicExchange/Small Cap/ENEA] entered into an agreement during Q1 of this year whereby Hughes Network Systems, LLC [Hughes] is using the Enea Element middleware and professional services in the development of a new wireless base station and other infrastructure for Hughes’ satellite base station subsystem.
Read MoreJuniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] is going to team with Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] to develop a pilot Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) transition test bed designed to simulate a government agency transition. Lockheed Martin will transition a portion of its global network to IPv6 for use during the simulation. To support this transition, Juniper Networks will contribute its high-performance IPv6-capable routers to the test bed for the simulation.
Read MoreThe satellite ground station network in Hawaii and Australia are receiving a huge boost — in number. Universal Space Network, inc. (USN) is adding capacity due to demand and record backlog, plus client requests for additional, low-latitude services. Each of the new full-motion antennas are going to provide new X-band uplink services for USN customers.
Read MoreGE Equipment Services today introduced VeriWise RAIL and VeriWise INTERMODAL. These are remote asset management solutions that provide customers with on-demand visibility into the status of their fleet and the cargo it carries.
Read MoreGMV, a privately-held satellite ground segment software company, has launched SmartRings 2.0. This is the company’s latest version of its telecommunications satellite payload reconfiguration tool, SmartRings, which offers reconfiguration management of telecommunication satellite payloads.
Read MoreAs most system architects are already aware, test-system creation and revision are made more difficult by typical star-shaped architectures in which every system connection and protocol conversion must be uniquely programmed. As a result, a change in one system element requires changes in every other connected element.
Read MoreHughes Network Systems, LLC [HUGHES] and Gulfsat Communications Company [Gulfsat] have announced that Gulfsat has purchased an HN System Network Operations Center (NOC). The NOC was installed at the Globecomm Systems, Inc. (GSI) teleport in Hauppauge, New York where it will be used to provide a new broadband residential Internet access service, “Shownet Two-Way Service”.
Read MoreDirect from the Pakistani Daily Times news service comes a report that Pakistani Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Thursday inaugurated a satellite hub at the central office of the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB).
Read MoreSatService Gesellschaft für Kommunikationssysteme is introducing at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam their improved sat-nms LFRXTX L-Band Fiber Optical Links product that includes 10Mhz transmission. The sat-nms LFRX Optical Receiver and sat-nms LFRX L-Band Optical Transmitter are high performance RF to optical converters for analog multi-carrier RF (L-Band) transportation via fiber optical links.
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