WBMSAT News Bits 02/27/09

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Satellite Industry News Bits February 27, 2009

Wahiawa, Hawaii location for Army's planned Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Center is blessed.
[Honolulu Adviser - 02/27/2009]

MEASAT 3a satellite defueled and decontaminated; Intelsat confirms to MEASAT that launch has now been scheduled for June 2009.
[SatNews - 02/27/2009]

Land Launch Zenit-3SLB successfully inserts Telesat's Telstar 11N into transfer orbit from Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
[SatNews - 02/26/2009]

Iridium reports record performance for 2008 - subscribers up 37% to about 320,000, revenue up 23%, EBITDA up 42%.
[PR Newswire - 02/26/2009]

Newtec announces that SkyVision has implemented its FlexACM for use on high speed IP point-to-point link between Kenya and Austria on an inclined orbit satellite.
[SatNews - 02/26/2009]

Hughes communications anounces strong growth and record revenue of over $1B for 2008, up 9% over 2007.
[msn money - 02/26/2009]

Eutelsat refuses comment on recent Wall Street Journal story that it has reached a deal to launch a satellite aboard a Chinese Long March rocket sometime in 2010.
[Time - 02/26/2009]
[The Wall Street Journal - 02/25/2009]

North Korea insists it is preparing to launch a satellite, not a missile.
[Chosun - 02/25/2009]

MIT scientists developing plasma rocket that could make satellite maneuvers much less costly, important in increasingly congested orbital environment.
[SatNews - 02/825/2009]

Houston satellite operator Caprock opens a regional office in Singapore, expanding its presence in Asia.
[Datamonitor - 02/25/2009]

Stratos reaches milestone of 1,000 Inmarsat FleetBroadband activations.
[SatNews - 02/25/2009]

Integral acquires QinetiQ satellite identification technologies in effort to add satellite-based geolocation capabilities to its offerings.
[UPI - 02/25/2009]

ReachMD, aided by Middleberg Communications, pushes to raise awareness of its programs on XM satellite radio targeting medical professionals.
[PR Week - 02/25/2009]

PolarSat completes 4 months testing of VSATPlus 3 over Asiasat satellite; receives initial customer order for system providing seamless mesh connectivity of GSM cellular, VoIP, video teleconferencing, data file transfers, internet connectivity, and email.
SatNews - 02/25/2009]

Testimony by Ken Ferree in U.S. House hearings advocates amending "out of date" satellite video regulatory structure imposing certain carriage restrictions on DBS providers.
[The Progress & Freedom Foundation - 02/24/2009]

Satellite launched by NASA to study global-warming gases is lost in space.
[Bloomberg - 02/24/2009]

NewSat, of Melbourne, Australia, signs deal with U.S. military contractor to provide satellite communications between battlefields in Afghanistan and U.S. bases using SES New Skies satellite NSS-6.
[Business Day - 02/24/2009]

Arthur C. Clarke is further honored by International Space University and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation with establishment of the Arthur C. Clarke Fellows Program at ISU.
[SatNews - 02/23/2009]

UCLA geography professors searching for Osama Bin Laden using satellite imagery and satellite tracking software.
[Satellite Today - 02/23/2009]

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency notifies GeoEye that imagery from GeoEye-1 has been certified as meeting their stringent requirements for quality, accuracy, and resolution.
[SatNews - 02/23/2009]

ORBexpress communications middleware used for Harris Corporation's Falcon III family of software defined radios certified for voice and data over U.S. tactical military satellites.
[msnbc - 02/23/2009]

NSR report - And the Winner(s) in the Maritime Satellite Broadband Market is . . .
[NSR report - February 2009]

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