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Satellite Industry News Bits March 6, 2009
NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth -like planets due to
lift off Friday, March 6.
[SatNews -
03/06/2009]
ViaSat Appoints Satcom Direct as value-added reseller and
customer support liaison for its new Yonder Mobile Broadband Service for
corporate, business, and military aircraft.
[SatNews -
03/06/2009]
Yahsat Satellite Communications in United Arab Emirates
receives 1.2B in financing for its satellite project, including two hybrid
communications satellites for commercial and government applications.
[Satellite Today - 03/06/2009]
Qtel of Qatar launches global Internet Protocol Virtual
Private Network by satellite.
[Satellite Today - 03/06/2009]
Iditarod makes Iridium-based tracking technology provided by
IonEarth a mandated requirement for participants in the 2009 Iditarod Trail sled
dog race.
[Satellite Today - 03/06/2009]
California Assemblyman Joel Anderson introduces a bill
requiring satellites to blur images of certain public and government buildings.
[Satellite Today - 03/06/2009]
U.S. and Japan send warning to North Korea against test-firing
a missile, even if it is a satellite as Pyongyang claims.
[AP - 03/05/2009]
Nagravision and mobile TV operator China Satellite Mobile
Broadcasting Corp. enter second deployment phase for China's national mobile TV
service called China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting.
[SatNews -
03/05/2009].
Scopus provides IPTV distribution network to Polish operator
Dialog Telecom.
Satellite Today - 03/05/2009]
Globecomm Systems Inc. teams with KEYW to leverage both
companies capabilities within the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Special
Military communities.
[The Earth Times - 03/05/2009]
Megahertz, an independent systems integrator, partners with
Qatar-based Greenland International Enterprises.
[Satellite Today - 03/05/2009]
Pakistani satellite network operator Pak Datacom installs
iDirect broadband satellite hub.
[Satellite Today - 03/05/2009]
Iran plans larger spacecraft and higher-capacity versions of
the Iranian-built Safir-2 rocket which placed the Omid store-and-forward
satellite in orbit February 2.
[Fox News -
03/04/2009]
German-Saudi joint venture Detasad buys 36MHz of capacity on
SES New Skies satellite NSS-12, scheduled to be launched in the 4th quarter of
2009.
[Satellite Today - 03/04/2009]
SkyTerra and the International Association of Fire Chiefs
Technology Council publish paper on Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroup Program
(SMART) and how it enables and improves interoperable communications for public
safety operations.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
NASA and Cisco partner to develop global monitoring platform
called "Planetary Skin" to collect and analyze data from satellite, airborne,
sea- and land-based sensors around the world and made available for public,
governments, and businesses.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
Crawford Communications wins deal from Entertainment Studios
to uplink six HD television networks.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
Harris Corporation will provide integrated large-scale
broadcast solution to the Iraqi Media Network as part of major upgrade including
automation, servers, core processing, multiviewers, test and measurement,
branding, and routers.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
Valve problems resolved, Discovery launch moved up to March 11
for ISS support mission.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
China claims Long March 5 large-thrust carrier rocket under
development will use less fuel for same load than any other rocket in the world
except Boeing's Delta 4 Heavy.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
GOES-O satellite (to be renamed GOES-14 when in orbit),
scheduled to launch April 28 aboard United Launch Alliance Delta IV,
arrives at Kennedy Space Center.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
According to Chinese news reports, Shenzhen slated to become
base of space manufacturing and aerospace technology.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
Jordan-based Smartlink Communications, a newly established
satellite network operator, chooses VT iDirect's Intelligent Platform, based on
DVB-S2 and using Adaptive Coding and Modulation, to launch broadband service
covering Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe.
[SatNews -
03/04/2009]
O3b Networks gets multi-year contract with Satconsult, based
in Ghana, for high-speed low-latency IP trunking.
[Fox Business - 03/03/2009]
L.A. court denies nearly all of Boeing's post-trial motions in
reaching final judgment in litigation by ICO Global Communications against
Boeing.
[Satellite Today - 03/03/2009]
GlobeCast and Measat sign agreement with SPE Networks to
distribute AXN HD in Asia-Pacific region.
[Satellilte Today - 03/03/2009]
Surrey Satellite Technology signs 30M pounds contract with
Astrium GmbH of Germany for the supply of Multi-spectral Imager for the European
Space Agency's Earth CARE mission.
[SatNews -
03/03/2009]
Globecomm Systems Inc. will continue to provide engineering,
service support, satellite capacity, communications services, equipment, and
integration for a government agency under $1.9m contract award.
[Business Wire - 03/03/209]
Preparations underway for Arian 5's next launch, scheduled for
April 16, which will carry two European Space Agency spacecraft - Planck and
Herschel are both to explore the universe.
[SatNews -
03/03/2009]
Enhanced Spanish Fleet Management Central GPS and
all-satellite tracking to improve operations and safety for state-owned
PetroEcuador.
[PR Newswire - 03/03/2009]
Thuraya demonstrates first satellite solution offering
streaming speeds of up to 384kbps, providing broadcast quality video and high
speed data targeted to media reporters, producers and news crews.
[SatNews -
03/03/2009]
GlobeCast announces successful start of transmissions on SES
ASTRA;s Astra 4A satellite by its African DTH platform.
[SatNews -
03/03/2009]
Northrup Grumman makes third early delivery in a row of
communications payload modules to Lockheed Martin prime contractor facilities
for Advanced EHF military communications satellites.
[SatNews -
03/03/2009]
Telstar 11N launched from Baikonur.
[Satellite Today - 03/02/2009]
Measat Satellite Systems receives confirmation from Intelsat
for June launch of Measat-3a satellite.
[Satellite Today - 03/02/2009]
China's first lunar probe, Chang'e-1, first phase of China's
three-stage moon mission, impacts lunar surface.
[SatNews -
03/02/2007]
Globecomm Systems acquires Netherland based private satellite
services provider Mach6.
[Business Wire - 03/02/2009]
ND SatCom and Central European Telecom Services join forces in
the area of managed services.
[Satellite Today - 03/02/2009]
Mobil Satellite Technologies wins satellite internet equipment
and services contract from Commonwealth of Virginia.
[PR Newswire - 03/02/2009]
Iridium to replace satellite lost in collision with Russian
satellite with an in-orbit spare by the end of March.
[AIN online - 03/01/2009]
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