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- Bill
Satellite Industry News Bits March 20, 2009
Globecomm Systems Inc wins multiple contracts from various
Government agencies worth about $3.3m.
[Satnews -
03/20/2009]
Thaicom subsidiary IPStar Co. receives licenses to bring
satellite broadband services to Japan.
[Satellite Today - 03/20/2009]
Stratos signs agreement to distribute ViaSat ruggedized BGAN
terminals.
[Satellite Today - 03/20/2009]
GeoEye starts delivering high-resolution color satellite
imagery from its newest satellite to Google.
[Satellite Today - 03/20/2009]
Spectacular submarine volcanic eruption in the Tonga Islands
of the South Pacific captured by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
on NASA's Aqua satellite March 18.
[Satnews -
03/19/2009]
Satellite broadband market in Europe revived by falling price
of terminals and emergence of Ka-band satellites.
[Satellite Today - 03/19/2009]
EchoStar Europe targets European cable market with new range
of advanced set-top boxes.
[Satellite Today - 03/19/2009]
NASCAR driver Robby Gordon is sponsored by SPOT LLC, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc.
[msnbc - 03/19/2009]
SkyTerra Communication's push-to-talk satellite phones
purchased by Kentucky Department for Public Health under grant from U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services; some to be used by emergency management
agencies to keep in touch during disasters.
[SatNews -
03/19/2009]
TerrSAR-X geolocation accuracy and performance exceed the
product's own standards according to report from Civil and Commercial
Applications Project group within U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
[Satellite Today - 03/19/2009]
Newtec's Horizon HZ420 equipment selected by Movision, part
of Iraqi television network Alsumaria TV, for use in the Middle East's first
ever paid-for mobile television service for mobile phones and devices.
[Satnews -
03/19/2009]
Air Force's GPS IIR-20 satellite scheduled for launch on
Delta II rocket March 24 from Cape Canaveral.
[Satnews -
03/18/2009]
Launch preparations underway for TerreStar-1 on another
Ariane 5 while the launch of Hershel and Planck is on hold.
[Satnews -
03/18/2009]
India's future in the satellite sector holds promise of
continued extraordinary progress, as highlighted at the Cable & Satellite
Broadcasting Association of Asia industry conference.
[Satnews -
03/18/2009]
Harris selected to provide additional Rugged Deployable
Satellite Communications Terminals to U.S. Navy in a $30m follow-on order.
[AP - 03/18/2009]
Launch scrubbed for Atlas V rocket carrying second Wideband
Global Satellite Communications satellite.
[msnbc - 03/18/2009]
WGS satellite was planned to give major communications boost to troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
[Spaceflight
Now - 03/16/2009]
Arrowhead wins multimillion dollar contracts to provide
commercial X-band satellite services to two U.S. government agencies.
[Satellite Today - 03/18/2009]
International Launch Services and SES announce three new
launch assignments under the Multi Launch Agreement that was signed in June,
2007, including NSS-14 for SES NEW SKIES and Sirius 5 for SES SIRIUS.
[Satnews -
03/18/2009]
GlobeCast launches second MCPC platform on AsiaSat 3S
satellite, with European broadcaster Deutsche Welle as the first client on the
new transponder.
[Satnews -
03/18/2009]
GeoEye signs several agreements with international resellers
to provide high-resolution satellite imagery and value-added products from
GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite.
[Satnews -
03/18/2009]
Globecomm Systems introduces Ka-band version of its 1.2m
Auto-Explorer satellite terminal designed to comply with MIL-STD-1888-164A and
targeted at US Department of Defense Wideband Global SATCOM system.
[BusinessWire - 03/18/2009]
Riverbed to exhibit technology at Satellite 2009 which
addresses all three factors affecting satellite-based WANs - limited bandwidth,
TCP behavior, and application-protocol inefficiencies.
[tmcnet -
03/18/2009]
Harmonic launches universal broadcast encoder which it says
is world's first encoding and transcoding platform to support MPEG-4 and MPEG-2
in both HD and Standard Definition. Cable operators can deliver up to four HD
MPEG-2 services in one QAM, and satellite operators can increase channel count
per transponder.
[CED
Magazine - 03/18/2009]
SES ASTRA selected by European Commission to provide services
to the European navigation service with tailor-made payload on Sirius 5, to be
launched in second half of 2011, and related ground infrastructure.
[Satnews -
03/17/2009]
Faria WatchDog)R) Inc announces that its WatchDog 750
long-range identification and tracking ship terminal has successfully completed
compliance and test requirements for operating on the Iridium satellite system.
[PR Newswire - 03/17/2009]
Hughes is selected for providing broadband satellite services
in Latin America by U.S. subsidiary of Ecuadorian satellite communications
provider Telecomunicaciones Bantel C.A.
[Trading Markets - 03/17/2009]
NDS wins IPTV contract from Russian company Comstar-United
TeleSystems.
[Satellite Today - 03/17/2009]
Router headed for orbit - U.S. military envisions router
carrying satellite "IRIS" to launch late this summer could boost bandwidth
available to military users worldwide.
[DefenseNews - 03/16/2009]
United Launch Alliance wins launch contract worth about $600m
to launch 4 NASA science and satellite communications missions starting in 2011.
[Denver Business Journal - 03/16/2009]
Satellite 2009 conference and exhibition show projects
increased attendance this year, and has added 50 new exhibiting companies
showcasing newest technology for satellite-enable communications.
[PR
Newswire - 03/16/2009]
Governments in Eastern Europe are realizing importance of
adopting satellite carriage to establish a homogeneous communications solution
to advance their economic and political agendas - are spearheading
revitalization of VSAT markets there.
[BusinessWire - 03/16/2009]
OBama's National Broadband Initiative - what's in it for
satellite? Fox Business News March 10 interview features Mark Dankberg, ViaSat
CEO, commenting.
[ViaSat News Archives - Fox Business News - 03/10/2008]
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