WBMSAT News Bits 06/19/09

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Satellite Industry News Bits June 19, 2009

Space Systems/Loral awarded Intelsat contract for Intelsat-19 and Intelsat-20, to be among the most powerful FSS satellites ever built.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite probes paired together atop Atlas V rocket; successfully launched Thursday, June 18.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES completes multi-year agreement with Teleport Access Services to provide three transponders on NSS-11 to distribute at many as 50 Chinese television channels to cable households in Taiwan.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

Satellite-based upgrade of air-traffic management under development by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for four years is to ascertain aircraft positions more accurately and provide severe weather information to cockpits.
[Bloomberg - 06/18/2009]

Thuraya appoints Teknikkom Electronic as National Service Provider in Malaysia.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

Boeing transfers control of the second Wideband Global Satcom satellite to the Air Force.
[Defense Systems - 06/18/2009]

MTN, a SeaMobile company, and ERZIA, announce project to build teleport in Santander, North Spain to provide services in X-, C-, and Ku-bands.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

Spacecom announces that National Geographic will launch its newest channel, National Geographic Wild, in Romania over the AMOS-3 satellite.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

Thales Alenia Space and HISPASAT sign contract with Thales Alenia Space Espana for development and supply of REDSAT advanced communication payload for AG1, a GEO mission.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

Iridium and Cambridge Consultants win 2009 GTB Innovation Award for excellence in Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

Fulcrum Maritime Systems offers Long-Range Identification and Tracking services using Iridium satellite network.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

European Space Agency signs agreement with Thales Alenia Space to develop atmospheric reentry demonstrator Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle.
[SatNews - 06/18/2009]

NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to use Israeli technology to link various components of the satellite and pass data between them.
[Jerusalem Post - 06/17/2009]

NASA postpones launch of STS-127 due to Hydrogen leak; next available date for launch is July 11.
[SatNews - 06/17/2009]

Arianespace selected by ST-2 Satellite Ventures of Singapore to launch new telecommunications satellite ST-2, and by Asia Broadcast Satellite to launch ABS-2.
[SatNews - 08/17/2009]

Inmarsat launches BGAN X-Stream service in Asia-Pacific region.
[Satellite Today - 06/17/2009]

Open Range selects Israeli WiMax equipment supplier Alvarion as it builds out WiMax delivery to remote areas using Globalstar's hybrid satellite broadband network .
[Telephony online - 06/17/2009]

G6 provides continental United States wide voice and data satellite communications to Global Medic medical companies for all U.S. military services except Coast Guard.
[DVIDS - 06/17/2009]

NAB asks Congress to preserve localism in satellite rewrite, to ensure advertisers continue to be able to target certain audiences.
[SmartBrief - 06/17/2009]

Digital Britain report outlines plans for UK's digital transition, with three-year National Plan to improve Digital Participation, promising universal Access to broadband services by 2012.
[Department for Culture, Media, and Sport - 06/16/25009]

Eutelsat welcomes Digital Britain report, stating that the Universal Service Commitment to deliver 2Mbps broadband service to all U.K. residents by 2021 can be delivered today using existing satellite technology.
[SatNews - 06/16/2009]

Hughes Network Systems plans launch of next-generation 100 Gbps throughput Ka band satellite using IPoS standard in 2012 to expand broadband network service across North America.
[Market Watch - 06/16/2009]

DARPA awards contract for phase 2 of Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed satellite power generation and propulsion program to Boeing.
[Satellite Today - 06/16/2009]

Research report on China's VSAT market states that China's VSAT market achieved stable development in 2008, with satellite companies facing new opportunities and obtaining rapid growth.
[BusinessWire - 06/16/2009]

Satellite operators pledge not to exploit analog loophole to import distant network affiliate signals into local markets.
[Broadcasting & Cable - 06/16/2009]

NAB looks at satellite companies' proposal to share costs of getting local-into-local into all 212 markets.
[Broadcasting & Cable - 06/16/2009]

Expand Networks WAN optimization technology selected by IPSTAR to enhance its satellite based managed service offering.
[Market Watch - 06/16/2009]

Avanti plans large Ka band satellites to fill broadband gaps in the UK at speeds up to 2 Mbps on the Hylas satellite and the capability of greater speeds on the follow-on Hercules satellites.
[BBC News - 06/15/2009]

Gilat announces new multi-star VSAT networking solution, NetEdge.
[Globe Newswire - 06/15/2009]

Number of free-to-air satellite TV channels in the Middle East grows 30% in 18 months.
[Satelllite Today - 06/15/2009]

Eurovision incorporates new Ku-band capacity on Eutelsat W2A into global network, and C-band capacity for Africa coverage.
[PR Newswire - 06/15/2009]

$257 billion spent on space last year, with two-thirds coming from the private sector.
[ieee spectrum - June 2009]

Planetary geologists speculate that the moon's polar craters may hold billions of tons of hydrogen, fueling the concept of mining the moon.
[ieee spectrum - June 2009]

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