WBMSAT News Bits 07/10/09

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Satellite Industry News Bits July 10, 2009

Telesat and APT satellite, Hong Kong, complete transaction transferring leasehold interests in Telstar 10 to APT, along with certain customer contracts.
[Trading Markets - 07/09/2009]

Iridium and Stratos supply satellite communications for "Around the Americas" environmental sailing expedition launched from Seattle.
[TMCnet - 07/09/2009]

STS-127 countdown continues for launch on Saturday, July 11 on mission to complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory.
[SatNews - 07/09/2009]

UltiSat completes and commissions a C-band teleport for AFCOMSAT, a leading Nigerian satellite services provider.
[SatNews - 07/09/2009]

ARINC and partner Impeva Labs receive U.S. Army contract for additional test deployments of mesh network satellite-based global asset visibility system.
[SatNews - 07/09/2009]

ViaSat signs contracts with pan-African satellite operator Rascom Star-Qaf for high-capacity infrastructure satellite communications between regional and national capitals in Africa.
[SatNews - 07/09/2009]

Internet and Satellite use by politicians in Thailand to widen debate, challenging traditional broadcast media; government may move to undercut these challenges.
[Voice of America - 07/08/2009]

Hughes subsidiary Helius wins award for distance learning technologies that support federal government and military.
[TMCnet - 07/08/2009]

Iridium and SeaMobile Europe partner to support UCAR Cap Odyssee challenge, involving three French women attempting to cross the North Atlantic on paddleboards.
[TMCnet - 07/08/2009]

Orbital Sciences selected by NASA to design, build, integrate, and test a new low-Earth orbit space science satellite to study X-ray polarization in space.
[SatNews - 07/08/2009]

Vizada launches ThurayIP broadband mobile satellite service.
[Satellite Today - 07/08/2009]

Galileo satellite constellation control center turned over to Telespazio in a loan for use agreement.
[SatNews - 07/08/2009]

Comtech makes Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) available for the CDM-625 advanced satellite modem when using the recently announced next generation VersaFEC forward error correction, delivering lower latency than ACM with DVB-S2.
[SatNews - 07/08/2009]

Intelsat wins exclusive satellite rights to Michael Jackson memorial service.
[Satellite Today - 07/08/2009]

Terrestar to launch hybrid satellite-cellular system using Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) integration with the newly launched TerreStar-1 hybrid satellite.
[Network World - 07/07/2009]

SkyVision purchases iDirect Services 15000 Universal Satellite Hub to launch an Evolution network covering 100 percent of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia with a single C-band satellite beam.
[SatNews - 07/07/2009]

Sirius XM iPhone application reaches 1 million downloads in two weeks.
[Satellite Today - 07/07/2009]

Arabsat and Sudanese Radio & TV sign agreement to launch DTH platform in Khartoum.
[SatNews - 07/07/2009]

The head of Iran's judiciary calls for prosecution of people working for "anti-establishment" satellite TV channels and websites.
[SatNews - 07/06/2009]

Brazil, hoping to enter circle of nations launching rockets, plans to expand Alcantara aerospace base in the north by building 12 more rocket launching pads; will stress advantage of closeness to equator and broadest launching angle in the world.
[Satnews - 07/06/2009]

Telespazio subsidiary Aurensis signs partnership agreement with Google to become partner for enterprise versions of Google Earth and Google Maps.
[Satellite Today - 07/06/2009]

Poland becomes Member State of EUMETSAT.
[SatNews - 07/06/2009]

Inidian Space Research Organisation works on geostationary satellite for Indian Meteorological Department to monitor climate change.
[SatNews - 07/06/2009]

Latitude Technologies to provide the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Air Wing Division fleet of aircraft with a suite of SATCOM hardware and related services.
[SatNews - 07/07/2009]

Cisco will send internet router into space on a geostationary satellite as part of a U.S. Defense Department-led initiative called Internet Routers in Space (IRIS).
[PCWorld - 07/06/2009]

ATCi announces availability of its Warrior satellite monitoring and surveillance system specifically adapted for law enforcement agencies.
[PRNewswire - 07/06/2009]

Univision successful in getting cable and satellite TV operators to pay to carry its programming, critical to its survival in the present economy given its huge outstanding debt.
[LA Times - 07/06/2009]

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