WBMSAT News Bits 07/17/09

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Satellite Industry News Bits July 17, 2009

MEASAT-3a successfully completes in-orbit testing and enters full commercial service.
[SatNews - 07/17/2009]

New company, U.S. Space LLC, formed by former SES Americom CEO Ed Horowitz and former International Launch Services CEO Mark Albrecht, along with former Pentagon brass, to build small commercial communication satellites targeted at military customers only.
[reallyrocketscience - 07/16/2009]
[Wall Street Journal - 07/01/2009]

Space Systems/Loral selected to provide satellite for Telesat; Telstar 14R based on SS/Ls 1300 bus will deliver high-powered KU-band services throughout the Americas.
[SatNews - 07/16/2009]

ViaSat receives ~$6m in contracts from High Capabilities Telecom Co. Ltd to expand a Demand Assigned Multiple Access VSAT network in Saudi Arabia.
[SatNews - 07/16/2009]

New market research report from Reportlinker analyzes Broadband Satellite Services.
[BusinessWire - 07/16/2009]

ThurayIP offers advanced streaming service options including multimedia buffering and ability to flexibly determine the base IP address of the terminal.
[SatNews - 07/16/2009]

Frost and Sullivan study predicts that revenue from the maritime satellite communications market will reach $27 billion in 2013.
[TMCnet - 07/16/2009]

Globalstar signs distribution or sales representative agreement with Hamilton Associates of Arvada, Colorado.
[SatNews - 07/16/2009]

Boeing is expected to announce a contract worth as much as $1b to build four communications satellites for Intelsat.
[LA Times - 07/16/2009]

SES CEO Romain Bausch is elected chairman of the board of the European Satellite Operators Association.
[Satnews - 07/15/2009]

STS-127 finally launches from Kennedy Space Center to deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Ageny's Kibo laboratory, and a new crew member to the International Space Station.
[SatNews - 07/15/2009]

C-COM Satellite Systems achieves increased revenues of 78% over last year, at $3.238m, with increase in operating income of 415% at $887,000, representing 21st profitable quarter.
[SatNews - 07/15/2009]

California based company selling "Free to Air" (FTA) satellite receivers is charged with trying to hire hackers to break Dish's Nagra 3 encryption.
[Computer World - 07/15/2009]

European satellite defense market is expected to earn revenues of $1.1b in 2009 and reach $2.4b by 2018.
[Satellite Today - 07/15/2009]

Satellite technology provides disaster communications when phone lines and cell towers are disabled during a disaster.
[Government Technology - 07/15/2009]

TIVO is seeking almost $1b from Dish Network for contempt in their 5 1/2 year patent battle in the courts.
[Bloomberg - 07/15/2009]

Harris Corporation announces XTCE v1.1 translator for OS/COMET/(R) satellite command and control product, to easily translate source files for real-time operations.
[PR Newswire - 07/15/2009]

South Korea to launch experimental satellite into low earth orbit on July 30th, tightening the Asian Space Race.
[SatNews - 07/14/2009]

MDU Communications International, a provider of digital satellite television programming and broadband internet services, signs agreement to acquire subscribers and related assets of Rocket Broadband Networks.
[Trading Markets - 07/14/2009]

TerreStar-1, the world's largest and most advance commercial communications satellite, is successfully placed into assigned orbital slot and has deployed its 18m S-band reflector.
[PRNewswire - 07/14/2009]

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp is awarded $13.4m U.S. Air Force contract to procure hardware for a second Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle spacecraft.
[SatNews - 07/14/2009]

U.S. Army completes successful testing of the first Advance Extremely High Frequency satellite communications production terminals from Raytheon, under $97.,5 million contract to upgrade and increase data rate of existing SMART-T systems four fold.
[PRNewswire - 07/14/2009]

QuetzSat-1 is being built for SES by Space Systems/Loral on the Isle of Man, to be launched on an ILS Proton in 2011 by International Launch Services, and is contracted to an EchoStar subsidiary for use in part by Dish Mexico for DTH services in Mexico.
[SatNews - 07/14/2009]

Northrop Grumman is awarded first phase of $30m U.S. Air Force contract to develop the S-band Space Fence, a global space surveillance ground radar system.
[Satellite Today - 07/14/2009]

Serbia Broadband signs long-term capacity deal with Eutelsat for two additional transponders.
[Satellite Today - 07/14/2009]

TeleCommunications Systems announces award of $3.4m U.S. Army contract to provide additional Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router access point VSAT satellite systems.
[TMCnet - 07/13/2009]

SpaceX successfully launches RazakSAT satellite, designed and built by ATSB of Malaysia, from Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll.
[SatNews - 07/13/2009]

AsiaSat 5 arrives at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch on Proton vehicle in early August.
[SatNews - 07/13/2009]

Apptis wins Army communications upgrade contract worth more than $130m to provide management and integration services of more than 100 projects including strategic satellite systems.
[WashingtonTechnology - 07/13/2009]

Iridium and Telaurus team to provide high-speed OpenPort satellite communications equipment and services for 6-month Arctic Northwest Passage filming excursion by vessel BAGAN.
[SatNews - 07/13/2009]

Iridium announces achievement of two major milestones in conjunction with Boeing to further develop and demonstrate capability enhancements to the High Integrity Global Positioning Program for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
[PRNewswire - 07/13/2009]

Protecting Endangered Whales - New applications continue to surface in the SCADA/M2M emerging markets area.
[NSR Report - July 2009]

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