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Satellite Industry News Bits August 07, 2009
FCC grants Row 44 a permanent operating license to provide
Wi-Fi internet service on
planes, augmenting approvals the company already has from the Canadian and
Mexican
governments - a development likely to heat up global competition in the market.
[InformationWeek - 08/06/2009]
India's plans to have a GPS based navigation system move
ahead with approval of the government to develop a communications satellite for
the purpose.
[ptinews - 08/06/2009]
Venezualan satellite Venesat-1, built and launched by the
Chinese and occupying an orbital slot assigned to Uruguay in return for a 10%
stake in the satellite, elevates Venezuela to the elite group of countries in
Latin America with working satellites to delight of Chavez.
[Online Asia Times -
08/06/2009]
BVN-TV expands contract with RRsat following successful
launch of services over Asia, Africa, and Australia in 2007, now also
broadcasting to Europe and the Middle East using the Hotbird satellite.
[SatNews -
08/06/2009]
Partnering with SKY Perfect JSAT to bring Mini-VSAT to the
Asia-Pacific waters via JCSAT-1B dramatically expands KVH's broadband capacity
to support the worlds commercial shipping market, with 13 of the world's 20
busiest ports located within the new coverage area.
[SatNews -
08/06/2009]
EM Solutions will provide Ka-band RF equipment to Astrium UK
Limited for incorporation into a Yahsat Ground and Naval System program, forming
part of a new communications system in the United Arab Emirates for Yahsat.
[SatNews -
08/06/2009]
Stolt Tankers selects Stratos Global Corporation to provide
services including Inmarsat B, C, and Fleet, and Iridium crew calling, to
Stolt's-75 ship tanker fleet.
[SatNews -
08/06/2009]
Northrop Grumman and their Astro Aerospace strategic business
unit will provide the Astromesh-Lite deployable reflector to NASA for JPL's Soil
Moisture Active/Passive mission targeted for 2014, to deliver unprecedented
accuracy, resolution, and coverage.
[SatNews -
08/06/2009]
Gilat successfully deploys a SkyEdge II broadband network at
more than 1300 sites for the Colombian Ministry of Communications.
[SatNews -
08/06/2009]
Italy's Predator-A completes first satellite-guided flight of
an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Italian Air Force between two of its bases.
[SatNews -
08/05/2009
The latest Communications Industry Forecast from
private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson forecasts a 1% decline in
communications industry spending for 2009 followed by growth of 3.6% per year
over the next 5 years.
[MarketingProfs - 08/05/2009]
Growth for Satellite, wireless, and Software as a Service
expected to be fueled by broadband stimulus funds contained in the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
[TMCnet - 08/05/2009]
TECOM Industries announces commercial launch of GCT-2100
Ku-band Ground Data Terminal Antenna system, a military-grade, lightweight
portable tracking antenna system currently in active service by U.S. forces in
overseas operations.
[SatNews -
08/05/2009]
Boeing hands off GOES-14 to NASA for about five months of
on-orbit testing.
[SatNews -
08/05/2009]
Interorbital Systems offers the TubeSat Personal Satellite,
designed to function as a basic satellite bus or standalone small satellite, to
the general publice for $8,000 including launch into low earth orbit where it
will have an operational life of a few weeks.
[Satellite Today - 08/05/2009]
Aerojet and NEC partner to explore feasability of providing
low power ion propulsion systems for geosynchronous satellites for the U.S. and
Japanese markets.
[Satellite Today - 08/05/2009]
SatStream announces successful streaming of three soccer
matches, part of the Vodacom challenge hosted in south Africa, over satellite to
London where they were encoded into high quality Flash and distributed to the
Web.
[SatNews -
08/05/2009]
NDS recognizes Tata Sky, a provider of DTH satellite pay-TV
services in India, for reaching a milestone of four million customers in less
than three years since launch of the program.
[SatNews -
08/05/2009]
AsiaSat 5 is scheduled to be launched on an ILS Proton rocket
on August 12.
[SatNews -
08/04/2009]
ProtoStar will sell its two satellites, continuing operations
under bankruptcy while it completes the sale process.
[Satellite Today - 08/04/2009]
Chandrayaan-1 takes image of earth from 200 kilometers (124
miles) above the lunar surface using NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two
NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organizations lunar
spacecraft.
[SatNews -
08/03/2009]
Globecast has agreement to distri bute Chines broadcaster
CCTV's newly-launched Arabic channel to the Middle East and North Africa via
Arabsat's BADR-6 satellite.
[SatNews -
08/03/2009]
BSkyB plans to launch 3D TV channel in 2010 using Sky's
existing HD infrastructure and be available via the current generation of set-to
boxes; customers will need a 3-D ready TV to watch 3D TV.
[Satellite Today - 08/03/2009]
Stratos Global Corporation ceploys an Inmarsat FleetBroadband
mobile satellite system onboard the tall ship Bark Europa to broadcast coverate
of the final leg ofd the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge between Halifax and
Belfast, for BBC Northern Ireland.
[SatNews -
08/03/2009]
Beyond DSL, Ten Haaft, and Conrad Anderson form a mobile
satellite broadband Internet technology partnership in the United Kindgom; the
partnership will use Ten Haafts Oyster Automatic satellite system and the
Astra2Connect satellite Internet service from Eurosat.
[Satellite Today - 08/03/2009]
First international satellite talkgroup for Public/Private
utility sector launched by SkyTerra for Seattle Public Utilities, serving
transportation and utility/public work entities throughout the U.S., Canada, and
Mexico.
[BusinessWire - 08/03/2009]
South Korea's first satellite launch is scheduled for August
11 following three delays requested by Russia to upgrade the test control and
evaluation programs needed for a vital test.
[redOrbit - 08/02/2009]
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