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Satellite Industry News Bits October 9, 2009
Satellite Holdings changes name of Raven Group to Skyware
Global.
[SatNews -
10/09/2009]
DitalGlobe WorldView-2 satellite successfully launched from
Vandenberg AFB, California.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009}
Viasat receives $46M contract from Star Satellite
Communications Company, a subsidiary of Yahsat, for network infrastructure and
customer premise terminals for new high-speed internet service in Middle East,
Africa, and Southwest Asia.
[socalTECH
- 10/08/2009]
Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to image
impact of its empty upper stage before the satellite also crashes into the moon;
studies of plume of gas and dust may confirm presence of ice.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
SpeedCast and Eutelsat expand coverage of their maritime
solution across the Atlantic Ocean and the Americas.
[Satellite Today - 10/08/2009]
Omnicity Corp signs agreement with StarBand Communications to
offer StarBand satellite high speed internet service in Omnicity markets
throughout the U.S.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
KT Corporation signs multi-year pre-launch contract for
capacity on Intelsat 17 satellite to be launched in 2011, to deliver enhanced
broadband VSAT services in Asia, Africa, and Middle East.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
TDM Satellite Channel, Macau, begins free to air broadcasting
on newly launched AsiaSat 5 satellite serving more than 50 countries in Asia
Pacific.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
Inmarsat and Vizada donate 70 BGAN terminals to ITU in
agreement to improve emergency communications for disaster preparedness and
coordinate relief activities.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
RapidEye supplies German company EOMAP with satellite imagery
to support mapping services for oil spill monitoring in Australia.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
UTV signs contract for capacity on MEASAT-3a for carriage of
UTV Movies.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
Cable & Wireless Panama chooses Gilat to provide SkyEdge II
high-performance network to deliver broadband internet to hundreds of schools in
remote areas nationwide.
[SatNews -
10/08/2009]
Eutelsat adds 100th HD channel with Sky Sport 1HD.
[hd-report - 10/07/2009]
Satellite and Telco TV services beat Cable on J.D. Power
customer satisfaction survey.
[Multichannel News - 10/07/2009]
ExactEarth, subsidiary of COM DEV International, successfully
uses NanoSat Automatic Identification System technology to help Canadian Forces
monitor illegal fishing activity in Pacific.
[SatNews -
10/07/2009]
Iridium is staging a comeback, goes public 10 years after
chapter 11 bankruptcy; can Pentagon demand and other niche services including
hosted payload keep it going as it faces satellite replacement requirements?
[BusinessWeek - 10/06/2009]
ORBCOMM and Sierra Wireless enter agreement to integrate
Sierra Wireless's M2M services platform within ORBCOMM's satellite web services
portal.
[TMCnet - 10/05/2009]
Harris subsidiary Maritime Communication Services launches
iDirect Evolution network to support broadband IP services for its maritime
customer Carnival Corporation.
[PRNewswire - 10/06/2009]
China's late September announcements that it will build and
launch communications satellites for Bolivia and Laos may be followed by plans
to build satellites for Ecuador, Myanmar, and Vietnam, as well as some African
countries.
[AsiaTimes -
10/07/2009]
Iran claims plans to launch astronauts into space in future.
[SatNews -
10/05/2009]
NSR free webinar will discuss the coming surge in launches of
satellites for the mobile satellite services sector - three LEO constellations
totaling 128 satellites and another 23 MEO and GEO satellites could be launched
in next six years - market demand equation will tilt strongly toward supply
side.
[NSR free webinar -
October 20, 2009]
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