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Satellite Industry News Bits November 13, 2009
Dutch Space signs contract with Orbital Sciences for
development of solar arrays for NASA's new cargo missions to the International
Space Station to be carried out under NASA's Commercial Resupply Service
project.
[SatNews -
11/13/2009]
Iridium reports increased EBITDA of 28.4% for third
quarter, and decrease of 11.2% in net income due to acquisition related expenses
- net income would otherwise have increased 36%.
[SatNews -
11/13/2009]
GlobeCast opens fibre POP in Moscow, expanding its nexgen
global fibre network.
[SatNews -
11/13/2009]
General Dynamics is awarded $22.2M contract from the Space
and Naval Warfare Systems Command to support the Naval Integrated Tactical
Environmental System Next Generation program.
[SatNews -
11/12/2009]
GeoEye revenue surges 123%, while profits drop due to loss
of tax break.
[Satellite Today - 11/12/2009]
Fastwave Communications receives contract from Chevron
Australia Pty Ltd to supply water quality monitoring system for Gorgon offshore
gas project using Iridium satellite data links.
[SatNews -
11/12/2009]
Intelsat signs multi-year agreement with Corporate
Satellite Communications for Intelsat's Network Broadband Global Maritime
service.
[SatNews -
11/12/2009]
Stratos Global deploys the Inmarsat FleetBroadband mobile
broadband satellite service for MPC Steamship, a fast-growing commercial
shipping company.
[SatNews -
11/12/2009]
MYtv contracts with Intelsat for capacity it owns on
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting's Thor 6 satellite to deliver DTH content to
Ukrainian audiences.
[SatNews -
11/12/2009]
International Launch Services and SIRIUS XM contract for
launch of XM-5 satellite on the ILS Proton in 2010.
[SatNews -
11/12/2009]
Sea Launch seeks financing following approval from U.S.
Bankruptcy Court, and plans for launch of Intelsat 15 from the Baikonur Space
Center in Kazakhstan later this month.
[SatNews -
11/12/2009]
Lockheed readies Intelsat 14 for launch on Saturday,
November 14.
[CNN Money - 11/11/2009]
Italian company Carlo Gavazzi Space denies Iranian
government's claim that it would use Italy to launch a satellite partially built
by the company.
[Google Hosted Associated Press - 11/11/2009]
Gilat issues statement labeling lawsuit against it by
Israeli shareholders over failure of March 2008 planned merger outlandish and
without merit.
[CNN Money - 11/12/2009]
Broadband stimulus program to be streamlined by USDA's
Rural Utilities Service and National Telecommunications and Information
Administration to allocate remaining funding of about $3.2B of loans and grants
in just one round.
[CED Magazine - 11/11/2009]
Norway will invest $214M in Spanish satellite in plan to
improve communications with Norwegian defense forces deployed in Afghanistan and
Chad as well as naval units on international missions.
[Satellite Today - 11/11/2009]
Globecomm Systems is awarded $17.7M contract from U.S.
Government Agency to provide global SATCOM On-The-Move communications program
management and services, integrating Soldier Node Extension Prophet Satellite
Terminals in a hub-spoke and mesh architecture.
[RFP Connect - 11/11/2009]
Iridium is awarded $9.7M contract from U.S. Department of
Defense to supply tactical communications radio-only devices to U.S. military.
[Satellite Today - 11/11/2009]
Gilat Satcom signs multiple renewal, expansion agreements
with Intelsat in Africa to increase and enhance domestic networks and broadband
services there.
[Satellite Today - 11/11/2009]
Soyuz rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan with Poisk module,
a docking port and astronaut airlock for International Space Station.
[Spaceflight Now - 11/10/2009]
Satellite operators Qualcomm and Skyterra lobby FCC for
more spectrum to support mobile data services utilizing ancillary terrestrial
component (ATC).
[Business Week - 11/10/2009]
Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications data showing
that Verizon added 81,000 FIOS subscribers in that state last year demonstrates
how it takes share from cable and satellite providers, according to a senior
analyst at Bernstein Research.
[Telephony OnLine - 11/10/2009]
Asian government defense agency selects Gilat Satellite
Networks to deliver turnkey broadband communications solution.
[TMCnet - 11/10/2009]
Comtech receives $1.2M order for satellite modems to
support cellular backhaul in Africa.
[CNN Money - 11/10/2009]
Intelsat reports net loss of $94.3M for three months ended
September 30, 2009.
[SatNews -
11/10/2009]
Loral Space & Communications announces third quarter
Adjusted EBITDA more than double that of a year ago.
[SatNews -
11/10/2009]
NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
Project offers real-time HDTV movies of the Atlantic and Pacific "hurricane
alley" regions.
[Eurekalert
- 11/09/2009]
Satlynx and Arabsat team up to deliver fully redundant
satellite network for Central Bank of Iraq.
[SatNews -
11/09/2009]
Space War With China; Northrop to Sell TASC; Iran to Launch
Spy Satellite.
[got geoint? - 11/09/2009]
Harris completes milestone review for GOES-R satellite
ground segment contract in a NOAA program that will process 40 times more data
than possible today, and serve 10,000 direct users.
[CNN Money - 11/09/2009]
Inmarsat 3Q net profit is up 34%.
[Wall Street
Journal - 11/09/2009]
Vimicro International Corporation, a leading multimedia
semiconductor and solution provider, announces strategic development partnership
with China Satellite Mobile Broadcasting Corporation to develop new technology
for mobile TV.
[CNN Money - 11/09/2009]
The US and European space agencies have signed the "letter
of intent" that ties together their Mars programmes.
[BBC -
11/08/2009]
China will launch a French-made communications satellite,
APSTAR-7, for the Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holding Limited in the first
half of 2012.
[China Daily - 11/08/2009]
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. sells its subsidiary
Mabuhay Satellite Corp to Asia Broadcast Holdings Litd, a Bermuda company
engaged in the satellite business.
[Business Mirror - 11/08/2009]
A pan-European student built mission to the Moon will be
managed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. following its selection by the
European Space Agency.
[Space Ref -
11/07/2009]
South Korea will launch its first weather-communications
satellite in March 2010.
[The Korea Times - 11/07/2009]
German service provider atrexx offers solution to customers
locked into long term capacity leases and customers who are unable to find
satellite capacity.
[PRLog - 11/06/2009]
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