18 April 2004
Satcoms
BT Broadcast Services
Teams Up With Nascar.com to Offer Live In-Truck Video
CapRock and ViaSat Form
Alliance to Deliver Global Service
CopyTele Encryption
Enhances Boeing Telecommunications Services
Europe Ready to Deliver
HD Content to Asian and US Broadcasters
Loral Skynet Successfully
Completes SkyReach Trials
Microspace to Demonstrate First 4K Digital Cinema
Transmission
Tektronix MPEG Transport Stream Monitor Delivers 24/7 Monitoring
Capabilities for EchoStar
Earth Observation
DigitalGlobe and
GlobeXplorer Partner to Offer QuickBird Imagery Online
Space Imaging Completes
Florida County's Asset Management System Project
Navigation
Alcatel Named Prime
Contractor for SCORE
Military Space
Elbit Systems and
Gilat Sign Teaming Agreement
Science
ESA Consults European
Science Community on Candidate Earth Explorer Missions
Launches
Superbird 6
Launch Schedule
Business
California Amplifier
Completes Merger with Vytek
Globalstar Acquired by Thermo Capital
Partners
Products and Services
SES Global Unveils
Low Cost, Always-On Satellite Return Path Technology for Interactive TV
Tachyon
Adds 'Auto Deploy' to Terminal Range
Tariam Simplifies VPN
Over Satellite
People
James L Crawford
Named KSC Director of Safety and Mission Assurance
Radyne ComStream Hires
Malcolm Persen as Chief Financial Officer
Space Imaging Recruits
Mark Kling
Satcoms
BT Broadcast Services Teams Up With
Nascar.com to Offer Live In-Truck Video
(13 April 2004) Nascar.com, the official site of NASCAR,
has teamed up with BT Broadcast Services, the Americas Inc to bring, for the
first time online, live in-truck video and audio from the NASCAR Craftsman
Truck Series races.
more . . . .
CapRock and ViaSat Form Alliance to
Deliver Global Service
(12
April 2004) CapRock Communications and ViaSat Inc have formed a global alliance
that supports CapRock's continuing initiative to supply its customers with
reliable, flexible and feature-rich satellite communications services. In
addition, CapRock now serves as the exclusive oil and gas industry partner to
ViaSat's VSAT Networks division. The alliance enables ViaSat to leverage
CapRock's global network, reputation for reliability and industry
relationships.
more . . . .
CopyTele Encryption Enhances Boeing
Telecommunications Services
(15
April 2004) CopyTele Inc has entered into an agreement with Boeing Satellite
Systems International Inc, allowing Boeing to provide CopyTele's encryption
products for use over the Boeing-built Thuraya satellite communications
network.
more . . . .
Europe Ready to Deliver HD Content
to Asian and US Broadcasters
(13 April 2004) Kingston inmedia and Tandberg Television have
collaborated in trials to demonstrate how US and Asian broadcasters can benefit
from mobile and fixed high definition (HD) contribution of live events in
Europe, such as sports, news and concerts. The trials combined Kingston’s
expertise in satellite and fibre delivery and occasional video facilities with
Tandberg Television’s new HD encoding and professional receiver solutions.
Intelsat space segment was utilised to deliver HD content to Japanese and US
broadcasting companies.
more . . .
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Loral Skynet Successfully Completes
SkyReach Trials
(15 April 2004)
Loral Skynet has successfully completed service trials with several customers
on SkyReach, Skynet's Internet Protocol (IP) enabled product that provides
two-way broadband services for secure private networks or high-speed Internet
access.
more . . . .
Microspace to Demonstrate First 4K
Digital Cinema Transmission
(16
April 2004) Microspace Communications Corporation (Microspace) is to deliver 4K
content at NAB2004's Digital Cinema Summit. Microspace will work with QuVIS, a
leading provider of digital motion imaging technology, to provide the first
end-to-end fulfilment of Digital Cinema Initiative's (DCI) new architecture
requirements, which call for development of a complete 4K delivery system
compatible with current 2K projectors.
more . . .
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Tektronix MPEG Transport Stream
Monitor Delivers 24/7 Monitoring Capabilities for EchoStar
(13 April 2004) EchoStar
Communications Corporation has chosen Tektronix Inc's MPEG monitoring solution
to observe its satellite uplink and downlink facilities.
more . . .
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Earth Observation
DigitalGlobe and GlobeXplorer
Partner to Offer QuickBird Imagery Online
(12 April 2004) DigitalGlobe and GlobeXplorer LLC, a subsidiary of
Stewart Information Services Corp, have joined forces to make QuickBird
high-resolution satellite imagery available to customers through GlobeXplorer's
Internet server technology. The addition of QuickBird imagery to GlobeXplorer's
existing database of aerial and satellite products gives customers instant,
online access to the world's highest resolution commercial satellite imagery,
and takes advantage of standards-based Web Mapping Services technology.
more . . . .
Space Imaging Completes Florida
County's Asset Management System Project
(13 April 2004) Space Imaging has completed a comprehensive asset
management system (AMS) for the Marion County, Florida Engineering department
valued at US$ 2.8 million. Space Imaging's Solutions group developed the AMS
for the county as a tool to manage a rapidly developing infrastructure to
support rising population influxes and to help Marion County comply with the
federal Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement 34 (GASB 34)
requirements.
more . . . .
Navigation
Alcatel Named Prime Contractor for
SCORE
(15 April 2004) Alcatel
Space has been chosen by the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) consortium as the
prime contractor for the European research and development project SCORE
(Service of Co-ordinated Operational Emergency & Rescue using EGNOS).
more . . . .
Military Space
Elbit Systems and Gilat Sign Teaming
Agreement
(14 April 2004) Elbit
Systems Ltd and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd have signed a teaming agreement
for co-operation in the area of satellite communications for the defence and
homeland security markets. The agreement leverages Gilat`s latest commercial
satellite-based Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) technology by integrating
it with Elbit Systems’ defence technologies for military and homeland
defence applications.
more . . . .
Science
ESA Consults European Science
Community on Candidate Earth Explorer Missions
(15 April 2004) On 19 and 20 April at ESA’s
establishment in Frascati, near Rome, the ESA Directorate of Earth Observation
is holding an Earth Explorer User Consultation Meeting at which the findings of
the scientific and technical evaluations of the six candidates for the next
generation of Earth Explorer missions will be presented and discussed by
leading scientists from the European Earth science community.
more .
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Launches
Superbird 6
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Business
California Amplifier Completes
Merger with Vytek
(12 April
2004) California Amplifier Inc has completed the merger with Vytek Corporation.
Vytek is a provider of hardware and software solutions and services that enable
wireless and wireline access to information and media content.
more .
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Globalstar Acquired by Thermo
Capital Partners
(15 April
2004) Globalstar has completed its financial restructuring following the formal
acquisition of its main business operations and assets by Thermo Capital
Partners LLC.
more . . . .
Products and Services
SES Global Unveils Low Cost,
Always-On Satellite Return Path Technology for Interactive TV
(15 April 2004) SES Americom is to
unveil Satmode, an innovative technology designed to support real-time voting,
chatting, messaging, commerce, video-on-demand, and other applications at the
remote control fingertips of DBS consumers world-wide, at NAB in Las Vegas.
more . . . .
Tachyon Adds 'Auto Deploy' to
Terminal Range
(14 April 2004)
Tachyon Networks Incorporated has announced the immediate availability of its
Auto Deploy Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) solution, as the second in an
expanding line of transportable broadband access products, providing high-speed
connectivity at virtually any location in a matter of minutes.
more .
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Tariam Simplifies VPN Over
Satellite
(13 April 2004) UK
satellite broadband company Tariam has launched a new high speed satellite
service targeted at SME customers, which resolves the existing problems
associated with secure VPN over satellite broadband.
more . . .
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People
James L Crawford Named KSC Director
of Safety and Mission Assurance
(16 April 2004) NASA Kennedy Space Center Director James W.
Kennedy has announced that James. L. “Larry” Crawford was named as
the Director of the newly created Safety and Mission Assurance organization at
KSC.
more . . . .
Radyne ComStream Hires Malcolm
Persen as Chief Financial Officer
(15 April 2004) Radyne ComStream has hired Malcolm Persen as its
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance. Garry Kline will remain
as Vice President and Corporate controller.
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Space Imaging Recruits Mark
Kling
(15 April 2004) Space
Imaging has appointed Mark A. Kling as vice president, general counsel and
secretary. Kling’s appointment is effective immediately.
more .
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