15 January 2006
Satcoms
Boeing to Develop
Next Generation Satellites for Mobile Satellite Ventures
Gilat Provides 2,400 Site VSAT Network for Brazilian
Cosmetics Chain
Radyne Receives US$ 1 Million Digital TV Encoder and Amplifier
Order From Brazil
Broadcast
OpenTV Signs
Multi-Year License with India's Largest Cable and Satellite
Operator
Earth Observation
Alcatel Alenia Space
Delivers Earth Observation Satellite Data Acquisition Systems to
China
Navigation
First Galileo
Signals Transmitted by GIOVE-A
Science
Stardust Spacecraft
Ready to Return Comet Samples to Earth
Manned Space
Boeing and NASA
Design Oxygen-Saving Equipment for ISS
Technology
ESA and ANU Make
Space Propulsion Breakthrough
Launch Services
Soyuz to Launch
Radarsat-2
In Orbit
German Ground
Station Tracks ESA Moon Mission
Launches
Launch Schedule
Business
Orbimage Completes
Acquisition of Space Imaging
WildBlue Secures Over
US$ 200 Million of Additional Shareholder Financing
Products and Services
Connexion by Boeing
Continues Evolution of High-Speed In-Flight Internet Service
Globalstar Launches
Static IP/VPN Service for Enterprise Data Customers
High Speed Meets
Security
People
Brewster Shaw Named
as Boeing NASA Systems Leader
Intelsat Announces
Appointments to Executive Team
Satcoms
Boeing to Develop Next Generation
Satellites for Mobile Satellite Ventures
(11 January 2006) Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) and Boeing have
announced a major commercial contract award for the construction and delivery
of three next generation L-band satellites and associated ground systems.
more . . . .
Gilat Provides 2,400 Site VSAT
Network for Brazilian Cosmetics Chain
(9 January 2006) Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has announced the
implementation of an agreement with its long time customer Embratel and its
satellite subsidiary StarOne, to deploy a 2,400 site satellite-based VSAT
network for the largest cosmetics chain in Brazil, O Boticário Comercial
Farmaceutica Ltda.
more . . . .
Radyne Receives US$ 1 Million
Digital TV Encoder and Amplifier Order From Brazil
(10 January 2006) Radyne Corporation’s Tiernan and
Xicom Technology subsidiaries have received a new order of over US$ 1.0 million
for HDTV and SDTV Encoders and High Power Amplifiers from a major satellite
integrator in Brazil.
more . . .
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Broadcast
OpenTV Signs Multi-Year License with
India's Largest Cable and Satellite Operator
(11 January 2006) OpenTV Corp., a leading provider of enabling
technologies for advanced digital television services, has announced a
multi-year license agreement with companies comprising the Essel Group, a
diversified media and communications company that is India's largest cable and
satellite operator, to deploy OpenTV's software and services.
more
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Earth Observation
Alcatel Alenia Space Delivers Earth
Observation Satellite Data Acquisition Systems to China
(11 January 2006) Alcatel Alenia
Space has announced the delivery of Earth observation data acquisition systems
to the China State Radio Monitoring Center (CSRMC), the national Chinese
network of Earth observation stations.
more . . .
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Navigation
First Galileo signals transmitted by
GIOVE-A
(12 January 2006) The
GIOVE-A satellite is in good health and started transmitting the first Galileo
signals from medium earth orbit on 12 January.
more . . .
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Science
Stardust Spacecraft Ready to Return
Comet Samples to Earth
(11
January 2006) A capsule containing comet particles and interstellar dust
samples collected in space by NASA's Stardust spacecraft - designed and built
by Lockheed Martin - is heading to Earth for a parachute landing early on the
morning of January 15, 2006, in northwest Utah.
more . . .
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Manned Space
Boeing and NASA Design Oxygen-Saving
Equipment for ISS
(12 January
2006) Boeing has developed an innovative system for the International Space
Station (ISS) that will save precious oxygen and prevent unnecessary wear and
tear on vital life-support systems within the orbiting laboratory.
more
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Technology
ESA and ANU Make Space Propulsion
Breakthrough
(11 January 2006)
The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have
successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically
improves performance over present thrusters and marks a major step forward in
space propulsion capability.
more . . .
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Launch Services
Soyuz to Launch Radarsat-2
(10 January 2006) Starsem has
signed a contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA) for the
launch of MDA's RADARSAT-2 Earth observation satellite by a Soyuz launch
vehicle.
more . . . .
In Orbit
German Ground Station Tracks ESA
Moon Mission
(12 January 2006)
In a first-ever technical tie-up, ESA and the German Aerospace Centre have
agreed to share network facilities, initially by using a German ground station
to track ESA's SMART-1 mission.
more . . .
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Business
Orbimage Completes Acquisition of
Space Imaging
(12 January 2006)
Orbimage Holdings Inc. has finalised the acquisition of substantially all of
Denver-based Space Imaging’s assets.
more . . .
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WildBlue Secures Over US$ 200
Million of Additional Shareholder Financing
(10 January 2006) WildBlue Communications, Inc. has closed a
secured credit facility of over US$ 200 million to fund the continued growth of
its high speed Internet access business.
more . . .
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Products and Services
Connexion by Boeing Continues
Evolution of High-Speed In-Flight Internet Service
(11 January 2006) Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of
The Boeing Company, ushered in the new year by announcing evolutions in its
pricing and service enhancements for its real-time high-speed Internet and
entertainment services to airline passengers in flight.
more . . . .
Globalstar Launches Static IP/VPN
Service for Enterprise Data Customers
(10 January 2006) Globalstar, the world's most widely used
handheld satellite phone and a provider of satellite voice and data services to
business, has launched Static IP (Internet Protocol) address and virtual
private network or VPN capability for its satellite data customers throughout
the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.
more . . .
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High Speed Meets Security
(12 January 2006) Innominate
Security Technologies launches the mGuard pep with integrated TelliNet TCP
performance enhancement.
more . . . .
People
Brewster Shaw Named as Boeing NASA
Systems Leader
(11 January
2006) Brewster Shaw has been selected as vice president and general manager of
the Boeing NASA Systems business unit. Shaw replaces Mike Mott who passed away
in November 2005.
more . . . .
Intelsat Announces Appointments to
Executive Team
(10 January
2006) Intelsat, Ltd., a global satellite communications leader providing
services in over 200 countries and territories, has announced key executive
appointments that will be effective following the closing of Intelsat’s
planned acquisition of PanAmSat Holding Corporation.
more . . .
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