26 February 2006
Satcoms
Alcatel Alenia
Space to Build and Deliver In-Orbit Turksat 3A
BBC First News
Organisation to File Reports Using BGAN Service
EADS Astrium-ISRO
Alliance Sealed
Globecomm Awarded Infrastructure Contract from US Enterprise
Services Provider
Marshall Communications Corporation Prepares For New Internet
(IPv6)
Radyne Receives US$ 1.3 Million Satellite Modem
Order
Broadcast
BBC World Service
Awards US$ 3.6M Contract for Wegener iPump Solution
GlobeCast WorldTV and
LodgeNet to Offer International TV and Radio Channels
International
Datacasting Provides Radio Television Unida in Ecuador with DVB/IP Radio
Network
Earth Observation
ESA and Eumetsat
Reaffirm Long Standing Co-operation for MetOp
Goodrich Technology
Enables Japan's Advanced Earth Remote Sensing Satellite
ITT Imager Aboard New
Japanese Meteorological Satellite
Lockheed Martin
Awarded Contract for GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper Formulation
Phase
Military Space
Boeing to Begin
Work on Fourth Wideband Gapfiller Satellite
Science
NASA’s
Orbiter Nears Red Planet Rendezvous
Manned Space
First
Long-Duration Mission for ESA Astronaut Onboard the International Space
Station
Lockheed Martin Announces Partnership with State of Florida to
Pursue Crew Exploration Vehicle
Space Adventures
Announces Singapore Spaceport
XCOR Aerospace Teams
With Silicon Graphics and Metacomp for Next-Generation Space Vehicle
Design
Technology
Borg' Computer
Collective Designs NASA Space Antenna
QuVIS and Rorke Data
Team Up for NASA
X Prize Foundation Takes Next Step Toward US$ 2 Million Lunar
Lander Challenge
Launch Services
Land Launch
Receives Contract Award from Israel Aircraft Industries
In Orbit
Radiation 'Safe
Zone' Migrates With Solar Cycle
Launches
Astro-F (Akari),
CUTE-1.7, Solarsail
Launch Schedule
Reports
By 2008 There Will
Be a Predicted 100 Million Digital DTH Pay-TV Subscribers
Products and Services
u-blox Introduces
LEA-4T Precision Timing GPS Module for Global Synchronicity
People
MTV Networks Names
Colette Chestnut as Executive VP and CFO
Satcoms
Alcatel Alenia Space to Build and
Deliver In-Orbit Turksat 3A
(23
February 2006) Alcatel Alenia Space has signed a turnkey contract with Turkish
operator Turksat AS, for the construction and the in-orbit delivery of a new
powerful telecommunication satellite, Turksat 3A.
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BBC First News Organisation to File
Reports Using BGAN Service
(20
February 2006) Stratos Global Corp., a leading global communications provider
and the world's leading distributor of Inmarsat satellite services, has helped
the BBC to successfully transmit store-and-forward broadcast news reports from
the Philippines mudslide-affected disaster area using Inmarsat's new Broadband
Global Area Network (BGAN) mobile satellite service.
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EADS Astrium-ISRO Alliance
Sealed
(20 February 2006) In
the presence of the President of France and the Prime Minister of India, EADS
Astrium and Antrix, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO), have signed a contract to provide a communication satellite for the
international market.
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Globecomm Awarded Infrastructure
Contract from US Enterprise Services Provider
(21 February 2006) Globecomm Systems Inc., a global
provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, has been
awarded a satellite infrastructure contract from an existing customer valued at
approximately US$ 1.1 million.
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Marshall Communications Corporation
Prepares For New Internet (IPv6)
(24 February 2006) Marshall Communications Corporation is
preparing to assist and support customers at the onset of the upcoming
conversion to the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) by establishing a
Transition and Interoperability Test bed/Lab.
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Radyne Receives US$ 1.3 Million
Satellite Modem Order
(21
February 2006) Radyne Corporation’s satellite electronics division has
received a new order of over US$ 1.3 million for satellite modems and frequency
converters from a major South Asian integrator.
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Broadcast
BBC World Service Awards US$ 3.6M
Contract for Wegener iPump Solution
(23 February 2006) The British Broadcasting Corporation purchased
a complete Wegener iPump System Solution for their international radio
distribution network.
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GlobeCast WorldTV and LodgeNet to
Offer International TV and Radio Channels
(23 February 2006) GlobeCast WorldTV, America's premier
international direct-to-home satellite television provider, and LodgeNet
Entertainment Corporation, the world's largest provider of interactive
television and broadband solutions to hotels, have announced an agreement to
offer GlobeCast WorldTV's selection of more than 160 international television
and radio channels to more than 6,000 LodgeNet-served hotels nation-wide.
more . . . .
International Datacasting Provides
Radio Television Unida in Ecuador with DVB/IP Radio Network
(22 February 2006) International
Datacasting Corporation has announced that its customer Radio y Television
Unida (RTU) in Ecuador has launched a new radio network using IDC's SuperFlex
satellite datacasting system.
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Earth Observation
ESA and Eumetsat Reaffirm Long
Standing Co-operation for MetOp
(23 February 2006) Clearing the way for the launch of the
Meteorological Operational satellite (MetOp), Mr Dordain, the Director General
of ESA and Dr Prahm, Director General of Eumetsat met at ESA headquarters in
Paris, France, on 22 February to sign an update of the co-operation agreement
for the MetOp programme, in place since 1999.
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Goodrich Technology Enables Japan's
Advanced Earth Remote Sensing Satellite
(23 February 2006) The latest satellite in Japan's Earth
observation fleet, the Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS), was recently
launched with Goodrich Corporation's advanced, high-precision optical systems
on board.
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ITT Imager Aboard New Japanese
Meteorological Satellite
(20
February 2006) When the new MTSAT-2 meteorological satellite launched from
Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan on Saturday, February 18, a five-channel
Imager manufactured by ITT's Space Systems Division was aboard.
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Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for
GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper Formulation Phase
(22 February 2006) The Lockheed
Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) has been awarded a US$ 2 million,
12-month contract by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to proceed to the
formulation phase for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that
will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-R
Series environmental satellites.
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Military Space
Boeing to Begin Work on Fourth
Wideband Gapfiller Satellite
(20 February 2006) Boeing has received a US$ 148 million contract
from the U.S. Air Force to begin work on the fourth satellite in the Wideband
Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) system, a 13-kilowatt spacecraft based upon Boeing's
702 satellite model.
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Science
NASA’s Orbiter Nears Red Planet
Rendezvous
(24 February 2006)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is nearing a crucial milestone. The
spacecraft is preparing to slow itself to allow the red planet's gravity to
grab it into orbit on March 10.
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Manned Space
First Long-Duration Mission for ESA
Astronaut Onboard the International Space Station
(23 February 2006) ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter from
Germany will soon become the first European to undertake a long-duration
mission onboard the International Space Station following his dispatch on the
next Shuttle mission (STS-121), currently scheduled for May.
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Lockheed Martin Announces
Partnership with State of Florida to Pursue Crew Exploration Vehicle
(22 February 2006) Lockheed Martin
has announced, in partnership with the State of Florida, its plans to locate
final assembly and testing of the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) in Florida if
the corporation is successful in its bid to provide the next generation crew
transportation system for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA).
more . . . .
Space Adventures Announces Singapore
Spaceport
(20 February 2006)
Space Adventures, Ltd., together with a Singapore-based consortium, plans to
develop an integrated spaceport in Singapore that will offer suborbital
spaceflights, as well as operate astronaut training facilities and a public
education and interactive visitor centre.
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XCOR Aerospace Teams With Silicon
Graphics and Metacomp for Next-Generation Space Vehicle Design
(21 February 2006) XCOR Aerospace,
Inc. has announced that Silicon Graphics has provided an SGI Altix 3000 server
for aerodynamic analysis and preliminary design of its Xerus suborbital
vehicle.
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Technology
Borg' Computer Collective Designs
NASA Space Antenna
(22 February
2006) Like a friendly, non-biological form of the Borg Collective of science
fiction fame, 80 personal computers, using artificial intelligence (AI), have
combined their silicon brains to quickly design a tiny, advanced space
antenna.
more . . . .
QuVIS and Rorke Data Team Up for
NASA
(23 February 2006) Rorke
Data, a subsidiary of San Jose-based Bell Microproducts, Inc. and QuVIS, the
leading provider of hi fidelity high resolution motion imaging technology, have
announced that a pairing of complementary solutions are now being used in
conjunction with the U.S. Government's Return to Flight Program.
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X Prize Foundation Takes Next Step
Toward US$ 2 Million Lunar Lander Challenge
(22 February 2006) The X Prize Foundation (XPF) is moving forward
with plans to offer a US$ 2 million Lunar Lander Challenge (LLC) by releasing
draft rules of the competition, making them available for public comment.
more . . . .
Launch Services
Land Launch Receives Contract Award
from Israel Aircraft Industries
(20 February 2006) Space International Services and Sea Launch
Company have announced the award of a firm launch contract with Israel Aircraft
Industries, Ltd., utilising the Land Launch system.
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In Orbit
Radiation 'Safe Zone' Migrates With
Solar Cycle
(22 February 2006)
A "safe zone" in the radiation belts surrounding Earth moves higher in altitude
and latitude during peaks in solar activity, according to new research by a
NASA-led team.
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Launches
Astro-F (Akari), CUTE-1.7,
Solarsail
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Reports
By 2008 There Will Be a Predicted
100 Million Digital DTH Pay-TV Subscribers
(23 February 2006) Research and Markets has announced the addition
of World-wide Digital Satellite Pay-TV Market to their offering.
more . . . .
Products and Services
u-blox Introduces LEA-4T Precision
Timing GPS Module for Global Synchronicity
(24 February 2006) u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of
innovative GPS receiver technology, has introduced the LEA-4T, a high
performance, low power, precision timing GPS receiver capable of a
(compensated) time pulse accuracy of 15 ns.
more . . .
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People
MTV Networks Names Colette Chestnut
as Executive VP and CFO
(21
February 2006) Colette Chestnut has been named Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer of MTV Networks, it was announced today by Judy
McGrath, Chairman and CEO, MTV Networks.
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