17 January 2010Free ContentAs The Crust Turns: Cassini Data Show Enceladus In Motion
(11 January 2010) Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn's moon Enceladus explain the quirky heat behaviour and intriguing surface of the moon's south polar region, according to a new paper using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
NASA To Check For Unlikely Winter Survival Of Mars Lander
(11 January 2010) Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008.
Satellite TV Platforms Maintain Growth Despite Tight Consumer Spending
(14 January 2010) Euroconsult, the leading international research and analyst firm specialized in the satellite & broadcasting sectors, announced today that growth in the satellite pay-TV market remained strong in 2009 despite the global economic downturn.
GMV Awarded Contract By Raytheon For Indian Space Research Organization And Airports Authority Of India GAGAN Program
(14 January 2010) GMV, a private, multinational firm headquartered in Madrid, has been awarded a contract with Raytheon Company to develop a prototype algorithm for the detection of ionospheric depletions in the magnetic equatorial region that may be utilized in the user receiver data processing for the space-based augmentation system for the GAGAN program operated by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Globalstar Prepares For Launch Of Second-Generation Satellites
(14 January 2010) Globalstar, Inc., a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments and consumers, today announced that in preparation for the upcoming launches of its new second-generation satellites the Company has commenced installation of satellite telemetry control unit (TCU) upgrades.
SatcomsAfriqiyah Airways Selects OnAir For Full Long And Short-Range Fleet Roll-Out
(11 January 2010) OnAir, the world’s leading provider of inflight communications, today announced agreement to install OnAir inflight passenger connectivity services on Afriqiyah Airways’ entire Airbus long range and short range fleets.
C-Com Mobile Antennas Deployed In New Zealand
(12 January 2010) C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. has delivered an initial number of iNetVu Mobile antenna systems to its Christchurch, New Zealand based reseller, for deployment by a New Zealand government agency for emergency communications.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Awarded US$ 1.6 Million Order For Satellite Modems For An Asia-Pacific Cellular Operator
(14 January 2010) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., was awarded a US$ 1.6 million order for satellite modems and redundancy switches.
EDDI Extends Avanti Contract
(14 January 2010) Avanti Communications Group plc, the broadband satellite operator, has signed a €665,000 five year contract with EDDI S.R.L. of Italy for capacity on HYLAS 1.
FCC Grants TerreStar ATC Authority
(14 January 2010) On January 13, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted TerreStar Networks Inc. (TerreStar), a majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation, authority to integrate terrestrial use of TerreStar's 20 MHz S Band spectrum into its next generation mobile wireless network.
Gulf Offshore Selects CapRock’s Always-On VSAT Communications With 24/7 Global Support
(5 January 2010) CapRock Communications, a global provider of satellite communications, today announced a three-year contract with Gulf Offshore – a wholly owned subsidiary of GulfMark Offshore Inc. – to deploy its broadband maritime service, SeaAccess Communications, onboard its fleet operating in the North Sea and along the coast of Africa.
Intersputnik And Eutelsat Announce Long-Term Agreement For Extensive Capacity On The New W7 Satellite
(15 January 2010) Intersputnik, the International Organization of Space Communications, and Eutelsat Communications today announced the signature of a major contract for the long-term lease of 16 transponders at Eutelsat's 36degrees East video neighbourhood.
MEASAT Expands Support For African Market With Commissioning Of AFRICASAT-2
(15 January 2010) MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) announced today that it had on 13 January 2010 brought into service the AFRICASAT-2 satellite at the 5.7°E orbital location.
NewCom Teams With Hispamar To Deploy One-Hop In-Satellite Hub Services To Latin America
(12 January 2010) NewCom International, a global telecommunications firm that specializes in the transport of communications via satellite, IP and fibre, has teamed with Brazilian Satellite Operator Hispamar to employ its new satellite, Amazonas 2, for the Latin America market.
OnAir To Connect Hapag Lloyd Cruises’ Flagship MS Europa At Sea
(5 January 2010) OnAir, the world’s leading provider of inflight communications, has signed an agreement with German cruise operator Hapag–Lloyd Cruises, to service its flagship MS Europa with OnAir’s Mobile technology, using an existing KU-band satellite link.
Spacenet Selected To Provide Managed Network Services To Over 7,000 Regis Corporation Locations
(11 January 2010) Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. and a leading provider of networking solutions, announced today that it is providing its Prysm Pro network appliance, which enables a fully PCI compliant managed network services solution, to over 7,000 Regis Corporation North American locations.
BroadcastHarmonic's Ellipse 1000 Contribution Encoder Deployed In India's First Commercial HD/SD Teleport Facility
(13 January 2010) Harmonic Inc. today announced that Broadcast Equipment India Pvt. Ltd. (BEI), has deployed Harmonic's Ellipse 1000 MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) contribution encoder in the first commercial high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) teleport facility in India.
Earth ObservationFirst Satellite Map Of Haiti Earthquake
(14 January 2010) A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage.
New Satellite Maps Of Haiti Coming In
(15 January 2010) As rescue workers scramble to provide assistance to hundreds of thousands of people following Haiti’s earthquake, Earth observation satellite data continues to provide updated views of the situation on the ground.
Space Systems/Loral-Built Weather Satellite Outlives Mission Expectations
(13 January 2010) Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that a satellite that it built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was retired after serving the organization for 12 years, more than twice its required mission life.
NavigationGMV Awarded Contract By Raytheon For Indian Space Research Organization And Airports Authority Of India GAGAN Program
(14 January 2010) GMV, a private, multinational firm headquartered in Madrid, has been awarded a contract with Raytheon Company to develop a prototype algorithm for the detection of ionospheric depletions in the magnetic equatorial region that may be utilized in the user receiver data processing for the space-based augmentation system for the GAGAN program operated by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
SES Astra Awarded Second Contract For EGNOS
(12 January 2010) SES Astra, an SES company, announced today that it has been awarded a second contract by the European Commission (EC) to provide hosted payload services for EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service.
Thales Alenia Space Awarded A € 85 Million Contract For The System Support Services Of Galileo
(7 January 2010) Today in Brussels, the European Commission has communicated the decision to award to Thales Alenia Space Italia through a framework contract lasting from 2010 till 2016 for the “System Support” to European Space Agency (ESA).
TrackingSkyTrac To Provide Flight Following To Aquiline International Corporation
(14 January 2010) SkyTrac is pleased to announce that it was selected by United Arab Emirates based Aquiline International Corporation to supply SatCom/flight following solutions for Aquiline’s fleet of ANTONOV-24, ANTONOV-26, and ILUSHIN-76.
Military SpaceComtech Telecommunications Corp. Announces Successful FIPS 140-2 Certification Related To Its BFT-2 Network Initiative
(13 January 2010) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation (CMDC), received a FIPS 140-2 Validation Certification from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for its satellite network's cryptographic library modules which are incorporated into Comtech's Blue Force Tracking-2 (BFT-2) Network initiative.
Harris Corporation Successfully Completes Preliminary Implementation Review Of U.S. Army's MET Program
(13 January 2010) Harris Corporation, has successfully completed the Preliminary Implementation Review for the U.S. Army's Modernization of Enterprise Terminals (MET) program -- next-generation military satellite communications terminals that will provide the worldwide backbone for high-priority military communications and missile defense systems.
U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Team Achieves Key Ground Segment Milestone For Nation's Space-Based Missile Warning System
(13 January 2010) The U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program has achieved two key milestones: a testing milestone demonstrating that the ground system is on track to support launch of the first SBIRS geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite in the constellation, and a maturity milestone moving the ground system into the next level of integration.
ViaSat Wins MIDS-LVT Data Link Terminal FMS Award
(13 January 2010) ViaSat Inc. has been awarded an order valued at approximately US$ 4.8 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) terminals.
StarsGiant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Through Space Between Stellar Pair
(13 January 2010) Astronomers have found a giant magnetic loop stretched outward from one of the stars making up the famous double-star system Algol.
UI Astronomers Capture First-Of-Kind Image At Distant Star
(13 January 2010) Two University of Iowa researchers have made the first direct radio image of a stellar coronal loop at a star, other than the sun, thereby providing scientists with information that may lead to a better understanding of how such phenomena as space weather affect the Earth.
Solar SystemSolar Scientists Use 'Magnetic Mirror Effect' To Reproduce IBEX Observation
(12 January 2010) Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy revising their models to account for the discovery of a narrow "ribbon" of bright emission that was completely unexpected and not predicted by any model at the time.
MoonHydrogenics Awarded Development Contract With The Canadian Space Agency
(8 January 2010) Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today announced the award of a contract for the development of a next generation power system to be used for surface mobility applications on the moon.
MarsNASA To Check For Unlikely Winter Survival Of Mars Lander
(11 January 2010) Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008.
Phoenix Mission Accomplished With ANSYS Aboard
(12 January 2010) ANSYS, Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that the University of Alberta used software from ANSYS to aid in interpreting weather data received from the Phoenix Mars lander.
SaturnAs The Crust Turns: Cassini Data Show Enceladus In Motion
(11 January 2010) Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn's moon Enceladus explain the quirky heat behaviour and intriguing surface of the moon's south polar region, according to a new paper using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Aurora Awarded Contract For Titan Balloon Buoyancy Modulation System
(14 January 2010) Aurora Flight Sciences announced today it has been selected by NASA for a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project to develop a rapid buoyancy modulation system (BMS) for a hot air, or Montgolfiere, balloon operating on Titan, a moon of Saturn.
Extra-Solar PlanetsCaltech Astronomer Spots Second Smallest Exoplanet
(13 January 2010) Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and other institutions, using the highly sensitive 10-meter Keck I telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, have detected an extrasolar planet with a mass just four times that of Earth.
VLT Captures First Direct Spectrum Of An Exoplanet
(13 January 2010) By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our own Sun’s family of planets, astronomers have been able to obtain the first direct spectrum — the “chemical fingerprint” [1] — of a planet orbiting a distant star [2], thus bringing new insights into the planet's formation and composition.
Manned SpaceAlcan Aluminium Low Density Alloys Selected As A Critical Material For The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
(12 January 2010) Alcan Global Aerospace Transportation and Industry (Alcan Global ATI), part of Alcan Engineered Products – a business unit of Rio Tinto – is set to become the leading supplier of advanced aluminium-lithium (Al-Li) lightweight materials for the Orion crew exploration vehicle being built by Lockheed Martin as part of NASA’s Constellation Program.
Launch ServicesESA’s Ice Mission Arrives Safely At Launch Site
(14 January 2010) In what might seem rather appropriate weather conditions, the CryoSat-2 Earth Explorer satellite has completed its journey to the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, where it will be prepared for launch on 25 February.
In OrbitGlobalstar Prepares For Launch Of Second-Generation Satellites
(14 January 2010) Globalstar, Inc., a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments and consumers, today announced that in preparation for the upcoming launches of its new second-generation satellites the Company has commenced installation of satellite telemetry control unit (TCU) upgrades.
ReportsSatellite TV Platforms Maintain Growth Despite Tight Consumer Spending
(14 January 2010) Euroconsult, the leading international research and analyst firm specialized in the satellite & broadcasting sectors, announced today that growth in the satellite pay-TV market remained strong in 2009 despite the global economic downturn.
Products and ServicesData Technology Solutions Launches Cost-Effective, Flexible VSAT Broadband Service Offering For Maritime Companies
(13 January 2010) Data Technology Solutions, a global satellite service provider based in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, has launched a low-cost, integrated satellite broadband offering for the maritime market.
Gilat SkyEdge II VSAT Receives Latest DVB-RCS Compliance Certification
(14 January 2010) Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd. announced today that its SkyEdge II DVB-RCS VSAT has received the SatLabs Group Certificate of Compliance.
TrainingSES Chooses SlingPath SNG Training
(11 January 2010) BeaconSeek Ltd, the UK-based satellite consultancy and training company, today announced that SES, one of the world’s leading providers of fixed satellite services, has purchased a substantial number of training places on BeaconSeek’s SlingPath SNG (satellite news gathering) online training program as part of the satellite industry’s Satellite Interference Initiative to reduce satellite Radio Frequency Interference (RFI).
PeopleManTech Names Gregory A. Roman As Senior Vice President For Space And Intelligence, Surveillance And Reconnaissance Services
(12 January 2010) ManTech International Corporation has named Gregory A. Roman as Senior Vice President for Space and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Services in its Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology group.
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