11 January 2009
SatcomsComtech Telecommunications Corp. Receives US$ 1.4 Million in Equipment Orders to Upgrade a GSM Network in Africa
(7 January 2009) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received US$ 1.4 million in orders for satellite communications equipment from a GSM operator.
EMC Completes the Migration of Additional 150 VSAT Sites for the United Nations
(6 January 2009) Emerging Markets Communications completed last October the migration of an additional 150 offices for multiple United Nations agency’s, with offices in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin-America.
Emerging Markets Communications Signs Satellite Capacity Deals for Over 200 Million Dollars
(6 January 2009) Emerging Markets Communications (EMC),a leading provider of end to end satellite networks and owner of one of the largest teleport facilities in the world, has increased the satellite capacity available for its customers by recently signing contracts with Yahsat and Arabsat for a value of approximately 200 million Dollars.
Globecomm Systems Receives Contract from Peace Corps Valued at US$ 2.4 Million for VSAT Communication Network
(6 January 2009) Globecomm Systems Inc., a leading provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services on a global basis, today announced that the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Globecomm Services Maryland has received a contract from Peace Corps valued at US$ 2.4 million.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Chooses Quake Global’s Satellite Modem for Its Global Telecommunications Asset Monitoring System
(5 January 2009) Quake Global, Inc., the leading manufacturer of satellite modems for the heavy equipment industry, announced today that Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. has selected Quake Global and Korea Orbcomm to supply satellite communicators and airtime for its new “Hi-Mate” global communications system for heavy equipment tracking and monitoring.
ICO G1 Space Segment Testing Complete
(7 January 2009) ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) today announced that ICO G1 satellite In Orbit Testing (IOT) and testing of the innovative Ground Based Beam Forming (GBBF) system for the ICO Space Segment are both now complete, and the company's subsidiary, ICO Satellite Services G.P., has accepted the Space Segment from Space Systems/Loral.
International Datacasting Corporation Wins Over Cdn$ 770,000 In New Orders With Release Of Expanded Conditional Access Product Line
(8 January 2009) International Datacasting Corporation, a global leader in the secure delivery of broadband content by satellite, announced today that the Company has been awarded new contracts totalling over Cdn$ 770,000 for the provision and support of a new high performance version of the Cyphercast IP Conditional Access System which they manufacture under license to Irdeto Access.
Orbcomm Finishes 2008 with More Than 460,000 Total Billable Subscriber Communicators
(5 January 2009) Orbcomm Inc., a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced year-end 2008 total billable subscribers of more than 460,000, a 31% increase over year-end 2007.
Starz Selects Tandberg Television's Next Generation MediaPath System
(7 January 2009) Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, today announced that Starz Entertainment, LLC, (Starz) selected the next generation MediaPath Secure Content Delivery System to deliver the content for its on demand services.
TerreStar Demonstrates First Satellite IMS VOIP Call in Comneon Test Lab - TerreStar Handset Performs Across Array of Network Infrastructures
(7 January 2009) Today, at the 2009 International CES, TerreStar Networks Inc. and Comneon, a leading supplier of protocol stack software for mobile communications, announced that the integrated satellite-terrestrial multi-mode handset designed by EB (Elektrobit Corporation) for TerreStar has successfully demonstrated VOIP connectivity using satellite simulation in a Comneon test lab.
BroadcastAT&T CruiseCast Will Deliver 22 Satellite TV and 20 Satellite Radio Channels Into The Car For First Time With Breakthrough Antenna and Receiver Technologies
(8 January 2009) AT&T Inc. and RaySat Broadcasting Corp. today debuted to the consumer marketplace AT&T CruiseCast, the Total In-Car Entertainment service that will enable families, commuters, and mobile professionals to watch a lineup of 22 satellite video channels anywhere in the country.
SES Astra and GlobeCast Distribute Orange TV Over Satellite
(6 January 2009) SES Astra, an SES company, and GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Télécom Group, announced the signature of a capacity contract with the French telecommunications operator Orange to distribute its new Orange TV offer via satellite, particularly targeting French homes with no TV coverage over ADSL.
World's First Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Network Delivering Mobile Video With Interactive Services Showcased At International Consumer Electronics Show
(6 January 2009) ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited and Alcatel-Lucent will be demonstrating the world's first fully integrated satellite-terrestrial network being used to deliver mobile video and interactive two-way communications services during the International Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Earth ObservationGeoEye Signs Singapore Ground Station as GeoEye-1 Satellite Imagery Regional Affiliate
(8 January 2009) GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial information, announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to collect and sell Earth imagery and related products from its GeoEye-1 satellite.
Oman Signs IODC Licence Agreement
(5 January 2009) At the end of the old year, Oman signed a licence agreement with Eumetsat for access to data from Eumetsat's Indian Ocean Data Coverage (IODC) service.
SPOT Image Corp. Awarded GSA Contract
(8 January 2009) SPOT Image Corp. has been awarded a contract from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to sell SPOT satellite imagery and related products and services to federal, state and local government agencies at pre-negotiated rates.
NavigationRaytheon Team Completes Final Major Milestones on Next-Generation GPS Control Segment
(8 January 2009) Raytheon Company has successfully completed two significant milestones for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System Control Segment, or GPS OCX, establishing a solid foundation and roadmap to keep the program on track and on schedule.
SPOT Unveils SPOT Assist, the World's First Satellite-Based Roadside GPS Safety Service
(8 January 2009) SPOT LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globalstar Inc. and a leader in personal satellite messaging and emergency communications, today announced SPOT Assist, a new roadside GPS safety service for its award-winning SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger.
TrackingOrbcomm Announces First Global AIS Distribution Agreement
(8 January 2009) Orbcomm Inc., a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that it has completed a global AIS distribution agreement for commercial purposes with Lloyd’s Register – Fairplay (LRF).
Military SpaceAgreements Signed Between Telespazio and DRS Technologies, Companies of the Finmeccanica Group
(29 December 2008) Telespazio will provide communications services and satellite capacity to DRS Technologies Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, has signed agreements for two separate contracts with DRS Technologies, which was acquired by Finmeccanica in October 2008.
Boeing Increases Capability of On-Orbit US Navy Satellite
(7 January 2009) Boeing has successfully reconfigured an on-orbit U.S. Navy satellite, adding 30 percent more communications capability.
Comtech AeroAstro Ships STP-SIV to Ball Aerospace
(7 January 2009) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that Comtech AeroAstro, Inc., has successfully delivered the first spacecraft bus for the US Air Force's Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) satellite program.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Receives US$ 282.0 Million Movement Tracking System Order -- Largest Single Order in Company History
(5 January 2009) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received an order for US$ 282.0 million under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the U.S. Army.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Wins US$ 19.1 Million in Satcom Equipment Orders for Military Network Expansion
(8 January 2009) Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced today that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., and its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., obtained satellite communications equipment orders totalling US$ 19.1 million from a United States prime government contractor.
DataPath Awarded US$ 100 Million to Retrofit U.S. Army JNN/WIN-T Terminals for Wideband Global SATCOM System
(6 January 2009) DataPath, Inc., a leading provider of satellite and wireless communications networks around the world, has been awarded US$ 100 million by the U.S. Army to manufacture and integrate Ka band conversion kits and provide spares kits that will enable DataPath Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs) and other systems on the battlefield to operate using the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system.
TS2 Receives Contract to Deliver BGAN Services to Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
(9 January 2009) TS2 Satellite Technologies has been awarded a contract to deliver mobile BGAN services for US Army soldiers stationed in Iraq.
Vizada Secures Contract With Delta Wave Communications To Supply Mobile Satcoms Service To US Army Corps Of Engineers
(9 January 2009) Vizada has won a contract with Delta Wave Communications Inc. to supply the US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) with Inmarsat and Iridium mobile satellite communications services in the United States and overseas.
AstrophysicsAstronomers Use Gamma-Ray Burst To Probe Star Formation In The Early Universe
(6 January 2009) The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a GRB host galaxy.
NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
(7 January 2009) Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected.
Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight
(6 January 2009) A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2006.
AstronomySagem Delivers First Of Three NIRSpec Telescopes For James Webb Space Telescope To EADS Astrium
(9 January 2009) Sagem (SAFRAN Group) delivered to Astrium, on January 8, the first of three telescopes intended for the NIRSpec instrument (Near Infrared Spectrograph) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and Brown Dwarfs
(9 January 2009) The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission is a NASA Medium-class Explorer satellite that will survey the entire sky in four infrared wavelengths between 3 and 25 microns.
StarsBrown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
(5 January 2008) Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'
(7 January 2009) Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
PulsarsNASA's Fermi Telescope Unveils A Dozen New Pulsars
(6 January 2009) NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others.
GalaxiesGamma-Ray Burst Offers First Peek at a Young Galaxy's Star Factory
(6 January 2009) Astronomers combining data from NASA's Swift satellite, the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and other facilities have, for the first time, identified gas molecules in the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.
Iowa State Astrophysicist Helps Map the Milky Way's Four Spiral Arms
(5 January 2009) Iowa State University's Martin Pohl is part of a research team that has developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms.
Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements Show
(5 January 2009) Fasten your seat belts - we're faster, heavier, and more likely to collide than we thought. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating about 100,000 miles per hour faster than previously understood.NASA's Swift Shows Active Galaxies Are Different Near and Far
(6 January 2009) An ongoing X-ray survey undertaken by NASA's Swift spacecraft is revealing differences between nearby active galaxies and those located about halfway across the universe.
Stars Forming Just Beyond Black Hole's Grasp at Galactic Centre
(5 January 2009) The centre of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there.
Black HolesBlack Holes Lead Galaxy Growth, New Research Shows
(6 January 2009) Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem - the question of which formed first in the early Universe - galaxies or the supermassive black holes seen at their cores.
SupernovaFront Line Astronomy From Century-Old Archives
(9 January 2009) A long-standing astronomical mystery is "What type of star system will explode as a supernova?"
MoonNASA Names Team Of Texas Scientists To Lunar Institute
(9 January 2009) NASA has selected a team of scientists from Johnson Space Center and the Lunar and Planetary Institute, both in Houston, as one of seven initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute.
NASA Selects CU-Boulder to Build US$ 6 Million Lunar Dust Detector to Orbit Moon in 2012
(9 January 2009) The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a US$ 6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere.
NASA Selects Research Teams For Lunar Science Institute
(9 January 2009) NASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute.
New Teledyne Image Sensor Enables Mapping of the Moon’s Surface
(8 January 2009) Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC (TS&I) has played a key role in helping NASA begin a new era in planetary exploration, when the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) commenced operation in November.
EarthNASA-Funded Study Reveals Hazards of Severe Space Weather
(5 January 2009) A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth.
MarsMartian Rock Arrangement Not Alien Handiwork
(7 January 2009) At first, figuring out how pebble-sized rocks organize themselves in evenly-spaced patterns in sand seemed simple and even intuitive.
AsteroidsCatalina Sky Survey Sets New Record for NEO Discoveries, Receives Funding Through 2012
(7 January 2009) The University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey has been awarded a US$ 3.16 million NASA grant to continue its search for near-Earth objects, or NEOs, through 2012.
Scientists Find Evidence of Asteroids with Earth-Like Crust
(6 January 2009) Two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar in composition to the crust of Earth's continents, reports a research team primarily composed of geochemists from the University of Maryland.
Extra-Solar PlanetsBaby Jupiters Must Gain Weight Fast
(5 January 2009) The planet Jupiter gained weight in a hurry during its infancy. It had to, since the material from which it formed probably disappeared in just a few million years, according to a new study of planet formation around young stars.
Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth
(5 January 2008) Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets - dead stars.
Jupiter-like Planets Could Form Around Twin Suns
(5 January 2009) Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field.
On the Edge of SpaceNew NASA Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica
(8 January 2009) NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.
Manned SpaceNASA Seeks Concept Proposals for Ares V Heavy Lift Rocket
(5 January 2009) On Monday, Jan. 5, NASA issued a request for proposal for the Ares V rocket that will perform heavy lift and cargo functions as part of the next generation of spacecraft that will return humans to the moon.
Spacehab to Support Pre-Launch Preparations for Russian Module
(5 January 2009) Spacehab, Incorporated, a leading provider of commercial space services, reached an agreement in principal with RSC Energia, Russia's largest manufacturer of aerospace and space equipment, to provide facilities and support services for its Mini Research Module (MRM1).
Launch Services2008 - Focus on Ariane; 2009 - Focus on the Expanded Family
(6 January 2009) Arianespace confirmed its position as the world’s leading launch Service & Solutions company in 2008, and is actively gearing up for 2009 with its expanded family of launchers.
AASC to Manufacture Taurus II Composite Structures
(5 January 2009) Applied Aerospace Structures Corporation (AASC) has been awarded a contract by Orbital Sciences Corporation to manufacture the composite structures for the Taurus II Launch Vehicle.
Arianespace Wins Contract From Intelsat
(30 December 2008) Arianespace announced today that it has signed a contract with the international satellite operator Intelsat, for the launch of one satellite, with the option to launch four more satellites.
Hot Bird 10 Is Delivered For Its February Liftoff On A Multi-Payload Ariane 5 Mission
(8 January 2009) The Hot Bird 10 satellite for Arianespace’s initial Ariane 5 mission of 2009 was delivered to French Guiana today, arriving aboard a chartered cargo jetliner that completed its transatlantic trip from Europe.
Spacehab Subsidiary Secures New Missions
(7 January 2009) Spacehab Inc. announced today that its Astrotech subsidiary located in Titusville, Florida was awarded two contracts totalling US$ 3.2 million from United Launch Alliance (ULA) in support of the ground processing of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, GOES O&P.
BusinessCourt Enters Judgment in ICO Litigation Against Boeing
(6 January 2009) ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited today announced that the Los Angeles Superior Court has entered judgment on the verdict the company received in its litigation against The Boeing Company and its Boeing Satellite Services International subsidiary (collectively, Boeing).
Elbit Systems Signs Share Purchase Agreement Regarding Purchase Offer to Shareholders of Shiron Satellite Communications Ltd
(8 January 2009) Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that on January 8, 2009, its wholly-owned Israeli subsidiary, Elbit Systems Land and C4I - Tadiran Ltd. (ESLC-T) signed a share purchase agreement with shareholders that, to the best of ESLC-T's knowledge, as the date of this announcement, hold more than 90% of the shares of Shiron Satellite Communications (1996) Ltd. (Shiron), a privately-owned Israeli company, in the framework of an offer for the purchase from Shiron's shareholders of 100% of Shiron's issued share capital, in accordance with the Israeli Companies Law - 1999, for the total consideration of US$ 16 million.
PeopleArrowhead Names New Executive Vice President and General Manager
(7 January 2009) Arrowhead Global Solutions, the government services division of CapRock Communications, announced today the addition of David Myers to its senior management team as Executive Vice President and General Manager.
Daniel-Georges Courtois is Appointed on The ARCEP Executive Board
(6 January 2009) Last 23 December, the President of France’s National Assembly appointed Daniel-Georges Courtois Member of the Executive Board of the Authority. He is succeeded Gabrielle Gauthey whose mandate ends on 31 December 2008.
Jean-Claude Mallet is Appointed President of ARCEP
(6 January 2009) By decree of the President of the French Republic dated 31 December 2008, Jean-Claude Mallet is appointed Chairman of the Authority. He replaces Paul Champsaur, whose six-year term has ended.
TerreStar Names Douglas Brandon General Counsel
(5 January 2009) TerreStar Corporation today announced that Douglas Brandon has been appointed General Counsel, Secretary and Senior Vice President for TerreStar and its subsidiaries, effectively immediately.
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