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April 30, 2012
Harris + Jotron... Aerial Missions Support (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) and Jotron AS will upgrade air-to-ground radios at the...
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Los Angeles Air Force Base (LABFB)... The Wrapper Is On (Satellite)
Engineers at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, have completed the...
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Peterson Air Force Base... The First DoD ISR Satellite Succumbs To Atmospheric Annihilation—On Purpose (Satellite)
[SatNews] Today (April 30, 2012) marked the end of Air Force Space Command's...
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Los Angeles Air Force Based (LAFB)... An Opportunity For Outstanding Training (STEM) + Commander Honored (Event)
[SatNews] For the first time, a unique partnership between the U.S. Air Force, California State University Long Beach (CSULB) and the professional society of materials science engineers (ASM Foundation) are...
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April 26, 2012
USAF Puts Freeze On Northrop Grumman's Weather Satellite (Terminates Contract)
[SatNews] Per the contract, weather has been discontinued...
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April 25, 2012
GTSI Corp... A Niner For SPAWARSYSCEN (Comms)
[SatNews] GTSI Corp. (NASDAQ: GTSI), a systems integration, solutions and services provider to federal, state and local government, has announced...
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April 24, 2012
GeoEye And Rolta Open Their Eyes And The Skies Over India (EO)
[SatNews] This helps users see, understand and anticipate change when lives are at risk...
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April 23, 2012
Allen-Vanguard + Track24 Defence... Jam Good (M2M)
[SatNews] A new system for automatically sending near real-time, beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS), machine-to-machine (M2M) updates...
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April 22, 2012
Harris... A Successful Antenna Unfurling (Satellite)
[SatNews] Two unfurlable mesh antenna reflectors developed by Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) were successfully deployed last month...
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Hughes Network Systems... From ADF Trials To GSA Inclusions (Comms)
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has announced that it has been successfully supporting the Australian Defence Force and has added services to GSA GS-35F-0907P.
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Schriever International Wargame...Space Safety—The Future And Beyond
[SatNews] Allies collaborating to plan and prevent aggressive reactions in space involves more than a road map...
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Comcast Media Center Streams ULA's Launches...Live Rockets In Your Home!
[SatNews] More people will now be able to 'ooh-and-aah!' at the live launches...
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April 19, 2012
ViaSat... Migration Motivation (Comms)
[SatNews] ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has been awarded a Full Production and Fielding (FP&F) order valued at $31.5 million for...
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Moving On Up @ SI Organization Salutes...
[SatNews] He may have retired as Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base but he hasn't slowed down...
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Raytheon... Important Integration Impetus (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) successfully completed...
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April 16, 2012
Haivision... Making The JITC Grade (ISR)
[SatNews] Haivision's Makito™ SDI and Makito Air™ high definition H.264 encoders have received...
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April 12, 2012
Boeing... Number Four Is Looking Extremely Well! (Satellite)
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has announced that the U.S. Air Force accepted control of the...
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North Korea... A Loser Of A Launch, No Satellite Success... + North American Space Command Tracked The Proceedings...
[SatNews] Multiple news outlets are reporting the launch of the much publicized rocket and satellite from Tongchang-ri in North Korea.
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April 10, 2012
Aerojet... Pushing For 70 Years (Event)
[SatNews] Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company announced its 70th anniversary on March 19th...
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C-COM Satellite Systems... Two... Two... Two GPS Goodies In One (SATCOM)
[SatNews] C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSX VENTURE:CMI) ("C-COM" or the "Company") has received $1,000,000 in orders...
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April 9, 2012
GL's PacketProbe™... Not To Be Confused With A TSA Search!
[SatNews] The product is used to ensure successful deployments, and helps with network design, ensuring that the most efficient topologies are implemented.
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IHA Reports...Parts Are Not Parts...Counterfeit Cost Billions
[SatNews] “A faulty counterfeit analog IC can cause problems ranging from a mundane dropped phone call to a serious tragedy in the aviation, medical, military, nuclear or automotive areas,” .."
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April 5, 2012
SES... A Great Deal Of CHIRP'ing Scheduled (Webcast)
[SatNews] Launched in September aboard the SES-2 satellite, CHIRP...
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Harris... Single Net Integration For Latin America (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received $12.4 million in orders from a...
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April 4, 2012
Orbital's Minotaur Rocket Is An 'Enabler' For The USAF
[SatNews] The ultimate compliment is to do to something so well that folk keep coming back for more...even rockets!
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Space Foundation... Upcoming Celebrations For U.S.A.F. Space Command's Anniversary (Events)
[SatNews] The Space Foundation plans to conduct two special events to commemorate...
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Thrane & Thrane An AVIATOR A Falcon And A FAN
[SatNews] The ink has dried, handshakes all around, and now get busy.
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Satellite Space Junk That Goes Bump Means War?
[SatNews] “Space garbage hitting and disabling a military satellite may be seen as an attack, which could provoke retaliation with all of the ensuing consequences.”
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April 3, 2012
Thales' + Tampa Microwave Mission Accomplished (Acquisition)
[SatNews] ..."review of the acquisition by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and its determination that there are no national security concerns with respect to the transaction."
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Harris... Unity Of Purpose In Providing First Responder Tools (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received a $49 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide...
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Launch! ULA's Delta IV Is On An NROL-25 As Spy Satellite Soars Skyward
[SatNews] A Great Launch! Designated NROL-25, the mission is in support of national defense.
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April 2, 2012
Harris... Multiband, Multi-Mode, Mounted + Dismounted... Talk About Flexibility... (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received an AUD$14.7 million (approximately US$15.2 million) order...
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Comtech Telecommunications... Something To Be Blue About For The U.S. Army (Comms)
[SatNews] Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) has announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, has been awarded...
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Satellite Reveals: Red Alert! Pentagon Activates Missile Defenses For North Korean Launch (Imagery)
[SatNews] “The president of the United States made very clear that the North Koreans should not do this. It is provocative It’s dangerous and it violates the international law....we have to be fully prepared for any possibility—and we are.”
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