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December 17, 2012
Advantech Wireless... Two-Way Throughput (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Advantech AMT Corp. USA, a subsidiary of Advantech Wireless Inc., announced it has received new orders...
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Northrop Gumman... Wireless Handling Now, Carrier Landings Next Up... (UCAS)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Navy recently completed a series of...
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December 13, 2012
U.S.A.F. Air Force Space Command's Space & Missile Systems Center... CAPS @ The Top Of The World (SATCOM)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded a contract to...
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Rohde & Schwarz... A Tactical Development (SDR)
[SatNews] Rohde & Schwarz has now introduced the R&S SDTR, the first in a new generation of software defined radios (SDR), together with...
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DARPA Sees Raytheon’s SeeMe As Solution For Small Satellites
[SatNews] “As the world’s only producer of exoatmospheric kill vehicles, we are already developing and building hardware to space standards.”
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December 12, 2012
XTAR... X Marks The Spot (SATCOM)
[SatNews] XTAR LLC, the first U.S. commercial provider of satellite services in the X-band frequency, announced that it has gained a...
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General Dynamics... Tech Support For Top Secret Enterprise (Comms)
[SatNews] General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a two-year, $6 million task order...
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December 11, 2012
USAF OTV3 + ULA’s Atlas V’s First Spacecraft To Launch, Return To Earth And Launch Again! (Launch)
[SatNews] “In the face a daunting weather forecast, the ULA Atlas V roared into the blue Florida sky today at the opening of the window – completing the company’s 2012 launch campaign.”
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Northrop Grumman... Additional Combat + Interfaces Upgrades (Comms)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully released Version 2.0 of the...
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USAF Space & Missile Systems Command + Kratos Technology... MILSATCOM Responsibilities Acquired... (SATCOM)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded a $17.5 million contract to Kratos Technology and Training Solutions, Inc., to...
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Gilat Satellite Networks... Initially The Air Force + Central Command, Now The Navy (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT) has been selected by a Southeast Asian Navy to upgrade...
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December 10, 2012
Space Foundation Announces Winners At The Top Of The (James E.) Hill
[SatNews] The legacies that these two have left are enormous...
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December 9, 2012
SMi Conferences... Insights Into ISR (Event)
[SatNews] The 2nd annual ISR conference will feature a line-up of key military and industry speakers...
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ViaSat + UK MOD... Keying In On UHF (SATCOM)
[SatNews] ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) has successfully implemented an Integrated Waveform Network Control Station (IW NCS) for...
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North Korea... U.S. Initiates Pacom Eyes On Upcoming Satellite "Launch"...
[SatNews] U.S. Pacific Command has moved ships into place to monitor a possible North Korean rocket launch, Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III has said.
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Space & Missile Systems Center (SMC)... Scaling To Fit The Need (Launch Vehicles)
[SatNews] The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Development and Test Directorate at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, has awarded...
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Thales... Successful Deployment (SATCOM)
[SatNews] The recent NAWAS and CWIX exercises marked the first successful deployment by...
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December 5, 2012
iDirect Government Technologies (iGT)... More Than Remotely Interesting (SATCOM)
[SatNews] iDirect Government Technologies (iGT), a wholly owned subsidiary of VT iDirect (iDirect), has released the...
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DigitalGlobe... Upgrading Tasking, Downloading + Delivery For Warfighters (Imagery)
[SatNews] DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) will provide upgrades to multiple U.S. Air Force...
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SpaceX + U.S.A.F... An EELV First... (Launch)
[SatNews] The United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded SpaceX two...
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December 4, 2012
U.S.A.F.'s Space + Missile Systems Center... Goddard Trophy To GPS Architect (Award)
[SatNews] Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, SMC commander, accepted the donation of the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy from...
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Integrated Microwave Technologies... MAG Moves (Comms)
[SatNews] Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (IMT), a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, is rolling out...
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Harris... Falcons Heading To Central Asia... (Comms)
[SatNews] Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has received a $7 million order to deliver...
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Gilat’s Wavestream® Salutes The Military... As The ‘Streams’ Merge Into TECOM’s Systems
[SatNews] "We have designed these products to meet the extreme operating environment and size and weight requirements necessary to suit today's aircraft designs.”
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December 3, 2012
Astrium Services Government... A Major Melding... (Business
[SatNews] Astrium Americas, an EADS North America company announces a new subsidiary, Astrium Services Government, Inc. serving the...
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AGI Goes Ballistic... With Their Integrating Element
[SatNews] The C2BMC program is the "integrating element" for the Ballistic Missile Defense System and links the various sensors and weapon systems.
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December 2, 2012
Northrop Grumman... Consider The Catapult... (UAV/UAS/UCAS)
[SatNews] Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Navy have conducted the Navy's first catapult launch of...
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U.S. Strategic Command... Major MUOS Move... (Satellite)
[SatNews] The U.S. Strategic Command has accepted the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite for...
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Arianespace... Helping Pléiades 1B To Find Its Way... (Launch)
[SatNews] The maturity of Arianespace’s Soyuz launch system at French Guiana, and its confirmed role...
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December 1, 2012
U.S. Army... Judged By Those Who Know... (STEM)
[SatNews] Army engineers, scientists and business professionals volunteered to be virtual judges for an online science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM, competition...
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U.S. Army... The Future: A Question Of Quantums... (Comms)
[SatNews] Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are pioneering data teleportation...
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NASA... The Next Member Of The Reliable Space Network Arrives @ Kennedy (Satellite)
[SatNews] NASA's newest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, known as TDRS-K, arrived Tuesday...
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Raytheon... More'n 300 To Receive New Multiband Terminal (SATCOM)
[SatNews] Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT), which will be installed on more than...
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Lockheed Martin... Selected As An OSP-3 Participant (Launch Vehicles)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force has announced that Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE:LMT] Athena launch vehicle family has...
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Lockheed Martin... Way Ahead Of Schedule (Satellite)
[SatNews] The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have integrated the system module for the fourth...
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AGI...Space Situational Awareness Software Suite Replaces A Legacy
[SatNews] “As intentional and unintentional threats rise, getting advanced SSA capabilities to the warfighter is critical.”
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