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February 28, 2018
China Test Fires YF-77 Rocket Engine to (Hopefully) Prepare for Return-to-Flight of Long March 5 and More
The Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket successfully debuted in late 2016 but failed to reach orbit with its second flight, in July.
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February 27, 2018
Virtual Machine-Based Satellite Ground Comms Architecture Delivered by Kratos for WGS
The delivery includes virtual machine software versions of Kratos’ Front End Processor (vFEP) and Gateway (vGTW) systems. The vFEPs and vGTWs...
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Japan Launches a Secretive Optical ISR Satellite
The optical reconnaissance satellite will be used for monitoring developments at North Korean missile launch facilities and increases the...
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East View Geospatial Holds the Papers for South African Nautical Charts
The South Africa nautical chart series includes 91 charts and covers all of South Africa, as well as the coastlines of select neighboring countries.
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February 26, 2018
U.S. Army Enlists Polaris Alpha for $18 Million to Provide Turnkey Telecommunications in Middle East
reliable communications with rapid data delivery, on state-of-the-art, low-cost equipment for communications independent of the physical location.
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Purdue Mechanical Engineer's Now or Never 'Rockoon' Launch Concept for Microsatellites
"This is a really incredible opportunity, so I either have to do it now, or it's a now or never type of thing,"
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February 21, 2018
Ball's VizZen™ Visualizes COTS and Cloud Based Content Management
The software is an open source-based One Object One Time solution that allows multiple data bases to be accessible by a single tool.
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SpaceX Scrubs Spain's Spy Satellite Launch Due to Strong Winds
PAZ will orbit Earth 15 times per day, covering an area of over 300,000 square kilometers from an altitude of 514 kilometers and a velocity of ...
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February 20, 2018
GATR's TRAC Antenna is Positioned for Widespread Use, According to the U.S. Air Force
support from the U.S.A.F. Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program and the Air Force Research Laboratory
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February 19, 2018
General Dynamics Mission Systems Awarded Continued Procurement Contract for U.S. Navy Digital Modular Radio
DMR provides multiple communication waveforms and multi-level information security for secure tactical voice and data transmissions aboard...
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Iridium Entrusts COMSAT to Provide Iridium's Certus Satellite Broadband Connectivity to the DoD
securely, and cost-effectively connects remote assets to U.S. command and control centers from anywhere including Arctic and Antarctic regions.
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ViaLite Communications Takes Root in the U.S. and Grows ... Enlists the Expertise of Three Companies
bring strong technical backgrounds and have had a long history of success supporting product applications for satcom, defense electronics and ...
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February 15, 2018
Adcole Maryland Aerospace-Built Kestrel Eye SmallSat for the U.S. Army and DoD Launches
The Kestrel Eye imaging satellite is the first on orbit demonstration of an envisioned Department of Defense (DoD) constellation that may someday...
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CopaSAT Acquires Eclipse Composite Engineering and Their Antenna Offerings
Designed to meet the rigorous standards of the U.S. military, Eclipse’s advanced composite hardware solutions have earned a leading reputation...
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February 14, 2018
How COMSAT Continued Communications During California Wildfires ... 'What If' Became 'It Is'
"The crisis management plan, devised in response to the 'what-if' scenarios, demonstrated how resilient the teleport and and its team are."
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Czech Satellite Intelligence Center to Open
Funded by the Czech Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces, the subject-matter experts will review the imagery from around the world and...
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February 13, 2018
U.S.A.F. Brings Caton Connector Corporation into the Milstar Mix
The mission of Milstar, according to the U.S. Air Force, is to provide “the President, Secretary of Defense, and the U.S. armed forces with assured...
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February 12, 2018
SpaceX to Send Spain's Spy Satellite to Space ... Spain's First
An unnamed multimillionaire has reportedly agreed to cover the cost of the Spanish project should anything go wrong.
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February 8, 2018
NOAA Isn't Just for Weather ... NOAA Saved a Lot of Lives Last Year
a sailboat with two people onboard caught on fire several hundred miles off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. Luckily for the crew, a NOAA satellite ...
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February 7, 2018
Northrop Grumman to Build Two EHF XDR Payloads for the Enhanced Polar System
This contracts procures the EPS-R EHF XDR payloads to prevent a Military Satellite Communications mission gap in the Polar region. Work will be...
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A Danish in Space ... Ulloriaq 'Star' Satellite ... as Danish Defense and Gomspace Monitor Craft in Arctic
The satellite will fly over the Arctic 16 times a day, once every hour and a half,
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February 5, 2018
Kratos Completes Phase 1 of an EGS Study Contract
EGS is an enabler for the Air Force's Space Enterprise Vision (SEV), designed to support a sustainable, resilient space architecture that can...
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February 1, 2018
Kratos Shares IDIQ Contract for TETRAS Program
The TETRAS program seeks to rapidly develop and apply specialized hardware, software and prototype systems that will be used for the test...
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Rajant's CEO Addresses Keeping MILCOM Wireless Secure at Rome's Network Centric Warfare Conference
...complicated deployments in battlefield pressures, challenging terrain and changing operations ...traditional networks are no longer reliable,”
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