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January 30, 2017
SpaceX Shuffles Schedule...Working on New Launch Pad for a February Launch
SpaceX has not released any details about the extent of the damage to the Air Force launch complex, but the company already...
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33rd Space Symposium Promises to be Innovative... Meet Innovation Experts and Space Solutions
..." solutions already being developed in the commercial market by non-aerospace innovators that may provide solutions to our technical challenges,"
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January 26, 2017
Datum Systems Connects Kiwis in Chatham Islands with Their High Speed DVBS2/S2X Card Sets
The M7 modem system is the best in class and most affordable modem platform for provisioning FDMA based networks over traditional FSS ...
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January 25, 2017
Japan's SDF Obtains X-Band Defense Satellite
The Kirameki-2 satellite is the first communication satellite for the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
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January 24, 2017
Contract for the Air Force Satellite Control Network Bids Adieu to Honeywell Welcome to CACI International
The seven-year deal includes reliable launch, remote tracking station and satellite control network operations, including software engineering.
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January 22, 2017
United Launch Alliance Launches... Go SBIRS GEO Go! For US Air Force
“I can’t think of a better way to kick off the new year.”
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USAF Dispatches SBIRS To Orbit For Enhanced Global Situation Awareness
The 460th Space Wing at Buckley AFB, Aurora, Colorado, operates the SBIRS system.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's Power and Thrust Sends USAF's SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Skyward
mission will provide key capabilities in the areas of missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awareness,
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Lockheed Martin's Success... 'Now We’re Talking' USAF's SBIRS Responds to Ground Control
detects missile launches, supports ballistic missile defense, expands technical intelligence gathering, and bolsters situational awareness on the battlefield.
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January 20, 2017
TacComms Configuration and Management Improves With PacStar's® IQ-Core® Software
IQ-Core Software simplifies the setup and operation of tactical communications systems.
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January 18, 2017
ULA Launch of USAF's SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Scrubbed Violation of Safety Criteria
SBIRS mission scrubbed violation of...
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Japan's First Missile Defense Satellite Set For Launch
The goal of this satellite is to detect and then track missiles that are launched from North Korea...
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January 16, 2017
SMi's 12th Annual Military Space Situational Awareness... London in April an Early Bird Offer
...explore key situational awareness challenges in an increasingly contested, congested and competitive space.
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SMi’s 7th MilSatCom Asia Pacific in Singapore this May... Early Bird Offer Ends Soon
Just as highways are becoming more congested, so it is with space. And space in space is becoming more congested, contested and competitive,
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January 15, 2017
Russia Admits Military Satellite Constellation...Surveillance of Enemy Vehicles and Vessels
has one important capability that its US-A predecessor didn't: to listen in on communications sent by enemy ships and vehicles, including communications using closed channels.
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January 14, 2017
NSR Goes to a Higher Place... Above Controlled Airspace
Who are the main players and what is their development roadmap?
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January 12, 2017
LizardTech Goes For The CoN
GeoExpress is LizardTech’s flagship software product...
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Airbus Sells Shares...in Atlas Elektronik Group
Selling their shares enables the company to focus on its core business.
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January 11, 2017
Eye Spy... Israeli Satellite Sees 'Stone' Russian Missiles
Heavy rains forced the Russians to move the missile systems, thereby exposing them to satellite photography.
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January 10, 2017
Pentagon Finally Launches Study... Future Needs of Military SATCOM
The objective is to inform future Pentagon decisions on military satellite communications.
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January 9, 2017
US Defense Agency Orders Norsat's GLOBETrekker 2.0 Terminals
The GLOBETrekker 2.0 terminal was selected due to the functionality of the unit's built in spectrum analyzer...
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January 4, 2017
US Army's Field Services Contract Bagged By DataPath
More than 200 DataPath field service technicians will now be sent to various military commands in 20 countries.
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January 2, 2017
First Satellite For Brazil's Visiona Scheduled For Launch This March
The satellite will be shipping to French Guiana shortly for launch...
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