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April 29, 2010
Orbital Sciences... In A Supporting Role
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for a spacecraft and airborne system support services contract valued at approximately $95 million over a five-year
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Intersputnik Gets Its Annual Physical — Vitals Of Operations Recorded
On April 27-28, 2010, Hoi An, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, hosted the joint XXXVIII session of the Board and 11th meeting of the Operations Committee.
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Kongsberg Seatex Prevents Ships From Going 'Bump In The Night'
The Norwegian satellite, AISSat-1 will be launched from India on 9 May.
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April 28, 2010
Mum's The Word — Russia's Defense Kosmos 3M Launch
A Kosmos 3M rocket launched from northern Russia overnight to place a military navigation satellite in orbit more than 600 miles [965 km] above Earth.
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April 27, 2010
CapRock Is Robust — DATS All Right With The DoD's DISN
CapRock Government Solutions announced to Satnews today the expansion of their robust satellite and terrestrial infrastructure to include bandwidth-on-demand to more than 35 major Department of Defense locations, and direct connections at 24 critical Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) access points.
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Orbital Sciences + USAF... Make Way For Minotaur IV
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) has successfully launched the first Minotaur IV rocket in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) program.
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Thuraya And Al Farhan Go Vertical And Thuraya Gets Tough
Thuraya is always on the go with new and innovative partnerships, and so to further develop their growth in key vertical markets across Saudi Arabia, Thuraya is aggressively expanding its commercial activities within the oil and gas, government and other sectors in partnership with its National Service Provider, Farhan Commercial Company (FCC).
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Blue Sky Network... Priority—Peruvian Air Force
Blue Sky Network has announced the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) will be using the Company’s GPS-based aviation tracking devices for its search and rescue (SAR) operations.
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Intelsat... Down Under UHF Understanding...
Intelsat S.A. has expanded its April 2009 agreement for UHF hosted payload services with the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
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Harris... Falcons To Be Fielded By DoD
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a $20 million order from the U.S. Department of Defense for Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio systems, accessory kits and other tactical communications products.
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April 26, 2010
Harris + ViaSat... Link 16 Beefed Up With MIDS Follow-Ons
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a two-year, $18 million follow-on contract from ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) for additional hardware to be integrated into Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) terminals.
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RSCC... Make That 45 Years Of Molniya-1 SATCOM...
In 1961, the Korolev prototype design bureau started research & development of the satellite Molniya-1, which had to transmit one TV program and to provide multi-channel telegraphic and telephonic communications.
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Newtec... A 25-Year Success Story
Newtec is celebrating its 25th anniversary this May and says “thank-you” to its customers, industry partners, and employees all over the world.
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U.S.A.F... ULA Has AEHF-3 Propulsion Package Promised
The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center recently awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-3 (AEHF-3) satellite aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.
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April 23, 2010
Cobham... Regally Speaking...
Two Cobham businesses have been honored in the 2010 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the categories of International Trade and Innovation.
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ULA — Successful Launch — Takes US Military Secret To New Heights
United Launch Alliance successfully launched the U.S. military's X-37B, a prototype space plane also called the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) from the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air force Station, Florida.
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April 21, 2010
CapRock Communications... An Entertaining Debut
CapRock Communications has launched their latest value-added service offering, Crew Infotainment.
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April 20, 2010
Lockheed Martin... Obtaining USMC's Uniform Support
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide equipment support, inventory management and fielding team support to the U.S. Marine Corps System Command, through a new task order with initial funding of approximately $10M.
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April 19, 2010
U.S.A.F. — Minotaur Makes Its Move...
The first launch of the Minotaur IV Space Launch Vehicle is scheduled to occur Tuesday, April 20th, at noon PDT, from Vandenberg AFB, California.
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Thales U.K.... This Watchkeeper Is Not A Timepiece
Watchkeeper, the newest unmanned aircraft to join the ranks of the British Army, performed its first flight in the U.K. on April 14, 2010, at Parc Aberporth in West Wales.
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Russian Military Launch — Smile — I Spy
A Soyuz rocket launched a Russian military payload Friday on a secret mission, but observers believe the satellite carries a high-resolution camera to spy on other countries.
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Lockheed Martin... Full GPS IIIA Ahead... Of Schedule...
The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team developing the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, known as GPS III, continues to maintain schedule performance and meet or exceed key milestones in the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of the program.
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Ball Aerospace... From RF Immunity To Reduced Data Latency With GFO-2
The U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego, has selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for Geosat Follow-on 2 (GFO-2), the next generation ocean altimetry satellite.
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Vizada Gets Defensive During Asia-Pacific Exhibition
Vizada unveiled its mobile satellite communications offering for Asia-Pacific military customers at the DSA (Defense Services Asia) trade show showcasing its mobile satellite communications services and solutions, designed to interoperate reliably with military networks around the world.
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April 15, 2010
Juniper Networks... New Router Is Secure + Mobile...
Juniper Networks(r) (NYSE: JNPR) announced the general availability of its new mobile secure router, the LN1000, the industry's first 8 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port, ruggedized blade router that provides radio router protocol support with hardware based queuing and an integrated intrusion detection and prevention system.
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National Space Symposium... Integral Systems: Transponder + Spacecraft Ops Verification With Space Network
Integral Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISYS) announced at the 2010 National Space Symposium that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic, has successfully delivered its next generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) Cross Link Simulator (TSIM) to multiple civil government and commercial customers over the past year, with additional deliveries pending.
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Alliant Techsystems... ORS-1 Ships To Goodrich
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE:ATK) has shipped the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS) satellite bus to the Goodrich Corporation for payload integration after successfully completing environmental tests at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Maryland.
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April 14, 2010
Lockheed Martin... AEHF Advances To Atlas
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has completed all factory testing of the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program and the spacecraft is ready for delivery to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for a mid-2010 liftoff aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle.
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April 13, 2010
National Space Symposium... Goodrich: Celebrating 50 Years Of Spatial Involvement...
Goodrich space products and capabilities will be on display on stand 614 at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from April 12-14, 2010.
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National Space Symposium... Integral Systems: Enterprising SSA Solutions
Integral Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: ISYS) wholly-owned subsidiary RT Logic will demo its SATOPS Enterprise architecture during the 26th National Space Symposium (NSS).
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National Space Symposium... RT Logic: SATCOM Signal Solidarity
Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISYS) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic, has more than doubled the bandwidth of its real-time T400CS Channel Simulator from 40 MHz to 85 MHz.
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April 12, 2010
NAB... Marshall Communications: FMV Insights For The Military and More...
Sonny Marshall, President & CEO of Marshall Communications Corporation (MARSHALL), will be speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Military & Government Summit (“Trends in Mission Critical Video & Data”), scheduled to take place April 13-15, 2010 in the Las Vegas, Nevada.</font
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Modus Operandi... Data Wet Work For Subs
Modus Operandi has been awarded a $600,000 U.S. Navy contract to develop a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework for data fusion on submarines.
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Integral Systems... Historic Handover...
Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISYS), announced the on-schedule handover of satellite bus operations for the third Wideband Global SATCOM Space Vehicle (WGS SV-3) to the Command and Control System – Consolidated (CCS-C) baseline.
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April 11, 2010
TCS... SNAP To It
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS) has received an additional $7.1 million in funding from the U.S. Army for the maintenance of Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Satellite Systems deployed outside the United States.
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April 7, 2010
HaiVision... Military Metadata Mining (SatBroadcasting™)
HaiVision Network Video has announced the availability of the Makito AIR(tm), a compact, ruggedized version of its commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Makito™ technology that also includes metadata capability.
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Harris... ADF Communications Backbone Deal
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a US$112 million (AUD$135 million) order for Falcon? tactical radio systems that will provide battlefield networking capabilities to the Australian Department of Defence.
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April 6, 2010
Vishay Intertechnology... Considerable Capacitance
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) has a new ultra-high-capacitance, wet tantalum capacitor approved to the new DSCC Drawing 10004.
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CPI... FLV + ULV SATCOM Amplifiers To Be Provided
Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI), a subsidiary of CPI International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPII), has been awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) to support the U.S. Navy's Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP).
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NASA Signs $335 Million For Russian's "Roadside" Space Soyuz Services
Much more intensive than the typical auto roadside service, this contract involves NASA which has signed a $335 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation, rescue and related services in 2013 and 2014.
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April 5, 2010
Bently Walker... Stocked Up For US + UK Warfighters
Bentley Walker now has ready available stock throughout Afghanistan,and on most of the Major USA and UK , bases for the immediate delivery and installation of satellite Internet services.
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Comtech... Networking With The USAF
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) announced their Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc. and their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received satellite communications equipment orders totaling $12.1 million from a
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USAF... X-37B From Boeing Gets Set For Launch
The Air Force plans an April 19 launch for a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway.
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April 1, 2010
Gilat Has Turned The Key Providing The 'Edge' To Latin America's Military And Homeland Security
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [Nasdaq: GILT] today announced that it has received a multi-million dollar contract to deliver a turnkey broadband communications solution for a major defense agency in Latin America.
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KVH Industries... Fresh FOG
KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) has introduced its new CG-5100 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).
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