WBMSAT Satellite Industry News Bits 12/02/2011
Latest satellite launched by China is 16th of the year, a record for China, and is fifth BeiDou-2 inclined GSO satellite of the BeiDou-2 Compass satellite navigation system.
[SatNews – 12/02/2011]
Astrium’s Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution launcher project approved by European Space Agency.
[Satellite Today – 12/02/2011]
Norway and Spain expected to order military communications satellite.
[Space News – 12/01/2011]
Solaris Mobile gains ITU backing.
[Satellite Today – 12/01/2011]
Eutelsat will be unifying the names of its satellites around the established Eutelsat brand from 1 March 2012.
[Sacramento Bee – 12/01/2011]
TIPS/TAPS purchasing consortium selects Foundation Telecommunications Inc. to provide broadband Internet and VoIP services to member educational entities and government agencies.
[Market Watch – 12/01/2011]
ATK’s new STAR 48BV rocket motor with innovative vectorable nozzle successfully inserts TacSat-4 into orbit.
[SatNews – 12/01/2011]
Telemar, in partnership with ORBIT and Milano Teleport, launch iCGlobal, to deliver global C-band coverage with compact all-weather OrBand maritime VSAT system.
[Market Watch – 12/01/2011]
NASA’s successful test of solar sail on NanoSail-D satellite demonstrates deorbit capability that could potentially be used to bring down de-commissioned satellites.
[SatNews – 12/01/2011]
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s latest satellite, THOR 7, will provide Norwegian Troll base at South Pole with increased satellite capacity.
[SatNews – 12/01/2011]
Briefcase-sized SATPAK cellular and satellite data relay system by 308 SYSTEMS solves blocked transmission problem during Arizona Vigilant Guard exercise involving 250 government agencies and 8,000 participants.
[SatNews – 12/01/2011]
Canada’s Department of National Defence waits for Dec. 15 deadline for five nations to join the U.S.-let Wideband Global Satcom military communications system before commiting more than $450 million to the project.
[Space News – 11/30/2011]
MDA wins NASA contracts for International Space Station extension.
[Satellite Today – 11/30/2011]
Boeing gets contract extension from NASA for TDRS M, the sixth satellite in TDRS line that it is building for NASA.
[Daily Breeze – 11/30/2011]
Nigeria hopes to domesticate Information and Communications Technology with the launch of NigComSat-1R, creating huge job opportunities and improving health and education in the country.
[Vanguard – 11/30/2011]
Astrium Services and Thales Alenia Space achieve Initial System Acceptance milestone for first Yahsat site in Abu Dhabi, as well as TT&C facility in Al Ain City.
[SatNews – 11/30/2011]
Hermes Datacomms completes installation of multi-site 4 mbps C-band SkyWire cloud for major oilfield services company in Libya.
[Satellite Today – 11/30/2011]
Gilat introduces very lightweight Ku-band broadband solution for airborne applications.
[Market Watch – 11/30/2011]
Petaluma, CA firm X2nSat on growth track to provide Internet access in some of North America’s most remote locations.
[Press Democrat – 11/30/2011]
Globalstar announces December 25 launch date for six new second-generation satellites.
[Globe Newswire – 11/29/2011]
Quick look at supply numbers seems to indicate that previously hot satellite market in Sub-Saharan Africa may become oversupply fiasco for the FSS industry.
[NSR – 11/29/2011]
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions partners with AlienVault to enhance cyber security and situational awareness in satellite communications.
[Market Watch – 11/29/2011]
Inmarsat GX partners with Gogo to bring Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite service to the worldwide commercial airline market.
[Market Watch – 11/29/2011]
ORBIT Communication Systems to showcase Maritime VSAT Satellite Communications systems product line at Marintec China 2011.
[benzinga – 11/29/2011]
Global Marine Networks launches RedPort satellite broadband network management solution suite.
[SFGate – 11/29/2011]
Recent flight tests at Hanscom Air Force Base show that low-profile Advanced Multi-band Communications Antenna installed on wide-body aircraft can effectively support high-speed Ka-band and EHF communications.
[Air Force Materiel Command – 11/29/2011]
Frost & Sullivan award honours Yahsat for exceptional penetration of Middle East Defence market.
[Mil-Tech – 11/29/2011]
UltiSat is awarded GSA IT Schedule 70 contract, and inclusion on IT Schedule 70.
[Sat PR – 11/29/2011]
AsiaSat 7 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
[SatNews – 11/27/2011]
Chinese communications satellite successfully enters orbit, launched by Russian rocket from Kazakhstan.
[Red Orbit – 11/27/2011]
Solar storms projected to increase through 2013.
[KOLD – 11/27/2011]