WBMSAT Satellite Industry News Bits 12/16/2011
SpaceX Dragon to attempt first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station on February 7.
[Satellite Today – 12/16/2011]
NSR report – military satellite revenues will double for cost-conscious providers.
[Satellite Today – 12/16/2011]
NovelSat, developers of 3G-Sat modulation technology, announce new satellite data rate world record of 357Mbps on 72 MHz transponder.
[SatNews – 12/16/2011]
Artel contracts Cable & Wireless to connect 30 satellite earth stations around the globe with MPLS data network.
[Satellite Today – 12/16/2011]
Indian Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology states that foreign tourists are illegally using satellite phones and could pose a national security threat.
[Press Information Bureau, Government of India – 12/16/2011]
Second Soyuz mission is scheduled to launch from French Guyana the morning of December 175h, carrying the French Earth observation satellite Pleiades-1, four French ELISA micro-satellites, and Chile’s SSOT Earth Observation Platform..
[SatNews – 12/15/2011]
Replacement for NIGCOMSAT 1, deorbited in 2008, NIGCOMSAT 1R is scheduled to be launched from China on December 19.
[Daily Times – 12/15/2011]
New generation of weather and environmental satellites, GOES-15, officially becomes operational as GOES-West as of December 13.
[SatNews – 12/15/2011]
Lockheed Martin delivers U.S. Navy’s first Mobile User Objective System satellite to Cape Canaveral for scheduled February 16th launch.
[Market Watch – 12/15/2011]
National Space Society hails announcement of Stratolaunch Systems, a Paul Allen Project to reduce cost of space travel, carrying launch rockets to high altitude aboard largest aircraft ever built, with six 747 engines.
[SatNews – 12/15/2011]
AsiaSat and THAICOM announce signing of cooperative agreement to provide satellite services from orbital location of 120 degrees East.
[SatNews – 12/15/2011]
U.S. Air Force’s first Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite is successfully progressing through initial on-orbit tests.
[SatNews – 12/15/2011]
Republic of Estonia signs accession agreement to become full Member State of EUMETSAT by 2012.
[SatNews – 12/15/2011]
FCC passes rules requiring broadcast, satellite, and cable companies to quiet down loud ads.
[Washington Post – 12/15/2011]
Physicists in Low Temperature Laboratory of Aalto University show how a nanomechanical oscillator can be used for detection and amplification of feeble radio waves or microwaves with almost no noise.
[R&D Magazine – 12/15/2011]
NXP Semiconductors announce SiGe:C Low Noise Amplifiers that improve linearity, noise figure, and reception of GPS signals, delivering 10 dB improvement under -40 to -20 dBm jamming conditions.
[SatNews – 12/15/2011]
Government committee says that LightSquared’s network affects a “majority” of general-purpose GPS receivers and technology used to land planes.
[Wireless Week – 12/15/2011]
PacStar is awarded $12.2 million contract by U.S. Dept. of Defense to deliver tactical communications solution to U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
[Market Watch – 12/15/2011]
Satellite industry warns governments of the world of their concerns over proposed piece of international legislation called the Unidroit Space Assets Protocol which risks complicating and damaging what is currently in place.
[SatNews – 12/14/2011]
Enhanced compression technology and digitization is improving the efficiency of satellite transponders – by 2017 global demand for C- and Ku-band transponders is forecast to total 7,840.36 MHz TPEs (transponder equivalents)..
[Official Wire – 12/14/2011]
Avanti Communications shares are lifted by satellite bandwidth contract win from Bentley Walker for U.S. $1.1 million.
[Proactive Investors – 12/14/2011]
European Space Agency updates application for iPhone and iPad, allowing users to see ESA’s latest satellite imagery from Envisat in near-real time.
[SatNews – 12/14/2011]
Gilat is selected by JSC NC Kazsatnet’ of Kazakhstan for high speed data connectivity among over 200 VSATS in multi-star topology with NetEdge Gateway solution.
[Market Watch – 12/14/2011]
Arianespace signs contract with MEASAT for launch of MEASAT-3b in 2013.
[SatNews – 12/14/2011]
SES announces four global sales regions with dedicated management to consolidate positions in the Americas and Europe, and further focus on emerging and growth markets.
[SatNews – 12/14/2011]
XTAR joins Operation First Response to support wounded U.S. soldiers.
[Satellite Today – 12/14/2011]
Globecomm Systems gets 1-year $6 million service contract from U.S. Government agency to provide IT support services relating to Internet connectivity via its teleport.
[SatNews – 12/14/2011]
CalAmp begins volume shipments of new product designed to facilitate whole home networking and communications of set top boxes to its Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) customer.
[Market Watch – 12/14/2011]
Astrium imagery from two TerrSAR-X StripMap acquisitions show large crack in Pine Island glacier in Antartica; ice shelf ready to break off is larger than New York City.
[SatNews – 12/14/2011]
Dish Network indicates desire to form strategic partnership with T-Mobile USA if AT&T’s bid for acquisition of T-Mobile fails.
[Telegeography – 12/14/2011]
Arianespace signs for launch of two satellites in the European Union’s Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 families on the first launch of Europe’s new light launcher Vega from French Guiana in 2014-2016.
[SatNews – 12/14/2011]
O3b exercises additional launch option on Arianespace contract.
[Satellite Today – 12/13/2011]
Since SPOT Satellite Messenger products were introduced in 2007 over 1,500 emergency rescues have been initiated worldwide.
[Market Watch – 12/14/2011]
Amos 5 communications satellite launched for Israel’s Spacecom.
[Globes – 12/13/2011]
NewSat signs $67 million contract for Jabiru satellite capacity.
[ARN – 12/13/2011]
Emergency satellite communications platform developed by government of Luxembourg to be available to international humanitarian community as of 1 January, 2012.
[IEWY – 12/13/2011]
OnAir WiFi internet connectivity launched across the Emirates A380 fleet.
[SatNews – 12/13/2011]
Opinion – Why is FCC stonewalling Senator Grassley on LightSquared? – (Grassley put holds on two Barack Obama nominees to FCC).
[Hot Air – 12/13/2011]
LightSquared ‘Outraged’ over Report Leak; Primary Backer Harbinger Faces SEC Scrutiny.
[Wireless Week – 12/12/2011]
ViaSat subsidiary WildBlue begins offering 5 megabit-per-second satellite broadband service in Colorado, using recently launched ViaSat-1 satellite.
[Denver Post – 12/12/2011]
Japan launches H-2A rocket carrying a radar satellite.
[SatNews – 12/12/2011]
TCS introduces portfolio of managed mobile communications services called TotalCom for government agencies and businesses.
[Computer World – 12/12/2011]
Russian data relay satellite and Spacecom’s Amos 5 share a ride into space.
[Spaceflight Now – 12/11/2011]
Echo II: When satellites were young and shiny (photo).
[CNET – 12/10/2011]
NATO facing fast-approaching deadline for replacing satellite communications capacity to avoid “satcom blackouts.”
[Space News – 12/09/2011]
“Doing more without more” – Space Command looks to fill communication gaps as budgets tighten yet requirements for secure communications continue to grow.
[National Defense Magazine – January 2011]
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