WBMSAT Satellite Industry News Bits 06/29/2012
United Launch Alliance Delta IV lifts off carrying National Reconnaissance Office payload.
[SatNews – 06/29/2012]
ATI Systems develops web based version of its MassAlert software that can control system components with a cloud based application accessible through a web browser using satellite communications.
[Virtual Strategy – 06/29/2012]
Hughes Network Systems successfully demo’s wireless 4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) transmissions over satellite backhaul at download speeds of more than 10 Mbps and upload speeds of 786 Kbps.
[SatNews – 06/29/2012]
MDA is selected to provide communications payload for Israeli AMOS 6 satellite to be launched in 2014.
[Military Aerospace – 06/28/2012]
GeoEye receives $111 million cost-share payment from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency after successfully passing major milestone in development of GeoEye-2 satellite.
[SatNews – 06/28/2012]
Europe’s MSG-3 meteorological satellite now installed on Ariane 5 launcher in French Guiana, with EchoStar XVII to be mounted next, for scheduled July 5 launch. [SatNews – 06/28/2012]
Orbital Sciences successfully completes negotiations with NASA to included its Antares launch vehicle in the NASA Launch Services-II program.
[SatNews – 06/28/2012]
Reportlinker.com announces new report, “Satellite Communications for Smart Grid Applications.”
[Energy Digital – 06/28/2012]
Eutelsat’s Skylogic affiliate signs Serbia Broadband to distribute the Tooway satellite broadband service in six Balkan countries.
[SatNews – 06/28/2012]
Comtech receives $1.3 million modem and frequency converter contract to support network expansion in Asia.
[Market Watch – 06/28/2012]
U.S. Forest Service purchases 6,000 SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger devices for the purpose of employee safety in remote sites.
[SatNews – 06/28/2012]
DeLorme offers inReach satellite communicator for smartphones, allowing text messages to be sent by satellite when out of cell phone range.
[boston.com – 06/28/2012]
Boeing agrees to pay ICO Global Communications $10 million and waive appellate legal costs, to avert protracted battle to win review of ongoing case by California Supreme Court.
[SatNews – 06/28/2012]
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) acquires Space Systems Loral for $875 million.
[Canada.com – 06/27/2012]
Final weld completed by NASA team on first space-bound Orion capsule, to be shipped to Kennedy Space Center for final assembly and checkout operations.
[SatNews – 06/27/2012]
Hughes SPACEWAY Crypto Kernel receives Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Security Level 1 validation from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST).
[SatNews – 06/27/2012]
Data from new generation of instruments aboard Suomi NPP satellite are being used in NOAA’s global numerical weather forecast system only seven months after launch, a record.
[SatNews – 06/27/2012]
Inmarsat wins Safety at Sea magazine’s Systems Award for its Inmarsat Voice Distress service on commercial and leisure vessels.
[SatNews – 06/27/2012]
Pratt and Whitney successfully completes series of tests on thruster designed for Boeing’s Commercial Space Transportation spacecraft, designate CST-100.
[SatNews – 06/27/2012]
Forecast International projects that commercial communications satellite market will be worth $52.7 billion from 2012 – 2021.
[Market Watch – 06/26/2012]
Solar array on Intelsat 19 deploys and satellite is successfully transferred to geostationary orbit.
[Market Watch – 06/26/2012]
President Obama signs waiver allowing EX/IM bank to move forward with financing for Vietnam communications satellite to be build by Lockheed Martin.
[Market Watch – 06/26/2012]
Commercial communications satellites built by Lockheed Martin surpass 1,000 cumulative years in orbit.
[Market Watch – 06/26/2012]
U.S. Chamber of Commerce asks FCC to expedite release of rules allowing more flexible use of satellite spectrum.
[Multichannel – 06/26/2012]
Russian Satellite Communications Company expands agreement with Earthly Orbit to include capacity on prospective Express-AM8 satellite.
[SatNews – 06/25/2012]
Seven Pacific nations partner in Pacific ComNet satellite program to reduce dependence on Internet and IDD calls currently provided by other nations.
[People Daily – 06/25/2012]
HISPASAT signs Orbital Sciences to build two new satellites, Amazonas 4A and Amazonas 4B.
[SatNews – 06/25/2012]
Avanti to launch Africa-dedicated satellite.
[Aerospace & Defence – 06/25/2012]
Spacecom Satellite Communications to contract with Israel Aerospace Industries to build and buy Amos 6 satellite.
[Globes – 06/24/2012]
