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The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has released its 2008 State of the Satellite Industry Report, showing a 16 percent growth in global revenues for the commercial satellite industry. World-wide revenues in 2007 were US$123 billion, representing an average annual growth of 11.5 percent for the period from 2002-2007.
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Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) of Hong Kong, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of Chinese programmes, has selected capacity on the Eurobird 9 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications to launch its new multi-channel digital platform of Chinese-language channels for satellite homes across Europe.
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JAXA carried out a communication experiment with the University of Alaska last month successfully sending observation data from the Daichi satellite to the NASA White Sands Test Facility via the U.S. TDRS-10 data relay satellite. It was the world’s first data transmission test of this kind.
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TerreStar Corporation announced that it has enhanced its U.S.-wide spectrum footprint by obtaining, through separate transactions, certain 1.4 GHz spectrum licenses held by EchoStar Corporation and CCTV Wireless I, LLC (CCTV).
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that DigitalGlobe, Inc. has awarded MDA a contract to upgrade their WorldView image processing systems.
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Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully mated the spacecraft core structure and the payload module for the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite.
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Experts from Russia’s Space Communications Company (RSCC) together with their colleagues from Kazakhstan’s national space communication centre will try to restart the systems of KazSat 1 with the purpose of restoring transmissions.
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Spacehab Inc., said its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has won a fourth, fully-funded task order under the US$35 million Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.
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