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Archive for December 13th, 2006

MSV Adds Another ATC Patent

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Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced Dec. 11 that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded MSV its 16th…

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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Gains $1.9 Million Satellite Deal

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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced Dec. 12 that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., has received orders totaling $1.9…

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Raytheon’s Delivers First ARTEMIS Payload

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Raytheon Co. delivered the first rapid-development, space-optical payload to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the company announced. The $14 million ARTEMIS (Advanced…

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Public-Private Partnerships Makes High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Available To Universities

December 13th, 2006 by

Academic researchers can now scan the United States and Canada via a newly available, high-resolution satellite image catalog developed under a deal between the University of California at Santa…

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Telenor Issues RFP for New Satellite

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Telenor Satellite Broadcasting announced details Dec. 12 of a request for proposal (RFP) for a new…

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Measat-3 Satellite Launched By ILS

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The Measat-3 satellite was placed into orbit Dec. 12 by a Proton launch vehicle, marking the final 2006 mission for International Launch…

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Lasercom to provide 10 gigabits, not gigabytes per second

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In a recent press release regarding interoperability tests between TSAT and the Airborne Lasercom Risk Reduction Terminal, Boeing confused gigabytes with gigabits. Specifically, data capacity afforded by the Lasercom service will be starting at 2.5 gigabits per second and can reach up to 10 gigabits per second (not gigabytes as erroneously claimed). The article in our archive has been updated accordingly.

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TIMED celebrates five-year anniversary

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NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission, operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), celebrated its 5th launch anniversary on 7 December 2006, and its many contributions enabling a greater understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere.

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