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Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that it has made its first shipment of advanced Ka-band gateway equipment and satellite terminals to Al Yah Satellite Communications company PrJSC (Yahsat), based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Optimal Satcom said it has been awarded a multi-year contract by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) to provide its enterprise satellite capacity system to help manage ABS’ growing commercial satellite business.
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We all love our TV sets, and frankly speaking, we can say that the human race would not have been the same it were not for television. Every day we turn on our televisions and get our daily dose of information, entertainment and a bit of lazy time wasting.

The failure of a Chang Zheng 2C rocket on 18 August was caused by a second stage malfunction, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) confirmed.
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Lockheed Martin has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Navy’s first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite.
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ViaSat Inc. has been awarded contracts valued at approximately US$40 million by Boeing to develop a ground based beam forming (GBBF) system for the Mexican Satellite System (MEXSAT).
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Globalstar, Inc. announced that it has started processing commercial mobile satellite telephone calls for customers throughout the United States, Canada, Northern Mexico, Puerto Rico and the surrounding regions using its new second-generation satellites.
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Thales Alenia Space has delivered to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) the flight model of the Radio Occultation Sounder for the Atmosphere (ROSA), which will be integrated into the Indian-French Megha-Tropiques mission designed to study our planet’s atmosphere. The delivery took place at ISRO’s Satellite Centre (ISAC) in Bangalore.
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