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Over a month ago, Japan’s HTV3 cargo carrier launched atop a Japanese H-II rocket delivering a software-defined radio experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). This new ISS facility, known as the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Testbed, utilises Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems’ developed antenna pointing system. Initial reports indicate the system is operating as designed.
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London, August 22, 2012–With IPTV subscriber numbers predicted to undergo a huge ten-fold increase, reaching 1.6 million by 2014, the Middle East and North Africa is undoubtedly a region rich with promise for those within the TV delivery ecosystem. The untapped territory provides the backdrop for this year’s TV Connect Middle East and North Africa, which is set to focus on IPTV, OTTtv, and multiplatform services, and provides the perfect platform to explore the growth opportunity within TV delivery.

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The European MetOp-B satellite to be orbited from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Starsem’s next Soyuz mission has been prepped for its fuelling at the Kazakhstan launch site.
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NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar system’s rocky planets.
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The Russian Progress M-15M transport ship has been de-orbited and sank in the Pacific on 20 August.
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SES announced that global satellite communications provider Pactel has broadened its partnership with SES via a multi-year capacity deal on NSS-6.
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