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Update: NASA plans hosted payload to monitor air pollution

November 19th, 2012 by

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is part of a team selected to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent for NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Lockheed Martin completes critical environmental test on GPS III pathfinder

November 19th, 2012 by

The Lockheed Martin (LMT) team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System III satellites has completed thermal vacuum testing for the Navigation Payload Element (NPE) of the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST). The milestone is one of several environmental tests verifying the navigation payload’s quality of workmanship and increased performance compared to the current generation of satellites.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Iridium completes agreement for global air traffic joint venture with NAV CANADA

November 19th, 2012 by

Iridium Communications Inc. announced that it has finalised an agreement with NAV CANADA regarding Aireon LLC, a joint venture that will allow air traffic management agencies around the globe to continuously track aircraft anywhere in the world.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Lockheed Martin to demonstrate key component of tactical MILSATCOM ystem

November 19th, 2012 by

Lockheed Martin said it has been selected to support a new generation of agile, commercially based military satellite communications technologies. The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) MILSATCOM Systems Directorate awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to demonstrate concepts that allow data to seamlessly flow between existing MILSATCOM legacy systems and future protected communications systems.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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ViaSat-1 and Exede service win 2012 Popular Science Best of What’s New Award

November 19th, 2012 by

Popular Science has named the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite system, including Exede Internet service for the home, as a Best of What’s New Award winner for 2012.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Ekspress-AM6 repeater system delivered to ISS-Reshetnev

November 16th, 2012 by

The repeater system, supplied by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. for the telecommunications spacecraft Ekspress-AM6, has arrived at Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems.Other Posts:Japan likely to scrap moon probeRussian military (navigation?) satellite launchedRT Logic to develop new software-defined modem for IridiumWhen Choosing the Best TV Provider, Customer Service is ImportantBall Aerospace develops flight computers for new launch vehiclesKorean rocket’s failure not Khrunichev’s fault, Russia saysSpaceX’s Dragon to use solar power4th Boeing-built WGS satellite accepted by U.S. Air Force
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GOCE’s second mission improving gravity map

November 16th, 2012 by

ESA’s GOCE gravity satellite has already delivered the most accurate gravity map of Earth, but its orbit is now being lowered in order to obtain even better results.Other Posts:Japan likely to scrap moon probeRussian military (navigation?) satellite launchedRT Logic to develop new software-defined modem for IridiumWhen Choosing the Best TV Provider, Customer Service is ImportantBall Aerospace develops flight computers for new launch vehiclesKorean rocket’s failure not Khrunichev’s fault, Russia saysSpaceX’s Dragon to use solar power4th Boeing-built WGS satellite accepted by U.S. Air Force
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Andrews Space to manufacture Sinclair rods

November 16th, 2012 by

Andrews Space has announced they have signed an exclusive agreement with Sinclair Interplanetary of Toronto, Canada to begin selling and manufacturing Sinclair’s torque rods.Other Posts:Japan likely to scrap moon probeRussian military (navigation?) satellite launchedRT Logic to develop new software-defined modem for IridiumWhen Choosing the Best TV Provider, Customer Service is ImportantBall Aerospace develops flight computers for new launch vehiclesKorean rocket’s failure not Khrunichev’s fault, Russia saysSpaceX’s Dragon to use solar power4th Boeing-built WGS satellite accepted by U.S. Air Force
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