Satellite News

Ondas Media, Spain, has awarded the contract to design and develop the core RF and waveform approach for Ondas’ European satellite media system to The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institute (FhG), Germany.

Globalstar, Inc., has partnered with software and communications company, OCENS, to launch a new comprehensive suite of data services.

IBM announced that it would build a satellite-based network to collect data from farms in Utah on the body temperature of cattle. They will co-operate with a local company to enable the Utah government to take preventative measures against livestock diseases.

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Space Technology sector has been recertified as meeting Level 5 standards for software development set by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc., announced that their CCSDS Space Link Extension (SLE) implementation is interoperable with reference implementations used by NASA, JAXA, and ESA.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced it has been awarded an US$8.6 million contract from an unnamed customer to provide a communications platform for a commercial ground-based satellite beamforming application.