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NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on 24 February, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications.
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ESA and the European Defence Agency (EDA) are furthering their combined efforts in the study of satellite services for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) through the signing of contracts with two consortia to carry out parallel feasibility studies.
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SES Astra has signed a co-operation agreement with the Italian corporation Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE) for the deployment of 5,000 Astra2Connect terminals in Italy.
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Iridium Communications Inc. has selected Hughes Network Systems, LLC to develop an Access Network Controller (ANC) in its gateway ground radio control network.
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SES Astra has signed a long-term agreement with M7 Group for two additional transponders on Astra 23.5 degrees East.
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Telespazio has renewed leases on two satellites operated by Eutelsat Communications for professional video contribution services and the outside broadcast purposes of RAI, Italy’s national public broadcaster.
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Telesat announced that Orbitnet LLC of Mongolia (Orbitnet) has signed a multi-year agreement for Ku-band capacity on Telesat’s Telstar 18 satellite.

Intelsat General Corp. was awarded a contract worth up to US$543 million, firm-fixed-price, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command’s Commercial Broadband Satellite Program.
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