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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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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected to develop its S-Band phased array antenna for the next-generation U.S. Space Launch System (SLS) under a NASA Research Announcement.
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Telesat announced that Panasonic Avionics Corporation, a supplier of in-flight entertainment and communication systems, has signed another long term contract for Telesat satellite capacity.
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Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced an agreement with RRsat America – Global Communications Network Inc., a subsidiary of RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd., for capacity on the soon to be launched Africasat-1a satellite.
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SES announced that Telespazio Brasil S.A. has signed a long-term capacity agreement to boost corporate and government networks across Brazil’s heartland and its oil-rich ocean waters.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a multi-million dollar contract with DigitalGlobe, Inc. to develop a solution to allow two of the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) mobile ground systems, called Eagle Vision, to receive and process imagery from WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites.