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Hispasat said it carried out a series of tests with the latest NovelSat equipment which resulted in unprecedented transmission efficiency for stress scenarios of nearly 5 Mbps per MHz.
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Intelsat S.A. announced that Panasonic Avionics Corporation has contracted with Intelsat for up to 1 Gbps of capacity on the recently announced Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, to be used in the delivery of aeronautical consumer broadband and live TV services.
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Significant strides forward have been made since the announcement at IBC in September 2011 of the introduction of Carrier ID in advance of the London 2012 Olympic Games in order to assure quality DVB satellite transmissions of the event, three major satellite operators said.
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SES announced an agreement with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) to supply satellite capacity and services for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system. Operating under NATO command, AGS will be a major data source for NATO’s system for Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR).

DigitalGlobe said it has once again met commitments for its EnhancedView contract by completing a series of upgrades to its ground systems.

NBN Co, building a wholesale-only national broadband network (NBN) designed to deliver high-speed Internet to all Australians no matter where they live, has selected ViaSat Inc. to provide the ground-based communications, network management, and data processing systems for the Long Term Satellite Service component of the project.