Satellite News

The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment effort successfully completed its Key Decision Point – B review at NASA allowing the project to proceed into Phase B of its lifecycle, the Mission Definition Phase. During this next phase, lasting approximately eight months, the network will hold its Preliminary Design Review and complete additional project planning.
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Intelsat S.A. and Jain TV Group’s Noida Software Technology Park Limited (NSTPL), an Indian provider of satellite broadcast infrastructure services, announced the selection of Intelsat to provide satellite capacity for a new digital cable television distribution platform for India.
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The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and Romantis Group, a provider of satellite capacity and networking equipment, jointly announced that they will further develop the existing collaboration based on RSCC satellite capacity and Romantis VSAT products and value-added services to spread to North and South America as well as the transatlantic area.

Marlink,the maritime VSAT service provider recently acquired by Astrium, has announced an agreement with Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) to renew and increase Marlink’s capacity for the next three years.
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Spacecom announced that its Amos-3 satellite now has “one-hop” Ku-band capacity available to serve an array of data communication needs between the U.S. East Coast and the Middle East.
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The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter HEALY (WAGB 20) successfully experimented with NRL’s TacSat-4 communications satellite by communicating from the Bering Sea off the western coast of Alaska to Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California.
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LightSquared announced that the company is further extending the emulation phase of its current generation voice (MSAT), private network carrier and mobile data services over its new SkyTerra-1 satellite network through the end of 2015.
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