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GMV Space Systems, the U.S. company of ground system supplier GMV, has been selected as part of a General Dynamics C4 Systems-led team to modernise the ground system for NASA’s Tracking Data and Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation. The project is known as the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS).

Croatian telecom operator T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) has selected the 16 degrees East satellite neighbourhood operated by Eutelsat Communications to extend reach of its MAXtv pay-TV platform to all homes across Croatia.

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced the execution of an agreement for the provision of two additional Ku-band transponders to Sun Direct.
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Albanian pay-TV platform DigitAlb announced it has secured its satellite resources for digital broadcasting with Eutelsat Communications to June 2020.
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NASA has awarded General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies a US$40.7 million contract covering the implementation of two additional 34-meter antennas at Canberra, Australia. This is part of Phase I of a plan to eventually retire the network’s aging 70-meter-wide antennas.
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ITT Corporation announced that it has again been awarded the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to support NASA space and near-Earth networks.
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Galileo’s Fucino Galileo Control Centre, 130 km east of Rome, formally entered service today. With the first Galileo satellites due to be launched next August, Fucino will oversee the running of all the navigation services provided by Europe’s global satellite system.
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