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Lockheed Martin Successfully Turns On Power of First GPS 3 Satellite
Lockheed Martin, under contract to develop the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System 3 satellites, has successfully turned on power to the system module of the program’s first spacecraft, which indicates the company is on schedul...
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NewSat Secures All Required Funding for Jabiru-1 Satellite
NewSat announced it has secured approximately $108 million in required equity for its Jabiru-1 satellite, which takes it one step closer to finally launching after being deferred from its scheduled launch in mid 2012. The company has now obtained all...
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Weather Satellite Captures Images of Russian Meteor Explosion
A weather satellite spotted the meteor that exploded the Ural Mountains in Russia early Friday morning. The object caused a sonic boom as it entered Earth’s atmosphere and injured hundreds of people in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, approximately 930 m...
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DigitalGlobe Completes Merger With GeoEye
DigitalGlobe and GeoEye have announced the completion of their merger. The combined company now has a market capitalization of $2.1 billion, based on the closing price of DigitalGlobe stock on Jan. 30, 2013. The company will trade on the NYSE stock e...
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Globalstar, GTCL Sign Distributor Agreement in the U.K.
United Kingdom-based satellite mobile voice, data and tracking services supplier, Global Telesat Communications (GTCL) has signed an updated distributor agreement with Globalstar Europe Satellite Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Globalstar. Und...
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Spacecom to Provide Broadcast Capacity for AFCON 2013
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Telefonica Splits Share of Hispasat Between Eutelsat and Abertis
Telefonica has reached an agreement to sell its 13 percent stake in Spanish satellite operator Hispasat to Eutelsat and Abertis for 101 million euros, bringing in 47 million in profit for the teclo, Telefonica confirmed Jan. 11. &e...
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Arianespace Vega Selected to Launch Vietnamese Satellite
Arianespace and Astrium have signed a launch contract for the VNREDSat-1A Earth observation satellite, on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, the companies announced Jan. 4. Arianespace will launch VNREDSat-1A in the second qu...
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Selects Eutelsat’s KA-SAT for Internet Service
Telefonica Global Solutions will utilize Eutelsat’s high-performance KA-SAT satellite to provide high quality satellite broadband services to carriers from all over Europe, the companies announced Dec. 21. Telefonica aims to use the KA-SAT capacity t...
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TeleCommunications Systems Receives U.S. Army Delivery Order
The U.S. Army has placed a delivery order for TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point or SNAP 1.2M Lite Very Small Aperture Terminal or Vsat satellite systems and Impact Tac...
