Search Results for: "Constellation Communications"
Enlisted Satellite Operators Keep US Military Communication Channels Open
Relevance Score: 2.974 2009-06-29 11:11:57
Airman 1st Class Cameron Cruz is a space man. Yet, he's not from another world; he doesn't wear a space suit, and he definitely doesn't fly around in a spaceship. In fact, he's never even been to space. "I'm no astronaut," he chuckles. But while Airman Cruz may not perform ...
Telespazio Takes Control Of Galileo Facility.
Relevance Score: 2.951 2009-07-14 00:30:59
Telespazio has taken over management of a Galileo satellite constellation control center, the company informed. Telespazio will begin cabling the entire structure as well as installing and integrating required systems and equipment for the satellite constellation and mission. The company informed its work will begin on the areas dedicated to ...
Iridium Communications Reports
Relevance Score: 2.944 2009-11-05 19:29:04
Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) has engaged Goldman, Sachs & Co. as its lead global advisor on the financing of Iridium NEXT, the company's nexgen satellite constellation. The company continues to expect to fund a substantial portion of the cost of Iridium NEXT from internally generated cash flow, as well as ...
A Raytheon And Iridium Antenna Sim.
Relevance Score: 2.786 2009-09-14 16:21:22
Working with Iridium Satellite LLC engineering and space system operations personnel, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has integrated a flight worthy Main Mission Antenna (MMA) with special test equipment to simulate on-orbit antenna performance. The team has also succeeded in developing updated antenna control software that will deliver enhanced operational flexibility ...
On-Orbit Testing To Get Going For GOES-14
Relevance Score: 2.554 2009-08-22 21:39:41
Boeing [NYSE: BA] transferred Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-O to NASA, completing the company's third on-orbit satellite handover this year. GOES-O, which has been renamed GOES-14, will undergo approximately five months of on-orbit testing before it is officially accepted for service by NOAA. Boeing's first two satellite deliveries of 2009 ...
MDA goes solo.
Relevance Score: 2.317 2009-04-09 12:46:48
A vote of confidence from RapidEye was validated in a new contractual agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), in which MDA will be the sole supplier of direct downlink solutions for RapidEye's international ground station customers. MDA conducted the commissioning period on both the space and ground segment ...
Raytheon And Iridium Global Satellite Communications System Yield Enhanced Operational Flexibility.
Relevance Score: 2.278 2009-09-14 14:39:15
Raytheon, with Iridium Satellite LLC engineering and space system operations personnel, has integrated a flight worthy Main Mission Antenna (MMA) with special test equipment to simulate on-orbit antenna performance and has also developed updated antenna control software that will provide enhanced operational flexibility and more robust MMA performance. Raytheon Company ...
Iridium NEXT: Boosting Data Speeds, Improving DoD Space Awareness
Relevance Score: 2.151 2010-02-09 13:16:12
Most of us remember Iridium as the Motorola-backed, multi-billion dollar commercial satellite phone flop. The expensive, bulky phones, the $2 per minute airtime charge, and the inability to use the phone inside buildings doomed the project, which came online when the cell phone market was taking off. Despite all these problems, ...
Military Communications Satellite Manufactured by Lockheed Martin Achieves 10 Years in Service
Relevance Score: 2.120 2010-03-03 16:13:27
The U.S. Air Force's Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B8 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin , has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service in delivering secure and reliable communications capabilities for the warfighter. Launched from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 20, 2000, the B8 satellite is one of 14 ...
Globalstar Informes About Launch Dates for Second-Generation Constellation Satellites
Relevance Score: 2.104 2010-01-21 21:43:46
Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT), a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services to businesses, governments and customers, informed that the first 90-day window to launch six Globalstar second-generation satellites will start on July 5, 2010. Globalstar predicts launch of the new satellites during this time. The satellites will be ...
Obama Plan Worries Cities That Rely on Space Jobs
Relevance Score: 2.095 2010-02-03 13:56:28
President Barack Obama's decision to scrap NASA's back-to-the-moon program in favor of private spacecraft created an outrage in places like Huntsville, where jobs depend on a return lunar trip. The new direction has stirred more than paycheck concerns, though. Some in Huntsville, where German rocket scientists first figured out how to ...
RapidEye Has Good Energy.
Relevance Score: 2.089 2009-10-29 00:13:17
RapidEye, owner and operator of a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, informed that they have entered into a new strategic partnership agreement with Spatial Energy to be one of their U.S. distributors providing RapidEye with access to the energy business. Michael Prechtel, Head of Sales and Marketing for ...
USAF Launches Satellite To Enhance Military Communications
Relevance Score: 2.082 2009-12-08 21:07:44
The U.S. Air Force successfully launched a new-generation military communications satellite from here at 8:47 p.m. (EST), when a Delta IV rocket carried a Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) into space. WGS satellites are designed to provide high-capacity communications to U.S. military forces. They will augment and eventually replace the Defense Satellite ...
RapidEye In the Lotus Position.
Relevance Score: 2.075 2009-10-19 22:13:24
RapidEye, the geospatial solutions provider that owns and operates a constellation of Earth Observation satellites, announced today a new strategic partnership agreement with Taipei City, Taiwan based Lotus (H&R). The partnership establishing Lotus as the only distributor for RapidEye products in Taiwan was inked earlier this week. “We are pleased ...
The U.S. Army new nano-satellites
Relevance Score: 2.072 2009-05-03 19:16:06
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command received the very first batch of new nano-satellites on the 28th of April. Usually satellite development takes years and cost billions of dollars, but this eight units, each weighting only 4 kilograms, were produced only in under a year, ...
SATCOM AFIS/ACARS Messages Sent And Received Over Inmarsat 4.
Relevance Score: 2.052 2009-07-04 15:36:08
Satcom Direct is the first service broadcaster has successfully sent and received SATCOM datalink (AFIS/ACARS) messages over the Inmarsat-4 satellite constellation. This technological success took place onboard a Global Express aircraft using Satcom Direct's FlightDeck Freedom™ in cooperation with SITA's datalink network and the new Inmarsat-4 satellite constellation. To allow ...
WorldView-2 Testing Moves Onwards And Upwards Ball.
Relevance Score: 2.051 2009-08-17 23:35:30
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed environmental testing for the WorldView-2 remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe and has begun post-environmental performance testing. WorldView-2 is the third satellite Ball Aerospace has built for DigitalGlobe’s constellation of commercial remote sensing satellites. The satellite is planned to launch October 6, ...
WorldView-2 Testing Moves Onwards
Relevance Score: 2.042 2009-08-21 18:30:31
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed environmental testing for the WorldView-2 remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe and has begun post-environmental performance testing. WorldView-2 is the third satellite Ball Aerospace has crafted for DigitalGlobe’s constellation of commercial remote sensing satellites. The satellite is planned to launch October 6, ...
After Successful Tests Boeing Hands Satellite Over To USAF
Relevance Score: 2.041 2010-03-03 16:03:03
Boeing Co., which crates satellites in El Segundo, said Tuesday that it handed over control of the third Wideband Global SATCOM military communications satellite to the U.S. Air Force. The hand-over occurred on Monday after several weeks of on-orbit tests following its sent into orbit. The satellite completed a three-spacecraft constellation ...
SIRIUS FM-5 New Satellite Put Into Orbit
Relevance Score: 2.032 2009-07-06 22:13:33
ILS International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully put the SIRIUS FM-5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton launch vehicle. This was the third commercial mission of the year for ILS and the fifth successful Proton launch of 2009. ILS has launched the entire SIRIUS three-satellite constellation, beginning with the ...
ORBCOMM Will Have Multiple SpaceX Moments Ahead.
Relevance Score: 2.018 2009-09-07 17:11:57
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) informed they have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to start as early as the fourth quarter of 2010 through 2014. SpaceX will provide ORBCOMM's 2G satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) for the ...
ORBCOMM And SpaceX Reach Deal To Launch Satellite Constellation.
Relevance Score: 2.017 2009-09-09 17:15:21
Upgraded Falcon Rocket To Be The Launch Vehicle For 18 Payloads. ORBCOMM and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to start as early as the fourth quarter of 2010 through 2014. SpaceX will provide ORBCOMM's second-generation satellites into ...
ORBCOMM And SpaceX Reach Deal To Launch Satellite Constellation.
Relevance Score: 2.013 2009-09-04 21:07:37
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) informed they have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to begin as early as the fourth quarter of 2010 through 2014. SpaceX will deliver ORBCOMM’s second-generation satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) for ...
Iridium Finds Whale-Warning Application
Relevance Score: 2.005 2010-01-03 13:16:20
Iridium low Earth orbit communications satellites are being used to warn high-speed ferries and other shipping in the northwestern Mediterranean of the presence of whales, an unusual application of the satellite service's maritime capabilities. A program called Real-time Plotting of Cetaceans allows crews on ships passing through the Pelagos Sanctuary for ...
SIRIUS FM-5 Maneuvering.
Relevance Score: 1.997 2009-07-06 23:53:13
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) informed SIRIUS FM-5, a satellite that it provided to SIRIUS XM Radio, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite's solar arrays deployed on schedule early this morning (July 1st), following successful launch from the Baikonur Space ...
Raytheon's Continuing Support of Iridium Global Satellite Communications.
Relevance Score: 1.991 2009-09-04 21:02:46
Working with Iridium Satellite LLC engineering and space system operations personnel, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has integrated a flight worthy Main Mission Antenna (MMA) with special test equipment to simulate on-orbit antenna performance. The team has also succeeded in developing updated antenna control software that will deliver enhanced operational flexibility ...
Satcom Direct Improves The Quality Of Technology With Inmarsat-4 Satcom Datalink.
Relevance Score: 1.978 2009-07-02 22:31:17
Satcom Direct informed about advancement in technology as first service provider to successfully send and receive satcom datalink messages over the new Inmarsat-4 satellite constellation. Satcom Direct, a leading innovator of satellite voice, fax, and Internet data service solutions, informed it is the first service provider to successfully send and ...
Spatial Energy And RapidEye Inform About Strategic Partnership.
Relevance Score: 1.950 2009-10-26 12:30:58
RapidEye extends their distributor network with Spatial Energy, the leading provider of imagery to the energy sector. RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, informed that they have entered into a new strategic partnership agreement with Spatial Energy to ...
Trickle Down Effect of Launch Delays.
Relevance Score: 1.884 2009-10-13 17:05:39
As a result of the delay of the Delta II launch, the DigitalGlobe Satellite launch date has been impacted. DigitalGlobe [NYSE: DGI], a global provider of commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial clients, informed that the launch date for WorldView-2, the company’s ...
Constellation Communication and Exhibit Surveys Trade Show Schedule and Measurement Tool Earns Trade Show Executive’s Innovation Award.
Relevance Score: 1.878 2009-06-16 16:59:54
Exhibit Surveys, Inc., the leading provider of research and measurement services exclusively for the exhibition and event industry, and Constellation Communication Corp., a leading provider of planning and measurement support for event-related Return-On-Investment, serving corporations, event organizers and service providers in the exhibition and events industry, informed that their Trade ...
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