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Armed forces from the United Kingdom, and allied nations including the Danish Armed Forces and Afghan National Security Forces on a joint operation in 2012. Photo: U.K. Ministry of Defence. [Via Satellite 04-07-2015] Data Path has received a $6.8-million, firm, fixed-price contract through a sole source acquisition to provide Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) supplies to…
Blue Origin’s BE-3 engine throttles to its maximum 110,000-lbf thrust during acceptance testing at the company’s dedicated facility in West Texas. Photo: Blue Origin [Via Satellite 04-07-2015] Blue Origin announced today it has completed acceptance testing of the hydrogen powered BE-3 rocket engine. Built for New Shepard, the company’s vertical takeoff, vertical landing suborbital vehicle,…
U.S. Marines, Army testing a new blue force tracking system in 2014. Photo: Nancy JonesBonbrest, PEO C3T [Via Satellite 04-07-2015] Comtech Mobile Datacom, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications, received a $19.8 million sustainment contract to support the U.S. Army‘s Force 21 Battle Command Brigade and Below – Blue-Force Tracking (BFT-1) program. The Army initiated the…
Senior Managing Director of Laser Light, Robert Brumley. Photo: Laser Light [Via Satellite 04-07-2015] Australia-based Optus Satellite has teamed up with the U.K.’s Laser Light Global to incorporate the operator’s satellite facilities and terrestrial fiber into Laser Light’s All Optical Hybrid Global Network, known as “Halo.” Optus will be a preferred supplier and local distributor…
PJ King, co-founder and COO of Firefly Space Systems. Photo: Firefly [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Firefly Space Systems, one of a growing number of ambitious new small satellite launch companies, is successfully hitting a series of milestones on its way to the inaugural launch of the Firefly Alpha rocket. The vehicle, designed to lift approximately 400…
Thor 7′s installation atop the Ariane 5′s SYLDA dispenser system. Photo: Arianespace [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Arianespace is preparing Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s Thor 7 satellite and the joint French-Italian Sicral 2 satellite for an upcoming dual launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The company recently encapsulated the Thor 7 satellite, built by SSL, which will take…
The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS). Photo: Ball Aerospace [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Ball Aerospace’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) has completed its Critical Design Review (CDR). The instrument is manifested on the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s (KARI’s) GEO-Kompsat 2B satellite, which is the second in a set of two satellites for meteorology and space weather…
M. Annadurai, the new director of ISRO’s Satellite Center (ISAC). Photo: ISRO [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has appointed M. Annadurai as director of the ISRO Satellite Center (ISAC) as of April 1, 2015. Prior to this role, he served as scientist and program director of ISAC’s Indian Remote Sensing Satellites…
SelenioFlex file transcoding. Photo: Imagine Communications [Via Satellite 04-06-2015] Imagine Communications has created software enhancements for its SelenioFlex Live and SelenioFlex File solutions to support High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), to meet increased bandwidth requirements for 4K Ultra-HD. SelenioFlex is a software-based transcoding and encoding solution powered by Zenium, the company’s software-defined workflow platform. The…
Conference Preparatory Meeting for WRC-15- CPM 15-2. Photo: ITU [Via Satellite 04-03-2015] The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is preparing for what it expects to be a hotly debated series of issues at the upcoming World Radiocommunications Conference 2015 (WRC-15) this November. More than 100 ITU member states just finished the two-week long Second Session of…