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Artist’s rendition of CubeSats with Europa, one of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Photo: NASA JPL [Via Satellite 10-13-2014] NASA is seeking ways to complement a conceptual mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa with small satellites that could fly with a primary spacecraft as auxiliary payloads. The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected 10 U.S. academic…
DeLorme inReach satellite communicator for maritime. Photo: DeLorme [Via Satellite 10-13-2014] Writer and cruise-veteran Wally Moran has selected DeLorme’s inReach satellite communicator to use during the six week Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) Snowbird Rally. Starting Nov. 1, he will lead a fleet of sailboats from Hampton, Va. along the East Coast, stopping in North Carolina, South…
A map of the spectrum Globalstar intends to use for TLPS. Photo: Globalstar [Via Satellite 10-10-2014] In a conference call to address the targeted and strongly worded claims of Kerrisdale Capital against Globalstar, company CEO Jay Monroe, along with John Dooley, founder and managing director of Jarvinian, set out to refute the recent claims against…
Boeing engineers Stephanie Mount and Chuck Renneberg examine the low-profile phased array antenna (in foreground) and related components that make up Boeing’s new system to deliver broadband to aircraft in flight. Photo: Boeing [Via Satellite 10-10-2014] Boeing has completed environmental and performance qualification testing on the aircraft satellite communications antenna system it is developing for…
Telemedia facility. Photo: Gazprom Space Systems [Via Satellite 10-10-2014] South Africa-based Telemedia and Russia’s Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) have begun broadcasting two television channels for Televisão Publica De Angola (TPA), an Angola government TV organization. The channels, TPA1 and TPA 2, along with select radio channels are being broadcasted using the Yamal 402 southern beam.…
A C-17 aircraft. Photo: Christopher Ebdon (Flickr) [Via Satellite 10-10-2014] General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, recently completed a four-day satellite communications (satcom) demonstration using AN/PRC-155 radios over the United States Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). During the test, MUOS-enabled radios provided secure voice and data communications, as well as…
No longer operational, Alsat 1 was Algeria’s first national satellite and was designed and constructed by SSTL at the within a collaborative program with the Algerian Centre National des Techniques Spatiales (CNTS). Photo: SSTL [Via Satellite 10-10-2014] The United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding “hardware/software payloads and potentially…
Alan Hall, CEO of Tempus Global Data. Photo: Alan Hall [Via Satellite 10-10-2014] Tempus Global Data, a weather company seeking to commercialize hyperspectral sounding data, has created a six-member science advisory council to guide progress on the Sounding and Tracking Observatory for Regional Meteorology (STORM) instrument. The company intends to launch the first sensor in…
SatComRus 2014′s opening panel. Photo: RSCC [Via Satellite 10-09-2014] Developing satellite communications infrastructure in Russia is still a top priority for the Russian government. This was one of the main takeaways of SatComRus 2014 where key executives from the Russian satellite industry and government officials debated the industry’s future against the backdrop of a turbulent…
One of Toshiba’s currently available 65″ 4K TVs. Photo: Toshiba [Via Satellite 10-09-2014] ViXS Systems reports its XCode 6400 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) System on a Chip (SoC) is being used in Toshiba’s new Ultra-HD television sets that are being prepared for Sky Perfect JSAT’s 4K broadcasts. The operator, which has a fleet of…