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Boeing Contracted for Additional UHF Hosted Payload on IS-27
Read more →: Boeing Contracted for Additional UHF Hosted Payload on IS-27[08-25-10] Boeing has received a contract from Intelsat to provide a second ultra-high frequency (UHF) hosted payload on…
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SpaceX’s Dragon Completes High-Altitude Drop Testing
Read more →: SpaceX’s Dragon Completes High-Altitude Drop Testing[08-24-10] SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has successfully completed a high altitude drop test and has met all of the…
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TakWak Satellite Device Developer Receives Venture Capital Financing
Read more →: TakWak Satellite Device Developer Receives Venture Capital Financing[08-24-10] German start-up communications company TakWak GmbH has received 2.5 million Euros ($3.1 million) in financing from the…
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KeyOn Acquires SouthWest Wireless Net
Read more →: KeyOn Acquires SouthWest Wireless NetWireless satellite broadband provider KeyOn has acquired a major portion of SouthWest Wireless Net’s broadband assets from New…
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Cisco IRIS Technology Passes U.S. Military Satellite Orbit Test
Read more →: Cisco IRIS Technology Passes U.S. Military Satellite Orbit TestCisco’s Space-router technology has passed a U.S. Department of Defense satellite-orbit test for use of next-generation satellite-based IP…
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LightSquared Contracts Siterra to Manage 4G Network Rollout
Read more →: LightSquared Contracts Siterra to Manage 4G Network RolloutHarbinger Capital subsidiary LightSquared has selected software management firm Siterra to manage the deployment, installation, operation and maintenance…
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RigNet Signs Inmarsat, Iridium Service Distribution Deal with Stratos
Read more →: RigNet Signs Inmarsat, Iridium Service Distribution Deal with Stratos[08-24-10] RigNet, a managed communications solutions provider for the upstream oil and gas industry, has signed an agreement…
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U.S. Satellite Pay-TV Companies Add Subscribers While Cable Sees Worst Churn Rate in History
Read more →: U.S. Satellite Pay-TV Companies Add Subscribers While Cable Sees Worst Churn Rate in History[08-24-10] While the U.S. paid TV industry, as a whole, lost 216,000 customers in the second quarter of…
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SatMax Combines with McDonald Technologies
Read more →: SatMax Combines with McDonald Technologies[08-24-10] McDonald Technologies International and SatMax have entered into a strategic alliance to offer enhanced services to the…
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Envivo Secures Financing for IP Platform
Read more →: Envivo Secures Financing for IP PlatformIP service provider Envivio has secured $15 million in financing from unnamed venture capital and banking sources, the…
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Avanti Taps Computerlinks to Distribute Business Internet Continuity Service
Read more →: Avanti Taps Computerlinks to Distribute Business Internet Continuity ServiceAvanti signed contract for U.K.-based Computerlinks to become the first distributor of Avanti’s Business Internet Continuity (BIC) service,…
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ESA’s GOCE Satellite Experiences Software Glitch
Read more →: ESA’s GOCE Satellite Experiences Software Glitch[08-24-10] The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite, designed to map…