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Interview With ISRO's Madhavan Nair New Delhi, India (PTI) Jul 03, 2009
ISRO has had a long standing and successful co-operation with the erstwhile USSR in Space with the active participation of USSR in setting up the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in early Sixties, Joint meteorological studies using more than 1000 meteorological sounding rockets launched from Thumba supplied ... read moreFestive Ceremony Inaugurates University Programs At NASA Ames
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009The first International Space University (ISU) Opening Ceremony held at a NASA center drew more than 500 guests for a multimedia celebration of exploration at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, June 29, 2009. The celebration welcomed more than 170 students, along with dozens of faculty and guest lecturers from more than 40 countries to ISU's 22nd annual Space Studi ... more
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SES ASTRA Signs Long-Term Contract With BSkyB
Luxembourg (SPX) Jul 02, 2009SES ASTRA has announced that it has renewed contracts with BSkyB (Sky) for 24 transponders on a long-term basis on ASTRA's 28.2 degrees East orbital position. In total Sky is using 31 transponders on the ASTRA satellite system. This agreement confirms a long-running relationship, which began in 1989 when Sky launched its first analogue multi-channel package on board the ASTRA 1A satellite. ... more Thuraya's Advanced Network Provides Edge To Its Satellite Broadband Users
Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jul 02, 2009In the true global village that we live in today, hundreds of millions of emails and messages are exchanged over telecom networks, which sometimes leads to network congestion. When this happens, service quality and reliability are affected. Hence, telecom operators always attempt to combat traffic congestion as a way of guaranteeing broadband service quality. In the mobile satellite ... more SatGate Resumes Services
Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 30, 2009SES ASTRA has announced that the Lithuanian satellite service provider SatGate resumes its transmissions from SES ASTRA's orbital position at 31.5 degrees East. SatGate uses four transponders to provide broadband and internet connectivity to Internet Service Providers (ISP), households and end customers in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, its neighbouring countries and the Middle East. ... more ESA To Build Its Third Deep Space Ground Station In Argentina
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 29, 2009On 22 June, ESA informed Argentinean authorities that an area 30 km south of the town of Malargue in Mendoza province, about 1000 km west of Buenos Aires, has been chosen as the best option to build a new 35-metre antenna in support of its programmes. It is the first infrastructure to be built in Argentina by ESA. "The site offers all the features that are required for a long-term ... more |
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Loral Provides Powerful Communications Satellites To Intelsat
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Space Systems/Loral has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide two new satellites to Intelsat, the leading provider of fixed satellite services (FSS) worldwide. The two satellites, Intelsat-19 and Intelsat-20, will be among the most powerful FSS satellites ever built with unprecedented capacity to provide services for broadband, video and voice applications. ... more Astrium Acquires Capacity On Eutelsat's New W2A Satellite
Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Astrium and Eutelsat Communications have announced at the Paris Airshow the signature of a five-year contract for 36MHz of capacity on the new W2A satellite. Astrium Services will provide coverage for their existing and future customers across Africa. Eutelsat's new W2A satellite entered commercial service in May 2009 and provides Ku-band capacity across Europe, North Africa, the Middle ... more Hughes To Launch 100 Gbps High Throughput Satellite In 2012
Germantown MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2009Hughes Network Systems has announced that it will launch a next-generation, high throughput satellite in the first quarter 2012 to expand its rapidly growing HughesNet broadband Internet service across North America. Designed to deliver over 100 Gbps throughput, the new Hughes satellite will utilize an enhanced version of the IPoS standard, the world's leading broadband satellite standard ... more ESA And Thales Establish Agreement For Development Of IXV
Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 18, 2009ESA and Thales Alenia Space have established the agreement for the authorisation to proceed with the development of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) atmospheric reentry demonstrator. The IXV project is part of the ESA Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP). The objective of IXV is to develop a European autonomous atmospheric reentry demonstrator system, characterised by ... more |
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