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Name: Communications Satellite

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

2012 DA 14: Tracked asteroid whizzes past Earth

Live images from a telescope at the Gingin Observatory in western Australia showed the asteroid looking like a white streak, moving across against a backdrop of black sky.While the asteroid passed harmlessly past Earth, less than 24 hours earlier , injuring ... [Published NEWS.com.au - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Planetoid, NASA, Jaume Nomen, Near-Earth Object, Communications Satellite

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

Boeing Company

Boeing Ships 6th Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite for Launch

Boeing is progressing with the expansion of the U.S Defense Department’s highest capacity communications satellite constellation, recently shipping its sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)...http://www.travelandtourworld.com ... [Published Travel News - May 18 2013]

Entities: Wideband Global SATCOM, Boeing Company, Communications Satellite

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

ViaSat Inc

Broadband speeds on planes and ships to double with new satellite

ViaSat has brought in Boeing to build a satellite to "double" existing broadband speeds on planes, ships and other locations around the world.The ViaSat-2 satellite - scheduled to be launched in mid-2016 - is anticipated to "approximately double the bandwidth ... [Published Computerworld UK - May 17 2013]

Entities: ViaSat Inc, Broadband, Boeing Company

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

How Electric Spacecraft Could Fly NASA to Mars

Electric vehicles aren't just popular on the ground it turns out they're all the rage in space these days, too. While still not as common as traditional chemical spacecraft engines, electric engines are growing in popularity for both Earth-orbiting satellites ... [Published Space.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Space.com, Chemical, NASA, Spacecraft, Ion

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Highest capacity comms satellite record to be broken

The makers of the highest-capacity communications satellite in the world will build one with seven times the coverage. ... [Published Institution of Electrical Engineers - May 17 2013]

Entities: Communications Satellite

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

Buzz Lightyear, astronauts and me

It?s amazing where a cup of tea can take you... to space and beyond.My Buzz Lightyear moment came when I went to a birthday party in London.It wasn’t your ordinary birthday, however – although there was cake.It was a tea party to celebrate Florida’s 500 ... [Published Milton Keynes Citizen - May 17 2013]

Entities: Cosmonaut, NASA, Jon McBride, Charlie Walker

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Space.com

New GPS Satellite Launched on Atlas 5 Rocket

An Atlas 5 rocket successfully powered a replacement Global Positioning System satellite into space Wednesday to bolster the navigation utility for military and civil users around the world.The 737,000-pound, two-stage rocket, loaded with kerosene fuel, ... [Published Space.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Space.com, Centaur, Space Systems, Communications Satellite

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

New bursts of solar flares

The Sun has unleashed three solar flares in just under 24 hours, marking the most intense activity yet this year and causing limited interruptions to high-frequency radio communications.NASA said on Wednesday one of them was classified as an X3.2 flare. ... [Published Radio New Zealand - May 15 2013]

Entities: Solar Activity, Solar Maximum, Communications Satellite, NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

GEOPoint

is an easy to use satellite antenna pointing calculator, for geostationary communications satellites. The program also calculates polarization tilt angles, estimates dates and times of annual sun-outage events, calculates antenna G/T, eirp and frequency ... [Published ZDNet - May 16 2013]

Entities: ITU-R, Tilt Angle, True North, Azimuth

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

SPACE: Replacing Satellites With Software

: Many new sensors have been developed for large UAVs in the last decade and this has greatly increased the amount of digital data that has to be transmitted back to operators for analysis and action. This quickly increase exceeded the amount of satellite ... [Published Strategy Page - May 16 2013]

Entities: UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Bandwidth, Communications Satellite, Personal computer hardware, Transponder

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Pentagon Renews Lease for Chinese Communications Satellite

The Pentagon will continue for another year the lease of a Chinese commercial satellite to provide communications for its Africa Command.The use of China’s Apstar-7 satellite will continue in a $10.7 million lease through the government solutions unit ... [Published BusinessWeek - May 15 2013]

Entities: Communications Satellite, Tony Capaccio, Defense Information Systems Agency

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

US Navy and LM Deliver Nation's Newest Secure Communications Satellite for Mobile Users

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have delivered the second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) spacecraft to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., where it will be prepared for a July liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance ... [Published ASDNews.com: Be the first to know - May 14 2013]

Entities: Communications Satellite, US Navy, United Launch Alliance, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

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NASA said the flyby provided a "unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close."

2012 DA 14: Tracked asteroid whizzes past Earth [Published NEWS.com.au - 23 hours ago]

...fuel efficiency works on getting your vehicle mass down at the expense of your thrust dropping, which means longer trip times," Carpenter said. "There's a balance between reducing the mass and increasing the trip time. It's up to the architect of the system to figure out the right balance." Missions to Mars

How Electric Spacecraft Could Fly NASA to Mars [Published Space.com - May 17 2013]

The ViaSat-2 system will include enhancements to the ViaSat SurfBeam networking technology, to "multiply the speeds offered to a level equivalent to high-speed fibre-to-the-node networks (FTTN)" , said ViaSat

Broadband speeds on planes and ships to double with new satellite [Published Computerworld UK - May 17 2013]

"John Glenn said it a thousand times if he said it once R&D investment in NASA is the seed corn for our future,” she said. “And I really think that's as true today as it was then."

NASA's second in charge visits Glenn [Published NewsNet 5 - May 17 2013]

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2012 DA 14: Tracked asteroid whizzes past Earth [Published NEWS.com.au - 23 hours ago]
Boeing Ships 6th Wideband Global SATCOM Satelli... [Published Travel News - May 18 2013]
Air Force Making Headway on Fuel Efficiency Goals [Published National Defense Magazine - May 18 2013]
THE BOEING COMPANY: Boeing Ships 6th Wideband G... [Published 4 Traders - May 17 2013]
How Electric Spacecraft Could Fly NASA to Mars [Published Space.com - May 17 2013]
Highest capacity comms satellite record to be b... [Published Institution of Electrical Engineers - May 17 2013]
ViaSat Announces Next Generation Broadband Sate... [Published Telecompaper - May 17 2013]
Broadband speeds on planes and ships to double ... [Published Computerworld UK - May 17 2013]
Buzz Lightyear, astronauts and me [Published Milton Keynes Citizen - May 17 2013]
NASA's second in charge visits Glenn [Published NewsNet 5 - May 17 2013]
New GPS Satellite Launched on Atlas 5 Rocket [Published Space.com - May 16 2013]
Boeing tapped to build ViaSat-2 satellite, laun... [Published Engadget - May 16 2013]
Anaren, Inc. Independent Committee Deems Vintag... [Published Benzinga.com - May 16 2013]
ViaSat Announces Next Generation Broadband Sate... [Published ADVFN UK - May 16 2013]
CHINA-NIGERIA COOPERATION IN SPACE, SURVEILLANC... [Published Beegeagle's Blog - May 16 2013]
GEOPoint [Published ZDNet - May 16 2013]
SPACE: Replacing Satellites With Software [Published Strategy Page - May 16 2013]
Atlas streaks through clear skies to destination [Published Florida Today - May 16 2013]
Lost in Space? Moscow Tries to Rebuild Its Civi... [Published Jamestown Foundation - May 16 2013]
Quick-fix country at jugaad crossroads [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 16 2013]
Pentagon Renews Lease for Chinese Communication... [Published BusinessWeek - May 15 2013]
New bursts of solar flares [Published Radio New Zealand - May 15 2013]
Sun unleashes strong solar flares [Published MyFox New York - May 15 2013]
Sun unleashes three potent solar flares [Published Asiaone - May 15 2013]
DRS Technologies Receives First Certification t... [Published TickerTech.com - May 15 2013]
Russia’s Proton rocket to orbit US satellite Ec... [Published Itar Tass - May 15 2013]
Lockheed Transports MUOS-2 Satellite to U.S. Na... [Published New New Internet - May 15 2013]
Lofty debut: New chief leads today's Atlas V la... [Published Florida Today - May 15 2013]
A Tennessean Named Estes: Courage Above All [Published The Moderate Voice - May 15 2013]
Echostar taps ILS to launch “heaviest ever sate... [Published Advanced Television - May 14 2013]

Blogs

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Boeing tapped to build ViaSat-2 satellite, laun... [Published Engadget - May 16 2013] ViaSat-1 recently earned a Guinness World Record as the highest-capacity satellite in (or out of) the world, but it may need to hand off that title come 2016. ViaSat-2, the company's next-gen bird, will double the capacity of its predecessor while also ...
CHINA-NIGERIA COOPERATION IN SPACE, SURVEILLANC... [Published Beegeagle's Blog - May 16 2013] BEEGEAGLE’S BLOG 16 May, 2013 Nigeria’s NIGCOMSAT-1R, pre-launch BACKGROUNDER http://nytimes.com/2007/05/24/world/asia/24satellite.html!pagewanted=all&_r=0 Photo Credit: NEW YORK TIMES China helped to design,finance,build and launch the US$311 ...
A Tennessean Named Estes: Courage Above All [Published The Moderate Voice - May 15 2013] August 10 will mark 50 years since the death of Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. Later that month, America will observe the 50th anniversary of the “March on Washington,” which culminated with Martin Luther King Jr’s exhilarating “I Have a Dream” ...
Pentagon Using a Chinese Satellite For U.S. Mil... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 08 2013] Some members of Congress are asking tough questions about why the Pentagon is using a Chinese commercial satellite for U.S. Africa Command communications. The controversial decision, says Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chairman of the panel that oversees ...
Kymeta Demos First Ever Satellite Link With Met... [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 01 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Still waiting for cheap, portable satellite broadband? Since it spun off from Intellectual Ventures last August , the Redmond, Washington-based startup Kymeta has been working on a line of products aimed ...

Audio/Video

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Blast off for new NASA satellite [Published Reuters Video: Technology - Jan 31 2013]

Press Releases

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Media Alert: Intel at Computex Taipei 2013: New... [Published Business Wire - May 10 2013]
ITT Exelis to fabricate composite structures fo... [Published Business Wire Technology News - Apr 09 2013]
ITT Exelis to fabricate composite structures fo... [Published Business Wire Defense News - Apr 09 2013]
ITT Exelis to fabricate composite structures fo... [Published Business Wire Manufacturing News - Apr 09 2013]
Fastening & Bonding for Aerospace and Defence A... [Published PR.com Press Releases - Apr 05 2013]