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| 09.01.2008 |
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Military Continues To Influence Commercial Operators 
Faced with a shortage of military satellite communications capacity, the U.S. government has increasingly turned to commercial operators to close the bandwidth gap. Roughly 80 percent of all U.S. government and military traffic is carried over commercial...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Letter From The Editor
We live in a multimedia age where it seems as though information has become as important as oxygen, and the demand for satellite capacity for military purposes have increased by eye-popping amounts since satellite communications gave the United States a great...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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ITAR Dilemma: Finding The Balance Between Regulation And Profit
America’s commercial space industry holds a dominant position in the global market, but due to a number of factors, other countries are beginning to gain more market share. Many small suppliers maintain that the primary problem is the International...
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| 06.17.2008 |
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U.S. General Calls for Greater Space Cooperation
[Satellite News – 6-17-08] Space situational awareness is one of the key issues that countries around the world have to work on throughout the next 10 years in terms of improving the space landscape, according to U.S. Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Thompson: TSAT Could Disappear
The unveiling of the Air Force budget request for fiscal year 2009 revealed that the service has cut funding to some programs such as the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) while increasing funding for programs like the Space Based...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Satellite Vendors Ready to Meet Military Challenges
With the United States and its allies embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the demands on technology to help warfighters has never been greater, particularly against an enemy that is more fluid and flexible than before. Demands Satellite technology...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Military Satellite R&D: All Eyes on Software
Military satellite designers rely on increasingly complex layers of software, and this means more vulnerabilities are lurking in space and on the ground. As more emphasis is placed on everything from real-time video transmissions to cyber warfare, the...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Letter From the Editor
As conflicts continue in Afghanistan and Iraq, the demands by military forces for advanced communications have never been greater. The nature of conflict seems to have changed in recent years, with the enemy becoming more sporadic and mobile than ever before...
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| 11.08.2007 |
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Satellites and Conflict: The Changing Conundrum (Part One)
[11-08-07 - Satellite News] The Global MilSatCom 2007 show in London from Nov. 5 to Nov. 7 saw a variety of speakers highlight the ever-increasing importance of satellite communications in the military arena, as well as the changing dynamics between the...
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| 10.29.2007 |
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EMS, Windmill Deliver GBS To Military
[10-29-07 – Satellite Today] EMS Technologies Inc. and Windmill International have turned their portable Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Receive Suite over to the military for evaluation, EMS announced Oct. 29. The suite is designed to...
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| 08.07.2007 |
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Executive Q&A: TCS Satellite Services Director Discusses WWSS
TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) is one of six prime contractors in the U.S. Army's $5 billion Worldwide Satellite Systems (WWSS) contract awarded in 2006. The contract provides users with a single-source, turnkey, rapid-response solution for U.S...
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| 06.25.2007 |
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Boeing, Lockheed Teams Face Approaching Deadline For U.S. Air Force's RFP On TSAT Space Segment
The U.S. Air Force has issued a July 30 deadline for its final request for proposals for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Military Operations System, a program that will provide the warfighter with a secure, interoperable...
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| 04.16.2007 |
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Intelsat To Test Internet Routing In Space For Department Of Defense
In a program designed to provide Internet protocol (IP) services to warfighters and other military personnel anytime and anywhere, the U.S. Department of Defense unveiled April 11 a public-private program to test Internet Routing In Space (IRIS). Managed by...
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| 04.16.2007 |
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Intelsat Working To Halt Unauthorized Satellite Use
Intelsat officials met with Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the United States April 10 to discuss how to stop unauthorized use of an Intelsat satellite by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terrorist group based in Sri...
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| 10.02.2006 |
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GPS Technology Helps Air Force Improve Resupply of Troops
If only the airlines managed passengers' luggage so reliably: The wireless Precision Airdrop System (PADS) -- developed by Reston, Va.-based Planning Systems Inc. -- is proving to be a soaring success in its early deployment for U.S. Air Force supply missions...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Connexion May Follow Iridium
Even though The Boeing Company decided to shut down its high-speed broadband communications offering, Connexion by Boeing, in August, the move may have been one of the company's strongest. Closing departments, services or business plans is always challenging...
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| 07.17.2006 |
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Air Force Wants White Papers On SBIRS Alternative By End of July
The U.S. Air Force has asked for industry input to begin defining the alternative payloads that the service may pursue in place of buying a full complement of Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High missile launch warning satellites. A program research and...
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| 07.01.2006 |
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SOTM: Satellite Links In Motion
Ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are putting more emphasis on the need for reliable, robust and bandwidth-rich satcom-on-the-move (SOTM) solutions. The U.S. military and Allied Forces relies primarily on small portable, fixed VSAT terminals...
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| 06.26.2006 |
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Experts: U.S. Military, Commercial Space Assets Vulnerable To Attack
U.S. military and commercial satellites, long considered out of harm's way, are vulnerable to multiple types of attack, an assault a determined enemy someday will attempt, according to military, government, industry and think tank experts testifying before...
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| 03.13.2006 |
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Key Lawmaker Expresses Concern About Soaring Development Cost Of Military Space Programs
A key House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member is warning contractors to make sure satellite and other space-based technologies are mature before fielding them or risk losing congressional support. "We've got to get control of this," Rep. Terry...
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