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Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station
www.space-travel.com | 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 15, 2012 - New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications and Navigation Testbed - designed and bui

Lockheed Martin-Built Milstar Satellite Surpasses 10-Year On-Orbit Design Life
www.spacemart.com | 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2012 - The second Milstar II military communications satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service, providing our nation's war

Close Support: Fixed Communications For Defence + Government : MilsatMagazine
www.milsatmagazine.com | 13 hours 43 minutes ago
MilsatMagazine : Close Support: Fixed Communications For Defence + Government - The backbone link between headquarters and remote operation sites : SatNews Publishers.

Unique testbed soon will be in space
www.sciencedaily.com | Feb 13, 2012
New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications and Navigation Testbed, was designed and built at NASA's Glenn Research Center over the last three

Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip
www.spacedaily.com | Feb 10, 2012
Nanjing, China (XNA) Feb 10, 2012 - China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and

MilSatCom Asia 2012 Asia’s leading Military Communications Event for Satellite Professionals | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Jan 27, 2012
MilSatCom Asia 2012 Asia’s leading Military Communications Event for Satellite Professionals. The largest gathering of high level government, military and industry SATCOM experts from Asia-Pacific. - PR11783649

Seadiscovery.com - Satellites Show Rescued Dolphins Swimming Off Coast of Maine
www.seadiscovery.com | Jan 27, 2012
Marine Technology News, Sea Discovery News, Underwater Technology News Satellite tracking data from the International Fund for Animal Welfare suggests the majority of dolphins

defence.professionals | defpro.com
www.defpro.com | Jan 24, 2012
HUNT VALLEY, Md. and CARLSBAD, Calif. | AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, and ViaSat Inc. announced Jan. 23 that the organizations...

Air Force launches new military satellite - Air Force News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Air
www.airforcetimes.com | Jan 20, 2012
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Air Force successfully launched a next-generation military communications satellite on Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station that should begin serving troops this summer.

The Wideband Global SATCOM Program (WGS)
www.defenseindustrydaily.com | Jan 18, 2012
Launch of 1st Block II bird imminent; Canada joins WGS. (Jan 17/12) The US military needs a bigger data firehose. In an era of streaming data from proliferating UAVs (Last update: 2012-01-18 21:36:46 GMT)