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OneWeb Forms Partnership for Connectivity in Kazakhstan
January 27, 2020
OneWeb has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Astana International Financial Centre  (AIFC), a financial hub in Central Asia, to accelerate broadband connectivity in Kazakhstan. The partners will work to provide the first low-latency satellite broadband in Kazakhstan and to establish a technical hub in the country to support OneWeb’s communication service delivery across...
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Intelligent Waves Awarded $48M Satcom Contract
January 24, 2020
Intelligent Waves has been awarded a competitive, single award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The contract called Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) Global Logistical Services Management Contract (ELOG) has a life-cycle value of $48 million and a 1-year base with 4-year options, the company announced Thursday.  EMSS provides deployed warfighters...
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Tokyo Government Awards Astroscale Grant for Active Debris Removal 
January 24, 2020
Astroscale has been awarded a grant of up to $4.5 million from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s “Innovation Tokyo Project” to build a roadmap for commercializing active debris removal services. The project, which was launched last year, aims to subsidize up to half of the expenses required for the commercialization and development of innovative services and...
Government/Military
ESA, Airbus Book Payload for ISS Bartolomeo Platform
January 24, 2020
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus have signed a contract booking a Norwegian instrument for the Bartolomeo platform on the International Space Station (ISS), which is scheduled for launch in March 2020. The payload slot for the Norwegian instrument will monitor plasma density in the Earth’s atmosphere. The Bartolomeo platform, which is named after...
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Artist rendition of Bartolomeo platform on the International Space Station.
How Civilian and Military Government Entities are Embracing Digitalization
January 22, 2020
As government entities transition their operations to adopt the latest technological developments — including edge computing and cloud-based applications — they need to augment their existing networks with additional terminals and bandwidth, and add redundant communications paths to achieve the necessary flexibility, resilience, and redundancy. Providing terabit-level scale, delivering multi-gigabit links virtually anywhere on Earth,...
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Transforming Government Connectivity
Delivering Real-Time Data for Government Operations
January 22, 2020
 From analyzing firefighter’s health data, to communicating on the front lines in conflict zones, to managing a complex election process in land-locked Burkina Faso, satellites deliver the real-time data essential to government operations. In this episode of SES’ Satellite Stories we look at how connectivity from SES is being used by governments across the...
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In Perfect Harmony: A Look Ahead at a “Satcom Enterprise” for 2020 – and Beyond
January 21, 2020
Little more than a year ago, in December 2018, satellite owner operators gathered with Air Force Space Command leaders in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to talk about the “holy grail” of military communications: a seamless architecture of networked commercial and government satellites. The network would emerge as a federated architecture of commercial and military satellites with...
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DoD Awards Raytheon $442M Contract for Force Element Terminal Development
January 17, 2020
The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Raytheon a cost-plus-incentive-fee undefinitized contract action for the force element terminal (FET) development effort worth $442 million. This contract provides for the design, development, testing, integration, and logistical support of a FET system that will transition the B-52 and RC-135 hardened communication terminals from the Military Strategic Tactical...
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The Pentagon, headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense. Photo: DOD.
Space Force to be Lean, Fast, SPOC Commander Says
January 10, 2020
As the military works to build the U.S. Space Force from the ground up, its goal is to be lean and equipped for the speed of war fighting in the coming century, said Maj. Gen. John Shaw, commander of Space Operations Command (SPOC), U.S. Space Force, and commander of the Combined Force Space Component Command...
Government/Military
NASA, Boeing to Investigate Orbital Flight Test
January 08, 2020
NASA and Boeing are in the process of establishing a joint, independent investigation team to examine the issue with Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test, the space agency announced Tuesday. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test on Dec. 20 missed its objective to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) because a necessary orbital burn did not happen...
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