Government/Military

[10-29-07 – Satellite Today]  The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has renewed a contract with DMC International Imaging Ltd. for a third year of acquiring high-resolution satellite images of the Amazon rainforest, DMC announced Oct. 26.     The program, which monitors deforestation, has reduced the rate of logging in the rainforest from 27,000...

[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 deliver the equivalent of 19 T1 lines, or 29 megabits per second of data. The system, developed under the...

[10-29-07 – Satellite Today]  Raytheon Co. will team with L3 Communications, Northrop Grumman Corp. and Agile Communications, Inc. to develop the next generation of U.S. Army satellite communications, Raytheon announced Oct. 29.     The High Capacity Communications Capability (HC3) is a family of reconfigurable communications terminals that will provide soldiers with high-capacity, multiband, multimode connectivity....

[10-26-07 – Satellite Today] Three Russian Glonass satellites were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, aboard a Proton launch vehicle, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center announced Oct. 26. This is the first Proton launch since a damaged pyro firing cable caused the failure of a Proton vehicle carrying the JCSAT-11 satellite in...

[10-26-07 – Satellite Today]  Canada is ready to launch Radarsat-2 in December, the Canadian Space Agency announced Oct. 25. The satellite, scheduled to be launched Dec. 8 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, will protect Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic, said Jim Prentice, Canada’s Minister of Industry. "Radarsat-2 will also provide improved surveillance and monitoring...

[10-25-07 – Satellite Today]  Radyne Corp. has received $1.6 million in orders for modems in support of the Ground Multi-band Terminal (GMT) project, as well as another military communications program, the company announced Oct. 25. The orders were from a major military communications integrator and will ship during the next four months. The GMT program...

[10-24-07 – Satellite Today] The Ariane 5 ECA launcher has been delivered to Arianespace at their Spaceport in French Guiana, the company announced Oct. 23. The spacecraft has to undergo payload integration and final checkout before its launch on Nov. 9. The launcher will carry the United Kingdom’s Skynet 5B military communications satellite and Brazil’s...

[10-24-07 – Satellite Today] Fortified DataCom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortified Holdings Corp., has been awarded a contract to supply the Monroe, La. Police department with a communications and surveillance mission package, Fortified announced Oct. 23. Fortified DataCom will supply the police department with its Nomad XSB mobile mesh network, which can quickly deploy...

[10-24-07 – Satellite News] Com Dev International Ltd. has developed a way to “de-collide” the hundreds or thousands of signals emitted by the maritime Advanced Identification System (AIS), solving the problems traditionally associated with space-based data collection and potentially expanding the use of the system. The AIS, a VHF broadcast system required aboard every ship...

[10-23-07 – Satellite Today] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) vice president of government solutions Jim Corry has been appointed to serve on the Joint Advisory Committee on Communications Capabilities of Emergency Medical and Public Health Care Facilities, the company announced Oct. 23. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, within the Department of Commerce and the Federal...