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[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom expects the U.S. Army’s multi-year Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) contract, valued at more than $200 million, to be awarded by the end of...

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10] The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee unanimously approved the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which allows the U.S. government to employ the commercial space sector...

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-10] Astrium Services subsidiary Infoterra has secured a three-year, 7.5 million euro ($9.6 million) contract from the European Space Agency’s U.K. Farnborough Multi-Mission Processing and Archiving Facility (UK-MM-PAF)...

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10]  Microelectronics Technology Inc. (MTI), a supplier of microwave and RF equipment, signed a deal to supply components to Italian DTH operator Sky Italia, MTI announced July 19....

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10]  German manufacturer OHB Technology has acquired Thales Alenia Space Antwerp in Belgium from Thales Alenia Space France SAS for an undisclosed amount, OHB announced July 20.     ...

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10]  Emirates Airlines has selected OnAir to install its full Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir in-flight passenger communications services on their entire Airbus A380 aircraft fleet.     Emirates’...

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10]  U.S. Air Force Space Command and Space and Missile Systems Center officials confirmed that the on-orbit checkout of its first GPS 2F satellite is progressing as scheduled...

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-10] Cisco’s Space-router technology has passed a U.S. Department of Defense satellite-orbit test for use of next-generation satellite-based IP services and communications from space, the company announced July...

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-10]  Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration program satellites built by Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have completed a U.S. Missile Defense Agency Terminal High Altitude Area Defense...

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-10] Globalstar hailed the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) initiation of proceedings to make wireless spectrum available for mobile broadband networks using mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum in...