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Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end, value-added, satellite-based communications systems, has received a $9.7 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract from a U.S. government customer, the company announced March 9. The contract is for multiple units of Globecomm’s Explorer line of portable satellite terminals. Apart from it, the U.S. government has utilized the IDIQ...

Spacenet Inc. announced that Alan Kittson has joined the company as its vice president of government services sales. Kittson will oversee the direction and sales efforts of Spacenet’s expanded government services unit, providing satellite network solutions for federal, state and local government markets in the United States.

DirecTV has promoted Derek Chang to executive vice president of content strategy and development; Dan Hartman to senior vice president of programming acquisition; and Eric Shanks to executive vice president of entertainment. David Hill, who served a dual role as president of DirecTV Entertainment and chairman and CEO of Fox Sports, is returning to Fox...

The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with NASA and the British Antarctic Survey, is developing the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, a map of Antarctica using satellite imagery. The map uses nearly 1,100 Landsat satellite scenes digitally woven together to create a single, seamless, cloud-free image of the Antarctic continent. The National Science...

Representatives of Telenor Satellite Services and Inmarsat are in Hanoi to give a March 9 demonstration of how businesses and government can use satellite communications. Executives from both companies will show how integrating the newest mobile satellite service from Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) into their existing operations may improve the mobility and flexibility...

Arianespace is set for a March 10 mission to place the India’s Insat-4B TV/telecommunications satellite and the U.K.’s Skynet-5A communications spacecraft into orbit, Arianespace announced. Insat-4B will carry 12 Ku-band and 12 C-band transponders mainly catering to direct-to-home television services. Skynet is the first in a series of next-generation secure communications satellites for the British...

Spirent Communications has developed its GSS7900 GPS/Galileo Simulation System, which will support testing of free-to-use signals from both GPS and Galileo systems, the company announced March 5. The simulator is derived from Spirent’s GSS7700 GPS simulator and the GSS7800 Galileo simulator developed in 2006 to support testing of the Galileo Ground Mission Segment and Test...

The U.S. Army is seeking more cooperation with international partners, Col. Patrick Rayermann, chief of the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Division, said March 7.   "We do want to continue international cooperation,” Rayermann said at MilSpace 2007 in Brussels. “We want to work with industry that is not U.S.-based. We need your help. We...

SES satellites AMC-12/ASTRA-4A and AAP-1 have been transferred to SES New Skies and renamed NSS-10 and NSS-11, the company announced March 5. NSS-10 is located at 322.5° East with NSS-11 at 108.2° East.

Harris Corp. has delivered the first 12 of 39 Large Aperture Multiband Deployable Antenna terminals to be used by the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force for multiband, mobile satellite communications, the company announced March 7. The order for 39 terminals is part of a $42 million contract awarded to Harris in 2004 by...