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NovAtel Inc. has become the first company outside of Europe accepted as a full member of Galileo Services, a non-profit organization promoting the development and use of Galileo-enabled businesses, NovAtel announced Dec. 14. The European satellite navigation service is expected to be fully operational beginning in 2010.

Eagle Broadband Inc. has received a contract to provide an emergency communications system to Fort Bend County, Texas, the company announced. Eagle will provide its SatMax system and also pre-wire the country’s emergency operations center. The SatMax system enhances the coverage of Iridium satellite phones and is intended to ensure constant satellite communication for disaster...

Avanti Screenmedia, a U.K. satellite, media and telecom business, announced plans Dec. 14 to separate its satellite operations from its core digital advertising screen business. The proposed action is expected to result in the admission to AIM — the London Stock Exchange’s international market for smaller companies — of a new holding company of Avanti’s...

Harris Corp. received a contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) to develop an encryption device that could be used on satellite communication terminals, the company announced Dec. 14. The initial contract value is about $5 million and could be worth up to $12 million, Harris said.

DigitalGlobe Inc. awarded a contract to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to supply ground station systems for the WorldView imagery satellite, MDA announced Dec. 14. MDA will provide DigitalGlobe’s international customers with ground systems capable of programming, receiving and processing imagery from the WorldView satellites. The systems will be offered both as new and...

Hughes Network Systems announced the next phase of a contract with Enlaces Integra and Globalstar de M�xico to deliver an additional 10,860 broadband satellite terminals for the Mexican Ministry of Education’s Enciclomedia program. This deal will serve about 17,500 secondary school classrooms in Mexico, expanding the initial network of more than 13,000 terminals serving about...

Hughes Network Systems announced Dec. 13 that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has approved the Internet Protocol over Satellite.v2 (IPoS.v2) air interface standard, which incorporates the DVB-S2 industry standard with adaptive coding and modulation. IPoS is the most widely deployed satellite broadband standard in the world, Hughes said. The first version of IPoS was...

The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications signed a contract with TV-Novosti for the lease of capacity aboard the Intelsat 904 satellite, Intersputnik announced Dec. 13. The capacity will be used for on-site TV coverage. The footprint of the Intelsat 904 Spot 1 beam covers the European part of Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States...

Integral Systems Inc. announced Dec. 13 that it has added EchoStar Communications Corp.’s EchoStar-11 satellite to the satellite operator’s existing Epoch IPS satellite control system. EchoStar’s entire fleet of satellites is operated by the Epoch IPS system. Separately, EchoStar announced it has signed an agreement with New Line Cinema to offer the studio’s movie titles...

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corp. have established a test bed intended to demonstrate network-centric missions that will be enabled by the Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) system, Northrop Grumman announced. The test bed, based upon technologies developed for the Milstar and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite communications systems, is intended to demonstrate how data...