Satellite Companies

Nagoya group's satellite to lift off in December for space debris mission
The Japan Times
NAGOYA — A small, low-cost satellite developed by a group of companies in the Chubu region and Daido University will be sent into space in December, according to Nagoya University. Space cube: Hiroyasu Tajima, a professor at the Solar-Terrestrial ...
Nagoya University to launch space debris satelliteThe Japan Daily Press

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Beyond SpaceX: Five companies seeking to change space travel
Christian Science Monitor
In 2008, after three failures, the company's two-stage Falcon 1 rocket became the first privately financed rocket to reach orbit. It lofted its first satellite in 2009. The company's next model, the Falcon 9, is designed to be the workhorse for ...
Private company ready to launch a new frontier for space travelStandardNet
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A rocket launch at Cape Canaveral could ignite Florida's commercial space industryTampabay.com
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One shareholder's lonely pro-smoking battle
Boston.com
This year's prize may go to Daniel Morrison, who asked Altria Group, the parent company of Philip Morris USA, to resurrect TV and radio ads for its cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. His logic? It's the only way that potential customers will find out ...

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Japan Launches Space-Cargo Push
Wall Street Journal
SkyPerfect has launched 28 satellites since 1989, the latest on Tuesday aboard an Ariane V rocket. The Tokyo-based company says it hasn't ruled out using a Japanese H-2A, especially because Japan's rockets can now be launched any time of year.
Satellite made by Japanese consortium to be launched by Russian rocketMainichi Daily News

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GeoEye Takeover Seen After DigitalGlobe Bid Backfires: Real M&A
BusinessWeek
GeoEye offered to pay $8.50 in cash and 0.3537 shares for each DigitalGlobe share to create the world's largest commercial-imagery satellite company. The proposal, 33 percent above DigitalGlobe's 20-day average, valued DigitalGlobe at $762 million, ...

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Global Satellite Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Services Industry
Sacramento Bee
Company profiles are primarily based upon search engine sources in the public domain. 3. MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M) COMMUNICATION - AN INTRODUCTION II-12 4. AN OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE MACHINE- TO-MACHINES II-16 Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the ...

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Arqiva Takes Additional Satellite Capacity on EUTELSAT 7A
Sacramento Bee
By Eutelsat Communications and Arqiva Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has signed a new contract with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) for additional satellite capacity to meet growing demand for its ...
Eutelsat deal strengthens Arqiva in Europe, Middle EastRapid tv news
Arqiva takes 36MHz of satellite capacity on Eutelsat 7ATelecompaper (subscription)
Eutelsat Inks Two New Ka-band, Capacity Deals to Ease Market AnxietySatellite Today (subscription)

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Q-KON and Business Connexion Deploy iDirect's iDX 3.1 Software to Support ...
MarketWatch (press release)
HERNDON, Va., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems, Inc. (VT Systems), today announced that Q-KON, a leading African satellite network operator, and Business Connexion, a leading African ICT ...

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New Mobile Satellite Service Report Finds KVH is the VSAT Market Share Leader
NASDAQ
Fourteen Ku-band satellite transponders are already online, creating one of the widest Ku-band networks in the industry. The company's TracPhone V3, with a 37 cm antenna, and its enterprise-grade TracPhone V7, which uses a 60 cm antenna, ...

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Spacecraft repair droids could extend lives of satellites
msnbc.com
Astronaut shares a groovy space trip Saturn's moons make waves in rings Smokey Bear along for the ride to space station Satellite gas stations And ViviSat is not the only company pursuing ways to extend the lives of satellites.

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