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Northrop's SharkSat Payload Transmits Telemetry Data Back to Ground; Candace Givens Quoted

The Northrop Grumman-built SharkSat payload collected and transmitted performance and telemetry data back to mission controllers while orbiting the Earth during a two-week demonstration aboard the company's Cygnus spacecraft in January. “SharkSat's success directly reflects the speed and agility that our team put forth to deliver mission success,“ said Candace Givens, vice president of payload and ground systems division at Northrop.

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by Jane Edwards February 16, 2021, 9:22 am
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Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Industry Supports Gov't Missions Through Investments in Satcom Capabilities

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat Government wrote in a SatMagazine article that the commercial satellite communications industry supports government customers' missions and understand their requirements by investing in programs and capabilities that seek to improve the mobility, redundancy, flexibility, throughput, protection and resilience of satcom systems.

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by Jane Edwards September 5, 2019, 6:09 am
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Northrop to Build Broadband Satellites to Support US, Int’l Polar Satcom Operations
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Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Inmarsat Government Supports Gov't Airborne, Maritime Ops via Satcom

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, told the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority in a video interview posted Friday how the company supports government operations through its satellite communications platforms. She said satellites placed approximately 35K kilometers above the equator and ground stations that back those spacecraft work to provide users […] More

by Jane Edwards October 15, 2018, 11:11 am
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SpaceX Launches Orbital ATK-Built GovSat Satellite Aboard Pre-Flown Rocket

A communications satellite that Orbital ATK built for GovSat ““ a public-private joint venture of SES and the government of Luxembourg ““ took off Wednesday at 4:25 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. GovSat-1 will be placed at 21.5 degrees East orbital slot to provide maritime […] More

by Jane Edwards February 1, 2018, 4:50 am
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Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Ka-Band Satcom Tech Essential for Airborne ISR Missions

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said she believes the adoption of Ka-band satellite communications technology can help the military address interoperability requirements for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a two-part blog post published Thursday that Ka-band's capacity to cover frequencies that civilian and military […] More

by Jane Edwards January 26, 2018, 10:30 am
in Industry News, News

Ken Lee: Orbital ATK to Build 11th Comms Satellite for Intelsat

Intelsat has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) a contract to build a communications satellite based on the latter company’s GEOStar-2 platform. Orbital ATK said Monday it will design, construct and test Intelsat’s future Galaxy 30 satellite at a Dulles, Virginia-based manufacturing facility. “Galaxy 30 will be the 11th satellite Orbital ATK has built for Intelsat, and […] More

by Scott Nicholas January 9, 2018, 3:19 am
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Orbital ATK Brings Comms Satellite to French Guiana Ahead of January Launch

Orbital ATK has transported a hybrid electric propulsion communications satellite built for Al Yah Satellite Communications to a launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, ahead of the system’s intended liftoff in January 2018. Orbital ATK said Thursday it built the GEOStar-3 satellite designated Al Yah 3 to help expand Yahsat’s commercial Ka-band services to approximately 600 million […] More

by Scott Nicholas December 1, 2017, 11:51 am
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Boeing-ViaSat Team to Build 2 Ka-Band Satellites for the Americas, EMEA
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Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Govt, Troops Should Adopt Commercial Satcom That “Moves“ With Them

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said government personnel and warfighters should adopt a satellite communications platform that “moves“ with them to facilitate voice, video and data sharing and carry out missions amid disasters and global conflicts. Hirsch told the Mobile Satellite Users Association in an interview published […] More

by Jane Edwards September 25, 2017, 1:25 am
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Kymeta to Develop Ka-Band CubeSat Antennas for NASA

Kymeta‘s government solutions division has received a pair of NASA grants to produce Ka-band antennas for integration with CubeSats or other satellites designed to operate in low-Earth orbit. The company said Monday it aims to develop space-based antennas under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program as part of efforts to help address for very low size, weight and […] More

by Nichols Martin September 19, 2017, 9:19 am
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Australian Air Force Uses Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Satcom Service Aboard C-130J Aircraft

Australia’s air force has begun to use Inmarsat‘s satellite communications service on a C-130J Hercules transport aircraft as part of an effort to create new ways for air platforms to support deployed forces. Inmarsat said Friday the air force is using the Global Xpress service through Honeywell‘s JetWaveTM Ka-band satcom platform for a six-month trial that […] More

by Ramona Adams September 15, 2017, 10:36 am