July 2017

Big Bend Telephone Company, Texas/USA, has become the first commercial user of the EXPLORER MSAT-G3 system for the next generation MSAT service, which combines Cobham SATCOM’s Push-to-Talk technology, the Ligado Networks SkyTerra 1 satellite and ViaSat’s low-latency, IP-based L-band Mobile Satellite Services network. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017072003

http://www.satellitetoday.com/publications/st/2017/07/20/subhash-chandra-foresaw-dth-boom-india-14-years-ago/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/launch/2017/07/20/atlas-5-launch-sierra-nevadas-dream-chaser/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2017/07/20/alaska-isp-improve-broadband-speeds-ses-capacity/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2017/07/20/new-leaders-broadband-mobility-media-businesses-intelsat/

http://www.satellitetoday.com/technology/2017/07/20/kaman-releases-upgraded-differential-measurement-system/

RSC Energia specialists at the Baikonur launch site have successfully completed operations to fill a manned transportation spacecraft of the new series Soyuz MS-05 with propellant components and compressed gases. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017071900

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that it selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) commercially developed Atlas V rocket to launch the first two missions of its Dream Chaser cargo system in support of NASA’s Cargo Resupply Services 2 (CRS2) contract. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017071901

Russia’s Progress Rocket and Space Centre is ready to manufacture new Soyuz-5 medium-class carrier rocket (a.k.a. Feniks), Progress CEO Alexander Kirilin was quoted as saying. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2017071902

http://www.satellitetoday.com/newspace/2017/07/19/satellites-key-cybersecurity-cloud/