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Lockheed Martin captures contract to build GPS III satellites three and four

Published on January 14, 2012 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale LOS ANGELES AFB, Calif., 12 Jan. 2012. Navigation satellite designers at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Space Systems Co. in Newtown, Pa., outside Trenton will build the third and fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation and guidance satellites under terms of a $238.5 million contract awarded Wednesday by [...]

Astra’s new UK sat grounded for 3 weeks

Published on July 5, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale Astra’s first new satellite for UK television has been grounded after a problem with the Ariane 5 rocket during the countdown to launch. Arianespace engineers noted a problem in the ground system infrastructure leading to the Ariane 5 rocket on Friday night. It was due to launch with [...]

Review clears Alphasat sub-systems for launch

Published on July 5, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale Two major milestones have been completed in preparation for the launch of Alphasat I-XL – a new satellite to enhance Inmarsat’s broadband network. From Transcom ISP, post Review clears Alphasat sub-systems for launch Transcom Divisions : ISP, Satcoms, Imgtank, Askbill, Onbored, Bacardi, Domains, VOIP, Support Share on bebo [...]

Ernie Barnes: Watching and waiting

Published on July 2, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale Before Wotsat existed, Ernie Barnes watched sat TV for feeds, and he’s still at it. I can’t remember my first satellite receiver; I started before Wotsat began, I kept the first editions for years and I still subscribe. I’ve had a multitude of receivers: Maspro, Skyscan, Connexions, Discus, [...]

John Zalewski: Fishing for cables

Published on July 2, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale How John Zalewski strung an extra satellite feed through an invisible pipe. The Humax Foxsat-HDR for Freesat has two receivers and to be able to use all of its features it needs a twin LNB and two coaxial cables, one for each receiver. I now had the problem [...]

David Cameron, Wen Jibao witness DMC3 signing

Published on June 30, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale Earlier this week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao witnessed the signing of a £110m satellite imaging deal between SSTL subsidiary DMCii and Beijing-based company 21AT during the UK-China trade summit at 10 Downing Street. Mme Wu Shuang and Sir Prof. Martin Sweeting (left) [...]

Divers stranded on coral island call for help with IsatPhone Pro

Published on June 23, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale A group of divers stranded on a deserted island were able to call for help on a newly-purchased IsatPhone Pro. The 18 Mexicans had been enjoying a diving holiday in the Indonesian archipelago when their chartered boat, the Sea Safari III, hit an underwater reef in the middle [...]

IsatPhone Link brings new voice service to fixed locations

Published on June 23, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale Inmarsat has launched IsatPhone Link, a new global fixed satellite phone service, based on the award-winning IsatPhone Pro handheld phone. From Transcom ISP, post IsatPhone Link brings new voice service to fixed locations Transcom Divisions : ISP, Satcoms, Imgtank, Askbill, Onbored, Bacardi, Domains, VOIP, Support Share on bebo [...]

Canadian club

Published on June 13, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale Chris Forrester’s Launch Pad Intelsat is partnering Canada’s top space tech outfit in a new satellite rescue tug project. Two months ago we wrote about plans for an orbiting rescue ’space tug’ proposed by Alliant Techsystems of Minneapolis to launch ViviSat in a few year’s time. Now there’s [...]

EHF satellite communications antenna for B-2 bomber to be developed by Northrop Grumman

Published on June 10, 2011 By transcom

Checkout our Wholesale Prices at Transcom Wholesale May 12,2011 – PALMDALE, Calif., 12 May 2011. Engineers at Northrop Grumman are designing a new antenna system for the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber that now will process battlefield information securely by satellite as much as 100 times faster t……. From Transcom ISP, post EHF satellite communications antenna [...]