WBMSAT News Bits 03/15/2015
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015Featured Article
Photo – U.S. Air Force – C4ISR&Networks
Commercial firm will take over the Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) constellation by 2016.
[C4ISR&Networks – 03/13/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 03/07/2015
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
The technology of spying – Neil Bond – Stuff
Latest Snowden files released describe secret spy activity over the South Pacific region performed within Waihopai earth station in New Zealand.
[Stuff – 03/08/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 02/28/2015
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015Featured Article
Russian carrier rocket Soyus-ST with broadband communications satellites launched last December. (Jody Arriet/AFP) – Mail & Guardian
South Africa’s intelligence service reportedly relied on a spy “with direct access to the Russian government” to find out details of its own government’s involvement in a R1.14-billion joint satellite surveillance programme with Russia.
[Mail & Guardian – 02/27/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 02/20/2015
Monday, February 23rd, 2015Featured Article
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory mission – Credit: SpaceX – Space News
SES agrees to be the inaugural customer aboard an enhanced version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket following careful review of its more powerful first stage engine block.
[Space News – 02/202015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 02/15/2015
Monday, February 16th, 2015
Shutterstock / Pavel Ignatov – Market Watch
China nears launch of hack-proof ‘quantum communications’ link, plans satellite launch in 2016 as first step towards quantum network in the sky.
[Market Watch – 02/09/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 02/06/2015
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
A diagram shows the coverage areas of each of OneWeb’s planned satellites. – OneWeb – VOX
SpaceX, working with Google, and OneWeb, teamed with Virgin Galactic, race to build satellite internet.
[VOX – 02/05/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 01/30/2015
Friday, January 30th, 2015Featured Article
World radiocommunication conference 2015 (WRC-15) will be held in Geneva Nov. 2-27 – Space News
ITU gives European satellite operators bad news – share the lower part of C-band spectrum with mobile operators.
[Space News – 01/29/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 01/23/2015
Monday, January 26th, 2015
Space Daily File image: Dmitry Rogozin
New head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Dimitry Rogozin, says Russia must continue international space cooperation.
[Space Daily – 01/23/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 01/16/2015
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015Featured Article
Taikonauts from China’s Shenzhou 9 mission aboard China’s space station Tiangong-1 Credit: China Central Television screen grab – Space News
ESA is actively working with China with the goal of placing a European astronaut on the Chinese space station.
[Space News – 01/16/2015]
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WBMSAT News Bits 01/03/2015
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015Featured Article
Dec. 5 launch of an Orion spacecraft on a Delta 4 Heavy rocket – Credit NASA – Space News
Late surge of launch activity, primarily by China and Russia, pushed the total number of orbital launches worldwide in 2014 to its highest level in 20 years.
[Space News – 12/31/2014]