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Boeing Awarded Launch Services Contract For Second WorldView Satellite
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 17, 2008
Boeing, through its commercial launch business, Boeing Launch Services, has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe's second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle. DigitalGlobe is the provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products. Boeing successfully launched the first satellite in the series, WorldView ... read more

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    Digital Angel's FASTFIND MAX Personal Locator Beacons Awarded FCC Approval
    St. Paul MN (SPX) Apr 17, 2008
    Digital Angel has announced that its McMurdo FASTFIND MAX PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) range, the MAX and the MAX G (with 12-channel GPS), has been awarded Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Type Approval certification, signaling the go-ahead for these PLBs to be sold in the U.S. McMurdo is one of the world's leading suppliers of emergency distress beacons. The MAX and MAX G, the ... more

    Guardian Technology Completes Integration With Thermo King Global
    Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 17, 2008
    Guardian Technology has completed its firmware integration with Thermo King single and multi-temp truck and trailer refrigeration units. This allows Guardian Technology to extract Thermo King reefer data and wirelessly transmit the information to dispatchers, fleet managers and drivers. The ReeferGuard unit connects directly to Thermo King's i-Box which is installed on the refrigeration ... more

    Rosum Secures Financing For Mobile TV And Home Telecommunications Markets
    Mountain View CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008
    Rosum has announced that it has raised $15 million in new financing. Existing investors Charles River Ventures, Allegis Capital, Steamboat Ventures and KTB Ventures, and new investor TruePosition, Inc., a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, participated in this round of financing. Skip Speaks, Rosum CEO, commented, "In the past seven months, we have secured partnerships with Intel ... more

    USAF Awards ProLink Contract To Install ProLink GPS Systems On Seven Golf Courses
    Chandler AZ (SPX) Apr 17, 2008
    ProLink Solutions has announced that the United States Air Force has awarded ProLink a contract, valued at $3.7 Million, to install the ProLink Solutions GPS system, used at many of the world's leading golf courses, at seven golf courses located at Air Force bases throughout the Pacific region. The installations are expected to occur over the next sixty to ninety days. "We are excited that ... more

    Raytheon Wins Contract For Global Positioning Receivers
    El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008
    Raytheon has won a $61 million U.S. Air Force contract to complete the development and certification of next-generation global positioning receivers. The contracting agency is the Global Positioning System Wing at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles. Under the Modernized User Equipment program, the circuit card technology will connect military users with new ... more

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    Five Orphaned Bears Get A New Life In Russia - Satellite Tracking Will Monitor Survival
    Bubonitsy, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2008
    In the forest of the Tver region of Russia, researchers from IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) and veterinarians from the Moscow Zoo have returned five orphaned bear cubs to the wild. Prior to the release, the team performed veterinary checks and tagged the bears for monitoring. One of these bears will be monitored using a satellite collar, a step forward in evaluating post ... more

    INRIX And WSI Make Commutes Easier With Enhanced Traffic Forecasts
    Kirkland WA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008
    INRIX and WSI have announced an agreement where WSI will exclusively incorporate the full breadth of INRIX Traffic services, including real-time and predictive traffic data, into their premier on-air traffic product TruVu Traffic HD. For twenty-five years, WSI has been the first choice among #1 broadcast and cable television stations including CNN, FOX, NBC and hundreds of TV station customers f ... more

    NAVX Named As One Of Europe's Most Promising Technology Companies
    Paris, France (SPX) Apr 16, 2008
    NAVX has been named as one of the most promising private technology companies in the 2008 Red Herring 100 Europe. The winners have been announced at the Red Herring Europe event taking place this week on the Mediterranean island of Malta, where the companies named will be presenting their technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers and corporate strategists. Every year ... more

    GSA Releases New Galileo Open Service Signal-In-Space Interface Control Document
    Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Apr 15, 2008
    The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) has just released a new version of the Galileo Open Service Signal-In-Space Interface Control Document, the 'Galileo OS SIS ICD'. This document will enable developers to create products and applications which make the most of Galileo system and signals. This document is open for public consultation. Galileo satellites will communicate with ... more

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    Tourist Information Wherever You Are
    Paris, France (SPX) Apr 15, 2008
    Would you like instant access to information on the buildings and scenery you see on your travels? A novel mobile phone programme, able to provide information on what you see when you see it, was a regional winner in the European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme. This novel use of satellite technology, created by Ernst Pechtl and Hans Geiger ... more

    South Korean To Star In Space Sing-Song
    Moscow (AFP) April 12, 2008
    South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-Yeon, was to star Saturday in celebratory sing-song aboard the crowded International Space Station (ISS) as back on Earth Russia marked the 47th anniversary of sending the first man in space. Yi, 29, docked Thursday along with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko after a successful Soyuz space capsule journey from the Russian cosmodrome at ... more

    NASA Spacecraft Fine Tunes Course For Mars Landing
    Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 11, 2008
    NASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25th landing on the Red Planet. "This is our first trajectory maneuver targeting a specific location in the northern polar region of Mars," said Brian Portock, chief of the Phoenix navigation team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The mission's two pri ... more

    INRIX Launches Real-Time Traffic Alerts Across Whole US Interstate System
    Kirkland WA (SPX) Apr 11, 2008
    INRIX has introduced Nationwide Traffic Alerts on more than 100,000 miles of major arterials, freeways and highways, including the entire U.S. Interstate Highway System, with never-before availability of real-time traffic alerts highlighting abnormal traffic congestion across the nation. MapQuest and other INRIX customers intend to deliver INRIX Nationwide Traffic Alerts for major urban, i ... more

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