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February 05, 2013

TeleCommunication Systems Receives Incremental Funding From US Army For SNAP Deployable Satellite Systems
Annapolis, MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2013
TeleCommunication Systems has received $3.4 million in incremental funding from the U.S. Army for equipment, field services support and maintenance of Secure Internet Protocol Router and Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point (SNAP) Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems equipment. News Facts: The U.S. Army Project Manager for the Warfighter Information Network - Tactical (PM WIN-T) Commercial Satellite Terminal Program is funding these procurements through the Army' ... read more

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				Flight Control Test-2 for SLS at ATK An ATK technician performs one last check on the avionics test article for solid rocket boosters in preparation for the second Flight Control Test of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) at the ATK faci ... more		Trimble Introduces High-Accuracy Correction Service For Agriculture Trimble has introduced a new high-accuracy correction service available to the agriculture market. The Trimble RangePoint RTX correction service is an introductory, cost-effective correction service ... more

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				ViaSat Augments Global Mobility Satellite Network with New Capacity ViaSat has signed four new contracts that increase the total Ku-band capacity of its global mobility network by more than 60 percent. This investment in additional bandwidth will be reserved for gov ... more		Australian Defence Science Organisation To Use Deployable VSAT System TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. has received an order from the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) for its Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems. The ... more

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Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

AAS Division For Planetary Sciences Issues Statement On Mars 2020 Program

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Ahmadinejad says ready to be Iran's first spaceman

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NASA Launches Next-Gen Communications Satellite

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Internet wonders which monkey Iran sent into space

Ten years on, US recalls Columbia shuttle disaster

Russia-launched satellite plunges into Pacific

NASA Launches Next-Gen Communications Satellite

South Korean Satellite Makes First Contact with Ground

NASA Launches Rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia

New method of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes

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Record Setting Asteroid Flyby

S. Korea, US hold naval drill under nuclear test threat

UN Council vows 'strong' action on N.Korea nuclear test

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