Focus - Transmission Security - April - week 3 Encryption and Satellite Security Security applications in e-commerce and military communications are developing in tandem with the growth of the Internet, but how do we keep our data safe from prying eyes? Mark Williamson, independent space technology consultant, decodes the increasingly complex, sometimes esoteric, world of cryptography. Click here for the full story

Oil & Gas Communications: Africa and the Middle East, 15-17 May 2006, Cairo, will bring together key leaders and experts from the oil & gas sector (end-user) community, as well as the communications industry (provider) community into one high-level discussion and networking forum. Facilitated by lead sponsor Schlumberger Connectivity Services, and the sponsorship support of Codan, SES Americom, Satlynx, Stratos Global, and Comtech EF Data, this GVF conference will create opportunities for companies in a major global vertical to call upon ICT solutions providers – whether based on terrestrial wireline or wireless, or satellite – to match their offerings more closely to the specific demands and requirements of this end-user sector. Visit the conference web site at: www.gvf-events.org.

Contact: martin.jarrold@gvf.org or + 44 1727 884 513.

Successful test validates Lockheed Martin design for Advanced Military Communications Satellite
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced today that it has successfully completed a critical structural test of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) spacecraft. The Advanced EHF system will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable communications for all warfighters serving under the U.S. Department of Defense...

SES AMERICOM retires Spacenet-4 after 15 years of service
SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL Company (Luxembourg and Paris Euronext exchanges:SESG), conducted its last operations on the Spacenet-4 (SN-4) satellite, safely de-orbiting the satellite more than 200 km beyond the geosynchronous orbital belt...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. awarded a $3.2 million contract for high power amplifiers
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL) announced today that its New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp., has received a $3.2 million contract for broadband, solid state, high power RF microwave amplifier systems from a major international customer...

Boeing delivers satellite to DIRECTV following successful on-orbit testing
Boeing [NYSE:BA] today announced the handover of the Spaceway F2 satellite to DIRECTV, Inc., the second of four Boeing satellites that will provide DIRECTV with the capacity to broadcast hundreds of local and national high definition (HD) channels, positioning DIRECTV as the nation's leading provider of HD programming...

Verso appoints William J. West to Board of Directors
Verso Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSO), a global provider of next-generation network solutions, announced today that William J. West has joined its board of directors...

New satellite ASTRA 1KR ready for launch
SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company (PINK SHEETS:SGBAF)(BOURSE:SESG)(LuxX:SESG), has announced today that its new satellite ASTRA 1KR has been fully integrated into the fairing of the launch vehicle, an Atlas V rocket, and is ready for launch on 20 April at the Cape Canaveral Airforce Station in Florida, USA...


Arabsat signs Jawrat Al-Ballout Station extension agreement with Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) has signed an agreement for the extension of Jawrat Al-Ballout station with the Telecommunications Ministry of Lebanon to upgrade the station's capacity in order to establish new bouquets and cope with future extensions in satellite TV broadcasting expected to take place in the region...

GlobeCast gears up for World Cup action in Germany with top broadcasters
Content management and delivery company GlobeCast is gearing up for the World Cup this summer, with both rightsholders and non-rightsholders set to receive services throughout Germany...


Comtech Telecommunications Corp. signs $3.5 million purchase agreement with DIRECTV for new DVB-S2 satcom equipment
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., signed a volume purchase agreement with DIRECTV, Inc...

Boeing selects Alcatel Alenia Space to provide the tanks for its Delta II vehicle
Alcatel Alenia Space has recently been awarded a contract, worth approximately 11 million dollars, by the Boeing Company for manufacturing 12 additional Second Stage Tank Assemblies for the Delta II rocket. The delivery of the new tanks, which will be manufactured in the Alcatel Alenia Space facilities in Turin, Italy, will occur between 2007 and 2009...


Lockheed Martin Goes-R program team to include SAIC and IBM
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced today that Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and IBM Business Consulting Services have joined the GOES-R Lockheed Martin Team in competition for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) program...


Helius Integrates IP-Enabled Set-Top Boxes
Helius Inc., a leading developer of turnkey IP video solutions for business, today announced integration with the Tilgin Mood 300 IP Set-top Box. Integration will give customers enhanced playback capabilities including MPEG4 H.264. Helius will be demonstrating this integration at NAB 2006 Booth C8545...


ARABSAT signs a strategic cooperation agreement with Jordan Media City
The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Jordan Media City (JMC) to set up Television integrated solutions centres and centres for broadcasting and storage of TV materials which will form an attraction factor for broadcasting companies and private TV stations to meet the increasing demand in the developing digital transmission market...

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