PressReleasePoint - Aerospace & Defense

ViaSat Announces New 100G Optical Transport Forward Error Correction (FEC) Products and Digital Signal Processing Services

ViaSat — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:11:17 -0400

ECC66100 family of FEC products counters impairments for 100G optical channels

SITA placed in Visionaries quadrant of latest Pan-European Network Service Provider Quadrant

SITA — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:23:37 -0400

Date:17 March 2010

Location:Geneva

SITA today announced it has been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s latest Pan-European Network Service Provider (NSP) Magic Quadrant*.

Tariam offer free satellite broadband hardware for Forces Personnel

andrew.walwyn@tariam.co.uk — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:58:39 -0400

Global Satellite Broadband ISP Tariam has launched an innovative new satellite broadband service aimed specifically at supporting serving NATO and ISAF forces and their subcontractors operating in Afghanistan and Iraq.

O3b Signs Agreement with ViaSat for Ka-Band Infrastructure

ViaSat — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:09:42 -0400

Ka-band infrastructure contract includes full-motion tracking antenna systems and high-speed IP trunking terminals

CHERYLE R. JACKSON, CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE PRESIDENT AND CEO, TO JOIN AAR CORP. EXECUTIVE TEAM

AAR — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:51:09 -0400

WOOD DALE, ILLINOIS (March 16, 2010) — AAR CORP. (NYSE: AIR) announced today that Cheryle R. Jackson will be joining the senior leadership team of AAR as Vice President of Government Affairs and Corporate Development, effective March 29, 2010.

BOMBARDIER SELECTS AAR FOR CSERIES AIRCRAFT COMPOSITE FLAP TRACK FAIRINGS

AAR — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:37:25 -0400

WOOD DALE, ILLINOIS (March 15, 2010) — AAR CORP. (NYSE: AIR) today announced that it has been selected by Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast to design and manufacture composite flap track fairings for the wings of the newCSeriesfamily of commercial aircraft.

Rockwell Collins avionics and cabin management system certified on Cessna Citation CJ4

Rockwell Collins — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:35:26 -0400

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Marks first application of Rockwell Collins Venue™ and MultiScan™ on business jets

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Middle East's largest low cost carrier selects SITA's AIRCOM service

SITA — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:39:07 -0400

Date:15 March 2010

Location:Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

U.S. Government officials and DynCorp International Honor Police trainers injured in Iraq

Dyn — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:33:12 -0400

Former Trainers from North Carolina and South Dakota Honored with Defense of Freedom Medal, Special Recognition from the Department of State and President’s Valor Award from DynCorp International

Need for More Comprehensive Situational Awareness Fuels Growth in Unattended Ground Sensors Market

Frost_Sullivan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:10:50 -0400

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 16, 2010 – Unattended ground sensor (UGS) systems have been attracting huge attention from participants in the defense arena owing to the benefits they confer for surveillance, target detection, border security, and other areas involving homeland protection.

N° 5-2010: Media opportunity: ESA presents European participants in 520-day simulated mission to Mars

ESA — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:13:02 -0500

A crew of six, including two Europeans, will soon begin a simulated mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary spaceship, a Mars lander and a martian landscape. The Mars500 experiment, as long as a real journey to Mars, will be second to none as the ultimate test of human endurance.

NASA Announces Systems Engineering Student Competition

NASA — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:07:45 -0500

NASA Awards Civil Design, Engineering and Services Contract

NASA — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:56:39 -0500

NASA Offers 'FAST' Opportunities For Zero-G Technology Testing

NASA — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:01:11 -0500

WASHINGTON -- NASA has announced opportunities to test emerging technologies during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space. The technologies should have potential use in future NASA projects, support future exploration systems, or improve air and space vehicle capabilities.

NASA TV Provides Coverage of One Space Station Crew's Return to Earth and Another's Journey There

NASA — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:46:43 -0500

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will cover the landing of two current International Space Station crew members and the launch of three upcoming station residents later in March and April. Coverage begins with a broadcast of crew farewells and hatch closure aboard the station March 17, and continues with the arrival, docking and hatch opening of the new Expedition 23 crew members on April 4.