Richard Mumford

It has been announced that Saab Ericsson Space AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, has won an order from satellite prime contractor Alcatel Space to supply two 1.1 m Ku-band Gregorian reflector antennas to be mounted on the earth-facing panel of the WORLDSAT-3 (WS-3) satellite. The antennas have heritage from the lightweight...

QinetiQ has reaped the rewards of its efforts by being selected, as part of a team led by EDS, to provide the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) with its ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) Testbed. The testbed will allow the MoD to experiment with a variety of...

Reliance Infocomm, a subsidiary of the Reliance Group, has chosen Alvarion of Israel, along with Siemens Public Communication Networks, India, as the suppliers of an LMDS solution for an access network that it is building throughout India. In accordance with the contract, they will take responsibility for design, supply...

EADS Astrium has awarded EMS Technologies’ Space & Technology/Atlanta Division two contracts valued at $6.1 M for key hardware on the United Kingdom’s next-generation military communications satellite system, Skynet 5. It is the first UK satellite programme to be funded through an innovative private finance initiative and is providing...

Alcatel has signed a contract for the supply of a complete solution, including GSM/GPRS/EDGE infrastructure and services, to Investcom in Cyprus. Through Scancom, the local Cypriot company owned by Investcom, the system will become operational on May 1, 2004. Under the terms of the contract, the Evolium solution will...

West technology Research Solutions LLC, a market research firm focusing solely on emerging technologies, announced the availability of the new edition of its ultra-wideband market report that includes an in-depth analysis of the two groups vying for the IEEE UWB specification. “Our analysis demonstrates that the Multiband OFDM Alliance...

In the scope of the European Union MAESTRO Research and Development project (Mobile Applications and sErvices based on Satellite and Terrestrial inteRwOrking), Alcatel Space will coordinate an international consortium of 20 partners addressing the whole mobile multimedia value chain. This partnership will enable the development and implementation of the...

Royal Philips Electronics and IBM have announced a major initiative to jointly develop customer systems for radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart card applications. Working together, the companies will combine their industry expertise to address the growing need for advanced high security smart cards and RFID technology in day-to-day...

Initially focusing on radar technologies, Lockheed Martin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Poland’s leading defence electronics company, Przemyslowy Instytut Telekomunikacji (PIT), to pursue industrial cooperation related to missile defence. The MoU outlines the areas of cooperation between the two companies, agrees on ways to exchange proprietary...

In collaboration with Nokia, TELESTET has brought commercial 3G services to Greece with the launch of the country’s first WCDMA network. It will initially operate in the greater Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra and Irakleion areas with other major cities to follow shortly. The launched WCDMA 3G network uses equipment provided...