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The Ciel II satellite, of Canada's Ciel Satellite Group, has been successfully launched by International Launch Services (ILS) from the Baïkonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor of the satellite, which will deliver service over North America. Ciel II is the first multi-spot satellite dedicated...

Arlon Inc. , an indirect subsidiary of WHX Corp. (WHX), is in receipt of the complaint that Rogers Corp. filed against Arlon in the United States District Court in Hartford, CT. The complaint alleges that Rogers is the exclusive licensee under US Patent No. 5,552,210 and that Arlon’s TC600...

Avago Technologies , a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, has announced that its two power amplifiers based on the fifth generation of CoolPAM technology comply with the new talk time requirements defined by major Asian mobile carriers. The ACPM-7822, which supports Japan CDMA...

Vincotech GmbH , part of the Gores Group, has taken up residence in new offices in Unterhaching near Munich, Germany. Following its divestiture from the former Electronics Modules division of Tyco Electronics to the Gores Group at the end of 2007, it was necessary for Vincotech to move to...

If you are still deciding on what to give the woman (or microwave engineer) who has everything this holiday season, then researchers in Washington may have solved that last minute gift problem – microwaved diamonds. Yu-fei Meng, Chih-shiue Yan, Joseph Lai, Szczesny Krasnicki, Haiyun Shu, Thomas Yu, Qi Liang,...

Sonnet Software Inc. , a provider of High Frequency Electromagnetic (EM) Simulation Software, introduces the latest SONNET® Suites Professional™ Release 12. Complementing Sonnet’s legendary accuracy, Sonnet now introduces dramatically faster simulations through parallel processing on multi-core CPUs. Each frequency point is computed in parallel within the same computer. Sonnet’s...

Ducommun Inc. announced that its Ducommun Technologies Inc. (DTI) subsidiary has been awarded a multi-year agreement from The Raytheon Co. with a total potential value exceeding $102 M. The contract is for the manufacture and sub-system integration of radar racks and electro-mechanical enclosures for the active electronically scanned array...

Jersey Microwave has been awarded a $1.1 M contract to supply high performance Ka-band block converters into a major military SATCOM program. The award is the third release of this magnitude awarded to Jersey Microwave in 2008. Jersey Microwave became the preferred source by providing superior performance over other...

Symmetricom Inc. , a leader in precise time and frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment and enable the management of next generation networks, announced the SyncSwitch TC100 Transparent Clock, an IEEE 1588 Precise Time Protocol (PTP) enabled Ethernet switch that minimizes time transfer errors due to packet queuing delays...

Richardson Electronics Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement with RADIALL , a manufacturer of interconnect components, to promote and distribute “Service +”, an innovative and automated program for ordering, manufacturing and delivering RF cable assemblies. “RADIALL’s Service + provides Richardson the opportunity to better serve our...