Telespazio Argentina, a subsidiary of Telespazio and a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), was awarded a contract following an international tender in Costa Rica to perform an urban and rural cadastral survey of the country. The contract is worth $20 million and will last four years.

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Sentrium announced that it is providing additional support for first responders for the VyOS open source community-driven project.

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JVCKENWOOD announced that its Kenwood TM-D710GA amateur radio equipment was selected for operational use on the International Space Station (ISS). The TM-D710GA is designed for use on the ISS and will be installed in the Columbus European laboratory sometime after the March 7 successful launch of SpaceX CRS-20 (Falcon 9 rocket).

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Sean Monaghan joined Evans as chief financial officer (CFO). He joins Evans with a background in manufacturing with operations in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

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Satellite-to-cellphone company Lynk Global announced that it successfully connected a satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) to an unmodified standard mobile phone on Earth. The technical breakthrough enabled Lynk to send what it called the world’s first ever text message from space to a mobile phone.

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Critical Communications World (CCW) 2020 has been postponed to 3 – 5 November in Madrid. The global conference was originally scheduled for 17 – 19 June in Madrid.

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L3Harris Technologies released cleaning guidelines for all its mobile radios and control heads, portable radios and radio accessories.

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Nokia is delivering a landslide monitoring and early warning system for highways operations management company BGIGC Group. The system is in partnership with China Mobile/CMCC Guangxi.

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Axon added Yasser Ibrahim as the company’s senior vice president of artificial intelligence (AI). Ibrahim joins Axon's leadership team from Amazon, where he most recently served as head of distributed machine learning at Alexa AI.

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The International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) 2020 was rescheduled for Aug. 24 – 28 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (South Halls 1-2) in Las Vegas. ETA’s Education Forum is also rescheduled to take place at this time.

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