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DigitalGlobe

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DigitalGlobe is the world’s leading provider of high-resolution Earth imagery, data and analysis. With the most sophisticated commercial satellite constellation in orbit, we create the world’s smartest images – giving customers the confidence to make the decisions that matter most. By helping our customers solve their most difficult challenges, DigitalGlobe has become the trusted partner of dozens of industries worldwide – from environmental monitoring and mapmaking to defense and public safety. With the most sophisticated commercial satellite constellation in orbit, we create the world’s smartest images – giving customers the confidence to make the decisions that matter most. Customers everywhere rely on our best-in-class technology, global coverage and 16-year time-lapse image library to provide accurate, mission-critical information about our changing planet. By helping our customers solve their most difficult challenges, DigitalGlobe has become the trusted partner of dozens of industries worldwide – from environmental monitoring and mapmaking to defense and public safety.

Latham & Watkins

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Latham & Watkins provides clients across the globe with exceptional legal services and innovative solutions to their most complex business issues and disputes. Clients turn to Latham for help with enterprise transforming transactions and to defend bet-the-company disputes as well as day-to-day guidance and preventative advice. As commerce and business risk have grown increasingly global, so have we. With more than 2,200 lawyers in more than 30 offices, we are positioned in the world’s major financial, business, and regulatory centers to serve our clients.

Latham’s in-depth knowledge of the power industry comes from decades of advising the sector’s leading developers, sponsors, financing entities, governments and export credit agencies. The firm’s in-depth knowledge of the sector allows it to give pragmatic advice to clients that are in all stages of their business cycle. Latham’s lawyers harness the firm’s expertise in finance, M&A and restructuring, energy regulation, environmental compliance, litigation and tax to provide comprehensive legal counsel to power industry leaders. Global companies benefit from the firm’s ability to quickly assemble collaborative multi-office and multidisciplinary teams that know the intricate workings of the power industry and government regulation.

Latham & Watkins is regularly ranked in the top tiers by Chambers, The American Lawyer, Financial Times, mergermarket, The Legal 500 and Asia Legal Business.

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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Sheppard Mullin is a leading law firm in the renewable energy sector. With over 600 attorneys in 16 offices across the globe, we provide renewable energy clients with a comprehensive range of legal services. We advise regarding financing, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, EPC contracts, project agreements, litigation, real estate, land use, and intellectual property protection. Sheppard Mullin attorneys counsel across the full range of renewable projects, from distributed generation across the US to some of the largest utility scale projects in the world.

UrtheCast

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UrtheCast™ and subsidiary Deimos-Imaging is an international company that democratizes access to Earth imagery data from its growing satellite system —  two cameras aboard the International Space Station, the Deimos-1 and Deimos-2 satellites, the proposed UrtheDaily™ Constellation of eight small sats designed to image Earth every day at 10:30 am, and the proposed OptiSAR™ Constellation of 16 satellites designed to image through atmospheric barriers like cloud and smoke. Along with 13 satellites in the Pangeo Alliance, UrtheCast provides space-based data, products and services for geospatial analysis, monitoring and management of agriculture, resources, the environment, and more. The unprecedented, cloud-based UrthePlatform allows for rapid access to imagery data from three of UrtheCast’s sensors and a growing external data offering.

Harris Corporation

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Harris Corporation is a leading technology innovator that creates mission-critical solutions that connect, inform and protect the world. The company’s advanced technology provides information and insight to customers operating in demanding environments–from ocean to orbit and everywhere in between. Harris has approximately $7.5 billion in annualized revenue and supports customers in more than 100 countries through four customer-focused business segments: Critical Networks, Space and Intelligence Systems, Electronic Systems and Communications Systems.

Learn more at harris.com

Scorpio-V (A Division of HNU Photonics)

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SCORPIO-V specializes in creating automated microfluidic and imaging platforms for sophisticated cell biology, tissue and organ-on-a-chip investigations. The high-throughput, remote-controlled and automated features allow long-term experiments with multiple drug delivery options supporting drug discovery, cancer biology, stem cell, Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) research and individualized cancer and stem cell therapies.  SCORPIO-V has developed the BioChip SpaceLab, an automated microfluidic and microscopy facility for long-term live-cell investigations onboard the International Space Station National Lab (ISS-NL).  SCORPIO-V specializes in performing chemistry, cell biology, tissue and organ-on-a-chip investigations in microgravity to increase our understanding of long-term spaceflight on human physiology.  Furthermore, the unique environment of the National Lab and SCORPIO-V’s BioChip SpaceLab allows investigators to harness the microgravity conditions to model human dysfunction including, but not limited to, age related reproductive, musculockeletal, immune and cognitive dysfunction for drug discovery.  The BioChip SpaceLab is designed to automate temperature and fluidic requirements to maintain cell and tissue cultures for weeks to months while performing live-cell microscopy in microgravity. SCOPRIO-V is pleased to announce that the PIMMS microscopy suite will also be installed on the ISS-NL.  PIMMS will provide crew members and investigators an advanced microscope capable of 3D, polarized, confocal and fluorescence microscopy techniques to observe the physical and life science phenomena that occurs in a microgravity environment.   SCORPIO-V provide researchers a wide variety of products and services to support long-term live-cell biological interrogations as well as physical science investigations both on-ground and in-orbit.

SI Imaging Services

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SI Imaging Services (SIIS) is the exclusive worldwide marketing and sales representative of KOMPSAT (Korean Multi-Purpose Satellite) satellite imagery: KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-3A and KOMPSAT-5. SIIS contributes Remote Sensing and Earth Observation industries / societies by providing very high resolution optical and SAR images through over 80 sales partners worldwide.

KOMPSAT products include SAR and Optical products. Firstly, optical products are KOMPSAT-2, 3, 3A, and 5. KOMPSAT-2 has huge archive data all over the world (2.7 million scenes) and has large daily collection capability. KOMPSAT-3 has the highest bits per pixel among the commercial imagery (14 bits per pixel), so it performs better for spectral analysis. KOMPSAT-3A acquired high resolution imagery of 40cm. Secondly, radar product is KOMPSAT-5, which is very high resolution of 85cm. The radar satellite can take images on bad weather condition. Therefore, it is valuable for disaster monitoring which requires quick imaging ability.

GVF

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The Global VSAT Forum (GVF) is the international association of the satellite communications industry. Launched 20 years ago, the organization’s members are based in every major region and include the world’s leading operators, service providers, manufacturers and other companies involved in satellite system and service provision. GVF promotes Members’ interests through delivery of industry initiatives including end-user programs, training & certification, cyber security, terminal approvals, disaster prepardness, advocacy for satellite regulation and spectrum, and heightening awareness of the advantages of satellite-based solutions. For more information, contact info@gvd.org or visit www.gvf.org.

Space Frontier Foundation

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The Space Frontier Foundation is transforming the space industry into a dynamic and inclusive frontier open to free enterprise. We are determined to convert the image held by many young people that the future will be worse than the present, and we reject the idea that the world’s greatest moments are in its past.

Founded in 1988, the Space Frontier Foundation is an organization committed to realizing the vision of a greatly expanded and permanent human presence in space. Space alone offers the resources necessary to ensure the survival and prosperity of our species for numerous generations to come. To realize this vision, the Foundation is fundamentally transforming the conception of space into a widely accessible frontier, ripe with opportunity.

Through conferences, speakers, policy papers, awards and prizes, and nationally recognized projects, the Space Frontier Foundation is actively advancing the cause of “newspace,” the term which has come to represent space infused with the spirit of entrepreneurialism and the free market.

The Space Frontier Foundation is composed of a diverse, multinational array of space activists, expert scientists and engineers, media and political professionals, entrepreneurs, and passionate citizens. You too can be a part of the Space Frontier Foundation.

Space Tech Expo

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Space Tech Expo – America’s engineering meeting place for space technology – May 23-25, 2017

In its sixth year, Space Tech Expo and Conference 2017 continues to grow in its new venue in Pasadena. As America’s engineering meeting place for space technology, the exhibition draws attendance of thousands of industry leaders, decision makers, engineers and buyers to meet manufacturers and the supply chain for civil, military and commercial space.

The free-to-attend exhibition offers industry buyers an unrivaled opportunity to source the latest products, systems and engineering services, stay up to date with market requirements and cutting-edge supplier innovations, network and share knowledge. Running parallel to the exhibition, Space Tech Conference will once again offer perspectives from leading commercial, government and defense organizations.

For more information about Space Tech Expo and Conference, visit the event website www.spacetechexpo.com or call +1 855 436 8683.

Astro Watch Blog

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Astrowatch.net is a space-related website providing the latest stories on astronomy, astrophysics, spaceflight and uncovering the mysteries of the universe. Join in for breaking news from NASA officials, scientific researchers and space industry companies.

Lux Research

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Lux Research provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies. Leaders in business, finance, and government rely on Lux Research to help them make informed strategic decisions. Through their unique research approach focused on primary research and their extensive global network, Lux delivers insight, connections, and competitive advantage to their clients.

Satnews

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Satnews Publishers is a leading provider of satellite news, publications, research and other satellite industry information in both commercial and military enterprises worldwide. Satnews offers a range of products and services to satellite professionals, including free daily news and magazines. For a full list of our free publications please visit:  http://www.satnews.com

Spaceflight Insider

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SpaceFlight Insider reports on events taking place within the aerospace industry. With our team of writers and photographers, we provide an “insider’s” view of all aspects of space exploration efforts. We go so far as to take their questions directly to those officials within NASA and other space-related organizations. At SpaceFlight Insider, the “insider” is not anyone on our team, but our readers.