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Proton Rocket Carrying New 4G Broadband Satellite Successfully Launched MARKHAM, ON, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Xplornet Communications Inc. is delighted to announce the successful launch of ViaSat-1, North America's first 4G broadband satellite.  The satellite was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and will be stationed in geosynchronous orbit at an altitude of 35,786 km. A game-changer in terms of ubiquitous broadband access in Canada, ViaSat-1 will...

LONDON, October 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Inmarsat plc (LSE:ISAT.L), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services announces that Inmarsat SA, one of its subsidiary companies, has successfully completed Critical Design Review for the Inmarsat-5 satellites, under contract with Boeing. The Inmarsat-5 satellites are a key element of the new Global Xpress(TM) Ka-band network. "This is a fundamental milestone and marks the transition of the...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) today announced it has booked an $88 million order to provide its ProBeam system for the Scripps Proton Therapy Center being developed in San Diego through collaboration between Scripps Health, Scripps Clinic Medical Group and Advanced Particle Therapy, of Nevada. The equipment order for the five room center that will be operated by Scripps Health was issued by the California Proton Treatment Center (CPTC),...

LITTLETON, Mass., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mevion Medical Systems, Inc. announced today that it changed its name from Still River Systems, Inc. This change reflects the company's transition from a research and development organization to the commercial manufacturer of the MEVION S250(TM) Proton Therapy System. Proton therapy is widely regarded as the optimal means of delivering therapeutic radiation to treat a variety of cancers, but is not widely available because of the immense size,...

CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has announced that the launch of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite, previously set for the end of September, is now scheduled for mid-October. The delay is due to the launch failure of the Russian Federal Mission with the Express AM4 communication satellite that occurred on August 18. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091216/VIASATLOGO) Immediately after the failure of the Russian Federal Proton mission...

LONDON, August 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Inmarsat plc (LSE:ISAT.L), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announces that Inmarsat SA, one of its subsidiary companies, has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites. The launches, scheduled for 2013-14, will use the ILS Proton launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Inmarsat-5 satellites - three...

LITTLETON, Mass., June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Still River Systems, Inc. announces today that it has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) to utilize advanced superconducting accelerator technologies developed at M.I.T.'s Plasma Science and Fusion Center in collaboration with Still River. Still River will employ those technologies in conjunction with its own leading-edge developments in its groundbreaking single-room proton...

Most important milestone in the direct measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton and its anti-particle has been achieved / Focusing the matter-antimatter symmetry Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), together with their colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, have observed spin quantum-jumps with a single trapped proton for...

Mayo Clinic to build centers in Rochester, MN. and Phoenix; McLaren brings proton therapy to Flint, MI. Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 09, 2011 The National Association for Proton Therapy (NAPT) today announced three new supporting member sites including Mayo Clinic proton beam therapy program under development in Rochester, Minn. and Phoenix; and the McLaren Proton Therapy Center, currently under construction in Flint, Mich. Today's announcement brings to seven the total number of proton...

We are advised by Proton that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, Proton Finds Success for Google's "Search On" Campaign, issued earlier today over PR Newswire, as it contained some erroneous information. /PRNewswire/ -- May 3, 2011 SOURCE Proton