SAN DIEGO, CA, March 05, 2019 (NewMediaWire) -- RF Industries, Ltd, (NASDAQ: RFIL), a national manufacturer and marketer of interconnect products and systems, today announced that it will release its financial results for the first quarter ended January 31, 2019 on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, after the close of the market.RF Industries will host a conference call and live webcast on March 12, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (4:30 p.m. EDT) to discuss its first quarter fiscal 2019 financial results. To access the live call, dial 800-458-4121 (US and Canada) or 323-794-2093 (International). The conference ID is 3287666.A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be accessible on the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.rfindustries.com. In addition, a phone replay will be available beginning approximately two hours after conclusion of the call and will remain available for two weeks. To access the phone replay, dial 844-512-2921 (US and Canada) or 412-317-6671 (International). The replay conference ID is 3287666.About RF IndustriesRF Industries designs and manufactures a broad range of interconnect products across diversified, growing markets including wireless/wireline telecom, data communications and industrial. The Company's products include RF connectors, coaxial cables, wire harnesses, fiber optic cables and custom cabling. The Company is headquartered in San Diego, California with operations in New York and Connecticut. Please visit the RF Industries website at www.rfindustries.com.Contacts: RF Industries Mark Turfler SVP/CFO (858) 549‑6340 rfi@rfindustries.com MKR Group Inc. Todd Kehrli Analyst/Investor Contact (323) 468-2300 rfil@mkr-group.com
Study Highlights: People with diabetes who quit smoking tobacco may have a lower risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases – and weight gain following smoking cessation does not mitigate the health benefits among these patients, according to one study. Long-term, heavy smoking is a risk factor for cognitive decline, researchers found in an unrelated study. Embargoed until 3 p.m. CT/4 p.m. ET Tues., March 5, 2019 (NewMediaWire) - March 05, 2019 - HOUSTON - Two new studies point to yet more reasons to kick the tobacco habit. In one, researchers found quitting smoking is worth it for people with diabetes despite worries about potential weight gain. In the other, scientists discovered smoking might have a much greater impact on the cognitive function than originally thought. Both studies were presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention | Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2019, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in population-based cardiovascular science for researchers and clinicians, held in Houston this week. In the study on smoking cessation, weight change and the risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular diseases in people with diabetes, researchers analyzed detailed, long-term health information from two studies that included 10,895 men and women with diabetes. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for diabetes, and both diabetes and smoking tobacco are major risk factors for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events. Researchers found the benefits of quitting smoking for people with diabetes significantly outweighed the risk of gaining weight, even though weight gain is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Compared to people with diabetes who continued to smoke, the risk for heart attacks, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases did not increase among recent quitters who gained up to 11 pounds (5.0 kg) or even those who gained more than 11 pounds. The risk for cardiovascular disease was 34 percent lower among recent quitters (six or fewer years since quitting) without weight gain; 25 percent lower among long-term quitters (more than six years since smoking cessation); and 41 percent lower among never-smoking adults with diabetes. “Weight gain concerns should not stop people from being encouraged to quit smoking after they’re diagnosed with diabetes. And for those who do quit, preventing excessive weight gain would further maximize the health benefits of smoking cessation,” said Gang Liu, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of Nutrition at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. A second study spotlights tobacco’s link to cognitive decline in the general population. Cognitive decline means that a person’s memory, reasoning and other mental functions are impaired over time. Although tobacco use has been associated with a higher risk for cognitive decline, it’s difficult to measure just how much of an impact smoking has because smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to drop out or die before the end of long-term studies, according to study author Aozhou Wu, M.H.S., a Ph.D. student in epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. “As a consequence, smokers’ cognitive measurements in studies were likely to be missing in other studies because they’re lost to follow-up,” Wu said. Wu and colleagues adapted a methodology that considers a smoker’s likelihood of dropping out of a study or dying from tobacco-related causes during the study period to analyze the cognitive impact of tobacco use among 4,960 adults who were free of cognitive impairment at the study’s start. Researchers followed the participants for about five years, with regular assessments of the participants’ memory, language function and logical thinking ability. When the researchers used the new study methods and compared people who never smoked tobacco to those who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 25 years or more, they found that the ...
Study Highlights: Although it is the leading cause of death in women, more than 75 percent of young women worry little or not at all about getting heart disease. Most young adult women have taken some actions to preserve their health, such as seeing a doctor, exercising or trying to reduce stress. Competing health concerns and a lack of awareness of heart disease as a killer of women are barriers to young women adopting heart-healthy actions that can reduce their heart disease risk later in life. Embargoed until 3 p.m. CT/ 4 p.m. ET, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 (NewMediaWire) - March 05, 2019 - HOUSTON -Although young women strive to be healthy, few perceive themselves as at risk for heart disease and they worry far more about stress and mood disorders than their heart health, according to two preliminary studies presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention | Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2019, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in population-based cardiovascular science for researchers and clinicians. “We know that health behaviors and heart disease risk factors track strongly from childhood into adulthood, and that prevention of heart disease must start with youth, so we wanted to know what adolescent and young adult women knew about the risk of heart disease and what factors influenced their understanding and their behaviors,” said Holly Gooding, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, who was lead author of the study on health priorities and senior author of the study on heart-healthy behaviors. In the studies, researchers surveyed 331 young women ages 15-24 who were waiting for primary care or women’s healthcare appointments at either an academic practice or community health center in Boston. Based on those findings, 32 young women gave more detailed responses in eight online focus group interviews. In the survey, only 10 percent of the young women identified heart disease as a leading cause of death in women, and most worried little (39.6 percent) or not at all (37.2 percent) about getting heart disease. In contrast, 42.9 percent of the young women worried a lot about getting depression or anxiety. “While stress and mood disorders were their prevailing health concerns, it is important for young women to know that while their short-term risk of heart disease is very low, their lifetime risk is often quite high, and taking care of their health now is important for reducing their lifetime risk of heart disease. It is also important to note that the thing they worry about now (depression and anxiety) can create barriers to performing heart healthy behaviors,” said Courtney Brown, B.A., lead author of the study on competing health priorities and research specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital. On healthy behaviors, the researchers found: Most of the young women (84.6 percent) had performed at least one preventive behavior in the previous year, including visiting a doctor to monitor or improve their health (78.9 percent), exercising (74.6 percent), trying to reduce stress (52.6 percent), and trying to lose weight or improve various aspects of their diet. The most common barriers to heart-healthy actions were failing to perceive the risk (39.3 percent) and stress (32.6 percent). In focus groups, barriers to taking action to reduce heart disease risk included time constraints, lack of access to affordable gyms and healthy food, and competing health priorities (such as pregnancy, depression and weight concerns). “We need to meet young women where they are, both physically and on social media, in school settings and in a variety of medical settings such as urgent care and reproductive health clinics, and mentally by focusing our heart-healthy messages on things that matter to them, like mood and sexual health,” Gooding said. “It’s important to remember that heart health is a long-term goal,” said Mary Ann Bauman, M.D., science volunteer for the American Heart Association. “We can ...
Northvale, NJ, March 05, 2019 (NewMediaWire) -- ADM Tronics Unlimited, Inc. (OTCQB: ADMT), a technology-based developer and manufacturer of innovative technologies and products, announced that ADMT Chief Executive Officer, Andre’ DiMino, was featured on “The Big Biz Show,” an Emmy Award-winning nationally syndicated TV and radio program.The interview can be seen at admtronics.com/investor-relations/videos/The Big Biz Show covers current business events, internet-related issues and other topics in the business world. The Big Biz Show is available to 144 million households with a potential reach of 372 million people on TV and online. It’s also broadcast on 150 radio stations in the U.S. and 175 other countries.Interview Highlights:· Discussion of ADMT’s R&D activities and pipeline of medical technologies under development· Current development efforts on the Aurex®3 non-invasive tinnitus therapy device· Review of the Alvio® Respiratory Therapy and Sonotron® Pain Therapy technologies in developmentAbout ADMTADMT is a diversified, technology-based developer and manufacturer of innovative technologies and products. Its core competency is its ability to conceptualize a technology, bring it through development, into manufacturing and commercialization, all in-house. ADMT has three areas of activity: Medical Device Design, Engineering, Regulatory and Manufacturing Services; Proprietary Electronic Medical Devices; and Eco-Friendly, Water-Based Formulations. The Company’s headquarters, laboratories, FDA-Registered medical device and manufacturing operations are in Northvale, NJ. ADMT’s multi-disciplinary team of engineers, researchers and technologists utilize advanced technology infrastructure, such as 3-D prototyping, precision instrumentation and specialized software and peripherals, for research, development and commercialization of diversified technologies. Additional information is available at the Company’s website: admtronics.comExcept for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are “forward looking” statements (as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995), including statements regarding future revenue growth and performance. Although ADMT believes the expectations reflected in such forward looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that its expectations will be realized. Forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Factors that could contribute to such differences include those described from time to time in ADMT’s SEC filings, news releases and other communications. The Company assumes no obligation to update information contained in this news release.Contact: Andre’ DiMino 201-767-6040, andre@admtronics.com
San Diego, CA - (NewMediaWire) - March 5, 2019 - During the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), optical network industry media Lightwave has presented the annual outstanding innovation award in the optical communication field. Huawei won awards for its 600G, Optical Cross Connection (OXC), and Optical Intelligence solutions, which represent technologies in three key domains: coherent transmission, optical layer, and O&M. This year, Huawei won the most awards in the global optical transmission field and was the only optical network vendor to win awards across multiple domains.Lightwave selects award winners based on the influence of candidate technologies on academic thought, technological innovation, and business value every year. The awards are intended to commend the enterprises, organizations, and institutions that have made significant technological innovations and to guide the direction of technology development for the entire industry. At MWC 2019 in Barcelona, Huawei launched the optical networking 2.0 (ON2.0) strategy. Its three core concepts (new speed, new sites, and new smart O&M) are based on the three award-winning innovative technologies.Huawei’s 600G is a commercialized coherent transmission solution that has the highest single-wavelength rate in the world. It uses Huawei's latest-generation OptiXtreme oDSP chips and the Channel-Matched Shaping (CMS) algorithm to support programmable and flexible adjustment of multiple code patterns from 100G to 600G, providing a capacity 50% higher than the second highest single-wavelength capacity (400G) that has been commercialized in the industry, and providing the industry's highest spectrum efficiency of 8 bit/s/Hz. Last month, Huawei and UAE's telecom operator Etisalat piloted the industry's first single-wavelength 600G innovative commercial site. Its key indicators, such as transmission performance, stability, and reliability, all exceeded expectations, increasing the DCI network rate for Etisalat and marking the large-scale commercialization of Huawei’s 600G.Huawei’s OXC solution uses Huawei's core technologies, such as all-optical backplane, high-density component integration, and LCoS-based AD WSS, to achieve the petabit-level switching capacity of a single subrack. This allows it to lead the generational evolution of the optical-layer, build simplified sites, achieve zero fiber connection between equipment and simplify O&M, and reduce required equipment footprint by 80% and power supply by 60%. Last December, Huawei’s OXC worked together with OTN to implement site resource pooling, avoiding section-by-section service connections caused by network resource segmentation, and helped China Mobile build a quality OTN private transport network with cloud-network synergy. In February, Huawei’s OXC also helped Indonesia's telecom operator PT XL Axiata Tbk quickly build a 3D-mesh backbone network to enable one-hop service connection and support the digital transformation of PT XL Axiata Tbk.Huawei’s Optical Intelligence solution builds an innovative O&M architecture and leads the industry evolution from automation to intelligence. By introducing AI modeling, machine learning, and cloud technologies, this solution constructs a digital twin based on real-time collection and analysis of all-optical network parameters, predicts potential faults of optical networks to convert reactive maintenance into proactive prevention, and builds the industry's first Network Cloud Engine (NCE) that integrates management, control, and analytics to implement intelligent and automatic management of service lifecycles. Last November, Huawei’s Optical Intelligence solution helped China Unicom release the Smart Link private line and successfully launched the Smart Winter Olympics service plan for the 2022 Winter Olympics (Beijing 2022).Huawei’s Optical Intelligence solution uses the AI algorithm and vast fault expert database to perform deep machine learning, transforming O&M from passive reaction to proactive prevention. The solution supports one-click intelligent ...
DENTON, TX - (NewMediaWire) - March 5, 2019 - Topaz Resources, Inc. (OTCMKTS: TOPZ) today announced the progress of Phase 2 of the development of its North Texas shallow oil property, comprising approximately 2,400 gross acres with 80 producing oil wells, located in Archer County, Texas.By the end of February, Topaz has completed workovers in the Gunsight zone at a depth of about 1,100 feet in two wells increasing production in these wells from approximately 1 barrel of oil per day (BOPD) per well to over 6 BOPD at an approximate cost of $3,000 per well and has completed workovers in the Gunsight zone at a depth of about 1,100 feet and up pipe completion in the Thomas Sands zone at a depth of about 900 feet in 18 wells, which increased production from approximately 1 BOPD per well to a range of 20 to 47 BOPD per well at an approximate cost of $5,000 per well.The company sold over 4,900 barrels of oil in February at West Texas Intermediary prices exceeding $53 per barrel. Total production now exceeds 500 BOPD as of the end of February. Topaz is continuing Phase 2, which entails undertaking workovers and up pipe completions of the remaining 60 producing oil wells, scheduled to be completed during Q2 2019.About Topaz Resources, Inc.Topaz Resources, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company focusing on acquisitions, production enhancement and developmental drilling within proven producing areas of north, central and west Texas. Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Statements in this press release which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, the development, costs and results of our exploration program at our properties and any anticipated future production. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the inherent uncertainties associated with petroleum exploration and development stage exploration companies. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release, and we assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the beliefs, plans, expectations and intentions contained in this press release are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions will prove to be accurate. Investors should consult all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to our annual report for the most recent fiscal year, our quarterly reports and other periodic reports filed from time-to-time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Contact: TOPZinfo@TopazResourcesinc.com
Tulsa, OK - (NewMediaWire) - March 5, 2019 - RJD Green Inc. announced the awarding of a regional homebuilder purchase order for natural stone countertops and related products. The contract is projected to be $550,000 in 2019 revenue with an expectation of an ongoing multi-year relationship.The compilation of various permit reporting outlets indicates the new home permits will reflect an increase as much as 5% - 10% in Oklahoma in 2019, Silex’s primary market. Commercial projects, other than multi-family, are projected to increase by over 10% for the same time periods.Ron Brewer, CEO of RJD Green Inc., states, “Silex continues the progression in solidifying long-term relationships with valued clients in the construction industry by providing custom quality product with fast turnaround times on our clients’ orders. The growth analysis reports for Oklahoma allow Silex to cautiously continue the broadening of our client base enhancing the assurance of a stable and growing revenue stream.”About RJD Green, Inc. The Company operates as a holding company with a focus of acquiring and managing assets and companies. RJD Green operates in three divisions: RJD Green Healthcare Services Division, which holds interest in IoSoft Inc, a company that provides discrete payment technologies, services and software that can be integrated into targeted offerings for healthcare provider networks, hospitals, healthcare payers and individual providers: Earthlinc Environmental Services Division, which provides green environmental services and technologies; Silex Holdings Division, which is engaged in specialty construction and industrial manufacturing and fills a market niche between the Home Depots and local contractors. Silex offers installed granite/other counter tops, cabinets and related products to the residential builder, commercial contractor, remodel contractor and retail customer. Visit http://www.rjdgreen.comFor additional information contact, Ron Brewer, CEO at ronb@rjdgreen.com, or at (918) 551-7883, or Douglass Baker, OTC PR Group at corp@otcprgroup.com or at (561) 807-6350Forward-looking Statement: This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain as they are based on current expectations and assumptions concerning future events of future performance of the company. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are only predictions and speak only as of the date hereof. In evaluation such statements, prospective investors should review carefully various risks and uncertainties identified in this release and matters set in the company's SEC filings. These risks and uncertainties could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements.
TORONTO, ON - (NewMediaWire) - March 5, 2019 - Easton Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTC: EAPH) announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire a commercial bakery with existing revenues and projected to reach over $20,000,000 within 12 months. In its ongoing efforts to diversify and enter other lucrative sectors and add value-added businesses to achieve consistent growing sales to coincide with its revenue-generating framing contract and its pharmaceutical / diagnostic division, Easton is pleased to have signed an agreement to acquire a Toronto based commercial bakery and food preparation company which manufactures white labeled food products for third party food companies and its own line of niche food product lines, sold in major grocery chains, as well as specialty coffee chains. The company has an R&D division with product development and has begun discussions with licensed producers of cannabis, as well as food chains in order to develop and supply cannabis edible products.Easton Pharmaceuticals and its management saw an opportunity to acquire a company with not only a proven track record, but also major expansion opportunities that can potentially grow its sales to over an estimated $50,000,000 per year. Easton’s management will be implementing some changes that will increase the revenues to approximately $20,000,000 over the next 12 months. Easton’s CEO Evan Karras stated, “We are extremely pleased to have signed a definitive agreement to acquire what we believe to be a successful commercial bakery and food preparation company, that together with their market knowledge and market share, and our expertise and infrastructure, we will be able to increase the sales fairly quickly.”Easton expects the transaction to be completed in the next 2 weeks as it is already with legal counsel for closing, but has already commenced a strategic transition plan. More information will be announced and disclosed once the transaction is completed.About Easton PharmaceuticalsEaston Pharmaceuticals is a diversified specialty pharmaceutical company involved in various pharmaceutical sectors and other growing industries. The Company previously developed and owned an FDA-approved wound-healing medical drug and currently owns topically delivered drugs to treat cancer and other therapeutic products to treat various conditions that are all in various stages of development and approval. Easton, together with BMV Medica S.A. own the exclusive distribution rights in Mexico and Latin America for two patented women's diagnostic products and a novel natural treatment for Bacterial Vaginosis, which they have sub-licensed to Bayer and Gedeon Richter. In addition, a generic cancer drugs line is being developed for sale in Mexico. The company's gel formulation is thought to be an innovative and unique transdermal delivery system that can in the future be adaptable in the delivery of other drugs. As part of its strategic growth plan, the Company will be entering new lucrative market segments globally, including Gaming, Real Estate Development and Hospitality and Food and Beverage, among others.For More Information on Easton and Affiliated and Partner Company's Visit:http://www.eastonpharmaceuticalsinc.comhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=eaphhttps://twitter.com/eastonpharmaSafe HarborThis news release may contain forward-looking statements or expressions within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (The "Act"). In particular, when certain words or phrases such as "hope", "positive", "anticipate," "pleased," "plan," "confident that," "believe," "expect," "possible" or "intent to" and similar conditional expressions are expressed, they are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Act and are subject to the safe harbor created by the Act. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Any investment made into Easton Pharmaceuticals may contain risks. Such risks and uncertainties ...
SWK Technologies Subsidiary Named to CRN’s 2019 MSP500 Elite 150East Hanover, NJ - (NewMediaWire) - March 5, 2019 - SilverSun Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSNT), a national provider of transformational business technology solutions and services, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SWK Technologies, Inc. (SWK), has been named to the 2019 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. This annual list recognizes North American solution providers who have cutting-edge approaches to delivering managed services. Their offerings help companies navigate the complex and ever-changing landscape of IT, improve operational efficiencies, and maximize their return on IT investments.In today’s fast-paced business environments, MSPs such as SWK Technologies play an important role in helping companies leverage new technologies without straining their budgets or losing focus on their core business. CRN’s MSP 500 list shines a light on the most forward-thinking and innovative of these key organizations.“Capable MSPs enable companies to take their cloud computing to the next level, streamline spending, effectively allocate limited resources and navigate the vast field of available technologies,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “The companies on CRN’s 2019 MSP 500 list stand out for their innovative services, excellence in adapting to customers’ changing needs and demonstrated ability to help businesses get the most out of their IT investments.” “We’re proud to be named to the CRN MSP500 Elite 150,” said Mark Meller, CEO of both SilverSun and SWK. “Our team, under the leadership of Bill Michael and others, continues to provide cutting edge products and services which help our customers navigate the challenges and complexities of today’s cyber environment. Whether in cybersecurity, application hosting, business continuity, disaster recovery or helpdesk, the SWK team helps our customers protect their data and recognize value for their IT investment each and every day.”The MSP500 list is featured in the February 2019 issue of CRN and online at www.CRN.com/msp500. About SilverSun Technologies, Inc. We are a business application, technology and consulting company providing strategies and solutions to meet our clients’ information, technology and business management needs. Our services and technologies enable customers to manage, protect and monetize their enterprise assets whether on-premise or in the “Cloud”. As a value added reseller of business application software, we offer solutions for accounting and business management, financial reporting, Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”), Warehouse Management Systems, Customer Relationship Management, and Business Intelligence. Additionally, we have our own development staff building software solutions for Electronic Data Interchange, time and billing, and various ERP enhancements. Our value-added services focus on consulting and professional services, specialized programming, training, and technical support. We have a dedicated network services practice that provides managed services, hosting, business continuity, cloud, e-mail and web services. Our customers are nationwide, with concentrations in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, Chicago, Dallas, Arizona and Southern California.Forward-Looking Statements This news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding, among other things our plans, strategies and prospects -- both business and financial. Although we believe that our plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Many of the forward-looking statements contained in this news release may be identified by the ...
CubeSat arrives at NanoRacks for launch integration; Mission features the first commercially developed earth observation microwave radiometer on orbitOxfordshire, England - (NewMediaWire) - March 5, 2019 - Orbital Micro Systems (OMS), a leader in advanced instrumentation for small satellite missions and analytic-ready earth data intelligence platforms, announced that the first satellite in its Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) constellation has been delivered to NanoRacks for launch integration. Housed in an AAC Clyde Space bus, the satellite will be launched April 17, 2019 from Wallops Island, Virginia. It will be put into low earth orbit via the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) on the International Space Station – via NanoRacks’ Space Act Agreement with NASA’s US National Lab. The mission is part of the In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) Program, funded by Innovate UK and managed by the Satellite Applications Catapult.“The launch of the IOD-1 GEMS puts us on the cusp of the next generation in weather and earth data driven analytics that will have a profound effect on all aspects of society impacted by the accuracy of weather forecasting,” said William Hosack, OMS chief executive officer. “Through the dedicated efforts of the OMS and Clyde Space engineering teams, our satellite has passed all launch readiness tests and is cleared to fly. After deployment in low earth orbit, the satellite will gather and transmit atmospheric observation data which will be aligned and integrated with other atmospheric and weather datasets at our International Center for Earth Data (ICED) in Edinburgh. We anticipate that the resulting datasets will begin to improve the quality and temporal resolution of weather intelligence available to commercial, governmental, and institutional users.”In addition to this launch, OMS plans to place six to eight more weather observation satellites in orbit throughout 2019. With eight satellites, and OMS’ ICED platform direct-to-user data capabilities, observation revisit rates for any point on earth will approach two hours, compared to the three- to 72-hour data collection intervals available from existing government-operated satellites and data dissemination systems.The full GEMS constellation is planned to consist of 48 CubeSats which will provide global weather observations at 15-minute intervals. Employing miniaturized passive microwave radiometers, the GEMS satellites will gather temperature, humidity and precipitation measurements, providing fundamental inputs for weather nowcasting and forecasting. Weather intelligence tools incorporating this analytics-ready data (ARD) will be leveraged through the ICED platform, by their customers in the aviation, shipping, insurance, and agriculture sectors.“One point of pride for OMS is that this milestone has been reached by a commercial company that has bootstrapped its growth through private funding, competitive awards and sweat equity,” continued Hosack. “While the data produced from these satellites will be of critical interest to governments, we are squarely focused on delivering what the commercial market needs regarding near real-time access to highly accurate and detailed weather intelligence that can increase global safety, security, and prosperity.” For more information about Orbital Micro Systems please visit www.orbitalmicro.com.About Orbital Micro Systems Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) specializes in the development and delivery of technology and data for space applications. With broad expertise in applied science, weather science and earth observation, instrumentation development, data science, space operations, and program delivery, OMS is positioned to deliver innovation to many areas of the aerospace sector. For more information about OMS, please visit www.orbitalmicro.comContact: John Stafford Parallel Communications, Inc. jstafford@parallelpr.com +1 515-708-1296
