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Archive for August 2nd, 2006

Puckorius Leaves Geoeye

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Geoeye announced Aug. 1 the resignation of Timothy Puckorius, the company’s senior vice president of international sales…

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Harris Receives NPOESS Contract

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The U.S. Air Force awarded Harris Corp. a six-month, $1 million contract to complete a concept development study to incorporate the National Polar-orbiting…

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Boeing Completes Third Laser Communication Demonstration

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Boeing, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratories, demonstrated how its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) could link one…

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Northrop Grumman Completes Range Test For Array Antenna

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Northrop Grumman Corp. announced July 31 it completed range tests for its downlink phased array antenna for the Advanced Extremely High…

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MDA To Study Joint Canadian-Italian Hyperspectral Mission

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MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the development of a joint…

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Ball Aerospace Splits Defense Operations

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Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. announced July 31 it divided its defense operations organization unit into two separate business units. National Defense…

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Sirius Raises Subscriber Guidance As Revenues Triple

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Sirius Satellite Radio now expects to finish 2006 with 6.3 million subscribers after adding more than 600,000 in the second quarter, the company announced Aug. 1. The company previously forecast that it would reach 6.2 million subscribers by the end of the year. Sirius closed the second quarter, which ended…

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Ball Aerospace splits up defence unit

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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said it has divided its defence operations organisation unit into two separate business units.

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