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Archive for September 13th, 2007

Radyne’s AeroAstro business unit receives two new contracts

September 13th, 2007 by

Radyne Corporation said that its AeroAstro business unit was awarded contracts for two significant types of communication equipment.

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IPSTAR Enters Malaysian Market

September 13th, 2007 by

Shin Satellite PCL announced that the company has signed a co-operation agreement with TIME dotCom Berhad, a Malaysian Telecommunications solutions provider, to deploy IPSTAR broadband satellite services in Malaysia within the fourth quarter of 2007.

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Fourth reaction wheel failure ends FUSE mission

September 13th, 2007 by

NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) mission has come to an end recently after the satellite lost its last reaction wheel.

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Iran (again) says Mesbah satellite ready

September 13th, 2007 by

Iranian state radio said that the country’s Mesbah satellite was ready to be launched.

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Foton-M3 pre-launch details

September 13th, 2007 by

An unmanned Foton-M3 capsule, carrying a payload of around 40 European experiments, will launch onboard a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 14 September at 1100 UTC.

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First GPS IIF satellite ready for environmental tests

September 13th, 2007 by

Boeing has successfully assembled and integrated all flight hardware onto the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite, due for launch in 2008.

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Update: Russian military (navigation?) satellite launched

September 13th, 2007 by

The orbital parameters of Kosmos 2429, which was launched yesterday, support the theory that the spacecraft is a military navigation satellite.

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