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Boeing and its TEAM TSAT industry partners have successfully demonstrated the readiness of an IBM-built ASIC that will be used in the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT), Boeing said.
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Harris Corporation has completed and successfully demonstrated a prototype of an end-to-end solution for the ground segment of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – Series R (GOES-R) programme.
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Lockheed Martin announced the successful completion of a comprehensive review of improved flight software designed to provide highly reliable command and control of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft.
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SES Americom has ordered a third spacecraft from Orbital Sciences under the multi-satellite contract both companies announced in May 2007.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V is scheduled to launch the ICO G1 commercial satellite from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 15 April within a launch window of 0012 – 0112 UTC.
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Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz TMA-12; Date: 8 April 2008, 1116 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The manned transport spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.
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