May 5th, 2009 by
The dual launch of the space telescopes Herschel and Planck will be the first occasion on which the new horizontal separation system HSS-3 in the Ariane payload fairing will be used.
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May 5th, 2009 by
Lockheed Martin said a team led by the company is providing support to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the planning, training and implementation of Servicing Mission 4 (SM-4) to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scheduled for launch on 11 May.
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May 5th, 2009 by
Officials from Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced the release of a request for proposal (RFP) for Phase B of the Next Generation GPS Control Segment (OCX) contracts.
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May 5th, 2009 by
Two of the Tactical Satellite-3’s trio of payloads may be called secondary, but their importance to the success of the spacecraft’s year-long mission is primary, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory said.
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May 5th, 2009 by
The mission of Russia’s automatic research spacecraft Fobos Grunt to the Martian moon of Phobos is being delayed for two years, as the spacecraft is not ready, Interfax reported citing an “informed source.”
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May 5th, 2009 by
The European-built Node 3 module for the International Space Station will be shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 17 May.
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May 5th, 2009 by
Integral Systems, Inc. reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009.
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May 5th, 2009 by
In an editorial published recently by Space News, Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall addresses satellite operators’ increasing pressure to encourage new providers for what Mr. Le Gall called an “already overcrowded launch services sector.”
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