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Archive for November 6th, 2013

Astra 5B in Kourou

November 6th, 2013 by

The Astra 5B satellite has safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The spacecraft is now being processed for launch on board an Ariane 5 rocket scheduled for lift-off 6 December 2013.

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SRI Int’l, TowerJazz deliver first SoloHI CMOS imagers

November 6th, 2013 by

SRI International, working with specialty foundry provider TowerJazz, has delivered the first complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager engineering units to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for use on the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) optical telescope.

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RapidEye is now BlackBridge

November 6th, 2013 by

RapidEye has officially changed its name to BlackBridge. This change is the result of a two-year process of uniting all BlackBridge owned companies as one presence in the marketplace.

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