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ViaSat Inc. has been awarded an additional order for multifunctional information distribution system terminals from…

Orbimage Holdings Inc. , which does business under the name GeoEye, announced that The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC has approved its application to list its securities on The Nasdaq Global Market.

The Swedish Space Corporation is the first space company in the world to receive a long-term Radio Frequency S-band license for Galileo.

The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awarded a Phase II US$400,000 grant to the Bae Institute. The Institute will demonstrate the Photon Thruster/Tether (Push/Pull) control and system stability in a vacuum chamber with off-the-shelf components.

Integral Systems, Inc., announced the award by the U.S Air Force of two cost plus award fee modifications totalling US$7.8 million to modify the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) effort to support the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) programme.

Raytheon Company has been awarded a US$950,000 U.S. Air Force contract to demonstrate improvements to space situational awareness.

The STS-115 crew successfully completed the full deployment of the International Space Station’s new set of solar arrays at 1244 UTC.

MetOp-A, the first in a new European series of three meteorological operational satellites designed to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere from polar orbit, is now to be launched on Saturday, 7 October from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.