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Archive for May 2nd, 2007

Intelsat orders IS-15 from Orbital

May 2nd, 2007 by

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has been selected by Intelsat, LLC to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 15 (IS-15) commercial communications satellite.

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Scramjet engine successfully tested in simulated flight

May 2nd, 2007 by

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, along with its X-51A team members — U.S. Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA and Boeing — successfully demonstrated operation and performance of the X-1 scramjet engine in the first simulated flight at Mach 5 of the X-51A.

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