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International Launch Services (ILS) and SES Satellite Leasing announced a contract for five SES satellites to be launched on Proton Breeze M vehicles…
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Thales Alenia Space has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract worth 229 million euros ($306.7 million) for the first of five Earth observation satellite…
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Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) was selected the ‘Satellite Communications Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific’, announced by global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan at its annual Asia Pacific ICT Awards Banquet held in Singapore on 15 June.
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GE International Holdings Inc., a holding company for the satellite businesses of General Electric Company, is now engaged in business in Asia under the name of SAT-GE. SAT-GE offers satellite capacity across the Pacific region using the GE-23 satellite (former name AMC-23).
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London-based private-equity firm BC Partners was in the lead to purchase satellite operator Intelsat Ltd. for about US$5 billion plus the assumption of about US$11.5 billion in debt, The Wall Street Journal Online reported.
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Wind River Systems, Inc. announced that it has been selected by Honeywell Aerospace to support the development of NASA’s New Millennium Program Space Technology 8 (ST8) Dependable Multiprocessor.
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ESA will take a 15-percent stake in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) under an agreement with NASA signed today. The agencies will also co-operate on the LISA Pathfinder mission.
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The United States’ first autonomous satellite servicing demonstration has resumed unmated demonstration activities as the Orbital Express mission between Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.’s Next Generation Satellite and Commodities Spacecraft (NextSat/CSC), and Boeing’s Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Orbiter (ASTRO,) continues its three month mission.
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