Satellite News

The CALIPSO Team has been honored with a NASA Group Achievement Award on 13 July for exceptional achievements in the successful development, launch, and operation of the CALIPSO satellite.
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BAE Systems said it will produce and sell radiation-hardened field-programmable gate array (FPGA) semiconductors for space use, responding to a critical customer need for the devices.
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A combined U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has successfully completed an on-orbit reconfiguration of the five-satellite Milstar constellation to maximise the system’s capabilities to provide military communications around the globe.
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Boeing is preparing a response to a U.S. Air Force Request for Proposals for the development and production of an enhanced constellation of Global Positioning System satellites known as GPS III.
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Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that its Spaceway 3 satellite has arrived at the Arianespace launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana where an Ariane 5 ECA will launch the satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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NASA has signed a US$1.2 billion contract with Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Inc. for design, development, testing and evaluation of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles.
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