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Archive for July, 2007

COM DEV receives another Globalstar-related contract from TAS

July 31st, 2007 by

COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has been awarded a contract by Thales Alenia Space to provide electromechanical switches for the Globalstar-2 satellite constellation.
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Piggyback EO payloads for next-gen Iridia planned

July 31st, 2007 by

Iridium Satellite LLC is in talks with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to include sensors that could monitor weather and other Earth conditions on Iridium’s new fleet of communications satellites.
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Boeing, Lockheed submit TSAT proposals

July 31st, 2007 by

Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted their competing proposals to the U.S. Air Force for the development and production phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System Space Segment (TSAT) programme.
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WorldView 1 ready for shipment

July 31st, 2007 by

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed assembly and performance testing of WorldView 1, the remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe.
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NASA selects lightning protection system contractor

July 31st, 2007 by

NASA has selected Ivey’s Construction Inc. of Merritt Island, Florida/USA, to build a new lightning protection system for Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Laskys Adds Satellite Navigation And Communications To Product Line

July 30th, 2007 by

Britain-based home entertainment and computing retailer Laskys has extended its product offering to include satellite navigation devices and communication…
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MacDonald, Dettwiler Profits Slip Despite Revenue Gain

July 30th, 2007 by

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reported revenues of 311.9 million Canadian dollars ($298.4 million) in its 2007 second quarter, a 29 percent…
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EADS Astrium Revenues Climb

July 30th, 2007 by

Satellite manufacturer EADS Astrium reported revenues of 1.4 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in the first half of 2007, a 12 percent increase over revenues of 1.3 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in the…
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