Satellite News

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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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