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Harris Corp. has filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the Navy’s award of the potential billion-dollar Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) contract to Raytheon.
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Radyne Corp. has completed its acquisition of microsatellite maker AeroAstro Inc.
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Germany’s second radar spy satellite, SAR-Lupe 2, is working as planned and has provided first images, according to principal contractor OHB-System AG.
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NASA has signed a US$975 million contract extension with Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Inc. to maintain the agency’s fleet of Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) until the orbiter is retired in 2010.
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The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has given up attempts to contact an experimental military satellite launched last December, Reuters reported citing unnamed defence officials. In addition, the NRO Director has recommended scrapping two multibillion-dollar spy satellite programmes.
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Having earlier in the week submitted its proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the development and production phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Military Operations System, Boeing updated the status of its program on Aug. 2. TSAT is designed to provide American warfighters…
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Showtime, the Middle East satellite pay-TV operator, is launching a new Video-on-Demand (VoD) service to its subscribers in the Middle East, the company announced August 2. With…
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Integral Systems Inc. has been awarded a cost-plus-award fee modification from the U.S. Air Force totaling $5.8 million to modify the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) effort to support the…
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