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Integral Systems, Inc. was awarded by the U.S. Air Force a cost plus award fee modification totalling US$5.8 million to modify the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) effort to support the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programmes.

Maxwell Technologies Inc. has delivered its first space-qualified SCS750 single board computers (SBC) to Orbital Sciences Corp., prime contractor for NASA’s Glory Earth sciences mission.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and Sirius Satellite Radio announced that SS/L has been awarded a contract from Sirius to build Sirius FM-6, a new, high-power satellite designed to operate in a highly inclined elliptical orbit (HIEO). This satellite will be the sixth SS/L-built spacecraft in the Sirius fleet.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-61 (Progress P26); Date: 2 August 2007, 1934 UTC; Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The spaceship reached orbit nine minutes later.

GlobeCast has opened a complete playout and media management center at its existing facility in London, the company announced…
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Lockheed Martin has completed a critical end-to-end test between the space and ground elements of the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), the…
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Stauder Technologies of St. Peters, Mo., has been awarded a contract modification with a not-to-exceed ceiling of $9.6 million with undefinitized contract line items for not less than 230 units, the U.S. Department of Defense announced July 31…
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Norsat International Inc. has sold its portable satellite systems to seven of the world’s militaries, deploying Norsat’s…
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