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ESA’s Mars Express will be following the Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) phase of NASA’s Phoenix lander, due to be launched on 4 August.
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Telesat Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of BCE Inc., announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ending 30 June 2007.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has received Authorisations to Proceed (ATPs) from Orbital Sciences Corporation totalling US$3.5 million to provide multiplexers and switches for at least two commercial satellite programmes.
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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Systems Group satellite Flight-18, scheduled to launch in April 2008, successfully completed a seven-day system level acoustic test at a Lockheed Martin facility.
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Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully completed a critical end-to-end test between the space and ground elements of the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), a key milestone in preparation for launch and on-orbit operations of the programme’s first geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft.
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Within preparation activities for its test firing, Angara’s first stage has been transported from Moscow-based manufacturing facilities of Khrunichev Space Center (KhSC) to the Chemical Machine building Research & Scientific Institute located in Peresvet city near Moscow, for test fitting on a stand.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed assembly and performance testing of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 1 remote sensing satellite, Ball reported July 30. Ball…
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The British Ministry of Defense is deploying Blue Sky Network’s Iridium satellite-based flight tracking equipment for the Search-and-Rescue division of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the companies announced July 31. Utilizing Blue Sky Network’s D1000C and ACH1000 equipment, the RAF is…
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