December 18th, 2007 by
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that the Alliance Spacesystems acquisition has closed. The acquisition is expected to be slightly accretive to MDA’s earnings in 2008.
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December 18th, 2007 by
GeoEye has secured insurance in the amount of US$20 million on its Ikonos satellite for 2008 with terms comparable to those it had for 2007, the company said.
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December 18th, 2007 by
Boeing said it successfully completed the third demonstration of its next generation processor/router (NGPR) technologies for the Transformational Satellite Communications System Space Segment (TSAT SS).
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December 18th, 2007 by
SpaceDev, Inc.has completed development of its next generation release device, the Low Shock Release Mechanism (LSRM).
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December 18th, 2007 by
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), a suite of four telescopes for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), has been delivered to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in preparation for a launch of SDO no earlier than December 2008.
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December 18th, 2007 by
The fifth in a series of eight modernised Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellites built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force is ready for launch aboard a Delta II rocket on 20 December from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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December 18th, 2007 by
The stop manoeuvre for GOES-12 was performed this morning, which means that the satellite is back at its operational geosynchronous position of 75 degrees West.
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December 18th, 2007 by
Reports of a two-week outage of India’s latest telecommunication satellite, INSAT 4CR, are “totally false and baseless” according to an ISRO spokesman.
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