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Archive for December 18th, 2007

MDA closes Alliance Spacesystems acquisition

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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GeoEye obtains 2008 insurance for Ikonos

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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Boeing TSAT technology passes ‘Spiral’ testing

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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SpaceDev announces new low shock release mechanism

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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Atmospheric Imaging Assembly for solar satellite delivered

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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GPS IIR-18M pre-launch details

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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GOES-12 ready to resume operations

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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ISRO categorically denies ‘disappearance’ of INSAT 4CR

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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