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The Canadian government has (at least for the time being) halted the controversial sale of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates’ space business to U.S.-based Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK).
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Harris Corporation has been awarded a 10-year contract valued at more than US$40 million to supply depot support and engineering services for multiple space control systems for the U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Superiority Systems Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
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The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. operational altimeter satellite, GEOSAT Follow-On (GFO), has achieved 10 years of successful on orbit operation, providing continuous world-wide oceanographic data.
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“The Space Report 2008: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity,” released by the Space Foundation, revealed more than US$251 billion in global space activity in 2007.
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WorldSpace Satellite Radio said its wholly owned subsidiary, WorldSpace Europe, received approval from Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) to use 12.5 MHz of spectrum in the L-band (1479.5 – 1492 MHz) on a country-wide basis for the operation of a terrestrial repeater network in Germany. Also, the company apparently has eventually given up plans to launch its third satellite.
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NASA is preparing to send a small spacecraft called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to the moon in 2011 to assess the lunar atmosphere and the nature of dust lofted above the surface.
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General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems announced the completion of satellite integration and environmental testing for GeoEye’s next-generation Earth imaging satellite, GeoEye-1.
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Boeing and its TEAM TSAT industry partners have successfully demonstrated the readiness of an IBM-built ASIC that will be used in the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT), Boeing said.
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