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Russia’s Energomash is planning to double the number of engines produced for Atlas and Zenit launch vehicles in the future, the head of the company said.
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IDMI, the international arm of IDM, Lebanon’s leading ISP with more then 125000 users, has contracted 40 MHz on SES New Skies’ NSS-7 satellite to introduce a new DVB S2 SCPC broadband platform serving customers in the Middle East and Africa.
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COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. , announced that it been granted regulatory approval from the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for its acquisition of the passive microwave devices product line from L-3 Communications Electron Technologies Inc. (ETI).
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RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. announced its financial results for the three months ending 31 March 2008.
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said it is to develop the ambitious Solar Probe mission, which will come eight times closer to the Sun than any previous probe.
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RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. has completed the previously announced acquisition of the Hawley Teleport located in Pike County, Pennsylvania, USA, for approximately US$4.25 million (US$4 millions in cash and US$250,000 in services).
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A sensor considered critical in monitoring global climate will be restored to the first satellite scheduled to fly in the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) top officials from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA, and the U.S. Air Force said.
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Alliant Techsystems said it conducted a successful test firing of NASA’s space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor (RSRM) as part of continuous testing to improve performance and ensure safety of the space shuttle and to aid development of the first stage of Ares I.
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