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Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced plans to further extend its current generation network voice and mobile data services through 31 December 2012, and will offer these services on its next generation hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications network slated to be launched in 2010.
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Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, NASA Ames Research Center and a team of co-investigators have been selected by NASA to undertake a US$750,000 six-month study to design a new NASA Small Explorer Mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).
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Boeing said it has awarded subcontracts to three small businesses under its NASA Ares I avionics contract.
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the first five-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor on 29 May.
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A software programming glitch discovered during final checks of last Friday’s planned Ariane 5 ECA mission is under review by an independent group of experts, and will be fully solved before the dual-payload flight is rescheduled, Arianespace said.
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Intelsat, Ltd. announced that it has accepted the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer, Jeffrey Freimark, to be effective 5 June 2008.
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The Greater Philadelphia Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has selected a Lockheed Martin team as the winner of the 2008 Space Systems Award for the successful completion of the modernised Global Positioning System IIR (GPS IIR-M) production programme.
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The University of California, Berkeley, said its scientists in effect “switched off” the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite (CHIPSat) last month, ending the mission of NASA’s first and only low-cost, university-class Explorer spacecraft.
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