JSC ISS signs battery contract with SAFT
September 25th, 2008 by
JSC ISS – Reshetnev Company (formerly known as NPO-PM) has signed a contract with SAFT, France, for the delivery of Li-ion batteries.
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September 25th, 2008 by
JSC ISS – Reshetnev Company (formerly known as NPO-PM) has signed a contract with SAFT, France, for the delivery of Li-ion batteries.
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September 25th, 2008 by
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that is has signed a C$4 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide the data and information processing solution for ESA’s next Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite Sentinel-1, expected to launch in 2011.
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September 25th, 2008 by
COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. , announced that it has been awarded a US$1.6 million Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) to supply passive microwave components for a U.S. Government civil space programme.
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September 25th, 2008 by
NASA said its planet-hunting Kepler satellite, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.
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September 25th, 2008 by
Raytheon Company said it achieved a significant programme milestone for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) by successfully completing ground segment acceptance testing of the data processing segment at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility three weeks ahead of schedule.
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September 25th, 2008 by
The target launch date for space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope has been reset to 15 October, 0219 UTC.
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September 25th, 2008 by
Rocket: Zenit 3SL/Block DM-SL; Payload: Galaxy 19; Date: 24 September 2008, 0928 UTC; Site: Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned on the equator at 154 degrees West longitude in the Pacific Ocean. Just over an hour later, the Block DM-SL upper stage inserted the 4,690 kg satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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