November 27th, 2008 by
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) being built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth in the Landsat satellite series, has successfully passed the Instrument Critical Design Review (ICDR).
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November 27th, 2008 by
Goodrich Corporation has received a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for the first operational satellite system in support of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS).
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November 27th, 2008 by
Ministers from 19 ESA member states have agreed to commit EUR9.65 billion (US$12.8 billion) to Europe’s space programme.
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November 27th, 2008 by
SES S.A.announced a multi-year agreement to provide satellite capacity to EchoStar Corporation.
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November 27th, 2008 by
“It is a usual phenomena [sic] because it is summer on the moon. There is nothing to worry. … By the first week of December, the atmosphere will become benign on the moon.” — An ISRO spokesman commenting the higher-than-expected temperature aboard the Chandrayaan 1 moon probe
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November 26th, 2008 by
The newest (and final) DSP early warning satellite has apparently failed after less than a year in geosynchronous orbit, satellite observers and a U.S. defence official said.
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November 26th, 2008 by
India’s Chandrayaan 1 moon probe has run into trouble as the temperature inside the spacecraft has unexpectedly surged, BBC News reports.
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November 26th, 2008 by
The flight of Russia’s next Progress spacecraft, equipped with a new on-board digital control system, to the International Space Station (ISS) will take four days, a Russian space official was quoted as saying.
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