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Archive for February 3rd, 2009

Contract signed for 35 more Ariane 5 ECA rockets

February 3rd, 2009 by

Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace, and Alain Charmeau, Chief Executive Officer of Astrium Space Transportation, on 30 January signed a contract for the production of 35 Ariane 5 ECA launchers (designated the “PB” batch).

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Update: Indo-European satellite fails after in-orbit testing

February 3rd, 2009 by

Engineers at the Satellite Centre in Bangalore are currently analysing the anomaly in Eutelsat W2M’s power subsystem, but expectations as to whether the satellite can be salvaged are mixed at best.

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Northrop Grumman demos OCX engineering model for GPS

February 3rd, 2009 by

Northrop Grumman Corporation said it successfully demonstrated command and control of a Global Positioning System (GPS) IIR-M satellite using its Next Generation Operational Control Segment (OCX) engineering model.

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Caprock Communications books NSS-7 capacity

February 3rd, 2009 by

SES New Skies announced that CapRock Communications has contracted 18 MHz of C-Band capacity on the NSS-7 satellite at 22 degrees West.

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Eutelsat’s Tooway supports broadband via satellite in France

February 3rd, 2009 by

Eutelsat Communications and its first partners, Numeo and Sat2Way, announced the immediate launch in France of broadband access at no more than EUR35 a month, equipment included.

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