Satellite News

The Boeing Company reported results for the first quarter of 2009.

Northrop Grumman Corporation reported first quarter 2009 results.

Vietnam’s first telecommunications satellite, Vinasat-1, has leased out 70 percent of its capacity just one year after its launch on 19 April 2008, according to operator Vietnam Telecom International (VTI).

NASA’s Glenn Research Center and Boeing employees have won the 2008 NASA Software of the Year Award for the development of a general-purpose programme used to perform trajectory optimisation and performance studies for a wide variety of vehicles including aircraft, rockets, satellites and interplanetary vehicles.

Russia’s Khrunichev Space Center said it continues to build Stage 1 for the South Korea’s first space launch vehicle, KSLV-1, which is to be launched in 2009 from Naro Space Center which is under construction on Oenaro Island.
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In preparation for NASA’s first Ares I-X test flight in August, engineers from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne have finished pressurising and loading 640 kg of propellants into heritage hardware from the Peacekeeper missile system.
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The Second Captive Firing Test (CFT) of the First Stage Flight Model Tank for the H-IIB Launch Vehicle has been delayed owing to bad weather.
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Raytheon Company received a contract extension to perform additional risk-reduction activities for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System Operational Ground Control Segment, or GPS OCX.
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