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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has shipped five James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) beryllium primary mirror segments as well as the engineering development unit (EDU) to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for cryogenic temperature testing.
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NASA recently extended a contract with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to provide science and operational support for the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of US$7 million to provide passive microwave equipment for a commercial communications satellite. COM DEV will supply switches, filters and multiplexers for use on the spacecraft.
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The U.S. Air Force said its Global Positioning Systems Wing and the 50th Space Wing are ushering in improved Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities through a new ground system software release.
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The Boeing Company announced organisation changes within its Integrated Defense Systems unit. The realignment is effective immediately, and the unit will begin operating under a new name: Boeing Defense, Space & Security.
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ViaSat, Inc. said it has received a US$21 million contract from Barrett Xplore Inc., Canada’s largest rural Broadband provider, for broadband gateway baseband infrastructure and satellite broadband terminals to be used with the high-capacity ViaSat-1 Ka-band satellite system.
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“The last 50 years of space have been fantastic while the next 50 years will be spectacular.” — Prof. U. R. Rao, former chairman of ISRO, delivering his lecture on “Challenges in Space” in the 97th Indian Science Congress.
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