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It has already been reported that the EU Commission is likely to award OHB Technology, Germany, a contract for at eight satellites for the Galileo satnav system. Industry sources now said it could be even for 14 spacecraft. An official announcement is expected on 7 January.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Boeing Satellite and Intelligence Systems, Inc.
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The European Space Agency has published a list of events with ESA participation in 2010. According to the agency, the payload for the first Soyuz-STB lifting off from French Guiana will be Avanti Communications’ Hylas-1 satellite.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said it successfully conducted a full duration orbit insertion firing of the Falcon 9 second stage at the company’s Texas test site on 2 January.

Arianespace said it generated total revenues of EUR1.046 billion (US$1.503 billion) in 2009, with income at break-even.

Northrop Grumman Corporation announced a decision to move its corporate office from Los Angeles to the Washington D.C. region by 2011.

Astrium Services has been awarded a contract by the European Defence Agency (EDA) for a new preparatory study aimed at coordinating the future military communication needs of the European Union (EU).

The home: it’s a place where, inevitably, we are bound to spend an awful amount of time. Between the 1/3 of our lives which we spend asleep in our beds and the myriad other things which we do at home that end up taking up a large share of our time, it is a given that we will dedicate a lot of our time to things within the home.