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Alliant Techsystems said it prepared to conduct final testing and ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite bus, after building it in just 16 months. The bus will be shipped to Goodrich Corporation for integration of the payload in preparation for launch later this year.
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Chinese satellite manufacturers may soon have an unlikely new customer: the Thai government.
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Motorola, Inc. filed a complaint against two wholly owned subsidiaries of Iridium Communications Inc. (Iridium Satellite LLC and Iridium Holdings LLC).
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exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. , announced that it has signed a C$1.4 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to provide space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) data.
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Lockheed Martin announced that it has achieved a key integrated test milestone on the second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft at its facilities in Sunnyvale, California.
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GMV announced the successful first testing of the satellite ground segment of the World Space Observatory Ultraviolet mission (WSO-UV), which is also known as Spektr-UF.
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A loud explosion and ball of fire that people in central Mexico reported seeing in the sky on 10 February likely was not caused by a Russian spy satellite crashing back to Earth, as some media earlier reported.
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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. reported its results for the fourth quarter and year ending 31 December 2009.
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