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ESA’s CryoSat-2 has delivered its first data just hours after ground controllers switched on the satellite’s radar instrument for the first time. CryoSat-2 was launched on 8 April and has been performing exceptionally well during these critical first few days in orbit, the agency said.

Honeywell announced that it has been selected to supply newly designed Inertial Measurement Units (IMU), used to accurately position satellites in orbit, for the United States Air Force (USAF) Global Positioning Satellite III Program, in a contract worth US$45 million.

Honeywell announced that the space industry’s first radiation hardened electronic component for communication systems, which improves the speed of serial data communication fifty-fold over existing space electronics, has been selected to upgrade communication systems on the International Space Station. It will be launched on NASA’s space shuttle in August 2010.

Raytheon Company said it completed a major communications upgrade in Antarctica for the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) programme.

Over the past five years, the global space economy has grown almost 40 percent, reflecting increasing commercialisation, significant globalisation, and expansion of military and civil space programmes, according to The Space Report 2010.

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