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Archive for May 2nd, 2011

STS-134 launch further delayed

May 2nd, 2011 by

Technicians and engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida have identified the likely source of what caused heaters on a fuel line for space shuttle Endeavour’s auxiliary power unit-1 (APU-1) to fail on 29 April, scrubbing the first launch attempt for the STS-134 mission.
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Astrotech Corporation results Q3 FY 2011

May 2nd, 2011 by

Astrotech Corporation announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 third quarter ending 31 March 2011.
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DISH Network, EchoStar results Q1 2011

May 2nd, 2011 by

DISH Network Corporation and EchoStar Corporation reported financial results for the first quarter 2011.
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SES operates under new management structure

May 2nd, 2011 by

SES S.A. announced that, as of 1 May, it is operating under a new and streamlined management structure.
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ISRO builds India’s fastest supercomputer

May 2nd, 2011 by

The Indian Space Research Organisation said it has built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).
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