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Thales Alenia Space Deutschland GmbH has signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space-France in the frame of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) weather satellites.
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Astrium Services and Hisdesat, the Spanish government satellite service operator, have signed a framework agreement for a joint technology development project with the aim of establishing a constellation approach for the radar satellites TerraSAR-X and PAZ.
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NASA’s Space Technology Program is seeking proposals to develop solar array systems to enable space electric propulsion systems of the future.
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Telesat Holdings Inc. (Telesat) announced its financial results for the three month period ending 31 March 2012 .
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Hispasat said it will provide mobile Internet satellite service to the new Italian fleet of Italo high speed trains, which belongs to the NTV company, and it comes into operation on 28 April. It is the second initiative of this type that Hispasat has carried out together with the Belgian service provider 21Net.
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SES, together with industry partners, announced the introduction of SAT-IP, a new IP-based satellite reception technology that demodulates and converts satellite signals to IP for further in-home distribution to any IP-enabled device.
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Rocket: PSLV C-19; Payload: RISAT-1; Date: 26 April 2012, 0017 UTC; Launch site: Satish Dhawan space centre, Sriharikota, India. The Radar Imaging Satellite unfurled its solar panels to generate electricity and deployed its 6-m radar array antenna a few minutes after separating from the PSLV upper stage.
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Aerojet, a GenCorp company, announced that it successfully completed development testing of its MR-104H 100 lbf-class monopropellant hydrazine thruster.
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