June 28th, 2013 by
Rocket: Pegasus XL; Payload: IRIS; Date: 28 June 2013, 0227 UTC; Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft was deployed into its targeted orbit approximately 640 km above the Earth.
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June 28th, 2013 by
United Launch Services LLC, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has won a potential US$1 billion contract to provide production services for seven launch vehicle configurations used by the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. National Reconnaissance Organization.
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June 28th, 2013 by
Arianespace said it is keeping up the mission pace at its French Guiana base of operations with the acceptance of another heavy-lift Ariane 5, which now is being readied for the integration of a dual-satellite payload to be orbited on 25 July.
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June 28th, 2013 by
ITT Exelis has received a US$3.2 million contract from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to design an advanced receiver chain for the U.S. Air Force Weather Satellite Follow-on (WSF) programme. The new design will improve measurements of ocean surface winds used for severe weather forecasting.
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June 28th, 2013 by
NAV CANADA has invested an additional U.S. $40 million in preferred interests of Aireon LLC, a joint venture with Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM). This investment increases NAV CANADA’s ownership of Aireon to 18.7% on a fully diluted basis.
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June 28th, 2013 by
EUMETSAT has increased the bandwidth of the communications link between Svalbard, Norway, and its headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany.
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