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Archive for March 4th, 2014

USAF scraps two AEHF satellites

March 4th, 2014 by

Citing budget pressures, the U.S. Air Force has decided to skip buying the seventh and eighth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites that Lockheed Martin was slated to build.

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Iridium satellite simulators delivered for Iridium NEXT launch testing

March 4th, 2014 by

Iridium Communications Inc. announced that Thales Alenia Space has delivered two complete high-fidelity satellite simulators and a number of low-fidelity simulators to Iridium launch partner SpaceX.

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MDA provides Radarsat-2 information to support maritime surveillance

March 4th, 2014 by

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received an order to provide Radarsat-2 information to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) as part of EMSA’s CleanSeaNet programme.

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