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Archive for May 20th, 2014

ESA sign first contractual documents for MetOp-SG

May 20th, 2014 by

ESA and Airbus Defence and Space as the industrial prime contractor have signed the first contractual documents to start the development and construction of a series of MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG) weather satellites.

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NASA 2016 Mars mission to begin building spacecraft

May 20th, 2014 by

The team preparing NASA’s next Mars lander mission gained a green light today to begin building the spacecraft, which will study how Earthlike planets form. Lockheed Martin will now begin building the InSight spacecraft.

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Space Report 2014 released

May 20th, 2014 by

The Space Foundation has released The Space Report 2014:The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity. Data was compiled from original research and a wide variety of public and private sources, and analysed by Space Foundation researchers.

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OHB AG to be converted into a Societas Europaea

May 20th, 2014 by

The Supervisory Board of OHB AG has approved the Management Board’s resolution to convert the company into a Societas Europaea (SE).

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