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Archive for May 15th, 2015

Next Vega almost complete

May 15th, 2015 by

The “stacking” of Vega’s solid propellant propulsion systems is complete with integration of its Zefiro 9 third stage at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

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Northrop Grumman establishes science advisory board for Venus mission

May 15th, 2015 by

Northrop Grumman Corp. formed a scientific advisory board to guide its efforts to develop a lighter-than-air vehicle to explore Venus’s environment. The company’s Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable Platform (VAMP) concept is a long-lived, manoeuvrable, semi-buoyant platform that would coast through Venus’s clouds gathering atmospheric data.

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SNC to Support Exelis on NASA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2

May 15th, 2015 by

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems was competitively selected by Exelis Geospatial Systems to develop and build the Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI) Azimuth Rotation Module (ARM) for the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) mission. Exelis is the prime contractor to NASA for the RBI.

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