October 7th, 2016 by
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) has exercised an option for a contract announced in June 2016.
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October 6th, 2016 by
Orbital ATK, Inc. said the company and Stratolaunch Systems have embarked on a multi-year production-based partnership that will offer significant cost advantages to air-launch customers.
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October 6th, 2016 by
Both satellites launched aboard an Ariane 5 on 5 October are healthy and have begun post-launch manoeuvres.
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October 6th, 2016 by
French space agency CNES and Thales Alenia Space conducted a demonstration under real conditions in July 2016 that will bring significant new evolutions to the satellite navigation market, the company said. The demonstration was designed to validate the performance of Precise Point Positioning (PPP), a new technology operated via the EGNOS satnav augmentation service.
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October 4th, 2016 by
Unfavourable weather conditions over the Spaceport in French Guiana have resulted in a 24-hour delay for Arianespace’s Ariane 5 mission with the Sky Muster II and GSAT-18 payloads.
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October 4th, 2016 by
NASA and Orbital ATK successfully completed a pre-launch Flight Readiness Review (FRR) and established a targeted launch date of 14 October (UTC) for the OA-5 cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station.
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October 4th, 2016 by
United Launch Alliance has been given an US$860 million contract modification for work on the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle for Delta IV and Atlas V rockets.
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October 3rd, 2016 by
The initial Ariane 5 to loft four global positioning satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system has begun its build-up at the Spaceport in French Guiana for a milestone Arianespace mission in November.
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