Satellite News

Com Dev International Ltd. plans a C$4-million (EUR2.6 million, US$3.4 million) expansion of its Cambridge, Ontario/Canada plant that will expand its size by 22 percent.

NASA agreed to co-operate with PlanetSpace Inc. and Transformational Space Corp. (t/Space) to support the companies as they develop capabilities to transport goods and people to orbital destinations.

Lockheed Martin accepted responsibility for the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The company will use the historic facility to process the Orion crew exploration vehicle.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has teamed up with the University of New Orleans’ National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM) to develop and test new ways to produce large composite structures that NASA could use to create future space transportation systems.

Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a five-year Life Cycle Support services contract from Harris Corporation valued at US$5.5 million, subject to annual funding, to sustain the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) FTI-SAT programme.

The PTR Group Inc., a real-time and embedded technology and engineering services provider, said that it helped develop the Target Indicator Experiment (TIE) aboard the recently launched TacSat 2 satellite.

LogicaCMG is to develop computer software to be used for the Galileo satellite navigation system under three new contracts totalling EUR7.4 million (US$9.8 million).

The European Space Agency has opened a Web site that gives access to images acquired by Envisat, the world’s largest Earth observation satellite.