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Lockheed Martin announced that it has submitted its proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) programme.
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A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Kopin Corp., a provider of heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers for cellular phones and wireless local area networks, announced that it has been selected for the award of a US$600,000 solar cell development contract from NASA.
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Lockheed Martin said it has submitted a series of innovative proposals to the U.S. Department of Defense designed to advance state-of-the-art technologies in support of fielding rapid and responsive space systems.
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The UK plans to send a special Space Rover to the ISS, which has just been attacked by hackers, while Google and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group plan to colonise Mars — oh, and by the way NASA has rescheduled the upcoming solar maximum. These are some of the top space-related stories for 1 April.
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Boeing said its more than 260 commercial and civil satellites have achieved a total of 2,500 years of service.

Boeing said its more than 260 commercial and civil satellites have achieved a total of 2,500 years of service.

With some more figures on the table regarding U.S. plans to zap the errant NRO-L21 spy satellite, it may be a good time to get out that pocket calculator that’s been buried in the drawer and do some math.