Satellite News

NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight.

The Progress M-06M supply vessel, which docked with the International Space Station in July, has been undocked from the space station today.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will build the next generation commercial remote-sensing satellite for DigitalGlobe.

The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite system known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed on-schedule a System Requirements Review (SRR), an important programme milestone that precedes the Preliminary Design Review.

The NASTAR Center, a commercial space training and research centre, has completed the initial phase of a research effort focused on commercial human spaceflight and systems development related to emergency detection and response using an Atlas V flight profile, under a contract with Special Aerospace Service (SAS).
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