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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has signed a contract amendment for C$11.9 million to increase its provision of Radarsat-2 satellite imagery to Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will integrate the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM), to fly aboard the STPSat-3 spacecraft built for the U.S. Air Force (USAF). A co-operative agreement between NASA, NOAA and the USAF will allow the TIM instrument to catch a ride on STPSat-3 to be launched in 2013.

Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation announced it has delivered a solar array deployment system to the National Space Organisation (NSPO) in Taiwan for the agency’s new FORMOSAT-5 imaging satellite.

The Commonwealth of Australia Department of Defence (ADF) has selected ViaSat Inc. to supply the UHF Satellite Communication (Satcom) Mission System for its recently-launched UHF capacity on Intelsat IS-22.

Astrium has won a contract to supply telecommunication products for NewSat’s Jabiru-1 satellite, primed by Lockheed Martin. This contract is the first from Lockheed Martin for this type of equipment.
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Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, has signed a contract with the Italian Ministry of Defence to build, in the capacity of prime contractor, a military high-resolution optical satellite system for Earth observation called OPTSAT-3000.
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A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s third H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3) this week. Once installed, the system will be directed by researchers on the ground to acquire imagery of specific areas of the globe for disaster analysis and environmental studies.
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e-GEOS, the company created by the Italian Space Agency (20%) and Telespazio (80%), has signed a contract with ESA to provide X-band and payload data processing services through its Matera Space Centre in support of the operational activities of the first two satellites of the Sentinel constellation, which will be used for the European Union’s GMES programme.
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