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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has accepted another onboard video system provided by Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation. The space-ruggedised and miniaturised video system will be used to observe post-launch activities on a satellite.
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Northrop Grumman has developed a Radiation-Hardened by Design, 90 nanometer, Silicon on Insulator (RHBD 90nm SOI), standard cell and intellectual property library for military and space applications.
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Inmarsat has reportedly ordered three Ka-band satellites from Boeing for about US$1 billion.
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Acoustic tests on a new generation GLONASS-K navigation satellite have been completed at a plant in southern Russia.
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After more than a month of testing in ESA’s Large Space Simulator (LSS) at ESTEC in the Netherlands, MetOp-B’s Payload Module was lifted out of the vacuum chamber on 28 July.
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A joint U.S. Air Force/ Lockheed Martin team has successfully transitioned the Milstar satellite constellation ground control system to the new Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Mission Control Segment (MCS).
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To commemorate 40 years of operation of its Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites, Northrop Grumman Corporation has configured a full-size model of a DSP satellite for display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
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The Rascom-QAF1R and Nilesat 201 telecommunications satellites, designed and built by Thales Alenia Space, are now ready for launch.