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ITT has announced that it has passed a key milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Navigation Payload Element (NPE) the company is developing for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III programme.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performed an attitude control experiment of the solar sail of the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator “IKAROS” after its deployment, using a liquid crystal attitude control device.

Six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments recently completed a series of cryogenic tests at the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Integral Systems, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic, has received an order from DigitalGlobe to supply remote high rate data capture systems and Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) modems to optimise distribution of DigitalGlobe’s satellite imagery.

When U.S. space pioneer, Dr. Robert L. Forward, proposed in 1984 a way of improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits, some claimed it was impossible. Now engineers at the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory have proved that Dr. Forward was right, the university said.
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Boeing announced that it met or exceeded all the requirements of the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) hosted payload and its host spacecraft, the Intelsat 22 satellite (IS-22).
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and NASA conducted a successful technology demonstration of a navigation system that will make docking operations safer and easier for spacecraft flying to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Andrews Space and Honeybee Robotics they have entered into an exclusive teaming arrangement to provide control moment gyros for a range of spacecraft sizes.
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