Satellite News

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded the first phase of a US$30 million firm-fixed price U.S. Air Force contract to develop a global space surveillance ground radar system.

Harris Corporation has submitted its proposal to provide advanced communications and information assurance solutions for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next-Generation Advanced Control Segment (OCX) as a member of the Northrop Grumman team. The proposal begins the downselect phase of the programme.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a US$13.4 million U.S. Air Force contract to procure long-lead hardware for a second Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) spacecraft.

The United States Air Force said Friday that it has awarded Lockheed Martin a $262.5 million contract.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it shipped a new communications satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is preparing two satellites for launch on 25 July. The Earth observation missions, UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1, will be launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome that Saturday at 1846 UTC.
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, has reached geostationary orbit. The satellite has now been renamed and its solar array has been deployed.
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