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Aerojet announced shipment of its rocket engines destined for use on NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and NASA’s Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Facility, working through the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), announced the signing of a Space Act Agreement effort to advance the state of the art in mission- and safety-critical software that will be used for sending SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Northrop Grumman Corporation was awarded a contract by NASA Langley Research Center to make modifications to the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensor, which will be integrated onto the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Mission (NPP), scheduled for launch by NASA in 2010.
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A planet-searching satellite planned by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and NASA-Ames is one of six proposed spacecraft concepts that NASA has picked for further study as part of its Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite programme.
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GMV has been selected by Star One to upgrade the Brasilsat Satellite Control Facility for the Brasilsat B1, B2, B3 and B4 satellites, all of which are Boeing 376W “spinners”. This contract is GMV’s first contract with Star One, the largest satellite operator based in South America.
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Following the Final Acceptance Review (FAR) successfully held in May, the control of Star One C2 telecommunication satellite has been transferred to Star One and is now operational in geostationary orbit at 70 degrees West.
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Thales Alenia Space announced the signature of a contract with Nilesat, the Egyptian satellite company, to provide the Nilesat-201 broadcasting communication satellite and associated services and ground stations.
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Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, NASA Ames Research Center and a team of co-investigators have been selected by NASA to undertake a US$750,000 six-month study to design a new NASA Small Explorer Mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).
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