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COM DEV International Ltd. said that it has been awarded an Authorisation to Proceed (ATP) from an Asian customer for work on a major subsystem of an instrument that will fly on a future Earth observation satellite.
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ProtoStar Ltd. announced the closing of US$245 million of debt and equity financing to complete the on-going development and launch of its second satellite.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation is a partner on five contracts awarded by NASA to investigate concepts for next-generation space telescopes, the company said.
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Lockheed Martin announced it has completed work on the last satellite in the GPR IIR-M constellation, which features a demonstration payload that will transmit the new civil signal known as L5.
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The ATV Jules Verne, European Space Agency’s first resupply and reboost vehicle, has successfully performed a fully automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS).
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By taking advantage of the physics of magnetic flux pinning, spacecraft components could hover centimeters to about one meter apart without electrical power, according to Dr. Mason Peck from the Cornell University College of Engineering.
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Jules Verne ATV was today formally cleared to proceed with the first ISS docking attempt, scheduled for 3 April 2008 at 1441 UTC.
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Russia’ TsSKB-Progress design and production centre is developing a new Bion-M biosatellite for scientific and applied research in space biology and medicine, a spokesman for the centre said.
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