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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA announced a US$34 million contract modification award with Lockheed Martin. The contract modification establishes a storage date for N-Prime of 7 March 2008, at which time Lockheed Martin will have completed satellite integration and testing.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said that its meteorological instrument package is now destined for Mars onboard the Phoenix Lander.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation, the payload integrator for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), has delivered the first SBIRS geosynchronous orbit (GEO) payload to prime contractor Lockheed Martin for integration into the spacecraft and final system-level testing.
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Germany’s second radar spy satellite, SAR-Lupe 2, is working as planned and has provided first images, according to principal contractor OHB-System AG.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and Sirius Satellite Radio announced that SS/L has been awarded a contract from Sirius to build Sirius FM-6, a new, high-power satellite designed to operate in a highly inclined elliptical orbit (HIEO). This satellite will be the sixth SS/L-built spacecraft in the Sirius fleet.

Maxwell Technologies Inc. has delivered its first space-qualified SCS750 single board computers (SBC) to Orbital Sciences Corp., prime contractor for NASA’s Glory Earth sciences mission.

Integral Systems, Inc. was awarded by the U.S. Air Force a cost plus award fee modification totalling US$5.8 million to modify the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) effort to support the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programmes.

Lockheed Martin announced that it has successfully completed a critical end-to-end test between the space and ground elements of the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), a key milestone in preparation for launch and on-orbit operations of the programme’s first geosynchronous orbit (GEO) spacecraft.
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