Satellite News

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 15 (DMSP-F15), launched in December 1999, successfully operated without navigation gyros for 24 hours demonstrating a new promising capability that can extend portions of the DMSP mission even when critical gyro data is not available.
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The Sicral 2 military communications satellite could be built by Thales Alenia Space, said French Defence Ministry spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau.
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The European Space Agency said its Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite is ready for final pre-launch testing.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said it has been awarded a contract for EUR1 million (US$1.4 million) with EADS Astrium (UK) to provide an advanced technology solution for ExoMars, the upcoming Mars mission of ESA.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contract to build the Operational Land Imager (OLI) for the eighth Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM).
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Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that its Spaceway 3 satellite has arrived at the Arianespace launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana where an Ariane 5 ECA will launch the satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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Boeing is preparing a response to a U.S. Air Force Request for Proposals for the development and production of an enhanced constellation of Global Positioning System satellites known as GPS III.
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A combined U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team has successfully completed an on-orbit reconfiguration of the five-satellite Milstar constellation to maximise the system’s capabilities to provide military communications around the globe.
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