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ESA will take a 15-percent stake in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) under an agreement with NASA signed today. The agencies will also co-operate on the LISA Pathfinder mission.
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Wind River Systems, Inc. announced that it has been selected by Honeywell Aerospace to support the development of NASA’s New Millennium Program Space Technology 8 (ST8) Dependable Multiprocessor.
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ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a EUR229 million (US$307 million) contract for the design and development of Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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Boeing has completed integration and test of the U.S. Air Force’s first Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite (f.k.a. Wideband Gapfiller Satellite).
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Lockheed Martin has successfully integrated the spacecraft propulsion core structure and the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite.
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The United States’ first autonomous satellite servicing demonstration has resumed unmated demonstration activities as the Orbital Express mission between Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.’s Next Generation Satellite and Commodities Spacecraft (NextSat/CSC), and Boeing’s Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Orbiter (ASTRO,) continues its three month mission.
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Arabsat has selected a consortium of Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build their 5th Generation satellites. A firm contract for the two first satellites, Arabsat-5A and Badr-5, was signed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 16 June 2007.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said it successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft, a NASA mission that will provide an infrared map of the universe.
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