ORBITZ…

Boeing Is Definitely Aware—The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] earlier this month submitted a bid to the U.S. Air Force earlier for the Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) program. The program, valued at approximately $30 million, will demonstrate a system that detects threats to U.S. space assets using instruments hosted on satellites. A contract award is expected later this year.—St. Louis, Missouri

Phoenix Is Also Guided By Honeywell Technology — Honeywell (NYSE:HON) has revealed the company’s Miniature Inertial Measurement Units (MIMUs) helped successfully guide NASA‘s Phoenix Mars Lander to a safe landing May 25th on the planet’s surface. Honeywell MIMUs, each of which weighs approximately nine pounds and measure 6.6-inches in height and nine-inches in diameter, provide data to assist the vehicle guidance. The units have contributed to the success of several commercial and military satellite and space exploration programs.—Phoenix, Arizona

Training Is Important Before Observing Earth — MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) has announced their company’s U.S. Information Systems subsidiary, MDA Systems Inc., has been selected to provide a multi-million dollar training solution to a foreign government. This information solution will provide a training environment for new operators prior to working on the customer’s operational satellite ground system, also previously provided by MDA.

Single Chipping Away At GNSS RF — NemeriX, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power, high-performance A-GPS solutions for GPS and location-based service (LBS) products, has been granted a patent for its new single-chip multi-band GNSS RF receiver technology that enables GNSS devices to acquire parallel signals in all frequency bands from the GPS, GLONASS and Galileo systems. The patent – number US7’358’896 – covers NemeriX’s fully programmable single frequency synthesizer innovation and has been awarded in the US.

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