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Adverse weather conditions are the cause of a one-day delay for the launch of INSAT-4CR by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The homegrown Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) will now lift off on September 2nd, as severe thunderstorms over the last few days during the nighttime hours delayed pre-launch work by about 14 hours.
Read MoreTesting… testing… electrical power system, attitude determination and control system, telemetry, tracking and command and navigation payload… wow, they’re all working as they should and have been integrated properly into the satellite. That’s the word from the Global Positioning Wing who has successfully passed the Initial Integrated System Test on the first GPS Block IIF satellite at the Boeing Spacecraft Development Center in El Segundo, California.
Read MoreThe current chairman of The Allstate Corporation, Mr. Edward M. Libby, has just been elected to the Boeing board of directors. This is effective immediately.
Read MoreDeveloping relationships with others to help increase your company’s presence in any market is a darned good idea… that is why The Boeing Company is hosting the 17th annual Supplier Diversity Marketplace. Held in Carson, California, more than 200 businesses, both diverse and small in size, can meet in person with event sponsors Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman and Raytheon, as well as other large business and government agencies.
Read MoreTwo U.S. Army contracts have been awarded to Comtech Telecommunications Corporation totaling $34 million.
Read MoreA new Middle East/Africa HQ has been opened by iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of Vision Technologies Systems, inc. (VT Systems) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). This new office is located in Dubai’s Silicon Oasis Technology Park, and what a structure this is…
Read MoreAll of us at SatNews Publishers hope you have a fantastic weekend and, hopefully, a day off on Monday from work or school. There will be no daily news for Monday, September 3rd, as we, too, have been graced with a day off, as well. “Read” us on Tuesday, September 4th!
Read MoreThe nextgen Internet protocol is IPv6. This version offers an exponential increase in the number of addresses available to networked devices. And when it comes to the military application, Ipv6 enables global, net-centric operations bringing a decisive edge to the warfighter.
Read MoreThe Pentagon is awarding $119,000,000 in funds to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. This award is a firm-fixed price contract for launches using an Atlas V launch vehicle under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program to launch the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF)-2 satellites.
Read MoreThe leading pay-TV operator in sub-Sharan Africa, MultiChoice Africa, is boosting its capacity with new leases with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) via their SESAT 1 satellite. These capacity leases are to expand the firm’s pay TV and Internet services in their target market.
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