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In an effort to recover and reinvest in our nation's businesses, NASA has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector's capability to support transport of crew to and from low Earth orbit.
Read MorePCI Geomatics has been awarded CDA$496,000 in repayable funding through the Business and Regional Growth program by the Honourable Denis Lebel, the Canadian Minister of State for Economic Development.
Read MoreA generous donation from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) has launched a new space education lab in Colorado Springs — the AGI Space Missions Simulator at the Space Foundation Discovery Institute.
Read MoreWord comes from Avanti: Further to the announcements on 21 and 29 December 2009 detailing the conditional placing of a total of 22,250,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company (“Ordinary Shares”) at a placing price of 400 pence . . .
Read MoreStart-up satellite broadband service provider Avanti Communications of London announced that it has secured more than $300 million in loans and guarantees from the U.S. and French export-credit agencies for a Hylas 2 Ka-band satellite to be built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, and launched in the first half of 2012 by France’s Arianespace launch consortium.
Read MoreClearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) announced Clearwire Escrow Corporation, an unrestricted subsidiary of Clearwire Communications LLC, has priced a supplemental offering of an additional US$920,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 12 percent senior secured notes due 2015 at an issue price of 97.9 percent (the “Notes”).
Read MoreCOM DEV International Ltd. will benefit from an investment of $5.2 million (CAD) to create world-class micro-satellite system technology, products and services.
Read MoreThe Honorable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry and the Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), announced an investment of more than CAD$8 million in 26 research and development contracts.
Read MoreGlobal satellite operator SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and Jersey, Channel Islands-based O3B Networks Limited (O3b), have announced that SES has made a minority investment in O3b to support the development of O3b’s satellite-based, global internet backbone that's designed to reach the “other three billion” people in the developing world who today do not have access to the internet.
Read MoreSea Launch Company, LLC, has received interim approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on its motion to secure up to US$12.5 million in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing from Space Launch Services, LLC.
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