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The 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 delivery of reusable solid rocket motors for the space shuttle will continue, thanks to a new NASA contract awarded to ATK Launch Systems.
Read MoreAccording to the Ottawa Business Journal’s online edition, a new $1.3 million contract has been received by Ottawa-based RAMTelecom from Alberta-based TOG Systems. The contract will require RAMTelecom to provide various products through one of their resellers companies to the oil and gas sector working in the province of Alberta.
Read MoreBeing selected by NASA to provide support for their many programs is similar to receiving a gold start for exceptional work from your teacher when you were in kindergarten. So here’s a gold star to The Boeing Company as they have been selected as the contractor to provide manufacturing support for the design and construction of the upper stage of the Ares 1 rocket.
Read MoreOne million dollars! Not chump change, that’s for certain. That amount is the total prize money being awarded during the upcoming 2007 Space Elevator Games in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 19th through the 21st.
Read MoreIn support of the satellite-based communications of a U.S. government agency is the reason for a $1.5 million order for such equipment, awarded to Comtech EF Data Corporation, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corporation (NASDAQ:CMTL). This order includes the company’s CDM-600L and CDM-710 Satellite Modems with bandwidth-efficient technologies.
Read MoreThe commercial space products and services endeavors by SPACEHAB, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPAB) have certainly won additional acclaim… and revenue. The company has announced their Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has won the first fully funded task order under the recently awarded Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery, indefinite quality (gasping for breath…) indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2. (Phew!)
Read MoreThe Communications-Electronics Command has awarded a $7.8 million contract to DataPath, Inc. Provided will be field services for a critical network of 32 DataPath Deployable Ku-band Earth Terminals (DKET) in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of Southwest Asia.
Read MoreThe consolidated financial report for Orbit Alchut (TASE:ORBI) was released and covered Q2 of 2007. Posted were $16.8 million in revenue for Q2, 11 percent more than the $15.1 million for the corresponding quarter in 2006.
Read MoreMi Zeng Xin, the chairman of AsiaSat, stated it well, “The uplift in AsiaSat’s half-year performance was encouraging after a few years of sluggish trading in the Asian satellite sector amid a general economic strengthening across the region. Indeed, we have maintained our market leadership; remain debt-free and are committed to the future of satellite communication in the Asia-Pacific region. However, the recent launch of two new satellites in China poses a very real threat to AsiaSat’s business. As a result, the management of the Company will be adopting a cautious approach to the remainder of the year.”
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