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A team led by Boeing [NYSE: BA] Advanced Systems has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for the first phase of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) program. DARPA's FAST is a multiphase effort to design and develop a ground test prototype of a new High Power Generation Subsystem (HPGS) for spacecraft.
Read MoreThe United States Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) Flight 19 satellite, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), was decommissioned last Friday following nine years of service. Northrop Grumman personnel stationed at the company's Telemetry and Orbital Test Station in Redondo Beach, California, terminated the downlink to Flight 19 at the Air Force's command. Flight 19 was launched on April 9, 1999 on a Titan IV launch vehicle with an Inertial Upper stage (IUS) rocket.
Read MoreProject Sapphire is the first dedicated space mission for Canada's Department of National Defence (DND).
Read MoreExhibiting at the International Aeropace Exhibition event in Farnborough from July 14 to 20, at both the Thales and the Finmeccanica booths (located S1 and OE1 OE2 respectively), will be Thales Alenia Space.
Read MoreFailure Analysis has partnered with one of the largest satellite producers to provide satellite concepts for DUMSTR NRO/DARPA satellites.
Read MoreIn an official memorandum from the Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs, both the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff United States Air Force have been forced to resign their posts.
Read MoreAir Force Space Command's Space Development and Test Wing has successfully concluded the launch and early orbit portion of operations for the Communication Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite and accepted the spacecraft from the contractor, General Dynamics.
Read MoreChange happens, as evidenced at the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Wing at Los Angeles Air Force Base.
Read MoreExpand Networks revealed General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) and the United States Army have awarded the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2–3 TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) contract to Expand Networks.
Read MoreBAE Systems has developed a satellite navigation receiver system that provides uninterrupted operation of the Global Positioning System for air, land, and sea platforms and applications.
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