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United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta II expendable launch vehicle on Thursday, December 20th, from Space Launch Complex 17-A at 3:04 p.m., EST. Carried aloft was the Air Force’s GPS IIR-18(M) satellite.
Read MoreLockheed Martin is filled with happy folk over the ITT Corporation delivery of a new demo payload for a modernized Global Positioning system block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite to their Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, facilities.
Read MoreIt will be two years on December 28th since the first Galileo satellite, GIOVE-A, was launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket.
Read MoreThales Alenia Space and RASCOMSTAR-QAF (RSQ) are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of RASCOM-QAF1, the first communications satellite dedicated to Africa.
Read MoreA Systems Requirements Review (SRR) for Space Exploration Technologies, otherwise known as SpaceX, has been completed. This is the process for what will be the company's third Falcon 9 / Dragon demo under NASA's Commercial Orbit Transportation Services (COTS) program.
Read MoreCape Canaveral... Florida... The fifth in a series of eight modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellites... Lockheed Martin built this vehicle for the U.S. Air Force.
Read MoreThe third demo of their nexgen processor/router (NGPR) for the Transformational Satellite Communications Satellite Communications System (TSAT SS) has been successfully accomplished by Boeing [NYSE: BA].
Read MoreThe nexgen commercial satellite from Canada has been successfully launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Read MoreThe shipment of the DMSP Flight-18 spacecraft has successfully been completed by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Programs Systems Group.
Read MoreLockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] has opened a new space Exploration Development Laboratory (EDL) that will support NASA's Project Orion and Constellation Program.
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