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A new and advanced technology interface named SpaceWire will be used in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman for NASA. This technology will allow the telescope’s components to work far more efficiently and more reliably with each other.
Read MoreThe Honorable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), visited the Canadian Space Agency David Florida Laboratory, in Ottawa, to view the next generation commercial satellite, RADARSAT-2. This satellite will launch on December 8, 2007 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Read MoreOn Tuesday evening, October 23rd, at 11:38 p.m. (EST), Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Low Earth orbit was successfully entered after almost 8 minutes of powered flight.
Read MoreInmedius announced the adoption of its S1000D Publishing Suite by General Dynamics C4 Systems to support the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program’s compliance with the ASD S1000D lifecycle; from the management of logistics source data, to technical documentation production and publishing of Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant training materials.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is playing a significant role in the current 14-day Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-120) mission, which will deliver the European Space Agency's Harmony module to the International Space Station. Boeing has worked with Thales Alenia Space in Torino, Italy, for more than 10 years to assemble and prepare the Harmony module for launch.
Read MoreShipments of navigation devices worldwide will continue to increase from 2007 to 2012, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.5 percent, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.
Read MoreSiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: SIRF] unveiled its SiRFecosystem strategy and introduced SiRFstudio. This is a standards-based, end-to-end location services enabling platform designed to simplify and speed the development and deployment of location-aware applications across a broad range of mobile devices.
Read MoreAriane 5’s readiness for the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer vehicle is now one step further ahead, thanks to the successful re-ignition of the upper stage engine during its most recent mission. Additionally, during the October 17th through 18th 2007 meeting in Paris, the ESA’s Space Science Advisory Committee selected the new candidates for possible future scientific missions.
Read MoreSES SIRIUS, a SES ASTRA company, has delivered the SIRIUS 4 satellite to the Baikonour Cosmodrome.
Read MoreFour… that’s correct, four… satellites were successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle, and Globalstar Inc. is delighted to be able to augment the earlier four satellites launched in May of this year.
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