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Your Satellite Road Service, In Space, from DARPA and NRL

July 28, 2007 / In-Orbit Servicing & Orbital Operations

The key technologies and work on reducing the technological risk to allow autonomous spacecraft rendezvous and docking to become a reliable reality are being worked on currently by the Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology NRL and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DRPA). As a matter of fact, the NRL achieved a key milestone toward this development of autonomous servicing of unaided spacecraft.

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Better USAF Positioning Through Boeing GPS

July 27, 2007 / Navigation & PNT

The U.S. Air Force has received from The Boeing Company a proposal for the latter to develop and produce as many as 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites for the former. Not only will the satellites offer improved anti-jamming capabilities for the warfighter, but also the positioning service will be 10x better than the system in use today.

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ORBITS: News Briefs…

July 25, 2007 / Exploration & Science Missions

-- School Days, New Phase, UofColo Wins Sat Instrument Contract -- Sea Launch Needed Gas Deflector, And That’s What They Finally Have -- TMF Associates Examines MSS Ops -- Housing Debacle Is Not Pleasant News For Satellite And Cable Giants, Either --

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Elektro Satellite Drawing Board Back Up And Running

July 25, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

Named after Semyon Lavochkin who was this company’s head designer, NPO Lavochkin is a Russian satellite manufacturer who also engaged in aeronautical design and engineering and manufactures the Fregat space booster. The Russians have used this spacecraft as their landing stage for lunar missions such as Luna-16, as the braking stage to place Fobos-2 into orbit around Mars, and as an escape stage to launch units into interplanetary trajectories, such as the Venus and Mars Express probes.

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Boeing Proud Of Their Endeavour

July 22, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

One of the chores the crew of the Endeavour during the STS-118 mission was to deliver a variety of hardware components to the International Space Station (ISS). In fact, Boeing produced more than 740 light hardware components that include the Starboard 5 (SS) truss element. This component will increase the available power to the various systems aboard the ISS.

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Encoder Energy From Telairity

July 21, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA: August 21, 2007—Satnews Daily--Telairity, Inc., will be positioned to reveal their line of HD and SD video compression systems for the global marketplace. Being introduced to the worldwide market is the Telairity BE7400 Standard Definition Broadcast Encoder.

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GPS Law Suit No Small Potato

July 21, 2007 / Navigation & PNT

PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—A small, but significant, industry using GPS technology is the farming community. In fact, the global market for agricultural GPS technology is increasing.

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