ORBITS: News Briefs…
-- Crawford Keeps On Truckin’ -- Russian Version Of GPS Bullish For Bears & Blackjack -- Know Where You Are When You Game On --
Read MoreMissions & Constellations
ORBITS: News Briefs…
-- 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 --
Read MoreElektro Satellite Drawing Board Back Up And Running
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.
Read MoreBoeing Proud Of Their Endeavour
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.
Read MoreEncoder Energy From Telairity
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.
Read MoreINSAT-4CR To Go Aloft On September 1st
NEW DELHI, INDIA: August 22, 2007—Satnews Daily—The latest communication satellite from India is scheduled to launch on September 1st from Sriharikota spaceport’s Satish Dhawan Space Center.
Read MoreGPS Law Suit No Small Potato
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.
Read MoreChinese Compressed By Newtec
BEIJING, CHINA: August 20, 2007—Satnews Daily—For use on a new Chinese satellite is a number of product units from Newtec.
Read MoreChinese Compressed By Newtec
BEIJING, CHINA: August 20, 2007—Satnews Daily—For use on a new Chinese satellite is a number of product units from Newtec.
Read MoreBall Aerospace Has Successful Adventures With Acronyms…
DAYTON, OHIO: August 20, 2007—Satnews Daily—Hang on for a slew of acronyms… Increment 2 In-Process Review (IPR-2); Integrated overhead Non-Imaging Infrared (ONIR); Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TPED) Systems (IOTS)—phew, what a mouthful!
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