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Garmin Says Do Not Go Blindly Into That Dark, Dark Night… Or Bright, Bright Day, For That Matter

August 3, 2007 / Navigation & PNT

Knowing where to go, or having assistance in doing so, avoids numerous cuts and bruises and otherwise dented vehicles while scrambling for a map in the glove compartment, or pulling the map from your face with your car window open while driving… fortunately, there is the new Garmin nüvi 700 series satellite navigation system just released. The user interface is intuitive and offers an easy navigation experience.

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A Block Off The Other Blocks Passes Tests

July 30, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

Testing… testing… electrical power system, attitude determination and control system, telemetry, tracking and command and navigation payload… wow, they’re all working as they should and have been integrated properly into the satellite. That’s the word from the Global Positioning Wing who has successfully passed the Initial Integrated System Test on the first GPS Block IIF satellite at the Boeing Spacecraft Development Center in El Segundo, California.

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Newtec Shares Core Values With TurboConcept

July 30, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

Intellectual Property Cores (IP cores) are blocks of logic or data used in creating a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a product. These wee components should be entirely portable in that they should be easy to insert into any vendor technology or design methodology.

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SpaceDev Appreciates Being Appreciated

July 28, 2007 / Exploration & Science Missions

En route to the Red Planet is the Mars Phoenix Lander. And we’ve learned today that SpaceDev (OTCBB:SPDV) provided key hardware and instruments for this endeavor that included five flight actuator assemblies, key components of the Wet Chemistry Laboratory for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA) instrument that’s aboard NASA’s craft, all via contract to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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Another Major Player, Lockheed Martin, Vies For GPS

July 28, 2007 / Navigation & PNT

There’s certainly more than one player in the hunt to build the GPS Block III program for the U.S. Air Force’s nextgen global positioning system. With a proven track record of providing progressively advanced spacecraft for the current GPS constellation, why, it’s only natural that a Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT]-led team would toss their hat into the ring.

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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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