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Between September 17th and September 20th, the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, India is going to be a rather busy area. For the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is going to launch Polaris, an Israeli recon satellite, via a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Read MoreEn 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.
Read MoreThere’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.
Read MoreClass K certification – no, this is not a substitute classification for a high school diploma, nor is it a special group of marathon runners… Class K certification is the highest reliability level prescribed by MIL-PRF-38534.
Read MoreThe 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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Read MoreThe 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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Read MoreNamed 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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