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Professor Sir Martin Sweeting will deliver his address at the IET Appleton Lecture 2010 — Small Satellites — Big Future, to be held at Savoy Place, London, on January 19.
Read MoreNASA has partnered with Dynetics and the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation, or VCSI, both in Huntsville, Alabama, to successfully complete environmental testing of the Fast, Affordable Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT- HSV01.
Read MoreSanswire Corp. (OTC.BB:SNSR), through its Joint Venture Sanswire-TAO Corp., announced an agreement with Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) to publicly unveil and demonstrate the STS-111 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), their new commercial, mid altitude, multi-day duration, lighter-than-air platform designed to rapidly provide persistent surveillance capabilities and to work in tandem with other currently deployed UAVs in various domestic and overseas operations.
Read MoreAAC Microtec in Sweden tests miniaturized satellite systems in space, and for the second time in 2009 they will fly their revolutionary microsystem-based components in space.
Read More(IsraelNN.com) Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) revealed a unique hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at an aeronautics conference earlier this month. The ultra-light UAV, called the Mosquito, was developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Defense for use by combat units in gathering field intelligence.
Read MoreIt's official — The date of the first ever Swisscube satellite launch is planned for next Wednesday September 23 according to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO); liftoff is expected at 8:23 a.m., Swiss time.
Read MoreStudents at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have built the first all-Swiss cube satellite to study the upper atmosphere and test low-cost positioning system and have turned to ISRO to put it in orbit.
Read MoreClyde Space, among others, fully supports the QB50 initiative, which is an international network of 50 CubeSats for multi-point, in-situ measures in the lower thermosphere and re-entry.
Read MoreInterorbital has released the TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit, a low-cost alternative to the CubeSat with three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but with plenty of room for most experiments or functions.
Read MoreMicrosat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI), (formerly the Space Division of Dynacon Inc.), Canada’s designer and builder of the Multi Mission Microsatellite Bus technology (MMMB), and innovator of Reaction Wheel attitude control system products, announces the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite — Canada’s First Space Telescope.
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