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Sanswire Sending STS-111 Skyward In Orlando

December 8, 2009 / SmallSat

Sanswire 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.

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Do Not Swat These Intelligent Israel Aerospace Mosquito Micro UAVs

September 22, 2009 / SmallSat

(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.

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Swiss Enjoy Airglow Using Low Cost Cubes

August 26, 2009 / SmallSat

Students 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.

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Making The Most Of MOST

July 6, 2009 / SmallSat

Microsat 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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