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Thales Alenia Space has delivered the second flight model high-resolution (HR) optical imaging instrument for integration, testing and validation in the Pleiades earth observation satellite in construction at Astrium facilities in Toulouse.
Read MoreThe MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally.
Read MoreThales Alenia Space has briefly announced that the Palapa-D communications satellite has successfully passed the In Orbit Acceptance Review.</font
Read MoreDutch Space has signed a contract with Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) for the development of solar arrays for NASA’s new cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) to be carried out under? NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) project.
Read MoreAnalytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) has been awarded its 16th patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for work by astrodynamicist Sergei Tanygin, Ph.D., entitled “Visualization of Field-of-View Constraints” (U.S. patent 7,609,907).
Read MoreScanEagle, the lightweight, long-endurance UAV deployed from U.S. Navy ships and by allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, can now be upgraded to the heavier NightEagle configuration with improved infrared sensor for night operations.
Read MoreRussia's space corporation Energia is doubling production of manned spacecraft, the Company's president has stated.
Read MoreThe Planetary Society has announced LightSail, a plan to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010.
Read MoreBliley Technologies, Inc. has introduced the NV45AD1725 OCVCXO (oven controlled voltage controlled crystal oscillator) configured specifically for ultra low phase noise results in vibration-rich environments.
Read MoreThe Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC)-built Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has been awarded the 2009 Aviation Week Program Excellence Award in the System Level Production/Sustainment category.
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