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Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is developing a robust, radiation-hardened, wireless spacecraft bus under a $4.1 million, 21-month, first phase contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.
Read MoreAurora Flight Sciences has announced the Company, MIT's Manned Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), and the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL) recently won a NASA Small-Business Technology Transfer Research proposal to develop a software system that performs command and control of a diverse team of mobile robots, operating in a variety of control modes, to perform multi-agent planetary exploration.
Read MoreSurrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a 30M pounds contract with Astrium GmbH, Germany for the supply of a Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) EarthCARE mission.
Read MoreBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed integration of the Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP).
Read MoreEnerdyne Technologies Inc., a ViaSat company, has announced the availability of an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) option for its EnerLinks family of digital data links.
Read MoreDigitalGlobe has announced the WorldView-2 remote sensing instrument, provided by ITT Corporation’s Space Systems Division, has been integrated by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. into the WorldView-2 spacecraft and system-level testing has commenced.
Read MoreSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announces the passing of a significant technical milestone in the development of its Dragon spacecraft with the successful arc jet testing of PICA-X high performance heat shield material.
Read MoreA primary operational and science instrument for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has passed a key environmental test at Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) subcontractor, Raytheon Company.
Read MoreThe Herschel space telescope has completed what could be called the "blue phase" of its pre-launch preparations for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission, with the spacecraft's mirror inspected for cleanliness using ultraviolet light.
Read MoreA milestone was achieved in a contract awarded by Moog Inc., for ABSL which will be responsible for delivering multiple 340V batteries.
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