Intelsat-704 Sat Replacement Contract Finalized By SS/L
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has finalized a previously announced satellite contract award to provide a new spacecraft to Intelsat.
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A Most Suitable Contract From Oceaneering To Honeywell
Honeywell will provide the avionics subsystem for the new Constellation Space Suit System that will be developed by Oceaneering International Inc.
Read MoreRocket Engine Testing To Occur At ISS
NASA and Ad Astra Rocket Company have entered into a Space Act Agreement that could lead to conducting a space flight test of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) engine on the International Space Station (ISS).
Read MoreBoeing Relishes Rotor Reveal For Hummingbirds
Boeing's A160 Turbine (A160T) Hummingbird unmanned rotorcraft has achieved two key milestones: using its two-speed transmission to change gears in flight, and passing the 100-flight-hour threshold.
Read MoreMore UAV Capability Info Requested Of Sanswire By Global Telesat
Sanswire Corp. (PINKSHEETS: SNSR) has delivered an additional UAV study following the initial payload integration study prepared for (GTC), a provider of satellite-based tracking and monitoring services and satellite-based airtime to government and commercial end users.
Read MoreSpace Tested Technologies Tuned To Terrestrial Benefit
The Space Foundation welcomed insightArthroVR, Moviloc?, and SAGRAN, three of GMV's many space-based products, as Certified Space Technologies.
Read MoreLNA Mobility Transmitter Released By Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a full-mold package low noise GaAs high electron mobility transistor (HEMT), the MGF4921AM, highly suitable for low noise amplifiers in satellite digital radio reception systems.
Read MorePyroshocking Success For SBIRS Sat Solar Array
GEO-1 Spacecraft Solar Array Deployment Pyroshock testing is used to demo the operational deployment of critical satellite components.
Read MoreFirst for Mitsubishi — Providing Sat Outside of Japan
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will be busy building the ST-2 communications satellite for a joint venture between Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Company Limited (Chunghwa), making this a transaction that is the first of its kind for Japan.
Read MoreSpace Garden Vegies Are Out Of This World
The Space Foundation recognized three PLANET LLC commercial products; Space Garden, JSC-1A Lunar Regolith Simulant, and JSC-Mars-1A Martian Regolith Simulant, as Certified Education Products. The Space Certification program was created by the Space Foundation, in cooperation with NASA, to raise awareness and understanding about the significant and practical benefits of technologies originally developed for the space program which have been adapted into products and services that improve life on Earth.?
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