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Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] announced that the third sensor of five has been delivered to NASA for integration onto the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft.
Read MoreThales Alenia Space' Spanish subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space Espana, has been awarded a 17 million euro contract by Sener, the payload prime contractor, to supply the electronics for the optical observation Instrument on the Ingenio satellite.
Read MoreTSaft has landed the battery manufacturer an 18-satellite contract with MicroSat Systems, Inc. (MSI). This contract marks the largest single order ever for microsatellite batteries.
Read MoreThales Alenia Space's Spanish subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space Espana, was awarded a 17 million euro contract by Sener, the payload prime contractor, to supply the electronics for the optical observation Instrument on the Ingenio satellite.
Read MoreMITEQ Inc. introduces a new addition to its family of waveguide LNAs. The AMFW-8F-17702130-120-23P is a very low noise, high dynamic range Ka-band waveguide front end.
Read MoreBoeing [NYSE: BA] engineers played a key role in designing several new components of the International Space Station (ISS) that will transform the outpost from a three-bedroom, one-bath abode for three astronauts into a future five-bedroom, two-bath residence that can accommodate six.
Read MoreThe European Space Agency has reported the Herschel spacecraft is now installed in the Large Space Simulator (LSS) at ESTEC and is now ready for thermal balance and thermal vacuum tests. This is the final system test in the environmental test campaign series.
Read MoreThe ESA's LISA Pathfinder has successfully completed a series of tests devised to characterise the shocks that the spacecraft will experience at launcher separation and when the science and propulsion modules separate upon reaching the operational orbit at L1.
Read MoreMFG Galileo Composites, a designer and manufacturer of custom composite radomes and reflectors, has announced the completion of an 18-foot composite radome installation for the government of India’s National Center for Antarctic & Ocean Research (NCAOR).
Read MoreSea Tel has debuted USAT, the first Ultra Small Aperture Terminal. Building on the Company's recently released 60-cm antenna, model 2406, this smaller, lighter 60-cm antenna system meets the FCC’s and ETSI’s specification allowing multi mode use with Spread Spectrum, TDMA, and SCPC services.
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