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A Block Off The Other Blocks Passes Tests

July 30, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

Testing… testing… electrical power system, attitude determination and control system, telemetry, tracking and command and navigation payload… wow, they’re all working as they should and have been integrated properly into the satellite. That’s the word from the Global Positioning Wing who has successfully passed the Initial Integrated System Test on the first GPS Block IIF satellite at the Boeing Spacecraft Development Center in El Segundo, California.

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Newtec Shares Core Values With TurboConcept

July 30, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

Intellectual Property Cores (IP cores) are blocks of logic or data used in creating a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a product. These wee components should be entirely portable in that they should be easy to insert into any vendor technology or design methodology.

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Elektro Satellite Drawing Board Back Up And Running

July 25, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

Named after Semyon Lavochkin who was this company’s head designer, NPO Lavochkin is a Russian satellite manufacturer who also engaged in aeronautical design and engineering and manufactures the Fregat space booster. The Russians have used this spacecraft as their landing stage for lunar missions such as Luna-16, as the braking stage to place Fobos-2 into orbit around Mars, and as an escape stage to launch units into interplanetary trajectories, such as the Venus and Mars Express probes.

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Boeing Proud Of Their Endeavour

July 22, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

One of the chores the crew of the Endeavour during the STS-118 mission was to deliver a variety of hardware components to the International Space Station (ISS). In fact, Boeing produced more than 740 light hardware components that include the Starboard 5 (SS) truss element. This component will increase the available power to the various systems aboard the ISS.

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Encoder Energy From Telairity

July 21, 2007 / Spacecraft & Payload Technology

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA: August 21, 2007—Satnews Daily--Telairity, Inc., will be positioned to reveal their line of HD and SD video compression systems for the global marketplace. Being introduced to the worldwide market is the Telairity BE7400 Standard Definition Broadcast Encoder.

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