Space Adventures Announces First Commercial Mission to the International Space Station New York, NY, June 18, 2003 – Commercial space flight took a giant leap forward today with the announcement […]
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Russian Federation Minister of Defense Visits S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
June 18, 2003. Today, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation visited S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the prime Russian company for designing, manufacturing, testing and actually […]
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SES ASTRA Procures Two Satellites with Lockheed Martin
SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company (Luxembourg and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges: SESG), and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS), a business unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, are pleased to announce […]
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Successful design review: ATV gets go-ahead
In early June 2003, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) programme reached a milestone in successfully passing the Critical Design Review (CDR) during which some 140 international space experts expressed their […]
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ESA welcomes setting-up of Galileo Joint Undertaking
The appointment of Rainer Grohe as Director of the Galileo Joint Undertaking marks a further key step forward for Galileo, the first civil global satellite navigation programme. “I am delighted […]
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Status of women in astronomy to be revisited during special AAS conference at Caltech
PASADENA, Calif. – In 1994, the American Astronomical Society endorsed a broad range of goals calling for improvements in opportunities and working environments for women in astronomy. On June 27 […]
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SES ASTRA Awards Lockheed Martin Contract for Two Powerful A2100 Satellites
Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS), a business unit of the Lockheed Martin Corporation , has been awarded a contract to build two A2100 geosynchronous satellites for SES ASTRA. The […]
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Analex Receives New NASA Tasks On Orbital Space Plane
Analex Corporation announced it has received new tasks to provide professional and engineering services to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) project. These […]
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Signs RADARSAT-1 Monitoring Contract
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced today that the company has signed a multi-year, $4.5 million (CDN) contract with an unnamed customer to provide information products using RADARSAT-1 data. “This […]
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Southern African Large Telescope: Camera for Africa’s Giant Eye Snaps First Pictures
Scientists and engineers working on the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) camera (SALTICAM) have achieved ‘engineering first light’, successfully using this digital CCD camera to snap test pictures of galaxies […]
