The contract is for the DARPA’s ALASA program, which is intended to field a system to launch satellites weighing up to 45 kilograms into low Earth orbit for as low as $1 million each.
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DARPA Picks Boeing To Demonstrate Airborne Launcher Concept
DARPA has awarded Boeing a contract worth as much as $104 million to build and demonstrate a low-cost airborne launching system for small satellites.
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DARPA Space Budget Increase Includes $27M for Spaceplane
DARPA expects to spend some $800 million on space programs from 2015 through 2018, an increase of $130 million over what was projected at this time last year.
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ORBCOMM Acquires Euroscan, Europes’s Leading M2M Provider of Refrigerated Transportation Solutions
ORBCOMM Inc. ORBC +1.95% , a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Euroscan Holdings, B.V. ( Euroscan ), a leading global […]
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ORBCOMM to Host Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Results Conference Call
ORBCOMM Inc. (ORBC), a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions, today announced that its senior management team will host a conference call to review results of its fourth quarter and […]
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ORBCOMM Senior Management to Present at Raymond James 35th Annual Institutional Investors Conference
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC), a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Marc Eisenberg, and Chief Financial Officer, Robert Costantini, will be presenting at […]
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‘Mission of Firsts’ Showcased New Range-Safety Technology at NASA Wallops
A spectacular launch from Virginia’s eastern shore recently resulted in the successful deployment of a record-breaking 29 small satellites into orbit, but that wasn’t the only first for the mission […]
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NASA Welcomes University Participants to Develop Science Payloads
Registration is open for NASA’s seventh annual RockOn! workshop to be held June 14-19 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. This workshop, offered in partnership with the […]
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Commercial Space Travel Training Firm Gets FAA Approval, But NASA’s Role Still TBD
The FAA has signed off on Waypoint’s safety plan, but finalizing an agreement with NASA to use astronaut training facilities at Johnson is taking longer than expected, so the company now expects to start training commercial spacefliers in late spring at a building it is renting near JSC.
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Space Foundation will Present the 2014 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award to A. Thomas Young
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 28, 2014) — A. Thomas Young has been chosen to receive the Space Foundation’s highest honor — the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award, to […]
