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Sea Launch Postpones DirecTV 11 Satellite Launch Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 18, 2008 
The Sea Launch consortium has postponed the launch of U.S. satellite DirecTV 11, scheduled for Monday, for an indefinite period due to technical problems. "Sea Launch has put on hold the countdown for the launch of the DirecTV satellite, as of late Sunday afternoon, to allow the team to study an issue. We will update our launch information as it becomes available," the company said on its website ... read more |
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Russian-Launched US Satellite Unlikely To Reach Target Orbit
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 18, 2008A U.S. AMC-14 satellite launched from a space center in Kazakhstan on early Saturday is unlikely to reach the designated orbit from its current position, a Russian space expert said on Monday. A few minutes after the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur Space Center, which is leased to Russia and carries out dozens of launches every year, the Breeze M orbit insertion boost ... more NASA Goddard Delivers Aquarius Radiometer To JPL 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 18, 2008On Jan. 10, 2008, after a four-year development effort, the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., delivered the Aquarius Radiometer to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for integration with the Aquarius instrument. The radiometer, built by an in-house team of scientists, engineers and technicians at Goddard, is part of the Aquarius mission. Aquarius is an in ... more Astrium Teaming With Khrunichev To Build Large Russian Communications Satellite 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 18, 2008The Russian Satellite Communications Company has selected a team of Khrunichev Space Center and Astrium to build the Express AM4 communications satellite. Express AM4, to be delivered late 2010 and positioned at 80 East, is by far the largest Express satellite ever ordered. RSCC is focused primarily on the development of satellite communications and the broadcasting network in the ... more GPS Tracking Devices By LandAirSea System Reached Record Sales In 2007 
Cary IL (SPX) Mar 18, 2008LandAirSea Systems has announced that it recorded record sales for its GPS tracking products in 2007. With the continued success of the passive Tracking Key and 3100 series, along with the next generation 8100 real-time unit, LandAirSea Systems delivered more than 25,000 GPS tracking systems worldwide. The growing popularity of GPS tracking transcends numerous applications and industries. ... more Countermind Targets Delivery And Freight Transport With Next-Gen Mobile Solution 
Littleton CO (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Parcel and product delivery and freight transport operate under intense, time-sensitive schedules that at times are delayed due to operational errors and inefficiencies. To help mitigate these risks, Countermind has introduced MI Deliver, an enterprise-grade mobile software application, to efficiently support the daily volume, coordination logistics and fleet management needs of medium to large ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 17, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that the US and Russia could strike a deal on parts of a missile defence shield that Washington plans to base in Europe by early 2009. Asked after meeting Russian leaders whether he was confident a deal could happen before US President George W. Bush's term ends in January next year, Gates replied: "I think the answer is yes. The environment in ... more Raytheon To Supply 16 AESA Radars To Boeing For USAF And Air National Guard F-15Cs 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Raytheon's active electronically scanned array radar team has secured additional wins to advance further the company's AESA radar business. Raytheon will provide a next-production lot of advanced F-15C radar systems to the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard. The contracts with Boeing, worth just in excess of $89.5 million, authorize production of eight APG-63(V)3 AESA radar systems for ... more Raytheon To Operate And Sustain X-Band Radars 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Raytheon has been awarded two task orders worth $28.3 million as part of a Missile Defense Agency indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract to operate and sustain the agency's X-Band radars as part of the Consolidated Contractor Logistics Services program. The contract has a potential value of up to $1.9 billion over 10 years. The contract award signifies a long-term partnership be ... more Mozambican government seeks urgent food aid after cyclone 
Maputo (AFP) March 17, 2008The Mozambican government has made an urgent appeal to the UN World Food Programme to help more than 60,000 people left destitute when cyclone Jokwe hit northern and central parts of the country. "The government has made an urgent appeal to the WFP for food to feed people who were affected by cyclone Jokwe," Joao Ribeiro, the deputy national director of Mozambique's government-run national ... more |
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Fremont CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Oorja Protonics (Oorja) announced its public launch and patented direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology. Funded by venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and DAG Ventures, and led by fuel cell pioneer Sanjiv Malhotra, Oorja has been operating in stealth mode since 2005 and has been engaged in commercial testing and deployments of its technology through pilot programs with leading Fortune 50 ... more Artemis Provides Communications For Jules Verne ATV 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 16, 2008ESA's Artemis data relay satellite, controlled from Fucino (Italy) and with its mission control centre and Earth terminal located at Redu (Belgium), is providing communications between the Jules Verne ATV and the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse (France). Jules Verne ATV was launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 05:03 CET on 9 March. First contact between Artemis and the ATV was est ... more Rocket Wreckage Removed From Siberian Shepherd Land 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 16, 2008Part of the wreckage of a carrier rocket that fell in Siberia after takeoff from Kazakhstan last month has been removed from land owned by a Russian shepherd, local officials said on Friday. Specialists from the Russian space agency Roscosmos traveled to the farm in the Altai Republic, "cut the fragment into parts and loaded it on a Mi-8 helicopter," a spokesman for the local administration said ... more Russian Proton Rocket Fails To Take Satellite Into Right Orbit
Moscow (AFP) March 15, 2008A Russian rocket launched a communications satellite produced by US defence company Lockheed Martin into space on Saturday but failed to take it into the planned orbit, Russian space officials said. "The engine of the Briz-M booster failed to work for the whole of the scheduled time and the satellite could not be taken to the planned orbit," the Khrunichev space centre, which carried out the ... more
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