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June 11, 2014

Northrop Grumman to Supply Navigation System SKorea's KOMPSAT-2 Birds
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2014
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to provide space inertial reference systems for the GEO-KOMPSAT-2 space satellite pogram. Under a firm-fixed-price contract worth nearly $9 million, Northrop Grumman is providing its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Units (Scalable SIRU) for the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A and -2B satellites. The Scalable SIRU supplies critical rotation rate data that enable the stabilization, pointing and attitude control of satel ... read more

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				Boeing Completes 2nd 702HP Satellite for the Government of Mexico The Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) and Boeing are a step closer to enhancing Mexico's mobile communications capabilities for government applications with the completion ... more		Towards manned orbital mission: Iran to build its own spacecraft Iran has announced that it is planning to build its own orbital spaceship, the Fars news agency reports citing the head of the Iranian national space project, Mansur Kabganian. He said that "t ... more

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