Aerospace

Exelis delivers advanced weather satellite payload to commercial customer in Japan

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Exelis (NYSE: XLS) is supporting Japan’s forecasting capabilities with the delivery of its first advanced weather satellite payload to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, based in Japan. „Successful performance on and delivery of the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) is a key milestone for Exelis as we execute our environmental intelligence product business,” said Eric Webster, Exelis Geospatial … Dowiedz się więcej

Arianespace: Next stop… the stars! Arianespace successfully lofts Gaia on Soyuz

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Arianespace marked another mission accomplished for science as its medium-lift Soyuz successfully launched the European Space Agency’s Gaia billion-star surveyor today from the Spaceport in French Guiana. Named for the Greek mythological Mother Goddess, Gaia is now beginning an ambitious mission to chart the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy. “Gaia … Dowiedz się więcej

Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Completes Launch Abort Engine Development Testing for Boeing’s CST-100 Spacecraft

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Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp company (NYSE:GY), announced today that it completed development testing of a flight-like Launch Abort Engine (LAE) for an innovative „pusher” launch abort system on The Boeing Company’s CST-100 spacecraft. The launch abort engine is a critical component of future commercial crew transportation to low-Earth orbit. A pusher launch abort system „pushes” or … Dowiedz się więcej

Kratos Awarded Multi-Million Dollar Contract for Command & Control System for International Satellite Platform

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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Kratos Integral Systems International (Kratos ISI) subsidiary has been awarded a contract to implement a satellite command and control (C2) system for satellite operations by an unnamed international customer. Kratos will design, develop, install and commission prime and … Dowiedz się więcej

Military Communication Improved as 6th Boeing-built Wideband Satellite Enters Service

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The sixth Boeing [NYSE: BA] Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, funded by the Commonwealth of Australia – the program’s first partner outside the United States – has been delivered on orbit to the U.S. Air Force, boosting communications capabilities for the U.S. military and its allies. Australia’s funding of the spacecraft provided the Australian Defence … Dowiedz się więcej

ESA: Antarctica’s ice loss on the rise

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Three years of observations by ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing over 150 cubic kilometres of ice each year – considerably more than when last surveyed. The imbalance in West Antarctica continues to be dominated by ice losses from glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea. “We find that ice … Dowiedz się więcej