The fifth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] is providing the U.S. military and its international partners additional access to the fast, secure communications vital to successful missions. WGS-5, which was launched in May, has completed on-orbit testing and is now being operated by the U.S. Air Force. The second spacecraft … Dowiedz się więcej
Under a new cooperation agreement, Thales and Schneider Electric will jointly propose cybersecurity solutions to essential operators and industry and defence customers to protect their automation and command-and-control systems from attacks. Les Assises de la Sécurité, Monaco, Wednesday 2 October 2013 – Thales and Schneider Electric have signed a commercial cooperation agreement for the development … Dowiedz się więcej
Exelis (NYSE: XLS) subsidiary Exelis Visual Information Solutions, developers of ENVI and IDL software, will now deliver its image and data visualization analysis software packages to NASA with a blanket purchase agreement (BPA). The BPA consolidates more than 800 separate contracts into one annual transaction, saves the agency time and resources in license administration, and … Dowiedz się więcej
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b. The planet is marked by high clouds in the west and clear skies in the east. Previous studies from Spitzer have resulted in temperature maps … Dowiedz się więcej
Astrium has successfully completed the first flight of its long endurance Zephyr solar powered High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) since it acquired the assets of the Zephyr programme in March 2013 from QinetiQ in the UK. The flight of the Zephyr took place at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, USA, in August 2013. Astrium’s HAPS … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp company (NYSE:GY), announced today that its propulsion helped position Orbital Sciences Corporation’s (NYSE:ORB) Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft for a successful berthing with the International Space Station (ISS). Following in-orbit activation shortly after launch on Sept. 18, Cygnus carried out a series of tests and maneuvers using 32 Aerojet Rocketdyne MR-106M 7 … Dowiedz się więcej