Boeing [NYSE: BA] workers lift the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-5 satellite onto a transporter following its Aug. 1 arrival at the Navstar Processing Facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Boeing shipped the fifth GPS IIF satellite from its satellite factory in El Segundo, Calif., on a U.S. Air Force C-17 airlifter. Workers … Dowiedz się więcej
A Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC)-built payload launched aboard the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite Sept. 18 is on a course to make protected military space communications more resilient once it reaches a designated orbit and is integrated into a constellation. „We congratulate Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance and the U.S. Air Force for … Dowiedz się więcej
Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has appointed Julia Maris, 38, Vice President, Public and Regulatory Affairs. After earning degrees from the Institute of Political Science („Sciences Po”) in Grenoble (1996) then Paris (1997), Julia Maris joined the French defense procurement agency DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) in 1997 as Special Advisor to the … Dowiedz się więcej
European Space Propulsion (ESP), an Aerojet Rocketdyne company, announced today that Paul Sinton has joined the company as the Managing Director for its ESP subsidiary. In his role, Paul will manage and direct the operations of ESP as they bring online the manufacturing and test capabilities for producing propulsion products in the European market. Current … Dowiedz się więcej
Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., will postpone by at least 24 hours the launch of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station. The new launch window is targeted for Wednesday, Sept. 18 between 10:50 to 11:05 a.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s … Dowiedz się więcej
Exelis (NYSE: XLS) delivered three ground-based encryptors to Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System Operational Control System, or GPS OCX. Designed to automatically code and decode GPS signals, encryptors facilitate the exchange of user information by securely transmitting navigation payload data between the OCX ground station and the … Dowiedz się więcej