| Topics: BUSINESS | FAILURES | FEEDS & LINKS | LAUNCHES | LAW & ORDER | SATELLITES |
| BUSINESS |
| Thales (Aerospace & Transport) results H1 2010 |
| 28 Jul 2010 The Board of Directors of Thales met on 28 July to review the results for the first half of 2010.
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| The Boeing Company (Network & Space Systems) results Q2 2010 |
| 28 Jul 2010 The Boeing Company reported financial results for the second-quarter 2010.
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| Lockheed Martin Corporation (Space Systems) results Q2 2010 |
| 27 Jul 2010 Lockheed Martin Corporation reported financial results for the second quarter 2010.
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| FAILURES |
| Zombiesat approaches next satellite |
| 26 Jul 2010 Zombie satellite Galaxy 15 has arrived in the vicinity of Galaxy 14, the third satellite it will fly by. Intelsat said that fly-by plans have been created and communicated to all Galaxy 14 customers.
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| FEEDS & LINKS |
| Two more Astra transponders for Sogecable |
| 28 Jul 2010 SES Astra announced that it further intensifies its co-operation with the Spanish pay-TV operator Sogecable and supports the development of its High Definition (HD) direct-to-home (DTH) offer.
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| Hughes demos advanced airborne video solution |
| 26 Jul 2010 Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced it completed a successful demonstration of its advanced airborne video solution to a U.S. government agency, confirming full D-1 video resolution at air-to-ground user data rates of over 2 Mbps.
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| LAUNCHES |
| New upper stage for Proton to debut in November |
| 28 Jul 2010 Russia plans to fly a modernised, more powerful Block DM-3 upper stage for the first time in November 2010.
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| LaBarge receives contract for Atlas V wiring harnesses |
| 27 Jul 2010 LaBarge, Inc. has received a US$4.9 million contract from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to continue to produce complex wiring harnesses for the Atlas V launch vehicle.
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| Proton involved in train crash arrives at Baikonur |
| 27 Jul 2010 The rail convoy with the Proton launch vehicle assigned to support the launch of three GLONASS M satellites arrived in the Integration-and-Test Facility at the Baikonur launch base on 26 July and the launcher units were offloaded from rail cars.
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| Sea Launch signs agreement with EchoStar |
| 26 Jul 2010 Sea Launch Company has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of EchoStar Satellite Services L.C.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, providing EchoStar with the ability to launch up to three satellites on the Sea Launch system.
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| LAW & ORDER |
| U.S. Bankruptcy Court confirms Sea Launch plan of reorganisation |
| 28 Jul 2010 The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware has approved the Sea Launch Plan of Reorganisation. Sea Launch Company LLC filed the Plan on 10 May in preparation for its emergence from Chapter 11.
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| SATELLITES |
| ITT navigation payload for GPS III passes CDR |
| 28 Jul 2010 ITT has announced that it has passed a key milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Navigation Payload Element (NPE) the company is developing for the U.S. Air Force's GPS III programme.
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| IKAROS demos propellantless attitude control |
| 27 Jul 2010 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performed an attitude control experiment of the solar sail of the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator "IKAROS" after its deployment, using a liquid crystal attitude control device.
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| Integral Systems to deliver more equipment to DigitalGlobe |
| 27 Jul 2010 Integral Systems, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic, has received an order from DigitalGlobe to supply remote high rate data capture systems and Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) modems to optimise distribution of DigitalGlobe's satellite imagery.
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| JWST completes cryogenic mirror test |
| 27 Jul 2010 Six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments recently completed a series of cryogenic tests at the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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| Andrews Space, Honeybee Robotics to develop CMGs |
| 26 Jul 2010 Andrews Space and Honeybee Robotics they have entered into an exclusive teaming arrangement to provide control moment gyros for a range of spacecraft sizes.
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| Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin demonstrate new docking system |
| 26 Jul 2010 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and NASA conducted a successful technology demonstration of a navigation system that will make docking operations safer and easier for spacecraft flying to the International Space Station (ISS).
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| Boeing completes critical design review of Intelsat 22 |
| 26 Jul 2010 Boeing announced that it met or exceeded all the requirements of the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) hosted payload and its host spacecraft, the Intelsat 22 satellite (IS-22).
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| Solar sails could help achieve 'displaced orbits' |
| 26 Jul 2010 When U.S. space pioneer, Dr. Robert L. Forward, proposed in 1984 a way of improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits, some claimed it was impossible. Now engineers at the University of Strathclyde's Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory have proved that Dr. Forward was right, the university said.
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| New Arabsats start commercial operations |
| 23 Jul 2010 The Arabsat-5A and Badr-5 satellites have been handed over to Arabsat by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space as part of the in-orbit delivery contract and have entered commercial service.
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