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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.
The Boeing Company (Network & Space Systems) results Q2 2010
28 Jul 2010  The Boeing Company reported financial results for the second-quarter 2010.
Lockheed Martin Corporation (Space Systems) results Q2 2010
27 Jul 2010  Lockheed Martin Corporation reported financial results for the second quarter 2010.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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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