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Russia, U.S. Sign Engine Safeguard Agreement
In an effort to avoid the unsanctioned use of the rocket engine RD-180 and to safeguard this technology in conjunction with the organization of production of this engine, Russian and...
NASA Awards Contracts For Alternative Access To Space
NASA has awarded four small businesses 90-day contracts totaling $902,000 to develop concepts and requirements to provide access to the International Space Station on emerging launch systems. These contracts may...
Spacehab Adds Three Contracts For STS 107 Mission
Spacehab Inc. [SPAB] said it has finalized contract agreements to fly three additional experiments aboard the company’s Research Double Module on a Space Shuttle mission next year. The three new...
Japanese Instrument Giant Acquires GPS Innovator
Topcon, the $600-million Japanese supplier of optical instrumentation for construction and agriculture, recently announced its acquisition of Javad Positioning Systems, a developer of GPS products for the survey, construction, and...
Insiders Insight By Roger Rusch
Lessons Learned From Iridium, ICO, and Globalstar — Part 1 One of the great controversies of the past decade has been the use of non-geostationary satellites for communications. The low-Earth-orbit...