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July 2002 Space News

  • Boeing-built Satellite Successfully Completes Unique Test Boeing 29 Jul 2002 -- An environmental satellite being built by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) a unit of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], has successfully completed a unique instrumentation test.
  • ORBITAL AWARDED $57 MILLION TECHNICAL SERVICES CONTRACT Orbital Sciences Corp. 29 Jul 2002 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that its Technical Services Division (TSD), based in Greenbelt, MD, has been selected for an eight-year, $57 million cost-plus/award fee contract by Lockheed Martin Corporation. Under the contract, engineers and other personnel from Orbital's TSD will support Lockheed Martin as part of the NASA Ames Research Center's Programs and Projects (P&P) services contract.
  • Myers: Move to Omaha good for space AFPN 26 Jul 2002-- "If September 11 taught us anything, [it taught us] we ought to be flexible enough to change to do what's right. That's what we think we're doing," said Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a recent press conference here.
  • BAE SYSTEMS and EADS Form Paradigm Joint Venture and Realign Space Interests BAE Systems 25 Jul 2002 -- BAE Systems and EADS are teaming to address military telecommunication satellite services. As a first important step, the partners will form a new joint venture company, Paradigm Secure Communications Limited, to address service provision requirements of the UK Ministry of Defence's Skynet 5 programme.
  • Boeing to Explore Commercial Alternatives to Supply International Space Station Boeing 25 Jul 2002 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] in Huntsville, Ala., was recently awarded a $2.6 million contract as part of NASA's Alternate Access to Station (AAS) project to expand options for delivering supplies to the International Space Station.
  • BAE SYSTEMS and EADS Form Paradigm Joint Venture and Agree to Realign Space Interests EADS 25 Jul 2002 -- BAE SYSTEMS and EADS are teaming to address military telecommunication satellite services. As a first important step, the partners will form a new joint venture company, Paradigm Secure Communications Limited, to address service provision requirements of the UK Ministry of Defence's Skynet 5 programme.
  • Airborne Laser completes first flight AFPN 23 Jul 2002-- An extensively modified Boeing 747-400F known as the Airborne Laser circled over western Kansas for an hour and 22 minutes during its maiden flight July 21, taking the first steps in becoming the world's first directed-energy combat aircraft.
  • EXPLORATIONS#2014-Space Digest VOA 23 Jul 2002-- Today, we tell about plans to build a new international space research center at Cape Kennedy. We tell about new pictures of a star that exploded ten-thousand years ago. And we begin with a report about a new space communications system that is being built in Spain.
  • BAE SYSTEMS to develop an integrated mems INS / GPS system for the military market BAE Systems 23 Jul 2002 -- BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins have signed a collaboration agreement for the development of SiNAVTM, an integrated MEMS INS/GPS system for the military market. The fusion of leading MEMS inertial and SAASM GPS technologies offers customers a total navigation solution representing a breakthrough in terms of affordability, size and gun-hardness.
  • BAE SYSTEMS to supply Rapid Deployment Satcom Terminals to Astrium for Skynet 5 programme BAE Systems 23 Jul 2002 -- BAE Systems C4ISR has received a contract from Astrium, the joint venture between EADS and BAE Systems, for the supply of rapid deployment satellite communications (satcom) terminals.
  • Boeing and BAE SYSTEMS Announce Missile Defense Partnership Boeing 23 Jul 2002 -- The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) and BAE SYSTEMS announced at the Farnborough Airshow a memorandum of understanding to support all aspects of global ballistic missile defense.
  • Boeing and Alenia Spazio Announce Transatlantic Partnership for Cooperation in Missile Defense Boeing 23 Jul 2002 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE:BA] and Alenia Spazio (a Finmeccanica Company) announced a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on ballistic missile defense today at the Farnborough Air Show.
  • Boeing and EADS Announce Transatlantic Partnership Boeing 23 Jul 2002 -- Two of the world's leading aerospace and defense companies, announced an historic partnership to develop solutions in ballistic missile defense. The transatlantic team effort will focus on creating end-to-end products for global ballistic missile defense.
  • BAE SYSTEMS & Roke Manor Research expand 'Satcoms-On-The-Move' to military aircraft applications BAE Systems 22 Jul 2002 -- BAE Systems and Roke Manor Research have expanded the capabilities of the AGILe Information Transfer abilitY — AGILITY — system to meet the long-range communications needs of military aircraft.
  • Modified Airborne Laser Aircraft Takes Successful First Flight From Boeing Flight Line In Wichita Boeing 18 Jul 2002 -- The first Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft, extensively modified by Boeing [NYSE: BA] to house the revolutionary ABL ballistic missile-defense system, successfully flew for the first time today.
  • Boeing Gives First Glimpse of Fully Integrated Delta IV Boeing 17 Jul 2002 -- Boeing technicians rolled back the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., providing the first glimpse of the fully integrated Boeing Delta IV rocket.
  • BAE SYSTEMS receives satellite components contract from TRW BAE Systems 15 Jul 2002 -- BAE Systems has been awarded a $55 million contract from TRW to develop and build radiation-hardened electronics for the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite system.
  • N-STAR C SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED AND PLACED IN ORBIT Orbital Sciences Corp. 15 Jul 2002 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that all systems aboard the Lockheed Martin/Orbital-built N-STAR c geosynchronous orbit (GEO) communications satellite are operating as expected following its successful launch on Friday, July 5, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.
  • ORBITAL SELECTED FOR $39 MILLION CONTRACT TO BUILD NASA SATELLITE Orbital Sciences Corp. 11 Jul 2002 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that it has been selected for a contract, valued at approximately $39 million, by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology, to design, manufacture and support mission operations of a new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) atmospheric science satellite.
  • ORBITAL WINS $7 MILLION LIQUID BOOSTER VEHICLE CONTRACT FROM U.S. MDA Orbital Sciences Corp. 11 Jul 2002 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that it has been awarded a $7.4 million contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to fully integrate a new liquid propellant booster that will be used as a target vehicle in future tests of defensive missile systems.
  • Lockheed Martin Satellite Revolutionizes Study of Space Weather Lockheed Martin 10 Jul 2002 -- NASA's Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite, built at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., has made space storms visible to scientists for the first time.
  • ATK Awarded $429 Million NASA Contract Modification for Space Shuttle Motors ATK 09 Jul 2002 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems, NYSE: ATK) has received a contract modification from NASA valued at $429 million for the production and refurbishment of Reusable Solid Rocket Motors (RSRM) for the Space Shuttle program.
  • Boeing-Built Satellite Beefs Up U.S. Forces' Communications in Afghanistan Boeing 09 Jul 2002 -- A Boeing-built U.S. Navy communications satellite, launched nine years ago and formerly used as an in-orbit spare, has a new mission providing critical military communications capacity for U.S. forces in Operation Enduring Freedom.
  • ATK Propulsion and Composite Technologies Support Launch of NASA Spacecraft to Study Comets ATK 08 Jul 2002 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems, NYSE: ATK) solid propulsion and composite structure technologies supported the launch on July 3 of a Boeing Delta II 7425 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. that successfully launched the NASA Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft, which will study the behavior and evolution of comets.
  • Revolutionary Air-Breathing Engine Rockets Past Key Milestone Ahead of Schedule Boeing 08 Jul 2002 -- Initial design of a new prototype air-breathing rocket engine for NASA -- one that could revolutionize air and space travel in the next 40 years -- reached a major milestone ahead of schedule last week.
  • Boeing Helps NASA Get to the Heart of Comets Boeing 03 Jul 2002 -- The Boeing Company has helped NASA with a first step toward penetrating the innermost secrets of comets as the Boeing Delta II 7425 rocket powered into the skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., sending NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft into orbit.
  • ATV: Solar Arrays Successfully Deployed During Tests EADS 03 Jul 2002 -- EADS LAUNCH VEHICLES is prime contractor for the development of the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) for the European Space Agency (ESA). As such, it has been conducting since early-December 2001 structural and thermal tests on the STM (Structural and Thermal Model), ATV's first test model, at the ESTEC facility, ESA's Research Centre in the Netherlands.
  • Pratt & Whitney tests first RL60 Upper Stage rocket engine component Pratt & Whitney 01 Jul 2002 -- Pratt & Whitney (P&W) Space Propulsion has successfully hot fire tested its first RL60 engine component. A full-scale thrust chamber injector was tested at the company's West Palm Beach, Florida facility at full-power conditions (equivalent to 65,0000 pounds of thrust).



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