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MCLEAN, Va., June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) today announced its comprehensive plan for funding, building and deploying its next-generation satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT. Specifically, the Company announced the execution of a fixed price contract with Thales Alenia Space, a joint company between Thales (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%), for the design and construction of satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation. In addition, the company...
NASA has awarded contracts to eight aerospace firms for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III spacecraft and related services. Each contractor has one or more core spacecraft offerings available under its Rapid III contract. All fixed price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity Rapid III contracts have a combined potential maximum value of $4 billion.The contractors selected for award of Rapid III contracts are: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp in Boulder, Colo., General Dynamics Advanced...
The tendering process that will result in the supply of Europe's next series of meteorological satellites, Meteosat Third Generation, has reached an advanced stage as ESA invites Thales Alenia Space to enter formal contract negotiations.These negotiations follow rigorous evaluation of the proposals to build the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites "“ with the Tender Evaluation Board (TEB) meeting three times since October to review the offers.Two consortia responded to the tender...
Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched at 4:14 a.m. EST today and is heading for the International Space Station carrying two sophisticated European modules: Node-3 (Tranquility) and Cupola. Their installation will mark the completion of the non-Russian part of the ISS, with more than a third of the pressurized Station elements designed and built in Europe.Node-3 is part of the Columbus laboratory launch barter agreement with NASA, whereby ESA supplies two of the connecting nodes (Nodes-2...
Nearly 100 members of the military and their families attended concert and charitable donation presentation WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday night, Finmeccanica North America hosted wounded warriors from National Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Fort Meade and Fort Belvoir in a celebration to honor their courage and patriotism on and off the battlefield. This tribute event at the Embassy of Italy, called "Italian Belcanto in America," included...
The European Space Agency, or ESA, will transfer ownership of the Tranquility node to NASA on Thursday, Nov. 19. NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will host a commemorative ceremony at 3 p.m. EST.Tranquility is a pressurized module that will provide room for many of the station's life support systems. Attached to the node is a cupola, a unique work station with windows on its six sides and top. The module will be delivered to the station during space shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission,...
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Thales Alenia Space have agreed to work jointly on the next-generation satellite constellation Iridium NEXT program. Ball Aerospace's possible roles and responsibilities would be assembly, integration and test (AI&T) for the Iridium satellites. Under the current agreement, Ball Aerospace will apply its payload accommodation experience and product-line approach, leveraging decades of...
Orbital Sciences Corporation and Italian Thales Alenia Space have announced an agreement that will see the two firms developing a pressurized cargo module for an unmanned resupply spacecraft for the ISS program.The two firms made the announcement during the Paris air show. They will be combining efforts to develop the cargo module that will enable Cygnus to carry almost three tons of food and equipment to the International Space Station."Cygnus has built into it all the critical safety...
Europe has delivered its final major module for the International Space Station (ISS) -- the cylindrical Node 3 known as "Tranquility", built by Italy's Thales Alenia Space.Node 3 will soon be shipped to Kennedy Space Center, from where it will be transported to the space station via space shuttle Endeavour, which is currently set to launch in February 2010.Once attached to the ISS, Node 3 will store life support gear and the Cupola, a large "bay" window that was also constructed...
The European Space Agency says it will hold a ceremony to mark the departure of its Node 3 module, built for the International Space Station. The node will be shipped May 17 to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Node 3 connecting module, built by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, is the last element of a barter agreement by which ESA supplied NASA with International Space Station hardware. In return, NASA ferried the European Columbus...
