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QinetiQ celebrates Ion Thruster success on GOCE

November 11th, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
11 November 2013 – In the early hours of this morning, ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific ...
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Astrium-built ASTRA 5B satellite shipped to launch site

November 6th, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
6 November 2013 –  The ASTRA 5B satellite, designed and manufactured by Astrium, the world’s second-ranking space company, for satellite operator SES, has left Toulouse, France, after completion of its final integration and test campaign. The tele...
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Inmarsat announces Satcom Direct as Distributor of GX Aviation

May 22nd, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
22 May 2013 – Inmarsat today announced it will be working with Satcom Direct, the provider of satellite voice, fax, datalink and Internet communications solutions, to take its GX Aviation proposition to the business aviation market.
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SSTL CEO, Matt Perkins, appointed Vice-Chair of UKspace

April 5th, 2013 Posted in Uncategorised
5 April 2013 – Dr. Matt Perkins, CEO of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has been elected Vice-Chair of the UK Industry Association for Space (UKspace), the trade association of the UK space industry. UKspace aims to grow the UK space indus...
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QinetiQ supports NASA latest Mars expedition

August 6th, 2012 Posted in Uncategorised
6 August 2012 – QinetiQ’s Transceiver, currently in orbit around the Mars on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, is set to monitor NASA’s  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) through entry, descent and landing on to the surface of the planet on Mo...