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Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:33

LSE Space Gmbh

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LSE Space is a German space consultancy company. It has been supporting satellite and manned missions for twenty years in both the industrial and public sectors.

LSE Space has a wide offering of spacecraft operations and ground systems engineering services. LSE Space provides complete space consultancy services to satellite operators and supports all project phases, from designing and testing through to launch and operations.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:05

Aurora Technology

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Aurora is a Dutch company providing consultancy support to the space industry.

Aurora's core business activity is the provision of engineers and scientists as on-site support. Aurora has contributed to many key projects for the European Space Agency (ESA). 

Since January 2010 Aurora is owned by LSE Space.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:53

Cimarron Inc.

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Cimarron Inc. has a core competency in systems engineering, specifically in the domain of spacecraft development.

Systems Engineering

Some of the areas include:

  • Human-rated Systems Integration for landing and recovery, and System Design Analysis;
  • Soft Goods Systems Engineering and Test, Vehicle and Subsystem Test and Verification, and the the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Interface Planning.

Cimarron fully understands the lifecycle of programs / projects and had as a disciplined approach of execution as represented in the systems engineering process flow diagram.

Real-Time Command and Control Systems

Cimarron was created by providing real time systems solutions in 1981 to support the development of IBM's Real-Time Energy Management System Solutions to the Arizona Public Service. Cimarron was responsible for providing engineering support in the development of a large energy network to monitor and control the Arizona Public Service's Utility System.Cimarron was created by providing real time systems solutions in 1981 to support the development of IBM's Real-Time Energy Management System Solutions to the Arizona Public Service. Cimarron was responsible for providing engineering support in the development of a large energy network to monitor and control the Arizona Public Service's Utility System.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:45

TGV Rockets

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TGV Rockets Inc. is an American company specialised in the design of aerospace vehicles, including reusable launch vehicles (rocketships), high altitude aircraft, lighter than air vehicles, orbital mission designs, and micro-satellites.

TGV Rockets and key personnel have been involved in the conceptual design of a highly operable low-cost suborbital launch vehicle (TGV's MICHELLE-B), the conceptual design of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTVL) research vehicle (DC-X), the conceptual design of high performance VTVL research vehicles (DC-Y, DC-X2, SX-2 and X-33 Proposal) including high altitude piston powered aircraft, high altitude glider systems, micro-satellite upper stages, and associated mission design and conceptual design of special purpose GEO communication satellites.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013 06:03

TWINS mission

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Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral-Atom Spectrometers (TWINS) are a pair of NASA instruments aboard two United States National Reconnaissance Office satellites in Molniya orbits.

TWINS was designed to provide stereo images of the Earth's ring current. The first instrument, TWINS-1, was launched aboard USA-184 on 28 June 2006. TWINS-2 followed aboard USA-200 on March 13, 2008. Each instrument consists of an energetic neutral atom imager and a Lyman alpha detector. The ENA imager provides indirect remote sensing of the ring current ions, and the Lyman alpha detector gives a measure of the neutral hydrogen cloud about the Earth, known as the geocorona.

The TWINS prime mission lasted two years, from 2008 to 2010, and has been followed by an extended mission which is ongoing (June 2013).

Tuesday, 25 June 2013 07:04

Supernet Ltd

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Supernet Ltd, Pakistan's corporate data network, has been operating since 1995. Supernet offers a full portfolio of local-to-global integrated communications infrastructure solutions to facilitate the key business processes of corporate, SME and individual customers. Supernet has the expertise and the experience to deliver innovative connectivity solutions that enable customers to meet and collaborate remotely to effectively conduct business anywhere, anytime.

Supernet offers a wide range of data networking solutions to its customers which include Satellite & Fiber Optic based Managed WAN Services, Digital Microwave Radio Connectivity to Establish Enterprise Networks, Transit Internet, Broadband Internet Access, System Integration Services, Online Video Surveillance Solution as well as complete Web Services Platforms.

Monday, 24 June 2013 14:58

BRITE constellation

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The BRITE constellation is a network of nano-satellites to investigate the properties of the brightest stars in the sky. It currently consists of a group of six nano-satellites which will participate in a common effort to study the variability of bright stars.

BRITE means BRIght-star Target Explorer.

Three countries are contributing spacecraft:

  • AUSTRIA with BRITE-AUSTRIA (TUG-SAT-1) and UniBRITE satellites,
  • POLAND with BRITE-PL (a.k.a 'Lem') and BRITE-PL2,
  • as well as CANADA with BRITE-CA1 and BRITE-CA2.
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The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is a planned NASA unmanned space mission, to study the Earth's magnetosphere using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation.

This system will be deployed in 2014. It is designed to gather information about the microphysics of magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence, processes that occur in many astrophysical plasmas.

Monday, 24 June 2013 05:34

Fregat rocket upper stage

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Fregat is a type of rocket stage developed by NPO Lavochkin in the 1990s.

The main part of the stage is six intersecting spheres placed on a single plane, four of which contain propellants. The remaining two contain the control equipment. The main engine is placed between the spheres, so Fregat is a tightly-packed stage with a diameter much larger than its height. Fregat is a versatile spacecraft. For example, in addition to orbital insertion, it can be used as an escape stage to launch modern space probes into interplanetary trajectories (e.g., Venus Express and Mars Express). 

Fregat stages are currently (June 2013) used as the fourth stage of some Soyuz-FG launch vehicles. A version called Fregat-SB can be used with Zenit-2SB rocket. This version has a block of drop-off tanks which makes increased payload capability possible. Fregat-SB was launched for the first time on 20 January 2011, when it lifted the Elektro-L weather satellite into geosynchronous orbit.

The stage can be restarted multiple times, which has been used to place payloads such as the GIOVE-B satellite into their planned orbits.

Its main engine is a liquid propellant rocket that uses UDMH and N2O4 as propellants.

Saturday, 22 June 2013 21:02

Servo Corporation of America

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Servo Corporation of America is a company specialised in the design, development and manufacture of :

  • components for satellite attitude determination,
  • Earth resource monitoring,
  • infrared detectors,
  • and radio navigation systems for harbors and airports.
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