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Monday, 29 October 2012 18:24

Zenit (rocket family)

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Zenit is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of Ukraine.

Zenit was built in the 1980s for two purposes: as a liquid rocket booster for the Energia rocket and, equipped with a second stage, as a stand-alone rocket. Moreover Zenit was planned to take over manned spaceship launches from Soyuz, but these plans were abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Zenit-3SL is launched by the Sea Launch consortium's floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean and Zenit-2 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

Monday, 29 October 2012 18:15

Yuzhmash

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A.M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, or PA Yuzhmash is a Ukrainian manufacturer of space rockets, agricultural equipment, buses, trolley buses and trams, wind turbines, and satellites. 

It is a large state-owned company located in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Over 65 years, four-generation of carrier rockets and several types of spacecraft have been created.

uzhmash made an ecological two-stage carrier rocket under the title «Zenit» to realize the international «Sea Launch» project. 

Monday, 29 October 2012 18:07

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau

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Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, located in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). 

The company is in close co-operation with the Yuzhmash manufacturer company also situated in Dnipropetrovsk. Yuzhmash is the main manufacturer of the models designed by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau.

Monday, 29 October 2012 09:11

Sun Space and Information Systems Ltd

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Sunspace is a provider of small and medium-sized satellites and related systems and solutions to the local and international aerospace market.

SunSpace has its origins in the SUNSAT satellite programme. SUNSAT, South Africa's first satellite, was developed locally, and launched in 1999 by the American space agency NASA.

Monday, 29 October 2012 09:02

MicroSat Systems Inc. (MSCI)

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Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) is a privately held Canadian corporation applying dynamics and control technology in the space market for reaction wheels, rate measurement units and complete microsatellites. Formerly the space division of Dynacon Inc., MSCI has been the premiere builder of microsatellites in Canada for over a decade.

MSCI is providing the design, development and delivery of cost-effective, adaptable Multi Mission Microsatellite Buses capable of hosting a wide variety of remote sensing, communications, scientific and military payloads. MSCI is active as well in systems engineering analysis, the development of sophisticated, cost-effective attitude control system solutions and their implementation into flight hardware and software.

Monday, 29 October 2012 08:54

GOMSpace

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GomSpace is a globally leading manufacturer and supplier of cubesat & small satellite solutions for customers in the academic, government and commercial markets. Our positions of strength include systems integration, cubesat platforms, advanced miniaturized radio technology and satellite operations.

Our international team is devoted to understanding our customer’s requirements and to delivering flawlessly. We are more than 150 employees, from many different nationalities, and we serve our customers in more than 60 countries.

We were founded in 2007 and are today a listed company at the Nasdaq stock exchange in Stockholm (GOMX). We have our main headquarters in Aalborg in Denmark, our propulsion technology center in Uppsala in Sweden and our satellite & constellations operations center in Luxembourg. Our American customers are served through our project and business development office in Washington.

Our mission is clear: “We help teams across the globe achieve their goals in space”. We believe nanosatellites should be put to work delivering revenue and/or mission critical services for their owners, and we can deliver the - often complex - products and solutions that enable our customers in doing so.

With more than 13 years of experience in the market and a track record of multiple successful missions accomplished, we have developed profound knowledge and competencies within Radio Technology, Cubesat Platforms, Project Management as well as Innovation. We provide the solutions that enables our customers to succeed in their business - whether this is a product, a subsystem, support or a full customized solution. We deliver these projects based on our strong in-house portfolios of established products and rich capabilities. Our Strengths

GomSpace is centered on our strengths developed over time from being a pioneer in the market and later as a market leader in the commercialization of nanosatellites and New Space. A cornerstone in our philosophy is that “we fly what we sell” and therefore have our internal flight qualification program “GOMX” to demonstrate new products and capabilities in space and ensure flight heritage before, the products are commercialized. In 2016, GomSpace was the first company to deliver to the European Space Agency a flight model satellite, GOMX-3, developed fully under the framework of the ECSS standards based on ESA’s tailoring hereof for nanosatellite projects.

Based in our proven technology in LEO we are now venturing further to proudly deliver to ESA the first European exploration missions based on nanosatellites/Cubesats.

Monday, 29 October 2012 08:39

JSC Information Satellite - Reshetnev

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JSC Information Satellite Systems - Reshetnev Company  is a Russian satellite manufacturing company. It is based in Russia, in the city of ZheleznogorskKrasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

It is specializing in the design, development and manufacture of high performance spacecraft and satellite systems.

In Russian: ОАО «Информационные спутниковые системы» имени академика М. Ф. Решетнёваtr.OAO «Informatsionnye sputnikovye systemy» imeny akademika M. F. Reshetnyova; JSC "Information Satellite Systems" - name after Academician M. F. Reshetnev", in English.

The company was formerly called NPO PM.

Monday, 29 October 2012 07:31

Draco (thruster)

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Draco is a group of hypergolic rocket engines (known as a thrusters) designed by SpaceX for use on their Dragon spacecraft, the upper stage of their Falcon 9 rocket, while the larger Super Draco engines will be used on later versions of the Dragon spacecraft used for crew transport to low-Earth orbit, as well as entry, descent and landing control of the proposed Red Dragon robotic probe to Mars.

Monday, 29 October 2012 07:24

Pleiades (satellite)

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The Pléiades constellation is composed of two very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites. Pléiades 1 and Pléiades 2 will provide coverage of Earth’s surface with a repeat cycle of 26 days . Designed as a dual civil/military system, Pléiades will meet the space imagery requirements of European defence as well as civil and commercial needs.

The Pléiades system was designed under the French-Italian ORFEO program (Optical & Radar Federated Earth Observation) between 2001 and 2003.

The Pléiades programme was launched in October 2003 with CNES (the French space agency) as the overall system prime contractor and EADS Astrium as the prime contractor for the space segment. Pléiades-1 was launched via a Russian Soyuz ST rocket out of French Guiana on December 16, 2011. Pléiades 2 will launch in December 2012.

Spot Image is the official and exclusive worldwide distributor of Pléiades products.

 

Monday, 29 October 2012 07:10

Falcon 9

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Falcon 9 is a rocket-powered spaceflight launch system designed and manufactured by SpaceX, headquartered in Hawthorne, California. Both stages of its two-stage-to-orbit vehicle use liquid oxygen (LOX) and rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) propellants. The Falcon 9 can lift payloads of 13,150 kilograms to low Earth orbit, and 4,850 kilograms to geostationary transfer orbit, which places the Falcon 9 design in the medium-lift range of launch systems.

The Falcon 9 and Dragon combination won a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract from NASA to resupply the International Space Station under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station launched on October 7, 2012.

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