Monday, 30 March 2009

IAF Daily News


ESA and CNES Sign for Family of Launchers at Guiana Space Centre

ESA and CNES, the French Space Agency, signed a 435 million Euro contract assuring the availability of the CSG launch range for ESA programmes and activities and for the exploitation of Ariane, Vega and Soyuz launchers over the period 2009 to 2013 in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Lockheed Martin, University of Florida to Develop and Launch Five Miniature Satellites

Lockheed Martin has partnered with the University of Florida to develop and launch five miniature satellites to test innovative new space solutions. Lockheed Martin will fund $450,000 of research and development projects at the university in 2009.
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NASA to provide 100 TB of space images to Microsoft

Microsoft said it has signed an agreement to make planetary images and other data available to the public via the WorldWide Telescope website. The data is expected to become available later this year and eventually top a volume of 100 terabytes.
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