SpaceDev Awarded Contract Expansion By DARPA

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Poway CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2004
SpaceDev has been awarded a small expansion to its existing contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to examine satellite orbits that can be used to rapidly deploy and initialize microsatellites over precise geographical areas of interest.

"This contract expansion is a further validation of our innovative approach to microsatellite mission and spacecraft design," said Jim Benson, SpaceDev's founding chairman and chief executive officer.

"We are very pleased that our existing customers are providing us with additional opportunities to further develop SpaceDev concepts and technologies."

Building upon results and methods developed from the previous study for DARPA of circular orbits, the expanded study will evaluate the orbital dynamics and associated mass budgets for deploying a constellation of satellites in elliptical orbits of interest.

SpaceDev's existing contract with DARPA explored novel deployment schemes that leverage unique microsat dispenser concepts, new microsat propulsion, and possible microsat cluster space-tug concepts.

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Surrey To Supply Bus And More For RapidEye EO Constellation

Surrey, UK (SPX) Jun 21, 2004
British company Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd has been awarded a �19.2 million (US$35M) contract by MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates (MDA) of Canada to supply the spacecraft platforms, integration and launch arrangements of a five-microsatellite constellation for high resolution Earth observation.

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