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Jean-Jacques Dordain re-elected as ISU's Chancellor

01/25/2012

Strasbourg, France (Jan. 25, 2012) - Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director-General of the European Space Agency (ESA), has been re-elected by the Board of Trustees to act as Chancellor of the International Space University for a period of 3 years (ISU).

Despite his busy professional life, Prof. Dordain has remained committed to education and to the next generation of space professionals. Throughout his 43 years in the space sector, first at Onera and for the last 22 years in ESA, he has continued to teach at renowned institutions such as Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA, Sup'Aero, University La Sapienza , University of Graz and regularly made himself available to discuss with ISU students.

Thuraya Signs Service Partner Agreement with Africell Holding to Serve African Markets

01/23/2012

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (Jan. 23, 2012) - To embolden its distribution network in Africa, Thuraya, the leading international mobile satellite operator has signed a service partner agreement with Africell Holding (a subsidiary of Lintel Holding). Through this partnership, Africell, one of Africa's most dynamic GSM operators, will be providing Thuraya's data and voice services in Gambia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thuraya provides border-to-border seamless satellite coverage over Africa, which complements existing terrestrial operators such as Africell ensuring that consumers out of GSM reach can access reliable and cost-effective satellite communications.

Aerojet Propulsion Adjusts Trajectory of NASA’s Mars-bound Spacecraft

01/20/2012

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Jan. 12, 2012) - Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that its hydrazine thrusters powered a critical in-flight maneuver for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. This important maneuver aligned the spacecraft's trajectory with its landing target.

On Jan. 11, 2012, eight small monopropellant hydrazine thrusters fired for nearly three hours in order to position the spacecraft more precisely toward its planned landing spot in Mars' Gale Crater. The trajectory, resulting from the mission's Nov. 26, 2011 launch, intentionally avoids Mars to prevent the upper stage of the launch vehicle from hitting the red planet as it is not cleaned to protect Mars from exposure to Earth's microbes.

01/19/2012 : Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM Spacecraft

01/19/2012 : Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Engines Power the Rocket Boosting the Latest Communications Satellite for U.S. Department of Defense

01/19/2012 : Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM Spacecraft

01/12/2012 : Aerojet Propulsion Adjusts Trajectory of NASA's Mars-bound Spacecraft

01/05/2012 : ISU‘s Southern Hemisphere Summer Space Program opens in Adelaide

12/21/2011 : Aerojet’s Sacramento Facility Achieves One Million Man Hours Without a Lost-time Injury

12/20/2011 : Moog Acquires Satellite Subsystem and Component Manufacturer Bradford Engineering B.V.

12/02/2011 : Carlton Brewer Named Aerojet Huntsville Site Executive

11/30/2011 : Successful GMLRS+ Rocket Flight Test Demonstrates New Aerojet Scalable Effects Warhead

11/30/2011 : Thuraya Displays Telecom Solutions that Enable Digital Oil-Field at World Petroleum Congress

11/29/2011 : Expert Expeditionist Adrian Hayes Deploys Thuraya Solutions for 1,500 Kilometer Journey

11/28/2011 : Aerojet and FTT Announce Major Next Generation Engine Milestone

11/26/2011 : Aerojet Propulsion Boosts Next Generation Mars Science Laboratory Mission

11/21/2011 : Aerojet Selected to Complete Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System Development for the SM-3 Block IIA Missile

10/31/2011 : Outlast Wins Innovation Prize: Outlast® polyester fiber with PCM

10/28/2011 : Aerojet’s AJ10 Engine Boosts NASA’s National Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project to Orbit

10/24/2011 : John Luddy Named Vice President of Aerojet's Washington, D.C., Office

10/24/2011 : Iridium AxcessPoint, AxcessPoint Connect and AxcessPoint Mail & Web Now Commercially Available

10/20/2011 : ISU takes its Executive MBA to the Southern Hemisphere

10/19/2011 : Thuraya Appoints Patrick Chenel as Chief Financial Officer

10/10/2011 : ISU Develops Partnership with the Open University

10/04/2011 : Serving Vertical Market Consumers, Thuraya’s Industry Leading Satcom Solutions Live at GITEX

10/03/2011 : DigitalGlobe and Ball Aerospace Successfully Complete Critical Design Review for WorldView-3

09/29/2011 : Aerojet's AJ26 Flight Engine Delivers Successful Hot Fire Test for Orbital's Taurus II Space Launch Vehicle

09/28/2011 : Aerojet Announces Milestone Reached with EPA Order

09/23/2011 : Aerojet's Huntsville Office Expansion Aligns Company for Future Growth

09/16/2011 : Successful 24th ISU SSP in Cooperation with TU Graz Leads to Official MOU

09/14/2011 : ISU Announces Newly Appointed President and Dean

09/12/2011 : Iridium Surpasses 500,000 Subscribers Worldwide

09/08/2011 : ATK to Relocate Corporate Headquarters to Northern Virginia

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