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Space

Northrop Grumman-led Team Advances Weather Satellite System Ahead of Schedule

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Monday, October 24th, 2011

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The Northrop Grumman [NOC]-led engineering team building the Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS) spacecraft continues to take delivery of key hardware, making significant progress on satellite fabrication several months ahead of schedule, the company said this week. According to a press release, the first flight shipset of GPS receivers has been delivered from General Dynamics [GD]. Flight hardware assemblies key to the operation of the satellite's communications links were delivered from Tesat-Spacecom, Backnang, Germany. Essential propulsion hardware is slated to…

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