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Under a contract worth US$23 million, a Canadian unit of EMS Technologies has won a contract to supply Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Center, with three flight satellite repeaters and one engineering model. The satellite repeaters will provide fixed satellite service communications throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Western Asia and are baselined to fly on board the Dialog satellites. These repeaters, being designed and manufactured by EMS Technologies' Space & Technology Group in Montreal, Canada, will receive, filter, amplify and re-transmit communications signals in C & Ku-Band and are expected to be delivered over a 48-month schedule. Don Osborne, senior vice-president and general manager, EMS' Space & Technology Group - Montreal, stated, "This is a fine example of EMS' ability to deliver complex spacecraft payload equipment to customers around the world, and is a significant step forward in our decade-long experience in working closely with Russian customers." Related Links EMS Technologies SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Russia Plans 29 Launches in 2001
Moscow (Interfax) Jan. 10, 2001Russia intends to launch some 29 space vehicles this year, the press service for the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) told Interfax. Twenty-two space vehicles will be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, six from the space center at Plesetsk and one from the Svobodny space center in Russia's Far East. |
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