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June 11, 2014

Northrop Grumman to Supply Navigation System SKorea's KOMPSAT-2 Birds
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2014
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to provide space inertial reference systems for the GEO-KOMPSAT-2 space satellite pogram. Under a firm-fixed-price contract worth nearly $9 million, Northrop Grumman is providing its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Units (Scalable SIRU) for the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A and -2B satellites. The Scalable SIRU supplies critical rotation rate data that enable the stabilization, pointing and attitude control of satel ... read more

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