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Despite valiant efforts by Roscosmos and other space agencies, the Russian probe Phobos-Grunt will be falling back to Earth over the weekend, most likely on Sunday night, according to projections by the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at the Aerospace Corporation.
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Researchers in the field, such as Ernest Robinson, the head of the Aerospace Corporation's picosatellite project, dream of a day when swarms of nanosatellites (weighing less than 10kg) and picosatellites (weighing less than 1kg) might be used to establish a global navigation and communications network around Mars.
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So Hudson left Harris Corporation and found a new job at Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation in Newport Beach.
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Nevertheless, studies by the Futron Corporation, an aerospace consultancy, suggest that suborbital space travel is a promising market.
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Esterline Technologies Corporation is a specialized engineering and manufacturing company principally serving aerospace and defense markets.
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Two other firms the Sierra Nevada Corporation, a conglomerate that dabbles in satellites, energy and medicine, and Boeing, an aerospace giant hope to fly similar missions with their own spacecraft.
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Also under consideration are transfers of six extremely senstive mainframe computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation (3) computers designed for the operation of nuclear plants and highly accurate machine tools suitable for aerospace manufacturing .
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