Science jobs from I.M. Systems Group, INc.:

Science Management Support Specialist NOAA NESDIS STAR Camp Springs, MD I.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG) (www.imsg.com), a Federal Government Contractor located in Rockville, MD is currently seeking to hire highly motivated Science Management Support staff to support NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications Research (STAR) on applied R&D and Research to Operations (R2O). IMSG supports STAR in applied scientific research and transition from research to operations (R2O) in a semi-research and semi-operational working environment along with U.S. government scientists, visiting scientists, and other contractors. The location of this position is Camp Springs, Maryland.

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China Going to make BIG MONEY in Launching Communication Satellites for other Nations

It’s about time Nepal signed an agreement with China to launch its own satellite. Farfetched? It isn’t .

A Nigerian official responsible for the NIGCOMSAT-1, Ahmed Rufai, had disclosed that Nigeria will earn about $1.05 billion from the satellite every year, “a major part of the earnings coming in from the sale and leasing of transponders from NIGCOMSAT-1.” Transponders—or the parts of the communication satellite that are “for sale”—are one of the key satellite components because they receive, cross-examine, amplify and retransmit the signals back to earth.

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