Slayton was born in Sparta in 1924. NovAtel will supply
receiver elements of these ground-based elements, which will be
included in eight Indian reference stations , an Indian master control
center, and an Indian land uplink station.

NovAtel designs, markets and sells high-precision GPS and other
positioning components and sub-systems used in a wide variety of
commercial applications principally in the aviation, geomatics
(surveying and mapping), mining , precision agriculture, marine and
defence industries.
They start out only a few meters apart .

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22 at the Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bicycle Museum, 200 West Main
Street, Sparta, Wis."

NovAtel has developed and produced the new SBAS reference receiver
for use in the US WAAS network under contracts with Raytheon Company
over the past two years.gov/st5

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www.

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For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www. When completed, GAGAN will
augment the standard positioning signals from the GPS satellites with
an additional signal to improve the accuracy, integrity, continuity ,
and availability of the aircraft receiver.
"During the first day, we ensure the three craft are correctly operating.

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Certain statements in this news release, including those about the
Company 's expected shipments into the Gagan program, are
forward-looking statements. They contain power, propulsion, communications,
guidance, navigation and control functions found in larger spacecraft .

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Slayton is being honored and remembered for his pioneering
involvement in America's space programs .gov/Bios/htmlbios/slayton."
Although small compared to their counterparts, each of the spacecraft is
considered full service.

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He made
his first space flight as the Apollo docking module pilot for the historic
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission in July 1975.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CALGARY, Alberta----NovAtel Inc.novatel.

NASA's Space Technology 5 Satellites Soar Into Space

The ST5 project was built and tested at Goddard for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate .

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NovAtel's solutions combine hardware, such as
receivers and antennas, with software to enable its customers to fully
integrate the Company's high-precision GPS technology into their
respective products and systems.
Forward-looking statements involve significant known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These
factors should be considered carefully and undue reliance should not
be placed on the forward-looking statements., on a Pegasus XL rocket.

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CST, (6:30 p.m. The GAGAN project is part
of a world-wide movement toward space-based navigation, which has been
endorsed by the International Civil Aviation Organization. For
more information, visit www.

NOVATEL INC. WASHINGOTN, NASA's Space Technology 5
successfully launched today at 9:04 a.m.
The spacecrafts' orbit is a "string of pearls," in a near-Earth polar
elliptical that will take them from approximately 300 kilometers (190 miles)
to 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) from the planet.

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NASA Honors Legendary Astronaut Deke Slayton

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The award is being presented at 5:30 p .

NovAtel Inc. Awarded Contract for SBAS Equipment for Indian GAGAN Program

According to Raytheon , "GAGAN-TDS, a cooperative effort between
Raytheon and ISRO, will usher in a new era in civil navigation through
use of the space-based augmentation system. The Company is focused on supplying
core high -precision positioning technology to OEMs and system
integrators who build systems for various end market applications. EST, as the spacecraft
passed over the McMurdo Ground Station in Antarctica ., described next week's planned activities for the spacecraft.

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He spent more
than 217 hours in space during the mission. It will
increase safety and efficiency by allowing precision approaches to all
airports and direct routing between destinations.

According to Tony Murfin, NovAtel's Vice President, Business
Development, "NovAtel is pleased to be an important part of the Indian
GAGAN program. These forward-looking statements are not
based on historical facts but rather on management 's current
expectations regarding NovAtel's future business prospects and
opportunities.
Art Azarbarzin, ST5 project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md.gov/home

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Slayton's
award will be displayed at the museum.

About NovAtel Inc.
Initial contact with ST5 was made at 9:27 a.

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This equipment is scheduled to ship to Raytheon during the first
half of this year. These forward-looking
statements are made as of the date of this news release, and NovAtel
assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events
or circumstances.

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The material is part of the 842 pounds of samples brought back
to Earth during the six Apollo lunar expeditions from 1969 to 1972. Wherever possible, words such as ''anticipate'',
''believe'', ''expect'', ''may'', ''could'', ''will'', ''potential'',
''intend'', ''estimate'', ' 'should'', ''plan'', ''predict'' or the
negative or other variations of these words, or similar words or
phrases, have been used to identify these forward-looking statements. Many factors could cause actual
results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the
results discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements,
including certification and market acceptance of NovAtel 's new
products, impact and timing of large orders, pricing pressures in the
market and other competitive factors, maintaining technological
leadership, and other factors described in our Form 20-F and other SEC
filings, many of which are beyond the control of NovAtel. The three spacecraft will conduct science validation using
measurements of the Earth's magnetic field collected by the miniature boom-
mounted magnetometers on each. Within approximately 20 days, they
are placed into a formation 40 to 200 km (approximately 25 to 125 miles) apart
from each other to perform coordinated multi-point measurements of the Earth's
magnetic field.

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He flew 56 combat missions during WW
II, and he was selected as one of the original Mercury astronauts in April
1959.

This latest contract with Raytheon follows on from an award to
Raytheon by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) of a
contract for the ground-based elements of the GPS and GEO
(Geostationary Earth Orbit) Augmented Navigation (GAGAN ) Technology
Demonstration System (TDS), in November 2004.
During the next few days, we deploy and test the magnetometer booms.

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Slayton retired from NASA in 1982, and he passed away in 1993 . Each micro-satellite weighs approximately 25 kilograms
(55 pounds) when fully fueled and is about the size of a 13 inch television.nasa.

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WASHINGTON, NASA will honor Deke Slayton, one of
the original seven NASA astronauts, with the presentation of the Ambassador of
Exploration Award. The
award is a small sample of lunar material encased in Lucite and mounted for
public display. He was named NASA's Coordinator of Astronaut Activities in 1962.gov/home

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Jim Slavin, ST5 project scientist at Goddard said, "The lessons learned
from the development and flight of ST5's three full-service micro-spacecraft
constitute a major step toward the use of constellations or swarms of small
spacecraft to accomplish science that cannot be done with a single spacecraft ,
no matter how capable.

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nasa. This type of measurement is useful for future missions that
will study the effect of solar activity on the Earth's magnetosphere; the
magnetic bubble that surrounds Earth and helps to protect it from harmful
space radiation.

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The flight was the first
meeting in space by American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.jsc. With the successful completion of this initial GAGAN
test project, India will join the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan
and China as one of the countries operating NovAtel SBAS reference
receiver equipment, and will be the first outside the US to receive
the latest generation of NovAtel reference receiver equipment.

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NASA is presenting the Ambassador of Exploration Award to the 38
astronauts who participated in the Mercury, Gemini , and Apollo space programs
for realizing America's vision of space exploration from 1961 to 1972 .nasa.
(NASDAQ:NGPS), a precise positioning technology company, announced
today that an order for additional Space Based Augmentation System
(SBAS) equipment was received from Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN ) in
support of the Indian GAGAN program. Deliveries of this equipment have been
underway for approximately 18 months and the equipment is being
fielded to expand the existing ground network in Alaska, Canada and
Mexico. Finally
we prepare them for the science demonstration and make any necessary
orientation adjustments," Azarbarzin said.

For information about the ST5 project and mission on the Web , visit:

http://www.

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ST5 is testing new micro-spacecraft technologies and operations'
techniques.

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For
Slayton's astronaut biography on the Web, visit:

http://www. EST, from Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif. It is an instrumental part of the New Millennium Program, which
develops and tests critical and revolutionary technologies needed to enable
future endeavors in space.

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Miniaturized components and technologies are integrated into each of the
ST5 micro-satellites.