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“You know in Russia, there are certain bad omens about this sort of thing [i.e. having women aboard a (space)ship–Ed.], but thank God that everything worked out successfully. Of course in the future, we will work somehow to ensure that the number of women will not surpass [the number of men]. This isn’t discrimination. I’m just saying that when a majority [of the crew] is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behaviour or something else occurs, that’s what I’m talking about.” — Russian Federal Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov (according to AFP) apparently thinks he has found the true reason behind the ballistic re-entry of Soyuz TMA-11, whose crew comprised one man and two women
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The Board of Directors of TerreStar Corporation announced that it has made changes to the executive management team of its majority-owned subsidiary TerreStar Networks Inc.
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Talia Limited, one of the largest suppliers of satellite Internet services for North Africa and the Middle East, has contracted 10.9 MHz on SES New Skies’ NSS-703 satellite to introduce a new broadband network. The network has passed acceptance terms and is available for immediate use.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have successfully tested a high-speed Internet connection using the recently launched Kizuna satellite.
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The U.S. Air Force said its Space and Missile Systems Center is currently finalising actions necessary to complete preparations for Key Decision Point-B and the contract award decision for the next block of Global Positioning System satellites, GPS Block IIIA.
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The antenna system that will enable NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft in the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) System Block 10 team, led by Boeing with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. providing the space vehicle, announced completion of the payload electronics, high-speed gimbal and testing of the space vehicle’s visible sensor, enabling the start of payload integration and test.
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India plans to launch its Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite, plus several piggyback payloads, on 28 April aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from its spaceport of Sriharikota.
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