Satellite News

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter again received information from the Phoenix Mars Lander Tuesday evening and relayed the information to Earth after an earlier glitch with the orbiter’s UHF radio system.
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Bigelow Aerospace, LLC said it has reached agreement with Aerojet to supply the propulsion system for the aft end of Sundancer, which according to Bigelow’s plans is to become the first commercial space habitat capable of supporting a human crew.
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Boeing announced that it submitted a bid to the U.S. Air Force earlier this month for the Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) programme.
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Orbcomm Inc. announced that its Coast Guard demonstration and five Quick Launch satellites have been shipped to the launch site in Kapustin Yar, Russia.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it delivered EchoStar XI to the Sea Launch home port in Long Beach, California/USA, on 27 May.
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Arianespace will boost two satellites into orbit on its third launch of the year, currently scheduled for 30 May: the military communications satellite Skynet 5C for the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), and the civil communications satellite Turksat 3A for operator Turksat AS, as part of a turnkey contract with Thales Alenia Space.
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