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GLONASS to go global by 2010

July 8th, 2009 by

The number of satellites in Russia’s GLONASS system will reach 24 when another six satellites join the constellation this year, Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), was quoted as saying.
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DubaiSat-1 arrives at Baikonur cosmodrome

July 8th, 2009 by

With only 18 days left for the launch of DubaiSat-1, the first remote sensing satellite developed by the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science & Technology (EIAST), the satellite has now been shipped from its development base in South Korea to the launch pad in Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
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Contract signed for further ATV development

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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Astrium GmbH have signed a contract for studying the further development of ATV technology.
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New ‘Space Internet’ protocols tested on ISS

July 8th, 2009 by

The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth’s Internet into outer space and across the solar system.
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