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Rocket: Soyuz U; Payload: Progress M-03M (Progress P35); Date: 15 October 2009, 1056 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The vessel was placed into its targeted preliminary orbit approx. nine minutes after lift-off.

The launch of Intelsat 15 aboard a Sea Launch Zenit 3-SLB from Baikonur is currently scheduled for 29 November, according to a documents Intelsat filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Boeing announced that the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite built for the U.S. Air Force was shipped on 28 September to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will be tested and prepared for a November launch.

Jazz Semiconductor, a Tower Group company, and ADSANTEC, a fabless [i.e. without own fabrication facilities] design house, announced their SERDES [Serialiser/Deserialiser] solution has been selected by NASA for its Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission.

The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and the French Space agency (CNES) have become partners by signing a contract on acquiring and owning two new 13 meter full-motion antennas for satellite operations together.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that Patrick DeWitt will be appointed to the SS/L Board of Directors as its Chairman and will relinquish his duties as Chief Executive Officer at the end of the year.

Lockheed Martin Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has elected Christopher E. Kubasik to serve as president and chief operating officer, effective 1 January 2010.