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Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Radhakrishnan has said the inaugural launch of a GSLV with indigenous cryogenic upper stage is now planned in April.
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Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with the French and Italian space agencies, CNES and ASI, to develop, construct, test and deliver in orbit a broadband civil and military telecommunications satellite, Athena-Fidus.
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The Astra 3B communications satellite for SES Astra arrived today in French Guiana, transported by an Antonov aircraft from Astrium’s Toulouse site, and will be prepared at the Kourou space centre for an Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch along with another Astrium satellite – SATCOMBw-2b for the German armed forces – at the end of March.
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Ball Aerospace and Technologies has successfully completed stray light testing of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) telescope assembly for NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission.
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Globalstar, Inc. said it has commenced construction of a satellite tracking station in Botswana, located in Southern Africa.
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OHB Technology AG announced first preliminary and unaudited results for the past fiscal year 2009 and offered a first outlook for the current fiscal year 2010.
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