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An International Launch Services Proton M/Briz M rocket is to launch Arabsat’s Badr-5 communications satellite on 3 June, 2200 UTC.
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China is to launch a fourth Beidou (“Compass”) spacecraft as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network.
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Space-Communication announced that Q-Kon, a South Africa-based telecom service provider, has leased long term capacity on the Amos-5i satellite (the former AsiaSat 2) and on its planned successor, the Amos-5 satellite.
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“Two weeks before its scheduled return to Earth, Japan’s Hayabusa asteroid explorer is halfway through a series of unprecedented ion engine burns to aim the probe for a narrow re-entry corridor toward Australia.” (Spaceflight Now)
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