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There’s still no official word on the fate of Russia’s Ekspress AM4 satellite, which was stranded in a bad orbit after an apparent malfunction of the Proton M launcher’s Briz M upper stage.
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Preparations for two additional Soyuz launches are now underway at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for missions to be performed by Arianespace’s Starsem affiliate before year-end in building up Globalstar’s second-generation satellite constellation.
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation’s Kodiak Launch Complex on 27 September 2011 aboard an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur-IV+ launch vehicle.
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EMS Technologies, Inc. announced that its Defense & Space (D&S) division has been awarded a contract with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) to provide an anti-jam beam-forming network for the fourth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) spacecraft.
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Boeing announced that the second of 12 GPS IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force has achieved operational acceptance and entered service. With testing complete, GPS IIF-2, now called SVN-63, is the newest satellite to join the active 31-satellite GPS constellation.
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NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion capabilities. The projects will develop and fly a space solar sail, deep space atomic clock, and space-based optical communications system.
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