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On 14 July 2012, the Kepler spacecraft experienced an anomaly in the reaction wheel assembly (RWA) of the Attitude and Determination Control Subsystem (ADCS). The anomaly was detected during a routine semi-weekly contact with the spacecraft on 16 July 2012.
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ESA’s GIOVE-B experimental navigation satellite is gradually raising its orbit as it prepares for retirement at the end of its four-year mission paving the way for Europe’s Galileo constellation.
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The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) approved two separate transactions totalling more than US$1.2 billion to finance the export of U.S.-made telecommunications satellites to Mexico and Australia.
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Boeing today said that its legacy communications payload onboard the Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-1) satellite has passed all on-orbit tests.
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