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Archive for February 5th, 2015

Ordered Dnepr launches to take place as planned

February 5th, 2015 by

Kosmotras will fulfil its contract obligations with regard to launches of Dnepr rockets with foreign-owned spacecraft, the programme’s CEO Alexander Serkin was quoted as saying.

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QinetiQ technology on board first European space taxi

February 5th, 2015 by

QinetiQ technology will be responsible for guiding the European Space Agency’s IXV ‘space taxi’ safely back to Earth on its maiden test flight, due for launch on 11 February 2015, the company said.

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Express-AM33 fully operational again

February 5th, 2015 by

On 4 February 2015, specialists from RSCC and ISS Reshetnev company have succeeded in fully restoring communications and broadcasting services on Ekspress-AM33.

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Yamal-401 satellite enters service

February 5th, 2015 by

The telecommunications satellite Yamal-401, designed and built by ISS-Reshetnev Company, has started operating.

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Intelsat and Kymeta join forces to enable next-gen satellite applications

February 5th, 2015 by

Intelsat S.A. and Kymeta Corporation announced an agreement to design and produce innovative, flat, electronically steerable, Ku-band mTenna satellite antenna solutions that are optimised for the Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellite (HTS) platform. The first Intelsat EpicNG satellite is expected to launch in late 2015.

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