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Archive for September 15th, 2017

Cassini de-orbited

September 15th, 2017 by

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn on 15 September 2017 as planned, ending its 13-year tour of the planet.

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GRACE mission making plans for final science data collection

September 15th, 2017 by

lites almost out of fuel after more than 15 years of chasing each other around our planet to measure Earth’s ever-changing gravity field, the operations team for the U.S./German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission is making plans for an anticipated final science collection.

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MDA to provide subsystems for Korean lunar exploration programme

September 15th, 2017 by

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has signed a contract valued in excess of C$7 million with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

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TAS, Telespazio, Spaceflight Industries to co-operate

September 15th, 2017 by

The Space Alliance, formed by Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) and Telespazio (Leonardo 67%, Thales 33%), today signed a partnership with the US-based company Spaceflight Industries.

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Bell Canada takes up Telstar 19 VANTAGE HTS capacity

September 15th, 2017 by

Telesat announced that Bell Canada has signed a 15-year contract for substantially all of the HTS spot beam capacity over northern Canada on Telesat’s new Telstar 19 VANTAGE satellite.

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