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Intelsat S.A. announced that Sun TV Network Ltd. (Sun TV) has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for C-band capacity on the recently launched Intelsat 17 satellite (IS-17) at the 66 degrees East orbital location.
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XTAR, LLC has been awarded a bandwidth contract from Intelsat General Corporation. The multi-million dollar contract calls for XTAR to provide Intelsat General with 79.5 MHz of high power X-band services from its XTAR-EUR satellite.
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JAXA said it has established a broadband environment using the wideband Internetworking Engineering Test and Demonstration Satellite “Kizuna” (WINDS) as support for disaster mitigation measures for areas stricken by the Tohoku Region Pacific Ocean Coastal earthquake.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced that the International Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted Globalstar authority to operate its second-generation satellites within the United States. This authority will become effective once Globalstar completes registering the constellation with France, which is expected to occur in the near future.
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The loss of Eutelsat’s W3B satellite shortly after launch may have been caused by changes made to the spacecraft’s propulsion system. The location of the leak that rendered W3B useless shortly after separation from the Ariane 5 launcher was likely located in a propellant tube connected to one the satellite’s thrusters.
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Hopes for reviving NASA’s Spirit Mars rover dimmed further with passage last week of the point at which the rover’s locale received its maximum sunshine for the Martian year, the agency said.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture a spacecraft for Australian telecommunications service provider, SingTel Optus.
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Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roskosmos has approved the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on 5 April.
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