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Premiere has announced a deal with a leading German investment bank as it prepares to launch Premiere Star in Germany later this year. HypoVereinsbank is taking a 10 percent stake in Premiere Star, a…
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The second SAR-Lupe satellite, part of the German observation system, has successfully been launched into orbit from the Plesetsk space center by a Russian Cosmos-3M rocket…
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Virgin Media confirmed July 3 that it has received a bid proposal from an unidentified company looking to purchase it. Though the provider of cable television, telephone…
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Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway, has rolled out Terralink Secure Version 7.1, a secure networking value-added service to enable users to more effectively filter…
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Shareholders of SES S.A. at an Extraordinary General Meeting held at the company’s headquarters in Betzdorf, Luxembourg, on 28 June 2007 appointed Mr. Robert W. Ross and Dr. Ashok Ganguly to the Board of Directors.
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The U.S. Air Force, United Launch Alliance, the National Reconnaissance Office and other launch team partners are making good progress in the Atlas V upper stage anomaly review, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) said.
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Orbital Express recently completed its final and most challenging unmated rendezvous and capture scenario. The operation was almost completely autonomous, operating at distances of up to 7 km and often with only passive optical and IR imaging for guidance.
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The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) programme has successfully passed a major milestone, with the mating of the two main modules (the MIRAS payload and the PROTEUS platform) in the Thales Alenia Space integration rooms in Cannes.
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