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International Launch Services (ILS) launched the DirecTV-10 satellite July 7 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, ILS announced. A Proton Breeze M rocket placed the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit for…
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Alcatel-Lucent announced that it is performing a technical test of its solution for broadcast mobile TV using the DVB-SH standard in the S-Band (2.2GHz). This pilot will take place until September 2007 in the South-West part of France.
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Integral Systems, Inc. announced a contract with ProtoStar to provide a fully integrated, turnkey ground system for the ProtoStar-I satellite. The ground system will include products from Integral as well as Integral’s wholly-owned subsidiaries SAT Corporation and Newpoint Technologies.
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Israel’s Space Communication Ltd. said it had agreed with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the Israeli government to purchase the Amos-4 satellite for about US$365 million.
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On 22 May 2007 at about 0050 UTC, Meteosat-8 experienced an orbit change which was not the result of a commanded manoeuvre, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) revealed today.
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Thuraya will launch its third satellite on 15 October to expand its capacity and coverage area, newspaper Khaleej Times reported, citing the company’s chief commercial officer Sultan Al Ghafli.
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The launch of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, a mission that will explore the two largest objects in the asteroid belt in an effort to answer questions about the formation of our solar system, has been rescheduled to September.
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The scheduled July 7 launch of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft aboard a Delta 2 rocket has been postponed until July 9 at the earliest, NASA announced…
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