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The New Horizons probe has been put in hibernation mode. The command was transmitted on 27 June from the Mission Operations Center at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) through NASA’s Deep Space Network.
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The launch of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station has been postponed 24 hours.
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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B; Payload: Chinasat 6B (Zhongxing 6B, ZX 6B); Date: 5 July 2007, 1208 UTC; Site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The three-stage rocket successfully reached orbit and deployed the satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
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SES Global has added Robert Ross and Ashok Ganguly to its board of directors, the company announced. Ross served as CEO of New Skies Satellites…
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Inmarsat is teaming with Instituto Ilhas do Brasil (the Institute of Brazilian Islands) to bring modern communications to some of Brazil’s most isolated offshore communities. Inmarsat is offering use of its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service to monitor 1,000 islands off the coast of Brazil…
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Mobile Satellite Ventures passed a critical design review milestone for its MSV-1 satellite that had been set by the…
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Alcatel-Lucent will provide network integration services as well as equipment, engineering and implementation services for a trial of mobile interactive media services that ICO Global Communications Ltd. plans to begin in 2008, ICO announced July…
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Minority shareholders of ImageSat International N.V., which operates the EROS commercial imaging satellites, have filed a claim in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York against ImageSat, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., Elbit Systems and certain current and former officers and directors of ImageSat.
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