Satellite News

Satelites Mexicanos recently suspended its sale after it received only two takeover offers, both for less than the US$500 million that the company had hoped for.
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NASA’s Stardust and Deep Impact spacecraft, both of which successfully completed their primary missions to two different comets, have been assigned new tasks.
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Nigcomsat-1, launched in May, has successfully completed in-orbit testing (IOT), which started on 1 June.
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Vietnam plans to launch its Vinasat satellite, currently being built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, at the end of March 2008 aboard an Ariane 5 ECA.
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Chinasat 6B is to be launched on 5 July, 1200 UTC aboard a Chang Zheng 3B rocket from the Xichang space centre.
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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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