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“If we do not do that, another country will launch them.” — Russian Space Forces Commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Popovkin announcing 1 November 2007 as launch date for Germany’s SAR-Lupe 3 radar spy satellite

“If we do not do that, another country will launch them.” — Russian Space Forces Commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Popovkin announcing 1 November 2007 as launch date for Germany’s SAR-Lupe 3 radar spy satellite

SES Astra announced that it has selected Global Communications, Invacom, and ERA Technology as the winners of the Astra Innovation Contest.

SES Astra announced that it has selected Global Communications, Invacom, and ERA Technology as the winners of the Astra Innovation Contest.

NASA’s New Horizons probe successfully completed a trajectory correction manoeuvre on its long journey to Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons probe successfully completed a trajectory correction manoeuvre on its long journey to Pluto.

MESSENGER’s Radio Science (RS) team recently completed a month-long orbit simulation test to measure Doppler performance using the probe’s low-gain radio frequency (RF) antennas.

For the first time, the compatibility of the final Jules Verne Automatic Transfer Vehicle flight software has been successfully tested with the rest of the ISS flight software by international teams at the NASA Software Verification Facility (SVF) in Houston.