Satellite News

Russia has denied that another of its military satellites has disintegrated but confirmed the spacecraft has ceased operations.
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The Lockheed Martin team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully delivered two key blocks of ground software integral to supporting the programme’s geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and highly elliptical orbit (HEO) constellation.
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U.S. Strategic Command has accepted command and control of its first Wideband Global SATCOM space vehicle, WGS-1.
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Arianespace will boost two communications satellites into orbit on its second launch of the year: Star One C2 for Brazilian operator Star One, as part of a turnkey contract with Thales Alenia Space; and Vinasat-1, built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) for operator Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT).
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Boeing Launch Services has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe’s second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle.
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The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched today from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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