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The U.S. Air Force said its Space and Missile Systems Center is currently finalising actions necessary to complete preparations for Key Decision Point-B and the contract award decision for the next block of Global Positioning System satellites, GPS Block IIIA.
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The antenna system that will enable NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft in the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) System Block 10 team, led by Boeing with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. providing the space vehicle, announced completion of the payload electronics, high-speed gimbal and testing of the space vehicle’s visible sensor, enabling the start of payload integration and test.
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India plans to launch its Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite, plus several piggyback payloads, on 28 April aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from its spaceport of Sriharikota.
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The Russian State Commission investigating the AMC-14 failure of a Proton Briz M launch has traced the cause to the rupture of the gas duct between the gas generator and the propellant pump turbine in the Briz M main engine.
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The Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying two International Space Station crew members and a South Korean astronaut landed safely in Kazakhstan but came down nearly 500 kilometers off-course.
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Arianespace has published the results of the latest Ariane 5 ECA launch.
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The Proto Flight Test on the antenna of Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite was recently performed at the Tsukuba Space Center.
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