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Motorola Inc said that a U.S. judge had approved a settlement, at no cost to the U.S. cell phone maker, related to disputes stemming from the 1999 bankruptcy of the Iridium phone satellite service.
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Boeing announced that it plans to lay off approximately 750 employees in Southern California because of a downturn in its satellite assembly and integration business.
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As NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft makes its final approach for a landing on Mars, engineers from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will support critical weather and robotics systems on-board the spacecraft from the mission operations centre at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the company said.
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Rocket: Zenit 3SL/Block DM-SL; Payload: Galaxy 18; Date: 21 May, 0943 UTC; Site: Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned on the equator at 154 degrees West Longitude in the Pacific Ocean. All systems performed nominally throughout the mission, and the first launch of a satellite for Intelsat in 2008 was successfully completed.
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