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SES New Skies said it has renewed its support – through the provision of satellite capacity – of The Nature Conservancy, a conservation organisation working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters.
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The ballistic landing of Russia’s Soyuz TMA-11 capsule last month was caused by the failure of a pyrobolt, according to Anatoly Perminov, head of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos).
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NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars on 25 May to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm. It was also the first time a Mars probe was photographed during landing by an orbiting satellite.
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According to WikiNews, the main payload of the Rokot launch on 23 May, 1520 UTC consisted of three Gonets data relay satellites.
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“This is no trip to Grandma’s for the weekend.” Ed Weiler, NASA’s associate administrator for space science, about the Phoenix mission.
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Intelsat, Ltd. announced that satellite industry veteran Kay Sears has been named President of the company’s subsidiary, Intelsat General, effective 30 June 2008.
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NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft is healthy, right on target, and even predicted to have good landing weather on 25 May, team leaders from The University of Arizona, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin said at a news briefing.
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China will launch its first next-generation polar orbiting weather satellite, Fengyun-3A (FY-3A), on 27 May [presumably local time], the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said.
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