Satellite News

The Hotbird 9 and W2M satellites of Eutelsat Communications are on track for launch on 20 December on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana.
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A comprehensive Mission Operations Readiness (MOR) review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) was successfully completed last month, NASA said in a statement.
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Boeing is protesting larger rival Lockheed Martin’s win of the US$1.09 billion GOES-R contract.
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Boris Urmatov, a shepherd in the Republic of Altai (southwest Siberia), is taking legal action against Roskosmos after a rocket fragment fell on his land, according to a local administration official.
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SpaceDev, Inc. announced that privately held Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has completed the acquisition of SpaceDev by way of a merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC into SpaceDev.
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