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The sixth Ariane 5 mission of this year was cleared for its 20 December lift-off following a launch readiness review, which was held at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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China will launch its third geostationary meteorological satellite, the Fengyun-2-06, some time next week, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said.
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Boeing Launch Services has received a contract to launch the fourth satellite for the COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) programme for Thales Alenia Space Italia, prime contractor of the Italian Space Agency.
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The Ekspress MD-1 spacecraft arrived today at its launch site, at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, delivered by Antonov-124 Ruslan transport plane.
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announces the arrival of the Falcon 9 first stage flight tank at SpaceX’s newest launch site, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Raytheon Company said it has received confirmation from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation that a water-detecting sensor system on the Chandrayaan-1 lunar-orbiting spacecraft has been activated and is fully functional.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation has made a US$40 million profit with its first satellite platform for an international customer, the Press Trust of India reports.
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Euroconsult announced that world government space programme expenditures are at a historical high of more than US$62 billion dollars in 2008, with planned satellite launches in the next ten years to increase 38 percent over the previous decade.
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