Satellite News

International Launch Services (ILS) and Eutelsat Communications S.A. have set a first quarter 2009 launch date for the W2A satellite, which will be the 50th commercial Proton launch for ILS as well as its first mission of the new year.
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NASA has awarded two contracts — one to Orbital Sciences Corp. and one to Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) — for commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station.
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The U.S. Air Force said its Global Positioning Systems Wing declared the first GPS IIF satellite had successfully passed Spacecraft Thermal Vacuum Testing at Boeing’s Spacecraft Development Center in El Segundo, California/USA.
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Vietnam’s deputy prime minister Nguyen Thien Nhan issued instructions providing that Vietnamese telecommunications companies would be given priority to use certain geostationary slots.
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SpaceX completes development of regeneratively cooled rocket engine
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ISRO successfully conducted the flight acceptance hot test of the Indigenous Cryogenic Engine at Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre’s (LPSC) Mahendragiri facilities on 18 December 2008.
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Alliant Techsystems has received a US$49 million contract from Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide at least nine flight sets of Orion solid rocket motors.
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Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, has won a tender as prime contractor, supported by Thales Alenia Space, from the Turkish Ministry of Defence for the Gokturk satellite system.
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The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the U.S. Air Force’s Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has achieved major milestones on the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft with the with completion and delivery of the remaining major spacecraft bus subsystems.
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