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SES Americom announced that it will cease providing its IPTV service in North America – IP-PRIME – by 31 July 2009.
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Inmarsat plc announced that Perry Melton will assume responsibility of chief operating officer (COO) with effect from 1 January 2009.
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The launch of NASA’s planet finding satellite Kepler, currently scheduled for March 2009, could be delayed because of a possibly defective part, Flight International reports.
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Vietnam plans to launch its first remote sensing satellite by 2012, chairman of the national Research Programme on Space Science and Technology, Nguyen Khoa Son, announced according to VNA news agency.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced its fourth quarter and year end financial results for the three- and twelve-month periods ending 31 October 2008.
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Satlynx, a provider of satellite communication services throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has agreed to a multi-year deal for the provision of 20 Mbps on the Africa IPsys/DVB platform aboard the NSS-10 satellite.
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The upper payload component for Arianespace’s upcoming dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission is now complete at Europe’s Spaceport, following the encapsulation of Hotbird 9 inside the launcher’s payload fairing.

MESSENGER recently completed the second part of a two-part deep-space manoeuvre, providing the remaining 10 percent velocity change needed to place the probe on course to fly by Mercury for the third time in September 2009.