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Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NROL-26 (USA 202); Date: 17 January 2009, 0247 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. United Launch Alliance said the rocket and its classified payload successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 37 at CCAFS. No details regarding the satellite deployment were given.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said they decided to postpone the launch of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite “Ibuki” (GOSAT) as bad weather is forecast around the day before launch.
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SES New Skies said its NSS-9 satellite has safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, onboard an Antonov cargo plane.
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ESA and OHB-System AG have signed a contract for the analysis and design of a satellite constellation for global ship tracking. The contract has a volume of around EUR1 million (US$1.31 million).
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There are contradicting statements regarding China’s plans to set up a global navigation satellite system.
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Thales Alenia Space said it won five contracts for geostationary communications satellites out of a total of 26 ordered in 2008, a market share of 23 percent, plus contracts for four communications payloads, one observation satellite and the low Earth orbit constellation for O3b Networks, comprising 16 satellites.
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Eutelsat Communications and Telespazio announced the signature of an agreement to 2020 for capacity at the 13 degrees East Hotbird video neighbourhood.
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