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Radio enthusiasts have not only, as reported yesterday, received signals from Iran’s Omid satellite – they even claim to have decoded them.
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Radio enthusiasts have not only, as reported yesterday, received signals from Iran’s Omid satellite – they even claim to have decoded them.
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Rocket: Safir 2; Payload: Omid; Date: 2 February 2008, 1830 UTC (estimated); Site: undisclosed, Iran. The launch resulted in two trackable objects in orbit, likely the Omid satellite and the rocket’s upper stage.
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Spanish operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new communications satellite, Hispasat 1E. It is the first launch contract of 2009 signed by Arianespace.
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The Cassini spacecraft will swap to a backup set of propulsion thrusters in mid-March owing to degradation in the performance of the current set of thrusters.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the year 2008.
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Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace, and Alain Charmeau, Chief Executive Officer of Astrium Space Transportation, on 30 January signed a contract for the production of 35 Ariane 5 ECA launchers (designated the “PB” batch).

Engineers at the Satellite Centre in Bangalore are currently analysing the anomaly in Eutelsat W2M’s power subsystem, but expectations as to whether the satellite can be salvaged are mixed at best.