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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at 1914 UTC on Saturday, 29 March at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a 13-day journey of more than 8.5 million km.
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announced that the launch window for ATSB’s RazakSAT on Falcon 1 Flight 5, is currently scheduled to open on 20 April, 2300 UTC.
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The launch of the U.S. Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-2 satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is now targeted for no earlier than 3 April.
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Boeing’s commercial satellite manufacturing business is likely to receive a multisatellite order from Intelsat Ltd. valued at more than US$400 million, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Lockheed Martin said it has established a new Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL) to enable a more efficient and reliable process for space vehicle component and flight software integration. As a Lockheed Martin Space Systems-wide asset, the laboratory will have applications for large, small, existing and future satellite development.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced it has formed a new Space Systems business area following the merger of SNC subsidiary, MicroSat Systems, and SpaceDev, which was acquired by SNC in late 2008.
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Eutelsat Communications announced that GlobeCast has renewed to 2016 five transponders leased from the Hotbird neighbourhood for broadcasting in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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On 25 March, ESA and CNES, the French Space Agency, signed a EUR435 million contract assuring the availability of the CSG launch range for ESA programmes and activities and for the exploitation of Ariane, Vega and Soyuz launchers over the period 2009 to 2013.