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The Sea Launch team is initiating a 72-hour countdown at its equatorial launch site, in preparation for the launch of Telespazio’s SICRAL 1B communications satellite on 20 April.
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The launch of RazakSAT, Malaysia’s second remote sensing satellite, has been postponed owing to technical problems with the Falcon 1 launcher, the country’s Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry secretary-general Datuk Abdul Hanan Alang Endut said.
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NASA’s Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
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A few details regarding China’s planned Beidou (”Compass”) navigation satellite constellation have been reported by Xinhua.
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