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MtronPTI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LGL Group and a producer of frequency control, filter and integrated subsystems, announced it had secured active projects with 12 industry leaders in the satellite manufacturing market — a goal initiated in May 2007.
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SES Americom-New Skies announced that Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS) has signed a five-year distribution and contribution agreement for CNN delivery to and from Europe and the Middle East.
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Sanswire-TAO Corp., the airship manufacturing joint venture equally owned by Sanswire Corp. and TAO Technologies GmbH, announced that it has received a funding commitment for US$1.4 million arranged by satellite tracking provider Global Telesat Corp. (GTC) and has commenced construction of its first production commercial/government use unmanned autonomously controlled, Lighter than Air (LTA) airship, designated the STS-111.
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After three days of completing Earth-commanded activities without incident last week, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had a bout of temporary amnesia on 17 April and rebooted its computer on 18 April, behaviour similar to events about a week earlier.
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Rocket: Zenit 3-SL; Payload: SICRAL 1B; Date: 20 April 2009, 0816 UTC; Site: Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned on the equator at 154 degrees West longitude in the Pacific Ocean. Less than two hours later, the Block DM-SL upper stage inserted the 3,038 kg SICRAL 1B satellite into a high perigee geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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Rocket: PSLV; Payload: RISAT-2, ANUSAT; Date: 20 April 2009, 0115 UTC; Site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India. The RISAT-2 radar imaging satellite was placed in an orbit of 550 km altitude with an inclination of 41 degrees to the equator and an orbital period of about 90 minutes.
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Due to a potential compatibility issue between the RazakSAT spacecraft and Falcon 1 launch vehicle, Space Exploration Technologies and Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn Bhd (ATSB), Malaysia, have agreed to postpone the launch of ATSB’s RazakSAT satellite.
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Arianespace announced a new delay in the launch of ESA’s Herschel and Plack satellites.
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