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NASA postponed the launch of space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-127 mission today because of a leak associated with the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside the shuttle’s external fuel tank.
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, rolled aboard their Atlas V rocket to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in preparation for launch on 18 June.
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The two Prisma satellites are undergoing their final system tests in Swedish Space Corporation’s clean room in Solna, Sweden. Since the satellites returned from France, where they underwent environmental tests, they have been completed with final software versions.
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ESA signed a EUR20 million contract rider with the Joint Propulsion Team consortium composed of Avio SpA (I), Astrium GmbH (D) and Snecma (Groupe SAFRAN) (F), for the development of the future liquid engine demonstrator for the European Next Generation Launcher first stage, the High Thrust Engine Demonstrator.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Thales Alenia Space have set the agreement for the authorisation to proceed with the development of the atmospheric reentry demonstrator IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle).
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Boeing on 15 June successfully transferred control of the second Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite to the U.S. Air Force, which will monitor and control the new satellite from Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.
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