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South Korea’s government officially approved the launch of the country’s first space rocket, the KSLV 1 or Naro.
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Progress M-62 de-orbited
Intelsat introduces solution for rural cellular backhaul services
Uplit Renews Contract For Satellite Uplink Services For Cox Sports TV
Glentel Launches Satellite Hub
Iran says its satellite completed mission
ULA Successfully Launches First EELV Atlas 5
Seventy-five years of GPS IIR in orbit
Telesat’s Anik-F3 ‘Performing Normally’ Despite Published Rumor

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An United Launch Alliance Atlas V/Centaur rocket will launch NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)/Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission on a quest to investigate the moon on 17 June from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Speck Signs Licensing Partnership with Sirius Satellite Radio
Update: NASA selects SpaceX, RpK for COTS programme
BSkyB Links Up With Emuse
Raytheon sensor passes space simulation test
AAS gets order for German milsats
Telesat Anik F3 Placed Into Orbit
South Africa Approves Establishment Of Space Agency
Aurora to study balloon launches from the surface of Mars

Other Posts:Integral Stockholders Halt Actions After Company Makes Changes To Board Of DirectorsShin Satellite PCL results Q2 2007NASA’s GLAST arrives at Naval Research Lab for testingSBIRS GEO-1 completes acoustic testingIntegral control system for BSAT-3b, 3cTelenor Satellite Broadcasting Extends Network Into Eastern EuropeLockheed delivers last GPS IIR-M satelliteBoeing demonstrates TSAT voice, data and video services

Scientists at The Aerospace Corporation are analysing data received from a 6.4 kg nanosatellite they developed to test a new generation of solar cells.
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ICO Signs Deal With ILS
Northrop Grumman completes LOX/methane engine
Orbital Sciences wins NASA COTS recompetition
TacSat 2 completes mission
Progress M-60 de-orbited after five extra days for science
Progress M-01M undocks from ISS
QinetiQ Outfits Helicopters With Satcom Systems In Under 12 Weeks
THEOS launch problems reportedly resolved

Other Posts:NRO books three Delta IV launchesP80 test firing planned for next weekNASA Shuttle launch targeted for no earlier than 15 MarchStratos To Distribute Thrane & Thrane ProductsNASA, ESA plan to combine outer planet missionsTrimble Tracks Galileo Test Satellite SignalsXM Takes Over XM-4 Satellite From BoeingIntelsat To Sell Maryland Teleport

Iridium Satellite LLC reported consolidated financial results for the three months ended 31 March 2009.
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Eutelsat orders W2A from Alcatel Alenia
Lockheed Martin Completes Reviews For GPS-3, MUOS
BSkyB Continues To Put Faith In DayPort
NASA celebrates Landsat 5 anniversary
Garmin Introduces aviation device GPSMAP 496
Thrane & Thrane To Introduce Aero-SB
The DirecTV Group, Inc. results Q1 2009
BAE and SSTL to deliver processor for Chandrayaan-1

Other Posts:WildBlue Launches Service Using WildBlue-1Delta II brings Dawn on its way to asteroid beltBSkyB’s Acquisition of ITV Under ScrutinyGeoEye, Inc. results Q2 2008Integral Systems receives CCS-C contract modificationSiberian shepherd seeks damages over rocket debrisThuraya Redesigns DSL OfferingBut What About The Yugo? Porsche Going To XM As Bentley Gets Sirius

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