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So you have just moved into your first home after apartment living for several years. A whole new world has opened up to you as far as your entertainment choices.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it shipped a new communications satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
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NASA’s upcoming mission to study the Sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 9 July.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is preparing two satellites for launch on 25 July. The Earth observation missions, UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1, will be launched onboard a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome that Saturday at 1846 UTC.
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, has reached geostationary orbit. The satellite has now been renamed and its solar array has been deployed.
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NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for the development of the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS.
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A satellite imagery receiving station was inaugurated in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on 9 July with assistance from the French government.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced executive organisational changes that became effective on 8 July 2009.
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