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Aerojet announced that it has completed manufacturing and assembly of an advanced 24.5 kN (5,500-lbf) Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Liquid Methane (LCH4) rocket engine.
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KT Corporation and Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) announced that they have signed the sale and purchase of the Koreasat-2 satellite. The closing of the sale will occur upon the issuance of the necessary U.S. governmental approvals.
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Last night, the detectors of Planck’s High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of 0.1 K, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation completed delivery of both Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites on 25 June 2009, when the second satellite arrived at the U.S. Air Force’s Cape Canaveral Air Station for launch preparation.
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Inmarsat plc has completed its previously announced strategic investment, long term global distribution agreement and new product development agreement with SkyWave Mobile Communications Inc. of Ottawa, Canada.
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Avanti Communications Group plc has moved the launch of its planned HYLAS satellite from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to Ariane 5, apparently under pressure from some potential investors – even though the switch costs almost US$70 million.

ISRO’s Oceansat-2 satellite will be launched next month from Sriharikota aboard a PSLV rocket that will also carry six international nanosatellites.

Ulysses, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission, officially ceased operations on 30 June 2009, after receiving commands from ground controllers to do so. The spacecraft, which operated for more than 18 years, charted the unexplored regions of space above the poles of the Sun.