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Solaris Mobile and its shareholders, Eutelsat Communications and SES Astra, have announced that the investigation of its S-band payload has confirmed significant non-compliance from its original specifications.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced that it has completed a financing of approximately US$738 million.
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SES Astra said it has renewed contracts with BSkyB (Sky) for 24 transponders on a long-term basis on Astra’s 28.2 degrees East orbital position. In total Sky is using 31 transponders on the Astra satellite system.
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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Sirius FM-5; Date: 30 June 2009, 1910 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellite was to be deployed at about 0424 UTC (too late for this issue).

DigitalGlobe announced that its WorldView-2 high-resolution eight-band multi-spectral satellite is scheduled to launch aboard a Delta II on 6 October 2009 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 heavy-lift flight with the world’s largest commercial telecommunications satellite was given the go-ahead for lift-off on 1 July following a launch readiness review.

Turkey plans to have a new telecommunication satellite launched by the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012, the country’s Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said.