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Rocket: Delta II 7925-9.5; Payload: GPS IIR-21(M); Date: 17 August 2009, 1035 UTC; Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. Following a nominal 1 hour and 8 minute flight, the rocket deployed the spacecraft, the eighth (and last) modernised NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block II R-M military navigation satellite.
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EMS Technologies Makes Management Appointments
Space Systems/Loral Wins Terrestar-2 Satellite Contract
Globalstar Extends Simplex Service To Central America
Intelsat to order, operate satellite for SKY Mexico and SKY Brazil
New launch date set for TerraSAR
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. results 2008
ILS boasts of new contracts
Eutelsat To Continue HDTV DTT Role In France

Telesat announced that its new Nimiq 5 satellite is scheduled to launch on an ILS Proton vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 18 September 2009.
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EchoStar, DISH Network results Q2 2008
Multichoice to use Intelsat capacity for mobile TV trial
Eutelsat confirms SatMex bid
European Parliament Calls For Galileo To Move Forward
Ball Aerospace completes OMPS integration for NPP
Aerojet to supply aft propulsion for Sundancer
European military might use Galileo
Iridium Satellite LLC results 2Q 2006

India and Russia have finished the design of Chandrayaan-2, India’s second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012.
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Acoustic testing for SBIRS GEO-1 payload completed
New supply vessel launched to ISS
Discovery lands safely after successful mission
Restructuring, part II: SES Global leaves Asiasat
Telesat sale is off, IPO is on — report
Romantis on Intelsat 15
ULA Lofts NRO Satellite Into Orbit In First Launch
Eurockot Launches Korean Satellite

A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
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Integral Systems to report loss in fiscal third quarter of 2009
Shielding GPS antennas from space radiation
Astrotech Corporation results Q3 FY 2009
Sports and Satellite TV Have Turned Sunday Into a Whole New Ballgame
Dragon receives initial approval from NASA Safety Review Panel
Leoterra, Terrestar Networks Looking To Link Up
Intelsat General Signs 10-year Contract With Milsat Services
Update: TSAT programme partially scrapped

Landsat 5 is back under control and restarted imaging on 14 August, one day after it lost attitude for yet unknown reasons.
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Northrop Grumman CERES sensor delivered
Datapath Names Helfgott President, COO
DLR, Astrium sign TanDEM-X contract
China Uses C-COM Systems to Monitor Land Use
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resumes science observations
Globecomm announces new contracts
China launches Nigeria’s first communication satellite
Integral Systems To Upgrade GOES Ground System

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company announced employment reductions aimed at improving its competitive posture.
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Yahsat secures US$1.2 billion financing
ESA Gives CryoSat Update
Abertis Considering Acquisition Of Stake In Hispasat
Satellite TV For Sports Fans
Sirius Canada Partners With Canadian Automobile Association
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reaches planned flight path
EchoStar unveils ViP-TV
Bermudan government optimistic over satellite slot

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved GHL Acquisition Corp.’s purchase of Iridium Holdings LLC.
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Astrium-built Hotbird 10 satellite for Eutelsat ready for service
China to launch first natural disaster monitoring satellite
Cluster Spacecraft Catch a Magnetic Reconnection
U.S., British Governments To Develop Comprehensive Satellite View of Antarctica
Spaceconnection to market Measat-3 capacity in North America
Military finds NLZSAT capacity too expensive, report
France Telecom Sells Mobile Satellite Communications Unit
ILS establishes Failure Review Oversight Board for JCSAT-11 mission