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NASA managers postponed tomorrow’s launch of space shuttle Discovery to allow engineers more time to develop plans for resolving an issue with a valve in the shuttle’s main propulsion system.

TerreStar Networks Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of TerreStar Corporation, announced the successful completion of in-orbit testing (IOT) for TerreStar-1.

DigitalGlobe ’s WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in anticipation of its launch on 6 October 2009.

Officials from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unveiled a new ground station in Guam that will track spacecraft from JAXA’s upcoming Quasi-Zenith Satellite System.

Russian VSAT operators have applied to their country’s Ministry of Communications for permission to use international satellites because of problems with Ekspress AM2 and the lack of a replacement satellite.

South Korean officials said the STSAT-2 experimental satellite it attempted to put into orbit yesterday aboard a KSLV-1 launcher probably burned up in the atmosphere. The failure seems to have been caused by one half of the payload fairing remaining attached to the second stage.
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NASA has targeted the next launch attempt for space shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission to the ISS for no earlier than 0422 UTC on 28 August from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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