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Lockheed Martin announced that the second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload and associated ground systems have been certified for missile warning operations by U.S. Strategic Command.
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Spacecraft Engineering Department and Remote Sensing Division announced it has successfully completed the System Requirements and Design Review (SRDR) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Microwave Imager/Sounder (MIS) programme.
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As the name simply suggests, Internet TV is the delivery of streaming or real-time audio and video television content over the Web. It is different from video sites that deliver downloadable video content because this sites stream content in real-time. Which means a person sitting in Mexico can stream an episode of Lost which a homemaker in Australia can watch live over her Internet TV as, and when it is being broadcast.

Rocket: KSLV-1 (Naro 1); Payload: Science Technology Satellite 2 (STSAT-2); Date: 25 August 2009, 0800 UTC; Site: Naro, South Korea. Apart from the officially confirmed fact that the satellite was not placed in its target orbit, it is so far unclear what has happened.
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Satellite TV Will Mean Repeat Customers For Your Business
First dual launch of Ekspress satellites successful

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Space shuttle Discovery’s launch attempt has been scrubbed due to poor weather conditions. The next launch attempt is scheduled for 26 August at 0510 UTC.
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Harris completes Advanced EHF Navy Multiband Terminal
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JWST mirror backplane prototype passes space readiness tests
Boeing Receives Additional GPS Funding
ProtoStar I operational at Intersputnik slot
Eutelsat Communications revenues Q1 FY2006-2007
Boeing hands over IndoStar II/ProtoStar II

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The first launch of Russia’s Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana has been scheduled for the beginning of April 2010, Alexander Kirilin, the general director of the Progress design bureau, said.
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Hotbird 2 apparently not damaged
Sirius Selects Space Systems/Loral To Build FM-6 Satellite
SES moves, renames Sirius 2
Khrunichev prepares for Nimiq 4 launch in September

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Upon starting an early morning communications pass on 22 August 2009, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission operations team discovered the spacecraft had experienced an anomaly.
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JWST mirror backplane prototype passes space readiness tests
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MacDonald Dettwiler has signed a contract in excess of C$10 million (EUR6.5 million, US$9.3 million) with EADS Astrium, the prime contractor for Inmarsat’s Alphasat I-XL mission, to provide two advanced technology solutions for use on Alphasat, a telecommunications satellite.