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Rocket: Chang Zheng 2C; Payload: Shijian 11-01; Date: 12 November 2009, 0245 UTC; Site: Jiuquan satellite launch centre. The spacecraft was deployed into a 688 km x 98.3 degrees orbit.
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The new Soyuz operating base in French Guiana is entering final preparations for Arianespace’s inauguration of commercial missions next year, with the facility’s launch pad undergoing final outfitting and acceptance, and assembly now underway for its mobile gantry.
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Dutch Space, an EADS Astrium company, has signed a contract with Orbital Sciences Corporation for the development of solar arrays for NASA’s new cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) to be carried out under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) project.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has received funding from the Canadian Space Agency to advance key technologies to meet current and future needs of the Canadian Space Program.
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Sea Launch Company, LLC said it has received interim approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on its motion to secure up to US$12.5 million in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing from Space Launch Services, LLC, a company formed by a group of unidentified investors.
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Alliant Techsystems reported financial results for the seconds quarter of its fiscal year 2010.
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Iridium Communications Inc. reported financial results for its operational predecessor, Iridium Holdings LLC, for the period from 1 July 2009 through 29 September 2009.
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Alliant Techsystems announced that after more than six years as the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Daniel J. Murphy will leave the company and retire in March, 2010. The company’s Board of Directors has appointed General Ronald R. Fogleman to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
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