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Iran plans to launch a small communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, Telecommunications Minister Reza Taqipour was quoted as saying.
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Three GLONASS-M satellites have been sent back to manufacturer Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, Interfax reported citing an unnamed source at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November.
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On 19 November 2009, the company e-GEOS, which is jointly owned by Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency ASI, announced that it signed a contract with ESA to supply optical and radar satellite data for the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract in excess of C$200 million (EUR126 million, US$187 million) with the Russian Radio Research and Development Institute (NIIR) to provide two advanced technology solutions for the Ekspress AM5 and Ekspress AM6 satellites.
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