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Rocket: Ariane 5GS; Payload: Helios 2B; Date: 18 December 2009, 1626 UTC; Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana. Following a flight lasting 59 minutes and 20 seconds, the Ariane 5 injected Helios 2B into its targeted Sun-synchronous polar orbit.
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On 14 December 2009 during the launch of three GLONASS-M satellites, Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems first received and processed telemetry data from the Proton-M launcher.
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Following the recent recommendation of a panel tasked with cutting government spending, the Japanese government decided to cancel the Galaxy Express (GX) rocket project, according to Mainichi Daily News.
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ESA’s Council has given the go-ahead to proceed with the implementation of the ExoMars Programme. This decision paves the way for two Mars exploration missions in co-operation with NASA in 2016 and 2018.
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Boeing announced that GOES-14 (formerly GOES-O), the second satellite in a series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites built by Boeing for NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has completed on-orbit testing and been accepted into service.
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Lockheed Martin announced that it has completed site acceptance testing over the Inmarsat-4 satellite network and delivered the Global Satellite Phone Service (GSPS) gateway in Subic Bay to Inmarsat.
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Elettronica Industriale, the network operator of the Mediaset Group, has renewed its leases for capacity with Eutelsat Communications on the Atlantic Bird 3 satellite in order to secure channel distribution to Digital Terrestrial Television DTT) transmitters across Italy.
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