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Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz TMA-17; Date: 20 December 2009, 2152 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-17 manned transport spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.
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ESA has signed a contract with Astrium for the initial development phase of its programme to enhance the performance of the Ariane launch vehicle and make it even more competitive.
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The Palapa-D/Chang Zheng 3B flight anomaly investigation was concluded in early November 2009, China Great Wall Industry Corp. said in a statement dated 21 December.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has signed a contract with London-based Avanti Communications Group plc for a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite, to be launched by Arianespace in 2012.
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The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES, developed by NASA for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-P, recently arrived on a C-17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility from Boeing’s manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California.
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SES S.A. has secured a EUR523 million export credit funding facility guaranteed by Coface, France’s export credit agency.
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The BBC said its BBC Persian television channel, which is mainly targeting Iran, is being jammed but continued to broadcast.
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We seem to live in a world of acronyms today and HDMI is just another one of them. When we are looking for the correct HDMI cable we are, in fact, looking for a High Definition Multimedia Interface cable. It does not really sound as exciting when you put it that way though.