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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.

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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Orbital Sciences Corporation has been awarded a Phase 2 contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the final design for “System F6″ (Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft).
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