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China plans to launch the third Beidou navigation satellite into the orbit “in a few days” from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, according to a statement from the centre.

The European Space Agency ESA and the Alphabus Joint Project Team successfully completed the Qualification Review of one of the world’s largest yet lightest satellite tanks ever built, a new generation of bi-propellant tanks.

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced that it had on 13 January 2010 brought into service the Africasat-2 satellite at 5.7 degrees East.

Intersputnik, the International Organisation of Space Communications, and Eutelsat Communications announced the signature of a major contract for the long-term lease of 16 transponders at Eutelsat’s 36 degrees East video neighbourhood.

Inmarsat and SkyTerra announced that the two companies are collaborating to ensure that relief and recovery efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti have access to essential satellite communications.

GMV has been awarded a contract with Raytheon Company to develop a prototype algorithm for the detection of ionospheric depletions in the magnetic equatorial region that may be utilised in the user receiver data processing for the space-based augmentation system for the GAGAN programme operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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