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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: Intelsat 16; Date: 12 February 2010, 0039 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After a 9 hour 34 minute mission, the Briz M successfully released Intelsat 16 satellite into a near geostationary orbit.
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Arianespace has been chosen to launch the French-Italian Athena-Fidus dual use satellite, within the scope of a contract signed by Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio and the French and Italian space agencies, CNES and ASI.
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The first launch of a Soyuz from French Guiana has been delayed while engineers test a service tower, Interfax news agency reported.
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne said it has completed the initial step in certifying the RS-68A rocket engine by successfully hot-fire testing the first certification engine.
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Aerojet said it played a key role in the positioning of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite, which was launched aboard an Atlas V on 11 February.
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SES S.A reported financial results for the twelve months to 31 December 2009.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced “restructuring changes to its executive management and employee staff designed to flatten the firm’s organizational structure, improve the company’s decision-making efficiencies and reduce costs.”
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