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NASA is targeting Monday, 5 April, for the launch of the next space shuttle from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Several days after the successful Proton launch of the Intelsat 16 satellite on 12 February, preparations began at Baikonur for the second Proton commercial mission of this year – the launch of the Space Systems /Loral built the EchoStar XIV spacecraft for EchoStar.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have opened the shutters on the seven Cupola windows this morning, providing them with the first view of Earth from their new observation deck.
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Boeing shipped the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from the company’s satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
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Alliant Techsystems said it prepared to conduct final testing and ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite bus, after building it in just 16 months. The bus will be shipped to Goodrich Corporation for integration of the payload in preparation for launch later this year.
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Chinese satellite manufacturers may soon have an unlikely new customer: the Thai government.
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Motorola, Inc. filed a complaint against two wholly owned subsidiaries of Iridium Communications Inc. (Iridium Satellite LLC and Iridium Holdings LLC).
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exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. , announced that it has signed a C$1.4 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to provide space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) data.
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