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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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Rocket: Atlas V; Payload: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO); Date: 11 February 2010, 1523 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The SDO mission was successfully launched aboard an Atlas V 401 configuration and it used a single common core booster powered by the RD-180 engine.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and SES announced the ILS Proton launch of the SES-3 satellite with the Kazsat-2 telecommunications satellite in 2011.
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announced that all flight hardware for the debut launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle has arrived at the SpaceX launch site, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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As preparations for the launch of ESA’s CryoSat-2 mission on 25 February continue on schedule, an important milestone has been reached with the satellite’s encapsulation in the rocket’s “space head module”.
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Measuring an orbiting satellite’s remaining fuel is a well-known problem. Nanospace, Sweden, which since 2007 has been working on a system that would solve this problem, has now been awarded a EUR2 million contract by ESA.
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