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NASA’s Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on 18 February (UTC) to purposely delay its arrival at comet Tempel 1 by 8 hours 21 minutes.
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The Board of Directors’ meeting of Eutelsat Communications, under the chairmanship of Giuliano Berretta, met yesterday and reviewed the results for the first half year ending 31 December 2009.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009.
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DirecTV reported financial results for the fourth quarter 2009.
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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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