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The flight of India’s first GSLV with an indigenous cryogenic engine has been scheduled for 15 April (local time).
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Telesat announced that it has completed an agreement for a new satellite with one of its key customers, Shaw Direct.
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ESA has awarded a contract worth EUR105 million to Astrium to build the second Sentinel-2 satellite. Once both are operational, this pair of satellites will provide global coverage every five days, delivering high-resolution optical imagery for GMES land and emergency services.
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Integral Systems, Inc., announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Integral Systems Europe United Kingdom (ISE UK) has been awarded a contract in excess of US$3 million to support a major satellite programme in Asia.
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NASA’s Aura Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite may have been hit by a piece of space debris (or a micro-meteoroid) on 12 March.
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Alcoa announced that its aluminium lithium plate is featured in NASA’s friction-stir welded, spun-form dome that made its debut today at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA has awarded contracts to eight aerospace firms for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III spacecraft and related services. Each contractor has one or more core spacecraft offerings available under its Rapid III contract. All fixed price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity Rapid III contracts have a combined potential maximum value of US$4 billion.

Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Atmospheric Physics travelled to Iceland for the last of a series of DLR-led technology demonstration campaigns for ESA’s meteorological satellite mission, ADM-Aeolus. Its closeness to Greenland and the Atlantic storm track region made the island a perfect base for the test flights with DLR’s Falcon research aircraft.