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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: EchoStar XIV; Date: 20 March 2010, 1827 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan-.After a nine-hour, 10-minute mission, the Briz M successfully released the satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.

NASA and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) has reached its proper orbit and was renamed GOES-15.

Russia plans to launch almost two dozen Earth observation satellites over the next 10 years, Aleksandr Semerikov, deputy director at the Earth Monitoring Research Centre, was quoted as saying.

Eutelsat’s W2 satellite, which stopped broadcasting on 27 January, has been moved into graveyard orbit.

Eutelsat said that the BBC Persian, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America Persian TV channels targeted at Iran have again been the target of deliberate jamming.

Arianespace said its Board of Directors decided to give it the resources needed for development by bolstering its financial structure.

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