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Intelsat S.A. reported results for the three months and year ending 31 December 2009.
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Inmarsat plc reported consolidated financial results for the year ending 31 December 2009.
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Intelsat announced that Qatar Telecom (Qtel) signed a multi-year capacity contract on Intelsat’s recently-launched Intelsat 15 satellite (IS-15), located at 85 degrees East.
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The Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s second dual-payload flight of 2010 has begun its assembly.

The Indian Space Research Organisation conducted the static test of its liquid core stage (L110) of GSLV Mk III launch vehicle, for 150 seconds at its Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) test facility at Mahendragiri on 5 March 2010.

Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the third Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) built by Boeing for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

A Roskosmos official has blamed Surrey Satellite Technology Limited for a delay in the construction of the Kanopus-V N1 Earth observation spacecraft.

Boeing last Friday officially turned over the U.S. on-orbit segment of the International Space Station (ISS) to NASA with the signing of government form DD-250 at the conclusion of an Acceptance Review Board meeting in Houston.