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Arianespace, in conjunction with its partners in the Ariane 5 programme, has decided to set up a Task Force and conduct a Quality Audit following the technical difficulties occurring during preparations for Flight 194.

Preparations are underway for the second launch of South Korea’s KSLV-1 rocket, which is currently expected for late May or early June.

NASA and JAXA have begun combining elements of their satellite resources to increase a critical type of Earth observation data. The partnership will more than double the quantity of this data that is used to explore earthquake hazards, forest declines, and changing water resources in the Americas.

Boeing announced that, as part of the Raytheon team awarded the space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) advanced control segment programme (OCX), it will develop portions of the U.S. Air Force’s new ground control segment.

Integral Systems, Inc., announced the on-schedule handover of satellite bus operations for the third Wideband Global SATCOM Space Vehicle (WGS SV-3) to the Command and Control System – Consolidated (CCS-C) baseline. This is the final satellite in WGS Block I to be successfully transitioned into the CCS-C baseline.

The upper chamber of the Kazakh parliament, the Senate, has ratified an agreement to extend Russia’s use of the Baikonur cosmodrome – more than six years after the document was signed.

Intelsat S.A. has introduced its new terrestrial network, IntelsatONE, which replaces the company’s GlobalConnex network.

When it comes to Hollywood, Disney has been one of the mega-powerhouses for quite sometime. Basically pioneering the animated film genre with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937, the company has expanded its grasp on modern consumer culture over the years with movies, television shows, theme parks and actual stores. In fact, Disney even has its own channel on cable and satellite TV, which has also recently upgraded to the high definition format.
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