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Arianespace said that the new Soyuz launch site in French Guiana is entering its final phase of preparations, with qualification testing of the facility’s infrastructure now underway and the construction of its 50-meter-tall mobile gantry well advanced.
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The launch of Ukraine’s Sich-2 Earth observation satellite has tentatively been scheduled for October 2010, the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) said.
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The recently launched Kosmos 2462 likely is an optical reconnaissance satellite, according to the unofficial russianforces.org web site.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it is prepared to launch the first of its Minotaur IV rockets in support of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) programme.
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A team of Indian space scientists has established that the indigenously built cryogenic engine aboard the GSLV-D3 rocket’s third stage did in fact ignite, which hadn’t been clear immediately after the botched launch.
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A Proton M/Briz M is to launch the SES-1 satellite on 24 April 2010, 1119 UTC. The launch vehicle, utilising a 4-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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The U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego, has selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for Geosat Follow-on 2 (GFO-2), the next generation ocean altimetry satellite. GFO-2 measurements will be used for global ocean, and tactical battlespace characterisation.
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The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, known as GPS III, continues to maintain schedule performance and meet or exceed key milestones in the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of the programme.
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