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Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 9.9 million km with a landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 20 April at 1308 UTC.
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GMV said it has opened a subsidiary in Darmstadt, Germany. GMV’s relations with Germany date back to 1984, when the company won its first contract with the European Space Agency’s Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt.
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Integral Systems, Inc., announced that it has entered into an agreement with Aleut Communications Services to relocate the operational satellite ground system equipment of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fairbanks Satellite Operations Facility (FSOF).
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Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2010.
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QinetiQ’s ion propulsion team has been named “team of the year” for its outstanding contribution to space exploration at the recent Sir Arthur Clarke awards.
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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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