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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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SES Astra has signed a capacity agreement with South African pay-TV operator On Digital Media (ODM) for three transponders on its Astra 4A satellite, and has also contracted to provide the related broadcasting services via its affiliate Astra Platform Services.
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Although you may have been renting that little country cabin you have way up in the mountains every ski season for years, you may have noticed that recently there’s been a dip in rentals. It’s not that less people are skiing, it’s that people are booking vacations in a way far changed from every before. Instead of looking around for the most remote, private, or rustic cabin, people are just heading to their computers to book their vacations quickly and easily with the help of a website.