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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have announced a new date for the launch of the Akatsuki (Planet-C) Venus Climate Orbiter aboard an H-IIA rocket.
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The U.S. Air Force will launch the first Global Positioning System Block IIF satellite, GPS IIF-1, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 21 May (UTC).
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SES World Skies has signed an agreement with Astrium for the procurement of a new satellite to be named SES-6.
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The two Prisma satellites have left Sweden and are expected to arrive at Yasny, Russia, on 19 May. Launch aboard a Dnepr rocket is now scheduled for 15 June – one year later than originally planned.
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) passed a major milestone on 14 May, when it completed its post-launch check out and officially began its five-year science mission to study the Sun.
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One flip of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer appears to have caused the change in the science data pattern returning from Voyager 2, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.
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Harris Corporation recently completed the System Definition Review (SDR) of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — Series R Ground Segment (GOES-R GS) programme in Melbourne, Florida/USA.
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Bordered by Egypt to the south, the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Land of Israel to the north and east, Gaza is actually a very small territory geographically. Due to the physical proximity of Gaza to the Land of Israel and the fact that up until a few years ago in the recent past the territory known as Gaza was a part of the Land of Israel, for those seeking production services in Gaza the most logical choice would be to hire the services of a production company in Israel that also has an office and production and editing studios in Gaza.
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