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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-06M (Progress 38P); Date: 30 June 2010, 1535 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The cargo vessel is to dock with the International Space Station on 2 July, 1658 UTC.
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Eutelsat Communications has selected Astrium to build a 48-transponder Ku-band satellite that will be located at its 70.5 degrees East location in geostationary orbit.
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The Nilesat-201 and RASCOM-QAF 1R satellites, built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor for Nilesat and RascomStar-QAF, respectively, have arrived at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, for final preparations leading up to an Ariane 5 ECA launch this summer (tentatively: 3 August).
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ESA’s Redu centre in Belgium yesterday inaugurated its in-orbit testing facilities for Galileo. The infrastructure at Redu has been expanded to host Galileo’s satellite in-orbit testing facilities and a Galileo sensor station.
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ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) a few months ago suffered a serious anomaly related to the main onboard computer.
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Engineers are studying the reaction wheels on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft after automatic sensors detected excess friction building up in one of them and powered it off early on the morning of 17 June 2010.
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