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ESA’s GOCE gravity mission has earlier than expected recovered from a glitch, which prevented the satellite from sending scientific data to the ground, simply by ground control turning up the heat aboard the spacecraft.
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Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services has been selected by GeoEye, Inc. to launch the company’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-2, on an Atlas V rocket. Financial terms are not being disclosed at this time.
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Globalstar has announced 19 October as the scheduled inaugural launch date for six new second-generation Globalstar satellites using a Soyuz launch vehicle.
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Avanti Communications said it has agreed the launch slot on an Ariane 5 launch vehicle which opens on 15 November 2010 with launch expected on that day or within a few days thereafter.
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The Progress M-06M supply vessel, loaded with more than one ton of trash from the International Space Station (ISS), burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere as planned.
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Intelsat S.A. has received two multi-year, multi-transponder contracts.
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