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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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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B; Payload: Sinosat 6 [Xinnuo 6, Chinasat 6A]; Date: 4 September 2010, 1614 UTC; Launch Site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite was successfully separated from the rocket 26 minutes after lift-off.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and SES announced the extension to 31 December 2014 of the SES Multi Launch Agreement (MLA) and the addition of a sixth firm ILS Proton mission through 2014.
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The EU Commission is not providing sufficient support to the European space industry, Astrium chairman Francois Augue said in an interview with Les Echos.
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