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Rocket: Delta II 7420-10; Payload: COSMO-SkyMed 4; Date: 6 November 2010, 0220 UTC; Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The COSMO SkyMed-4 spacecraft was deployed to low Earth orbit approximately 58 minutes after lift-off.
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NASA has selected 13 companies for negotiations leading to potential contract awards to conduct systems analysis and trade studies for evaluating heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts, propulsion technologies, and affordability.
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NASA’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission has been extended again. This is its fourth extension since the original two-year mission began in January 2002.
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The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS III) has completed the programme’s first contract deliverable ahead of schedule, by shipping the GPS III Bus Real Time Simulator (BRTS) to Aerospace Corporation in September. Acceptance testing for the BRTS was completed seven days after delivery.
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COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded contracts to provide switches and other microwave components for a commercial communications satellite.
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Australia and the United States have signed an agreement to co-operate in surveillance of space, possibly expanding the reach of a U.S. military network tracking satellites and space junk.
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Intelsat S.A. announced financial results for the three months ending 30 September 2010.
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Inmarsat in an interim management statement reported financial results for the three months ending 30 September 2010.
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