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Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NROL-32; Date: 21 November 2010, 2258 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The rocket lofted a classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
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Rocket: Minotaur IV; Payload: U.S. Air Force Space Test Program-S26 (STP-S26; consisting of four microsatellites and two cubesats); Date: 20 November 2010, 0125 UTC; Launch Site: Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA. The rocket carried its payload into low-Earth orbit approximately 650 kilometers above the Earth.
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The URM 2 common core booster for Russia’s planned Angara rocket was successfully fire-tested on 18 November.
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Arianespace will loft two communications satellite on its fifth launch of the year: Intelsat 17 for the international satellite operator Intelsat, and HYLAS 1 for the European operator Avanti Communications.
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With the commissioning of ESA’s CryoSat 2 now complete, the mission has been officially transferred to the operations team.
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ESA has decided to extend the productive lives of 11 of its operating space science missions to at least 2014.
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Ace Investments 1 Limited, a company advised by the Permira funds, announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of Kingsbridge Limited, the holding company for Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS).
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ATK and NASA are marking the 10-year anniversary of NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. The spacecraft, built by ATK for the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, had an initial design and mission life of one year but continues operating today, more than nine years past the initial mission.
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