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Rocket: Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat; Payload: GLONASS-K; Date: 26 February 2011, 0307 UTC; Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia. The navigation spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit.
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ESA has selected four candidates for a medium-class mission that will launch in the period 2020-22. The candidates cover very different areas of scientific research, ranging from investigations of black holes and general relativity to near-Earth asteroid sample return and studies of planets orbiting distant stars.
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The defunct German X-ray satellite ROSAT is expected to crash back to Earth some time between October and December 2011. According to the German Aerospace Center (DLR), there’s a chance the spacecraft will not burn up completely when re-entering Earth’s atmosphere.
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SES Astra and Astrium confirmed that the purchase of a 75.1 percent stake by Astrium in the satellite equipment provider and ground system integrator ND SatCom, based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, has been completed.
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