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O3b Networks Ltd announced that it has appointed Steve Collar as chief executive officer.

Euroconsult announced the findings of its just-published report “Government Space Markets, World Prospects to 2020.” According to the report, government spending on space hit a number of major milestones in recent years, including a historic peak in combined government spending of US$71.5 billion in 2010. However, after 10 years of spending increases across the globe, this trend is about to come to a halt. According to Euroconsult, public space programme financing will slow dramatically in the next five years due to several factors.

Tonight’s Ariane 5 mission with Europe’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle has been postponed following a hold during the final countdown at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
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NASA’s Stardust spacecraft has completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1.
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COM DEV Europe Ltd, a subsidiary of COM DEV International, announced the signing of a contract, valued in excess of EUR3 million, with Thales Alenia Space of France to provide ferrite-based switching payload equipment on CFOSAT, a joint French/Chinese ocean wind and wave monitoring satellite.
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Sirius XM Radio announced full year 2010 financial results.
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SES Astra said it has concluded a multi-transponder, multi-year agreement with the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF to secure satellite capacity for the transmission of High Definition (HD) programmes.
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Elettronica Industriale, the network operator of Italy’s Mediaset Group, and Eutelsat Communications announced the signature of a 12-year contract for capacity at the Hotbird video neighbourhood.
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