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The first launch of a Soyuz-ST-B from the Guyana Space Centre (GSC) is planned for 31 August 2011, according to the rocket’s manufacturer.
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Contact has apparently been lost with the GEO-IK-2 satellite, which was launched into a useless orbit in February.
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Telesat announced that it has concluded an agreement with Loral Space & Communications Inc. to acquire the Canadian payload of the ViaSat-1 satellite.
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Harris Corporation has been awarded a contract from Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to build Ka-band antennas for three Inmarsat-5 satellites.
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Telesat Holdings Inc. (Telesat) announced its financial results for the three month and one year periods ended 31 December 2010.
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Russia lacks rockets to carry out all space launches scheduled for 2011, the head of the Roskosmos admitted, confirming heavy criticism from the Russian government.

NASA’s Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III-ISS (SAGE III-ISS) has recently started testing after nine years in a clean room. The instrument is scheduled for launch in 2014 on a SpaceX rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) Safety-of-Life signal was formally declared available to aviation on 2 March. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically guiding aircraft during landing approaches.