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Russia plans to launch a light version of its Soyuz rocket by early 2012, the commander of the Russian Space Forces said.
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Officials from U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center announced the delivery of the second in the series of twelve GPS IIF space vehicles to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Thaicom 5 suffered a technical glitch for about three hours at 0910 UTC on 20 April and has meanwhile resumed normal service.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2011.
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The Wideband Global SATCOM system’s dual-band and crossbanding capabilities are proving to be critical in the ongoing earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement.
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Hispasat Group and Pittsburgh International Telecommunications, Inc. (PIT), one of the world’s largest privately-owned and operated teleports and global distributors of audio and video signals, announced a partnership to launch a new DTH platform on Amazonas-2 satellite titled New Winds.
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Since opening its Tokyo office in 1986, Arianespace has won 27 launch contracts in Japan out of the 36 open to competition, giving it a market share of 75 percent.
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