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A dry-run exercise, which replicated a typical mission for a commercial telecommunications satellite payload, has been completed for the Soyuz-STB at the Guiana Space Centre.
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NASA managers met Friday afternoon and determined space shuttle Endeavour will launch no earlier than Monday, 16 May at 1256 UTC. They also extended the length of Endeavour’s STS-134 mission to the International Space Station from 14 to 16 days.
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The launch of an Atlas V carrying the Air Force’s Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) GEO-1 payload was scrubbed today due to weather.
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Venezuela’s National Assembly has endorsed a new satellite contract programme with China, the second such bilateral project between the two countries.
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As part of the Astrium-led Earth Observation (EO) Hub project at the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) in Harwell, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has completed the installation of key groundstation equipment. The ISIC groundstation can be used to operate existing and future UK space missions.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced its operational and financial results for the three-month period ending 31 March 2011. It also gave a tentative date for the launch of six new second-generation satellites.
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OHB Technology AG has acquired Rheinmetall Italia’s satellite business, based in Rome, in an asset transaction.
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Radiotelevizija Slovenia has extended its longstanding relationship with Eutelsat Communications with the signature of a new 10-year contract for capacity at the Hotbird video neighbourhood.
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