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The Measat Global Berhad Group announced that an agreement has been signed with Thaicom Public Company Ltd for the Malaysian payload of the Thaicom 4 (IPSTAR) satellite. The agreement was executed by a Measat subsidiary.
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SES S.A. said it has joined forces with Kenyan television and broadband operator Wananchi to launch a new Direct-to-Home (DTH) line-up called Zuku TV in East Africa.
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Attempts to deploy the stuck west antenna reflector aboard Intelsat’s New Dawn have so far been unsuccessful.
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China and Venezuela signed a contract for VRSS-1 remote sensing satellite programme on 26 May.
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NASA has selected Fibertek, Inc. of Herndon, Virginia, to design, develop, fabricate, test and deliver laser systems to be used for the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission scheduled to launch in 2016.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and EchoStar announced the ILS Proton launch of the EchoStar XVI satellite scheduled for 2012.
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NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples. The mission, called Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth.
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China’s Fengyun-3B (FY-3B) weather satellite has gone into official operation after finishing a six-month trial period.
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