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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-11M (Progress 43P); Date: 21 June 2011, 1438 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Automated docking to the International Space Station is expected to occur on 23 June, 1637 UTC.
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The two Soyuz launchers that will fly the first four satellites of Europe’s Galileo navigation system into orbit have arrived at Kourou harbour in French Guiana.
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Thales Alenia Space announced the official start of the Ekspress AM8, AT1 and AT2 programmes. The tri-partite contract was signed in September 2010 with Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and JSC ISS – Reshetnev Company and the global financing is now completed. Thales Alenia Space also announced a contract to supply the communications payload for the KazSat 3 communications satellite, which was ordered by Kazakhstan’s National Center of Space Communications (RTSKS) from ISS-Reshetnev.
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Europe’s unmanned ATV space freighter plunged on command into Earth’s atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean. Contact with the spacecraft was lost at 2041 UTC at an altitude of 80 km.
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ESA and Thales Alenia Space Italia announced an agreement to begin building the IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle for its mission into space in 2013.
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) as a provider of the wireless communications platform for the System F6 programme.
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