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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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Goodrich Corporation, the prime contractor for the ORS-1 (Operationally Responsive Space) satellite, said it has successfully completed all of the major programme milestones and the spacecraft has been delivered to NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in Virginia, for launch aboard a Minotaur 1 on 29 June (0028 UTC).
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Mission managers for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suspended operation of the Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument on 14 June after a series of voltage shifts on the spacecraft. They will determine when the instrument can resume collecting data.
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