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Shuttle Atlantis has landed for the final time, ending a 13-day journey of more than eight million km with a landing at 0957 UTC at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the 25th night landing (19th night and 78th total landings at Kennedy) and the 133rd landing in shuttle history.
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ViaSat Inc. has announced that construction of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite is complete and that the spacecraft is being prepared for shipment to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Thales Alenia Space announced that it has won the Phase B contracts from Italian space agency ASI for the entire METIS (Multi Element Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy) instrument and the Data Processing Unit (DPU) on the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA), both part of the Solar Orbiter Mission in the European Space Agency’s Cosmic Vision programme.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2011.
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