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LightSquared announced that it has successfully transitioned approximately 50,000 public safety and enterprise customers from its MSAT satellites to LightSquared’s new SkyTerra 1 satellite.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has received an Authorisation to Proceed to provide equipment for two new commercial satellites.

Sirius XM Radio announced second quarter 2011 results.

DigitalGlobe, Inc. reported financial results for the second quarter ending 30 June 2011.

Inmarsat plc announced that Inmarsat SA, one of its subsidiary companies, has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites. The launches, scheduled for 2013-14, will use the ILS Proton launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) last week completed the first combined Atlas and Delta rocket shipment from its factory in Decatur, Alabama, to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on the specially-designed ship called the Delta Mariner.
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Roskosmos said it is planning to launch two satellites and a cargo vessel next month.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiralling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begins on 11 August, at an altitude of 2,700 kilometers and will provide in-depth analysis of the asteroid.
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