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International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the QuetzSat-1 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit on an ILS Proton for SES. This was the 19th SES satellite launched on ILS Proton.
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Mexican government’s communications and transport administration, Secretara de Comunicaciones y Transportes, has awarded a contract to Arianespace to launch the country’s new Mexsat 3 telecommunications satellite.
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NASA announced the modification of its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract with United Launch Services to add the Delta II rocket launch service in accordance with the contract’s on-ramp provision. The modification will enable United Launch Services to offer as many as five Delta II rockets.
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COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd., announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply equipment for a military communications satellite.
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Why do you purchase a home theatre system? It is to get a cinema hall kind of effect, so you need to do everything right to create that kind of effect. First and foremost you need to choose the appropriate room to set-up your home theatre system. Nowadays television is a major source of entertainment in many households, especially where there are elderly or home-bound people, who are unable to go the cinema theatre to watch their favourite movies. The major advantage of a television is that on it you not only watch movies, but serials or matches you love. You can also save time and money. So once your room is finalised, bring the best home theatre home after doing the research well online or by getting information from your friends.Other Posts:Satellite TV For Movie LoversInternal NOAA memo pessimistic about QuikSCATChandrayaan-1: too hot to handle?TerreStar Plans Debt OfferingMSV Goes […]

Rocket: Chang Zheng 2FT1; Payload: Tiangong-1; Date: 29 September 2011, 1336 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The unmanned Tiangong-1 module will test space docking with a spacecraft later this year.
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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: QuetzSat 1; Date: 29 September 2011, 1832 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Separation of the satellite after five burns of the upper stage is expected at 0345 UTC on 30 September (too late for this issue).
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Aerojet announced that along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, the team conducted a successful ground test firing of an AJ26-62 flight engine that will power Orbital’s Taurus II medium-class space launch vehicle. The test was conducted at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
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