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NASA has selected the design of a new Space Launch System. The booster will be the United States’ most powerful since the Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon.
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Scheduled for launch on 20 September, the Arabsat 5C satellite, for which Astrium is co-prime, has been fully fuelled and integrated with the Ariane 5 launch vehicle at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The flight had been rescheduled following supplementary checks performed on the Ariane 5′s cryogenic upper stage.
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Thales Alenia Space has shipped the second Galileo satellite flight model to Europe’s launch base in French Guiana. There they will undergo a final test campaign prior to a launch by Arianespace. lift-off, on a Soyuz vehicle, is scheduled on 20 October with both satellites.
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The Ciel 2 satellite at 129 degrees West apparently suffered an outage late 13 September local time.
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NASA, on behalf of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a sole source letter contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. for the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument planned for flight on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1).
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered Wavefront Sensing & Control (WFS&C) software for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to prime contractor Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
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