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Rocket: Zenit-2SB; Payload: Fobos-Grunt [Phobos-Grunt]; Date: 8 November 2011, 2016 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Russia’s Federal Space Agency said the craft separated successfully from the booster about 11 minutes later.
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On 7 November, for the first time in the history of Arianespace, the company’s operating teams were all deployed concurrently on the Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launch pads at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, near the Equator, for three launch preparation campaigns.
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The Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base announced the publication of a guide that will allow commercial launch providers to compete for future launch service opportunities.
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NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multi-purpose crew vehicle’s design, development, test and evaluation.
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Pakistan’s Paksat-1R communication satellite, which was launched by China, is functioning fine, said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
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Intelsat S.A. reported results for the three months ending 30 September 2011. In related news, the anomaly on the company’s New Dawn satellite has not been remedied, and the Horizons-2 satellite will be moved from North America to Russia.
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ViaSat Inc. announced financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012.
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