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After establishing contact with Russia’s Fobos-Grunt Mars mission earlier this week, ESA’s tracking station in Australia received no signal from the spacecraft last night. ESA engineers are investigating the cause in close collaboration with Russian mission controllers.Other Posts:Boeing Demonstrates FAB-T OperabilityEADS (Astrium) results H1 2008Cable Or Satellite in Phoenix Arizona?Spacenet Hires Andreas Georghiou as CEOCOM DEV wins follow-on commercial contractCOM DEV USA awarded contract to provide UHF equipmentJAXA successfully tests Akatsuki engineJapanese microsatellite tests observing thunderstorms

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On 22 November at 2025 UTC, ESA’s tracking station at Perth, Australia, briefly established contact with Russia’s Fobos-Grunt spacecraft. While there is a lot of speculation regarding the possibilities of saving the mission (at least partially), this first contact is only a very small step towards that goal.
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The satellite ordered by Turkmenistan from Thales Alenia Space will be based on the Spacebus 4000 C2 platform.
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The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first measurements on 21 November 2011.
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The UK space Agency and Astrium have approved the final design of UKube-1 – the UK’s first CubeSat mission.
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Raytheon Company has become the first to successfully test with the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite. Raytheon’s Army Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal (SMART-T) is the first operationally-fielded terminal to interoperate with an on-orbit AEHF satellite.
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