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Astrium has received confirmation from the European Space Agency (ESA) following its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) that the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution launcher project has been approved.
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United Launch Services was awarded a US$150 million firm-fixed-price contract for the launch of the fifth Boeing Wideband Global Satellite Communications system (WGS-5).
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Boeing has received a US$289 million contract modification from NASA, exercising an option to add Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) M to the existing TDRS fleet.
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EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 74th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 29 November.
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Eutelsat Communications announced that from 1 March 2012 it will be unifying the names of its satellites around the established Eutelsat brand. From this date, the Group’s satellites will take the Eutelsat name associated with the relevant figure for their orbital position and a letter indicating their order of arrival at that position.
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Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s (TSBc) latest satellite, Thor 7, will provide the Norwegian Troll base located at the South Pole with increased satellite capacity for the distribution of key meteorological data from the research station, Trollsat.
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