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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has indefinitely delayed the first mission of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, previously scheduled for 8 February (UTC).
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While many media still discuss the highly unlikely theory that a U.S. radar may have zapped Russia’s Fobos-Grunt spacecraft, a much more plausible scenario has finally surfaced: a software error could be the root cause of the probe’s malfunction.
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Canada has joined the United States’ Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) Communications System. The move is to fill the strategic satellite communications requirements of the Canadian Forces over the next 20 years.
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U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a programme dubbed Galileo that seeks to bridge the precision fibre optic controls and long-baseline astronomical interferometry technical communities to enable imaging of objects in geostationary orbit faster than is possible today.
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SES and Georgian mobile and telecommunication company MagtiCom announced the launch of MagtiSat, Georgia’s first domestic direct-to-home (DTH) satellite platform, via Astra. The pay-TV offer will be available beginning 23 January 2012.
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