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The Russian transport cargo vehicle Progress M-14M, after two days in free flight, docked to the International Space Station (ISS).Other Posts:Spacehab Makes Cuts As Space Shuttle Work Winds DownEutelsat, RSCC extend satellite control contractEMC To Supply Service To South African ISPNext shuttle launch on 13 JuneSatellite OptionsPulling Out the Stops With Your Satellite TV ServiceITT Wins FAA’s Air Traffic Modernization ContractLockheed Martin part of IRIS team

The Metop-B weather satellite has now passed its final checks in the clean room at Astrium, Toulouse, and will soon be transported to the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, in readiness for a planned launch in May 2012.Other Posts:Boeing ordered to pay US$237 million in damages to ICOMars Reconnaissance Orbiter nears end of aerobrakingBushnell Adding DigitalGlobe Imagery To GPS DevicesEchoStar, Harbinger invest in TerreStarGenesis I completes 10,000 orbitsDelta II booked for Italy’s third COSMO-SkyMedIDMI to launch DVB S2 broadband platform on NSS-7Russian, Kazakh space agencies clash over delayed W7 launch

“German Satellite Almost Crashed into Beijing” is the sensationalist headline for a not much less sensationalist article published by German news magazine Der Spiegel. Almost? Anything that was left of the x-ray satellite Rosat after it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere last October plunged into the Bay of Bengal, which actually is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean and nowhere near Beijing.Other Posts:Sirius Satellite Radio results Q2 2006Mars Lander lands in FloridaBall Aerospace to ship WISE spacecraftPatent Issued To MSV For Satellite-Terrestrial Communications SystemsInternational Communications Group Picks Spec Ops Inc. As DistributorO3b Networks completes satellite CDR with Thales Alenia SpaceWhat *if* there were less than 24 GPS satellites?ECAPS, Moog and ATK to bring green propulsion to the U.S.

Eutelsat Communications announced that the number of channels broadcasting through its satellites hit the milestone of 4,000 at the end of 2011.Other Posts:SATCOMBw-2a readied for Ariane 5 launchGeoEye cameras delivered but launch delayedWorldspace Stock Hits 52-Week Low Due To Disappointing Subscriber GrowthMeasat-3A shipped to Kazakhstan for Land LaunchRaytheon completes ground segment test for USAF weather agencyJason-2 receives in-flight acceptanceNASA Awards Pratt & Whitney Ares Rocket Development ContractEuropean S-band licenses to be awarded to two bidders–report