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Inmarsat said it has begun the process of including its subsidiary companies within a new organisational structure that will align the Inmarsat business more closely to core vertical market segments and continue to support both direct and indirect distribution of its services.

ITT Exelis has been awarded a US$121 million U.S. Army contract to provide mission support to wideband satellite operations centres and management sites around the world.

Mrs Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India, visited the ISRO centre at Sriharikota today (2 January 2012) to inaugurate the new Mission Control Centre and Launch Control Centre.
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YahLive, the UAE based satellite broadcasting company, has signed a partnership agreement with UAE-based telco Etisalat to collaborate on satellite broadcasting services.
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Both of NASA’s two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft successfully completed their planned main engine burns and are now in lunar orbit.