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Rocket: Safir; Payload: Navid [also Navid-e Elm-o San’at]; Date: 3 February 2012 (“before local sunrise,” exact time unknown); Launch site: unnamed military base in northern Iran.Other Posts:NASA’s Glory climate satellite ready for launch on 23 FebruaryNASA awards thermal protection contract for OrionThe Differences Between Cable and Satellite TVSES Americom launches HD SNG neighbourhoodMDA to develop instruments for planetary explorationICO Asks FCC To Modify Satellite MilestonesGPS command-and-control system upgrade scheduled for summerBoeing to complete WGS 7, start work on WGS 8

New (tentative) launch dates have been announced for a number of launches.Other Posts:New CME affects Earth’s magnetosphereIntelsat 11, Optus D2 pre-launch detailsExmar Shipmanagement Chooses SeaWave IntegratorSky Brasil, DirecTV Brasil Finalize MergerStar One C1 arrives at KourouNASA awards contract for Ares upper stage engineUkraine interested in co-operation with ESAHayabusa to return to Earth on 13 June

Redu Space Services (RSS), a joint venture of SES and QinetiQ Space nv, announced that Astrium has awarded it a contract for the design, development, testing and delivery of the Mission Operation Centre (MOC) in the framework of the European Data Relay System (EDRS) programme .Other Posts:Has TV Changed the Way We View Sports?Rising Prices on Nearly Everything Lead Subscribers to Satellite TVNew flight software architecture for SBIRS GEO deliveredR&R Orders GPS Units From PlanetlinkUpdate: Boeing gets contract for seventh WGS satelliteGeoEye initiates development of GeoEye-2Six more Globalstars in orbitViaSat to buy WildBlue

NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path with the mission’s first trajectory correction manoeuvre. The manoeuvre took place on 1 February. It is the first of a dozen planned rocket firings that, over the next five years, will keep Juno on course for its rendezvous with Jupiter.Other Posts:New Dawn’s C-band reflector still stuckRussian Proton launches Malaysian telecommunication satelliteEADS (Astrium) results 2006GIOVE-B pre-launch details (II)Galileo clears final legal hurdleDnepr crashes after lift-offThrane & Thrane Sells ESLEuropean S-band licenses to be awarded to two bidders–report

Astrium said it installed the one millionth solar cell from its supplier AZUR Space, a medium-sized supplier of solar cells based in Heilbronn, Germany, and delivered its 300th solar array. Astrium has also signed a long-term co-operation agreement with AZUR Space.Other Posts:SS/L to design MEO satellite for ICOEutelsat Communications results Q3 FY2006-2007Defining Free to Access TelevisionAMC-14 pre-launch detailsCable Or Satellite in Phoenix Arizona?Space shuttle Endeavour launch postponed for at least 72 hoursDSP 23 ‘visiting’ Hot Birds in orbit?COM DEV components for military comsat

ATK reported operating results for the third quarter of its Fiscal Year 2012, which ended on 1 January 2012.Other Posts:Arianespace plans seven to eight launches per year from 2008Acoustic testing for SBIRS GEO-1 payload completedMDA to sell property information businessSpaceX sets RazakSAT launch dateThuraya Secures New FinancingIndosat orders Palapa-D from TASWhy Satellite TV is Better Than CableGOES-N completes in-orbit testing

SES said that it broadcast over 5,200 TV channels, including over 1,200 High Definition (HD) channels, at the end of 2011.Other Posts:RRSat Signs Deal With Loral SkynetRRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. results Q3 2008Imaging Sensor Completed For Worldview 1 SatelliteSteve MacLean appointed new CSA presidentSTS-130 delayed at least one dayUpdate: Soyuz U launches new Progress vesselThe Boeing Company (Defense, Space & Security) results Q2 2011Update: Arianespace to launch ELISA satellites