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The launch of ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) is now targeted at 23 March, with a lift-off scheduled for o431 UTC.
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Metop-B, the European operational polar orbiting weather satellite designed and manufactured by Astrium, recently left the clean room at the company’s site in Toulouse. Metop-B was prepared for shipping to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where a Soyuz launcher will place it in orbit with Starsem. The target launch date is 23 May 2012.
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) – R Series Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) spaceflight instrument Engineering Development Unit completed optical-electronic lightning sensitivity testing in January at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto and showed excellent performance, the company said.
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An important spacecraft component that will enable NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to deliver clear images passed its Critical Design Review at Northrop Grumman Corporation . Now cleared for manufacturing, it represents an important step in the spacecraft’s progress.
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MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) successfully completed an orbit-correction manoeuvre to lower its periapsis altitude – the lowest point of Messenger’s orbit about Mercury relative to the planet’s surface – from 405 to 200 kilometers.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has signed a contract amendment worth C$14.7 million with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for logistics and sustaining engineering requirements for the Mobile Servicing System.
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