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A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested by engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

China’s Chang’e-2 moon orbiter has more than achieved the goals set for it, said Hu Hao, deputy commander-in-chief of the lunar exploration centre under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry of National Defense.

Astrium said it has “absolutely no plans” for a possible acquisition of one of two U.S. digital imagery providers, GeoEye Inc or DigitalGlobe Inc.

Orbcomm Inc. announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ending 31 December 2011.

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Sea Launch has been selected to launch the Intelsat 27 communications satellite in early 2013. Intelsat 27 will be placed into an optimised geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilising the Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch system. The launch will occur from Sea Launch’s launch platform Odyssey at its equatorial launch site, located at 154 degrees West longitude, in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean.
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Eutelsat has assigned the launch of its Eutelsat 70B (ex. W5A) communications satellite to Sea Launch to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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