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Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/E; Payload: Apstar 7; Date: 31 March 2012, 1027 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellite was deployed to its targeted geostationary transfer orbit 26 minutes after lift-off.

India is to launch its home-made radar satellite RISAT-1 on 20 April from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota. An exact time has not been announced.

The launch of a Delta IV carrying a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is delayed until 3 April.

Multi-national flight controllers successfully connected a backup power channel on Saturday, 31 March to the European Space Agency’s “Edoardo Amaldi” Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo ship, enabling electricity to flow from the International Space Station to the ATV to set the stage for a reboost of the station while avoiding an early undocking of the resupply craft.

LightSquared confirmed that its SkyTerra 1 satellite recently suffered an outage but has now been recovered.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that the company has made a preliminary assessment of the Canadian federal budget released recently.

Orbital Sciences Corporation celebrated the company’s first three decades in the space business today as it completed 30 years of operations since the enterprise’s founding on 2 April 1982.

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