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Forty years ago today, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) – later renamed Landsat – was launched. Five more Landsat spacecraft would reach orbit during the next 27 years. All were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base into near-polar orbits allowing them to image the entire Earth, one slice at a time, as it rotated below.

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Scottsdale, Ariz., July 20, 2012–Smart set-top boxes often garner less attention than other connected CE devices like TVs and game consoles – Apple has referred to its Apple TV as a “hobby” although it leads the market with around 4 million units shipped through 2011. Roku has had recent success (e.g. passing 2.5M units in 2011), but the future looks at the very least challenging for these dedicated streaming devices to break out of a niche status. TVs, game consoles, Blu-ray players, and even mobile devices are quickly conspiring to engender a very competitive market for the digital living room. Even so, set-top box shipments are expected to reach as high as 57 million by 2017.

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The two satellite passengers for Arianespace’s next heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission are now undergoing final preparations , while launcher components for the following flight have arrived in French Guiana.

NASA partner United Launch Alliance (ULA) has completed a review of its Atlas V rocket to assess its compliance with NASA human spaceflight safety and performance requirements.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will integrate the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM), to fly aboard the STPSat-3 spacecraft built for the U.S. Air Force (USAF). A co-operative agreement between NASA, NOAA and the USAF will allow the TIM instrument to catch a ride on STPSat-3 to be launched in 2013.

Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation announced it has delivered a solar array deployment system to the National Space Organisation (NSPO) in Taiwan for the agency’s new FORMOSAT-5 imaging satellite.

The Commonwealth of Australia Department of Defence (ADF) has selected ViaSat Inc. to supply the UHF Satellite Communication (Satcom) Mission System for its recently-launched UHF capacity on Intelsat IS-22.