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The launch of Russia’s Nauka multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station has been delayed from the end of 2012 to the end of 2013 due to technological and organisational problems at the Khrunichev Space Center, the head of Russia’s Energia space corporation Vitaly Lopota was quoted as saying.
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Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and TIRS instruments now on the spacecraft, LDCM is a complete observatory.
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The unexpected slowing of NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft – the so-called “Pioneer Anomaly” – turns out to be due to the slight, but detectable effect of heat pushing back on the spacecraft, according to a recent paper. The heat emanates from electrical current flowing through instruments and the thermoelectric power supply. The results were published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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Intelsat S.A. announced that Panasonic Avionics Corporation has contracted with Intelsat for up to 1 Gbps of capacity on the recently announced Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, to be used in the delivery of aeronautical consumer broadband and live TV services.
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13 July 2012 marked 20 years of the first experimental launch of two Gonets-D communications satellites, built by Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems.
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ATK successfully completed the last Liberty space transportation system milestone under the company’s unfunded Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA for the Commercial Crew Development Program (CCDev-2).
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NASA engineers conducted a 550-second test of the new J-2X rocket engine at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on 13 July. The J-2X engine will power the upper-stage of a planned two-stage Space Launch System, or SLS. The SLS will launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft and other payloads.
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