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Orbcomm Inc. confirmed that the company’s OG 2 satellite was deployed in a lower-than-planned orbit by the recently launched Falcon 9. As it turned out, the problem was a side-effect of the engine failure that occurred on the rocket’s first stage earlier into the flight.
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The Eutelsat 21B (f.k.a. W6A) satellite of Eutelsat Communications has arrived in Kourou, French Guiana, and is now being prepared for launch on 9 November by Arianespace on board an Ariane 5 rocket (Flight VA210). Lift-off is planned from 2105 UTC at the beginning of a launch window lasting 106 minutes.
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The Ocean Force sea-based transport vessel carrying the Zenit-2S launch vehicle and Block-DM-SL upper stage designated for the Eutelsat 70B (f.k.a. W5A) mission departed the port at Oktyabrsky, Ukraine, on 14 August 2012 and arrived pier-side at Sea Launch’s Home Port facility in Long Beach, California on 19 September 2012.
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Europe’s next two Galileo satellites have received technical clearance for their launch this Friday. They are currently resting in place atop their Soyuz launcher.
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ATK announced that NASA has awarded the company a US$50 million contract to complete engineering development and risk reduction tests as part of the Advanced Concept Booster Development for the Space Launch System (SLS).
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Lockheed Martin said it is making steady progress in a key test phase on GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, GeoEye-2, as Ikonos, the world’s first commercial remote sensing spacecraft marks 13 years of service.
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