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Rocket: Chang Zheng 2C; Payload: Huanjing 1C [Huan Jing 1C, HJ 1C], Xinyan 1, Fengniao 1; Date: 18 November 2012, 2253 UTC;Launch site: Taiyuan space centre, China. The successful launch marks the completion of a plan initiated by China in 2003 to create a small environmental monitoring satellite constellation.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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South Korea will likely launch its KSLV-1 (or Naro-1) on 29 November, the country’s government said today, two days after the arrival of a replacement for a defective part in the rocket partly built by Russia.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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China Great Wall Industry Corp. will launch the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first satellite, which will also be developed by China, before the end of 2015, Chinese state media reported.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is part of a team selected to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent for NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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The Lockheed Martin (LMT) team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System III satellites has completed thermal vacuum testing for the Navigation Payload Element (NPE) of the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST). The milestone is one of several environmental tests verifying the navigation payload’s quality of workmanship and increased performance compared to the current generation of satellites.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Iridium Communications Inc. announced that it has finalised an agreement with NAV CANADA regarding Aireon LLC, a joint venture that will allow air traffic management agencies around the globe to continuously track aircraft anywhere in the world.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Lockheed Martin said it has been selected to support a new generation of agile, commercially based military satellite communications technologies. The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) MILSATCOM Systems Directorate awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to demonstrate concepts that allow data to seamlessly flow between existing MILSATCOM legacy systems and future protected communications systems.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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Popular Science has named the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite system, including Exede Internet service for the home, as a Best of What’s New Award winner for 2012.Other Posts:Intelsat General To Provide Broadband To Sintel Satellite ServicesAerojet tests next generation safety capabilityFormosat-3 observations indicate ionospheric changes precede EarthquakesGIOVE-B completes first year in orbitU.S. scrap plan for joint civil/military weather satellite systemDream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver50 years of U.S. space based military weather satellite systemsMDA receives request for additional information from U.S. Department of Justice
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