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State-owned Russian Satellite Communications Company(RSCC) and OSAO Ingosstrakh have signed an insurance contract for seven Ekspress-series satellites for a total of RUB5.334 billion (US$168 million).Other Posts:Japan likely to scrap moon probeRussian military (navigation?) satellite launchedRT Logic to develop new software-defined modem for IridiumWhen Choosing the Best TV Provider, Customer Service is ImportantBall Aerospace develops flight computers for new launch vehiclesKorean rocket’s failure not Khrunichev’s fault, Russia saysSpaceX’s Dragon to use solar power4th Boeing-built WGS satellite accepted by U.S. Air Force
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Systems Tool Kit (formerly known as Satellite Tool Kit) version 10 is now available. With this release, Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) has changed the product name to better reflect the software’s ability to model, analyse and visualise complex land, sea, air and space-based systems, along with their behaviour and performance.Other Posts:Japan likely to scrap moon probeRussian military (navigation?) satellite launchedRT Logic to develop new software-defined modem for IridiumWhen Choosing the Best TV Provider, Customer Service is ImportantBall Aerospace develops flight computers for new launch vehiclesKorean rocket’s failure not Khrunichev’s fault, Russia saysSpaceX’s Dragon to use solar power4th Boeing-built WGS satellite accepted by U.S. Air Force
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The fourth spacecraft to be orbited by Arianespace for the Skynet 5 military satellite constellation has been delivered to French Guiana, moving preparations into a new phase for a mid-December dual-passenger Ariane 5 mission, the seventh in 2012.
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NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth — the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s 3 1/2- year prime mission and the beginning of an extended mission that could last as long as four years.
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OHB Sweden, a subsidiary of the European space and technology group OHB, has been selected by Astrium as contractor for the Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) and the Chemical Propulsion System (CPS) for the Solar Orbiter mission that will perform close-up observations of the Sun. Both contracts have a total volume of EUR34,4 million.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced its financial results for the three-month period ending 30 September 2012.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected to develop its S-Band phased array antenna for the next-generation U.S. Space Launch System (SLS) under a NASA Research Announcement.
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Rocket: Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat; Payload: Meridian 6; Date: 14 November 2012, 1142 UTC; Launch site: Plesetsk, Russia. The satellite was put into a designated orbit at around 1500 UTC. Russian operators “have established a reliable communications and data link with the spacecraft,” a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said.
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