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SES announced that Telespazio Brasil S.A. has signed a long-term capacity agreement to boost corporate and government networks across Brazil’s heartland and its oil-rich ocean waters.
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NASA’s PhoneSat project has won Popular Science’s 2012 Best of What’s New Award for innovation in aerospace. PhoneSat will demonstrate the ability to launch one of the lowest-cost, easiest-to-build satellites ever flown in space — capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones.
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Specialists at the Plesetsk space centre in Russia have erected a Soyuz-2.1a launcher with Fregat upper stage for the launch of the Meridian spacecraft, Aerospace Defence Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin was quoted as saying.
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China plans to launch another crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-10 in early June 2013, a leading space programme official said.
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NASA has selected a proposal from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent hourly during daytime. The instrument, to be completed in 2017 at a cost of not more than US$90 million, will share a ride on a commercial geostationary satellite as a hosted payload.
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced SpaceView, a space debris tracking project that relies on the help of amateur astronomers.
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Lockheed Martin announced that its board of directors asked for and received the resignation of Christopher E. Kubasik from his role as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer (COO), effective immediately.
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Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Eutelsat 21B, Star One C3; Date: 10 November 2012, 2105 UTC; Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana. The satellites were accurately injected into their transfer orbits about 28 minutes and 33 minutes after lift-off, respectively.Other Posts:Update: Belarus to announce tender for BelKa-RChina plans to launch next-gen oceanographic satellite 2010Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter stays in safe modeDelay of the day: Delta IV, WGS-3The Benefits of a Satellite Television Package Are Unbeatable!Intelsat 17, HYLAS 1 pre-launch detailsFinding the Quality TV Aerial Installation That You DeserveSecond AEHF satellite successfully arrives on-orbit
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