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Ukraine has no plans to suspend the supply of Zenit-3SL launch vehicles for Sea Launch, Yuriy Alekseyev, the head of the Ukrainian State Space Agency, was quoted as saying.

Today, the first integrated launch vehicle of the Angara-1.2 family was transferred to the launch complex at Russia’s MoD State Testing Cosmodrome (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) in the Archangelsk Region. Angara-1.2ML (“Maiden Launch”) was installed on the launch pad.

MT Aerospace AG, a subsidiary of OHB AG, received two contracts from Airbus Defence & Space, Prime Contractor of the Ariane 5 ME launcher development programme, and from the European Space Agency ESA with a total value of EUR62.8 million for respectively the development and further qualification of the metallic propellant tank of the new liquid upper stage of the Ariane 5 Mid-life Evolution (A5 ME), and the related production facilities in Augsburg and Bremen.

Yahsat has announced plans to launch its third satellite in 2016, extending commercial Ka-band coverage to an additional 17 countries and 600 million users.

The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a US$1.86 billion contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, California, for production of the fifth and sixth Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous missile-warning satellites.

With on-orbit checkout and validation of the sixth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite, Boeing has reached the halfway mark in delivering the current series of satellites to the U.S. Air Force, which operates the GPS constellation.

Dauria Aerospace, a multinational aerospace company providing global satellite-based remote sensing information services, has successfully delivered two Perseus-M spacecraft into low Earth orbit.

A new website will enable rapid updates for experts using ESA’s suite of space-debris software tools to perform risk assessment and analysis of debris mitigation actions for missions currently in orbit and to be better prepared for future ones.