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Archive for December 15th, 2015

Soyuz TMA-19M docks with ISS after express trip

December 15th, 2015 by

Rocket: Soyuz-FG; Payload: Soyuz TMA-19M; Date: 15 December 2015, 1103 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The crewed spacecraft docked manually with the International Space Station at 1733 UTC following a failed approach with the automatic Kurs system.

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Thales Alenia Space to build Copernicus Sentinel-1C and 1D

December 15th, 2015 by

Thales Alenia Space has signed a EUR402 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Copernicus Sentinel-1C and 1D environmental monitoring satellites, as part of Europe’s Copernicus programme.

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Telstar 12 VANTAGE operational 3 weeks after launch

December 15th, 2015 by

Telesat announced that its new Telstar 12 VANTAGE satellite is now fully operational at 15 degrees West. Telstar 12 VANTAGE was launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on 24 November and is the first of a new generation of Telesat satellites with capacity optimised to serve the types of bandwidth intensive applications increasingly in demand by users.

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