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Archive for February 1st, 2017

New Horizons refines course for next flyby

February 1st, 2017 by

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has completed a short propulsive manoeuvre to refine its track toward a New Year’s Day 2019 flyby past 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) some 6.4 billion kilometers from Earth.

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Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft has completed its mission

February 1st, 2017 by

The new-series cargo transportation spacecraft Progress MS-03, developed and built by RSC Energia, has been successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), de-orbited, and brought down in the Pacific Ocean as scheduled.

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EchoStar announces exchange agreement for tracking stock

February 1st, 2017 by

EchoStar Corporation announced that it executed an agreement with DISH Network Corporation to exchange its EchoStar Technologies businesses for the Hughes Retail Group (HRG) tracking stock.

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