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A train with the Prichal nodal space module has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia’s State Space Corporation Roskosmos said in a statement.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is set to launch the company’s 16th resupply mission (NG-16) to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract.

Measat Global Berhad will retire its Measat-3 satellite after an anomaly on 21 20 June.21. The incident resulted in a complete outage of service and is still under investigation in partnership with satellite provider Boeing Satellite Systems (“BSS”).

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Planet Labs announced a multi-year, multi-launch agreement with SpaceX that runs through the end of 2025. The first planned launch under this agreement is Flock 4x, 44 SuperDoves on the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 SSO rideshare mission scheduled for launch December 2021.

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NASA conducted its sixth RS-25 single-engine hot fire 5 August on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, a continuation of its seven-part test series to support development and production of engines for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on future missions to the Moon.

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Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous (GEO) mission payload.

Maxar Technologies announced another delay to the launch of its next-generation imagery satellites. “We have decided to delay the launch from the fourth quarter of 2021 into next year,” Maxar CEO Dan Jablonsky was quoted as saying.

Maxar Technologies announced the company will manufacture a new geostationary communications satellite for longtime customer SiriusXM. The SXM-9 satellite will be based on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform and built at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. It is expected that SXM-9 will launch in 2024.