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Terran Orbital Corporation announced the successful stationing of the EchoStar Global 3 small satellite into its final operational orbit.

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Astra Space, Inc. announced that it plans to deploy its first satellite in orbit for NASA in January 2022. The launch from Cape Canaveral will be conducted out of Space Launch Complex 46 (SLC-46) and will be Astra’s first launch out of Cape Canaveral.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was fuelled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on Ariane 5.

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The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket carrying the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has been scrubbed.

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L3Harris Technologies successfully completed the final design review for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking programme.

Airbus has completed Sentinel-6B, the second ocean monitoring satellite of the European Copernicus programme, and is now testing it extensively over the next six months in preparation for its use in space.

NASA has awarded the Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) to Northrop Grumman to build boosters for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to support nine SLS flights.

The launch of the Atlas V 551 carrying the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has been delayed to 6 December at 0904 UTC owing to a leak in the Rocket Propellant (RP)-1 ground storage system.