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WorldSpace announced that its satellite radio broadcast service to India will be shut down at the end of this year.
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The Russian space programme will be “fully funded” in 2010, Federal Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov said. His deputy, though, does not sound quite as upbeat.
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The Joint Stock Company (JSC) Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (ISS Reshetnev) said it has integrated its Russian partnerships into a single structure and brand.
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SES S.A. has secured a EUR523 million export credit funding facility guaranteed by Coface, France’s export credit agency.
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Orbcomm Inc. said the company and its satellite insurers settled any and all claims relating to the Coast Guard Demonstration satellite and five quick launch satellites.

ViaSat Inc. has completed the previously announced acquisition of privately-held Ka-band satellite broadband service provider WildBlue Communications Inc.

Integral Systems, Inc. reported preliminary, unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending 25 September 2009.
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The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is still looking for money to start the construction of Jason-3, a satellite that would continue the long-term survey of Earth’s oceans that started 1992 with the TOPEX/Poseidon mission and was continued by Jason-1 and Jason-2.