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The U.S. Air Force, United Launch Alliance, the National Reconnaissance Office and other launch team partners are making good progress in the Atlas V upper stage anomaly review, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) said.
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The Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) has concluded its review of the findings of an interagency CIS Joint Commission, which has been investigating the cause of the unsuccessful launch of 30 January 2007. All systems have been cleared for operations, pending completion and tests of all repairs on the Launch Platform.
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JAXA has given up hope to perform any meaningful experiments with the experimental satellite Kiku No. 8 (ETS VIII) that was launched in December 2006, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

XM Satellite Radio experienced a technical problem that triggered an outage lasting more than a day. Many listeners across the USA and Canada lost access to XM’s programming.

The operational recovery of MetOp-A has started on 23 April, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) said.

The European MetOp-A weather satellite experienced a total switch-off of the payload module (PLM) for no apparent reason on 20 April at 1014 UTC, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) said.

NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. The causes were released today in a preliminary report by an internal review board.

China has for the first time admitted that its Beidou 1D (or Beidou 2A) satellite developed a problem shortly after launch on 3 February but said the malfunction has now been fixed.