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Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace announced the conclusion of a new launch services contract for a future Eutelsat satellite. The assignment of the launch to a satellite will be made at a later stage.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the EchoStar XVII satellite, designed and built for Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, is successfully performing post-launch manoeuvres according to plan.

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd said the launch of exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built, was scheduled for 22 July by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: EchoStar XVII (aka Jupiter), MSG-3 (Meteosat 10); Date: 5 July 2012, 2136 UTC; Launch Site: Kourou, French Guyana. For this third Ariane 5 mission of 2012, the satellites were deployed into geostationary transfer orbit during a 34-minute flight.
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The launch of SES-5 (aka Sirius 5) aboard a Proton M from Baikonur has been rescheduled again. It was originally scheduled for 18 June, then delayed 24 hours and later to 7 July (UTC) after engineers received an out of tolerance telemetry reading on a first stage subsystem.Other Posts:Thales Alenia Space to supply new version of EGNOS to ESAProton failure possibly caused by over-fuellingSea Launch Explosion Deemed An Engine FailureAsiaSat 5 pre3-launch detailsSES Americom Adds Home2US To IP Prime ServiceWhy Cable TV is Being Beaten Out by Satellite TVHow to Cut Down Your Costs With Any Cable TV Package?EUMETSAT extends Jason-3 deadline