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Eutelsat has assigned the launch of its Eutelsat 70B (ex. W5A) communications satellite to Sea Launch to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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The upcoming launch of NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been postponed.
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Astrium and Air Liquide have announced the creation of a European strategic partnership called EuroCryospace. It is an extension of Cryospace, which was set up 25 years ago to develop and manufacture Ariane cryogenic fuel tanks.
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International Launch Services (ILS) announced a new contract for launch of the MEXSAT-1 satellite on an ILS Proton for the Mexican government’s Ministry of Communications and Transportation, the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT).
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Metop-B, which is due to be launched on 23 May, safely arrived at its launch site this week. The polar-orbiting satellite was transported to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in an Antonov cargo plane, after being shipped from the Astrium factory in Toulouse, France.
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The launch of ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) is now targeted at 23 March, with a lift-off scheduled for o431 UTC.
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Metop-B, the European operational polar orbiting weather satellite designed and manufactured by Astrium, recently left the clean room at the company’s site in Toulouse. Metop-B was prepared for shipping to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where a Soyuz launcher will place it in orbit with Starsem. The target launch date is 23 May 2012.
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