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Thales Alenia Space has shipped the second Galileo satellite flight model to Europe’s launch base in French Guiana. There they will undergo a final test campaign prior to a launch by Arianespace. lift-off, on a Soyuz vehicle, is scheduled on 20 October with both satellites.
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ATK and NASA announced a partnership to work together during the development of ATK’s commercial Liberty Launch System, an agreement that also supports the 2010 U.S. National Space Policy by furthering international partnerships, ATK said.

Arianespace announced that it will launch two satellites for DirecTV and has the option of launching another two satellites for the company.

Russia is still scrambling to return its Soyuz and Proton rockets to flight.

Orbcomm Inc. announced that LuxSpace Sarl (LuxSpace), an affiliate of OHB System AG, has confirmed that construction and testing of the LuxSpace VesselSat1 AIS satellite has been successfully completed.

Rocket: Delta II Heavy 7920H-10; Payload: two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft; Date: 10 September 2011, 1308 UTC; Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The launch marked the 9th flight for ULA in 2011, the 49th Delta II mission for NASA and the last currently-planned flight from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-17B.
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Production on a major part of China’s Chang Zheng-5 large-thrust carrier rocket has been completed and its maiden voyage is expected to take place during the country’s 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), according to its manufacturer.
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The launch of a Delta II carrying NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) has been postponed to allow additional time to review propulsion system data from the detanking operation after the launch attempt was scrubbed due to upper level winds.