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A dry-run exercise, which replicated a typical mission for a commercial telecommunications satellite payload, has been completed for the Soyuz-STB at the Guiana Space Centre.
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NASA managers met Friday afternoon and determined space shuttle Endeavour will launch no earlier than Monday, 16 May at 1256 UTC. They also extended the length of Endeavour’s STS-134 mission to the International Space Station from 14 to 16 days.
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The launch of an Atlas V carrying the Air Force’s Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) GEO-1 payload was scrubbed today due to weather.
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Rocket: Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat; Payload: Meridian 4 (Meridian No. 14L); Date: 3 May 2011, 1741 UTC. A Russian Space Forces official said that a communication link with Meridian 4 had been established, and the satellite’s on-board systems were operating without glitches.
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Technicians at the NASA Shuttle Logistic Depot in Cape Canaveral continued additional testing on a faulty power distribution box, called a Load Control Assembly 2 (LCA-2).
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The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin are ready to launch the first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft on 6 May aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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NASA Space Shuttle and International Space Station managers have determined that 10 May is the earliest Endeavour could be launched on the STS-134 mission with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
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Preparations for the simulated first flight of Soyuz from French Guiana are proceeding on schedule for a “lift-off” this week, confirming the medium-lift vehicle’s readiness to join Arianespace’s launcher family during 2011.
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