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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Thales Alenia Space have set the agreement for the authorisation to proceed with the development of the atmospheric reentry demonstrator IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle).
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An ESA official confirmed reports that the first launches of the Soyuz-ST and Vega rockets from French Guiana will be further delayed.

The European Space Agency (ESA) will begin building its operational constellation of Galileo navigation satellites beginning in 2010 with the use of two Arianespace Soyuz launch vehicles, each of which are to orbit a pair of spacecraft in missions performed from French Guiana.

Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has chosen Arianespace to launch its ABS-2 communications satellite.

ST-2 Satellite Ventures Pte Ltd (STS), a joint venture formed by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) and Chunghwa Telecom Company Ltd (Chunghwa), has chosen Arianespace to launch its new telecommunications satellite, ST-2.

TerreStar Networks Inc. announced that the launch of TerreStar-1 has been scheduled for 1 July 2009. Arianespace has established a two hour launch window that will open at 1614 UTC.

Arianespace has signed two more contracts for the delivery of components to be used for future Ariane 5 launchers.

NASA is preparing for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O (GOES-O) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.