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NASA managers have scheduled the next launch attempt of space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-127 mission for 17 June, 0940 UTC. The launch will take place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

ILS International Launch Services, Inc. (ILS) said at the Paris Air Show that it has secured six firm launch orders and three mission assignments in the first half of 2009. All of them had been announced before, though.

Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Antonio Fabrizi, Director of Launchers for the European Space Agency (ESA), signed a framework contract concerning the procurement of launch services for future ESA missions.

Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. announced that the Measat-3a satellite is now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in final preparations for launch on 21 June (UTC).

NASA said its Constellation Program reached two major processing milestones this week as two new pieces of Ares I-X hardware were transferred for final assembly in preparation for the first flight test of the rocket later this summer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA managers completed a review of space shuttle Endeavour’s readiness for flight and selected 13 June as the official launch date for the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station.
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