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GIOVE-B, the second experimental satellite for the Galileo satellite navigation system will be launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on 27 April after a year-long delay, the European Commission announced. Also, EU transport ministers have reached a compromise on the management of the system.
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Russia’s Progress M-63 space cargo ship was successfully de-orbited over the South Pacific, a mission control spokesman said.
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India has set a tentative launch date for the Cartosat-2A reconnaissance satellite, according to earlier reports the country’s first dedicated military satellite.
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The launch of ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite has been postponed at least three months.
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The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the U.S. Navy’s first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.
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NASA is targeting 31 May as the launch date for shuttle Discovery’s STS-124 mission to deliver the large Japanese Kibo Pressurised Module to the International Space Station. The lift-off time is approximately 2101 UTC.
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United Launch Alliance has won a US$124.1 million Air Force contract to supply launch services using the Atlas V rocket.
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Polyot Production Association – a subsidiary of Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center – has started another Kosmos 3M launch campaign.
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