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As part of their Ares I Upper Stage production proposal, the three core companies that make-up Team Ares – Alliant Techsystems, Lockheed Martin, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne — have been utilising internal company funds that will help NASA mitigate the development risk for its future fleet of exploration launch vehicles.
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has shipped a payload fairing for the H-IIA No.13 (H-IIA F13) launch vehicle to the Tanegashima Space Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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Rocket: Shavit 1; Payload: Ofek 7; Date: 10 June 2007, 2340 UTC; Site: Palmahim Air Force Base, Israel. The previously unannounced launch of the latest Israeli optical spy satellite reportedly was successful.
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Measat Global Bhd expects to launch its fourth satellite, Measat-1R, in the fourth quarter of 2008, a company official was quoted as saying.
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The space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 8 June, 2338 UTC to continue construction of the International Space Station.

NASA managers officially are targeting 10 September 2008, for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Boeing announced that the first commercial launch of the Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation (COSMO) SkyMed for Italy is scheduled for 8 June (UTC) aboard a Delta II rocket.

Rocket: Chang Zheng 3A; Payload: Sinosat 3; Date: 31 May 2007, 1608 UTC; Launch Site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The successful flight was the 100th of a Chang Zheng rocket — and the 97th successful one.