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Roskosmos has started moving the Russian telecommunications satellite Yamal-402 closer to its designated orbit after the underperformance of a Briz-M upper stage.

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Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems has been awarded a contract for the manufacture of Geo-IK-2, a new geodetic spacecraft.

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Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center has completed assembly of the Nauka (“Science”) multirole laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station. The module will now be tested by S. P. Korolev RSC Energia .

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Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract worth about EUR200 million with Astrium GmbH for BepiColombo, the European spacecraft designed to explore Mercury. The two companies first signed an ATP (Authorisation To Proceed) in 2007, kicking off work on this programme.

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Astrium has been commissioned to build two new research satellites for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California).

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Skybox Imaging announced the company has successfully completed the simulated space environmental test of its first high-resolution imaging microsatellite.

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