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ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry, Edoardo Amaldi, completed the final part of its six-month servicing mission to the International Space Station by reentering the atmosphere today and burning up as planned over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific ocean.
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The orbit raising manoeuvres of GSAT-10 satellite have been successfully completed from ISRO’s Master Control Facility, Hassan.
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NOAA has decided to move GOES-14 into the traditional GOES East spot at 75 degrees West, replacing GOES-13, which has suffered from data quality issues.

ATV-3 departed from the International Space Station at 2144 UTC on 28 September in a flawless undocking under control of the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse, France and in close co-operation with control centres in Moscow, Russia and Houston, USA.
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Emcore Corporation has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by Orbital Sciences Corporation for NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission targeted for launch in early 2016.
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The undocking of ATV-3 from the International Space Station late last night was postponed due to an incorrect command. During operations ATV-3 performed perfectly in line with its pre-defined measures.
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