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The second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, launched on 4 May by the U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center and 45th Space Wing, successfully arrived at its geostationary-orbit test location.
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Contact has been established with the Indonesian telecommunications satellite Telkom 3, which along with Russia’s Express MD2 was stranded in a useless orbit following a Proton M/Briz M failure last week.
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Aurora Flight Sciences was recently selected by DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the Phoenix programme to explore development of a new satellite morphology through creation of “satlets” capable of harvesting key components from retired spacecraft in Earth orbit.
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NASA has completed negotiations and finalised the contracts for the spacecraft and instruments that comprise the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) Satellite, NOAA’s second next generation operational polar-orbiting satellite, planned to launch in 2017. JPSS-1 will follow the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite to maintain continuity of weather and environmental observations.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said it will incorporate essential data communication enhancements for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), currently under development for an early 2017 launch.
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