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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has completed work on the instrument it designed and built for the James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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ATK has been selected as a key participant to support the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tactical Technologies Office (TTO) Phoenix Technologies Program.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine how small satellites can be carried to geostationary orbit (GEO) as hosted payloads on commercial satellites.
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On 14 July 2012, the Kepler spacecraft experienced an anomaly in the reaction wheel assembly (RWA) of the Attitude and Determination Control Subsystem (ADCS). The anomaly was detected during a routine semi-weekly contact with the spacecraft on 16 July 2012.
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ESA’s GIOVE-B experimental navigation satellite is gradually raising its orbit as it prepares for retirement at the end of its four-year mission paving the way for Europe’s Galileo constellation.
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SPOT 6, the new Earth observation satellite built by Astrium, is now ready for launch. It will be transferred in the coming days from the Astrium Satellites facility in Toulouse (France) to the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India where it will be integrated with the PSLV launcher that will carry it into orbit.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced it will begin testing of its new EchoStar XVII satellite with JUPITER high-throughput technology, following the successful placement into its permanent geosynchronous orbital slot of 107.1 degrees West longitude last week.

GMV USA has been selected for a contract with Measat Global Berhad to provide the satellite ground control and payload ground control systems for the Measat-3b satellite.