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Academician M.F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems is to build eight more Gonets-M satellites. These spacecraft are intended to replenish the multifunctional personal communications system Gonets-D1M, which is deployed under the Russian Federal space programme 2006-2015.

Astrofein has announced the planned launch of TET-1 satellite, a satellite for the On-Orbit-Verification (OOV) programme of the German space Agency DLR, on 22 July using the Soyuz-Fregat launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

NASA partner Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed an important design review of the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft. The concept baseline review presented NASA with the primary and secondary design elements of its Dragon capsule designed to carry astronauts into low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.

When the European Data Relay System launches its second satellite in 2015, it will be taking the Hylas-3 communications package along for the ride thanks to ESA’s ‘hosted payload’ approach.

CGS SpA Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio, Milan, a subsidiary of OHB AG, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) signed a contract for Definition Phases A/B1 for the realisation of the OPSIS (OPtical System for Imaging and Surveillance) satellite and relevant ground segment. The contract has a value of EUR13.5 million.

ESA’s newest space technology facility has been inaugurated in Valencia, Spain. The ESA- Valencia Space Consortium High-Power Space Materials Laboratory is specially equipped to investigate how different materials endure the potentially destructive effects of operating powerful radio systems in space.

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