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The first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites built by Astrium are working perfectly and now begin full in-orbit operations, the company said. The satellites successfully passed a series of in-orbit tests following their launch on the first Soyuz flight from the Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana on 21 October 2011.
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The centre section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope’s hardware development, the agency said.
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MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, conducted the second of two manoeuvres required to reduce the spacecraft’s orbital period about Mercury.

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The spacecraft for the Intelsat-19 mission contracted for launch by Sea Launch AG has been delivered on 17 April to the “Home Port” complex in Long Beach, California.
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