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NASA’s Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the agency’s Senior Review of its operating missions.
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Brazil plans to launch a dual-use communications satellite, Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo Silva was quoted as saying. Officials hope to have the satellite operational in time for the 2014 football [soccer] World Cup tournament in Brazil.
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Lockheed Martin has successfully completed a major milestone for the U.S. Air Force’s second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous satellite (GEO-2). The milestone, known as the Final Integrated System Test (FIST), verifies the spacecraft’s performance and functionality in preparation for delivery to the launch site.
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The solid-state electronics unit that will capture the James Webb Space Telescope’s science and engineering data has been completed and delivered to Northrop Grumman Corporation by its teammate SEAKR Engineering, Inc., Centennial, Colorado.
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After 13 years of satisfactory service, INSAT-2E, the last of the five satellites in the INSAT-2 series, has successfully completed its mission life.
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Multi-national flight controllers successfully connected a backup power channel on Saturday, 31 March to the European Space Agency’s “Edoardo Amaldi” Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo ship, enabling electricity to flow from the International Space Station to the ATV to set the stage for a reboost of the station while avoiding an early undocking of the resupply craft.

Space Partnership International has signed a US$10 million consultancy deal with the state-run Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. SPI Managing Director Bruce D. Kraselsky says his U.S.-based company will design the satellite and hire a company to build and launch it by 2015.