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Telesat said that ViaSat-1, a powerful Ka -band satellite which is significantly expanding the quality and availability of high speed broadband for rural Canadians, has begun commercial service .
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NASA has selected 33 small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014.
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Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and have determined how to correct it.

The second Milstar II military communications satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force and launched on 16 January 2002 (UTC), has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orbit service.

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