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Both of NASA’s two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft successfully completed their planned main engine burns and are now in lunar orbit.

NASA’s twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit.
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China’s Beidou satellite navigation system launched a limited positioning service on 27 December, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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Arabsat said it transferred its telecommunications network services from the Arabsat-2B satellite to its new Arabsat-5C satellite at 20 degrees East, which was launched successfully in September.Other Posts:INSAT 4B another step closer to geostationary orbitWeather, mystery object delay shuttle landingPeterchens MondfahrtLast GPS IIR-M satellite completedEconomic Satellite TV Service ProvisionBae Institute to start phase II of photon thruster demonstrationTV Aerials – UHF Vs VHF – Which Way Is Ireland Leaning?Galileo IOV satellites fuelled for launch

A Proton M/Briz M is to launch SES-4 on 26 December, 1841 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

ITT Exelis (formerly EDO Corp.) has received an additional US$3.2 million award to produce satellite-based sensors that help measure precipitation around the world.