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The MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four “hot seasons” expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) successfully executed a manoeuvre to adjust the spacecraft’s trajectory.Other Posts:Satellite TV Service Suits Multitaskers and Laid-Back Viewers AlikeHTV2 launch date setRussia confirms lift of Glonass restrictionsEutelsat Communications results FY2009/2010GeoEye, Inc. results Q2 200814 more GLONASS-M to be launchedGlobecomm Introduces SkyBorne EnterpriseOrbital Sciences Wins SES Americom Deal

Honeywell has won a five-year, US$450 million contract with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to provide Ground Systems and Mission Operations (GSMO) services for the agency’s fleet of scientific research satellites.Other Posts:SkyPort Names Brant CEO And PresidentDelay of the day: GSAT-8, ST-2Proton, not SoyuzVinasat-1 arrives at KourouRockwell Collins Earns Expansions For FAB-T TerminalsEurope’s ATV cleared for lift-offWhy HBO Might Be the Best Network on TelevisionRecently launched pan-African satellite has helium leak

RSCC Deputy General Director Yevgeny Buidinov said the company plans to launch a replacement satellite for Ekspress AM4, which was lost in a launch failure.
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NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in late September or early October 2011, almost six years after the end of a productive scientific life. Although the spacecraft will break into pieces during re-entry, not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere.
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Lockheed Martin has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Navy’s first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite.
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ViaSat Inc. has been awarded contracts valued at approximately US$40 million by Boeing to develop a ground based beam forming (GBBF) system for the Mexican Satellite System (MEXSAT).
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Globalstar, Inc. announced that it has started processing commercial mobile satellite telephone calls for customers throughout the United States, Canada, Northern Mexico, Puerto Rico and the surrounding regions using its new second-generation satellites.
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