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Thales Alenia Space has delivered to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) the flight model of the Radio Occultation Sounder for the Atmosphere (ROSA), which will be integrated into the Indian-French Megha-Tropiques mission designed to study our planet’s atmosphere. The delivery took place at ISRO’s Satellite Centre (ISAC) in Bangalore.
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Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country’s Rasad 1 (“Observation”) satellite has successfully completed its mission following its launch aboard a Safir rocket in mid-June.
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NASA’s Aquarius instrument has successfully completed its commissioning phase and is now making measurements from its near-polar orbit.
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The Ukrainian Sich-2 Earth observation satellite, which was launched aboard a Dnepr rocket on 17 August from Yasny, has successfully conducted its first scheduled survey of the Earth’s surface.
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The Nigerian-built satellite, NigeriaSat-X, has acquired its first satellite image just three days after the successful launch on 17 August.
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