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ViaSat Inc. has announced that construction of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite is complete and that the spacecraft is being prepared for shipment to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Thales Alenia Space announced that it has won the Phase B contracts from Italian space agency ASI for the entire METIS (Multi Element Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy) instrument and the Data Processing Unit (DPU) on the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA), both part of the Solar Orbiter Mission in the European Space Agency’s Cosmic Vision programme.
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The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites successfully acquired and tracked a short-range, air-launched target (SRALT) on 8 July in a test that showed their ability to track dim objects that have extremely short flight timelines.
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The Ekspress AM4 satellite, designed and manufactured by Astrium teaming with Khrunichev for RSCC, has left Astrium’s facility in Toulouse, where it had undergone its final integration and test campaign.

The second of NASA’s ARTEMIS probes, formerly part of the THEMIS mission, have now entered orbit around the moon to study its interior and surface composition.

To begin a discussion on how different countries could access satellite-based maritime surveillance, ESA recently hosted a workshop at its centre for Earth observation in Italy.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on 16 July (UTC) became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study the asteroid, named Vesta, for a year before departing for a second destination, a dwarf planet named Ceres, in July 2012.

O3b Networks Limited announced successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Constellation Space Segment. This milestone validated that the satellite design will exceed its technical specifications.