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Lockheed Martin announced that the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture recently extended its mission capability to Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, with the successful launch the U.S Air Force’s ORS-1 satellite.
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ESA said it has recovered the four-satellite Cluster mission from near loss after an instrument aboard one of the spacecraft failed to switch on as planned.
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The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed the Space System Critical Design Review (CDR) two weeks ahead of schedule.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed three contract amendments with the Canadian Space Agency totalling C$10.4 Million (CAD), for the Design Phase of the Radarsat Constellation Mission.
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EUMETSAT is set to expand its support of the Cospas-Sarsat system for Search and Rescue (SAR) by flying a transponder onboard future Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3, MSG-4) and Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) imaging satellites.
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After the successful completion of in-orbit testing the satellite Y1A, was officially handed over to Yahsat on 13 June 2011.
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MT Aerospace Satellite Products has been awarded a contract by Thales Alenia Space for the manufacture of 81 propellant tanks for the Iridium NEXT satellite programme.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July and begin gathering science data in early August. Vesta resides in the main asteroid belt and is thought to be the source of a large number of meteorites that fall to Earth.
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