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Astro Aerospace, a strategic business unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation, has delivered its fourth deployable AstroMesh reflector to Astrium in Toulouse, France, this one for the Alphasat I-XL spacecraft that will provide commercial, broadband telecommunications services to Europe, Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia.
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Venezuela’s National Assembly has endorsed a new satellite contract programme with China, the second such bilateral project between the two countries.
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As part of the Astrium-led Earth Observation (EO) Hub project at the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) in Harwell, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has completed the installation of key groundstation equipment. The ISIC groundstation can be used to operate existing and future UK space missions.
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NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars’ interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn’s moons; or study in unprecedented detail the surface of a comet’s nucleus.
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Intelsat S.A. reported a delay in deploying the west antenna reflector on the Intelsat New Dawn satellite, launched on 22 April 2011. The satellite’s solar arrays have been successfully deployed and the satellite has power and otherwise nominal performance.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has reached its official approach phase to the asteroid Vesta and will begin using cameras for the first time to aid navigation for an expected orbital encounter on 16 July. The large asteroid is known as a protoplanet – a celestial body that almost formed into a planet.
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The cameras of Resourcesat-2 were switched on today and Images of high quality were received at the Shadnagar Earth Station of ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre.
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Three prototype Cornell-University developed, fingernail-sized satellites — collecting the solar wind’s chemistry, radiation and particle-impact data — will be mounted on the International Space Station after the space shuttle Endeavour delivers them on its final flight, which is still scheduled to launch on 29 April.
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