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COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded an Authorisation To Proceed (ATP) contract to provide equipment for a new commercial satellite.
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Goodrich Corporation, the prime contractor for the Operationally Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite, announced that the pre-ship review was successfully completed last week and the satellite is being prepared for shipment to Wallops Island Flight Facility.

NASA’s nanosatellite NanoSail-D is slowly descending after successfully orbiting Earth for 95 days since deploying its 9.3-square-metre sail on 20 January. The small satellite demonstration experiment continues its descent towards Earth, lending key sail data to the design of de-orbit mechanisms for future satellites.

Russian authorities have re-established contact with the Geo-IK-2 satellite, which was interrupted in February.
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Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a EUR54.5 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), acting on behalf of the European Commission, to supply a new version of EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System), incorporating improvements that are indispensable for enhanced operability.
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Officials from U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center announced the delivery of the second in the series of twelve GPS IIF space vehicles to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Thaicom 5 suffered a technical glitch for about three hours at 0910 UTC on 20 April and has meanwhile resumed normal service.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 satellite was delivered ahead of schedule for the start of its launch campaign.
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