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Naval Research Laboratory spacecraft personnel make final preparations to ready the TacSat-4 spacecraft for a May 2011 launch. Transported on 1 March to the Kodiak Alaska airport via an Air Force C-17 and trucked to the Alaska Aerospace Kodiak Launch Complex, the TacSat-4 satellite will be launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Minotaur-IV launch vehicle into a highly elliptical orbit (HEO) with an apogee of 12,050 kilometers.

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ESA said it was preparing the next generation of MetOp satellites, the space segment for the Eumetsat Polar System (EPS).
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Boeing announced that it has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Inmarsat-5 spacecraft and hosted payloads. Boeing is building three Ka-band satellites to add to Inmarsat’s current mobile satellite services fleet.
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has been awarded a turnkey contract to deliver the Turksat 4A and Turksat 4B communications satellite to satellite operator Turksat Satellite Communication and Cable TV Operation AS (Turksat AS).
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On 17 March, the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute manoeuvre that will place it into orbit about Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and initiating a one-year science campaign to understand the innermost planet.
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft is currently undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin’s test facility near Denver, Colorado.
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