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Eight days after launch, ESA’s latest Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, completed a flawless rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station at 1608 UTC to deliver essential supplies.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation said it was in final preparations to launch the company-built Glory satellite for NASA. The Glory satellite will be launched into low-Earth orbit by Orbital’s Taurus XL space launch vehicle. The Glory launch is currently scheduled to take place on 23 February from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1009 UTC. This operational schedule is subject to the completion of final pre-launch activities, as well as acceptable weather conditions at VAFB at the time of the launch.
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The Progress M-07M space freighter, which had been latched on the International Space Station (ISS) for almost six months, undocked from the Zvezda service module on Sunday and was subsequently de-orbited.
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Astrium Services has signed end-2010 a five year contract for tens of millions euros with Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat) to provide comprehensive support to manage and control the operations, training and maintenance of the Civil Ground and Management Segments of the UAE’s Armed Forces new military satellite communications system.
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Boeing announced that it has established Boeing Commercial Satellite Services to market commercial satellite telecommunications services to the U.S. government and other satellite users. Headquartered in El Segundo, the group is a part of Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems.
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The first four Globalstar Second Generation satellites have been successfully positioned in their operational orbit, marking the start of service for this new constellation.
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After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on 18 March 2011 (UTC). The durable spacecraft – carrying seven science instruments and fortified against the blistering environs near the Sun – will be the first to orbit the innermost planet.
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