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ESA’s latest Automated Transfer Vehicle is ready for launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday, 15 February at 2208 UTC from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The unmanned spaceship will deliver essential supplies and reboost the Station during its mission lasting three and half months.
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Iridium Communications Inc. announced that Orbital Sciences Corporation has signed an agreement with Iridium that reserves hosted payload capacity on Iridium’s next-generation satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT.
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ISS-Reshetnev has been supplied with a payload for the Telkom-3 telecommunications satellite currently in production at ISS-Reshetnev’s manufacturing facility in Zheleznogorsk, Siberia.
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Hughes Network Systems and Frequency Electronics have separately announced contract awards by Boeing for Mexico’s new satellite communications programme known as MEXSAT.
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Just over two weeks before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path toward the comet.
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The Lockheed Martin team designing NASA and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-series (GOES-R) weather satellite has successfully completed its system Preliminary Design Review.
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The ISS Progress 41 [Progress M-09M] cargo craft docked to the station’s Pirs docking compartment Saturday at 0239 UTC on 31 February.
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The U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin-led Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) team has successfully completed a major space to ground interface and functional system test for the first geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite.
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