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The Lockheed Martin team, awarded a contract by NASA in 2009 to design and build the agency’s next Small Explorer Mission (SMEX) called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), has met the requirements of a Critical Design Review.
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China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) and the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) have signed the contract for the TKSat-1 communications satellite programme in La Paz.

Astrium subsidiary Dutch Space signed two large space contract together worth more than EUR50 million.

LightSquared’s SkyTerra 1 mobile broadband satellite reportedly has fully deployed its 22-m diameter L-band reflector.

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By the middle of next week, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history.
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The U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command – Operational Nanosatellite Effect, or SMDC-ONE, launched on the Falcon 9/COTS Demo 1 mission as a secondary payload. The primary payload for this flight was the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft – which itself carried a payload, too.
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