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A Minotaur IV is to launch the U.S. Air Force’s Space Test Program-S26 (STP-S26) mission on 20 November, 0124 UTC (too late for this issue). The rocket will carry four microsatellites, two CubeSats, and perform a technology demonstration into low-Earth orbit.

Japan’s trade ministry said it is collaborating with NEC Corp. and other companies to a small surveillance satellite costing a fifth of current prices for conventional monitoring satellites

COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd., announced that it has been awarded a US$6 million contract to provide UHF passive microwave equipment for a U.S. Government satellite payload.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that it has signed an C$11.5 Million contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for the design, development, build and test of advanced technology solutions under CSA’s Exploration Surface Mobility Program.

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The U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center said it was on track with its plan to put the Advanced Extremely High Frequency SV-1 (AEHF 1)spacecraft into its operational mission orbit despite a propulsion system anomaly. The anomaly prevented the planned series of three liquid apogee engine burns that would have transferred the satellite into geostationary orbit.
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