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The Arabsat-5A and Badr-5 satellites have been handed over to Arabsat by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space as part of the in-orbit delivery contract and have entered commercial service.
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said it has completed integration and performance testing of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) that will fly aboard NASA’s National Preparatory Project (NPP) weather satellite.
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Iridium Communications Inc. has entered into two comprehensive, long-term agreements with Boeing that redefine the relationship between the companies for maintenance, operations and support of Iridium’s satellite network.
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The first GLONASS-K satellite will be launched before the end of 2010, ISS-Reshetnev general designer Nikolay Testoyedov was quoted as saying.
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The UK Space Agency announced a one year pilot programme to design and launch a CubeSat – a miniature, cube-shaped satellite that will allow the UK to test new space technologies and carry out new space research ‘cheaply’ and quickly.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on 14 July, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing steps designed to resume Odyssey’s science and relay operations this week.
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SSTL has commenced building a small satellite for the Republic of Kazakhstan that will provide medium resolution multi-spectral Earth observation capability to complement the high resolution satellite that is being provided by EADS Astrium as part of the contract awarded to the company in October 2009.

Officials from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced the on-orbit checkout of the first IIF satellite is progressing on scheduled.