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The Kepler project team recently completed another roll of the spacecraft and science data download.
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JAXA confirmed that its experimental spacecraft IKAROS has started to accelerate after unfolding its solar sail.

COMSATBw-2, the second dedicated military communications satellite for the German armed forces is now operational, having completed in-orbit testing on 8 July 2010. The latest series of tests covered the satellite platform, the payload, and the components of the satellite’s secure control system. With this final milestone, the conditions for in-orbit delivery of the second satellite to the Bundeswehr IT Office have been fully met.

The Swedish Prisma satellites had to perform a collision avoidance manoeuvre to prevent a collision with a piece of space junk. The object is one of numerous debris items resulting from the collision between an Iridium satellite and the Kosmos 2251 satellite last year.
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The Venus Climate Orbiter “Akatsuki,” which was launched on 20 May 2010 (UTC), turned on its 500-N orbital manoeuvring engine (OME) on 28 June at a distance of 14.6 million km from the Earth.
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Arabsat 5A and COMS have been successfully deployed in orbit following two simultaneously managed LEOPs (Launch & Early Orbit Phase).
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been awarded a contract to manufacture a new spacecraft for Hispasat Group.
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An International Launch Services Proton M/Briz M is to launch EchoStar XV on 10 July, 1840 UTC.
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