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The Progress M-06M cargo resupply ship successfully docked to the aft end of the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module at 2217 UTC on 3 July.
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JAXA said it has found small particles of what it hopes is asteroid dust in the return container of the space probe Hayabusa, which returned to Earth last month.
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Saft has signed a new multi-year LTA (Long Term Agreement) with Astrium to supply the onboard lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery modules for every Eurostar GEO (Geosynchronous Earth Orbit) communications satellite to be built over the next years.
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NASA’s Transition Region And Coronal Explorer, known as TRACE, conducted its final observations of the Sun on 21 June. Launched in April 1998, TRACE observed – for the first time – an entire cycle of solar activity and imaging dynamic coronal phenomena.
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Eutelsat Communications has selected Astrium to build a 48-transponder Ku-band satellite that will be located at its 70.5 degrees East location in geostationary orbit.
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The Nilesat-201 and RASCOM-QAF 1R satellites, built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor for Nilesat and RascomStar-QAF, respectively, have arrived at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, for final preparations leading up to an Ariane 5 ECA launch this summer (tentatively: 3 August).
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ESA’s Redu centre in Belgium yesterday inaugurated its in-orbit testing facilities for Galileo. The infrastructure at Redu has been expanded to host Galileo’s satellite in-orbit testing facilities and a Galileo sensor station.
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An advanced infrared sensor designed to improve weather forecasting around the world has been delivered for integration and testing on the precursor satellite to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).