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Kepler project engineers successfully completed another download of science data over 21 to 22 April 2010 and uploaded new flight software.
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Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said its new satellites will be bigger and last longer than their predecessors, thanks to new platforms and advanced materials.
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The International Space Station’s 37th Progress unpiloted cargo craft docked to the Pirs docking compartment of the International Space Station on 1 May at 1830 UTC.
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APT Satellite said in a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that it has entered into a satellite procurement contract with Thales Alenia Space France for the manufacturing and delivering of APSTAR 7B, a backup for APSTAR 7 that is to replace APSTAR 2R in 2012.
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Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems said it is currently conducting electrical tests of the geodetic satellite GEO-IK-2.
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OHB-System AG, a subsidiary of OHB Technology AG, has signed the delivery contract with British subcontractor Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for the payloads for the first 14 Galileo navigation satellites.
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Integral Systems, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary SAT Corporation has received a seven year contract to provide continued support to SKY Perfect JSAT’s existing Monics CSM and satID Geolocation systems.
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Lockheed Martin said it has delivered a communications system module for the second satellite in the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) programme.
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