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GMV said it has opened a subsidiary in Darmstadt, Germany. GMV’s relations with Germany date back to 1984, when the company won its first contract with the European Space Agency’s Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt.
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Integral Systems, Inc., announced that it has entered into an agreement with Aleut Communications Services to relocate the operational satellite ground system equipment of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fairbanks Satellite Operations Facility (FSOF).
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A Proton M/Briz M is to launch the SES-1 satellite on 24 April 2010, 1119 UTC. The launch vehicle, utilising a 4-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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The U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego, has selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for Geosat Follow-on 2 (GFO-2), the next generation ocean altimetry satellite. GFO-2 measurements will be used for global ocean, and tactical battlespace characterisation.
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The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, known as GPS III, continues to maintain schedule performance and meet or exceed key milestones in the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of the programme.
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NOAA’s GOES-13 spacecraft today became the official GOES-EAST satellite. It replaced GOES-12, which NOAA is shifting to provide coverage for South America, as part of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.
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Lockheed Martin has completed all factory testing of the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) programme and the spacecraft is ready for delivery to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will be prepared for a mid-2010 lift-off aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle.

NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter heard no signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander when it listened from orbit while passing over Phoenix 60 times last week.