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Information Satellite Systems – Reshetnev said it continues ground testing of the next-generation GLONASS-K navigation satellites.
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Arianespace has set for 26 March its initial Ariane 5 mission of 2010, which will carry SES Astra’s Astra 3B commercial telecommunications satellite and the COMSATBw-2 secure relay platform for the German armed forces.

NASA and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) has reached its proper orbit and was renamed GOES-15.

Russia plans to launch almost two dozen Earth observation satellites over the next 10 years, Aleksandr Semerikov, deputy director at the Earth Monitoring Research Centre, was quoted as saying.

Eutelsat Communications announced the successful completion of the UK-built communications module for its high-speed broadband communications satellite, KA-SAT.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced that the Canadian Space Agency has authorised the company to start the design phase (Phase C) of the Radarsat Constellation Mission.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced that the fourth of five weather instruments that will fly aboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has been successfully integrated.

Astrium GmbH Services has won a EUR1 million contract with the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Supervisory Authority to undertake a key study, which will define the measures needed to defend Europe’s satellite navigation systems and services against radio interference.
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