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NASA’s Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on 18 February (UTC) to purposely delay its arrival at comet Tempel 1 by 8 hours 21 minutes.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have opened the shutters on the seven Cupola windows this morning, providing them with the first view of Earth from their new observation deck.
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Boeing shipped the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from the company’s satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
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Alliant Techsystems said it prepared to conduct final testing and ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite bus, after building it in just 16 months. The bus will be shipped to Goodrich Corporation for integration of the payload in preparation for launch later this year.
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Chinese satellite manufacturers may soon have an unlikely new customer: the Thai government.
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Lockheed Martin announced that it has achieved a key integrated test milestone on the second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft at its facilities in Sunnyvale, California.
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GMV announced the successful first testing of the satellite ground segment of the World Space Observatory Ultraviolet mission (WSO-UV), which is also known as Spektr-UF.
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A loud explosion and ball of fire that people in central Mexico reported seeing in the sky on 10 February likely was not caused by a Russian spy satellite crashing back to Earth, as some media earlier reported.
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