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NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope has jettisoned its instrument cover as planned. Engineers and scientists say the manoeuvre went off without a hitch, and everything is working properly.
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NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency’s next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better understanding of Earth’s formation or perhaps the origin of life on our planet.
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All systems are behaving as expected on NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which was launched on 14 December from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA.
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Iran has announced yet another indigenous satellite: AUT SAT, apparently a small remote sensing spacecraft designed by a university.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has signed a contract for a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite contract with OverHorizon, with offices in the U.S., Sweden and Cyprus.

An Iranian official has made yet another rather confusing remark regarding the country’s future satellites plans.

COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded follow-on contracts totalling more than C$7 million to provide passive microwave equipment for a military communications satellite.

Sypris Electronics LLC, a subsidiary of Sypris Solutions, Inc., announced that it has been awarded approximately US$5 million in follow-on orders to manufacture electronic components for multiple commercial and government satellite systems.