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An international Launch Services Proton M/Briz M is to launch DirecTV 12 on 29 December 2009, 0022 UTC. The launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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NASA has selected Space Systems/Loral to receive a contract for the propulsion system for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. The contract has a maximum value of US$8.86 million.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has won a contract to provide waveguide and coaxial switches for a commercial broadband communication satellite.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has signed a contract with London-based Avanti Communications Group plc for a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite, to be launched by Arianespace in 2012.
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The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES, developed by NASA for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-P, recently arrived on a C-17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility from Boeing’s manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California.
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ESA’s Council has given the go-ahead to proceed with the implementation of the ExoMars Programme. This decision paves the way for two Mars exploration missions in co-operation with NASA in 2016 and 2018.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation has been awarded a Phase 2 contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the final design for “System F6″ (Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft).
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Boeing announced that GOES-14 (formerly GOES-O), the second satellite in a series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites built by Boeing for NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has completed on-orbit testing and been accepted into service.
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