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ESA’s SMOS satellite has recently completed its first phase of life in orbit – the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP), which means that all the systems are working as they should and the satellite is ready for full commissioning.
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Three commercial teams have expressed strong interest in joining ESA in the proposed geostationary European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) system, the agency said.
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The platform-level integration tests on the engineering model of the Galileo in-orbit validation satellites have been completed at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome. The platform is currently undergoing functional testing. Delivery of the engineering model payload from Astrium UK is expected in December.

Intelsat may have come closer to a decision regarding the IS-23 satellite, for which a manufacturer has not yet been announced.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed in May 2008.

NOAA officially deactivated its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-10 on 2 December after 12 years of service.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 14 (GOES-14) was placed in on-orbit storage.
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A joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin-led team announced that it has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite.
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